Noord-Korea verkeerd begrepen: het land wordt bedreigd door de VS, dat alleen deze eeuw al minstens 4 illegale oorlogen begon……..

In het volgende artikel van Darius Shahtahmasebi, gisteren gepubliceerd op Anti-Media, analyseert hij de situatie waarin Noord-Korea zich bevindt.

Noord-Korea hetzelfde land in de Koreaanse oorlog al volledig plat werd gebombardeerd door de VS en wel op zo’n manier, dat het VS oppercommando in 1953 letterlijk geen doelen meer kon vinden om te bombarderen, waarna men dammen ging bombarderen, zodat o.a. de rijstoogst totaal mislukte en grote delen van het platteland en steden onder water kwamen te staan (een enorme oorlogsmisdaad!!)….

Even wat VS oorlogsmisdaden begaan tegen Noord-Korea: in de Koreaanse oorlog bombardeerde de VS: 1.000 ziekenhuizen, 8.700 fabrieken, 5.000 scholen en 600.000 huizen/wooncomplexen……….. Bij die bombardementen werd naar schatting 20% van de bevolking vermoord…..

Kortom Noord-Korea heeft alle redenen om bang te zijn voor de VS en vooral door te gaan met de ontwikkeling van kernwapens (volgens Shahtahmasebi heeft Noord-Korea deze al, maar dat is maar zeer de vraag*). Zeker gezien eerdere illegale oorlogen van de VS, zoals die tegen Irak en Libië: landen die ondanks het opgeven van programma’s voor het ontwikkelen van kernwapens en andere massavernietigingswapens (onder druk van NB de VS!), alsnog bijna geheel werden vernietigd door de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, dezelfde VS……..

Kortom, ondanks dat Noord-Korea geen ander land aanvalt en de VS voortdurend niet anders doet**, wordt door het overgrote deel van de westerse politici en de reguliere (massa-) media juist Noord-Korea als de grote agressor voorgesteld……… Vergeet daarbij niet, dat de VS en Zuid-Korea jaarlijks grootscheepse oefeningen houden langs de grenzen van Noord-Korea, inclusief het afschieten van raketten, waarbij o.a. de landing op Noord-Koreaanse bodem wordt gesimuleerd, iets dat de Noord-Koreanen terecht al vele decennia zwaar frustreert……

Je zou zelfs kunnen constateren, de de agressie van de VS het bewind in Noord-Korea stevig in het zadel houdt………

Lees dit uitstekende artikel van Shahtahmasebi: 

Everyone
Is Wrong About North Korea

August
16, 2017 at 10:13 am

Written
by 
Darius
Shahtahmasebi

(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed)  Imagine
a world where one country – country X – is bombing
 at
least seven countries 
at
any one time and is seeking to
 bomb
an eighth
,
all the while threatening an adversarial ninth state – country Y –
that they will bomb that country
 into
oblivion, as well
.
Imagine that in this world, country X already bombed country Y back
into the Stone Age several decades ago, which directly led to
the current adversarial nature of the relationship between the two
countries.

Now
imagine that country Y, which is currently bombing no one and is
concerned mostly with well-founded threats against its own security,
threatens to 
retaliate
in the face of this mounting aggression
 if
country X attacks them first. On top of all this, imagine that only
country Y is portrayed in the media as a problem and that country X
is constantly given a free pass to do whatever it pleases.

Now
replace country X with the United States of America and country Y
with North Korea to realize there is no need to imagine such a world.
It is the world we already live in.

As
true as all of this is, the problem is constantly framed as one
caused by North Korea alone, not the United States. “How to Deal
With North Korea,” the 
Atlantic explains.
“What Can Trump Do About North Korea?” the 
New
York Times
 asks.
“What Can Possibly Be Done About North Korea,” the 
Huffington
Post 
queriesTime provides 6
experts discussing “How We Can Solve the Problem” (of North
Korea). “North Korea – what can the outside world
do?”
 asks the BBC.

That
being said, some reports have framed the issue in completely
different terms. In an article entitled “The Game is Over and North
Korea Has Won,” 
Foreign
Policy’s 
Jeffrey
Lewis
 explains that
the United States should accept North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and
pursue other courses of action:

The
big question is where to go from here. Some of my colleagues still
think the United States might persuade North Korea to abandon, or at
least freeze, its nuclear and missile programs. I am not so sure. 
I
suspect we might have to settle for trying to reduce tensions so that
we live long enough to figure this problem out.
 But
there is only one way to figure out who is right: 
Talk
to the North Koreans.”
 [emphasis
added]

Lewis explains
further:

The
other options are basically terrible
. There is no
credible military option.
 North
Korea has some unknown number of nuclear-armed missiles, maybe 60,
including ones that can reach the United States; do you really think
U.S. strikes could get all of them? That not a single one would
survive to land on Seoul, Tokyo, or New York? Or that U.S. missile
defenses would work better than designed, intercepting not most of
the missiles aimed at the United States, but every last one of them?
Are you willing to bet your life on that?” 
[emphasis
added]

It’s
also worth mentioning that Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, General Paul Selva, 
already
testified
 to
the Senate Armed Services Committee that experts tell him North Korea
does not have “
the
capacity to strike the U.S. with any degree of accuracy or reasonable
confidence of success.”

Compare
these observations to every single
 keyboard
warrior
 on
Facebook and Twitter who thinks the United States has a duty to
defend itself from – and destroy – this rogue state, which is
currently attacking no one else nor has any underlying reason to
(especially 
considering
that South Korea
 is
open to talking with the North rather than relying solely on a
military confrontation).

The
problem with the mind-numbingly militarized approach to this
conundrum is that it completely ignores the historical factors that
led the United States to this crossroads in the first place.

In
the early 1950s, the U.S. bombed North Korea into complete
oblivion, 
destroying over
8,700 factories, 5,000 schools, 1,000 hospitals, 600,000 homes,
and 
eventually
killing
 off
perhaps 
20
percent of the country’s population
.
As noted by the 
Asia
Pacific Journal
,
the U.S. dropped so many bombs that they eventually ran out of
targets to hit:

By
the fall of 1952, there were 
no effective
targets left for US planes to hit
.
Every significant town, city and industrial area in North Korea had
already been bombed. In the spring of 1953, the Air Force targeted
irrigation dams on the Yalu River, both to destroy the North Korean
rice crop and to pressure the Chinese, who would have to supply more
food aid to the North. Five reservoirs were hit, flooding thousands
of acres of farmland, inundating whole towns and laying waste to the
essential food source for millions of North Koreans.” 
[emphasis
added]

In
its isolated state, the North Korean leadership that held office
after the end of the Korean war 
requested
nuclear weapons technology
 from
both China and the Soviet Union. After the collapse of the Soviet
empire, 
spearheaded by
the U.S., North Korea began to deteriorate even further, as it had
relied heavily on Soviet aid. Following a famine in the nineties that
reportedly killed as many as 500,000 civilians, North Korea was left
to its own devices as it watched its southern neighbors prosper. It
began to rapidly accelerate its nuclear weapons program.

Under
the Clinton administration, a deal was
 struck
with North Korea
 that
aimed to ensure the communist nation would eventually freeze and
gradually dismantle its nuclear weapons development program.

George
W. Bush
 intentionally
derailed
 this
deal in a
 manner similar
to what President Trump is currently doing in his attempts to derail
the nuclear deal arranged with Iran in 2015. Then, to make matters
worse, the Bush administration accused Iraq of having weapons of mass
destruction and invaded the country in 2003, plunging the country
into a state of chaos even though Iraq 
clearly
possessed no nuclear weapons
.

This
decision – coupled with Barack Obama and his NATO cohorts’ 
decision
to invade Libya in 2011
 —
taught
 North
Korea a very valuable lesson
 about
what can happen to an adversarial state if they give up their nuclear
weapons program. This isn’t conjecture. It has come straight from
the
 horse’s
mouth
.

The
Libyan crisis is teaching the international community a grave
lesson,”
 which
was that Libya’s decision to abandon its weapons programs in 2003,
applauded by George W. Bush, had been “an
invasion tactic to disarm the country”
 –
according to North Korea’s Foreign Ministry.

The
invasion of Iraq was quite clearly tied to
 natural
resources
 and money,
as was the decision to 
invade
and topple Libya
.
Lo and behold, North Korea is
 reportedly sitting
on a stockpile of minerals worth trillions of dollars. It also
happens to have only
 one
real major ally
:
America’s economic thorn in the backside, China, a country the U.S.
has had a
 specific
containment policy towards
.

It
is quite clear that threats of provocation to what is becoming a
rapidly growing nuclear-armed state, which is
 allied
to another
 nuclear-armed
state, have nothing to do with concerns about global security or
human rights. China has 
already
warned that their leadership
 will
only pick sides in the conflict 
if
the United States strikes first
.
A simple solution, therefore, would be for the U.S. not to strike at
all.

It
is for these reasons that Donald Trump
 stated in
1999 that the U.S. should negotiate with North Korea as a first
resort. Now that he is in the nuclear-code hot seat with a
 decaying
presidency on the verge of failure
,
he has changed his approach.

People
sitting behind their computer screens claiming the U.S. should have
blown up North Korea a long time ago fail to realize that the U.S.
already did just that, as well as the fact that the U.S. has
specifically cultivated the conditions under which a state like North
Korea would want to acquire nuclear weapons in the first place. These
people also fail to realize that the U.S. and South Korea 
simulate
an invasion
 of
North Korea 
every
year
 and
have also planned to
 simulate
nuclear strikes
,
as well. In its regular joint exercises, the U.S. has 
even
flown bombers low to the ground
 on
the North-South border
,
dropping 2,000-pound (900 kilograms) bombs.

Who
is provoking whom?

If
you find yourself fearing North Korea, try to imagine how North
Koreans feel about your current and former governments.

No
one is pretending Kim Jong-un is a saint, but he is currently bombing
no one, and any attempt on his part at bombing America’s allies or
bases would see his inevitable assassination and the destruction of
his entire regime. This war would also
 create
a refugee crisis
 that
makes the current crisis pale in comparison.

North
Korea’s nuclear strategy is a deterrent strategy only. The country
has learned many lessons from its own past, as well as lessons from
the U.S.-led invasions of Iraq, Libya, and other weaker nations —
and in response, it has made it a pointed policy to never succumb the
fate of these aforementioned countries.

Anyone
who is able to absorb and digest all of this information and still
demand war between these two countries needs to pack their bags and
sign up for the military with the specific intention of being on the
front lines of this battle. If you believe in this war that
genuinely, you need to be prepared to fight it.

Anything
else is pure cowardice, glorified by sheer ignorance of this
conflict’s historical background, its geopolitical concerns, and
the humanitarian crisis it would create.

Op-ed
Creative
Commons
 / Anti-Media / Report
a typo

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*  Zie o.a.: ‘Raketwetenschappers over Noord-Korea’s kernraketten bluf en angstzaaierij in de VS……

** Zie: ‘VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen……….

Zie ook: ‘North Korea: Killer Sanctions Imposed By The UN Security Council

        en: ‘North Korea Does Not Trust America for a Pretty Good Reason

        en: ‘Only Morons Believe What The US Government Says About North Korea

        en: ‘Noord-Korea een gevaar voor de VS? Daar is N-K niet voor nodig: de VS besmet haar eigen burgers met radioactieve straling!

        en: ‘VS dreigt Noord-Korea met wat je niet anders dan een nucleaire aanval kan noemen……..

        en: ‘Noord-Korea: VS negeert de waarschuwing van China niet door te gaan, met voorgenomen militaire oefening tegen N-K…….

        en: ‘NBC presentator geeft toe dat het de taak van NBC is de mensen doodsbang te maken voor Noord-Korea……. Ofwel: ‘fake news’ op en top!! 

       en: ‘Noord-Koreaanse raketten zijn waardeloos, aldus VS generaal Selva…….

       en: ‘Noord-Korea en de VS: de planning van de VS om Rusland en China aan te vallen met kernraketten……..

       en: ‘Noord-Koreaanse raket zorgt voor belachelijke massahysterie…….

       en: ‘Noord-Korea een agressor? Hier de feiten!

 Toegevoegd op 18 januari 2018: wat betreft het dreigen met kernwapens en de ontwikkeling van nieuwe kernwapens zie:      

              ‘VS sluit een nucleaire aanval niet uit als een mogelijke reactie op een ‘cyberaanval…….’

        en: ‘VS op weg naar daadwerkelijk gebruik van het kernwapen…………..

        en: ‘Trumps atoomknop is groter dan die van Kim Yung-un, bovendien werkt de VS knop wel……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

        en: ‘Trumps uitlating over de atoomknop en de onverschilligheid bij zijn achterban, een dictatuur waardig………

       en: ‘VN chef Guterrez geeft alarmcode rood af voor de wereld in 2018 en niet alleen vanwege het milieu of klimaat……‘ (deze link was wel eerder opgenomen in dit artikel)

       en: ‘NAVO oefent op een nucleaire aanval tegen ‘een denkbeeldige vijand’, ofwel Rusland……….

Pechtold liegt de oren van z’n kop over de Rutte 3 onderhandelingen……..

Zelfs als er 9 politieke kleuters (allen lobbyisten voor het bedrijfsleven) bij elkaar zitten, worden zaken gelekt naar de pers, dat bleek wel toen het AD met onthullingen kwam over de regeringsonderhandelingen voor Rutte 3.

