Episode 25 - Used & Betrayed - 100 Years of US Troops as Lab Rats
b'On Memorial Day and Veterans Day, politicians will speak at ceremonies all over the country and repeat their favorite mantra: "Support the troops."\\n\\nThis 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. \\n\\nAn easy way to prove this truth is to look at how they so quickly betray and abandon their soldiers after purposely ruining their lives, and even after using them as literal lab rats. \\n\\nIn this disturbing chapter of The Empire Files, Abby Martin documents decades of experimentation on US troops\\u2014from nuclear tests to psychotropic drugs\\u2014as well as knowingly exposing them to deadly poisons, from sarin gas to Agent Orange. \\n\\nMost damning is that the hundreds of thousands of veterans seeking help from the government for the side-effects are always met with lies and denial. \\n\\nFOLLOW // http://twitter.com/empirefiles\\nLIKE // http://facebook.com/theempirefiles\\nEpisode music by Anahedron\\nIntro music by Fluorescent Grey'