Putin waarschuwt voor een planetaire nucleaire catastrofe en roept om vreedzame diplomatie met Noord-Korea

Putin heeft zich gevoegd bij de leiders met verstand, die roepen om een diplomatieke oplossing met Noord-Korea, i.p.v. het roepen om militaire actie tegen het bewind in Pyongyang……. Dit n.a.v. de laatste ‘kernproef’ (dat is nog steeds de vraag) die Noord-Korea uitvoerde.

Militaire hysterie zal leiden tot een wereldwijde planetaire catastrofe, aldus Putin, die vergeleken met de westerse leiders, zeker die in de VS, een diplomaat van formaat is. Er is maar één oplossing voor dit conflict en dat is een vreedzame, aldus de woorden van Putin samenvattend en gelijk heeft hij!!

Dit terwijl Trump ‘alle opties’ (inclusief militair ingrijpen) openhoudt en zijn psychopathische minister van defensie ‘mad dog’ Mattis ronduit dreigt met militair ingrijpen als Noord-Korea de VS en haar bondgenoten blijft bedreigen…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Hare VS kwaadaardigheid Nikki Haley durfde afgelopen maandag in de VN Veiligheidsraad re zeggen, dat Noord-Korea om oorlog bedelt en dat er geen ruimte meer is voor diplomatie…….. M.a.w. ze stelt onomwonden dat Noord-Korea militair aangevallen moet worden…… Daar kan je de conclusie aan verbinden dat de VS dit zal doen, mocht de VN daar geen toestemming voor geven middels een resolutie………..

Welk ‘land’ op onze kleine aarde is vanaf WOII een continu gevaar voor de vrede en het voorbestaan van vele miljoenen mensen?? Juist: de VS!! Dit ‘land’ maakte vanaf het eind van die wereldoorlog al meer dan 22 miljoen dodelijke slachtoffers, ofwel vermoordde 22 miljoen mensen. Dit middels: -illegale oorlogen (nu veelal met hulp van de NAVO), -geheime militaire acties o.l.v. de CIA, -door de CIA georganiseerde opstanden en tenslotte -het plegen, dan wel regisseren van staatsgrepen (vaak voorafgaand door één van die opstanden, neem: Libië, Oekraïne en Syrië……)

Onder die 22 miljoen vermoorde mensen, ook 20% van de Noord-Koreaanse bevolking, die omkwamen tijdens de Koreaanse Oorlog (van juni 1950 tot eind juli 1953). De VS bombardeerde het land letterlijk plat, zo plat dat er op een geven moment geen doelen over waren om te bombarderen……..

Putin noemde overigens Irak en Libië als voorbeelden die het Noord-Koreaanse bewind nog meer hebben gestimuleerd een atoombom te ontwikkelen, immers gesloten akkoorden zijn van nul en generlei waarde, als het aan de VS ligt…..

Nogmaals: de VS is de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, dat heeft het ‘land’ uit en te na bewezen!! Dezelfde VS dat NB als eerste en enige het atoomwapen tegen burgers gebruikte……… Hoe bedoelt u: Noord-Korea heeft niets te vrezen???

Warning
of ‘Planetary Catastrophe,’ Putin Joins Calls for Diplomacy With
North Korea

September
5, 2017 at 8:58 am

Written
by 
Jake
Johnson

There
is no other way to solve the North Korean nuclear issue, save that of
peaceful dialogue.”

(COMMONDREAMS) — As
tensions continue to flare following North Korea’s claim Sunday
that it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb capable of being placed
on an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), Russian President
Vladimir Putin on Tuesday 
joined
urgent calls
 for
deescalation and diplomacy, deeming the military option “a dead
end.”

Ramping
up military hysteria in such conditions is senseless,”
Putin 
told reporters
at the end of the 2017 BRICS Summit in Xiamen, China.

It
could lead to a global, planetary catastrophe and a huge loss of
human life,” Putin concluded. “There is no other way to solve the
North Korean nuclear issue, save that of peaceful dialogue.”

Putin
went on to argue that U.S. interventions in Iraq and Libya have
convinced Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, that nuclear weapons
are a necessary deterrent.

The
Russian president’s comments come as U.S. President Donald Trump
continues to insist that “all options are on the table” when it
comes to North Korea—a position echoed by U.S. Defense Secretary
James Mattis, who 
warned Sunday
of a “massive military response” if North Korea continues to
threaten the U.S. and its allies.

On
Monday, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley 
said Monday
during an emergency meeting of the National Security Council that the
Kim Jong-un regime is “begging for war,” adding:

There
is no more road left” for diplomacy.

