Tag: chemical weapons

Media Lens – ‘Damning Evidence’ Becomes ‘No Clear Evidence’: Much-Delayed Report On Congenital Birth Defects In Iraq


News analysis and media criticism

In a 2010 alert, ‘Beyond Hiroshima – The Non-Reporting Of Fallujah’s Cancer Catastrophe’, we noted the almost non-existent media response to the publication of a new study that had found high rates of infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the Iraqi city. The dramatic increases in these rates exceeded even those found in survivors of the atomic bombs dropped by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The Independent’s Patrick Cockburn was a lone exception in reporting these awful findings. 

The War Is Responsible – ‘No Other Explanation’

The new WHO/MOH report was originally due to be published in November 2012, but it was indefinitely postponed with no satisfactory reason given. Months passed. Meanwhile, in March 2013, the BBC included areport on its World News channel about birth defects and cancer in Iraq. BBC reporter Yalda Hakim interviewed Dr Mushin Sabbak at Basra Maternity Hospital. He told her that he believed that ‘mercury, lead, uranium’ from the war were responsible for a 60 per cent increase in birth defects there since 2003. ‘We have no other explanation than this,’ he added. (An edited version of the World News segment appearedhere on BBC News.)

Chemical weapons use. Let’s prosecute!

Oh wait a minute it seems that it may have been America and Britain…

*silence and tumbleweed*

It must be nice being The Good Guys. Can’t do any wrong.

Media Lens – ‘Damning Evidence’ Becomes ‘No Clear Evidence’: Much-Delayed Report On Congenital Birth Defects In Iraq

Media Lens – ‘Damning Evidence’ Becomes ‘No Clear Evidence’: Much-Delayed Report On Congenital Birth Defects In Iraq


News analysis and media criticism

In a 2010 alert, ‘Beyond Hiroshima – The Non-Reporting Of Fallujah’s Cancer Catastrophe’, we noted the almost non-existent media response to the publication of a new study that had found high rates of infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the Iraqi city. The dramatic increases in these rates exceeded even those found in survivors of the atomic bombs dropped by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The Independent’s Patrick Cockburn was a lone exception in reporting these awful findings. 

The War Is Responsible – ‘No Other Explanation’

The new WHO/MOH report was originally due to be published in November 2012, but it was indefinitely postponed with no satisfactory reason given. Months passed. Meanwhile, in March 2013, the BBC included areport on its World News channel about birth defects and cancer in Iraq. BBC reporter Yalda Hakim interviewed Dr Mushin Sabbak at Basra Maternity Hospital. He told her that he believed that ‘mercury, lead, uranium’ from the war were responsible for a 60 per cent increase in birth defects there since 2003. ‘We have no other explanation than this,’ he added. (An edited version of the World News segment appearedhere on BBC News.)

Chemical weapons use. Let’s prosecute!

Oh wait a minute it seems that it may have been America and Britain…

*silence and tumbleweed*

It must be nice being The Good Guys. Can’t do any wrong.

Media Lens – ‘Damning Evidence’ Becomes ‘No Clear Evidence’: Much-Delayed Report On Congenital Birth Defects In Iraq

10 Chemical Weapons Attacks Washington Doesn’t Want You to Talk About


A list of 10 chemical weapons attacks carried out by the U.S. government or its allies against civilians.

Same as the list I posted earlier but with one addition.

Here they all are in case you don’t want to click on the link –

1. The U.S. Military Dumped 20 Million Gallons of Chemicals on Vietnam from 1962 – 1971

2. Israel Attacked Palestinian Civilians with White Phosphorus in 2008 – 2009

3. Washington Attacked Iraqi Civilians with White Phosphorus in 2004

4. The CIA Helped Saddam Hussein Massacre Iranians and Kurds with Chemical Weapons in 1988

5. The Army Tested Chemicals on Residents of Poor, Black St. Louis Neighborhoods in The 1950s

6. Police Fired Tear Gas at Occupy Protesters in 2011

7. The FBI Attacked Men, Women, and Children With Tear Gas in Waco in 1993

8. The U.S. Military Littered Iraq with Toxic Depleted Uranium in 2003

9. The U.S. Military Killed Hundreds of Thousands of Japanese Civilians with Napalm from 1944 – 1945

10. The U.S. Government Dropped Nuclear Bombs on Two Japanese Cities in 1945

But then chemical weapons seem to be what the powerful say they are so I’m sure this list is in dispute…

10 Chemical Weapons Attacks Washington Doesn’t Want You to Talk About

10 Chemical Weapons Attacks Washington Doesn’t Want You to Talk About


A list of 10 chemical weapons attacks carried out by the U.S. government or its allies against civilians.

Same as the list I posted earlier but with one addition.

Here they all are in case you don’t want to click on the link –

1. The U.S. Military Dumped 20 Million Gallons of Chemicals on Vietnam from 1962 – 1971

2. Israel Attacked Palestinian Civilians with White Phosphorus in 2008 – 2009

3. Washington Attacked Iraqi Civilians with White Phosphorus in 2004

4. The CIA Helped Saddam Hussein Massacre Iranians and Kurds with Chemical Weapons in 1988

5. The Army Tested Chemicals on Residents of Poor, Black St. Louis Neighborhoods in The 1950s

6. Police Fired Tear Gas at Occupy Protesters in 2011

7. The FBI Attacked Men, Women, and Children With Tear Gas in Waco in 1993

8. The U.S. Military Littered Iraq with Toxic Depleted Uranium in 2003

9. The U.S. Military Killed Hundreds of Thousands of Japanese Civilians with Napalm from 1944 – 1945

10. The U.S. Government Dropped Nuclear Bombs on Two Japanese Cities in 1945

But then chemical weapons seem to be what the powerful say they are so I’m sure this list is in dispute…

10 Chemical Weapons Attacks Washington Doesn’t Want You to Talk About

9 times US and partners used chemical weapons and WMDs —and got away with it


Nine instances of the U.S. government and its partners getting away with using chemical weapons and other weapons of mass destruction

Let us hold to the highest moral standard those who use chemical weapons against others.

9 times US and partners used chemical weapons and WMDs —and got away with it

9 times US and partners used chemical weapons and WMDs —and got away with it


Nine instances of the U.S. government and its partners getting away with using chemical weapons and other weapons of mass destruction

Let us hold to the highest moral standard those who use chemical weapons against others.

9 times US and partners used chemical weapons and WMDs —and got away with it


A Warning from History to John Kerry from Colin Powell Through the Medium of Sculpture.

A Warning from History to John Kerry from Colin Powell Through the Medium of Sculpture.

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A Warning from History to John Kerry from Colin Powell Through the Medium of Sculpture.

A Warning from History to John Kerry from Colin Powell Through the Medium of Sculpture.

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A Warning from History to John Kerry from Colin Powell Through the Medium of Sculpture.


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A Warning from History to John Kerry from Colin Powell Through the Medium of Sculpture.