Saoedi-Arabië heeft terreur op Jemen verder opgevoerd, een toename van de bombardementen en de wereld kijkt nog steeds weg………..

Ongelofelijk maar waar: de Saoedische terreurcoalitie heeft het aantal bombardementen op Jemen fiks verhoogd t.o.v. vorig jaar….. In 2016 telde de VN 3.936 bombardementen (door hoofdzakelijk de Saoedische luchtmacht), dat zijn er dit jaar tot nu toe al 5.676…!!!!

Terwijl Saoedi-Arabië een genocide uitvoert op de sjiieten in Jemen, is de wereld doodstil….. 500.000 kinderen (!!!) lijden aan ernstige ondervoeding……. De VS helpt S-A met de blokkade op zee, waar S-A dit ook op het vasteland doet, zodat humanitaire goederen de hongerende bevolking van Jemen niet kan bereiken….. Ook aan medicijnen is een groot gebrek, terwijl een groot aantal mensen in Jemen is besmet met cholera……. Cholera ontstaan door de bombardementen van S-A op watertoevoer, rioleringen (die worden vernield bij bombardementen op burgerdoelen als huizen, appartementscomplexen e.d.), zuiveringsinstallaties en elektriciteitscentrales………. Daardoor is er ook een tekort aan drinkwater in Jemen……..

Op 26 juli jl. stond de teller van het aantal cholerabesmettingen in Jemen op 380.000 (!!!), waar er dagelijks een fiks aantal aan worden toegevoegd……. Vergeet daarnaast niet, dat S-A een groot aantal ziekenhuizen in Jemen heeft gebombardeerd, met stille toestemming van het westen, daar het doel de sjiitische bevolking is en zoals u weet, Iran is sjiitisch en ‘Iran valt het ene na het andere land aan, niet de VS met de NAVO aan de hand…….’ Nee, ‘Iran viel illegaal Afghanistan aan na 11 september 2001, Irak in 2003, Libië en Syrië in 2011…… De Twin Towers stonden tenslotte in Iran, of vergis ik me nu???? Alsof IS, Al Qaida met al haar terroristische onderafdelingen in Syrië en andere landen, bestaan uit sjiieten i.p.v. soennieten………

Als ‘fake news’ (‘nepnieuws’) orgaan de Washington Post en andere reguliere westerse (massa-) media met een leugen komen, dat de Syrische troepen 10 kinderen hebben omgebracht, staan de VS en de rest van reguliere westerse media op haar kop en schreeuwen politici als de zwaar disfunctionerende PvdA jaknikker Koenders om maatregelen tegen het democratisch gekozen Syrische bewind, waarbij ze de kop van Assad eisen…… Maar als er daadwerkelijk een genocide wordt uitgevoerd door S-A (met hulp van o.a. de VS en Groot-Brittannië) in Jemen, o.a. middels bombardementen van burgerdoelen, kijken de westerse media en politici de andere kant op………. Bombardementen op een land waar 500.000 kinderen in levensgevaar verkeren, ja waar er zelfs al een fiks aantal van is overleden, een land waar mensen overlijden aan cholera…….

Nu blijkt dus, dat Saoedi-Arabië ook nog eens het aantal bombardementen op de sjiieten in Jemen sterk heeft verhoogd…….

Walgelijk!!!

Saudis
Increasing Yemen Airstrikes, Killing More Civilians

August
17, 2017 at 7:14 am

Written
by 
Jason
Ditz

(ANTIWAR.COM) — Throughout
2016, the UN High Commission for Refugees counted 3,936 airstrikes in
Yemen. The newly released figures for the first half of 2017 show
that previous figure, 
which
covered an entire year, is already far surpassed, with 5,676
airstrikes launched by the end of June
.

This
has turned an already catastrophic humanitarian situation, with
thousands killed in airstrikes, into an ever-mounting disaster, with
the new strikes killing yet more civilians, and strikes so intense in
some areas as to displace much of the civilian population elsewhere
in the country.

Being
an internally displaced person isn’t great wherever you are, but in
Yemen it’s all but a death sentence, as a Saudi naval blockade
is 
keeping
food and medicine shipments in the country to a bare minimum,
worsening a cholera epidemic and leaving much of the population on
the brink of starvation
.

Aid
group Oxfam estimated that over 500,000 children in Yemen are already
suffering from “severe malnutrition” because of the blockade, and
there are no signs of that situation improving any time soon. Indeed,
Hodeidah, the last port that has access to the country’s north, is
nearly constantly under siege, with the Saudis seeking to transfer it
to the control of the country’s southern government.

