Sunshine Project Press Releases by Date

18 April 2007
Earth to NSABB: Voluntary Compliance Won't Work
Dismal record of biotech companies detailed in letters.

12 April 2007
Texas A&M University Violates Federal Bioweapons Law
Officials decided not to report aerosol chamber accident

28 February 2007
Biodefense Blackout: Texas BSL-4 Lab Keeps Records Secret
UTMB Resists Attorney General's Ruling, Case Moves to the Courts

30 October 2006
Bedfellows at the Biosecurity Board
How US science's nouveau riche bioweapons constituency is flexing its muscle to carve up safety and security rules.

18 September 2006
Transparency Urged for Homeland Security BSL-4 NBAF Lab

4 April 2006 (at www.smallpoxbiosafety.org)
Health Assembly Must Stop Dangerous Smallpox Experiments

15 March 2006
Agent Green: US House Votes to Advance Offensive Biological Weapons Plan

7 February 2006
BARDA's Biggest Secret is the Public's Loss: Are Biodefense Labs and National Security Agencies Arriving at a Secrecy Agreement?

5 October
Disease by Design: 1918 "Spanish" Flu Resurrection Creates Major Safety and Security Risks

25 May
No World Health Assembly Approval for Expanding Smallpox Virus Research

6 May
WHO Director-General Questions Smallpox Advisory Committee Recommendation

18 April
Faulty Aerosol Chamber Infects Three

4 March
Sunshine Project Releases CRISPER

11 March
Boston University Lab-Acquired Tularemia: FOIA Appeal to Overturn CDC Secrecy

1 March
Public Health Research Funding in Decline: NIH Data Contradicts NIH Position

17 January
Sunshine Project Responds to Pentagon Statements on"Harassing, Annoying, and 'Bad Guy' Identifying Chemicals"

13 January 2005
US Army Dugway Secrecy Challenged by Watchdogs

30 November
US Retains Illegal Patent on Treaty-Violating Bioweapons Grenade

16 November
French biodefense clouded in secrecy; concern over France's 'non-lethal' chemical activities

23 August
Research Transparency: Federal Complaint Filed Against "Bottom of the Barrel" Biosafety Committees

2 August
NIAID Biodefense Program Funds in Violation of Federal Biosafety Rules

19 July
Time for the Pentagon to Lift the Secrecy Surrounding its "Non-Lethal" Chemical and Biological Weapons

22 June
Institute Responsible for Anthrax Accident in California, in Charge of Safety and Security at Chicago Biodefense Laboratory

17 June
German Army to be equipped with "non-lethal" chemical weapons

3 May
Federal Complaint Seeks Termination of Government Funding for Nine Biotechnology Research Institutions

16 April
US Defense Science Board calls for strategic use of calmative chemical weapons

14 April
US Transparency Survey: Serious Problems Evident

6 April
US State Department Renews Pressure to Use Agent Green in Colombia

15 March
University of Texas Reverses Secrecy Stance; but will its New Biosafety Committee be Accountable?

21 February
Technology Transfer in the Biodiversity to Consider Impediments Such as Export Controls

6 January 2004
The Return of ARCAD

6 November
Announcing the Bioweapons and Biodefense FOI Fund

28 October
The Thomas Butler Case: Some Unreported Information

23 October
Ricin breeding and production projects at Texas Tech University raise questions

21 October
Biosafety Irregularity in Spanish Flu Experiments

9 October
Lethal Virus from 1918 Genetically Reconstructed

7 October
Biodefense: Secrecy Shutters Biosafety Committee in Texas

8 September
Pentagon Initiates New Reasearch into Prohibited Chemical Weapons

4 September
Texas Attorney General Rules for Biodefense Transparency

6 August
Bioweapons Watchdogs Seek Suspension of University of Texas Eligibility for Federal Biodefense Research Funds

8 May
US Army Patents Biological Weapons Delivery System, Violates Bioweapons Convention

26 February (Joint News Release)
Loose Monkey Teaches Biodefense Lab a Lesson in the Hazards of Secrecy

11 February
Pentagon Perverts Pharma with New Drug Weapons
What liability for the pharmaceutical industry?

7 February 2003
US Plans for Use of Gas in Iraq
Poses major threat to chemical weapons controls

17 December 2002
Agent Green: New US Bioweapons Threat on Colombia
US legislators renew calls for bio-attack on illicit crops.

30 October
NAS Withholds Key Info on Moscow Theater Tragedy

14 October (Joint News Release)
Time to Reassess Massive US Biodefense Plans

27 September
US Chemical Weapons: Human Testing Planned
JNLWD chemical program reaching advanced stage

24 September
US Operates Secret Chemical Weapons Program
The case against JNLWD to be taken to the UN.

12 August
US Special Forces Seek Genetically Engineered Bioweapons
Bugs to covertly infect and destroy materials

1 July
Psychopharmacological Weapons Under Consideration
Psychoactives under research are dangerous and illegal.

24 May
Pentagon BW Proposals at US Attorney's Office
Action requested under Bioweapons Anti-Terrorism Act

8 May
US Armed Forces Press for Offensive Bioweapons
NAS panel reviews proposals for illegal bioweapons

19 February
US Tests Ethnically-Targeted Crowd Control Weapons
Ethnic profiling, Pentagon-style.

7 December 2001
Intent to Kill
US Sabotages Bioweapons Review Conference, EU delegates say the US are "liars".

6 December
Bioweapons Negotiations Focus on Forum, Not Substance
Latin America Shines. Europe Uninspired. US Quarrelsome.

30 October
7 Good Reasons to Stand Up for Information Freedom on Biological Weapons Research
And what agendas may be leading the charge for secrecy.

29 October
House Passes Law to Make Bioweapons Research Secret
Bill Awaits Consideration by the US Senate

22 October
US Assault on Biological Weapons Control
Will the Bioweapons Convention be left standing?

10 October
CIA Denies Info on Southeast Asian Bioweapons Plan
Project's demise shows power of strong science regulation.

19 September
The Threat of "Non-Lethal" Weapons
Stopping CBW Escalation of the War on Terrorism

19 September
Avoiding Bioterrorism Starts with US
Four Steps the US Must Take to Avoid Biological War

30 August
A Continental Step Forward for Security
Africa Criminalizes Hostile Use of Biotechnology

25 July
US Dumps the Bioweapons Verification Protocol
Parties Urged to Continue - "A Wing and a Prayer" is not security.

23 July
US Quiet as the World Backs the Bioweapons Protocol
Delegates Await Possible Announcement on Wednesday

19 July
Last Chance for Biological Arms Control?
Peace activists urge North-South cooperation on Verification Protocol

16 July
Trade Trumps Peace in Bioweapons Negotiations
US scuttles others' security in the interest of biotech hegemony.

5 June
Who's in Charge of Agent Green in Asia?
While UNDCP maintains a press blackout, a 'technical' advisor backpedals on safety and airs politics.

11 May
USA's Tell-Tale Silence on the Bioweapons Protocol

1 February
European Parliament Rejects Agent Green

25 January 2001
Colombia Abandons Research on Biological Agents

13 November
United Nations Pulls Out of Plans to Use Anti-Drug Biological Weapons in South America

29 August
USA Admits Possible Links between Biological Weapons and Agent Green

18 August
Ecuador Enacts Law to Ban US Drug War Fungus

10 August
UNDCP and US Mislead on Environmental Supervision of Biological Weapons Plan

20 July
Sunshine Blasts UNDCP's Self-Serving "Green" Propaganda

18 July
Colombia's Agent Green Counterproposal Released

13 July
Tinkering with the Genes of Biological Weapons