Karabulut (SP) blij dat ze Maduro eindelijk ook kan schoppen………

Alsof ze opgelucht was, Sadet Karabulut van de SP, toen ze gistermiddag op BNR (rond 16.37 u.) voor het Nederlandse volk haar beklag kon doen over de Venezolaanse president Maduro………..

Dat zit zo, eerder dit jaar had Karabulut het in Trouw opgenomen voor de Venezolaanse president. Nou dat zit iets anders Azijnpisser, Karabulut stelde, dat Trouw dit ervan had gemaakt……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Ziedaar een opportunistische op macht beluste politicus!!

Maduro schendt de mensenrechten, gebruikt geweld tegen de bevolking en heeft antidemocratische maatregelen genomen, aldus Karabulut…….. Het kon er nog net vanaf: volgens Karabulut gebruiken de ‘demonstranten’ ook geweld……. Wat Karabulut betreft is de grondwetgevende vergadering die Maduro heeft ingesteld, volkomen antidemocratisch…….

Karabulut vindt het waarschijnlijk normaal dat ongeregelde bewapende troepen zich op straat voordoen als demonstranten…… Karabulut vindt het waarschijnlijk normaal dat de VS al een paar jaar geleden (onder Obama) VS bedrijven met winkelketens (waaronder die voor levensmiddelen) onder druk heeft gezet, de winkels in Venezuela niet meer te bevoorraden……. Karabulut weet waarschijnlijk niet dat dit een typische CIA manier van doen is, erop gericht de bevolking ontevreden te maken en hen zo de straat op te jagen met de eis dat de regering moet aftreden…….. ‘Uiteraard’ werd dit door Karabulut niet een vorm van terreur, of ronduit economische oorlogsvoering genoemd……

Kortom Karabulut volgt de reguliere (afhankelijke) westerse media, die oplepelen wat de VS en de rest van de neoliberale westerse overheden voorschrijven……..

Zoals zojuist opgemerkt: goed beschouwd is Venezuela eigenlijk een land dat in oorlog verkeert en ja, als de oppositie zich dan inlaat met ingehuurde bewapende troepen van buiten, is het ‘niet zo heel vreemd’ dat de democratie wordt opgeschort………

Karabulut wil liever dat de grote onderlaag in Venezuela alles wordt afgepakt, zaken die ze na een paar eeuwen eindelijk onder Maduro hebben gekregen: betaalbare goede behuizing, werkende goedkope infrastructuur (elektriciteit, water en sanitair), prima onderwijs en een goede en goedkope gezondheidszorg…… Op zeker dat dit zal gebeuren, nadat de partijen van de gegoede burgerij weer aan de macht komen (godbetert op religieuze grondslag….)……. Zoals deze partijen ook in het verleden hebben getoond, dat ze die onderlaag zien als een nest kakkerlakken, waar je desgewenst overheen kan walsen…..

Karabulut is rijp voor GroenLinks of de PvdA, zoals een groot deel van haar collega’s………… Bah!!

Zie ook: ‘Venezuela Will Never Tolerate This‘ (This is an act of highest treason of international law.) Onder dat artikel kan u klikken voor een vertaling.

       en: VS steunt rechtse coalitie (MUD) in Venezuela………

       en: ‘Venezuela: ‘studentenprotest’ wordt uitgevoerd door ingehuurde troepen………


       en: ‘Venezuela moet en zal ‘verlost’ worden van Maduro, met ‘oh wonder’ een dikke rol van de VS en de reguliere westerse media 

       en: ‘Venezolaanse regering treedt terecht op tegen de uiterst gewelddadige oppositie!!

       en: ‘Venezuela ontwricht, wat de reguliere media u niet vertellen……..

       en: ‘Venezuela: Target of Economic Warfare

       en: ‘Venezuela’s US-Backed Opposition Turns Up The Violence Following Assembly Vote

       en: ‘10 Things You Need to Know About the Terrorist Attack in Venezuela 

       en: ‘Venezuelans in the Streets to Support Constituent Assembly

       en: ‘What Mainstream Media Got Wrong About Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly Vote‘ (met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)

       en: ‘The Left and Venezuela‘ (met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)

       en: ‘Rondje Venezuela schoppen op Radio1………


       en: ‘Venezolaanse regionale verkiezingen gehekeld door westen, terwijl internationale waarnemers deze als eerlijk beoordeelden………


       en: ‘EU neemt uiterst hypocriet sancties tegen de Venezolaanse regering Maduro………


       en: ‘Trump wilde naast de economische oorlogsvoering tegen Venezuela dat land daadwerkelijk militair aanvallen……

‘Israel Anti-Boycott Act’: Dood aan de vrijheid van meningsuiting in de VS >> bij invoering is politiestaat VS volledig!!

Op 23 maart jl. dienden een paar senatoren de ‘Israel Anti-Boycott Act’ in. Met deze wet wordt de strijd aangebonden met o.a de BDS beweging en ieder ander die een boycot van Israël propageert, dan wel kritiek uit op Israel vanwege het fascistische apartheidsbeleid in dat gestolen land, hetzij in woord of op schrift………

Als deze anti-Israël boycot wet wordt aangenomen, is dat één van de laatste stappen in de hervorming van de VS tot een regelrechte politiestaat. De Washington Post heeft hier een een dik artikel aan gewijd en stelt dat e.e.a. niets met de vrijheid van meningsuiting te maken heeft, dit daar het bedrijven betreft…. Voorts wijst de WaPo op een eerdere antiboycot wet uit ik dacht 1977, waarmee arabische bedrijven worden aangepakt, mochten ze Israël boycotten, zelfs als zo’n bedrijf daartoe door haar overheid wordt gedwongen……..

Echter met deze wet, kan ook de individuele activist vervolgd worden, of zelfs iemand die zich negatief uitlaat over Israël , n.a.v. een gelezen artikel, of het zien van een documentaire, ook al wordt daarin de waarheid getoond……… De vreselijke waarheid over het lot van de Palestijnen, die in feite het leven onmogelijk wordt gemaakt door apartheidsstaat Israël, althans als ze niet tot de tienduizenden dodelijke slachtoffers behoren, die deze staat sinds haar oprichting onder de Palestijnse burgers heeft gemaakt……..

De volgende petitie, die wij helaas niet kunnen tekenen, kwam ik gisteren tegen op de US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, lees en huiver:

This
picture is worth a thousand shares

On
March 23, Sens. Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Rob Portman (R-OH), and Reps.
Peter Roskam (R-IL) and Juan Vargas (D-CA), introduced the 
Israel
Anti-Boycott Act
 (S.720
and H.R.1697).

This
bill seeks to impose fines and
 criminal
penalties
,
and deny government loans to corporations refusing to do business
with corporations in illegal Israeli settlements. It 
infringes
on our First Amendment right
 to
promote boycott, divestment and sanctions and seeks to
 legitimize
Israel’s settlements
.

