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Used & Betrayed: 100 Years of US Troops as Lab Rats

30 Mon May 2016

Posted by ztnh in Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War

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Abby Martin, Media Roots, TeleSur, The Empire Files

media rootsLUMPENPROLETARIAT—On this Memorial Day, we pause from the usual tradition of solemnly remembering our military workers, who have died while serving our nation’s, often imperialistic, military objectives.  Abby Martin has focused the latest episode of her current TV show Empire Files to remembering the abuses, which our military leadership has knowingly inflicted upon our loyal military workers. [1]  Rather than avoid placing our troops in harm’s way, too often our military leaders have intentionally endangered our military personnel for the sake of experimentation without informed consent.  This 31-minute documentary also explores how many of our military veterans are denied medical care, and essentially left to die, when their illnesses, cancers, and ailments threaten to expose military wrongdoing.

Abby Martin‘s narration concludes:

“America’s politicians and military commanders tell young men and women all over the country that if you sacrifice, if you obey our orders without question you’ll be taken care of.  The reality is they’re treated like nothing but disposable equipment.  And, when they ask for help for being poisoned, they are met with a brick wall of lies and denial.  With the largest military budget in world history, the U.S. government would rather invest billions to deny the science behind sick vets just to get out of paying meager benefits.

“As long as the corporate elite rule for profit over life, our loved ones will continue to be sacrificial pawns just to serve their interests.  For those in the military today, this history shows that, without a doubt, the orders given to you from your so-called leaders cannot be trusted.  And your life could depend on exercising your right to walk away from them.”

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“Used & Betrayed: 100 Years of US Troops as Lab Rats” by Empire Files

MEDIA ROOTS—[27 MAY 2016]  On Memorial Day, politicians will speak at ceremonies all over the country and repeat their favorite mantra: “Support the troops.”

This pledge is hammered into the American psyche at every turn.  But there’s a hidden, dark history that shows that the politicians are in fact no friend to service members–but their greatest enemy.

An easy way to prove this is to look at how they so quickly betray and abandon their soldiers after purposely ruining their lives, and even after using them as literal lab rats.

In this disturbing chapter of The Empire Files, Abby Martin documents decades of experimentation on unwitting US troops—from nuclear tests to psychotropic drugs—as well as knowingly exposing them to deadly poisons, from Agent Orange to sarin gas.

Most infuriating is that the hundreds of thousands of veterans seeking help from the government for the side-effects of these tests are always met with lies and denial.  Be prepared to be armed with info and pissed off about how veterans are really treated in the US Empire.

Learn more at MEDIA ROOTS.

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[1]  Abby Martin is the founder of Media Roots, an independent news, culture, and information website.  Your author used to work with Martin at Media Roots prior to her starting work on her now-defunct TV show for RT, Breaking The Set.  Abby Martin is currently the host of Empire Files broadcast on TeleSur.

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[2 JUN 2016]

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The Empire Files with Abby Martin, September 2015

07 Mon Sep 2015

Posted by ztnh in Anti-Imperialism, Democracy Deferred, Free Speech

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Abby Martin, Popular Resistance, TeleSur, The Empire Files, The Real News, UMKC

640px-Abby_Martin_RT_correspondentLUMPENPROLETARIAT   Abby Martin is back in your living room.  A former colleague, and friend of Lumpenproletariat.org, Abby was rippin’ it up at RT with Breaking the Set. [1]  Now, she’s kickin’ ass and takin’ names at TeleSUR with a new TV show entitled The Empire Files.  Abby has devoted the first episode to a brief survey of empire, or imperialism.

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THE REAL NEWS—In teleSUR’s new show, Abby Martin traces the history of the U.S. empire and the growing presence of military bases around the globe

Learn more at THE REAL NEWS.

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POPULAR RESISTANCE—Journalist Abby Martin starts a new series on The Real News and Telesur, the Empire Files. In this opening episode she examines US Empire around the world, tracing its history and describes its empire of military bases.

It is good to see the word “Empire” used in the media. The corporate media avoids this term. Even though the United States is the largest empire in world history, it is a secret to most Americans because it is never discussed by politicians or the press.

If the US Empire were discussed and people understood it there would be growing opposition. People would realize the US economy is an ‘empire economy’ and this creates many problems. Among those problems are immense military spending rather than spending on the needs of people and planet; creating wealth for the oligarchs and political leaders in countries that are part of the US Empire; and creating wealth for transnational corporations even if it means going to war to do so.

Understanding US Empire would also make it easier to understand US military and economic interventions around the world. It would explain the US supported coup in Ukraine, working with oligarchs to try and create a coup in Venezuela, the movement of weapons with NATO surrounding Russia, the Asian Pivot surrounding China, the corporate rigged trade agreements like the TPP… so much would become much better understood, often just by looking at a map. We look forward to Abby exploring these issues, each is filled with falsehood in the US media, so lots of clarity it needed.

Learn more at POPULAR RESISTANCE.

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[1]  As noted in previous Lumpenproletariat articles, your author used to work with Abby back in the day on MediaRoots.org, before he decided to attend (what he perceived to be) the nation’s most radical economics department, the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Department of Economics.  Tunnel vision becomes synonymous with focus.  Since then, we’ve quite lost contact; but it’s nice to see her still out there, working to shed light on many important issues, unsung issues, like we did with MediaRoots.org, and she’s continued to do since then.  Three cheers for Abby and Company!

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