Agent Orange

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• 8/1/2021
  

  The Media's Failure on Agent Orange

  by Ron Steinman

  The media seldom covers the ongoing harm caused by Agent Orange because little of the story is "news." This is a failure of duty to inform the public about the callous use of the defoliant that may allow similar wartime ecological catastrophes in the future. 

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• SOURCE: KPBS
  6/28/2021
  

  Independent Lens Presents: The People Vs. Agent Orange

  Two women activists demand accountability from the chemical industry for the toll of illness and death caused by Agent Orange. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/16/2021
  

  The Victims of Agent Orange the U.S. Has Never Acknowledged

  "The use of the herbicide in the neutral nation of Laos by the United States — secretly, illegally and in large amounts — remains one of the last untold stories of the American war in Southeast Asia."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  

  The U.S.’s Toxic Agent Orange Legacy

  Washington has admitted to the long-lasting effects of dioxin use in Vietnam, but has largely sidestepped the issue in neighboring Cambodia and Laos.

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• SOURCE: BBC News
  4/20/19
  

  Agent Orange: US to clean up toxic Vietnam War air base

  Agent Orange was a defoliant sprayed by US forces to destroy jungles and uncover the enemy's hiding places.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10-3-17
  

  Agent Orange is still maiming the people of Vietnam

  Because the effects of the chemical are passed from one generation to the next, Agent Orange is now debilitating its third and fourth generation.

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• SOURCE: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
  10-5-15
  

  FOIA Documents Reveal Agent Orange Dioxin, Toxic Dumps, Fish Kills on Okinawa Base

  Two Veterans Win Compensation, Many More Denied

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• SOURCE: Brisbane Times
  7-13-15
  

  Australia: Vietnam War's medical history to be rewritten to correct record on Agent Orange

  The volume is not intended to "rewrite history but instead be informed by 25 years of new knowledge and interviews with Vietnam War veterans."

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  2-25-15
  

  The Lethal Legacy of the Vietnam War

  Fifty years after the first US troops came ashore at Da Nang, the Vietnamese are still coping with unexploded bombs and Agent Orange.

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• SOURCE: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
  8-11-14
  

  All Agent Orange Ingredients Unearthed at U.S. Military Dumpsite on Okinawa

  This is the first time that all three ingredients have been discovered on ex-Pentagon property on Okinawa.

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• 10-7-13
  

  Collateral Damage -- Agent Orange on Okinawa

  by Jon Mitchell

  Recently-unearthed barrels lift the lid on one of the Pentagon’s best-kept Vietnam War secrets -- the storage of military defoliants in Japan.