House passes Congresswoman Newman's amendment on study of Panama Canal Veterans impacted by Agent Orange. Amendment builds on Rep. Newman’s Panama Canal Zone Veterans Act, which would grant federal benefits to Panama Canal Zone veterans who were exposed to deadly tactical herbicide. Click here to watch Congresswoman Newman's floor speech on the amendment
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Dissident Voice: here and here. I even did a review of that documentary,
The People VS Agent Orange, which highlights Tran To Nga‘s fight in France “Eternal Impunity of Capitalism’s Crimes“. Here’s one passage from that story I wrote:
Dr. James Clary was with the Air Force in Vietnam, which ran the program. He was ordered to dump the computer and erase all memory. Instead, he printed out a stack of documents two feet high – missions, sorties, coordinates, dates, gallons dropped throughout all of Southeast Asia and Laos.
“We had the information coming from Dow that there were real problems for people associated with this chemical. It was all locked up for 35 years.”
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A secondary section of the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the backcountry of Ta Oey District. Image by George Black. Laos, 2019.
It was a blazing-hot morning in October 2019 on the old Ho Chi Minh Trail, an intricate web of truck roads and secret paths that wove its way across the densely forested and mountainous border between Vietnam and Laos. Susan Hammond, Jacquelyn Chagnon and Niphaphone Sengthong forded a rocky stream along the trail and came to a village of about 400 people called Labeng-Khok, once the site of a logistics base inside Laos used by the North Vietnamese Army to infiltrate troops into the South. In one of the bamboo-and-thatch stilt houses, the ladder to the living quarters was made from metal tubes that formerly held American cluster bombs. The family had a 4-year-old boy named Suk, who had difficulty sitting, standing and walking one of three children in the extended family with birth defects. A cousin was born mute and did not learn to walk unti