Depleted Uranium

Apr 8, 2020
DVD: Poison DUst: A New Look at U.S. Radioactive Weapons

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Apr 8, 2020
Depleted Uranium Education Project

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Oct 6, 2012
NEW BOOK: WAR Without Victory; The Pentagon’s Achilles Heel, by Sara Flounders, Co-Director, IAC

While staying aware of its destructive capacity, we can expand our view if we also examine its weaknesses. The Pentagon’s Achilles’ heel lies within the contradictions of the capitalist system that created this monstrosity....

Apr 21, 2011
U.S./NATO war creates humanitarian crisis in Libya: Depleted uranium weapons used while imperialists plot oil theft

The U.S./NATO war against Libya’s people and government reveals every day that there is no such thing as a humanitarian war carried out by imperialist states against post-colonial countries....

May 27, 2008
DU: Let's reach our youth BEFORE they're contaminated! Order Educators Packet and /or Donate to this urgent project

Three years ago, The Daily News ran a story about reservists returning from Iraq in 2004 from the same unit who were suffering from what euphemistically has been called "Gulf War Syndrome." It turned out that they all had been exposed to radioactive dust during their tour of duty in Iraq. The short term and long term effects of this exposure are slowly emerging into public consciousness....

Nov 24, 2007
Poison DUst - the Pentagon's illegal weapons

Poison DUst tells the story of three young men from New York who could not get answers for their mysterious ailments after their National Guard unit's 2003 tour of duty in Iraq. A mother reveals her fears about the extent of her child's birth defects and the growing disability of her young husband -- a vet. ...

Nov 24, 2007
82 year old WW2 Navy veteran speaks out against Depleted Uranium

I am Bud Deraps, an 82 year old WW2 Navy veteran and member of Veterans For Peace and Military Families Speak Out. I now spend all of my time researching, writing and speaking on the subject of Depleted Uranium under the title, "What Are We Doing To Our Own Loved Ones?" ...

Nov 3, 2007
UN First Committee Passes Depleted Uranium Resolution in Landslide Vote

Late last night the UN First Committee passed, by an overwhelming majority, a resolution highlighting concerns over the military use of uranium. The resolution entitled 'Effects of the use of armaments and ammunitions containing depleted uranium'1 was passed by 122 votes to six at the UN First Committee in New York; with 35 abstentions. The resolution urges UN member states to re-examine the health hazards posed by the use of uranium weapons. ...

Nov 30, 2000
GIJON, SPAIN: Meeting launches movement against depleted uranium

In the north coast city of Gijón in the Asturias province on Nov. 25-26, 2000, some 500 progressives from around Spain joined about 30 international delegates in a seminar to open a serious struggle in the country against the use of depleted-uranium weapons.

Among the participants was a former United Nations official in Iraq, Dr. Hans Graf von Sponeck, who resigned his post rather than direct the so-called "Oil for Food" program backed by the United States, which he saw as continuing the murder of Iraqi children....