I remember at the time my parents believed everything the gov was saying about anthrax.

Damn, ￼ Those fictional news report are spooky as hell haha.￼

Robbie Martin continues the Amerithrax 20th anniversary series ( sort of ) with a deep-dive into the origins of the motherload of catastrophic imaginary terrorism, smallpox bioterrorism. It is common to hear people remark that the 2001 anthrax attacks have been 'memory-holed' in the public consciousness, if that's the case then the Bush-era smallpox program is a memory-hole within a memory-hole. Starting with the early history of Smallpox, variolation and the very first vaccines, Robbie tells the story of how a disease that was eventually eradicated globally became a powerful fearmongering tool that shaped the Clinton, Bush and Covid-19 eras. After George W Bush got elected and the PNAC dream came true, of not just one but two 'catalyzing' events ( anthrax & 9/11 ), the idea of innoculating the entire American public via smallpox vaccination became one of the primary Bush policy postures simultaneously with the drive towards the Iraq war.

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the Smallpox Cache:: https://bit.ly/3ICeQXS

Clinton's War on Terror Pt 1 of 2: https://bit.ly/3rLZHxm

Clinton's War on Terror Pt 2 of 2: https://bit.ly/3Gs9L2z

note: @ 37:30 Robbie incorrectly refers to 'Our Hidden History' as Henry Hakamäki's podcast, while Our Hidden History is also a great podcast this was a mistake, Henry Hakamäki's podcast is actually called the Guerrilla History Pod which you can check out here: twitter.com/guerrilla_pod 

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Part 4 of the Media Roots Radio Smallpox Bioterror Hoax miniseries starts just 4 months before the launch of the Iraq war. In this episode Robbie lays out a litany of exclusively pulled TV archive clips, official US documents and official statements in late 2002 and early 2003 which make a strong case for the ‘pre-event’ Smallpox vaccination program playing a crucial (but memory-holed) role in the propaganda talking points deployed by the Bush administration for the war. Colin Powell mentions smallpox in his infamous UN speech about Iraq’s alleged ‘mobile biological weapons labs' and the fear became so intense domestically that 40% of Americans polled at the time believed that a smallpox bioterrorism attack was ‘likely’. If you’d like to hear the entire miniseries (Parts 1-6) become a Media Roots Radio subscriber @ https://www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio for as little as $5 to gain access.

Extra Materials:

Smallpox News Clips Video 1999 - 2006
https://bit.ly/3Ig2inN

the Smallpox Cache
[ documents compiled by Robbie Martin relevant to the smallpox story ]
https://bit.ly/3KRwqYw.   

2002 CDC Smallpox Vaccination Plan
[ the entire series of documents including revisions to the CDC's smallpox bioterror response plan for state governments ]
https://bit.ly/3iel7NF .   

Part 1: the Wheel of Winter's Darkness & Smallpox Bioterror Scares [UNLOCKED]
https://bit.ly/3q8nw0E .   

Part 2: the Smallpox Doomsday Failsafe Scenario, 100s of Tons of Virus 'Missing' [UNLOCKED].  

Part 3: the Smallpox Vaccination Rollout Begins, J. Hauer's Biodefense Ploy, Iraq 'May Have the Virus' [UNLOCKED].   

Part 4: W Fakes Taking the Smallpox Vax & Project Bioshield on the Eve of War [UNLOCKED].  

Part 5: Did NBC Reporter David Bloom Die From the Smallpox Vax? Scooter’s Japanese Spank Bank [Patreon exclusive].  

Part 6: 'Failure’ of the Smallpox Program, USAMRIID’s Monkey Mad Scientist Retracts Amerithrax Silicon Claim [Patreon exclusive]. 

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Robbie Martin goes solo on the last episode of February 2022. Starting off Robbie talks about the under-reported warning about how a war in Ukraine might cause an accidental release of 'deadly pathogens' at (11) US DOD linked biological labs there. He then continues to explore the volatile frightening cluster-fuck with Russia's military entering Ukraine specifically by analyzing the cold reactions of the infamous neoconservative Kagan family. The episode concludes with Robbie playing parts of the new 60 Minutes segment on 'Havana Syndrome' and sharing reactions from sound designers and electronic musicians on the alleged audio recording of the 'Havana Syndrome' sonic weapon itself.