Activists
and analysts have insisted that this is far from the case, and that
diplomacy is the only way to avoid a “
nuclear
nightmare
.”

The
best option to stop North Korea’s nuclear weapons program are
political talks,” 
concluded Paul
Kawika Martin, senior director of policy and political affairs at
Peace Action. “Clearly bloviating and sanctions are failing.”

The
Ploughshares Fund, an anti-nuclear weapons group,
agreed, 
declaring Sunday
that “the case for diplomacy is overwhelming.”

By Jake
Johnson
 / Creative
Commons
 / Common
Dreams
 / Report
a typo

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Zie ook: ‘Noord-Korea heeft meermaals aangeboden haar kernwapenprogramma te stoppen, ofwel wat de media verzwijgen……

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


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

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

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

        en: ‘Raketwetenschappers over Noord-Korea’s kernraketten bluf en angstzaaierij in de VS……

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

      en:  ‘Korea, Afghanistan and the Never Ending War Trap‘ (met ook daaronder een mogelijkheid tot vertaling)

Koenders (PvdA): de Noord-Koreaanse kernproef is een roekeloze provocatie……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Hoorde zojuist in het BNR nieuws van 16.00 u., dat de disfunctionerende PvdA jaknikker Koenders de laatste kernproef van Noord-Korea heeft veroordeeld, met o.a de uitlating dat dit een roekeloze provocatie is……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Een ‘roekeloze provocatie?’ En wie wordt er dan geprovoceerd Koenders? Japan, dat als een beest heeft huisgehouden in o.a. Noord-Korea? Of de VS dat tijdens de Koreaanse Oorlog 20% van de Noord-Koreaanse bevolking uitmoordde en het land zo heftig bombardeerde dat er geen doelen over waren om te bombarderen, hele steden werden letterlijk platgegooid………

En Koenders wat vindt je van de jaarlijkse provocatie door datzelfde VS en Zuid-Korea voor de grenzen en territoriale wateren van Noord-Korea, met een enorme militaire oefening??? Heb jij je daar ooit over uitgelaten, vuile hypocriet!!

Het ontgaat de rest van de politieke westerse zwetskonten als Koenders, dat de VS het grootste gevaar voor de wereldvrede is, deze grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, heeft vanaf WOII tot nu al meer dan 22 miljoen mensen vermoord: -in illegale oorlogen, -tijdens geheime militaire acties o.l.v. de CIA en -tijdens door de VS georganiseerde opstanden en staatsgrepen………. Om nog maar te zwijgen over de boycot van Irak in de 90er jaren en het begin van deze eeuw, wat aan meer dan 500.000 kinderen het leven heeft gekost…….. Gaat wel even verder dan een roekeloze provocatie, vind je ook niet Koenders?? Hypocriete koekwaus!

Noord-Korea heeft goed gezien wat er kan gebeuren als je geen kernwapens hebt, neem alleen al de illegale oorlogen van de VS tegen Irak en Libië………..

De hoogste tijd dat de VS voor het Internationaal strafhof wordt gedaagd wegens oorlogsmisdaden, massamoord (ook de massamoorden middels atoombommen), marteling, ontvoering, illegale gijzeling en ga nog maar even door!!

Hé Koenders waar blijf je trouwens met je commentaar op Saoedi-Arabië, dat bezig is met een genocide op de sjiitische bevolking in Jemen? Smerige volksverlakker!!

Zie ook mijn eerdere bricht van deze dag: ‘Van Baalen (VVD): Noord-Korea is een gevaar voor de wereld…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

       en: ‘Noord-Korea heeft meermaals aangeboden haar kernwapenprogramma te stoppen, ofwel wat de media verzwijgen……

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

Van Baalen (VVD): Noord-Korea is een gevaar voor de wereld…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Eén van de bolle blaaskaken die misdadigers partij VVD rijk is, Hans ‘Horst Wessel’ van Baalen, goed bevriend met Oekraïense neonazi’s, liet gistermorgen weten, dat Noord-Korea een gevaar is voor de wereld, aldus de bolknak in Standpunt NL op Radio1…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Dacht toch echt dat Noord-Korea in Azië ligt en niet in Noord-Amerika. Als van Baalen hetzelfde over de VS had gezegd, zou ik helemaal met ‘m meegaan. Immers de VS heeft vanaf 1945 tot nu toe al meer dan 22 miljoen slachtoffers gemaakt, ofwel meer dan 22 miljoen mensen vermoord. Dit in illegale oorlogen, geheime militaire CIA acties, staatsgrepen en door de CIA georganiseerde opstanden…….*

Van Baalen zei e.e.a. naar aanleiding van de laatste ‘kernproef’ die Noord-Korea heeft uitgevoerd…** Van Baalen, oorlogshitser en grootlobbyist van het militair-industrieel complex (zoals al zijn VVD collega’s) kwam er even lekker angst inpompen bij de luisteraars, vandaar dat het ‘gevaarlijk’ al snel veranderde in ‘levensgevaarlijk…..’ Levensgevaarlijk voor ons en voor Europa, aldus de volksverlakker…..