Eerst werd onthuld, dat D66 veilingmeester en oplichter Pechtold zijn zwaarste verkiezingsbelofte brak, het eindeleven verhaal: euthanasie toestaan voor mensen van NB boven de 75, die het leven zat zijn. Dit daar de ‘Christen’Unie en het CDA dwars liggen…..*

In alle toonaarden ontkende Pechtold dat hier sprake van zou zijn, tot bleek dat e.e.a. toch klopte…….

Gisteren lekte uit, dat CDA akela Van Haersma Buma, die zich heeft ontpopt als een stinkende nationalist, het voor elkaar heeft: jongeren moeten op school het meer dan achterlijke Wilhelmus zingen en dat staande. Weet niet of er ook nog een vlaggenparade op scholen bijkomt, waar de leerlingen in de houding moeten staan, met de hand op het hart en de rechterarm gestrekt omhoog, maar verbazen zou het me alweer niet……..

Radio1 en BNR gooiden er meteen een campagne tegenaan en zo kon je gisteren op deze zenders de ene na de nadere ‘deskundige’ horen vertellen, dat toch niemand tegen het zingen van het volkslied door scholieren zou kunnen zijn…. Oh nee? En waarom dan wel niet? Om niet uitgemaakt te worden voor anti-patriottisch?? ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Terug naar de jaren 50 met Rutte 3 en CDA volksverlakker van Haersma Buma op de brug……….. Laat van Haersma Buma maar eens orde op zaken stellen in zijn partij, zodat moordenaars als Klink en Verburg (Q-koorts) nooit weer de kans krijgen ministertje te spelen, godallemachtig!!

Het CDA (plus ‘Christen’Unie en SGP) zou christelijk zijn, maar doet niets tegen de grootscheepse dierenmishandeling in de intensieve veehouderij, ‘vee’ u weet wel dieren ‘geschapen door de god van het CDA……’ Of de wereld naar de kloten helpen (waar de intensieve veehouderij ook een fikse bijdrage voor levert…..), met schijt aan de klimaatverandering, overigens ‘ook een schepping van hun god’ >> de aarde waarop wij leven………… Nee, ‘echte rentmeesters van god’, die CDA politici…… (wat overigens ook voor de fundi’s van de CU en de SGP geldt)

Wat dacht u voorts van de omgang met vluchtelingen door het CDA, het gebod van jezus uit het sprookjesboek de bijbel, dat je de verdrukten der aarde (ofwel vluchtelingen) op moet nemen en hen desnoods je eigen bed moet afstaan, iets dat voor het CDA geteisem een enorme vloek is, men wil daar niet eens vluchtelingen in de EU zien…….

Daarover gesproken: het CDA steunt de fascistische Hongaarse regering Orbán en zijn Fidesz (partij), een partij waarmee het CDA deelneemt aan de EVP in het EU parlement……… Hongarije, het land waar vluchtelingen als vuil worden behandeld in provisorische kampen waar het aan alles ontbreekt…… Hongarije het land dat met scherp bewapende ‘grensjagers’ op vluchtelingen heeft ingezet……..

Maar wel staande het volkslied zingen, waar bovendien de christelijke god in wordt genoemd……….. Te zot voor woorden!!!

* Het CDA en de CU (plus de SGP), die hun ‘christelijke visie’ willen opdringen aan eenieder in dit land….. Dezelfde partijen die het inhumane, ijskoude neoliberale beleid van Rutte 2 voor meer dan 95% hebben gesteund, een beleid waarmee het leven van o.a. ouderen een heel stuk moeilijker werd gemaakt…… Neem alleen al de bezuinigingen op de thuiszorg en de sluiting van een groot aantal verpleeg- en verzorgingstehuizen. ‘Bezuinigen’ vraagt u zich wellicht af, inderdaad: de zorg over de schutting van de lokale politiek gooien, zoals onder Rutte 2 gebeurde, was niets anders dan een smerige bezuiniging op faciliteiten waar mensen hun leven lang belasting voor betaalden……. De SGP en de CU durfden voor de landelijke verkiezingen die dit jaar plaatsvonden, te zeggen dat men erger had weten te voorkomen, door het schoftenkabinet Rutte 2 te steunen…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Wat een smerige oplichters, het was juist de taak van echte christenen, dit inhumane kabinet zo snel mogelijk te laten sneuvelen, dat had tevens een fiks deel van de economische neergang door wanbeleid gestopt……. Dat we er nu wat beter voorstaan heeft dan ook niets met het gevoerde beleid te maken, maar alles met de verbeterde economische situatie van Duitsland en met die in de wereld in het groot……… (zolang het duurt, wel te verstaan….)

Zie ook: ‘D66 krijgt minister voor klimaat en energie……… OEI!!

        en: ‘Van Haersma Buma (CDA) ‘heeft er moeite mee’ dat Pechtold niet met de CU wil……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

        en: ‘Taco Dibbits (dir. Rijksmuseum) voor verplicht schoolbezoek aan zijn museum…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen……….

Veel woorden zijn niet nodig bij het volgende bericht, zeker als je de VS ziet als de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde. William Blum maakte een lijst met alle staatsgrepen of pogingen daartoe, die de VS ondernam sinds 1945…….

Bovendien heeft de VS Na WOII meer dan 20 miljoen mensen vermoord in oorlogen, staatsgrepen en ‘geheime’ militaire acties……..#

Overthrowing
Other People’s Governments: The Master List

By
William Blum

September
09, 2014 “
ICH
– Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to
overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. 
(*
indicates successful ouster of a government)

  • China
    1949 to early 1960s

  • Albania
    1949-53

  • East
    Germany 1950s

  • Iran
    1953 *

  • Guatemala
    1954 *

  • Costa
    Rica mid-1950s

  • Syria
    1956-7

  • Egypt
    1957

  • Indonesia
    1957-8

  • British
    Guiana 1953-64 *

  • Iraq
    1963 *

  • North
    Vietnam 1945-73

  • Cambodia
    1955-70 *

  • Laos
    1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *

  • Ecuador
    1960-63 *

  • Congo
    1960 *

  • France
    1965

  • Brazil
    1962-64 *

  • Dominican
    Republic 1963 *

  • Cuba
    1959 to present

  • Bolivia
    1964 *

  • Indonesia
    1965 *

  • Ghana
    1966 *

  • Chile
    1964-73 *

  • Greece
    1967 *

  • Costa
    Rica 1970-71

  • Bolivia
    1971 *

  • Australia
    1973-75 *

  • Angola
    1975, 1980s

  • Zaire
    1975

  • Portugal
    1974-76 *

  • Jamaica
    1976-80 *

  • Seychelles
    1979-81

  • Chad
    1981-82 *

  • Grenada
    1983 *

  • South
    Yemen 1982-84

  • Suriname
    1982-84

  • Fiji
    1987 *

  • Libya
    1980s

  • Nicaragua
    1981-90 *

  • Panama
    1989 *

  • Bulgaria
    1990 *

  • Albania
    1991 *

  • Iraq
    1991

  • Afghanistan
    1980s *

  • Somalia
    1993

  • Yugoslavia
    1999-2000 *

  • Ecuador
    2000 *

  • Afghanistan
    2001 *

  • Venezuela
    2002 *

  • Iraq
    2003 *

  • Haiti
    2004 *

  • Somalia
    2007 to present

  • Libya
    2011*

  • Syria
    2012

Q: Why
will there never be a coup d’état in Washington?

A: Because
there’s no American embassy there.

http://williamblum.org/  

# Over lijsten gesproken (een volgende lijst waarin u de hierboven genoemde landen terug zal zien):

US
Has Killed More Than 20 Million In 37 Nations Since WWII (!!!)

After
the catastrophic attacks of September 11 2001 monumental sorrow and a
feeling of desperate and understandable anger began to permeate the
American psyche. A few people at that time attempted to promote a
balanced perspective by pointing out that the United States had also
been responsible for causing those same feelings in people in other
nations, but they produced hardly a ripple. Although 

Americans
understand in the abstract the wisdom of people around the world
empathizing with the suffering of one another, such a reminder of
wrongs committed by our nation got little hearing and was soon
overshadowed by an accelerated “war on terrorism.”

But
we must continue our efforts to develop understanding and compassion
in the world. Hopefully, this article will assist in doing that by
addressing the question “How many September 11ths has the United
States caused in other nations since WWII?” This theme is developed
in this report which contains an estimated numbers of such deaths in
37 nations as well as brief explanations of why the U.S. is
considered culpable.

The
causes of wars are complex. In some instances nations other than the
U.S. may have been responsible for more deaths, but if the
involvement of our nation appeared to have been a necessary cause of
a war or conflict it was considered responsible for the deaths in it.
In other words they probably would not have taken place if the U.S.
had not used the heavy hand of its power. The military and economic
power of the United States was crucial.

This
study reveals that U.S. military forces were directly responsible for
about 10 to 15 million deaths during the Korean and Vietnam Wars and
the two Iraq Wars. The Korean War also includes Chinese deaths while
the Vietnam War also includes fatalities in Cambodia and Laos.

The
American public probably is not aware of these numbers and knows even
less about the proxy wars for which the United States is also
responsible. In the latter wars there were between nine and 14
million deaths in Afghanistan, Angola, Democratic Republic of the
Congo, East Timor, Guatemala, Indonesia, Pakistan and Sudan.

But
the victims are not just from big nations or one part of the world.
The remaining deaths were in smaller ones which constitute over half
the total number of nations. Virtually all parts of the world have
been the target of U.S. intervention.

The
overall conclusion reached is that the United States most likely has
been responsible since WWII for the deaths of between 20 and 30
million people in wars and conflicts scattered over the world.

To
the families and friends of these victims it makes little difference
whether the causes were U.S. military action, proxy military forces,
the provision of U.S. military supplies or advisors, or other ways,
such as economic pressures applied by our nation. They had to make
decisions about other things such as finding lost loved ones, whether
to become refugees, and how to survive.

And
the pain and anger is spread even further. Some authorities estimate
that there are as many as 10 wounded for each person who dies in
wars. Their visible, continued suffering is a continuing reminder to
their fellow countrymen.

It
is essential that Americans learn more about this topic so that they
can begin to understand the pain that others feel. Someone once
observed that the Germans during WWII “chose not to know.” We
cannot allow history to say this about our country. The question
posed above was “How many September 11ths has the United States
caused in other nations since WWII?” The answer is: possibly
10,000.

Comments
on Gathering These Numbers


Generally
speaking, the much smaller number of Americans who have died is not
included in this study, not because they are not important, but
because this report focuses on the impact of U.S. actions on its
adversaries.

An
accurate count of the number of deaths is not easy to achieve, and
this collection of data was undertaken with full realization of this
fact. These estimates will probably be revised later either upward or
downward by the reader and the author. But undoubtedly the total will
remain in the millions.

The
difficulty of gathering reliable information is shown by two
estimates in this context. For several years I heard statements on
radio that three million Cambodians had been killed under the rule of
the Khmer Rouge. However, in recent years the figure I heard was one
million. Another example is that the number of persons estimated to
have died in Iraq due to sanctions after the first U.S. Iraq War was
over 1 million, but in more recent years, based on a more recent
study, a lower estimate of around a half a million has emerged.

Often
information about wars is revealed only much later when someone
decides to speak out, when more secret information is revealed due to
persistent efforts of a few, or after special congressional
committees make reports

Both
victorious and defeated nations may have their own reasons for
underreporting the number of deaths. Further, in recent wars
involving the United States it was not uncommon to hear statements
like “we do not do body counts” and references to “collateral
damage” as a euphemism for dead and wounded. Life is cheap for
some, especially those who manipulate people on the battlefield as if
it were a chessboard.

To
say that it is difficult to get exact figures is not to say that we
should not try. Effort was needed to arrive at the figures of 6six
million Jews killed during WWI, but knowledge of that number now is
widespread and it has fueled the determination to prevent future
holocausts. That struggle continues.

The
author can be contacted at 
jlucas511@woh.rr.com

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VICTIM NATIONS

Afghanistan

The
U.S. is responsible for between 1 and 1.8 million deaths during the
war between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, by luring the Soviet
Union into invading that nation. (1,2,3,4)

The
Soviet Union had friendly relations its neighbor, Afghanistan, which
had a secular government. The Soviets feared that if that government
became fundamentalist this change could spill over into the Soviet
Union.

In
1998, in an interview with the Parisian publication Le Novel
Observateur, Zbigniew Brzezinski, adviser to President Carter,
admitted that he had been responsible for instigating aid to the
Mujahadeen in Afghanistan which caused the Soviets to invade. In his
own words:

According
to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began
during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded
Afghanistan on 24 December 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded
until now, is completely otherwise. Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that
President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the
opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I
wrote a note to the President in which I explained to him that in my
opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.”
(5,1,6)

Brzezinski
justified laying this trap, since he said it gave the Soviet Union
its Vietnam and caused the breakup of the Soviet Union. “Regret
what?” he said. “That secret operation was an excellent idea. It
had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you
want me to regret it?” (7)

The
CIA spent 5 to 6 billion dollars on its operation in Afghanistan in
order to bleed the Soviet Union. (1,2,3) When that 10-year war ended
over a million people were dead and Afghan heroin had captured 60% of
the U.S. market. (4)

The
U.S. has been responsible directly for about 12,000 deaths in
Afghanistan many of which resulted from bombing in retaliation for
the attacks on U.S. property on September 11, 2001. Subsequently U.S.
troops invaded that country. (4)

Angola

An
indigenous armed struggle against Portuguese rule in Angola began in
1961. In 1977 an Angolan government was recognized by the U.N.,
although the U.S. was one of the few nations that opposed this
action. In 1986 Uncle Sam approved material assistance to UNITA, a
group that was trying to overthrow the government. Even today this
struggle, which has involved many nations at times, continues.