When
politicians refuse to tell the truth on Palestinian rights, it’s up
to us to speak up. We’re doing just that on the Israel Anti-Boycott
Act with a 
new
infographics series
 that
explain how this bill could affect 
you

The
sponsors of the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, a legislative attempt to
criminalize boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) activism,
responded to an avalanche of criticism by 
claiming
that the bill wouldn’t impact
 everyday
activists.
But
in reality, this draconian anti-free speech bill could have severe
consequences for you if you are active, or even just vocal, in the
movement for Palestinian rights. How? That’s what we explain in
series
of four infographics
 using
the examples of a social media user, student group, church
congregation, and private investor. 
These
infographics show you the possible consequences of the Israel
Anti-Boycott Act becoming law, and make the need to 
act
now
 crystal
clear. Please 
spread
them far and wide by sharing on social media
.

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If the Israel Anti-Boycott Act becomes law, it could have severe consequences for anyone active – or even vocal – in the movement for Palestinian rights.

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The Israel Anti-Boycott Act could have far reaching consequences for individuals and groups active, or even just vocal, in the movement for Palestinian rights.

One example is a social media user who expresses intent to boycott companies named in the forthcoming UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) database of settlement corporations.

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The Israel Anti-Boycott Act could have far reaching consequences for individuals and groups active, or even just vocal, in the movement for Palestinian rights.

One example is a church congregation that votes to divest from corporations named in the forthcoming UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) database of settlement corporations.

Take action to stop this bill: https://goo.gl/ePFwKv

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Zie ook: ‘Giro d’Italia van start in Jeruzalem, een mooie manier om Israël te promoten, aldus NOS presentator van den Berg……..

       en: ‘Sjors Fröhlich (chef BNR): de rechtspraak in Israël is oké……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

      en: ‘Giro d’Italia gaat volgend jaar in Jeruzalem van start, tenzij……….

Mijn excuus voor de belabberde weergave.

Venezuela: ‘studentenprotest’ wordt uitgevoerd door ingehuurde troepen………

Laurens Trebes is een Nederlander die 15 jaar in Venezuela woonde en daar een paar bedrijfjes runde, echter na een aantal keer te zijn overvallen, besloot hij naar Nederland terug te keren.

Oh wonder, in het programma ‘De Ochtend’ van KRO-NCRV, uitgezonden op 4 augustus jl., was Trebes te horen over de situatie in Venezuela. Waarom ‘een wonder’ vraagt u zich wellicht af, welnu Trebes kwam niet met de afgezaagde leugens die we in de reguliere westerse media voorgeschoteld krijgen, leugens waarin Maduro als een barbaarse dictator wordt afgeschilderd.

Zo vertelde Trebes dat aan de zogenaamde studentenprotesten geen student meedoet. Volgens Trebes worden er troepen ingehuurd om deze protesten te laten plaatsvinden, protest dat uiterst gewelddadig is, al noemde Trebes dat er niet bij, maar wie de situatie in Venezuela via de alternatieve media volgt, wist dit al lang……..

Trebes stelt dat de regering ook troepen inhuurt voor tegen protesten, al zijn dat aanhangers van Maduro (zogenaamde Chavisten). Beetje vreemd, daar die mensen zonder oproep al uiterst gemotiveerd zijn de straat op te gaan, tegen het gewelddadige tuig dat Maduro weg wil hebben. Niet zo vreemd als je bedenkt dat deze mensen, hoofdzakelijk het armere deel van Venezuela, voor het eerst in vele decennia een stem kregen van Chavez, de voorganger van Maduro, die hen voorzag van goede en goedkope huizen, prima scholen en een betaalbare, werkende gezondheidszorg………..

Alleen in de wijken van steden waar de oppositie groot is, wordt volgens Trebes gedemonstreerd, echter ook in centra van steden, waar nu veelal juist geen armen wonen, gaat het ‘oppositie’ geteisem tekeer….

De oppositie gaat zelfs zover dat het boeren bedreigt, die voedsel aan de steden willen leveren. Trebes ging hier verder niet op door, maar dit past precies in de CIA tactiek: zorg dat mensen grote tekorten hebben, het liefst aan basisbehoeften als voedsel en medicijnen, dan gaan ze vanzelf de straat op, om het aftreden van de zittende (VS onwelgevallige) regering te eisen…..

Voorts is de VS al een paar jaar bezig met een ‘stille’ economische boycot tegen Venezuela: veel supermarkten in Venezuela zijn onderdeel van VS ketens, zij werden al een paar jaar geleden onder druk gezet, geen producten meer te leveren aan hun winkels in Venezuela……. Jammer dat Trebes dit niet noemde, of niet wist….

Volgens Trebes kan Maduro alleen overleven als hij samen met de liberale partij gaat samenwerken…… Ik vrees dat Trebes de macht van de VS onderschat……

Maar wat een verademing in de berichtgeving over Venezuela en dat op Radio1, bij een niet onafhankelijke zendgemachtigde (zendgemachtigden die veelal het fascistische neoliberalisme aanhangen), de wonderen zijn de wereld nog niet uit!

Zie ook: 

VS gaat door met uithongeren Venezolaanse volk >> de westerse wereld negeert deze afschuwelijke oorlogsmisdaad

Venezuela: partij van Guaidó corrupt, zelfs al voor deze enige regeringsverantwoordelijkheid draagt

Reuters houdt rapport tegen over 40.000 Venezolaanse doden door VS sancties

Venezuela: overleg in Noorwegen eindigde met telefoongesprek tussen Guaidó en Pence

Guaidó wil 4 miljoen Venezolaanse paspoorten om o.a. een grote achterban voor hem te vormen


Venezuela: Edwin Koopmans (o.a. ‘deskundige’ van VPRO) met anti-Maduro propaganda


Tirannie op de straten van Washington, een vergelijking met de start van nazi-Duitsland

Venezuela: VS ministerie van BuZa publiceert per ongeluk een lijst met sadistische terreurdaden tegen het Venezolaanse volk

Pence to offer ‘carrots’ to Venezuela military, warnings to judges

Venezolaanse ambassade in Washington belaagd, er mag zelfs geen voedsel worden gebracht….

Venezuela: VS zal desnoods militair geweld gebruiken om een vreedzame overgang van regime te bewerkstelligen…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Venezuela: ultieme couppoging van Guaidó mislukt

Trump vermoordde al 40.000 Venezolaanse burgers


Venezuela: VS bedrijf dat wapens smokkelde is gelinkt aan CIA ‘Black Site’ centra

Congreslid Ilhan Omar fileert het monster Elliot Abrams, de speciale gezant van de VS voor Venezuela

Venezuela >> de media willen het socialisme definitief de nek omdraaien


Joel Voordewind (CU 2de Kamer) bakt de ‘Venezolaanse vluchtelingencrisis’ op Curaçao wel erg bruin en van Ojik (GL 2de Kamer) schiet een Venezolaanse bok

BBC World Service radio >> fake news and other lies about Venezuela‘ (bericht van dit blog)


Venezolaanse verandering van regime bekokstoofd door VS en massamedia

Venezuela zou humanitaire hulp weigeren, het echte verhaal ziet er ‘iets anders’ uit

Guaidó is een ordinaire couppleger van de VS, e.e.a. gaat volledig in tegen de Venezolaanse constitutie

Venezuela >> regime change: ‘de 12 stappen methode’ die de VS gebruikt

Venezuela >> VS economische oorlogsvoering met gebruikmaking van o.a. IMF en Wereldbank


VS couppleger in Venezuela belooft VS Venezolaanse olie als hij de macht heeft overgenomen


Halliburton en Chevron hebben groot belang bij ‘regime change’ in Venezuela


Mike Pence (vicepresident VS) gaf Guaidó, de door de VS gewenste leider, groen licht voor de coup in Venezuela

VS weer op oorlogspad in Latijns-Amerika: Venezuela het volgende slachtoffer…….