Van Baalen wil toch sancties, ook al helpen die niet en treffen ze juist de bevolking van Noord-Korea, daar heeft hij geen moeite mee……… Landen die de boycot van N-K niet serieus nemen, moeten aangepakt worden, aldus de volksverlakker en u had het vast al geraden, dat zijn volgens de mislukte zakkenwasser met name: Rusland en China…. Dat in Noord-Korea heel veel producten worden gemaakt voor onze elektronica markt, is de papzak waarschijnlijk niet eens bekend…… Ach, de bedrijven die daarvan profiteren, houden wijselijk de mond wel dicht. Korea het land waar westerse bedrijven hun producten laten maken tegen uitermate lage loonkosten en waar je als bedrijf geen maatregelen hoeft te nemen, die het milieu ten goede komen; zeg maar het ideale land voor de VVD!!

Uiteraard is het niet de bedoeling dat de fascistische junta van Oekraïne wordt gestraft voor de levering van raketmotoren aan Noord-Korea, immers van Baalen is goed bevriend met deze fascisten in Kiev…… U begreep vast al dat dit feit niet eens werd genoemd in Standpunt NL……

Beste bezoeker, dat was het nog niet: van Baalen wil ook militaire acties tegen Noord-Korea en ach als daar een nucleaire oorlog van het westen tegen Rusland en China van komt, jammer dan, voor van Baalen is er wel plek in een schuilkelder, ook al neemt hij ruimte in voor 2 personen……..

Afgelopen zondag was Remco Breuker te gast in OVT op Radio1, ook deze ‘Koreakenner’ en historicus stelde dat hem de angst om het hart sloeg, toen hij hoorde van de laatste Noord-Koreaanse ‘kernproef…..’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Breuker had er geen verstand van, zo zei hij, maar herhaalde wat Japan over de explosie had gezegd: het was een gefaseerde thermonucleaire ontploffing, al zouden Japanse vliegtuigen nog onderzoek doen naar nucleaire straling boven het testgebied……. M.a.w.: Japan stelt dat het een geslaagde nucleaire explosie was, terwijl het niet weet of er straling is vrijgekomen boven het testgebied, dat tot dagen na de explosie kan worden gemeten…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! (als die straling niet te meten is, heeft er geen kernexplosie plaatsgevonden…….)

De vreselijk monkelende sufferd en namaak humorist, die godbetert OVT mag presenteren, Jos Palm, merkte op dat hij het niet helemaal begreep: Noord-Korea is als een kleine jongen die maar doordramt, die moet je een klap geven! Uiteraard weet de nitwit niet wat het zou betekenen als de VS besluit Noord-Korea aan te vallen en deze flapdrol werkt voor de eens progressieve omroep VPRO…….. Heeft deze klootzak eigenlijk kinderen? Alsof het normaal is om kinderen te slaan, jezus!!

*  Zie: ‘From Wounded Knee to Syria: A Century of US Military Interventions

** Kon gisteravond geen bevestiging vinden voor meting van radioactieve straling boven de plak waar ‘de kernproef’  plaatsvond……. Alleen daarmee kan worden bewezen dat Noord-Korea inderdaad beschikt over atoombommen. Die bevestiging war er tot nu toe nooit, zo bezien zou je kunnen spreken van een potje blufpoker, die voor beide partijen interessant is: voor de VS die maar wat graag roept dat Noord-Korea een gevaar is, daarmee kan het militair-industrieel complex immers nog meer winsten maken. Wat Noord-Korea betreft, dat land wil een atoombom daar het als de dood is voor de VS die in de Koreaanse Oorlog maar liefst 20% van de bevolking uitroeide en het hele land letterlijk plat heeft gebombardeerd, als men internationaal stelt dat N-K een geslaagde test uitvoerde, hoeft het land niet eens atoomwapens te bezitten…….. Lullig dan wel voor Noord-Korea dat de westerse geheime diensten wel degelijk van dit feit (als het dat is) op de hoogte zijn en weten dat N-K niet kan terugslaan met kernwapens, mocht het land worden aangevallen door de uiterst agressieve VS……..