U.S.
intervention was justified to the U.S. public as a reaction to the
intervention of 50,000 Cuban troops in Angola. However, according to
Piero Gleijeses, a history professor at Johns Hopkins University the
reverse was true. The Cuban intervention came as a result of a CIA –
financed covert invasion via neighboring Zaire and a drive on the
Angolan capital by the U.S. ally, South Africa1,2,3). (Three
estimates of deaths range from 300,000 to 750,000 (4,5,6)

Argentina:
See South America: Operation Condor

Bangladesh:
See Pakistan

Bolivia

Hugo
Banzer was the leader of a repressive regime in Bolivia in the 1970s.
The U.S. had been disturbed when a previous leader nationalized the
tin mines and distributed land to Indian peasants. Later that action
to benefit the poor was reversed.

Banzer,
who was trained at the U.S.-operated School of the Americas in Panama
and later at Fort Hood, Texas, came back from exile frequently to
confer with U.S. Air Force Major Robert Lundin. In 1971 he staged a
successful coup with the help of the U.S. Air Force radio system. In
the first years of his dictatorship he received twice as military
assistance from the U.S. as in the previous dozen years together.

A
few years later the Catholic Church denounced an army massacre of
striking tin workers in 1975, Banzer, assisted by information
provided by the CIA, was able to target and locate leftist priests
and nuns. His anti-clergy strategy, known as the Banzer Plan, was
adopted by nine other Latin American dictatorships in 1977. (2) He
has been accused of being responsible for 400 deaths during his
tenure. (1)

Also
see: See South America: Operation Condor

Brazil:
See South America: Operation Condor

Cambodia

U.S.
bombing of Cambodia had already been underway for several years in
secret under the Johnson and Nixon administrations, but when
President Nixon openly began bombing in preparation for a land
assault on Cambodia it caused major protests in the U.S. against the
Vietnam War.

There
is little awareness today of the scope of these bombings and the
human suffering involved.

Immense
damage was done to the villages and cities of Cambodia, causing
refugees and internal displacement of the population. This unstable
situation enabled the Khmer Rouge, a small political party led by Pol
Pot, to assume power. Over the years we have repeatedly heard about
the Khmer Rouge’s role in the deaths of millions in Cambodia
without any acknowledgement being made this mass killing was made
possible by the the U.S. bombing of that nation which destabilized it
by death , injuries, hunger and dislocation of its people.

So
the U.S. bears responsibility not only for the deaths from the
bombings but also for those resulting from the activities of the
Khmer Rouge – a total of about 2.5 million people. Even when
Vietnam latrer invaded Cambodia in 1979 the CIA was still supporting
the Khmer Rouge. (1,2,3)

Also
see Vietnam

Chad

An
estimated 40,000 people in Chad were killed and as many as 200,000
tortured by a government, headed by Hissen Habre who was brought to
power in June, 1982 with the help of CIA money and arms. He remained
in power for eight years. (1,2)

Human
Rights Watch claimed that Habre was responsible for thousands of
killings. In 2001, while living in Senegal, he was almost tried for
crimes committed by him in Chad. However, a court there blocked these
proceedings. Then human rights people decided to pursue the case in
Belgium, because some of 

Habre’s
torture victims lived there. The U.S., in June 2003, told Belgium
that it risked losing its status as host to NATO’s headquarters if
it allowed such a legal proceeding to happen. So the result was that
the law that allowed victims to file complaints in Belgium for
atrocities committed abroad was repealed. 

However,
two months later a new law was passed which made special provision
for the continuation of the case against Habre.

Chile

The
CIA intervened in Chile’s 1958 and 1964 elections. In 1970 a
socialist candidate, Salvador Allende, was elected president. The CIA
wanted to incite a military coup to prevent his inauguration, but the
Chilean army’s chief of staff, General Rene Schneider, opposed this
action. The CIA then planned, along with some people in the Chilean
military, to assassinate Schneider. This plot failed and Allende took
office. President Nixon was not to be dissuaded and he ordered the
CIA to create a coup climate: “Make the economy scream,” he said.

What
followed were guerilla warfare, arson, bombing, sabotage and terror.
ITT and other U.S. corporations with Chilean holdings sponsored
demonstrations and strikes. Finally, on September 11, 1973 Allende
died either by suicide or by assassination. At that time Henry
Kissinger, U.S. Secretary of State, said the following regarding
Chile: “I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country
go communist because of the irresponsibility of its own people.”
(1)

During
17 years of terror under Allende’s successor, General Augusto
Pinochet, an estimated 3,000 Chileans were killed and many others
were tortured or “disappeared.” (2,3,4,5)

Also
see South America: Operation Condor

China
An estimated 900,000 Chinese died during the Korean War. For more
information, See: Korea.

Colombia

One
estimate is that 67,000 deaths have occurred from the 1960s to recent
years due to support by the U.S. of Colombian state terrorism. (1)

According
to a 1994 Amnesty International report, more than 20,000 people were
killed for political reasons in Colombia since 1986, mainly by the
military and its paramilitary allies. Amnesty alleged that “U.S.-
supplied military equipment, ostensibly delivered for use against
narcotics traffickers, was being used by the Colombian military to
commit abuses in the name of “counter-insurgency.” (2) In 2002
another estimate was made that 3,500 people die each year in a U.S.
funded civilian war in Colombia. (3)

In
1996 Human Rights Watch issued a report “Assassination Squads in
Colombia” which revealed that 

CIA
agents went to Colombia in 1991 to help the military to train
undercover agents in anti-subversive activity. (4,5)

In
recent years the U.S. government has provided assistance under Plan
Colombia. The Colombian government has been charged with using most
of the funds for destruction of crops and support of the paramilitary
group.

Cuba

In
the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba on April 18, 1961 which ended after
3 days, 114 of the invading force were killed, 1,189 were taken
prisoners and a few escaped to waiting U.S. ships. (1) The captured
exiles were quickly tried, a few executed and the rest sentenced to
thirty years in prison for treason. These exiles were released after
20 months in exchange for $53 million in food and medicine.

Some
people estimate that the number of Cuban forces killed range from
2,000, to 4,000. Another estimate is that 1,800 Cuban forces were
killed on an open highway by napalm. This appears to have been a
precursor of the Highway of Death in Iraq in 1991 when U.S. forces
mercilessly annihilated large numbers of Iraqis on a highway. (2)

Democratic
Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire)

The
beginning of massive violence was instigated in this country in 1879
by its colonizer King Leopold of Belgium. The Congo’s population
was reduced by 10 million people over a period of 20 years which some
have referred to as “Leopold’s Genocide.” (1) The U.S. has been
responsible for about a third of t

hat
many deaths in that nation in the more recent past. (2)

In
1960 the Congo became an independent state with Patrice Lumumba being
its first prime minister. He was assassinated with the CIA being
implicated, although some say that his murder was actually the
responsibility of Belgium. (3) But nevertheless, the CIA was planning
to kill him. (4) Before his assassination the CIA sent one of its
scientists, Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, to the Congo carrying “lethal
biological material” intended for use in Lumumba’s assassination.
This virus would have been able to produce a fatal disease indigenous
to the Congo area of Africa and was transported in a diplomatic
pouch.

Much
of the time in recent years there has been a civil war within the
Democratic Republic of Congo, fomented often by the U.S. and other
nations, including neighboring nations. (5)

In
April 1977, Newsday reported that the CIA was secretly supporting
efforts to recruit several hundred mercenaries in the U.S. and Great
Britain to serve alongside Zaire’s army. In that same year the U.S.
provided $15 million of military supplies to the Zairian President
Mobutu to fend off an invasion by a rival group operating in Angola.
(6)

In
May 1979, the U.S. sent several million dollars of aid to Mobutu who
had been condemned 3 months earlier by the U.S. State Department for
human rights violations. (7) During the Cold War the U.S. funneled
over 300 million dollars in weapons into Zaire (8,9) $100 million in
military training was provided to him. (2) In 2001 it was reported to
a U.S. congressional committee that American companies, including one
linked to former President George Bush Sr., were stoking the Congo
for monetary gains. There is an international battle over resources
in that country with over 125 companies and individuals being
implicated. One of these substances is coltan, which is used in the
manufacture of cell phones. (2)


Dominican
Republic

In
1962, Juan Bosch became president of the Dominican Republic. He
advocated such programs as land reform and public works programs.
This did not bode well for his future relationship with the U.S., and
after only 7 months in office, he was deposed by a CIA coup. In 1965
when a group was trying to reinstall him to his office President
Johnson said, “This Bosch is no good.” Assistant Secretary of
State Thomas Mann replied “He’s no good at all. If we don’t get
a decent government in there, Mr. President, we get another Bosch.
It’s just going to be another sinkhole.” Two days later a U.S.
invasion started and 22,000 soldiers and marines entered the
Dominican Republic and about 3,000 Dominicans died during the
fighting. The cover excuse for doing this was that this was done to
protect foreigners there. (1,2,3,4)

East
Timor

In
December 1975, Indonesia invaded East Timor. This incursion was
launched the day after U.S. President Gerald Ford and Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger had left Indonesia where they had given
President Suharto permission to use American arms, which under U.S.
law, could not be used for aggression. Daniel Moynihan, U.S.
ambassador to the UN. said that the U.S. wanted “things to turn out
as they did.” (1,2) The result was an estimated 200,000 dead out of
a population of 700,000. (1,2)

Sixteen
years later, on November 12, 1991, two hundred and seventeen East
Timorese protesters in Dili, many of them children, marching from a
memorial service, were gunned down by Indonesian Kopassus shock
troops who were headed by U.S.- trained commanders Prabowo Subianto
(son in law of General Suharto) and Kiki Syahnakri. Trucks were seen
dumping bodies into the sea. (5)

El
Salvador

The
civil war from 1981 to1992 in El Salvador was financed by $6 billion
in U.S. aid given to support the government in its efforts to crush a
movement to bring social justice to the people in that nation of
about 8 million people. (1)

During
that time U.S. military advisers demonstrated methods of torture on
teenage prisoners, according to an interview with a deserter from the
Salvadoran army published in the New York Times. This former member
of the Salvadoran National Guard testified that he was a member of a
squad of twelve who found people who they were told were guerillas
and tortured them. Part of the training he received was in torture at
a U.S. location somewhere in Panama. (2)

About
900 villagers were massacred in the village of El Mozote in 1981. Ten
of the twelve El Salvadoran government soldiers cited as
participating in this act were graduates of the School of the
Americas operated by the U.S. (2) They were only a small part of
about 75,000 people killed during that civil war. (1)

According
to a 1993 United Nations’ Truth Commission report, over 96 % of the
human rights violations carried out during the war were committed by
the Salvadoran army or the paramilitary deaths squads associated with
the Salvadoran army. (3)

That
commission linked graduates of the School of the Americas to many
notorious killings. The New York Times and the Washington Post
followed with scathing articles. In 1996, the White House Oversight
Board issued a report that supported many of the charges against that
school made by Rev. Roy Bourgeois, head of the School of the Americas
Watch. That same year the Pentagon released formerly classified
reports indicating that graduates were trained in killing, extortion,
and physical abuse for interrogations, false imprisonment and other
methods of control. (4)

Grenada

The
CIA began to destabilize Grenada in 1979 after Maurice Bishop became
president, partially because he refused to join the quarantine of
Cuba. The campaign against him resulted in his overthrow and the
invasion by the U.S. of Grenada on October 25, 1983, with about 277
people dying. (1,2) It was fallaciously charged that an airport was
being built in Grenada that could be used to attack the U.S. and it
was also erroneously claimed that the lives of American medical
students on that island were in danger.

Guatemala

In
1951 Jacobo Arbenz was elected president of Guatemala. He
appropriated some unused land operated by the United Fruit Company
and compensated the company. (1,2) That company then started a
campaign to paint Arbenz as a tool of an international conspiracy and
hired about 300 mercenaries who sabotaged oil supplies and trains.
(3) In 1954 a CIA-orchestrated coup put him out of office and he left
the country. During the next 40 years various regimes killed
thousands of people.

In
1999 the Washington Post reported that an Historical Clarification
Commission concluded that over 200,000 people had been killed during
the civil war and that there had been 42,000 individual human rights
violations, 29,000 of them fatal, 92% of which were committed by the
army. The commission further reported that the U.S. government and
the CIA had pressured the Guatemalan government into suppressing the
guerilla movement by ruthless means. (4,5)

According
to the Commission between 1981 and 1983 the military government of
Guatemala – financed and supported by the U.S. government –
destroyed some four hundred Mayan villages in a campaign of genocide.
(4)

One
of the documents made available to the commission was a 1966 memo
from a U.S. State Department official, which described how a “safe
house” was set up in the palace for use by Guatemalan security
agents and their U.S. contacts. This was the headquarters for the
Guatemalan “dirty war” against leftist insurgents and suspected
allies. (2)

Haiti

From
1957 to 1986 Haiti was ruled by Papa Doc Duvalier and later by his
son. During that time their private terrorist force killed between
30,000 and 100,000 people. (1) Millions of dollars in CIA subsidies
flowed into Haiti during that time, mainly to suppress popular
movements, (2) although most American military aid to the country,
according to William Blum, was covertly channeled through Israel.

