Havana, Cuba.
– The fact that former US President George W. Bush did
not sign the Kyoto Protocol was rooted in the interests of US
military world.
Barack Obama also had a very powerful reason to abort the recent
Summit on Climate Change. It is his country’s weaponry
business.
Let us say, for instance, that more than 1 000 US military facilities
are polluting the waters of California, New York, Texas, Florida
and other states with a poison known as trichloroethylene.
The poorest communities, particularly the black ones, suffer
the worst effects of this poisoning. US nuclear tests in the
Southwest and the South Pacific Islands have contaminated millions
of hectares of land and water with radiation.
In this regard, there are allegations that mountains of radio-active
and toxic uranium waste have been left to decay in indigenous
lands to the Southwest of that country.
But the evil has crossed the seas. Nowadays, it is very usual
to find corroded barrels of chemicals and solvents and millions
of ammo in former and active military bases in Puerto Rico,
the Philippines, South Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Japan,
Nicaragua, Panama and former Yugoslavia. They were criminally
abandoned by the Pentagon.
It must be exposed and denounced that in addition to carbon
dioxide emissions; US big military operations release other
highly toxic and radio-active materials into the air, water
and ground.
For example, US impoverished uranium bombs have spread dozens
of thousands of radio-active and highly toxic waste micro-particles
all over the Near East, Central Asia and the Balkans.
Thousands and even millions of people suffer leukemia and congenital
malformations caused by radioactive activity, left by bombs
labeled Made in USA.
The world remembers with anger and grief the orange agent, used
by US troops in the war against Vietnam, which devastated vast
extensions of that country. Today, 35 years later, the contamination
with dioxin is between 300 and 400 times higher than the acceptable
levels.
That’s why it is no surprise that Bryan Farell, author
of a book recently published, assured: “The worst attack
against environment, against all of us in the globe, comes from
an agency… US Armed Forces.”
Translated by: Pedro
A. Fanego
( 03.12.2009 10:13 AM ) |
