Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Scientific Assassinations Are Part of the CIA’s Record

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Scientific Assassinations Are Part of the CIA’s Record

Click here to access article by Wayne Madsen of Strategic Culture Foundation.

I don't think that there is any question that assassinations, scientific or otherwise, have been and are "part of the CIA's record". But Madsen's contribution to this issue is his review of the research into bio-weapons conducted by US agencies, and his survey of many nations' leaders who have opposed the Empire's policies and actions and their subsequent deaths due to cancer.

Chavez said the probability of so many Latin American leaders developing cancer at the same time was "difficult to explain".

Of course, we shouldn't forget one of our own labor activists, Karen Silkwood, who was contaminated with plutonium back in the early 1970s by Kerr-McKee corporate agents because she complained too vigorously about nuclear health and safety issues at the plant. Apparently they were in a hurry to shut her up because before she got cancer, she was killed in a mysterious auto accident.