Intro/Outro Music:  Fabio Frizzi - Zombi 

Havana Music:  Zoviet France - Ascend A Fall & Caught in The Square

Havana Syndrome Sound Reviews by: @jessehamel_ @compostghoul 
@x7557x @ProlePumpkin @bHarb12 (twitter handles)

Ukraine & Georgia's Defense Department sponsored labs:
http://dilyana.bg/the-pentagon-bio-weapons/

US official: Russian invasion of Ukraine risks release of dangerous pathogens:
https://thebulletin.org/2022/02/us-official-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-risks-release-of-dangerous-pathogens/

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Revenge of the Kagans, DOD's 11 Ukrainian Bio Labs, 60 Mins Targeted Individuals, Havana Reviews

Over the last few centuries, the global spread of a vast array of different drugs has reshaped how we work, experience pleasure, fight wars, and explore our inner worlds. From Richard Nixon's 'War on Drugs' to the opium wars to the scuppering of the hippie movement, drugs have been 

How did we get here? On Downstream, Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire, How To Change Your Mind, The Omnivore’s Dilemma and This is Your Mind on Plants, talks to Ash Sarkar about his experience growing poppies, the cultural politics of peyote, the imperial history of tea, and that time that Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley dissected a dolphin on a coffee shop table.

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Downstream: Drugs Have Shaped The Last 500 Years w/ Michael Pollan

While Martin Lewis sounds the alarm on energy bills (again), James Cleverly and the Tories are asleep at the wheel. Why is the political establishment failing to offer solutions as prices soar?

Plus: Polling shows the Don't Pay campaign have the public on their side; and workers at Royal Mail announce strikes later this month.

With Aaron Bastani and Dalia Gebrial.

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TyskySour: Cleverly Has No Answers

Keir Starmer failed to stop a campaign to deselect a left wing MP despite an expert warning that the process was an "extension of [her] abuse"

With Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial.

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TyskySour: Starmer Ignores Abuse Of Apsana Begum

With the queen lying in state, the level of public enthusiasm for the monarchy is being measured in a line along the Thames. Michael Walker and Owen Jones discuss what's driving people to queue.

Plus: King Charles fires his staff; A columnist for the Times thinks we should be 'frugal' like the Queen; and we look at how the devolved nations are taking the cost of living crisis more seriously than Liz Truss.

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TyskySour: The Queen Lies In State

In 2011, while working as a City trader, Gary Stevenson joined the ranks of the ultra-rich with a single bonus cheque. Not long after, he was named one of Citibank’s highest-performing traders worldwide. Stevenson made millions for his employer by betting on one thing: that inequality would worsen and living standards would fall. It made him rich, but miserable. Stevenson left his job to campaign on inequality. In this interview with Aaron Bastani, he tells the story of his ascent to the peak of the financial world and reveals the plan to destroy the middle class.

Downstream: The Plan is to Make you Permanently Poorer w/ Gary Stevenson

Narges Bajoghli returns to PTO to talk about the ongoing protests in Iran, which erupted in mid-September following the killing of the twenty-two year old Mahsa Amini, by officers of the so-called guidance patrol. We talked about why Amini's death has sparked such wide scale opposition to the Iranian regime, and the class composition and geographical spread of the protests. We also talked about how the regime is seeking to portray the protest movement as being instigated by foreign powers, and finally we talked about how the left should respond to those who seek to weaponise the cause of women's rights in Iran to justify Islamophobic politics or to advance geopolitical objectives.

“Woman, Life, Freedom” - On Iran's protest movement w/ Narges Bajoghli

Dimitri and Khalid embark on a multi-episode journey into the actually existing history of the geographic region known for millennia as Palestine, and the actually existing people who inhabited it under (mostly) uninterrupted Ottoman rule from 1516 to 1918.

