By Danny Haiphong – Feb 3, 2022
US imperialism has claimed innocence and moral superiority on the world stage while deploying the cruelest weapons of war in its quest for dominance
The United States frequently employs human rights as a weapon against so-called “adversaries.” Chemical and biological weapons have played a prominent role in cultivating the U.S.’s identity as the foremost humanitarian interventionist power. The 2003 invasion of Iraq was based on accusations made by U.S. intelligence that Saddam Hussein was harboring Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs). In recent years, U.S. officials have accused the Syrian government on multiple occasions of engaging in chemical weapons attacks on civilian populations.
These evidence-free allegations have served as justification for wars far more destructive than whatever the targeted nations were accused of. Furthermore, there is ample evidence that it is the United States which is addicted to using chemical and biological weapons on civilian populations. The most well-known case is World War II, when the U.S. dropped two nuclear atomic bombs on Japan. Since then, the U.S. has used chemical and biological weapons on a number of occasions in its quest for global dominance. The following article offers eight examples which are by no means exhaustive.
Korea
Beginning in 1950, U.S. forces invaded Korea and murdered upwards of twenty percent of the entire population. The murderous event ended in an armistice in 1953. By 1952, Korean forces and Chinese volunteers had accused the U.S. of using biological weapons or “germ warfare” in its campaign of terror against the Korean people.
The World Peace Council, a Soviet Union-led internationalist organization, formed a delegation of scientists to investigate the matter. The International Scientific Commission (ISC) was led by the U.K.’s Director of Natural Sciences at UNESCO, Joseph Needham, and was comprised of experts from Brazil, Sweden, the Soviet Union, and France. Their report on the facts relating to the use of bacterial warfare in Korea and China was dismissed by the United States as “communist propaganda” and heavily suppressed. The journalist who broke the story, John W. Powell, was indicted on charges of sedition.
Featured image: The US has used biological weapons on civilian populations all over the world. File photo.
Danny Haiphong
Danny Haiphong is a socialist activist, writer, and political analyst. For the last five years, Haiphong has been a weekly contributor to Black Agenda Report. His articles have also appeared in publications such as MintPressNews, Counterpunch, The American Herald Tribune, The Center for Global Research (Canada) and The Herald (Zimbabwe). Haiphong has frequently appeared on Black Agenda Radio, CPRNews with Don Debar, The Taylor Report, RT, and Sputnik International. His work was recently featured in former Congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney’s latest book How the U.S. Creates “Sh*thole Countries (2018).
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