Als de VS stopt met spelen van ‘politieagent’ en het vernielen van de wereld, zullen de slechte krachten winnen……

Venezuela: VS verandering van regime mislukt >> de Venezolanen wacht een VS invasie

Vast Majority of Democrats Remain Silent or Support Coup in Venezuela

Trump wilde naast de economische oorlogsvoering tegen Venezuela dat land daadwerkelijk militair aanvallen……

Venezolaanse regionale verkiezingen gehekeld door westen, terwijl internationale waarnemers deze als eerlijk beoordeelden……….


Venezuela moet en zal ‘verlost’ worden van Maduro, met ‘oh wonder’ een dikke rol van de VS en de reguliere westerse media

Venezolaanse regering treedt terecht op tegen de uiterst gewelddadige oppositie!!

Venezuela ontwricht, wat de reguliere media u niet vertellen……..

Venezuela: Target of Economic Warfare

Venezuela’s US-Backed Opposition Turns Up The Violence Following Assembly Vote


10 Things You Need to Know About the Terrorist Attack in Venezuela


Venezuelans in the Streets to Support Constituent Assembly

What Mainstream Media Got Wrong About Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly Vote‘ (met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)

The Left and Venezuela‘ (met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)

Rondje Venezuela schoppen op Radio1………

Karabulut (SP) blij dat ze Maduro eindelijk ook kan schoppen………

EU neemt uiterst hypocriet sancties tegen de Venezolaanse regering Maduro………

Venezuela: de anti-propaganda van John Oliver (en het grootste deel westerse massamedia) feilloos doorgeprikt

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

37
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.

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George Capaccio

‘O
Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with
our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms
of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with
the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste
their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the
hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to
turn them out roofless with their little children to wander
unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and
thirst…’

From
“The War Prayer” by Mark Twain

July
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Clearing House
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the glory and greatness of the Republic, let us recall the soaring
words of Mark Twain and his paean to war and its multitude of tender
mercies. Let us give thanks to God and his various co-conspirators
for making our nation an exceptional font of wisdom, wealth, and
weapons. Let us praise the weapons makers with their bottomless
thirst for profits and their pledge of allegiance to the continuation
of war for which no price is too great to bear, no life too small to
incinerate in the blessed pursuit of national security, global
hegemony, and unchallenged control of the world’s most vital
resources.

Let
us bow down before the lords and ladies of the Pentagon and CIA, and
their sovereign masters in the White House and legislature whose
deep, uncompromising morality is clearly evident in their decision to
provide billions of dollars worth of weapons to the enlightened
despots of Saudi Arabia. God save King Salman and his ministers of
state, presiding over shining seas of petroleum, that gooey lubricant
that keeps our engines purring and our economy overflowing with the
fruits of capitalist expansion and exploitation.

Now,
as the world warms and the seas rise and the gods repose on cloudy
cushions of greenhouse gas, let us salute our nation’s unbreakable
bond of fealty to the House of Saud as the keeper of the flames that
burn eternally from those precious repositories of oil in the heart
of the desert. O Lord, keep those majestic wells pumping, keep the
money flowing into the coffers of Raytheon, Textron, General Electric
and their brothers in arms, keep our bombs and missiles falling like
magical stars on the markets and mosques, villages, farms, and fields
of ancient Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East and Saudi
Arabia’s next-door neighbor. God, give us the strength and resolve
to continue to support the Saudi-led coalition in its no-holds-barred
onslaught on the people of Yemen and the rebellious fighters in their
midst.

Above
all, keep our eyes fixed on the endlessly falling cascade of tweets
anointing our hands and the phones we hold so dear and dare not lay
aside lest we miss the latest chirp or expose ourselves to the bitter
winds twisting around us, bearing news of a world of woe. Let us
never waver from our sworn duty to pillory Donald Trump at every
opportunity and hold his feet to the fire for the crime of colluding
with the evil empire. Let us only hear the opprobrium hurled at Trump
and his cronies from the high and mighty pulpits of MSNBC and their
all-seeing pundits, who see under every rock and stone and in every
crevice of the national security state a slimy trace of Russian
intrusion.

Grant
us, O Lord, the strength to seal our hearts against those who would
weaken our resolve with the corrosive acid of compassion. Like brave
Ulysses resisting the song of the Sirens, let us not be tempted to
heed the cries of those in need in places like Yemen where our
largess, our weapons, and our diplomatic support allow the Saudi-led
coalition to continue bringing a “hurricane of fire” to this
poor, tortured land.

Thy
will be done, O Lord. Thou hast ordained all this suffering, this
dying of the flesh and of the spirit, this deliberate infliction of
unrelenting pain on the people of Yemen. Truly, what is unfolding in
Yemen is the fulfillment of Thy Word, what Thou hast ordained as a
sign of Thy presence in the world and of the grace that flows from
Thy immaculate heart. Though the people of Yemen cry out for mercy.
Though millions of families have lost their homes, their livelihood,
their future, their faith in a better life to come. Though famine,
pestilence and death stalk the land as the bombing grows more savage
with every passing day, this is as it should be, as it was written in
the book of time.

O
Lord our God, help us to see and accept the absolute necessity of the
part we play in delivering unto the people of Yemen the gifts of Thy
omniscience, for You alone understand the ultimate rightness of the
war and the devastation it has wrought—with the assistance of our
Congress, our President and our military. Help us to set on the path
of righteousness those misguided members of our own House of
Representatives who have voted to end our participation in Yemen’s
civil war and our support of Saudi Arabia and its God-fearing allies.
Surely, these politicos have failed to take the larger view and to
grasp the sublime logic behind Thy design for Yemen and the entire
Middle East.

The
weeping of orphaned children, the keening of widowed mothers—are
these not harbingers of greater things to come, a time when peace and
plenty shall reign supreme, and the people of Yemen, finally subdued,
shall harvest the blessings of Thy bounty. As it was in Iraq, so
shall it be in Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, and every other nation in
which our men and women in uniform have led the fight against tyranny
and strewn the land with the priceless jewels of freedom and
democracy.

