Stephen Lendman is a writer, syndicated columnist, activist, News TV personality, and radio show host. He currently writes for MoneyNewsNow.com and VeteransToday.com and hosts, since 2007, a progressive radio show at The Progressive Radio News Hour on The Progressive Radio Network.

Lendman: Throughout its history from inception, the US used banned weapons. It waged a biological warfare against Native Americans, including by smallpox infected blankets. During America’s Civil War, both sides used chemical weapons, including chlorine gas. In WW I and II, the US used banned weapons, the same is true in all its succeeding wars. Today the US uses chemical, biological and radiological weapons in its war theaters. Was COVID-19 made in the USA? Last week, Pompeo falsely accused China, Russia, and Iran of conducting disinformation campaigns about the origin of the highly contagious/potentially deadly virus. Trump turned truth on its head, calling it the “Wuhan virus.”

Evidence suggests it was made in the US, not China, introduced in the country by US dark forces — the same likely true for Iran, victimized many times over by US war by other means. Since 2018, China had significant outbreaks of two strains of bird flu, African swine flu, armyworms that destroyed thousands of hectares of crops, since December COVID-19, and in January a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu. Was all of the above bad luck or US biowarfare to harm China’s economy and increase US exports of agricultural and other foodstuffs to the country? As for shortages of ventilators, face masks for health workers, other equipment needed, and enough ICU beds, it reflects US indifference toward its ordinary people. No shortages exist for its privileged class.