Zie ook: ‘Noord-Korea heeft meermaals aangeboden haar kernwapenprogramma te stoppen, ofwel wat de media verzwijgen……


       en: ‘Putin waarschuwt voor een planetaire nucleaire catastrofe en roept om vreedzame diplomatie met Noord-Korea

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

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

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

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

        en: ‘Raketwetenschappers over Noord-Korea’s kernraketten bluf en angstzaaierij in de VS……

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       en:  ‘Korea, Afghanistan and the Never Ending War Trap‘ (met ook daaronder een mogelijkheid tot vertaling)

(Voor meer berichten met Jos Palm, klik op het label OVT, direct onder dit bericht)

VS ‘helden’ helpen Somalische troepen bij het vermoorden van kinderen, één van de specialiteiten van deze helden……….

Somalische troepen, gesteund door VS militairen hebben afgelopen vrijdagmorgen het boerendorp Barire aangevallen, waarbij men 10 dorpelingen gevangen heeft genomen en hen één voor één doodschoot……

Volgens de gouverneur van de staat waarin Barire ligt, Ali Nur Mohammed, werden deze dorpelingen, boeren die op het land werkten, door VS militairen opgepakt….. Onder de vermoorde burgers bevonden zich ook vrouwen en 3 kinderen……

Het militaire VS commandocentrum voor Afrika heeft toegegeven dat VS militairen de Somalische troepen hebben geholpen bij deze operatie maar wenste, buiten de toezegging dat men deze operatie zal ‘beoordelen’, verder geen commentaar te leveren…..

Trouwens opvallend weer, het verzwijgen van dit bloedbad door de reguliere (massa-) media, zoals die in ons land……

US,
Somali Troops Execute 10 Civilians, Including Children, in Village
Raid

August
26, 2017 at 8:20 am

Written
by 
Jason
Ditz

(ANTIWAR.COM) — US
and Somali troops attacked the farming village of Barire early Friday
morning, capturing a group of ten 
civilians
and summarily executing them one at a time
.
Locals brought the bodies, including three children, to the capital
of Mogadishu to protest the incident.

Deputy
Governor of Lower Shabelle 
Ali
Nur Mohammed blamed the US forces
,
saying that they rounded up the farmers working in the fields, then
“one by one” shot them, saying that all the slain were unarmed
civilians.

US
African Command confirmed that US troops were “supporting” the
Somali operation, but offered no details. They confirmed being aware
of reports of civilians being killed and promised an “assessment”
of the matter.

The
Somali government, as usual, denied the incident took place, despite
there being a number of bodies of women and children on display in
Mogadishu. They insisted that officially everyone killed was a member
of al-Shabaab.

By Jason
Ditz
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Wanneer zal de wereld eindelijk opstaan tegen de bijna wereldwijde terreur van de VS en dit land en haar leiders (waaronder ‘vredesduif’ Obama) voor het Internationaal Strafhof aanklagen voor: -massamoord, -illegale oorlogsvoering, -geheime militaire CIA acties, -digitale oorlogsvoering, ofwel staats-cyberterreur (hacken van regeringen en grote bedrijven, plus het digitaal manipuleren van verkiezingen elders), -steun aan moorddadige regimes (zoals die in Saoedi-Arabië, Israël, Oekraïne en Somalië), -staatsgrepen, en -het organiseren van opstanden, met de opzet een staatsgreep te forceren (zoals in Guatemala, Oekraïne, Syrië, Brazilië en nu weer Venezuela..)…..

Zie ook:

VS vermoordt zoals gewoonlijk straffeloos burgers in geheime Somalische oorlog

VS bombardementen: 62 vermoorde stadsbewoners in Somalië

De VS heeft 500 militairen ingezet in Somalië, het imperium breidt zich verder uit……

VS illegaal militair ingrijpen in Niger, ofwel de uitspattingen van een imperium met expansiedrift

Geheime oorlogvoering van de VS in Afrika duurt voort, het aantal VS operaties in Afrika is zelfs groter dan in het Midden-Oosten

Jeroen Leenaers (CDA): Somalië is ‘veilig’ voor vluchtelingen………….‘ en in het verlengde daarvan: ‘Jeroen Leenaers (CDA EU): ‘veilige landen’ moeten asielzoekers terugnemen, anders zwaait er wat…….. OEI!!!‘ en: ‘Amnesty International beschuldigt Nederland van het schenden van de mensenrechten, door Somaliërs terug te sturen……

VS, in 2016 vermoordde de VS 24.000 mensen, uit landen die op de lijst van inreisverboden staan…….

VS pleegt aanslag op een leider van al-Shabaab, geen ‘onschuldige slachtoffers…..’

PS: benieuwd of Hollywood ook over deze operatie weer een ‘heldhaftige’ leugen weet te maken……

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.