Help
us, O Lord, neither to oppose nor condemn our nation’s complicity
in the destruction of Yemen and the creation of the world’s most
severe humanitarian crisis. Help us to carry on with the burden of
our daily lives and feel not even a twinge of concern for the
innocent victims of our forward-thinking, strategy-minded leaders and
their endless war on terror. Let us instead praise the “beauty of
our weapons” and the nobility of our cause. With Thy help, O Lord,
we shall succeed in employing the instruments of war to carry out Thy
holy plan for peace on Earth.

The
biggest fools are those who cannot see the evidence of Thy love for
humanity. The arms and munitions we provide for the inspired rulers
of Saudi Arabia and their regional partners are most assuredly
working to advance Your most beneficent vision of what our race is
capable of achieving. Behold the little children in hospital beds or
their mothers’ embrace, their paper-thin bodies shriveling up in
the flames of hunger and disease, while planes overhead deliver load
after load of pious bombs and shrieking villagers scour the
countryside for whatever remains of their loved ones. Is this not
proof of Thy sweeping immanence in the affairs of men?

O
Lord our God, help us to remain silent in the face of so much
suffering, to avert our eyes and pretend our insignificant lives are
no match for the powers that be, though history has demonstrated
otherwise, and prophets from time immemorial have called upon the
people to open their hearts and hear the cries of their brothers and
sisters, and do whatever is in their power to feed the hungry, heal
the sick, shelter the homeless, and put an end to war. Help us,
finally, to ignore the wisdom of the ages and the admonitions of
those who would oppose Thy will and the will of Thy servants in every
government on Earth that calculates its greatness on the number of
corpses at its feet.

George
Capaccio
 is
a writer and activist living in Arlington, MA. During the years of
US- and UK-enforced sanctions against Iraq, he traveled there
numerous times, bringing in banned items, befriending families in
Baghdad, and deepening his understanding of how the sanctions were
impacting civilians. His email is 
Georgecapaccio@verizon.net.
He welcomes comments and invites readers to visit his
website: 
www.georgecapaccio.com

This
article was first published by
 Counterpunch –

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Mensen, is het niet om te janken, dat de hele wereld wegkijkt terwijl er een genocide aan de gang is in Jemen? Waar blijven de reguliere media die bij de eerste beste leugen over Rusland en Syrie volledig hun dak uitgaan??? Blijkbaar zijn de mensen in Jemen van een ondersoort, die de moeite van het redden niet waard is, althans in de ogen van de reguliere media en in de ogen van opperschoften als PvdA hufter Koenders, VVD oplichter Rutte en ga nog maar even door……….

De reli-fascistische politiestaat Saoedi-Arabië wordt zelfs niet als kwaadaardig afgeschilderd in de reguliere media en door de gemiddelde westerse politicus…… Sterker nog, als één van de zwijnen overlijdt die verantwoordelijk was voor terreur in binnen en buitenland, gaat ons nationale waterhoofd W.A. met Koenders of Rutte naar de begrafenis. De belangen van geld gaan zoals gewoonlijk über alles!!

Zie ook: ‘Genocide op Houthi’s in Jemen: daders Saoedi-Arabië, de VS en de Arabische Emiraten………….

       en: ‘Media Silent As Saudi Arabia Devastates Yemen Into Famine

       en: ‘Giro 555: honger en oorlog in Jemen: waarom worden Saoedi-Arabië, de VS en GB niet aan de paal genageld wegens enorme oorlogsmisdaden??’

       en: ‘Jemen: hongersnood veroorzaakt door Saoedi-Arabië en VS >> weg de aandacht van westerse reguliere media en politici………

       en: ‘Mad dog Mattis stuurt nog meer VS militairen richting Jemen, zodat de hongersnood daar nog ‘meer vruchten’ kan afwerpen……

       en: ‘Jemen: elke 10 minuten sterft een kind onnodig >> verantwoordelijken: Saoedi-Arabië, de VS en GB

        en: ‘Saoedische coalitie vermoord met 2 bombardementen op Jemen, 9 vrouwen en 1 kind……… Aanvallen gesteund door het westen…….

        en: ‘Jemen en Saoedi-Arabië: leugens van de ‘onafhankelijke’ NOS voor ‘het goede doel……….’

        en: ‘Ploumen acht het mogelijk dat Nederlandse wapensystemen worden gebruikt door S.A. in Jemen…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

        en: ‘Saoedi-Arabië bombardeert begrafenis ceremonie in Jemen, VS ‘heroverweegt’ wapenleveranties………

        en: ‘Witte Huis juristen waarschuwden Obama al in 2015 voor aanklachten wegens oorlogsmisdaden

        en: (met mogelijkheid tot vertaling in ‘Dutch’): ‘U.S. and U.K. Continue to Participate in War Crimes, Targeting of Yemeni Civilians

        en: ‘VS heeft reden gefabriceerd om de Houthi rebellen in Jemen te bombarderen…….

        en: ‘Ali Al Shihabi: Saoedi-Arabie begaat geen oorlogsmisdaden in Jemen……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

        en: ‘Merkel verrader van haar seksegenoten in S-A en ondersteuner grootschalige Saoedische terreur in Jemen…… Voorwaar een prestatie van formaat!!

       en: ‘Saoedi-Arabië moordt eigen sjiitische burgers uit….. Tijd voor een handelsdelegatie met Koenders, Rutte en W.A.!!

 

       en: ‘Jemen 300.000 cholera patiënten en de valse berichtgeving door de westerse reguliere media…….‘ 


       en: ‘BBC met opmerkelijk nieuws uit Jemen: een openbare executie, maar geen woord over de honger en de cholera veroorzaakt door S-A……..

       en: ‘Trump steunt Saoedi-Arabië verder in haar barbaarse terreur tegen het verhongerende Jemenitische volk, o.a. met een enorme wapendeal……

      en: ‘BBC leugens, ofwel ‘fake news’ over de smerige oorlog tegen het volk van Jemen……

       en: ‘Alan Johnston (BBC): de cholera uitbraak in Jemen is te danken aan de burgeroorlog…… AUW!!


       en: ‘Jemen: EU moet wapenleveranties aan Saoedi-Arabië verbieden


      en: ‘Jemen ‘kerstweek bombardementen’: meer dan 100 vermoorde burgers, de daders >> de Saoedische coalitie o.l.v. de VS……

Jemen: EU moet wapenleveranties aan Saoedi-Arabië verbieden

Het Care2 team begon afgelopen vrijdag een petitie waarin van de EU wordt gevraagd, de afzonderlijke lidstaten te verbieden nog langer olie op het ‘Jemen-vuur’ te gooien middels wapenverkopen aan de reli-fascistische dictatuur in Saoedi-Arabië.