By Jason
Ditz
 /
Republished with permission / 
ANTIWAR.COM / Report
a typo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       en: ‘‘Een lofzang op de grootsheid van gods eigen VS, haar wapens en het goddelijk ingrijpen van S-A in Jemen!’

       en: ‘VS zet nu officieel troepen in op de grond om te vechten in het door oorlog, honger en cholera verscheurd Jemen, de Syrië truc op herhaling………. ‘ 

       en: ‘Koenders (PvdA) en wat hij liever niet wil dat u weet over Jemen, Saoedi-Arabië en de VS………..‘  

       en: ‘Koenders nog steeds stil: Saoedi-Arabië bezig met etnische zuivering op eigen bodem en nog steeds levert het westen wapens aan terreurstaat S-A….

       en: ‘Jemen, de hel op aarde >> Saoedi-Arabië en de VS (plus hulp van GB) plegen een genocide

      en: ‘Saoedi-Arabië onderzoekt eigen oorlogsmisdaden in Jemen….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

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

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’

Iraanse minister stelt de wereld voor Saoedisch ‘terreur-feiten’, helaas toch met een kleine ‘vergissing………’

De Iraanse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, Mohammad Javad Zarif heeft eindelijk de ‘terreurkoe’ Saoedi-Arabië de bel aangebonden. Na alle smerige leugens van S-A, de VS en hun hielenlikkers over Iran, maakte Zarif duidelijk, dat niet Iran, maar S-A een terreurstaat is, die de stabiliteit in het Midden-Oosten ernstige schade toebrengt (voor zover je nog van enige stabiliteit kan spreken…)…..

Echter Zarif maakte hier een enorme vergissing, niet S-A is grootste terreurstaat op aarde, maar de VS, daarbij vergeleken is S-A ‘s smerige terreur nog maar kinderspel!!!

Je begrijpt natuurlijk dat Zarif niet zo zeer over het uitoefenen van terreur sprak, maar over de Saoedische steun voor terreurgroepen als Al Qaida en ISIS. Echter zonder de grootschalige terreur van de VS in het Midden-Oosten, vanaf de Golfoorlog die Bush senior in 1990 tegen Irak begon, zou het maar zeer de vraag zijn of IS en Al Qaida ooit zo groot waren geworden. Sterker nog: meer en meer feiten komen naar buiten waaruit blijkt dat de VS deze terreurgroepen van wapens, munitie en militaire training voorzag……..

Hoe dan ook, Zarif toont op een redelijk simpele manier aan, dat niet Iran, maar S-A verantwoordelijk is voor 94% van de terreuraanslagen op onze kleine aarde (waarbij hij overigens terecht niet stelt, dat Iran verantwoordelijk is voor de resterende 6%)……. Waarbij je de uitgeoefende terreur van de VS en S-A buiten beschouwing moet laten, terreur zoals de door de Saoediërs gevoerde genocide op sjiieten in buurland Jemen, of de illegale oorlogen (beiden grootschalige terreur en enorme oorlogsmisdaden) die de VS in het Midden-Oosten is begonnen…….

Iran’s
Foreign Minister: Saudis Involved in 94% of Terrorist Attacks in the
World

July
22, 2017 at 12:19 pm

Written
by 
American
Herald Tribune

He
added there are certain countries in the Middle East who have been
“consistently” supporting terrorism.

(AHT) — “We
don’t see the situation in our region as a winning or losing
battle. It’s a situation where the initial U.S. invasion of Iraq
has led everybody to lose. Because we believe that the situation in
today’s world is so interconnected that we cannot have winners and
losers; we either win together or lose together,” Zarif 
told The
National Interest
.

Zarif
also said that Shias, Sunnis and Kurds are all
important segments of Iraqi society with whom Iran needs to
have relations.

Iran
has rushed to the aid of the Iraqis, not just the Shias, but
everybody. For us, the Shias, the Sunnis, the Kurds—all of them are
an important segment of Iraqi society with whom we need to have
relations.” 

Citing
an example of Iran’s help to Iraqis when Daesh (IS of ISIS, Ap) invaded Iraq in
2014, the foreign minister said, “We went to the support of the
Kurds: when they had been invaded by ISIS, we were the first to go to
 
Erbil
to secure it and to rescue it, basically, from a Daesh occupation.”

He
added there are certain countries in the Middle East who have been
“consistently” supporting terrorism.

You
have countries in the region who have consistently supported
extremists… Some countries consistently supported the wrong
groups—these are the same countries from whose nationals, almost 94
percent of those engaged in acts of terror, came—so we are talking
about a consistent record on their side and a consistent record on
the Iranian side.” 