Related
Posts:

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

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

Zie ook:

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

List of wars involving the United States

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Raketwetenschappers over Noord-Korea’s kernraketten bluf en angstzaaierij in de VS……

Raketwetenschappers maken gehakt van de claim die de Defence Information Agency (DIA) maakte over Noord-Koreaanse kernraketten, aldus James Holbrooks op Creative Commons en Anti-media.

De Duitse raketwetenschappers  Markus Schiller en Robert Schmucker stellen dat de door N-K gebruikte raketten niet in staat zijn een kernkop te vervoeren en daarmee de VS te treffen…….

Uiteraard is dit bekend bij het Pentagon, de DIA en andere VS geheime diensten als de CIA. De top van deze instellingen zijn zonder uitzondering lobbyisten van het militair-industrieel complex en het is dan ook hun taak het volk angst aan te praten, zodat dit complex topwinsten kan blijven maken…… ‘Vandaar’ dat men het volk bang maakt met deze doortrapte leugens……

De Noord-Koreaanse legertop en Kim Yung-un danken de DIA voor haar angstzaaierij, immers met de bewering van de DIA zijn ze plots toegetreden tot de landen die kernraketten hebben…….

Jammer dat professor Theodore Postol (MIT) geen onderzoek heeft gedaan naar de claim dat Noord-Korea een atoombom bezit, daar is tot op heden nooit enig bewijs voor geleverd en als met de zogenaamde Noord-Koreaanse kernraketten, is het bewind van Kim Yung-un blij met deze claim van het westen.

Nooit is er radioactieve straling aangetoond boven de plek waar N-K haar atoomproeven heeft gehouden, terwijl dit in de dagen na zo’n proef zelfs middels satellieten is aan te tonen (en reken maar dat er dagelijks wel ‘een paar’ satellieten van de VS hun baan trekken over Noord-Koreaans grondgebied!). Een ondergrondse kernproef genereert een kleine aardbeving, die middels de Schaal van Richter is aan te tonen, echter deze aardbeving kan worden gesimuleerd door een enorme hoeveelheid springstof ondergronds te laten exploderen……

Atomic
Scientists: North Korea’s Nuclear Missile Claims Are a Hoax

August
14, 2017 at 7:43 am

Written
by 
James
Holbrooks

(ANTIMEDIA)  — President
Donald Trump continued his blustery North Korea rhetoric on
Friday, 
tweeting that
the U.S. military was 
locked
and loaded”
 and
later
 telling reporters
that Kim Jong-un had better not make any 
overt
threats”
 against
the United States.

This
man will not get away with what he is doing,”
 Trump told reporters
from his golf club in New Jersey, adding that if Kim makes a move
against the U.S. or its allies “
he
will truly regret it and he will regret it fast.”

In
the midst of this spike in tension between the United States and the
Hermit Kingdom, a team of independent rocket experts published
a
 paper Friday
asserting that North Korea’s two July test firings of supposed
intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) were, in fact, “
a
carefully choreographed deception by North Korea to create a false
impression”
 that
the country has missiles capable of striking the continental U.S.

In
other words, it was “
a
hoax,”
 as
one of the experts 
explained to Newsweek.

The
team consisted of Theodore Postol,
 professor of
science, technology, and national security policy at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and German missile
engineers Markus Schiller and Robert Schmucker of
 Schmucker
Technologie
.
Postol has previously 
disputed official
reports on the parties responsible for chemical weapons attacks in
Syria.

They
opened their
 paper,
 published in the 
Bulletin
of the Atomic Scientists
 and
titled “North Korea’s ‘not quite’ ICBM can’t hit the lower
48 states,”  by highlighting that the July 3 launch
was “
trumpeted
by the US mainstream press”
 as
proof that the United States was vulnerable to an attack from North
Korea.

But
the Western press jumped the gun, the team argues in their paper:

The
rocket carried a reduced payload and, therefore, was able to reach a
much higher altitude than would have been possible if it had instead
carried the weight associated with the type of first-generation
atomic bomb North Korea might possess. Experts quoted by the press
apparently assumed that the rocket had carried a payload large enough
to simulate the weight of such an atomic bomb, in the process
incorrectly assigning a near-ICBM status to a rocket that was in
reality far less capable.”

All
these assumptions worked out great for the Kim regime, the
researchers write:

From
the point of view of North Korean political leadership, the general
reaction to the July 4 and July 28 launches could not have been
better. The world suddenly believed that the North Koreans had an
ICBM that could reach the West Coast of the United States and
beyond.”

But
these beliefs aren’t based in truth, Postol and his colleagues
write:

In
reality, the North Korean rocket fired twice last month — the
Hwasong-14 — is a ‘sub-level’ ICBM that will not be able to
deliver nuclear warheads to the continental United States.”

