Reply #9: Thanks, Wilms! Hey! Evahearbout: "Anti-fascist Information Bulletin"? [View All]

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The appear to be a most progressive bunch:

Fascism's "scientific" face

by Tom Burghardt, Editor, Anti-fascist Info-Bulletin
The Guardian October 4, 2000

Under cover of "national security", gruesome Nazi-like projects were carried out by the US National Security State throughout the Cold War period and beyond.

When revelations emerged several years ago that the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) sponsored "medical" research that injected gravely ill patients with radioactive plutonium with neither their knowledge nor their consent, a firestorm gripped Washington.

It forced the Energy Department to release thousands of pages of files documenting the hideous trail of suffering and death inflicted by government-funded "research". (See Eileen Welsome's 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning series, "The Plutonium Experiment" in The Albuquerque Journal, November 15-17 1993.)

Now a new book slated for release in October by investigative journalist Patrick Tierney, Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon (New York, W W Norton & Co), threatens to rip the mask of respectability from the faces of several prominent anthropologists.

Tierney's book claims certain scientists conducted genocidal experiments on the Yanomami people of Venezuela in the late 1960s — with funds provided once again by the AEC.

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http://www.cpa.org.au/garchve3/1019fasc.html