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blackfox026  ·  3614 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Give me a great quote from something you're reading, have read recently.

"During the 1980's, the Reagan administration mounted a major propaganda campaign over alleged victims of "Yellow Rain" in Cambodia and Laos, claiming that chemical warfare had been employed there by the Soviet Union through its Vietnam proxy. This propaganda effort eventually collapsed following the U.S. Army's own inability to confirm this warfare and, more important, the finding that the alleged Yellow Rain was bee feces, not chemicals."

-- Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent





tehstone  ·  3613 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This is a contentious issue for the people affected. Have you heard the radiolab episode on it? It's very hard to listen to. I haven't taken the time to delve further into what happened than that episode though.

nowaypablo  ·  3614 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I.. wait.. so then Russia dropped bee poo over Southeast Asia? I would be less disturbed by an actual chemical attack, were they trying to fertilize the flower fields to death?