The
analysts concluded that North Korea is likely “
years
away from completion”
 of
a nuclear-tipped missile that could reach the continental United
States. The team’s full report, containing the details of their
scientific methods, can be found
 here.

Creative
Commons
 / Anti-Media / Report
a typo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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


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

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

Anti-Media bracht afgelopen zaterdag een artikel van Geopolitics Alert over de chaos in Venezuela. De schrijver, Jim Carey stelt dat men in de VS maanden aaneen iedereen aan het woord laat, als deze maar spuugt op de regering Maduro……. Als een religieus voorschrift herhalen de reguliere (massa-) media deze verhalen, die echter maar één kant van het verhaal laten horen, een leugenachtig verhaal, of ronduit leugens wel te verstaan……

Economische isolatie van Venezuela door vooral de VS en onder druk van de VS, hebben velen in diepe ellende gestort, echter de oppositieleiders die beweren in dezelfde ellende te leven, zijn voor het overgrote deel welgestelde figuren, die het aan niets ontbreekt. Opvallend overigens, dat de oligarchen nooit hebben hoeven vluchten, ook niet onder Chavez, deze figuren gooien overdag met stenen en begeven zich ‘s nachts in het nachtleven, waar ze horeca gelegenheden bezoeken, waar het grootste deel van de Venezolanen alleen maar van kan dromen……

De VS heeft haar winkelketens, die supermarkten in Venezuela hebben, al een paar jaar geleden opgedragen de winkels niet langer te bevoorraden, waarmee voor de gewone burgers de ellende begon. Dit is overigens maar één van de maatregelen uit de smerige VS koker…… Vergeleken met Oekraïne en Syrië is er één groot verschil, de VS doet zelfs geen moeite haar steun aan ‘de gematigde oppositie’ (uiterst gewelddadig) te verbergen……

Vanaf 2009 zou de VS 49 miljoen euro in de oppositie van Venezuela hebben gestoken, reken maar dat dit bedrag in de praktijk een stuk hoger ligt……….

Overigens geldt wat betreft het verslaan van de demonstraties en rellen hetzelfde voor de reguliere (massa-) media in de EU landen en dus ook in ons land. Maduro is de kwaaie pier en de oppositie is geweldloos en zo heilig als Maria……. Terwijl het grootste geweld wordt gebruikt door deze oppositie……..

An anti-government protester wields a shotgun taken from security forces during clashes in Caracas, Venezuela, May 8, 2017. The protest movement has drawn masses of people into the streets nearly every day since March, has left some three dozen dead. (AP/Ariana Cubillos)

Lees dit prima artikel en geeft het door, onder het volgende artikel vindt u nog een aantal links over Venezuela en wat daar echt aan de gang is:

Why
the Venezuelan Government Is Right to Resist the Venezuelan
Opposition

August
12, 2017 at 10:12 pm

Written
by 
Jim
Carey

(GPA) — The
US corporate media has spent months championing the cause of everyone
they know in Venezuela, even the slightest of publicly known figures,
as long as they are willing to go on record and slander the
government of Nicolas Maduro. These quotes are religiously
parroted by every major US media outlet that only wants readers,
viewers and listeners to hear one side of the ongoing fight in
Venezuela.

This
article is meant to help clear up a lot of the questions that are
left unanswered by US media, and to do that, we have to dissect a few
key aspects of the current situation. In order to understand the
Venezuelan opposition better, we should look closely at three key
pieces of this puzzle:

  1. Who
    the opposition is and the methods they use.

  2. US
    backing of the opposition and what happens in other countries where
    US backed opposition is allowed to operate.

  3. And
    finally, what exactly the alleged “brutal crackdowns” by Maduro
    have actually entailed.

The
Venezuelan Opposition: Peaceful Resistance or the ‘Moderate Rebels’
of Caracas?

If
your primary source for news on the crisis in Venezuela is the US
corporate media, it’s likely you have a certain image that comes to
mind when you hear about the Venezuelan opposition. If you believe
outlets like CNN or The New York Times it’s likely you conjure up
an image of the opposition as a faceless mass of hungry and poor
people risking it all to stand against tyranny in a massive fight for
some subjective concepts like “freedom.”

Now
this idea of brave everyday people protesting on the ground level
probably has some truth behind it, but like most “uprisings” of
this nature, the civilians in the street aren’t the ones
responsible for the planning and logistics behind the scenes. The
truth however, is that the forces that are actually behind this
AstroTurf movement* are much more sinister than the average
protester and promote methods that are well beyond anything that
would be considered ‘peaceful and democratic’ opposition.