He
added that Iran does not seek to exclude Saudi Arabia from
the security calculus of the Middle East region.

We
believe that Saudi Arabia is an important part of that security, as
we believe that other countries in the region should be an important
part of that security understanding.”

By
AHT Staff / 
Creative
Commons
 / American
Herald Tribune
 / Report
a typo


Zie ook: ‘Iran Rejects Trump’s Warning, Demands the Release of Detained Iranians in the US


      en: ‘Trump’s Appointees Worse Than Obama’s‘, een artikel van Stephen Lendman, o.a gepubliceerd op Stan van Houcke. Daarin o.a. aandacht voor de leugens van CIA top-oplichter en oorlogshitser Pompeo over o.a. Iran.


      en: ‘Assange: ‘CIA Not Only Armed Syrian Terrorists -It Paid Their Salaries’‘ Een artikel op Information Clearing House waaronder u kan klikken voor een vertaling.


      en: ‘CIA-backed Fighters Killed Or Wounded 100,000 Syrian Soldiers‘ Een artikel op Information Clearing House waaronder u kan klikken voor een vertaling.

Excuus voor de belabberde vormgeving, krijg het niet op orde.

Mosul is ‘bevrijd’ zo stelt de VS, daar zijn echter wel wat aanmerkingen op te maken………

In een artikel van Shahtahmasebi op Anti-Media (11 juli jl.) stelt de schrijver dat er een behoorlijke stank hangt rond de ‘bevrijding’ van Mosul, niet alleen de letterlijke stank van lijken die nog onder het puin liggen (lijken van meer dan 4.000 mensen die werden vermoord middels bombardementen), maar ook een figuurlijke stank……

Volgens Shahtahmasebi had de VS in 2014 kunnen voorkomen, dat IS de grens van Syrië naar Irak overstak. De VS liet dit moordend tuig hun gang gaan, zodat het leger van de VS kon deelnemen aan het verdrijven van IS uit Irak. Daarmee legitimeerde de VS voor zichzelf en haar hielenlikkende partners, het besluit om in de achtervolging van IS vanuit Irak de grens met Syrië over te steken en zo het reguliere Syrische leger te kunnen aanvallen, zoals intussen meermaals is gebeurd………. De VS stak dan ook geen poot uit, toen bleek dat IS grote aantallen VS wapens, Humvee’s tanks en helikopters buit maakte in Irak, terwijl het makkelijk IS aan had kunnen vallen, dit nog naast minstens 2 VS leveringen van wapens en munitie direct aan IS……….

De VS heeft haar tactiek pas veranderd, nadat Rusland het reguliere Syrische leger te hulp schoot en IS werkelijk en effectief werd bestreden……….

Het gebruik van terreurgroepen is overigens een tactiek die de VS ook in Syrië gebruikte: de VS liet IS en andere terreurgroepen (‘gematigde rebellen’) haar gang gaan in Syrië, waarmee dit moordend en verkrachtend tuig werd en wordt gebruikt als een extra legermacht tegen het reguliere Syrische leger….. Voorts heeft de VS de ‘gematigde rebellen’ in Syrië van wapens, munitie en training voorzien, al deze ‘gematigde rebellen’ zijn gelieerd aan Al Qaida, zo bleek onlangs (waar Saoedi-Arabië de financiën voor deze terreurgroepen regelt, naast ook levering van wapens en munitie)…… Niet voor niets ook. dat de VS onlangs het besluit nam Al Qaida Syrië van de terreurlijst te halen…….

Jammer dat Shahtahmasebi in zijn artikel stelt dat Iraanse troepen zich te buiten zijn gegaan aan oorlogsmisdaden, daar is geen nanometer bewijs voor. Waarschijnlijk maakt hij de fout, om sjiitische terreurgroepen, die meevechten met de Iraakse coalitie (die in feite door de VS wordt aangestuurd), als Iraans militairen aan te duiden. Iraanse militairen die zouden worden gepakt voor oorlogsmisdaden begaan in Irak of Syrië, zullen zwaar worden gestraft door Iraanse militaire rechtbanken……

Het aantal doden dat Shahtahmasebi noemt is intussen zwaar achterhaald, onlangs werd bekend gemaakt, dat er de laatste 9 maanden in Mosul meer dan 40.000 inwoners zijn vermoord (vooral middels VS bombardementen….)….*

Verder een goed leesbaar artikel, met ontluisterende feiten:

The
Media Says the US Just Liberated Mosul: Here’s What Really Happened

July
11, 2017 at 2:21 pm

Written
by 
Darius
Shahtahmasebi

(ANTIMEDIA)  The
mainstream media
 appears to
be celebrating ISIS’ recent defeat in Mosul, albeit with
some
 reservations.
The media is largely using the word “liberation,” which indicates
the people of Mosul have been freed from a monstrous force by a
friendly, benevolent one.

