Ethno-Cultural ‘Nine Worthies’ Lessons to Learn from Toxic Totalitarian vs. Pure Organic New Eco-Agriculture
by Lara Johnstone | 06 October 2011
Declined for Publication by Occidental Observer
“The cells of the trees and plants grew until they ruptured and died, like the inner cities of America, the spirit-killing suburbs, the urban freeways and commuter air corridors, as if America's poison for growth had been concentrated into the oily mist that made the jungle swell like a cancer, burst and die.” - Effects of Agent Orange, as described by Special Forces soldier named Hanson, in Kent Anderson’s ‘Sympathy for the Devil’
Scorched earth policies have been practiced by military strategists and tacticians in wars that erupted soon after the consequences of totalitarian agriculture burst its first resource war pimple on the face of Mother Earth: the Scythians against King Darius of Persia, the Armenians against Greek General Xenophon, the Gallic Wars, the British against the Boers in the Anglo-Boer War, Napoleonic Wars, American Civil War, Napoleon and Hitler’s invasions of Russia, to name but a few.
Agent Orange is the code name for one of the ‘Rainbow Herbicides’ used by the US military, in its agricultural warfare defoliation program, known as Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War, between 1961 and 1971.
Agent Orange was manufactured by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemical for the U.S. Department of Defense and included a 50:50 mixture of 2,4D , and 2,4,5-T , which was later found to be contaminated with tetrachlorodibenzodioxin (TCDD), which later became known as “perhaps the most toxic molecule ever synthesized by man.” Other Rainbow Herbicides some of which included either or both of 2,4D[1] and 2,4,5-T[2] included Agent Purple, Green, Pink, White, Blue and Orange II, also sometimes called “Super Orange”.