Reportedly,
governments after the second Duvalier reign were responsible for an
even larger number of fatalities, and the influence on Haiti by the
U.S., particularly through the CIA, has continued. The U.S. later
forced out of the presidential office a black Catholic priest, Jean
Bertrand Aristide, even though he was elected with 67% of the vote in
the early 1990s. The wealthy white class in Haiti opposed him in this
predominantly black nation, because of his social programs designed
to help the poor and end corruption. (3) Later he returned to office,
but that did not last long. He was forced by the U.S. to leave office
and now lives in South Africa.


Honduras

In
the 1980s the CIA supported Battalion 316 in Honduras, which
kidnapped, tortured and killed hundreds of its citizens. Torture
equipment and manuals were provided by CIA Argentinean personnel who
worked with U.S. agents in the training of the Hondurans.
Approximately 400 people lost their lives. (1,2) This is another
instance of torture in the world sponsored by the U.S. (3)

Battalion
316 used shock and suffocation devices in interrogations in the
1980s. Prisoners often were kept naked and, when no longer useful,
killed and buried in unmarked graves. Declassified documents and
other sources show that the CIA and the U.S. Embassy knew of numerous
crimes, including murder and torture, yet continued to support
Battalion 316 and collaborate with its leaders.” (4)

Honduras
was a staging ground in the early 1980s for the Contras who were
trying to overthrow the socialist Sandinista government in Nicaragua.
John D. Negroponte, currently Deputy Secretary of State, was our
embassador when our military aid to Honduras rose from $4 million to
$77.4 million per year. Negroponte denies having had any knowledge of
these atrocities during his tenure. However, his predecessor in that
position, Jack R. Binns, had reported in 1981 that he was deeply
concerned at increasing evidence of officially sponsored/sanctioned
assassinations. (5)

Hungary

In
1956 Hungary, a Soviet satellite nation, revolted against the Soviet
Union. During the uprising broadcasts by the U.S. Radio Free Europe
into Hungary sometimes took on an aggressive tone, encouraging the
rebels to believe that Western support was imminent, and even giving
tactical advice on how to fight the Soviets. Their hopes were raised
then dashed by these broadcasts which cast an even darker shadow over
the Hungarian tragedy.“ (1) The Hungarian and Soviet death toll was
about 3,000 and the revolution was crushed. (2)

Indonesia

In
1965, in Indonesia, a coup replaced General Sukarno with General
Suharto as leader. The U.S. played a role in that change of
government. Robert Martens,a former officer in the U.S. embassy in
Indonesia, described how U.S. diplomats and CIA officers provided up
to 5,000 names to Indonesian Army death squads in 1965 and checked
them off as they were killed or captured. Martens admitted that “I
probably have a lot of blood on my hands, but that’s not all bad.
There’s a time when you have to strike hard at a decisive moment.”
(1,2,3) Estimates of the number of deaths range from 500,000 to 3
million. (4,5,6)

From
1993 to 1997 the U.S. provided Jakarta with almost $400 million in
economic aid and sold tens of million of dollars of weaponry to that
nation. U.S. Green Berets provided training for the Indonesia’s
elite force which was responsible for many of atrocities in East
Timor. (3)

Iran

Iran
lost about 262,000 people in the war against Iraq from 1980 to 1988.
(1) See Iraq for more information about that war.

On
July 3, 1988 the U.S. Navy ship, the Vincennes, was operating withing
Iranian waters providing military support for Iraq during the
Iran-Iraq war. During a battle against Iranian gunboats it fired two
missiles at an Iranian Airbus, which was on a routine civilian
flight. All 290 civilian on board were killed. (2,3)

Iraq

A.
The Iraq-Iran War lasted from 1980 to 1988 and during that time there
were about 105,000 Iraqi deaths according to the Washington Post.
(1,2)

According
to Howard Teicher, a former National Security Council official, the
U.S. provided the Iraqis with billions of dollars in credits and
helped Iraq in other ways such as making sure that Iraq had military
equipment including biological agents This surge of help for Iraq
came as Iran seemed to be winning the war and was close to Basra. (1)
The U.S. was not adverse to both countries weakening themselves as a
result of the war, but it did not appear to want either side to win.

B:
The U.S.-Iraq War and the Sanctions Against Iraq extended from 1990
to 2003.

Iraq
invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990 and the U.S. responded by demanding
that Iraq withdraw, and four days later the U.N. levied international
sanctions.

Iraq
had reason to believe that the U.S. would not object to its invasion
of Kuwait, since U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, had told
Saddam Hussein that the U.S. had no position on the dispute that his
country had with Kuwait. So the green light was given, but it seemed
to be more of a trap.

As
a part of the public relations strategy to energize the American
public into supporting an attack against Iraq the daughter of the
Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S. falsely testified before Congress that
Iraqi troops were pulling the plugs on incubators in Iraqi hospitals.
(1) This contributed to a war frenzy in the U.S.

The
U.S. air assault started on January 17, 1991 and it lasted for 42
days. On February 23 President H.W. Bush ordered the U.S. ground
assault to begin. The invasion took place with much needless killing
of Iraqi military personnel. Only about 150 American military
personnel died compared to about 200,000 Iraqis. Some of the Iraqis
were mercilessly killed on the Highway of Death and about 400 tons of
depleted uranium were left in that nation by the U.S. (2,3)

Other
deaths later were from delayed deaths due to wounds, civilians
killed, those killed by effects of damage of the Iraqi water
treatment facilities and other aspects of its damaged infrastructure
and by the sanctions.

In
1995 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. reported that
U.N sanctions against on Iraq had been responsible for the deaths of
more than 560,000 children since 1990. (5)

Leslie
Stahl on the TV Program 60 Minutes in 1996 mentioned to Madeleine
Albright, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. “We have heard that a half
million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died
in Hiroshima. And – and you know, is the price worth it?”
Albright replied “I think this is a very hard choice, but the price
– we think is worth it.” (4)

In
1999 UNICEF reported that 5,000 children died each month as a result
of the sanction and the War with the U.S. (6)

Richard
Garfield later estimated that the more likely number of excess deaths
among children under five years of age from 1990 through March 1998
to be 227,000 – double those of the previous decade. Garfield
estimated that the numbers to be 350,000 through 2000 (based in part
on result of another study). (7)

However,
there are limitations to his study. His figures were not updated for
the remaining three years of the sanctions. Also, two other somewhat
vulnerable age groups were not studied: young children above the age
of five and the elderly.

All
of these reports were considerable indicators of massive numbers of
deaths which the U.S. was aware of and which was a part of its
strategy to cause enough pain and terror among Iraqis to cause them
to revolt against their government.

C:
Iraq-U.S. War started in 2003 and has not been concluded


Just
as the end of the Cold War emboldened the U.S. to attack Iraq in 1991
so the attacks of September 11, 2001 laid the groundwork for the U.S.
to launch the current war against Iraq. While in some other wars we
learned much later about the lies that were used to deceive us, some
of the deceptions that were used to get us into this war became known
almost as soon as they were uttered. There were no weapons of mass
destruction, we were not trying to promote democracy, we were not
trying to save the Iraqi people from a dictator.

The
total number of Iraqi deaths that are a result of our current Iraq
against Iraq War is 654,000, of which 600,000 are attributed to acts
of violence, according to Johns Hopkins researchers. (1,2)

Since
these deaths are a result of the U.S. invasion, our leaders must
accept responsibility for them.

Israeli-Palestinian
War

About
100,000 to 200,000 Israelis and Palestinians, but mostly the latter,
have been killed in the struggle between those two groups. The U.S.
has been a strong supporter of Israel, providing billions of dollars
in aid and supporting its possession of nuclear weapons. (1,2)


Korea,
North and South


The
Korean War started in 1950 when, according to the Truman
administration, North Korea invaded South Korea on June 25th.
However, since then another explanation has emerged which maintains
that the attack by North Korea came during a time of many border
incursions by both sides. South Korea initiated most of the border
clashes with North Korea beginning in 1948. The North Korea
government claimed that by 1949 the South Korean army committed 2,617
armed incursions. It was a myth that the Soviet Union ordered North
Korea to attack South Korea. (1,2)


The
U.S. started its attack before a U.N. resolution was passed
supporting our nation’s intervention, and our military forces added
to the mayhem in the war by introducing the use of napalm. (1)

During
the war the bulk of the deaths were South Koreans, North Koreans and
Chinese. Four sources give deaths counts ranging from 1.8 to 4.5
million. (3,4,5,6) Another source gives a total of 4 million but does
not identify to which nation they belonged. (7)


John
H. Kim, a U.S. Army veteran and the Chair of the Korea Committee of
Veterans for Peace, stated in an article that during the Korean War
“the U.S. Army, Air Force and Navy were directly involved in the
killing of about three million civilians – both South and North
Koreans – at many locations throughout Korea…It is reported that
the U.S. dropped some 650,000 tons of bombs, including 43,000 tons of
napalm bombs, during the Korean War.” It is presumed that this
total does not include Chinese casualties.

Another
source states a total of about 500,000 who were Koreans and
presumably only military. (8,9)


Laos


From
1965 to 1973 during the Vietnam War the U.S. dropped over two million
tons of bombs on Laos – more than was dropped in WWII by both
sides. Over a quarter of the population became refugees. This was
later called a “secret war,” since it occurred at the same time
as the Vietnam War, but got little press. Hundreds of thousands were
killed. Branfman make the only estimate that I am aware of , stating
that hundreds of thousands died. This can be interpeted to mean that
at least 200,000 died. (1,2,3)


U.S.
military intervention in Laos actually began much earlier. A civil
war started in the 1950s when the U.S. recruited a force of 40,000
Laotians to oppose the Pathet Lao, a leftist political party that
ultimately took power in 1975.

Also
See Vietnam

Nepal


Between
8,000 and 12,000 Nepalese have died since a civil war broke out in
1996. The death rate, according to Foreign Policy in Focus, sharply
increased with the arrival of almost 8,400 American M-16 submachine
guns (950 rpm) and U.S. advisers. Nepal is 85 percent rural and badly
in need of land reform. Not surprisingly 42 % of its people live
below the poverty level. (1,2)

In
2002, after another civil war erupted, President George W. Bush
pushed a bill through Congress authorizing $20 million in military
aid to the Nepalese government. (3)


Nicaragua


In
1981 the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza government in Nicaragua,
(1) and until 1990 about 25,000 Nicaraguans were killed in an armed
struggle between the Sandinista government and Contra rebels who were
formed from the remnants of Somoza’s national government. The use
of assassination manuals by the Contras surfaced in 1984. (2,3)


The
U.S. supported the victorious government regime by providing covert
military aid to the Contras (anti-communist guerillas) starting in
November, 1981. But when Congress discovered that the CIA had
supervised acts of sabotage in Nicaragua without notifying Congress,
it passed the Boland Amendment in 1983 which prohibited the CIA,
Defense Department and any other government agency from providing any
further covert military assistance. (4)


But
ways were found to get around this prohibition. The National Security
Council, which was not explicitly covered by the law, raised private
and foreign funds for the Contras. In addition, arms were sold to
Iran and the proceeds were diverted from those sales to the Contras
engaged in the insurgency against the Sandinista government. (5)
Finally, the Sandinistas were voted out of office in 1990 by voters
who thought that a change in leadership would placate the U.S., which
was causing misery to Nicaragua’s citizenry by it support of the
Contras.


Pakistan


In
1971 West Pakistan, an authoritarian state supported by the U.S.,
brutally invaded East Pakistan. The war ended after India, whose
economy was staggering after admitting about 10 million refugees,
invaded East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and defeated the West
Pakistani forces. (1)

Millions
of people died during that brutal struggle, referred to by some as
genocide committed by West Pakistan. That country had long been an
ally of the U.S., starting with $411 million provided to establish
its armed forces which spent 80% of its budget on its military. $15
million in arms flowed into W. Pakistan during the war. (2,3,4)

Three
sources estimate that 3 million people died and (5,2,6) one source
estimates 1.5 million. (3)


Panama


In
December, 1989 U.S. troops invaded Panama, ostensibly to arrest
Manuel Noriega, that nation’s president. This was an example of the
U.S. view that it is the master of the world and can arrest anyone it
wants to. For a number of years before that he had worked for the
CIA, but fell out of favor partially because he was not an opponent
of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. (1) It has been estimated that
between 500 and 4,000 people died. (2,3,4)


Paraguay:
See South America: Operation Condor


Philippines


The
Philippines were under the control of the U.S. for over a hundred
years. In about the last 50 to 60 years the U.S. has funded and
otherwise helped various Philippine governments which sought to
suppress the activities of groups working for the welfare of its
people. In 1969 the Symington Committee in the U.S. Congress revealed
how war material was sent there for a counter-insurgency campaign.
U.S. Special Forces and Marines were active in some combat
operations. The estimated number of persons that were executed and
disappeared under President Fernando Marcos was over 100,000. (1,2)


South
America: Operation Condor


This
was a joint operation of 6 despotic South American governments
(Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay) to share
information about their political opponents. An estimated 13,000
people were killed under this plan. (1)


It
was established on November 25, 1975 in Chile by an act of the
Interamerican Reunion on Military Intelligence. According to U.S.
embassy political officer, John Tipton, the CIA and the Chilean
Secret Police were working together, although the CIA did not set up
the operation to make this collaboration work. Reportedly, it ended
in 1983. (2)


On
March 6, 2001 the New York Times reported the existence of a recently
declassified State Department document revealing that the United
States facilitated communications for Operation Condor. (3)


Sudan


Since
1955, when it gained its independence, Sudan has been involved most
of the time in a civil war. Until about 2003 approximately 2 million
people had been killed. It not known if the death toll in Darfur is
part of that total.


