The Largely Forgotten—And Still-Highly Suspect—2001 Anthrax Attacks That Enabled the Iraq War & Shine Light COVID's Origins | SYSTEM UPDATE #86
System Update with Glenn Greenwald
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4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of System Update, Glenn sheds some light on the long-forgotten Anthrax Attacks in 2001. With this history recap, he hopes to remind those old enough and educate young audience members of those attacks. Hopefully, with this background, Glenn can show how this method of fear tactics enabled the Iraq War and Covid.
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| 0:00.0 | So, Good evening. It's Monday, May 22nd. Welcome to a new episode, a special episode of System |
| 0:21.9 | Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through |
| 0:24.7 | Friday at 7 PM Eastern exclusively here on Rumbull, the free speech alternative to YouTube. |
| 0:30.6 | Tonight we devote the entire show to one of the most significant events |
| 0:34.7 | in American history over the last 40 years that happens to also be one of the most forgotten, |
| 0:40.6 | namely the 2001 anthrax attacks. Just seven days after the 9-11 |
| 0:47.1 | attack while rubble from the World Trade Center still lay on the streets of |
| 0:50.6 | New York City with thousands of corpses underneath it. |
| 0:54.7 | News outlets began reporting that envelopes containing what was said at the time to be extremely |
| 0:59.8 | sophisticated and highly weaponized strains of anthrax were dropped in the US Postal Service |
| 1:06.2 | and addressed to some of the nation's most prominent journalist, including NBC |
| 1:10.0 | anchor Tom Brokaw and the newsrooms of ABC, NBC, CBS and the New York Post, as well as |
| 1:16.6 | top political officials including then Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle of South |
| 1:21.0 | Dakota and Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont. |
| 1:24.8 | Those anthrax spores ended up killing five people, |
| 1:28.2 | including a photojournalist with the son and two postal workers, |
| 1:31.8 | and 17 others were infected, with 11 of them being seriously ill. |
| 1:37.0 | One could very easily argue that the anthrax attacks were at least as important in ratcheting up fear levels in the United States |
| 1:44.0 | as the 9-11 attack itself was and one could even possibly argue that they were |
| 1:49.1 | more effective in generating widespread fear and panic. |
| 1:53.0 | The fear that enabled the US government to do everything |
| 1:55.6 | from enacting the Patriot Act and imposing a pervasive domestic |
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