Ondanks dat S-A een hongersnood heeft veroorzaakt in Jemen, ondanks dat ditzelfde S-A een cholera uitbraak heeft veroorzaakt in Jemen, ondanks dat S-A een groot aantal burgers heeft vermoord in Jemen, ondanks dat S-A bezig is met een genocide op de sjiitische bevolking van Jemen, verkopen een aantal EU landen nog steeds wapens, munitie, raketten (oké ook munitie), pantservoertuigen en wapensystemen aan Saoedi-Arabië, zo levert Groot-Brittannië onder meer clusterbommen aan S-A……… Overigens trainen o.a officieren uit Groot-Brittannië het leger van S-A……

De VS gaat nog veel verder en helpt S-A met de blokkade van Jemen, voorts heeft de VS raketbeschietingen uitgevoerd op Jemen, voert het middels drones standrechtelijke executies uit in dat land en gaat het als het zo uitkomt aan land met speciale troepen (zeg maar met: moordcommando’s)…… Zware terreurzaken waar de EU, noch de Nederlandse regering, noch de zogenaamde onafhankelijke reguliere media, middels de mislukte PvdA minister van BuZa Koenders, ook maar met één letter van kritiek over hebben gerept……..

Mensen lees de tekst hieronder en de tekst bij de petitie daaronder, teken ajb, geeft het door!

EU:
Stop Fueling the Conflict in Yemen

The
Saudi-Arabian led bombing of Yemen has had a devastating impact,
killing thousands of civilians and destroying essential
infrastructures. Evidence shows that attacks in Yemen have 
violated
the fundamental rules of international humanitarian law.


So
why is it that I keep having to write about this issue to urge world
leaders to act?


It
seems that many countries are simply turning a blind eye —
unconcerned even — to the consequences that their arms sales to
Saudi Arabia have created. Several EU countries, for example, are
still supplying Saudi Arabia with weapons, military aircraft,
firearms and even cluster-bombs that are later used to kill
civilians.


This
must end now.

Back
in 2016, the European Parliament issued a resolution asking the High
Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
and the Vice President of the Commission to impose an EU arms embargo
against Saudi Arabia. But since then, nothing has changed.

But
people still die in Yemen, and the surviving population faces a huge
humanitarian and health crisis.

It’s
well past time to stop all of this and for the European Union to act
and set an example for the rest of the world. Please sign the
petition to ask the EU to stop selling any kind of weapon to Saudi
Arabia NOW!

Thank
you,

Alex
B.
The Care2 Petitions Team.

Hier
de iets hardere tekst bij de petitie, waar onmiddellijk de
reli-fascistische politiestaat Saoedi-Arabië als grote dader wordt
aangewezen:

Since
the beginning of the Yemen civil war in March 2015, Saudi Arabia has
been one of the first supporters of Hadi’s Government. During the
years, the Saudi Arabian-led bombing of Yemen has had a devastating
impact, killing thousands of civilians and destroying essential
infrastructures.

There’s evidence that the different
attacks in Yemen, have violated the fundamental rules of
international humanitarian law
.

Unconcerned
about this issue, many EU Countries are still supplying Saudi Arabia
with weapons, military aircraft, firearms and even cluster-bombs.

In
Italy, a law restricts any arms trade with countries involved in a
conflict. As a consequence, on July 17th of this year, the Italian
Parliament debated on the Yemen crisis and agreed with the Government
that a common solution, concertized under the aegis of the European
Union, has to be found in order to ban weapons trade to Saudi Arabia.

Indeed,
the European Parliament on February 25th 2016 had already
approved this with a large majority, a resolution to ask the High
Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
and Vice President of the Commission, Federica Mogherini, 
to
launch an initiative aimed at imposing an EU arms embargo against
Saudi Arabia.

Since
then, nothing changed!

People
still die in Yemen, while the surviving population is facing up to a
huge humanitarian and health crisis. NGOs and UN agencies cannot give
any support to the population as their personnel is constantly under
attack by the Hadi coalition.

It is time to STOP all of this!!

Ask
the High Representative, Federica Mogherini, and all the Foreign
Secretaries/Ministers of the EU Member States to 
stop
selling any kind of weapon to Saudi Arabia NOW!

=================================

Overigens lullig dat Alex B. van het Care2 team, de smerige oorlog van S-A tegen Jemen, eufemistisch aanduidt als een ‘conflict……’ Ach het zit in de hersenen gespoeld, met de leugens die de reguliere media en de politiek dagelijks over ons uitstorten……….

Zie ook: ‘Genocide op Houthi’s in Jemen: daders Saoedi-Arabië, de VS en de Arabische Emiraten………….

       en: ‘Media Silent As Saudi Arabia Devastates Yemen Into Famine

       en: ‘Giro 555: honger en oorlog in Jemen: waarom worden Saoedi-Arabië, de VS en GB niet aan de paal genageld wegens enorme oorlogsmisdaden??’

       en: ‘Jemen: hongersnood veroorzaakt door Saoedi-Arabië en VS >> weg de aandacht van westerse reguliere media en politici………

       en: ‘Mad dog Mattis stuurt nog meer VS militairen richting Jemen, zodat de hongersnood daar nog ‘meer vruchten’ kan afwerpen……

       en: ‘Jemen: elke 10 minuten sterft een kind onnodig >> verantwoordelijken: Saoedi-Arabië, de VS en GB

        en: ‘Saoedische coalitie vermoord met 2 bombardementen op Jemen, 9 vrouwen en 1 kind……… Aanvallen gesteund door het westen…….

        en: ‘Jemen en Saoedi-Arabië: leugens van de ‘onafhankelijke’ NOS voor ‘het goede doel……….’

        en: ‘Ploumen acht het mogelijk dat Nederlandse wapensystemen worden gebruikt door S.A. in Jemen…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

        en: ‘Saoedi-Arabië bombardeert begrafenis ceremonie in Jemen, VS ‘heroverweegt’ wapenleveranties………

        en: ‘Witte Huis juristen waarschuwden Obama al in 2015 voor aanklachten wegens oorlogsmisdaden

        en: (met mogelijkheid tot vertaling in ‘Dutch’): ‘U.S. and U.K. Continue to Participate in War Crimes, Targeting of Yemeni Civilians

        en: ‘VS heeft reden gefabriceerd om de Houthi rebellen in Jemen te bombarderen…….

        en: ‘Ali Al Shihabi: Saoedi-Arabie begaat geen oorlogsmisdaden in Jemen……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

        en: ‘Merkel verrader van haar seksegenoten in S-A en ondersteuner grootschalige Saoedische terreur in Jemen…… Voorwaar een prestatie van formaat!!

       en: ‘Saoedi-Arabië moordt eigen sjiitische burgers uit….. Tijd voor een handelsdelegatie met Koenders, Rutte en W.A.!!

       en: ‘Jemen 300.000 cholera patiënten en de valse berichtgeving door de westerse reguliere media…….‘ 

       en: ‘BBC met opmerkelijk nieuws uit Jemen: een openbare executie, maar geen woord over de honger en de cholera veroorzaakt door S-A……..

       en: ‘Trump steunt Saoedi-Arabië verder in haar barbaarse terreur tegen het verhongerende Jemenitische volk, o.a. met een enorme wapendeal……

      en: ‘BBC leugens, ofwel ‘fake news’ over de smerige oorlog tegen het volk van Jemen……

       en: ‘Alan Johnston (BBC): de cholera uitbraak in Jemen is te danken aan de burgeroorlog…… AUW!!

      en: ‘Jemen ‘kerstweek bombardementen’: meer dan 100 vermoorde burgers, de daders >> de Saoedische coalitie o.l.v. de VS……

Weke partij in de VS staat meer achter Israël? Een cartoon!