Human
rights groups have complained that U.S. policies have helped to
prolong the Sudanese civil war by supporting efforts to overthrow the
central government in Khartoum. In 1999 U.S. Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright met with the leader of the Sudan People’s
Liberation Army (SPLA) who said that she offered him food supplies if
he would reject a peace plan sponsored by Egypt and Libya.

In
1978 the vastness of Sudan’s oil reservers was discovered and
within two years it became the sixth largest recipient of U.S,
military aid. It’s reasonable to assume that if the U.S. aid a
government to come to power it will feel obligated to give the U.S.
part of the oil pie.


A
British group, Christian Aid, has accused foreign oil companies of
complicity in the depopulation of villages. These companies – not
American – receive government protection and in turn allow the
government use of its airstrips and roads.


In
August 1998 the U.S. bombed Khartoum, Sudan with 75 cruise míssiles.
Our government said that the target was a chemical weapons factory
owned by Osama bin Laden. Actually, bin Laden was no longer the
owner, and the plant had been the sole supplier of pharmaceutical
supplies for that poor nation. As a result of the bombing tens of
thousands may have died because of the lack of medicines to treat
malaria, tuberculosis and other diseases. The U.S. settled a lawsuit
filed by the factory’s owner. (1,2)


Uruguay:
See South America: Operation Condor

Vietnam

In
Vietnam, under an agreement several decades ago, there was supposed
to be an election for a unified North and South Vietnam. The U.S.
opposed this and supported the Diem government in South Vietnam. In
August, 1964 the CIA and others helped fabricate a phony Vietnamese
attack on a U.S. ship in the Gulf of Tonkin and this was used as a
pretext for greater U.S. involvement in Vietnam. (1)


During
that war an American assassination operation,called Operation
Phoenix, terrorized the South 

Vietnamese
people, and during the war American troops were responsible in 1968
for the mass slaughter of the people in the village of My Lai.


According
to a Vietnamese government statement in 1995 the number of deaths of
civilians and military personnel during the Vietnam War was 5.1
million. (2)


Since
deaths in Cambodia and Laos were about 2.7 million (See Cambodia and
Laos) the estimated total for the Vietnam War is 7.8 million.


The
Virtual Truth Commission provides a total for the war of 5 million,
(3) and Robert McNamara, former Secretary Defense, according to the
New York Times Magazine says that the number of Vietnamese dead is
3.4 million. (4,5)


Yugoslavia


Yugoslavia
was a socialist federation of several republics. Since it refused to
be closely tied to the Soviet Union during the Cold War, it gained
some suport from the U.S. But when the Soviet Union dissolved,
Yugoslavia’s usefulness to the U.S. ended, and the U.S and Germany
worked to convert its socialist economy to a capitalist one by a
process primarily of dividing and conquering. There were ethnic and
religious differences between various parts of Yugoslavia which were
manipulated by the U.S. to cause several wars which resulted in the
dissolution of that country.


From
the early 1990s until now Yugoslavia split into several independent
nations whose lowered income, along with CIA connivance, has made it
a pawn in the hands of capitalist countries. (1) The dissolution of
Yugoslavia was caused primarily by the U.S. (2)


Here
are estimates of some, if not all, of the internal wars in
Yugoslavia. All wars: 107,000; (3,4)

Bosnia
and Krajina: 250,000; (5) Bosnia: 20,000 to 30,000; (5) Croatia:
15,000; (6) and

Kosovo:
500 to 5,000. (7)


NOTES


Afghanistan

1.Mark
Zepezauer, Boomerang (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2003),
p.135.

2.Chronology
of American State
Terrorism
http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_
terrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html

3.Soviet
War in
Afghanistan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan

4.Mark
Zepezauer, The CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage
Press, 1994), p.76

5.U.S
Involvement in Afghanistan,
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in
Afghanistan)

6.The
CIA’s Intervention in Afghanistan, Interview with Zbigniew
Brzezinski, Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris, 15-21 January 1998, Posted
at globalresearch.ca 15 October
2001, 
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/BRZ110A.html

7.William
Blum, Rogue State (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000), p.5

8.Unknown
News, 
http://www.unknownnews.net/casualtiesw.html

Angola

1.Howard
W. French “From Old Files, a New Story of the U.S. Role in the
Angolan War” New York Times 3/31/02

2.Angolan
Update, American Friends Service Committee FS, 11/1/99 flyer.

3.Norman
Solomon, War Made Easy, (John Wiley & Sons, 2005) p. 82-83.

4.Lance
Selfa, U.S. Imperialism, A Century of Slaughter, International
Socialist Review Issue 7, Spring 1999 (as appears in Third world
Traveler www.
thirdworldtraveler.com/American_Empire/Century_Imperialism.html)

5.
Jeffress Ramsay, Africa , (Dushkin/McGraw Hill Guilford Connecticut),
1997, p. 144-145.

6.Mark
Zepezauer, The CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage
Press, 1994), p.54.

Argentina
: See South America: Operation Condor

Bolivia

1.
Phil Gunson, Guardian, 5/6/02,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/archive
/article/0,4273,41-07884,00.html

2.Jerry
Meldon, Return of Bolilvia’s Drug – Stained Dictator,
Consortium,
www.consortiumnews.com/archives/story40.html.

Brazil
See South America: Operation Condor

Cambodia

1.Virtual
Truth Commissiion 
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/ .

2.David
Model, President Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and the Bombing of
Cambodia excerpted from the book Lying for Empire How to Commit War
Crimes With A Straight Face, Common Courage Press, 2005,
paper
http://thirdworldtraveler.com/American_Empire/Nixon_Cambodia_LFE.html.

3.Noam
Chomsky, Chomsky on Cambodia under Pol Pot,
etc.,
http//zmag.org/forums/chomcambodforum.htm.

Chad

1.William
Blum, Rogue State (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000), p.
151-152 .

2.Richard
Keeble, Crimes Against Humanity in Chad, Znet/Activism
12/4/06
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=11560&sectionID=1).

Chile

1.Parenti,
Michael, The Sword and the Dollar (New York, St. Martin’s Press,
1989) p. 56.

2.William
Blum, Rogue State (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000), p.
142-143.

3.Moreorless:
Heroes and Killers of the 20th Century, Augusto Pinochet Ugarte,

http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/pinochet.html

4.Associated
Press,Pincohet on 91st Birthday, Takes Responsibility for Regimes’s
Abuses, Dayton Daily News 11/26/06

5.Chalmers
Johnson, Blowback, The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (New
York: Henry Holt and Company, 2000), p. 18.

China:
See Korea

Colombia

1.Chronology
of American State Terrorism, p.2

http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_terrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html).

2.William
Blum, Rogue State (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000), p.
163.

3.Millions
Killed by Imperialism Washington Post May 6,
2002)
http://www.etext.org./Politics/MIM/rail/impkills.html

4.Gabriella
Gamini, CIA Set Up Death Squads in Colombia Times Newspapers Limited,
Dec. 5,
1996,
www.edu/CommunicationsStudies/ben/news/cia/961205.death.html).

5.Virtual
Truth Commission, 1991

Human
Rights Watch Report: Colombia’s Killer Networks–The
Military-Paramilitary Partnership).

Cuba

1.St.
James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture – on Bay of Pigs
Invasion
http://bookrags.com/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion.

2.Wikipedia http://bookrags.com/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion#Casualties.

Democratic
Republic of Congo (Formerly Zaire)

1.F.
Jeffress Ramsey, Africa (Guilford Connecticut, 1997), p. 85

2.
Anup Shaw The Democratic Republic of Congo,
10/31/2003)
http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/Africa/DRC.asp)

3.Kevin
Whitelaw, A Killing in Congo, U. S. News and World
Report
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/doubleissue/mysteries/patrice.htm

4.William
Blum, Killing Hope (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1995), p
158-159.

5.Ibid.,p.
260

6.Ibid.,p.
259

7.Ibid.,p.262

8.David
Pickering, “World War in Africa,
6/26/02,
www.9-11peace.org/bulletin.php3

9.William
D. Hartung and Bridget Moix, Deadly Legacy; U.S. Arms to Africa and
the Congo War, Arms Trade Resource Center, January ,
2000
www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/congo.htm


Dominican
Republic

1.Norman
Solomon, (untitled) Baltimore Sun April 26,
2005
http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/history/2005/0426spincycle.htm
Intervention
Spin Cycle

2.Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Power_Pack

3.William
Blum, Killing Hope (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1995), p.
175.

4.Mark
Zepezauer, The CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage
Press, 1994), p.26-27.


East
Timor

1.Virtual
Truth Commission,
 http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/date4.htm

2.Matthew
Jardine, Unraveling Indonesia, Nonviolent Activist, 1997)

3.Chronology
of American State
Terrorism
http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_terrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html

4.William
Blum, Killing Hope (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1995), p.
197.

5.US
trained butchers of Timor, The Guardian, London. Cited by The Drudge
Report, September 19,
1999. 
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/indon.htm


El
Salvador

1.Robert
T. Buckman, Latin America 2003, (Stryker-Post Publications Baltimore
2003) p. 152-153.

2.William
Blum, Rogue State (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000), p.
54-55.

3.El
Salvador,
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Salvador#The_20th_century_and_beyond)

4.Virtual
Truth Commissiion 
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/.


Grenada

1.Mark
Zepezauer, The CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage
Press, 1994), p. 66-67.

2.Stephen
Zunes, The U.S. Invasion of
Grenada,
http://wwwfpif.org/papers/grenada2003.html .


Guatemala

1.Virtual
Truth Commissiion 
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/

2.Ibid.

3.Mark
Zepezauer, The CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage
Press, 1994), p.2-13.

4.Robert
T. Buckman, Latin America 2003 (Stryker-Post Publications Baltimore
2003) p. 162.

5.Douglas
Farah, Papers Show U.S. Role in Guatemalan Abuses, Washington Post
Foreign Service, March 11, 1999, A 26


Haiti

1.Francois
Duvalier,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Duvalier#Reign_of_terror).

2.Mark
Zepezauer, The CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage
Press, 1994), p 87.

3.William
Blum, Haiti 1986-1994: Who Will Rid Me of This Turbulent
Priest,
http://www.doublestandards.org/blum8.html


Honduras

1.William
Blum, Rogue State (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000), p. 55.

2.Reports
by Country: Honduras, Virtual Truth
Commission
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/honduras.htm

3.James
A. Lucas, Torture Gets The Silence Treatment, Countercurrents, July
26, 2004.

4.Gary
Cohn and Ginger Thompson, Unearthed: Fatal Secrets, Baltimore Sun,
reprint of a series that appeared June 11-18, 1995 in Jack
Nelson-Pallmeyer, School of Assassins, p. 46 Orbis Books 2001.

5.Michael
Dobbs, Negroponte’s Time in Honduras at Issue, Washington Post,
March 21, 2005


Hungary

1.Edited
by Malcolm Byrne, The 1956 Hungarian Revoluiton: A history in
Documents November 4,
2002
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB76/index2.htm

2.Wikipedia
The Free
Encyclopedia,
http://www.answers.com/topic/hungarian-revolution-of-1956


Indonesia

1.Virtual
Truth Commission 
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/.

2.Editorial,
Indonesia’s Killers, The Nation, March 30, 1998.

3.Matthew
Jardine, Indonesia Unraveling, Non Violent Activist Sept–Oct, 1997
(Amnesty) 2/7/07.

4.Sison,
Jose Maria, Reflections on the 1965 Massacre in Indonesia, p.
5.
http://qc.indymedia.org/mail.php?id=5602;

5.Annie
Pohlman, Women and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-1966: Gender
Variables and Possible Direction for Research,
p.4,
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/ASAA/biennial-conference/2004/Pohlman-A-ASAA.pdf

6.Peter
Dale Scott, The United States and the Overthrow of Sukarno,
1965-1967, Pacific Affairs, 58, Summer 1985, pages
239-264.
http://www.namebase.org/scott.

7.Mark
Zepezauer, The CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage
Press, 1994), p.30.


Iran

1.Geoff
Simons, Iraq from Sumer to Saddam, 1996, St. Martins Press, NY p.
317.

2.Chronology
of American State
Terrorism
http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_terrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html.

