Munir Ahmed<\/p>\n
Iraq, Libya, and Syria were ruined by the alleged reports that they had weapons of mass destruction. BBC shouted against the proposed US attack on the Saddam regime and faced the fallout of questioning the rumours-based false report. The Pentagon accepted the report was based on false acquisitions but only after running Iraq. Libya and Syria were punished in the name of the \u201cArab Spring.\u201d Since then, no regrets have ever been seen on the faces of the fascists. There is no compensation for the victims.
\nBiological and toxin weapons are either microorganisms like viruses, bacteria, or fungi, or toxic substances produced by living organisms that are produced and released deliberately to cause disease and death in humans, animals, or plants. In the early days of COVID-19 in China, the US alleged the creation of a new virus and spreading it in Wuhan to shut down the Chinese economy.
\nFor years now, Russia has been shouting against the US bio lab in Ukraine with evidence, asking the UN Security Council for a thorough probe of the US bio lab. After a long progressive campaign, the 15-nation UNSC voted down on November 2, 2022, a proposal by Russia to create a commission to investigate Moscow\u2019s claims of a joint US-Ukrainian military biological programme.
\nRussia has been levelling allegations since March that bio labs in Ukraine, sponsored by the US Defense Department, violated the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) 1972, an international law regulating weaponized toxins.
\nKyiv and Washington have been consistently refuting Moscow\u2019s claims terming them \u201callegations offered with no verifiable proof of such work\u201d. The UN\u2019s disarmament chief, Izumi Nakamitsu, said in March 2022 that \u201cthe global body could not investigate, so the UN was not aware of any biological weapons programme in Ukraine.\u201d So, Russia\u2019s claim was put on the UNSC meeting for voting on forming a commission to probe the \u201callegations.\u201d And, it was voted out.
\nOnly Russia and China voted in favour of the measure, with the other three veto-wielding permanent members of the Council, the US, the UK and France, voting against it. The 10 elected members of the UNSC preferred to abstain. So, the measure was defeated.
\nThe difference between the two resolutions was the proponent. The US could win on the false report to attack Iraq, Libya, and Syria. But, Russia and China cannot even launch a UN probe against the US-Ukraine joint labs. This has endorsed \u2018might is right\u2019 once again. But what would be the ramifications?
\nMatt Field argued in the \u201cBulletin of the Atomic Scientists\u201d on January 5, 2023, that \u201cdespite risk-management gaps, countries press ahead with new labs that study deadly pathogens.\u201d He has written that a little over 17 years ago a motley crew of dignitaries gathered at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, to celebrate the construction of a state-of-the-art biological laboratory, the Biosafety Level (BSL)-4 lab. On hand that day were Anthony Fauci, then the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and two top Republican officials, former Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.\u201d
\n\u201cWe are going to be a one-stop shopping centre for all of the bad things that might happen,\u201d Hutchison said, according to the Galveston County Daily News, \u201cbut more importantly, we are going to find the cures.\u201d
\nMatt Field writes: \u201cTwo decades later, it\u2019s difficult to imagine the same kind of gathering-Fauci, who retired last month, rubbing shoulders with leading Republican figures in Congress.\u201d Now, many Republicans say Fauci played a role in improperly funding research on coronaviruses in a lab in China, and the party has made probing the origins of COVID-19 and US-government funded pathogen research in China a centerpiece of its agenda.\u201d
\nWhile analysts, Western diplomats, and the Pentagon have suggested that Russia\u2019s \u201callegations\u201d are \u201cdisinformation\u201d about the biological labs and are a \u201cfalse flag,\u201d RT.com reported early in December 2022, quoting the head of Russia\u2019s Nuclear Biological, and Chemical Defense Troops that \u201cWashington has been moving its bioweapons research out of Ukraine. This comes after the research laboratories\u2019 existence was exposed under the Trump presidency.\u201d
\nDuring a series of UN meetings prompted by Russia, the US has accepted to have supported the non-military biological labs in Ukraine since the 1990s, including one called the \u201cBiological Threat Reduction Program\u201d that was created to disassemble the former Soviet Union\u2019s programs, to \u201creduce legacy threats from nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons left in the Soviet Union\u2019s successor states.\u201d
\nThe Joe Biden administration seems furious since Russia pointed out the US bioweapons labs in Ukraine, and the US officials had admitted several facts about the existence of their biological programmes, the participation of the US Ministry of Defense in them, the fact of the transfer abroad of Ukrainian biomaterial, as well as the desire of the Americans not to allow Russia into the controlled laboratories at any cost.
\nBoth within the US and in many countries of the world, legitimate questions and demands arise to reveal the essence of the Pentagon\u2019s biological research in its entirety. Doubts are being raised even by Washington\u2019s close allies. For example, during the voting on the UN Security Council resolution on the international investigation of the US activities in Ukraine, the representative of Norway did not join the countries that voted against this Russian initiative.
\nThe US Department of Defense continues to expand its military-biological projects despite the emerging challenges, and several scientists, experts, NGOs and opposition US politicians voicing concerns about them. According to a new strategy released on October 18, 2022, the Pentagon plans to spend $88 billion on research around the world shortly. It reveals plans to increase the number of commercial contractors to deflect suspicions from the US defence establishment. Such actions, the experts believe, will make it even more difficult to conduct a formal international investigation.
\nThe new US strategy is a sheer violation of the Biological Weapons Convention, to which the US and the 10 abstainers at the UNSC November 2, 2022 meeting are signatories. Thus, it\u2019s their responsibility to vote against the spread of bioweapons instead of remaining silent or opting to abstain. Otherwise, the consequences are obliviously obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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