  46 minutes ago

Which party in the US is more pro-?
( )
( )
( ) Both!
Via

Venezuela ontwricht, wat de reguliere media u niet vertellen……..

Venezuela is zwaar ontwricht, dit zou volgens de reguliere zogenaamd onafhankelijke media de schuld zijn van president Maduro, maar wat u niet zal horen of lezen in dezelfde media, is de echte oorzaak van alle ellende: een smerige economische oorlog van de VS tegen het Maduro bewind in Caracas. Al in 2015 werden winkelketens van VS bedrijven (veelal supermarkten) slecht of niet bevoorraad, een direct gevolg van het agressieve Obama beleid. Deze winkels staan nu al voor meer dan een jaar leeg, waardoor er flinke tekorten zijn……

Uiteraard is het de bedoeling dat hierdoor een opstand uitbreekt, echter daar heeft de VS het geduld niet voor, dus heeft de CIA de oppositie voor haar kar gespannen en samen hebben ze deze opstand op poten gezet (benieuwd wat e.e.a. gekost heeft, voor de opstand met eenzelfde opzet in Oekraïne gaf Hillary Clinton daar maar liefs 4 miljard dollar aan uit….)…

Volgens de reguliere ‘onafhankelijke’ media treedt het Venezolaanse bewind keihard op tegen de demonstranten en zouden er daardoor doden zijn gevallen, echter het omgekeerde is waar, het geweld komt in hoofdzaak van de (veelal ultrarechtse) demonstranten en omgekochte jongeren……….

Lees het volgende artikel waarin links (en ‘humane mensen’ die verder nadenken dan hun neus lang is) terecht wordt opgeroepen zich achter de regering Maduro te stellen. Oordeel zelf, onder het artikel kan u klikken voor een vertaling (voor meer berichten over Venezuela, klik op de link onder het artikel en/of klik op het label met die naam, direct onder dit bericht):

Time
for the International Left to Take a Stand on Venezuela

By
Gregory Wilpert

July
16, 2017 “Information
Clearing House
” –  The mainstream media consistently
fails to report who is instigating the violence in this conflict.

Venezuela
is heading towards an increasingly dangerous situation, in which open
civil war could become a real possibility. So far over 100 people
have been killed as a result of street protests, most of these deaths
are the fault of the protesters themselves (to the extent that we
know the cause).

The
possibility of civil war becomes more likely as long as the
international media obscure who is responsible for the violence and
the international left remains on the sidelines in this conflict and
fails to show solidarity with the Bolivarian socialist movement in
Venezuela.

If
the international left receives its news about Venezuela primarily
from the international media, it is understandable why it is being so
quiet. After all, this mainstream media consistently fails to report
who is instigating the violence in this conflict.

For
example, a follower of CNN or the New York Times would not know that
of the 103 who have been killed as a result of street protests, 27
were the direct or indirect result of the protesters themselves. 

Another 14 were the result of lootings; in one prominent case,
because looters set fire to a store and ended up getting engulfed in
the flames themselves. Fourteen deaths are attributable to the
actions of state authorities (where in almost all cases those
responsible have been charged), and 44 are still under investigation
or in dispute. This is according to data from the office of the
Attorney General, which itself has recently become pro-opposition.

Also
unknown to most consumers of the international media would be that
opposition protesters detonated a bomb in the heart of Caracas on
July 11, wounding seven National Guard soldiers or that a building
belonging to the Supreme Court was burnt by opposition protesters on
June 12th or that opposition protesters attacked a maternity hospital
on May 17. 

In
other words, it is possible that much of the international left has
been misled about the violence in Venezuela; thinking that the
government is the only one responsible, that President Nicolas Maduro
has declared himself to be dictator for life (though he has actually
confirmed that the presidential elections scheduled for late 2018
will proceed as planned), or that all dissent is punishable with
prison (disputed by major opposition leader, Leopoldo Lopez – who
was partly responsible for the post-election violence in 2014 –
recently being released from prison and placed under house arrest).

If
this is the reason for the silence on Venezuela, then the left should
be ashamed for not having read its own critiques of the mainstream
media.

All
of the foregoing does not contradict that there are plenty of places
where one might criticize the Maduro Government for having made
mistakes with regard to how it has handled the current situation,
both economically and politically. However, criticisms – of which I
have made several myself – do not justify taking either a neutral
or pro-opposition stance in this momentous conflict. As South African
anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu once said, “If you are neutral
in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the
oppressor.” 

Perhaps
the Venezuelan case is also confusing to outsiders because President
Maduro is in power and the opposition is not. It could thus be
difficult to see the opposition as being an “oppressor.”

However,
for an internationalist left, it should not be so confusing. After
all, the opposition in Venezuela receives significant support not
only from private businesses but also the U.S. Government,
the international right and transnational capital.

Perhaps
progressives feel that the Maduro Government has lost all democratic
legitimacy and that this is why they cannot support it. According to
the mainstream media coverage, Maduro canceled regional elections
scheduled for December 2016, prevented the recall referendum from
happening and neutralized the National Assembly.

Let’s
take a brief look at each of these claims one by one. 

First,
regional elections (state governors and mayors) were indeed supposed
to take place in late 2016, but the National Electoral Council (CNE)
postponed them with the argument that political parties needed to
re-register first. Leaving aside the validity of this argument, the
CNE rescheduled the elections recently for December 2017. This
postponement of a scheduled election is not unprecedented in
Venezuela because it happened before, back in 2004, when local
elections were postponed for a full year. Back then, at the height of
President Hugo Chavez’s power; hardly anyone objected.

As
for the recall referendum, it was well known that it would take
approximately ten months to organize between its initiation and its
culmination. However, the opposition initiated the process in April
2016, far too late for the referendum to take place in 2016 as they
wanted. If it takes place in 2017, there would be no new presidential
election – according to the constitution – and the
vice-president would take over for the remainder of the term.

Finally,
with regard to the disqualification of the National Assembly, this
was another self-inflicted wound on the part of the opposition. That
is, even though the opposition had won 109 out of 167 seats (65%)
outright, they insisted on swearing in three opposition members whose
election was in dispute because of fraud claims.

As
a result, the Supreme Court ruled that until these three members are
removed, most decisions of the national assembly would not be valid.

In
other words, none of the arguments against the democratic legitimacy
of the Maduro Government hold much water. Moreover, polls repeatedly
indicate that even though Maduro is fairly unpopular, a majority of
Venezuelans want him to finish his term in office, which expires in
January 2019. As a matter of fact, Maduro’s popularity (24% in
March, 2017) is not as low as several other conservative presidents
in Latin America at the moment, such as that of Mexico’s Enrique
Pena Nieto (17% in March, 2017), Brazil’s Michel Temer (7% in June,
2017) or Colombia’s Juan Manuel Santos (14% in June, 2017). 