3.BBC
1988: US Warship Shoots Down Iranian
Airliner
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/default.stm )


Iraq

Iran-Iraq
War

1.Michael
Dobbs, U.S. Had Key role in Iraq Buildup, Washington Post December
30, 2002, p
A01 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A52241-2002Dec29?language=printer

2.Global
Security.Org , Iran Iraq War
(1980-1980)
globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/iran-iraq.htm.


U.S.
Iraq War and Sanctions

1.Ramsey
Clark, The Fire This Time (New York, Thunder’s Mouth), 1994,
p.31-32

2.Ibid.,
p. 52-54

3.Ibid.,
p. 43

4.Anthony
Arnove, Iraq Under Siege, (South End Press Cambridge MA 2000). p.
175.

5.Food
and Agricultural Organizaiton, The Children are Dying, 1995 World
View Forum, Internationa Action Center, International Relief
Association, p. 78

6.Anthony
Arnove, Iraq Under Siege, South End Press Cambridge MA 2000. p. 61.

7.David
Cortright, A Hard Look at Iraq Sanctions December 3, 2001, The
Nation.


U.S-Iraq
War 2003-?

1.Jonathan
Bor 654,000 Deaths Tied to Iraq War Baltimore Sun , October 11,2006

2.News http://www.unknownnews.net/casualties.html


Israeli-Palestinian
War

1.Post-1967
Palestinian & Israeli Deaths from Occupation & Violence May
16,
2006 
http://globalavoidablemortality.blogspot.com/2006/05/post-1967-palestinian-israeli-deaths.html)

2.Chronology
of American State Terrorism

http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_terrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html


Korea

1.James
I. Matray Revisiting Korea: Exposing Myths of the Forgotten War,
Korean War Teachers Conference: The Korean War, February 9,
2001
http://www.truman/library.org/Korea/matray1.htm

2.William
Blum, Killing Hope (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1995), p. 46

3.Kanako
Tokuno, Chinese Winter Offensive in Korean War – the Debacle of
American Strategy, ICE Case Studies Number 186, May,
2006
http://www.american.edu/ted/ice/chosin.htm.

4.John
G. Stroessinger, Why Nations go to War, (New York; St. Martin’s
Press), p. 99)

5.Britannica
Concise Encyclopedia, as reported in
Answers.com
http://www.answers.com/topic/Korean-war

6.Exploring
the Environment: Korean
Enigma
www.cet.edu/ete/modules/korea/kwar.html)

7.S.
Brian Wilson, Who are the Real Terrorists? Virtual Truth
Commisson
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/

8.Korean
War Casualty Statistics www.century
china.com/history/krwarcost.html
)

9.S.
Brian Wilson, Documenting U.S. War Crimes in North Korea (Veterans
for Peace Newsletter) Spring, 2002) 
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/


Laos

1.William
Blum Rogue State (Maine, Common Cause Press) p. 136

2.Chronology
of American State
Terrorism
http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_terrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html

3.Fred
Branfman, War Crimes in Indochina and our Troubled National Soul

www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2004/08/00_branfman_us-warcrimes-indochina.htm).


Nepal

1.Conn
Hallinan, Nepal & the Bush Administration: Into Thin Air,
February 3, 2004

fpif.org/commentary/2004/0402nepal.html.

2.Human
Rights Watch, Nepal’s Civil War: the Conflict Resumes, March 2006 )

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/03/28/nepal13078.htm.

3.Wayne
Madsen, Possible CIA Hand in the Murder of the Nepal Royal Family,
India Independent Media Center, September 25,
2001
http://india.indymedia.org/en/2002/09/2190.shtml.


Nicaragua

1.Virtual
Truth Commission
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/.

2.Timeline
Nicaragua
www.stanford.edu/group/arts/nicaragua/discovery_eng/timeline/).

3.Chronology
of American State
Terrorism,
http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_terrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html.

4.William
Blum, Nicaragua 1981-1990 Destabilization in Slow Motion

www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/Nicaragua_KH.html.

5.Wikipedia,
the Free
Encyclopedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_Affair.


Pakistan

1.John
G. Stoessinger, Why Nations Go to War, (New York: St. Martin’s
Press), 1974 pp 157-172.

2.Asad
Ismi, A U.S. – Financed Military Dictatorship, The CCPA Monitor,
June 2002, Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives 
http://www.policyaltematives.ca)www.ckln.fm/~asadismi/pakistan.html

3.Mark
Zepezauer, Boomerang (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2003),
p.123, 124.

4.Arjum
Niaz ,When America Look the Other Way by,

www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=2821&sectionID=1

5.Leo
Kuper, Genocide (Yale University Press, 1981), p. 79.

6.Bangladesh
Liberation War , Wikipedia, the Free
Encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Liberation_War#USA_and_USSR)


Panama

1.Mark
Zepezauer, The CIA’s Greatest Hits, (Odonian Press 1998) p. 83.

2.William
Blum, Rogue State (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000), p.154.

3.U.S.
Military Charged with Mass Murder, The Winds
9/96,
www.apfn.org/thewinds/archive/war/a102896b.html

4.Mark
Zepezauer, CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage
Press, 1994), p.83.

Paraguay
See South America: Operation Condor


Philippines

1.Romeo
T. Capulong, A Century of Crimes Against the Filipino People,
Presentation, Public Interest Law Center, World Tribunal for Iraq
Trial in New York City on August
25,2004.
http://www.peoplejudgebush.org/files/RomeoCapulong.pdf).

2.Roland
B. Simbulan The CIA in Manila – Covert Operations and the CIA’s
Hidden Hisotry in the Philippines Equipo Nizkor Information –
Derechos, derechos.org/nizkor/filipinas/doc/cia.


South
America: Operation Condor

1.John
Dinges, Pulling Back the Veil on Condor, The Nation, July 24, 2000.

2.Virtual
Truth Commission, Telling the Truth for a Better
America
www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/condor.htm)

3.Operation
Condor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor#US_involvement).


Sudan

1.Mark
Zepezauer, Boomerang, (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2003), p.
30, 32,34,36.

2.The
Black Commentator, Africa Action The Tale of Two Genocides: The
Failed US Response to Rwanda and Darfur, 11 August
2006
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091706X.shtml.


Uruguay
See South America: Operation Condor


Vietnam

1.Mark
Zepezauer, The CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine:Common Courage
Press,1994), p 24

2.Casualties
– US vs NVA/VC,
http://www.rjsmith.com/kia_tbl.html.

3.Brian
Wilson, Virtual Truth
Commission
http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/

4.Fred
Branfman, U.S. War Crimes in Indochiona and our Duty to Truth August
26, 2004

www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=6105&sectionID=1

5.David
K Shipler, Robert McNamara and the Ghosts of
Vietnam
nytimes.com/library/world/asia/081097vietnam-mcnamara.html


Yugoslavia

1.Sara
Flounders, Bosnia Tragedy:The Unknown Role of the Pentagon in NATO in
the Balkans (New York: International Action Center) p. 47-75

2.James
A. Lucas, Media Disinformation on the War in Yugoslavia: The Dayton
Peace Accords Revisited, Global Research, September 7, 2005
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=
viewArticle&code=LUC20050907&articleId=899

3.Yugoslav
Wars in 1990s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_wars.

4.George
Kenney, The Bosnia Calculation: How Many Have Died? Not nearly as
many as some would have you think., NY Times Magazine, April 23, 1995

http://www.balkan-archive.org.yu/politics/
war_crimes/srebrenica/bosnia_numbers.html
)

5.Chronology
of American State Terrorism

http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_terrorism/
ChronologyofTerror.html.

6.Croatian
War of Independence,
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian_War_of_Independence

7.Human
Rights Watch, New Figures on Civilian Deaths in Kosovo War, (February
7, 2000) 
http://www.hrw.org/press/2000/02/nato207.htm.

Related
Posts:

https://www.popularresistance.org/us-has-killed-more-than-20-million-in-37-nations-since-wwii/

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Zie ook:

Noord-Korea verkeerd begrepen: het land wordt bedreigd door de VS, dat alleen deze eeuw al minstens 4 illegale oorlogen begon……..

List of wars involving the United States

VS vermoordde meer dan 20 miljoen mensen sinds het einde van WOII……..

CIA 70 jaar: 70 jaar moorden, martelen, coups plegen, nazi’s beschermen, media manipulatie enz. enz………

CIA en 70 jaar desinformatie in Europese opiniebladen…………

VN chef Guterres geeft alarmcode rood af voor de wereld in 2018 en niet alleen vanwege het milieu of klimaat……

Terreuraanslag in Iran moet acties uitlokken die de VS tot een oorlog met Iran ‘dwingen’

Ex-IS strijders keren islam de rug toe, nieuws dat de geheime diensten niet graag horen……..

Zojuist op BBC World Service radio (rond 12.10 u. CET), een verslaggever die in België en Duitsland ex-IS strijders opzocht. Opvallende conclusie (zeker voor de afhankelijke BBC): deze jonge mannen hebben voor een heel groot deel de islam de rug toegekeerd. Duidelijk getraumatiseerd gebruikt men zelfs alcohol en andere drugs…..

Volgens deze figuren zijn ze zwaar teleurgesteld, vanwege hun ervaringen onder IS bewind…..

U begrijp natuurlijk wel, dat de geheime diensten dit niet graag horen, immers men is met een voortdurende campagne bezig* angst- en haat te zaaien tegen deze ‘uiterst gevaarlijke mensen….’

Met elke gepleegde aanslag stijgt het budget voor deze diensten, die zelfs aanslagplegers niet tegen kunnen houden, als ze bij wijze van spreken naast de agenten van deze diensten lopen…… ‘Je zou je bijna gaan afvragen of die geheime diensten niet zelf meewerken aan die aanslagen……’

* In Nederland o.a. middels de Nationaal Coördinator Terrorismebestrijding en Veiligheid (NCTV).

Kamp (VVD): jarenlang hadden we grote tekorten en moesten we bij de bedrijven aankloppen…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Het is u misschien bekend, dat ik nogal eens een fikse ongesteldheid oploop, als ik VVD Obersturmbannführer Kamp op de radio hoor. Vandaar ook dat ik me gisteren had voorgenomen niet naar Standpunt NL te luisteren, daar Kamp daar weer de gelegenheid kreeg z’n waardeloze beleid in Rutte 2 en dat kabinet zelf te roemen.

De stelling in Standpunt NL was dit keer: ‘Kabinet laat economisch sterk Nederland na’. Uiteraard een kolfje naar de hand van bedrieger Kamp.

Per ongeluk stemde ik toch af op Standpunt NL, waar Kamp liet horen dat Nederland jarenlang een groot tekort had en dat het kabinet daarom bij het bedrijfsleven moest aankloppen…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Als Rutte 2 eindelijk werk had gemaakt van het tegengaan van belastingontduiking door Nederlandse bedrijven had het een fiks deel kunnen binnenhalen van de 30 miljard die jaarlijks aan belasting wordt ontdoken door die bedrijven….. Hetzelfde geldt voor het enorme bedrag dat zwartspaarders nog steeds weten te ontduiken, dit bedrag ligt vreemd genoeg nog steeds niet ver onder de 20 miljard op jaarbasis……

Voorts nogal vreemd die opmerking, daar het kabinet voor de gewone bedrijven in het MKB zo goed als niets heeft gedaan, vandaar ook dat er nooit zoveel faillissementen te zien waren, als onder Rutte 1 en 2……*. Onder andere daarmee hebben die kabinetten ook nog eens een enorme werkloosheid gecreëerd…… Het cijfergoochelinstituut CBS rekende het aantal van 100.000 werklozen extra door het wanbeleid van Rutte 2, maar dit aantal moet uiteraard veel hoger zijn. Middels trucs, zoals een verdienende partner, kregen (en krijgen) heel veel mensen na een korte WW periode geen bijstand, daar hun partner 10 cent teveel verdiende (verdient)……. Deze mensen worden, zoals bijstandsgerechtigden, niet als werkloos meegerekend……. (terwijl de bijstandsgerechtigden meer en meer gedwongen flutbanen moeten vervullen, maar dit terzijde)…….. Vandaar ook dat het niet vreemd is dat het aantal mensen dat in armoede moet leven, tot boven de 4 miljoen is gestegen (mensen die tegen-, op- of onder de armoedegrens leven, voor al deze 3 groepen betekent dit een leven in armoede…..)…..

Het voorgaande, terwijl de welgestelden in ons land er onder Rutte 1 en 2 dik op vooruit zijn gegaan!!

Rutte 2 was als Rutte 1 een waardeloos afbraakkabinet. Kamp heeft ‘t in de reguliere media voor elkaar gekregen dat velen hem als een verantwoord minister op milieugebied zien, terwijl deze plork nog dit jaar 3,5 miljard subsidie uitdeelde aan de energiemaffia en hun nieuwe kolencentrales……. Centrales die alleen maar nodig zijn om stroom voor het buitenland te produceren, het is zelfs zo zot, dat gascentrales zijn uitgeschakeld en de kolencentrales op volle toeren draaien….. Dit terwijl onze lucht tot de vuilste van de EU wordt gerekend……

Jaarlijks overlijden in Nederland 18.000 mensen door luchtvervuiling (voor een overgroot deel door autorijden), naast een groot aantal kinderen dat jaarlijks long- en luchtwegklachten oploopt door die vuile lucht………

Kamp heeft niets ondernomen tegen de enorme veestapel die wij in Nederland hebben. Een half miljard dieren wordt hier jaarlijks groot- en doodgemarteld, dieren die een enorme hoeveelheid methaangas uitstoten. Methaangas, één van de sterkste broeikasgassen die onze aarde kent en een grote aanjager van de klimaatverandering….. Tel daar de uitstoot van die kolencentrales bij op en u snapt dat Nederland een onevenredig hoge bijdrage levert aan de klimaatverandering……..

