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Vietnamese Agent Orange Dioxin Victims Today

We're hosting a 'Rebuild The Nation' event at Thong Nhat Park, in Hanoi, to raise $50,000 for a new safe-house in Hue city where suffer most of Dioxin in the war.

(HANOI, Viet Nam) - I am writing you on the behalf of the Agent Orange War’s Victims, a non-profit organization that spreads awareness about the victims of Dioxin in Vietnam war.

At the Agent Orange War’s victims organization, we provide victims of Dioxin and abuse with support groups, counseling and safe-houses/school across the country.

Dow Chemical - Tower Hamlets Mayor Statement

The Vietnam war memorial is 492 feet long. If a similar memorial had been made for the Vietnamese who died, it would be nine miles long.

(LONDON) - Len Aldis, the internationally respected Agent Orange Activist and Chair of the Tower Hamlets CND has released the attached letter from the Mayor of Tower Hamlets regarding the London Olympics.

Len has been instrumental in organising worldwide condemnation of Dow Chemical involvement with the London games.

Len Aldis - the Man Behind and Often in Front of the News

Len is working to establish further events to raise much needed funds for the Victims of Agent Orange.

(LONDON) - In December 2011 Len Aldis, Secretary of the Britain-Vietnam Friendship Society and a small select number of government guests and dignitaries were invited to fly on the inaugural direct flight from the UK to Vietnam.

Len was honoured to be invited as a participant on this momentous occasion in Vietnam - UK aviation history.

The Agent Orange Leak on Okinawa

Buried Stockpile of Toxic Defoliant is Contaminating Futenma Air Base.

(YOKOHAMA) - The U.S. Marine Corps buried a massive stockpile of Agent Orange at the Futenma air station in Okinawa, seriously sickening the base’s former head of maintenance and potentially contaminating nearby residents and the ground beneath the base.

The barrels were abandoned in Okinawa at the end of the Vietnam War...

From Segregation to a Single Corps of `Green Marines`

“Joining a segregated Marine Corps in 1947 was quite a change for me, but I am happy that things have worked out so well and that I am now a part of an integrated Marine Corps.”
– Master Gunnery Sergeant Robert E. Talmadge, USMC (Ret)

(QUANTICO) - In the Corps, as in our societies as a whole, some individuals still have problems accepting people of color in position of authority.

Senior leaders are taking a hard look at their history and asking why the Corps has fallen behind other branches to eliminate the last traces of racism.

Agent Orange`s Deadly Legacy Spreads to Japan

"We unearthed over 100 barrels buried in rows. They were rusty and leaking and we could see orange markings around some of their middles" - Lt. Col. Kris Roberts, former head of maintenance projects on Futenma

(MOSCOW, RTV) - The fallout from the US military’s use of Agent Orange may have spread from Vietnam to Japan.

Massive caches of the toxic herbicide were buried on Futenma, “the world’s most dangerous base,” potentially poisoning the island, a Japanese daily reports.

Gates and Monsanto Go After Milk

In the near future, human development can potentially be dictated by corporate America, through the Bill & Malinda [sic] Gates Foundation and their $8.3 U.C. Davis grant.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Monsanto's head of the FDA's food safety division is threatening to get rid of raw (real) milk, and the real reason for this may have reared its ugly head.

Israel`s Attack on the USS Liberty - the Full Story

Israel insisted (as it still does) that its attack on the Liberty was an unfortunate “accident”, a case of “mistaken identity”.

(LONDON) - On Thursday 8 June 1967, Israeli air and naval forces attacked America’s most advanced spy ship, the U.S.S. Liberty, killing 34 of its crew and wounding 174.

The lesson of this cold-blooded, murderous attack was that there is nothing the Zionist state might not do, to its friends as well as its enemies, in order to get its own way.

What Phil Saw That Day

45th anniversary of the attack on the USS Liberty.

(LONDON) - Back in 2009, in Houston Texas, Mimi Adams, a distinguished Palestinian solidarity & human rights activist, gave me a present- a USS Liberty baseball cap. She put it on my head and said,

“Gilad, in the next two weeks, make sure you have it on your head everywhere you go in America. You will see what happens.”

Activist James Morris Confronts John McCain for Ignoring Israeli Attack of USS Liberty

Many call him the Manchurian Candidate; at any rate McCain is a sellout to his fellow sailors...

(SALEM) - Memories of the deadly and intense 1967 Israeli attack on the American Navy ship, U.S.S. Liberty, will never go away.

You might assume that John McCain, a former U.S. Naval officer, would be a proponent of this movement for accountability. No dice though.