Commission calls on VA to help reservists harmed by toxic chemicals at Gagetown
The U.S. military tested tactical herbicides including Agent Orange at the New Brunswick base in the late 1960’s.
Source: bangordailynews.com
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Maine veterans tell of dead animals, yellow water and cancer at Canadian base
The Gagetown Harmful Chemical Study Commission is tackling what has been mostly ignored for two decades, despite hundreds of guardsmen and women claiming devastating illness from exposure to chemicals at the base.
Source: bangordailynews.com
PACT Act delivers expanded benefits for exposed veterans - The Washington Informer
Discover how the PACT Act is delivering on the sacred commitment to honor our veterans by providing them with essential care and support.
Source: washingtoninformer.com
Breathe in! Two-bed flat in one of Britain's thinnest homes that is just 6ft wide at its narrowest point sells for £775,000
The flat sits inside an unusually-shaped block of former artists studios that is just 6ft wide at its narrowest point.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
Agent Orange continues to haunt lives of U.S. veterans trained in New Brunswick
Legislators in Maine are reopening a New Brunswick controversy many thought had already been consigned to the history books.
Source: cbc.ca
House passes Congresswoman Newman's amendment on study of Panama Canal Veterans impacted by Agent Orange
House passes Congresswoman Newman's amendment on study of Panama Canal Veterans impacted by Agent Orange. Amendment builds on Rep. Newman’s Panama Canal Zone Veterans Act, which would grant federal benefits to Panama Canal Zone veterans who were exposed to deadly tactical herbicide. Click here to watch Congresswoman Newman's floor speech on the amendment
Source: suburbanchicagoland.com
A Spray by any Other Name: Agent Orange or Clear-cut Agent?
Dissident Voice: here and here. I even did a review of that documentary, The People VS Agent Orange, which highlights Tran To Nga‘s fight in France — “Eternal Impunity of Capitalism’s Crimes“. Here’s one passage from that story I wrote: Dr. James Clary was with the Air Force in Vietnam, which ran the program. He was ordered to dump the computer and erase all memory. Instead, he printed out a stack of documents two feet high – missions, sorties, coordinates, dates, gallons d...
Source: dissidentvoice.org
The Victims of Agent Orange the U.S. Has Never Acknowledged
Article A secondary section of the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the backcountry of Ta Oey District. Image by George Black. Laos, 2019. It was a blazing-hot morning in October 2019 on the old Ho Chi Minh Trail, an intricate web of truck roads and secret paths that wove its way across the densely forested and mountainous border between Vietnam and Laos. Susan Hammond, Jacquelyn Chagnon and Niphaphone Sengthong forded a rocky stream along the trail and came to a village of about 400 people c...
Source: pulitzercenter.org