De NAM werd betrapt op een te hoge gaswinning in het Westland, veel hoger dan was afgesproken; je kan er donder op zeggen, dat Kamp hiervan op de hoogte was, de vraag is zelfs of hij de NAM daar niet toe heeft aangezet……

Dit waren nog maar een paar kanten van het disfunctionerende kabinet Rutte 2, waar ik niet eens sprak over het uitkleden van de gezondheidszorg, de ouderenzorg, de GGZ (en Jeugd GGZ) en ga nog maar even door……..

* Daarbovenop kosten faillissementen de staat (dus ons) een gigantisch kapitaal, de overblijvende schulden na faillissement worden voor een groot deel uit belastinggeld gefinancierd……..

Charlottesville: Trump haalt antifascisten toch onderuit………

Nadat Trump in een voor hem gemaakte tekst afstand nam van de neonazi’s die hem al als Führer vereerden, gaf hij gisteren alsnog de antifascisten mede de schuld van de ellende in Charlottesville……

Charlottesville, waar één van de neonazi’s een terreuraanslag pleegde, door met een auto op vreedzame demonstranten in te rijden en daarbij een vrouw vermoordde……. Vanaf het jaar 2000 tot 2016, voerden deze neonazi’s in de VS 26 aanvallen uit en begingen maar liefst 49 moorden……. De beweging die zich verzet tegen het neonazi-geweld, Antifa heeft bij mijn weten nooit één dodelijk slachtoffers gemaakt…….

Ook bij de protesten tegen de Dakota Acces Pipeline (DAPL), waar de oorspronkelijke bewoners* terecht protesteerden tegen het aanleggen van een oliepijpleiding, over/onder voor hen respectievelijk heilige grond en water, waren deze neonazi’s met geweld bezig tegen de vreedzame demonstranten……. Me dunkt, ook gezien de geschiedenis van WOII, een nobele zaak: vechten tegen deze neonazi’s, die niet anders zijn dan inhumane psychopathische schoften, die anderen het licht in de ogen niet gunnen…….

Gisteren in het megasuffe Mediaforum op Radio1, Catherine Keyl, deze hufter stelde dat Trump niet op de hoogte was van de neonazi’s in Charlottesville…. Wel Keyl, Trump zelf heeft jou ongelijk gegeven! Keyl ging overigens fiks tekeer tegen Antifa en stelde dat deze even gewelddadig waren…… Alsof Antifa al vele dodelijke slachtoffers heeft gemaakt…… Uiteraard noemde ze het inrijden door een neonazi op vreedzame demonstranten geen terreuraanslag, dat laatste woord kwam in haar gezwets niet voor………

Op de Post Online durfde Sietske Bergsma te stellen, dat ze liever met de neonazi’s te maken had, dan met de mensen van Antifa…… Alsof de laatsten verantwoordelijk zijn voor 49 doden deze eeuw, of zelfs voor meer doden dan de neonazi’s………. Alsof de antifascisten een terreuraanslag pleegden, i.p.v. de neonazi’s….. Eén ding is zeker, Bergsma is een aanhanger van het fascisme, dat heeft ze uit en te na aangegeven!!

Langzaam maar zeker weet het fascisme steeds meer aanhang te winnen onder de bevolking in de VS en de EU, lullig genoeg schijnt iedereen dat normaal te vinden. Het is onze plicht te vechten tegen het fascisme, een plicht die voortvloeit uit de vreselijke terreur die Duitsland en Italië voor en tijdens WOII op miljoenen hebben doen neerdalen, o.a. met een genocide op de joden, Roma en Sinti………

Hier een korte reactie van Moon of Alabama op het gebeuren in Charlottesville (onder het artikel kan u klikken voor een vertaling):

Charlottesville:
What You Wish Upon Others, You Wish Upon Yourself

By
Moon Of Alabama

August
14, 2017 “Information
Clearing House
” – U.S. “liberals” cuddle fascists
and right-wing religious extremists in Libya, Syria, Ukraine,
Venezuela and elsewhere.

      

But
when similar movements appear on their own streets they are outraged.

The
person 
in the
center on the above picture drove his car into a crowd of
counter-protesters in Charlottesville killing one and wounding
several.

Politicians
and media hail such persons when they appear, often hired by the CIA,
to overthrow the government of some foreign country. They condemn the
same mindset and actions at home. But 
glorification of
right-wing violence elsewhere hands justification to right-wing
groups at home.

Above:
Fascist torch march 
in Kiev
January 28 2017. Then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Republican
Senator McCain, The New York Times, the Washington Post and many
“liberals” supported the above nazis.

Above:
Fascist torch march 
in Charlottesville,
August 11 2017. Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton,
Republican Senator McCain, the New York Times, the Washington Post
and many “liberals” condemned the above nazis.

You
can not have only one of these. 

To
claim, as “liberals” do now, that such marches as in
Charlottesville, “is not what and who we are”, is a lie.
Ask people from outside the U.S. how the empire appears and acts
towards them.

The
U.S. uses fascism, religious extremism, torture, targeted killing and
many other vile instruments of power in its quest for global
dominance. All of these methods and ideologies, all of them, will one
day come home.

This
article was first published by
 Moon
Of Alabama
 

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Afbeeldingsresultaat voor fakkeloptocht nazi-duitsland

Oekraïense neonazi’s herdenken SS divisie (onder goedkeuring van de corrupte juntaleider Porosjenko en de EU!)

* De oorspronkelijke bewoners van Noord-Amerika (plus die in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika) die middels de grootste genocide ooit bijna werden uitgeroeid……… (waarbij een aantal stammen daadwerkelijk werden uitgemoord……..)

Zie ook:

Neonazi terreuraanslag in VS, westerse media spreken ‘op hun best’ over ‘een daad van agressie……’

Charlottesville: twee schuldigen? Of is het de taak van eenieder te vechten tegen fascisme?

Charlottesville: wat er fout ging voor de verzamelde gewelddadige en bewapende fascisten……….

Before Trump, Clinton Democrats Invoked the Term ‘Alt-Left’ to Demonize Critics

Among the Racists‘ (met mogelijkheid tot vertaling)

Mijn excuus voor de vormgeving.

De evolutie van politiestaat VS o.a. te zien in het buitenspel zetten van burgerrechten in steden als Boston en Charlottesville

Activisme zou de rente moeten zijn die we betalen om op deze planeet te mogen leven……..

Het volgende bericht kwam ik tegen op het net, wat mij betreft geen speld tussen te krijgen:

Dé van de Riet (o.a. vlees.nl) veiligheid en welbevinden van dieren heeft niets te maken met de grootte van de stal……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

In de vele stalbranden in ons land zijn alleen dit jaar tot nu toe al 311.000 dieren omgekomen*, in stallen die voor hen al de hel op aarde waren…….. N.a.v. deze branden had luldoos Rayman, presentator van ‘Ask me Anything’, zijn programma daar afgelopen maandag op gericht.

Daarvoor had Rayman een grootlobbyist van de intensieve martelveehouderij uitgenodigd, t.w. Dé van de Riet, die niet alleen vlees.nl vertegenwoordigt, maar ook de Centrale Organisatie voor de Vleessector. Als tegenhanger had Rayman de één of andere slappe zak van de Dierenbescherming…….

Schakelde wat later in en het eerste wat ik van de Riet hoorde zeggen, was dat de veiligheid en het welbevinden van dieren, niets met de grootte van de stal te maken heeft…….. Wat deze oplichter vergeet is dat in een grote stal een enorm aantal dieren worden opgesloten. De dieren staan zo dicht op elkaar dat je van ‘welbevinden’ bij die dieren al helemaal niet kan spreken………

Biggen worden onverdoofd van hun staart ontdaan, ook al mag dat niet, de veeartsen van de intensieve veehouderij bedenken wel een reden waarom dit alsnog wel is toegestaan (belachelijke, kromme wetgeving, zoals gewoonlijk als het om dieren gaat)…… Ach van de Riet is ook blij als ze zijn staart onverdoofd verwijderen………

De veiligheid van dieren in grote stallen is continu in gevaar, denk aan besmettelijke ziekten, maar ook aan gefrustreerde soortgenoten. En dan zijn er de stalbranden: er staan zoveel dieren in één stal, dat ze onmogelijk allemaal in veiligheid gebracht kunnen worden…… Nu wil men een onderzoek instellen naar stalbranden, alsof dat niet allang duidelijk is: boeren die zelfs te bedonderd zijn om hun elektrische installaties, in die hel op aarde, eens in de 2 jaar te laten controleren………

Toevallig was aan het eind van de voorgaande zondag weer een stal afgebrand in Agelo (Twente). Men hield het in de media aanvankelijk op honderden dieren, terwijl de brandweer sprak over 7.000 zeugen en biggen, volgens het laatste nieuws waren dat er echter 10.000……..* Op de webpagina van BNR’s Ask me Anything spreekt men zelfs vandaag nog over honderden varkens…….

Schoft van de Riet stelde dat een sprinklerinstallatie niet mogelijk is in een megastal, de sensoren zouden te hoog hangen, zodat de dieren al dood zijn als die dingen eindelijk reageren. Daar heb ik zwaar m’n twijfels bij, maar buiten dat, alsof dit niet op is te vangen met lager hangende sensoren, die desnoods via wifi signalen doorgeven aan de sprinklerinstallatie………

Volgens van de Riet weten de boeren ook wel, dat ze binnen een afzienbare tijd weer afscheid van hun dieren moeten nemen, maar dat neemt niet weg dat ze goed voor hun dieren zorgen en begaan zijn met de dieren……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! De dierenbeulen die zich boer durven te noemen en deze megastallen runnen, zijn nog te bedonderd om te investeren in de elektrische veiligheid in hun stallen, zoals hiervoor al verwoord…..

Als stallen ‘geruimd’ moeten worden (bedoeld wordt het vermoorden van alle dieren in een stal) bij constatering van een besmettelijke ziekte, staan de boeren zogenaamd te janken, gelooft u mij maar, als daar een echte traan tussen zit, is dit vanwege het geldelijk verlies (ook al draait de belastingbetaler daar meestal voor een groot deel voor op….)….. Volgens van de Riet komen besmettelijke ziekten maar weinig voor en is het geen wetmatigheid dat dieren in stallen dit oplopen (hij bedoelde megastallen…)…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Nee, dat hebben we gezien van de Riet! Neem de gekke koeienziekte (BSE), neem de vogelgriep, neem ziekten als Q-koorts en mond en klauwzeer……..

Het feit dat er niet veel meer ziekten uitbreken, is te danken aan het continue toedienen van antibiotica aan het voer van de dieren……. Daarmee wordt de antibiotica resistentie verder vergroot, jaarlijks verdwijnen er vele tonnen aan antibiotica in de intensieve martelveehouderij…..

Overigens zou het AD op diezelfde maandag hebben gemeld, dat megastallen schoner zijn dan een operatiekamer in een academisch ziekenhuis…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Wat een meer dan belachelijke opmerking, sterker nog: een dikke vette leugen! Ja, ja, de reguliere media doen ook hun uiterste best om de doodsindustrie, die de vleessector in feite is, schoon te lullen en het eten van kadavers te stimuleren…..

Van de Riet sprak over het verwaarden** van kadavers (door hem ‘karkassen’ genoemd), door dit verwaarden wordt bijna alles van het varken gebruikt, zo worden poten, oren en neuzen van varkens veel in Azië gegeten. Daarmee is de varkenshouderij duurzaam aldus de oplichter……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Wat is er duurzaam aan een hele berg methaangas de deze dieren produceren (een sterk broeikasgas, dat de klimaatverandering aanjaagt, met de 500 miljoen dieren (!!!) die hier jaarlijks worden groot- en doodgemarteld, draagt Nederland dan ook een fiks hunebed bij aan de klimaatverandering…)…

Dan nog het eten voor die dieren: in Brazilië wordt het Amazonewoud naar de kloten geholpen en de oorspronkelijke bevolking weggejaagd en veelal vermoord, zodat daar genetisch gemanipuleerde soja verbouwd kan worden voor onze enorme veestapel. Hier begon van de Riet nog harder te liegen……. Volgens hem moet je eens kijken hoeveel soja er naar de vleesvervangers gaan…….. GGGVD! 80% van de wereldsojaproductie verdwijnt in diervoer……. Bedenk daar eens bij, dat je voor het maken van 1 kilo vlees gemiddeld 5 kilo groente nodig hebt en een hele plas water (veel van de groente voor dieren zoals mais en soja komt uit landen, waar niet zelden grote tekorten aan drinkwater zijn…….)……..

