"I came to understand the importance of a deeper interdisciplinary scholarship that would better support what doctors in #Fallujah had been yelling to the international community for years [..] which is that something horrible has happened to the #environmentInFallujah, that it is changing ppl's reproductive health..."

#KaliRubaii on toxic supply chains of war in #Iraq

https://soundcloud.com/vomekpfa-1/toxic-supply-chains-of-war-in-iraq

#uranium #depletedUranium #uraniumPoisoning #ecocide #USmilitaryPollution #IraqWar #DRC @iraq

"Farmers told me that they witnessed U.S. military contractors dump sewage and waste into their fields. Residents described how, for years, they had bathed in sewage-clogged streams that flowed from inside the base walls and breathed in the billowing clouds of poisonous pollutants from the open-air #BurnPits."

A Toxic Legacy: What America Left Behind In #Afghanistan

https://undark.org/2023/09/25/afghanistan-war-toxic-pollution/

#AfghanWar #MilitaryPollution #écocide #USMilitaryPollution #EnvironmentalRacism #EnvironmentalJustice

"This is a conversation with #NabilSalih–scholar of Iraqi politics and social movements–and #KaliRubaii–scholar of environmental contamination and researcher on its impacts in Iraqi communities.."

#Iraq Wounded: Twenty Years On, the Toxic Legacies of America’s War Remain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_NhKDEWRk4

#IraqWar #Iraq20YearsAfter #Iraq2003 #USMilitaryPollution #MilitaryPollution #BurnPits #IraqBurnPits #IraqInvaded20YearsLater #EcologyOfWar #EnvironmentalJustice #EnvironmentalRacism #RégimeChangeWars

"In August 2022, US President Joe Biden signed an act expanding benefits & healthcare to US veterans exposed to toxins in #BurnPits. But what about #Iraq|i exposure to burn pits? #KaliRubaii's research addresses their longterm diffuse exposure at all stages of their life, with effects that are varied & widespread. Rubaii has worked closely with Iraqi families since 2009 .. "

#IraqWar #IraqBurnPits #USMilitaryPollution #Fallujah #EcologyOfWar #EnvironmentalJustice

https://soundcloud.com/status-7/the-toxic-legacies-of-the-us-war-in-iraq-a-conversation-with-kali-rubaii