[CPEO-MEF] PFAS, GLOBAL: "The US Military Is Poisoning Okinawa"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The US Military Is Poisoning Okinawa

By Pat Elder
World Beyond War/Truthout
November 17, 2019

In 1945, the Truman administration knew that the Japanese government was trying to negotiate surrender through Moscow. The U.S. completely dominated Japan militarily by August of 1945 when it destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki with two bombs, thereby ending the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians and ruining the lives of millions. 

Why bring it up now? Because 74 years later the Japanese are still trying to surrender, while the U.S. government continues to wage war. 

It has been three years since we heard the news from the Okinawa Prefectural Government that the rivers and the groundwater around the U.S. military’s Kadena Air Base were polluted with deadly PFAS chemicals. We knew then that this water is used to replenish municipal wells, and we knew that human health was endangered on a massive scale.

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For the entire article, including a detailed map, see
https://truthout.org/articles/the-us-military-is-poisoning-okinawa/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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