AMERICA’S BIG LIE ABOUT BIOWEAPON CRIMES IN KOREA-TOM POWELL ON CHINA RISING RADIO SINOLAND 170729
A Chinese poster from the Korean War speaks truth to Western power: Vaccinate everyone, to crush the germ warfare of American imperialism! So, what else is new?
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AMERICA’S BIG LIE ABOUT BIOWEAPON CRIMES IN KOREA-TOM POWELL ON CHINA RISING RADIO SINOLAND 170729
The Korean War (1950-1953) has been actively and purposely censored and suppressed in American textbooks, classrooms and the media, for three reasons. First, the United States got its butt convincingly whipped by the communists – Korean, Chinese and Russian all. Second, America committed genocide, by bombing North Korea with ten times the firepower of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined, as well as 33,000 tons of napalm, for evil measure. There was literally not a building left standing north of the 38th parallel, while America exterminated 3,000,000 North Koreans, about 15% of the entire population. This war plan became the blueprint for continuing genocide in Vietnam, a decade later. Third, America committed the most heinous of crimes against humanity: the use of bioweapons against the North Koreans and Chinese.
Sylvia and John Powell were at the center of a legal and media firestorm, which lasted nearly a decade, 1953-1962, for reporting the horrific truth about America’s Korean War atrocities. The Eisenhower administration charged and tried them for sedition and with the Rosenbergs recently being executed in a frenzy of anti-communist hysteria, the Powell’s fate was no laughing matter. US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy finally called off the ideological dogs in 1962.
China Rising Radio Sinoland host Jeff J. Brown is honored and privileged to share the Powell’s saga, with their son, Thomas “Tom” Powell. He grew up with the US government’s witch hunt against his parents and as a result, has become very knowledgeable on the Korean War and America’s sordid use of bioweapons (BW) on the North Koreans and Chinese.
When not researching the Korean War, Tom is a sculptor, writer and art history lecturer. In a lengthy career, he has directed numerous art exhibitions, while his drawings, poetry and writings have appeared in the underground press. For many years he was lead artist for the annual effigy burning of El Kookooee. More recently, he has written articles about bioweapons and American gun violence in the journals Socialism and Democracy and International Critical Thought. He is also a regular contributor to Bad Subjects and coedited Issue #89, on the topic of Mass Extinction.
Jeff considers this interview with Tom to be one of the most significant and important in his career, as it shows to what lengths and coordination the West’s owners go to, to suppress and censor their criminal actions, which started with slavery and the genocide of the world’s native peoples 500 years ago, and continue today across the world, such as in Syria and Venezuela, to name just two of many victims of empire.
All the aforementioned official and pedagogical censorship in the US helps explain why Westerners totally under-appreciate these reasons that North Korea has been working on its nuclear weapon program since 1953 and will never stop. This threat is all they have to keep NATO from turning DPRK into another Libya or Iraq, which, a false flag or two later, the West would do in a heartbeat.
Thus, this is an hour of listening and learning that you will not soon forget and hopefully share widely.
This interview is based on Tom’s must-read article, Biological Warfare in the Korean War: Allegations and Cover-up, Socialism and Democracy Vol. 31, No1 March 2017, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08854300.2016.1265859
Tom’s bibliography, at the end of his article, is a treasure trove of information on the subject.
Tom also recommends a recent article by Bruce Cummings, A Murderous History of Korea, which appeared in the London Review of Books and covers the carnage of the war but does not get into the bioweapons story, https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n10/bruce-cumings/a-murderous-history-of-korea.
The actual International Scientific Commission’s Report on Bacterial Warfare during the Korean War published in 1953, can be found here, http://cryptome.org/2015/01/isc-biowar-kr-cn.pdf, and explained in the following article, which Jeff dug up, while preparing this article.
CODA
Although still prized by most liberals and the American public at large as good entertainment and a great antiwar show, the tv series MASH, aired during the Vietnam war, actually whitewashed the American atrocities in Korea. The plot usually featured the frat house antics of happy-go-lucky Americans doing their thing in a strange country that happened to be Korea, a country that just happened to be at war, BUT which was mighty grateful those Americans were there, with their Hershey bars and other peculiar cultural artifacts, on their soil. The Pentagon brass was rumored to be offended by the show, but that was so much poppycock: US militarists know when they have a good propaganda vehicle.
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Jeff J. Brown—TGP’s Beijing correspondent— is the author of 44 Days (2013), Reflections in Sinoland – Musings and Anecdotes from the Belly of the New Century Beast (summer 2015), and Doctor WriteRead’s Treasure Trove to Great English (2015). He is currently writing an historical fiction, Red Letters – The Diaries of Xi Jinping, due out in 2016. In addition, a new anthology on China, China Rising, Capitalist Roads, Socialist Destinations, is also scheduled for publication this summer. Jeff is commissioned to write monthly articles for The Saker and The Greanville Post, touching on all things China, and the international political & cultural scene
In China, he has been a speaker at TEDx, the Bookworm Literary Festival, the Capital M Literary Festival, the Hutong, as well as being featured in an 18-part series of interviews on Radio Beijing AM774, with former BBC journalist, Bruce Connolly. He has guest lectured at international schools in Beijing and Tianjin.
Jeff grew up in the heartland of the United States, Oklahoma, and graduated from Oklahoma State University. He went to Brazil while in graduate school at Purdue University, to seek his fortune, which whet his appetite for traveling the globe. This helped inspire him to be a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tunisia in 1980 and he lived and worked in Africa, the Middle East, China and Europe for the next 21 years. All the while, he mastered Portuguese, Arabic, French and Mandarin, while traveling to over 85 countries. He then returned to America for nine years, whereupon he moved back to China in 2010. He currently lives in Beijing with his wife, where he writes, while being a school teacher in an international school. Jeff is a dual national French-American.
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