In
reality, the “liberation” of Mosul paints a dark, horrifying
picture of America’s foreign policy when one realizes how ISIS took
hold of Mosul in the first place. As 
Anti-Media in summarized in
September of last year, the U.S. allowed ISIS to gain control of
Mosul quite deliberately:

In
June 2014, ISIS crossed the Syrian border into Iraq, effortlessly
taking the strategic oil-rich cities of 
Mosul and Baiji and
almost making it as far as Baghdad. Amid the terror group’s
frightening victory, they 
uploaded images
and footage of drive-by-shootings, large-scale death marches, and
mass graves (following the 
mass
executions of Iraqi soldiers
).

ISIS
militants claimed massive quantities of 
American
military equipment,
 including
entire truckloads of humvees, helicopters, tanks, and artillery as
their own. This was no secret to Washington, or even the world, as
the militants photographed and recorded themselves and publicly
flaunted their activity on social media.”

Was
there a good reason the American military sat on its hands despite
knowing full well that this was going on? As 
Anti-Media explained
further:

What
did the U.S. do in response? Nothing. In spite of all the 
American
bases in Iraq
 and
the government’s ability to perform all manner of illicit activity
— including assassinating Muammar Gaddafi in Libya using a drone
that was flown out of Sicily by a pilot who operated the vehicle from
a naval base in 
Nevada
the
U.S. couldn’t do anything to stop ISIS rapid advancements. Was
there a problem preventing the U.S. military from conducting air
strikes? Clearly not, as the U.S. had been launching drone strikes in
Pakistan at 
around
the same time
 ISIS
advanced.”

The
U.S. allowed ISIS to gain this significant portion of territory
before moving into Iraq with an air war that was 
designed to
pave the way for a segued operation into Syrian territory. The U.S.
couldn’t justify an intervention into Syria without going into Iraq
first, and this was
 quite
clearly the underlying intention
 of
this operation the whole time, as evidenced by the
U.S.’ 
obsession with
the Syrian conflict throughout both
the 
Obama and Trump administrations.

Since
the U.S. moved back into Iraq in 2014, the U.S. has
 dropped 84,000
bombs in Iraq and Syria up until the end of May 2017.
As 
Counterpunch explains,
this is nearly three times the number of bombs and missiles dropped
on Iraq during  George W. Bush’s “Shock and Awe” campaign
in 2003.

Monitoring
group Airwars’ currently estimates that the minimum number of
civilians killed by the U.S.-led coalition’s campaign in Iraq and
Syria has reached 
roughly 4,354
since the operation began in 2014. The number is likely higher, but
we will never know the exact total because up until a month ago, the
U.S. only 
had
two personnel
 investigating
casualties in Iraq and Syria full time.

Under
President Trump, the number of bombs being dropped increased rapidly
after Trump gave 
complete
control
 to
the military generals on the ground to call in airstrikes with little
oversight. One such air raid in Mosul
 saw
close
 to
300 civilians die, and the fact that the strike had been called in by
Iraqi forces on the ground demonstrates the immense amount of scope
that Trump has delegated to call in airstrikes with little regard to
international law and the principle of proportionality.

The
battle for Mosul also
 drew in
Iran-backed Shia militias, who have been known to
 terrorize Iraq’s
Sunni population (including
 torturing
civilians
).
No one doubts that ISIS is a brutal and abhorrent group, but the
people who are supposedly “liberating” the local population —
whether it’s the U.S. military, the Iraqi armed forces, or the
various militia on the ground — appear to be no better.

Now
that these Iran-backed militias have firmly planted themselves in
Iraq, the U.S. is left with an ultimate dilemma of how to
 kick
them out
 and
counter Iran’s expanding influence. In all seriousness, the battle
for Mosul is only paving the way for further occupation and laying
the groundwork for America to pursue its regional ambitions in its
never-ending quest to confront Iran.

According to
the U.N., more than 742,000 Iraqis have fled the battle in Mosul,
with approximately 10,000 new civilians fleeing every day. For a
country that
 hates
refugees
,
the U.S. certainly plays a significant role in creating an endless
supply of them.