The
opposition leaders may claim they share in the suffering endured by
regular Venezuelans, and feel the same pain as those hurt the most by
the economic isolation of the country but this is 
hardly
the reality of their lives
.
In truth, many of the people who are seen as the leaders of the
anti-Maduro movement (and who provide organizers essential financial
support) live lives of extreme comfort and luxury while their pawns
go hungry.

Many
of the opposition leaders and financiers actually come from the
wealthiest strata of Venezuelan society. While almost everyone is
aware that the main driver of the Venezuelan economy is the
nationalized oil industry, many people overlook or are unaware of the
fact that most other sectors of the Venezuelan economy are still in
the hands of private businesses.

Despite
what many people may assume, both Chavez and Maduro had no problem
with this arrangement. The most obvious example of this acceptance is
the fact that even people like the pre-Chavez corrupt former oil
tycoons still remain in Caracas with their stockpiles of ill-gotten
wealth. These are the people who, in their own words, admit that “by
day we throw stones,” and by night enjoy the exclusive night life
that regular Venezuelans couldn’t even dream of. These oligarchs
and crooks have opposed the government since Hugo Chavez won his
first election and began distributing the nation’s wealth to the
most poor Venezuelans as well as subsidizing and placing price
controls on consumer goods.

And
throwing stones isn’t all the opposition does.

Contrary
to the rosy image of the opposition painted by US media the truth is
that violence is one of their primary tools. The opposition has done
everything from hiring poor local teens and providing them crude
weapons like molotov cocktails and explosives, calling on
international banks to 
cut
off capital
 and
further harm average Venezuelans to encouraging a military coup
against the elected government. We know this is true, in part, thanks
to independent US journalists who have been brave enough to
expose the truth, such as 
Abby
Martin
,
who opposition protesters promptly threatened to hang.

Now,
you may be asking yourself, how does the opposition have the
nerve to claim legitimacy and moral superiority while using such
despicable methods? The answer to this question should be obvious
based on earlier statements about US media’s representation of the
opposition. The opposition’s claim of legitimacy is supported by
the same people who support violent uprisings from Ukraine to Syria,
the US government.

The
Open Secret of US Subversion in Venezuela

Much
like the recent history of Ukraine or Syria, the opposition in
Venezuela persists thanks to political and financial support from
Washington. Unlike Ukraine and Syria however, the US doesn’t even
attempt to hide their connections to the oligarchs opposing Maduro.

The
US shoves this support into the spotlight as an obvious insult to
Maduro with the traditional arrogance that is expected when the US
exercises what they consider to be their right to interfere in
Latin America. There is such an absence of shame in the case of
Venezuela that the Trump regime has no problem broadcasting events
like when Trump 
met
with the wife 
of
opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, who himself has taken calls from
prominent US figures like Vice-President Mike Pence.

Opposition
leaders don’t just enjoy the political lip service that the US
gives to anyone who opposes leaders Washington hates. As mentioned
above, one major factor that allows the opposition to carry on this
way is the millions of dollars sent from the US over the past few
years.

Money
for the Venezuelan opposition is a crucial piece of Washington’s
long-game strategy to topple the Bolivarian government. This cash has
been flowing to Caracas since at least 2009, adding up to at least
$49 million to date. Congress’ stated purpose behind this
“aid” for Venezuela is the same as it is for any country hostile
to the US: “promoting democracy, civil society, independent media,
and democratic political parties.”

In
the 2011 budget, $1 million was specifically designated for
“political competition,” showing that similar to US strategies in
places like the Middle East, Washington was supporting a mediocre and
artificial opposition and waiting for an opportunity to unleash their
manufactured leaders. In Venezuela this chance finally presented
itself when the price of oil drastically dropped, in part due to
market manipulation by the US.

When
you lay out all the above factors, it should be obvious why Nicolas
Maduro is so committed to fending off his opponents’ attacks. If
you look at other countries where the US has used tactics like those
employed in Venezuela, Maduro is relatively lucky that it took this
long for the opposition to become violent.

Syria,
Ukraine and the End Result of US Failures

Two
countries where these US policies failed due to either the unexpected
resilience of the state (Syria), or the failure to predict organic
resistance to intervention (Ukraine), most likely serve as examples
of what’s at stake to Maduro.

Syria
is a case study in what happens when a “revolution” backed by the
US ends, in what is essentially, a failure. Just like Venezuela, the
US was so ecstatic that they finally saw an opportunity to topple
President Bashar Al Assad that Washington was practically falling all
over themselves to find groups to arm and fund.