Now
that we have addressed the possible reasons the international left
has been reluctant to show solidarity with the Maduro Government and
the Bolivarian socialist movement, we need to examine what
“neutrality” in this situation would end up meaning – in other
words, what allowing the opposition to come to power via an illegal
and violent transition would mean. 

First
and foremost, their coming to power will almost certainly mean that
all Chavistas – whether they currently support President Maduro or
not – will become targets for persecution. Although it was a long
time ago, many Chavistas have not forgotten the “Caracazo” –
when in February 1989, then-president Carlos Andres Perez meted out
retaliation on poor neighborhoods for protesting against his
government and wantonly killed somewhere between 400 and 1,000
people. More recently, during a short-lived coup against President
Chávez in April 2002 the current opposition showed it was more than
willing to unleash reprisals against Chavistas.

Most
do not know this, but during the two-day coup over 60 Chavistas were
killed in Venezuela – not including the 19 killed, on both sides of
the political divide, in the lead-up to the coup. The post-election
violence of April 2013 left 7 dead, and the Guarimbas of February to
April 2014 left 43 dead. Although the death count in each of these
cases represented a mix of opposition supporters, Chavistas and
non-involved bystanders; the majority belonged to the Chavista side
of the political divide.

Now,
during the most recent wave of guarimbas, there have also been
several incidents in which a Chavista, who was near an opposition
protest, was chased and killed because protesters recognized them to
be a Chavista in some way. 

In
other words, the danger that Chavistas will be generally persecuted
if the opposition should take over the government is very real. Even
though the opposition includes reasonable individuals who would not
support such a persecution, the current leadership of the opposition
has done nothing to rein in the fascist tendencies within its own
ranks. If anything, they have encouraged these tendencies.

Second,
even though the opposition has not published a concrete plan for what
it intends to do once in government – which is also one of the
reasons the opposition remains almost as unpopular as the government
– individual statements by opposition leaders indicate that they
would immediately proceed to implement a neoliberal economic program
along the lines of President Michel Temer in Brazil or Mauricio Macri
in Argentina. They might succeed in reducing inflation and shortages
this way, but at the expense of eliminating subsidies and social
programs for the poor across the board. Also, they would roll back
all of the policies supporting communal councils and communes that
have been a cornerstone of participatory democracy in the Bolivarian
revolution.

So,
instead of silence, neutrality or indecision from the
international left in the current conflict in Venezuela, what is
needed is active solidarity with the Bolivarian socialist movement.
Such solidarity means vehemently opposing all efforts to overthrow
the government of President Maduro during his current term in office.
Aside from the patent illegality that overthrowing the Maduro
Government would represent, it would also literally be a deadly blow
to Venezuela’s socialist movement and to the legacy of President
Chavez. The international left does not even need to take a position
on whether the proposed constitutional assembly or negotiations with
the opposition is the best way to resolve the current crisis. 


That is
really up to Venezuelans to decide. Opposing intervention and
disseminating information on what is actually happening in Venezuela,
though, are the two things where non-Venezuelans can play a
constructive role. 


Gregory
Wilpert is the author of Changing Venezuela by Taking Power: The
History and Policies of the Chávez Government (Verso Books, 2007)


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Hier de link naar het originele bericht, waarin ook 2 video’s die ik niet kan overnemen, één met een pro-Maduro demo en een ander met de bekentenis van een tiener, die toegeeft betaald te zijn om te gaan demonstreren en geweld te gebruiken.

Zie ook: ‘Venezuela moet en zal ‘verlost’ worden van Maduro, met ‘oh wonder’ een dikke rol van de VS en de reguliere westerse media

       en: ‘Venezolaanse regering treedt terecht op tegen de uiterst gewelddadige oppositie!!

       en: ‘Venezuela:
Target of Economic Warfare

 
     
en:
Venezuela’s
US-Backed Opposition Turns Up The Violence Following Assembly
Vote

 
     
en:
10
Things You Need to Know About the Terrorist Attack in Venezuela

 
     
en:
Venezuelans
in the Streets to Support Constituent Assembly

 
     
en:
What
Mainstream Media Got Wrong About Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly
Vote

(met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)

 
     
en:
The
Left and Venezuela

(met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)

       en: ‘Venezuela: ‘studentenprotest’ wordt uitgevoerd door ingehuurde troepen………

       en: ‘Rondje Venezuela schoppen op Radio1………

      en: ‘Karabulut (SP) blij dat ze Maduro eindelijk ook kan schoppen………

      en: ‘EU neemt uiterst hypocriet sancties tegen de Venezolaanse regering Maduro………

      en: ‘Abby Martin Busts Open Myths on Venezuela’s Food Crisis: ‘Shelves Fully Stocked’‘ (zie ook de video in dat artikel!)

      en: ‘Venezuela: VS verandering van regime mislukt >> de Venezolanen wacht een VS invasie

      en: ‘Venezuela: de anti-propaganda van John Oliver (en het grootste deel westerse massamedia) feilloos doorgeprikt

       en: ‘Trump wilde naast de economische oorlogsvoering tegen Venezuela dat land daadwerkelijk militair aanvallen……

Mijn excuus voor de vormgeving.

Alan Johnston (BBC): de cholera uitbraak in Jemen is te danken aan de burgeroorlog…… AUW!!

Op zaterdag 9 juli jl., in het BBC World Service nieuws van 14.00 u. het bericht, dat het Rode Kruis een schatting heeft gemaakt van het aantal cholera patiënten, dat waren er toen 300.000!! Dagelijks zijn daar sindsdien 7.000 gevallen aan toegevoegd……

Alan Johnston deed verslag (i.d.d. dezelfde BBC correspondent die een tijd lang werd gegijzeld), overigens niet vanuit Jemen, waarvandaan ik hem nog nooit verslag heb horen doen.

Volgens Johnston is de cholera uitbraak in Jemen te danken aan de ‘burgeroorlog’, waarbij waterzuiveringsinstallaties en verdere watervoorzieningen  werden getroffen en daarmee de watertoevoer werd afgesloten…..

Dat laatste was overigens niet van Johnston. Burgeroorlog? Een oorlog van Saoedi-Arabië tegen de sjiitische bevolking van Jemen zal hij bedoelen, zonder die reli-fascistische terreurstaat was er geen oorlog in Jemen geweest, hooguit de (eertijds succesvolle) strijd van de Houthi’s tegen IS en Al Qaida en wie kan daar nu op tegen zijn? Juist, Saoedi-Arabië en de VS!!

Die 2 landen houden namelijk de leugen in de lucht, als zou Iran het hebben voorzien op Jemen, Iran een land dat zelfs na de islamitische revolutie niet één ander land aanviel…….. Overigens een leugen van S-A en de VS waarvoor geen nanometer bewijs is geleverd…..

