100 Years of US Troops As Lab Rats

On Memorial Day, politicians will speak at ceremonies all over the country and repeat their favorite mantra: "Support the troops." This pledge is hammered into the American psyche at every turn. But there is a hidden, dark history that shows that the politicians are in fact no friend to service members--but their greatest enemy.

In this disturbing chapter of The Empire Files, Abby Martin documents decades of chemical warfare the US Empire has waged upon poor people the world over, as well as its own troops.