This
ambition for Syria of course ended with the US placing their trust in
a variety of Sunni extremists who – predictably – had no
intention of taking orders from the CIA or Pentagon. Washington even
allowed their future foes in the Islamic State to operate freely with
the hope they would get to Damascus. Venezuela’s opposition looks
similar to these groups just in a different context. In fact, the
Venezuelan opposition even 
held
a fake referendum
 similar
to ridiculous votes organized by the US’s precious Kurds.

Ukraine
should also serve as an example; not just to Maduro but to the US and
the opposition as well. If the US has their way in Venezuela and
basically forces an unpopular oligarch into power they should expect
resistance from the millions of people who 
benefited
from and still support
 the
current government. They should also prepare for new dissenters once
the new government is installed and actually lays out their
presumably neoliberal policies, which aren’t popular anywhere in
Central of South America.

These
reasons show why the only option available to Maduro is to resist. At
the government level Maduro has worked completely within the confines
of the law, while still enjoying massive support as evidenced by
Venezuela’s voters support for the new Constituent Assembly in a
country known for it’s election integrity. As far as what is
happening at the street level, we must make sure we take the
opposition’s actions into account and understand the damage they
could eventually do.

By Jim
Carey
 /
Republished with permission / 
Geopolitics
Alert
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* Astro Turf movement: een beweging die wordt betaald om protesten te organiseren (zoals in dit geval ook met het terroriseren van een stad, of wijken in een stad), maar de schijn ophoudt dat protesten en acties spontaan uit de bevolking komen.

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

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

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

      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: ‘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……

Na plaatsing toegevoegd: realiseerde me vanavond dat ik nog vergeten ben in te gaan op de uitspraak van Trump, dat hij desnoods Venezuela militair zal aanpakken (als Maduro niet opstapt en zich suïcideert, stel ik me zo voor)……. Militair ingrijpen is inderdaad de laatste stap die de VS in deze gevallen neemt, nadat het de economie van een land voor een groot deel heeft vernietigd en een opstand op poten heeft gezet die niet leidt tot het juiste doel, een ‘correcte’ VS belangenbehartiging, door het liefst een VS vriendelijke dictator (die op zijn beurt schijt heeft aan het arme deel van de bevolking in zijn land…)……..

Zoals gewoonlijk zijn de westerse ministers van Buitenlandse Zaken, zoals PvdA doedelzak Koenders, weer doodstil over deze grove opmerking, uh beter: openlijke bedreiging met oorlog……. Met andere woorden: men vindt het wel best als er alweer door toedoen van de VS duizenden, of zelfs tienduizenden doden vallen…. De NAVO schijnt intussen al aanwezig te zijn in Columbia, een buurland van Venezuela, dus…………

Jorge Zorreguieta overleden, weer een fascistische misdadiger die het recht ontloopt………

Vanmorgen hoorde ik op BNR dat Jorge Zorreguieta, de vader van ‘onze’ pampakoningin, is overleden.

Zorreguieta heeft een rol gespeeld in de fascistische Argentijnse dictatuur van Videla….. Je kan zelfs stellen, dat de grootgrondbezitters, die hij vertegenwoordigde in de Sociedad Rural Argentina (SRA), de weg hebben geplaveid voor de staatsgreep, die Videla in 1976 als dictator de macht bezorgde (uiteraard met hulp van de CIA)…….

Het is al lang geen geheim meer, dat Zorreguieta een rol heeft gespeeld in de verdwijningen van mensen op het ministerie dat hij als een soort staatssecretaris diende………

De Volkskrant kwam vandaag met een stuk over Zorreguieta van Olaf Tempelman. Deze kwast stelt in feite, dat figuren als Zorreguieta alleen maar hun werk in het belang van het land zijn blijven doen onder Videla……..

Tempelman durft zelfs te beweren, dat wanneer Maxima er niet was geweest, Zorreguieta nooit zou zijn aangeklaagd in Argentinië (en ‘natuurlijk’ al helemaal niet in Nederland)……….

Als je Tempelman goed leest, zou je denken dat de staatsgreep van Videla goed was voor Argentinië……

VVD onbenul en disfunctionerend demissionair-premier Rutte, condoleerde vanmorgen de pampakoningin  en stelde al knikkend voor de camera’s dat de dood van Zorreguieta een groot verlies is…… Verder wilde hij niets over de persoon Zorreguieta zeggen……… Immers: ‘niets dan goeds over de doden……..’

Ach ja, als het nodig is voor de grote bedrijven, gaat Rutte morgen naar de begrafenis van de huidige dictator van Saoedi-Arabië (die bezig is met een genocide in buurland Jemen), mocht die vandaag overlijden………

Weer een fascistische schoft overleden, zonder dat deze heeft moeten boeten voor zijn barbaarse misdaden………