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Understanding the Military-Industrial-Complex
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Some readers won’t be old enough to remember the Bhopal Gas Tragedy that occurred in December, 1984. Nearly 40 years after that disaster at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, people are still sick and dying due to the poisons in the environment, and in their own bodies.
The official death toll is still disputed but an estimated 574,000 were poisoned that night and upwards of 20,000 people have died since from related conditions. No one from Union Carbide was ever tried for the gross negligence that led to the gas explosion, despite multiple criminal charges being brought against them in India. No cleanup operation of the chemical waste — which was already being dumped into the local community before the explosion — has ever been conducted.
The Guardian can also reveal the role the US government has played — and continues to play — in obstructing justice for the Bhopal victims, in order to protect American corporate giants Union Carbide and its now owner Dow Chemicals. (quotes are from this article, emphasis my own)
Fast forward to 2023, East Palestine, Ohio. Another release of toxic gas into the environment, due to the…
