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May 24, 2002
Mark Weisbrot
Bush
Administration Scandals:
Beginning of the End?
Feingold / Corzine
Halt Executions Nationwide
Bill Christison
Former
CIA Analyist:
Big Changes Needed in
US Intelligence Agencies
May 23, 2002
Dean Baker
Attack of the Clowns:
The Real Bush is Back
Susan Abulhawa
Israel
and South Africa:
Apartheid's Accidental Prophecy
Uri Avnery
Sharon the Great Reformer?
Behzad Yaghmaian
Travails
of a Middle Eastern Migrant: Accosted at the Border
May 22, 2002
Brian J. Foley
Dick Cheney's Obscenity
Gavin Keeney
Bete Noire
Enron & the Great Game
Fran Shor
Follow the Money
Bush, bin Laden & Carlyle
May 21, 2002
George Monbiot
Riddle
of the Spores:
The FBI and Anthrax
Yulie Khromchenko
Displaced Reality:
Impressions from Jenin
Bernard Weiner
Kenny
Boy to Bush:
"Welcome to the Club"
Ron Jacobs
Confusing the Face
of the Enemy
Gary Leupp
"War
on Terrorism" in Yemen
May 20, 2002
Rep. Ron Paul
Say No to Military Draft
Dave Marsh
Music Monopolies
Jordy Cummings
Israel, Jews and the Left
Francis Boyle
In Defense
of a Divestment
Campaign Against Israel
Christian Salmon
The Bulldozer War
Edward Said
Crisis for
American Jews
May 19, 2002
Philip Farruggio
Where's Twain's Protector Government
Now?
Norman Madarasz
Canada,
NAFTA and Kyoto
May 18, 2002
M.G. Piety
Economic Fiction:
From Here to Annuity?
Michael Colby
Bush Fiddled
While
New York Burned
May 17, 2002
Wayne Madsen
Fox News Flashback:
Defending McKinney
James T. Phillips
Ceasefires
and Terrorists
Phillipe Dambournet
The Truth at Last:
Bush as the Energizer Bunny
Lori Berenson
In Defense
of Political Prisoners
Rep. Cynthia McKinney
Terrorist Warnings
Hussein Ibish
Clarifying
the Obstacles
to Peace in Palestine
Alexander Cockburn
Israel and "Anti-Semitism"
May 16, 2002
Marylin Robinson
A Garden
in Tent City, But Where Do You Bathe?
Paul de Rooij
Worse than CNN?
The BBC and Israel
David Krieger
The Bush/Putin
Agreement:
Nuclear Dangers Remain
Steve Perry
Unsafe at Any Speed:
Youth, Sex and the Heresies
of Judith Levine
May 15, 2002
Ahmad Faruqui
Revisiting
Camp David
Rick Giombetti
Spiderman v. Pentagon:
Working Class Hero Battles Corrupt Defense Contractors
Stanton / Madsen
When the
War Hits Home:
Planning for Martial Law, Telegovernance and Suspension of Elections
May 14, 2002
Jacob Levich
Leaving the Truth Out?
Alternative Online Publication
Tells the Big Lie about Palestine
Michael Colby
Bush's
Cuba Blunder
Dave Marsh
Scapegoats: the Music Industry's War
on Cassettes
Jensen / Mahajan
US Power
Mideast Power Plays
May 13, 2002
Robert Fisk
Why Does John Malkovich
Want to Kill Me?
Mokhiber / Weissman
IMF
and World Bank:
Out of Control
Dean Baker
Will Darth Vader do Time?
The Enron Saga Continues
Nelson Valdés
American
Democracy:
A Lesson for Cubans
May 12, 2002
Bernard Weiner
Why Is America Acting Like This? A
Letter to European Friends
John Patrick Leary
Aiding Colombia
Kathleen Christison
Israel
and Ethics
May 11, 2002
Joady Guthrie
The Holy Lands:
A Peace Vision
Patrick Cockburn
Bombing
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May
24, 2002
Documents
Reveal Plan to Develop Offensive BioWeapons
Pentagon Violates Bioweapons
Act
by Edward Hammond
Three Pentagon documents proposing development
of offensive biological weapons have been turned over to the
US Department of Justice, the US government law enforcement agency.
Two of the documents are from the US
Naval Research Laboratory and the US Air Force's Armstrong Laboratory.
These two documents propose anti-materiel biological weapons
and were described in the Sunshine Project's news release of
May 8. On May 10th, in response to a Sunshine Project request,
the National Academies of Science (NAS) released another US government
proposal for offensive anti-material biological weapons. The
third proposal is from the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory
(INEL). The three documents have been turned over to the US Department
of Justice (DOJ) accompanied by letters from the Sunshine Project
requesting United States Attorney action pursuant to the Biological
Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989.
The Third Biological
Weapons Proposal: On May 10th,
the National Academies released "Biofouling and Biocorrosion",
a 1994 document from the National Security Programs Office of
the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL), a facility
of the US Department of Energy. In the paper, INEL proposes US
development of offensive biological weapons that destroy materials.
Like the Air Force and Navy proposals discussed on May 8th, the
INEL document has recently been distributed to government officials
by the Marine Corps-directed Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program
(JNLWP) and in 2001 was submitted for consideration by the National
Academy of Sciences Panel "An Assessment of Non-lethal Weapons
Science and Technology" (NAS Study NSBX-L-00-05-A).
In "Biofouling and Biocorrosion",
INEL specifically proposes "selection of particularly active
[microbe] strains" and "consideration of genetic techniques
for further optimization and control". INEL also proposes
"investigation of probable scenarios for [microbe] employment"
and development of "organisms with faster rates of degradation
and production of fouling agents, as well as novel methods for
introducing the organisms to their targets." This proposal
is available on the Sunshine Project website for independent
analysis.
US Attorney Contacted: In two letters, one on 16 May and another on
23 May, the Sunshine Project has provided copies of three documents
to Mr. Johnny Sutton, the United States Attorney for the Western
District of Texas. They are: "Biofouling and Biocorrosion"
(INEL, Idaho Falls, ID), "Enhanced Degradation of Military
Materiel" (US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC),
and "Anti-Materiel Biocatalysts and Sensors" (Armstrong
Laboratory, Brooks Air Force Base, San Antonio, TX). Letters
accompany the documents requesting Department of Justice action
pursuant to the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989.
The Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism
Act of 1989 is the US law that implements the Biological and
Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), to which the United States is
a contracting party. The Act was passed unanimously by both houses
of the US Congress and signed into law by President George Bush,
Sr. It creates a general prohibition punishable by imprisonment
and/or civil penalties on the development, production, stockpiling,
transfer, acquisition, or possession of biological weapons (Section
175), and permits the United States Attorney to seek injunctions
against preparation, solicitation, attempt, or conspiracy to
engage in prohibited conduct (Section 177). The Act defines biological
agents to include anti-material agents, specifically including
those that cause deterioration of food, water, equipment, supplies,
or material of any kind (Section 178).
Edward Hammond
is director of The
Sunshine Project, based in Austin, Texas. He can be reached
at: hammond@sunshine-project.org
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