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The name Agent Orange became synonymous with the horrors of modern chemical warfare. Between 1961 and 1971 the U.S. military used an estimated 20 million gallons of the toxic cocktail to destroy the dense foliage of the Vietnamese rainforest, with devastating results for the people who lived there. But its use did not end there. Surplus from the Agent Orange stockpile was used back home in the U.S. even after Congress banned its use in Vietnam....

 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 dropped throughout all of Southeast Asia and Laos. “We had the information coming from Dow that the...

By ROBERT ABELE | Los Angeles Times | Published: March 4, 2021 (Tribune News Service) — The name Agent Orange has become synonymous with the destructive legacy of the Vietnam War. The U.S. military's use (12 million gallons) of the toxic herbicide not only did lasting ecological damage to a nation's jungles and crops, but it left human victims on both sides with corrosive health effects that have been passed on to subsequent generations. Accountability for its deployment — by our government and the chemical companies (Dow, Monsanto) that continue to spray one of Agent Orange's key, ...