Van de Riet vertelde dat de keuringen van de NVWA en veeartsen uiterst zorgvuldig gebeuren, ook na de slacht van dieren……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Oh vandaar alle schandalen met vlees, waar niet zelden zelfs ontlasting op te vinden is……. Vandaar dat dieren in de slachterij regelmatig nog even gemarteld worden, voor ze definitief worden vermoord, zoals keer op keer opduikende verhalen bevestigen (alsof die dierenartsen of keuringsmeesters daar bovenop staan..)……

Een inbeller vroeg of een dierenarts wel een dier kan keuren in een seconde of 10, zoals voor de slacht gebeurt…. Dat is volgens van de Riet geen probleem, daar het zeer deskundige dierenartsen betreft die met één oogopslag al kunnen zien dat een dier gezond is…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! De lamstraal had er geen probleem mee, de keuringen van de NVWA te prijzen en te voorzien van een hoge intensiteit, terwijl bij het fipronil gifeieren schandaal juist bleek dat de NVWA zwaar onderbemenst is en haar taken niet naar behoren kan uitvoeren…..

Nadat van de Riet de intensieve martelveehouderij de hemel in had geprezen, zo goed zijn de ‘boeren’ in deze sector voor hun dieren, stelde deze oplichter doodleuk dat de consument de schuld is van de belabberde omstandigheden waarin de meeste dieren verkeren……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! a! Ongelofelijk!!!

Ja, de consument is de schuld van de enorme dierenmishandeling van een half miljard dieren op jaarbasis…… De consument kiest voor het goedkooptste stuk vlees, aldus van de Riet….. Wie belet de sector in Nederland afspraken te maken, die het dierenwelzijn nog enigszins te goed komen, immers als de consument niet anders kan krijgen, koopt hij/zij het stuk kadaver echt wel!! De woorden van van de Riet bevestigen nogmaals dat de boeren geen flikker om hun dieren geven!!!

Van de Riet dacht Thieme van de Partij van de Dieren nog wel even een trap na te kunnen geven, door te stellen dat de bio-industrie al lang niet meer bestaat. Immers Thieme sluit haar woorden in de Kamer altijd af met een oproep een einde aan deze industrie te maken….. De bio-industrie kan dan weliswaar een gedateerd begrip zijn, maar dat wil bepaald niet zeggen, dat de dieren nu beter behandeld worden dan pakweg een jaar of 20 geleden….. Integendeel en dan kom ik terug bij het begin van dit bericht: de stallen zijn veel groter geworden en derhalve hebben de dieren een nog rottiger leven dan ze al hadden in de oude stijl hel waarin ze leefden………..

Ze zouden van de Riet en alle intensieve ‘boeren’ een maand moeten opsluiten in zo’n stal en dan met een in verhouding even grote ruimte per persoon, als de arme dieren in die stallen hebben, benieuwd wat dit geteisem daarna nog te zeggen heeft over dierenwelzijn en duurzaamheid……….

*  Het zal ongetwijfeld in de uitzending zijn genoemd: een stalbrand in Nederweert kostte afgelopen zaterdag het leven aan 76.000 kippen (!!!). Daar kunnen nog eens 40.000 kippen aan worden toegevoegd, die vandaag omkwamen bij een stalbrand in Swifterbant…….. Zie ook de toevoeging aan de link hieronder)

** Wist u dat gelei wordt gemaakt van de botten van dieren (= slachtafval) en dat die zelfs in snoep van kinderen wordt verwerkt, zoals de troep van Haribo……….

Zie ook: ‘Stalbranden: dit jaar al 185.000 dieren vreselijk aan hun einde gekomen……..‘ (met de stalbranden in Agelo, Nederweert en die in Swifterbant van vanmorgen, is dit aantal gestegen tot in totaal 311.000!!!)

Later toegevoegd:

A.u.b. lees en teken de petitie voor een permanent beroepsverbod op het houden van dieren door opperploert Straathof

Zie ook: ‘24.000 varkens omgekomen in brand, varkenshouder kreeg eerder in Duitsland een verbod opgelegd voor het houden van dieren……

       en: ‘Varkensboer die 400 varkens doodhongerde krijgt taakstraf en mag 3 jaar (!!) geen dieren houden…….

       en: ‘Megastal voor 18.000 varkens (!!!) krijgt groen licht van dierenmishandelingscollege en raad van Meierijstad……

       en: ‘Dierenmishandeling: brandweer liet kippenstal met 80.000 kippen (!!!) ‘gecontroleerd uitbranden…….’

      en: ‘Stalbranden: er hangt een prijskaartje aan passende maatregelen tegen stalbrand……. AUW!!!

En van een eerder bericht:

Hier nog een deel van de tekst bij de petitie van Varkens in Nood voor een beroepsverbod op het houden van dieren door Straathof:

Varkenshouder Straathof is berucht. In 2009, 2013, 2014 en 2016 zijn er door dierenbeschermers en door de Duitse politie veel misstanden en wetsovertredingen aangetroffen in meerdere Duitse en Nederlandse stallen. In Duitsland kreeg Straathof al een beroepsverbod opgelegd. Met de brand in Erichem waarbij 24.000 varkens overleden, kwam Straathof weer negatief in het nieuws. Wanneer is genoeg genoeg? De maatschappelijke roep om een algeheel beroepsverbod voor Straathof is sinds de brand van afgelopen donderdag groot. Gehoor gevend aan de grote verontwaardiging is Varkens in Nood een petitie gestart.

Voor nog een bericht met van de Riet, klik op het label met zijn naam, direct onder dit bericht.

‘Security deskundige’ Konijn over gehoorschade bij VS ambassadepersoneel Cuba……

Vorige week vrijdag voor het nieuws van 16.30 u. op BNR, ‘security deskundige’ (veiligheidsdeskundige klinkt ook ‘zó gedateerd…) Konijn*, die werd gevraagd naar de gehoorschade bij VS ambassade personeel op Cuba.

Zo’n 5 personeelsleden van de VS ambassade in Havana, zouden in redelijk korte tijd gehoorschade hebben opgelopen…… Uiteraard meldden de reguliere (massa-) media in de VS dat dit de schuld is van de Cubaanse overheid……. Zonder zich ook maar af te vragen, hoe die Cubaanse overheid daarvan zou moeten profiteren…..

Aanvankelijk stelde Konijn deze bewering als toch wel zeer onwaarschijnlijk te zien, maar dacht daarna misschien aan opdrachten, dus stelde hij z’n mening bij en stelde dat dit ultrasone geluid inderdaad door de Cubanen moet zijn veroorzaakt……..

Uiteraard is dit een lulverhaal en het zal me niet verbazen als de CIA op de ambassade in Havanna bezig is geweest met het testen van deze geluidsbron, om daar Cubaanse hoogwaardigheidsbekleders mee te lijf te gaan…… Stel je maar voor, de CIA die een Cubaanse hoogwaardigheidsbekleder met zo’n instrument tijdens diens toespraak weet ‘te raken’ en daarmee diens gehoor te beschadigen, zo’n persoon kan z’n verhaal daarna niet meer afmaken en staat dus voor paal ten overstaan van diens publiek (of gehoor)…….

Uiteraard willen de afhankelijke (massa-) media in de VS dat Cuba weer op de plaats wordt gezet waar het stond: ‘een smerige dictatuur die niets voor de bevolking overheeft’ en derhalve op alle mogelijke manieren moet worden dwarsgezeten…….. Terwijl diezelfde bevolking de beschikking heeft over goede medische zorg, scholing en behuizing en dat voor een schijntje, kom daar maar eens voor in de VS (en Nederland…)……..

 * Kon deze figuur niet terugvinden op het net, in de uitzending werd hij aangeduid als Neil, of Niel Konijn.

Zie ook: ‘Cuba: ‘sonisch wapen’ tegen VS ambassadepersoneel blijkt geen Cubaans ‘wapen’ te zijn………

Dijkhoff (VVD) zet moeder zonder haar 2 kinderen uit……. Nederland anno 2017……

Gisteren heeft VVD opperknuppel Dijkhoff* een Armeense moeder van 2 kinderen het land laten uitzetten. De kinderen zijn (volkomen terecht) op een onderduikadres ondergebracht. De moeder en de kinderen leefden al meer dan 9 jaar in Nederland, zo bezien voldoende voor het Kinderpardon….. Helaas, de regels zitten zo belachelijk in elkaar dat er volgens Martin Vegter van Defence for Children amper een kind voor in aanmerking komt…..

Ondanks dat de kinderen nooit in Armenië zijn geweest, mogen ze van de rechter naar dat land worden uitgezet…….. Daarmee geeft de rechter aan schijt te hebben aan de Rechten van het Kind en aan elk gevoel van medemenselijkheid (een rechter die aanhanger is van de PVV??)

Hoe kan je kinderen die al zolang in Nederland zijn nog uitzetten, zoals gezegd: dit druist zelfs in tegen het Kinderrechtenverdrag!! Vegter merkte nog op, dat onderzoek heeft aangetoond dat kinderen die zijn uitgezet door Nederland het na hun ‘terugkeer’ niet goed vergaat…… Kinderen die zolang niet in hun moederland zijn geweest, of sterker nog daar niet eens zijn geboren…… (hun moeder/vaderland is dan ook….Nederland!!)

Let wel: ook het CDA, SGP en CU zijn verantwoordelijk voor deze uitzetting, als zij Rutte 2 niet door dik en dun hadden gesteund, was dat vermaledijde kabinet al lang ter ziele geweest. U begrijpt natuurlijk wel, dat de PvdA, vanwege deelname aan Rutte 2, één van de hoofddaders is…….

Vanmorgen in het megasuffe Mediaforum op Radio1, Catherine Keyl, ‘columnist’ van de Telegraaf en Bert Huisjes van WNL (nee, niet ‘Wakker Nederland’ de leus van haat- en angstzaaikrant Telegraaf, maar ‘Wij Nederland…… ha! ha! ha!), ofwel 2 fiks kortzichtige hufters.

Huisjes stelde blij te zijn met een Telegrof artikel van afgelopen morgen, daar die ‘een andere kijk geeft op het gebeuren’ (de moeder wordt daar voor alles verantwoordelijk gesteld). De moeder is willens en wetens gebleven, aldus Huisjes……. Ja, wat zou jij zelf doen Huisjes, als jouw kinderen hier opgegroeid waren en je weet dat er op jou gespuugd zal worden na terugkeer in Armenië???

Volgens Keyl heeft de moeder de kinderen onder druk gezet…….. ‘Onder druk gezet?’ Waar heeft deze enorme koekwaus het over? Die kinderen werden en worden door de Nederlandse staat onder druk gezet, imbeciel!! U begrijpt dat Huisjes het volkomen eens was met Keyl.

Keyl vervolgde met te zeggen, dat de ombudsvrouw fout is in deze en dat de moeder zelfs schuldig is……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Schuldig omdat ze het beste met haar kinderen voor heeft: een toekomst in Nederland opbouwen?? Dezelfde vraag aan Huisjes zou je grofgraaier Keyl voor de poten kunnen gooien: Keyl, wat zou jij doen in het geval van die moeder?? Ach ja, empathie is iets dat psychopaten totaal ontberen….. En waarvoor zou je je kunnen afvragen, immers Keyl en Huisjes hoeven zich niet ongerust te maken over de huisvesting van vluchtelingen naast hun ‘nederige stulpje…’ Het is dan ook voor de eigen populariteit dat ze dergelijk ijskoud, inhumaan gelul durven te uiten op de nationale nieuws- en actualiteitenzender….

Ploerten Keyl en Huisjes spreken dan ook voor de grote onderlaag die dagelijks gehersenspoeld worden met leugens over vluchtelingen, uh asielzoekers……. (je moet het woord vluchtelingen vooral niet gebruiken, je moet deze mensen voorstellen als gelukszoekers, die op moeten sodemieteren…..)

Beste bezoeker, het was meer dan duidelijk dat Huisjes en Keyl desnoods de kinderen zelf wel uit willen zetten, mocht dit hun populariteit ten goede komen……..

Huisjes stelde zelfs, dat als deze kinderen (en andere gezinnen) niet uitgezet worden, we in een bananenrepubliek terechtkomen…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Waar slaat ‘t op? Alsof de moeder van deze kinderen geprobeerd heeft de autoriteiten om te kopen…… En ja hoor, daar kwam het cliché: als je deze mensen laat blijven, komt iedereen hier naartoe……. Wat een gelul, daar is totaal geen bewijs voor!! Mensen het viel me nog mee dat deze 2 schoften niet begonnen over een tsunami aan vluchtelingen, die zich door onze buitengrenzen proberen te wurmen……….

Je zou de hoop uitspreken dat Keyl en Huisjes hetzelfde overkomt, alleen zou dit betekenen dat hier de vlam in de pan zal slaan….. Laat ik hen maar een fikse chronische, langzaam slopende ziekte toewensen, waarbij ze al hun vermogen verliezen en nooit weer aan de bak komen, jezus wat een geteisem!!

Noemen we dit anno 2017 beschaving in dit land? Zo omgaan met mensen (en hun kinderen) is om de oren van je kop te schamen, gvd!!!

* Dijkhoff had zijn discretionaire bevoegdheid kunnen gebruiken, om de vrouw en haar kinderen een  verblijfsvergunning te geven……

Zie ook:

Lili en Howick, al 10 jaar in Nederland mogen worden uitgezet stelt ‘humane’ Raad van Staten waarvan W.A. voorzitter is

Armeense kinderen Lili en Howick: Rutte (VVD ‘premier’) uitzetten is fair en van Ojik (GL 2de Kamer) vindt dat dit geen partijpolitieke kwestie is….. OEI!!