Saoedi-Arabië heeft de laatste jaren niet anders gedaan dan het bombarderen van publieke voorzieningen zoals scholen, ziekenhuizen, elektriciteitscentrales en zoals gezegd watervoorzieningen ……….. Dit ‘uiteraard’ naast het bombarderen van woonwijken en moskeeën…….. Al deze zaken worden als ernstige oorlogsmisdaden gezien (hoewel het er aan ligt wie het heeft gedaan, zo zal de NAVO nooit beschuldigd worden van oorlogsmisdaden..)…….

Hetzelfde Saoedi-Arabië, dat NB de zelf opgestapte Jemenitische president dwong zijn functie weer op te nemen, zodat hij daarna de hulp van hen in kon roepen………..*

Jemen het land dat al zucht onder een hongersnood, ook al het gevolg van die illegale oorlog, plus VS en Saoedische blokkades van water, voedsel, medicijnen en brandstof……. Waar blijft de hysterische Nederlandse massamedia met een roep om terreurentiteiten S-A en de VS nu eens eindelijk aan te pakken???

Het handelen van S-A kan niet anders gezien worden dan een genocide op de sjiitische bevolking van Jemen en weer kijkt de wereld weg……

* Zie: ‘Jemen en Saoedi-Arabië: leugens van de ‘onafhankelijke’ NOS voor ‘het goede doel……….’

Zie
ook: ‘
Jemen:
het westen ‘is blind’ voor de terreur die Saoedi-Arabië met steun
van de VS en GB uitoefent in dat land…..
 
     

en:
Ploumen
acht het mogelijk dat Nederlandse wapensystemen worden gebruikt door
S.A. in Jemen…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
 
     

en:
Saoedi-Arabië
bombardeert begrafenis ceremonie in Jemen, VS ‘heroverweegt’
wapenleveranties………
 
    

  en:
Witte
Huis juristen waarschuwden Obama al in 2015 voor aanklachten wegens
oorlogsmisdaden
 
  

    en:
(met mogelijkheid tot vertaling): ‘
U.S.
and U.K. Continue to Participate in War Crimes, Targeting of Yemeni
Civilians
 

       en:
VS
heeft reden gefabriceerd om de Houthi rebellen in Jemen te
bombarderen…….

   

        en: ‘Jemen 300.000 cholera patiënten en de valse berichtgeving door de westerse reguliere media……. 

       en: ‘Trump steunt Saoedi-Arabië verder in haar barbaarse terreur tegen het verhongerende Jemenitische volk, o.a. met een enorme wapendeal……

      en: ‘BBC leugens, ofwel ‘fake news’ over de smerige oorlog tegen het volk van Jemen……

       en:
Genocide
op Houthi’s in Jemen: daders Saoedi-Arabië, de VS en de Arabische
Emiraten………….

       en:
Ali
Al Shihabi: Saoedi-Arabie begaat geen oorlogsmisdaden in Jemen…….
ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
‘ 

Mijn excuus voor de vormgeving.

Qatar boycot ingegeven door Jared Kushner……

De schoonzoon van Trump, Jared Kushner is de grote gangmaker achter de boycot ingesteld op Qatar door Saoedi-Arabië, Egypte, de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten (VAE) en Bahrein.

Topgraaier Kushner kocht met een enorme berg geleend geld, op het verkeerde moment (in 2007) een wolkenkrabber in New York. Nadat de crisis in 2008 losbarstte, moest Kushner een flink deel van het gebouw verkopen. Om de rest van de schuld te kunnen betalen, zocht hij geld in o.a. Qatar dat hem een lening van 500 miljoen dollar in het vooruitzicht stelde.

Sjeik Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani (HBJ) uit Qatar wilde hem 500 miljoen dollar lenen, als hij inderdaad zou worden gekozen als adviseur van het Witte Huis. Ook een Chinees staatsbedrijf wilde investeren in de wolkenkrabber. Echter nadat Kushner zijn adviseursaanstelling kreeg, trok het Chinese bedrijf zich terug vanwege vermeende belangenverstrengeling.

Als reactie op die beslissing, trok ook de sjeik uit Qatar zich terug uit het ‘project’.

The Intercept meldde dat Kushner het Witte Huis adviseerde op te treden tegen Qatar, hoewel er geen hard bewijs is, dat e.e.a. met de beslissing van de sjeik te maken had, is het wel duidelijk dat het één met het ander te maken heeft…… Met andere woorden: ook hier heeft de VS de lont in het kruitvat gestoken…..

Het volgende bericht, gepubliceerd door Anti-Media, is grotendeels gebaseerd op het artikel van The Intercept (in het bericht vind je de link naar dat artikel):

Jared
Kushner ‘Sought $500 Million From Qatar for Skyscraper Bailout’

July
11, 2017 at 4:24 am

Written
by 
Middle
East Eye

(MEE) — Jared
Kushner, the son-in-law to US President Donald Trump and a senior
White House adviser, sought a $500m investment from Qatar for a New
York skyscraper shortly before the diplomatic crisis between Qatar
and a host of other countries, according to an 
Intercept
article
 on
Monday.

The
account raises suspicions that Trump’s foreign policy is related to
the family’s business interests.

Citing
unidentified sources that reportedly had knowledge of the proposed
bailout, the Intercept reported that Kushner tried to shore up
funding from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani (HBJ) after the
skyscraper’s value plummeted from the real estate crisis in 2008.
Kushner had bought the building in 2007 – when he was 26 – for
$500m out of his family’s pocket and $1.3bn in borrowed money.

However,
the real estate crisis forced Kushner to sell off a sizeable chunk of
their office space in the building as part of a financial package;
but in order to pay back those who originally borrowed money, he must
have $1.3bn by early next year. According to a 
New
York Magazine report
,
if Kushner “can’t find some new scheme for refinancing and
redeveloping the property by then, [he] will have cost his family
half a billion dollars”.

After
the election, investors appeared to be willing to bail out Kushner’s
skyscraper fiasco.

HBJ
reportedly agreed to invest $500m in the severely debt-ridden
property as long as Kushner was able to raise the rest of the money,
which he could do when he became a senior White House adviser,
according to the Intercept article.

A
Chinese company with ties to members of the country’s ruling party
was also willing to shore up $400m in March, but had decided to back
out in March over a “conflict of interest” that consisted of “a
company with ties to the Chinese government going into [big] business
with the family of a senior adviser to the American one”.

When
the Chinese company exited, so did HBJ.

Months
later in June, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and
Bahrain cut off all air, land and sea links to Qatar. Trump sided
with the four-nation coalition, saying that the tiny petro-chemical
nation funded terrorism.

The
Intercept reported that Kushner played a key role in the White
House’s hardline stance against Qatar, but it did not establish a
link whether Kushner’s role had anything to do with the failed
skyscraper bailout.

By MEE
staff
 /
Republished with permission / 
Middle
East Eye
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