Bioterror
Manufacturing wars the American way
Edited by Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap
How Washington's development and use of biochemical weapons endangers both target populations and US citizens...
While Washington contemplates "first strikes" against those nations unilaterally identified as the "Axis of Evil" and said to be stockpiling weapons of mass destruction, this controversial, well-documented book explains how the United States itself has been the most notorious practitioner of chemical and biological warfare since blankets laced with smallpox were given to Native Americans 250 years ago.
The New York based editors of this book, William Schaap and Ellen Ray, are two prominent US authorities on the CIA and intelligence issue. This well-documented book backgrounds several cases of US development and use of chemical-biological warfare, from Agent Orange in Vietnam to the Gulf War syndrome of the 1990s.
In their introduction, the editors offer an up-to-the minute analysis of current events exposing the hypocrisy about weapons of mass destruction in the "war on terror."
William Schaap and Ellen Ray were co-founders of the authoritative magazine, CovertAction Quarterly. William Schaap is a New York attorney, who has worked with the Center for Constitutional Rights, and has testified as an expert witness on the CIA and intelligence matters in Congressional and UN hearings, as well as federal, state and foreign courts. Ellen Ray is an independent documentary film-maker and was a consultant for Oliver Stone's movie "JFK."
Bioterror is a concise and thoughtful read for those who are not satisfied with the official edicts espoused in the daily Pentagon briefs by Rumsfeld and company.
—Clamor
Bioterror is a valuable antidote to the view that the United States opposes chemical and biological warfare. This book shows in detail how this country has been a pioneer in both the development and the use of chemical-biological weapons.
—Edward Herman
Bioterror reminds us that the stories about current biological and chemical weapons programs in Iraq fit into a pattern of systematic disinformation campaigns about chemical and biological terror in the Third World… Running through the whole [book] is the pertinent reminder to a generation in the grip of collective amnesia that the US war on Vietnam was the most massive chemical war waged in world history; and that the US has deliberately deployed such weapons of mass destruction against civilians.
—Race & Class
This book shows that America has the world’s biggest stocks of weapons of mass destruction, and has used them many times in the past.
—Midwest Book Review
The trouble is, when it comes to biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction, the US knows what it is talking about. This book isn’t about Iraq or North Korea: It’s about the US itelf—that great stockpiler, developer and user of chemical and biological weapons. And the only nation in the world to have deployed the most lethal ‘weapon of mass destruction’—the nuclear bomb… The hypocrisy [of the US] is simply stunning, and Bioterror is a timely spotlight on it.
—New Internationalist
