- 23 Jul 2019 17:05
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On the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, residents cite cancer, birth defects and diseases as the lasting legacy of decades of US weapons use there. But 10 years after the bombings stopped, the US refuses to acknowledge a link.
For more than 60 years, the idyllic Caribbean island was used as a practice ground for US Navy weapons, turning more than half of it into a no-go zone. The island of 10,000 struggled for decades to get its land back.
Oh well ………… we don't need them no more. Let's "grant" them their independence while keeping bases used by the American Empire war machine.
nothing wrong here ^ that a few rolls of paper towels cannot fix.
WOW! This guy ^ is one helluva leader.
For more than 60 years, the idyllic Caribbean island was used as a practice ground for US Navy weapons, turning more than half of it into a no-go zone. The island of 10,000 struggled for decades to get its land back.
Oh well ………… we don't need them no more. Let's "grant" them their independence while keeping bases used by the American Empire war machine.
nothing wrong here ^ that a few rolls of paper towels cannot fix.
WOW! This guy ^ is one helluva leader.
"Society in those days was a perfectly competent, perfectly complacent, ruthless machine." Virginia Woolf 1897