PART ONE: Ontologies of Ottoman Palestine, 1776-1839

Swirling eschatological issues around the Holy Land, centuries of European obsession with Jerusalem, “the marriage of geopolitics and religion”, erming the “it wasn’t even a countryyy” crowd, psychedelic intellectual Daniel Pinchbeck’s psychotic Substack post about forcefeeding Palestinians MDMA until they abandon their religion and projecting a 3D blue beam Temple over Al-Aqsa to fulfill ancient prophecies and achieve peace, a brief speedrun of Palestinian history from Ancient Egypt to the 16th century Ottoman conquest, Napoleon’s 1799 invasion of Egypt and Ottoman Syria, the surprising ethnic/religious demographics of the early 19th century, Palestine’s significance in the Great Game struggle between Britain and Czarist Russia, European attitudes towards the continued survival of the Ottoman Empire, soft power penetration of the Holy Land via European religious groups and NGOs, the Albanian Muhammad Ali’s conquest of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria in the 1830s, Bedouin conceptions of “land ownership”, Sir Moses Montefiore’s early attempts to purchase land, and more.

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17 years ago, less than one month after the horrific attacks on September 11, 2001, weaponized anthrax was sent through the mail in a biological attack that stunned an already traumatized nation. The first American died from anthrax infection on October 5th. During the weeks that followed, letters sent through the US postal system containing anthrax were targeted at US media organizations and sitting US senators. In the end, five people were left dead--two US postal workers, a Florida photojournalist, a New York city hospital worker and a 95 year old widow in Connecticut. Over 22 people were hospitalized from exposure. Many dozens more tested positive for anthrax in the months that followed. 

It was a one-two punch of guttural horror. Americans were already glued to their television sets, watching 24/7 coverage of planes exploding and iconic skyscrapers crumbling. Over and over, we watched thousands perish. But terrorism was still abstract to those removed from the tragedy. The anthrax attacks changed that, localizing the fear of terrorism to everyone––even your grandma living in the suburbs of Connecticut. Anyone could get a letter. Anyone could be the next target. 

With the remains of the World Trade Center still smoldering, the Bush administration made several attempts to connect Saddam Hussein to 9/11. The anthrax attacks gave them the perfect opportunity to piggyback ‘weapons of mass destruction’ fears on a very real bioweapons attack. They used willing reporters as instruments to tie nonexistent bentonite from the anthrax letters to Saddam’s nonexistent weapons cache. Journalist stenographers in DC were the conduit for government propaganda, hyping up the threat of terrorism. The anthrax attacks justified the fear-mongering that 9/11 was not simply a one-off incident, and that terrorism was America’s new normal. 

Not since the Zodiac killer letters had Americans been subjected to such strange visual threats like the block text in short lines that the anthrax letters read: “ARE YOU AFRAID? YOU DIE NEXT.. DEATH TO AMERICA, DEATH TO ISRAEL. ALLAH IS  GREAT.” 

The letters were almost a parody of an islamic terrorist. But who was actually behind the attack? Who had the expertise necessary to secretly manufacture and then distribute weaponized anthrax spores?  Who had the motive? 

In this special episode of Media Roots Radio, after conducting extensive research from public documents, tv news archives, wire stories, first hand interviews and eye witness accounts, myself and Robbie Martin will tell the story of the 2001 anthrax attacks, what preceded them, what happened during the investigation and how this seemingly small event was instrumental in selling the Iraq war, shaping the reality tunnel we live in now. In Part 1 of our investigation, we start with a chronology of the lead up to the attacks and a blow by blow account of how they unfolded.

Show Notes & References: 

Anthrax: Bioterror as Fact and Fantasy by Philipp Sarasin

The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy by Graeme Macqueen

The Anthrax Letters by Leonard A. Cole

GERMS: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War by Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, William Broad

American Anthrax by Jeanne Guillemin

The Mirage Man: Bruce Ivins, the Anthrax Attacks & America's Rush to War by David Willman

FRONTLINE: The Anthrax Files
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSLqFihXFyc&t=3s

TLC: Anthrax Detectives
https://youtu.be/HcyYh_QDY74

Thom Hartmann Program: The Untold Story of the 2001 Anthrax Attacks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKGtF3zmrvc

CBC: Anthrax Wars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PquqlX8wnT0

American Anthrax 1.5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PqU7dXEirU

Marcy Wheeler: Anthrax Timeline (revision 2) 
https://www.emptywheel.net/2008/08/06/anthrax-timeline-two/

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Schrödinger's  Super Patriot : The 2001 Anthrax Mystery,  Pt 1 of 2

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