And
for those civilians still trapped in the city, their lives will never
be the same. As 
Airwars explains:

According
to city officials, 
as
much as 80 per cent of West Mosul has been completely destroyed
.
Civilians still emerging from the battlefield are often bloodied and
starving – traumatised by Iraqi and Coalition bombardments; and by
atrocities commited [sic] by ISIS.

According
to reporters accompanying Iraqi forces, the stench of death is
everywhere in the Old City – with civil defence officials reporting
that as many as 
4,000
bodies still remain unrecovered
 in
the rubble. It is likely to be many months before the full death toll
is known.”

That
is quite the liberation. Even if Mosul really has been “liberated”
by the U.S.-backed coalition, no one seems to be talking about the
fact that ISIS was only able to conquer strategic areas like Mosul
under the safety of the Obama administration’s policies. 
Leaked
audio
 of
former Secretary of State John Kerry when he was a senator confirmed
the U.S. was watching ISIS grow, and in turn, the hoped this would
bring Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the negotiating table (you
can listen to the full audio 
here).

You
can’t target a group as an enemy in one location and view it as a
useful proxy army in another. Indeed, ISIS was always a useful proxy
force for the anti-Assad coalition, as Kerry admitted.

Essentially,
the U.S. allowed ISIS to gain control of large swaths of Iraq and
Syria so they could justify interventions in these war-ravaged
nations.

As
far as the people of Iraq are concerned, there is only 
one
winner here
:
the military-industrial complex, which secured 
massive
years-long contracts
 to
make, supply, and drop over 84,000 bombs on a territory that never
should have been in the hands of ISIS in the first place.

Creative
Commons
 / Anti-Media / Report
a typo

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

* Zie: ‘Mosul: minstens 40.000 gedode burgers in 9 maanden tijd, ofwel VS terreur op grote schaal…..

Zie
ook: ‘
Kinderen
in Irak vermoord middels VS terreur…….

       en: ‘Mosul verwoest door VS………

       en: ‘Mosul
‘zal met precisie ontdaan worden van de terroristen, inclusief een
minimum aan burgerslachtoffers…….’

(een ongelofelijk en ongeloofwaardige belofte….)

       en: ‘Hennis-Plasschaert
hoopte nog zo, dat IS de bevolking van Mosul niet als schild zou
gebruiken……..

       en: ‘Honderden
burgerslachtoffers in Mosul door VS bombardementen, ofwel
grootschalige terreur……

 
   
en:
Mass
Media Siege: Comparing Coverage Of Mosul and Aleppo

(met mogelijkheid tot vertaling) 

     en:
After
Mosul’s “Liberation,” Horror of US Siege Continues to Unfold

(met mogelijkheid tot vertaling)

     en:  Mosul
‘bevrijd’ en BBC anti-Assad propaganda……….

     en:
Mosul
(bijna) bevrijd: ‘een positief verslag’ van de BBC

VS grenzen over de wereld >> The Long Reach Of The US Border

Information
Clearing House (ICH) bracht gisteren een artikel over de vele VS bases over
de wereld. De schrijver, Belen
Fernandez
stelt dat met al die bases het
grondgebied van de VS internationaal grenst aan een groot deel van de
landen die onze aarde rijk is. Daarmee is de VS een (uiterst
gevaarlijk) imperium, groter dan de wereld ooit zag……..

Lees dit
uitstekende artikel en oordeel zelf, onder het artikel vindt u een
link naar het volledige artikel op ICH, waaronder u de mogelijkheid
heeft tot vertaling:



The Long Reach Of The US Border

No
matter where you are in the world, you are likely to stumble upon the
US border-without-borders.


While
it might be tempting to blame US President 
Donald
Trump
 and
his special brand of 
counter-reality for
the frenzied expansion of the US border into international spaces,
the concept of the border itself evolved some time ago into something
encompassing much more than physical territorial limits

Just
ask the victims of the post-9/11 “war on terror”, which has
eliminated countless human lives for the ostensible purpose of
securing the US homeland.

While
the US has over the decades repeatedly been up in arms over perceived
enemy intrusions into its own ‘backyard’ – see, for example, the
Soviets in Cuba or the more recent ruckus over Iran’s supposed
infiltration of Latin America – the country persists in trampling
over other backyards at will.

Beyond
the matter of forcing international airlines to get on board with
every US whim in terms of 
security
measures
and
other life-complicating activities, there’s nothing like ubiquitous
military bases to reinforce the notion that the world in fact belongs
to America.

In
his 2015 book Base Nation: How US Military Bases Abroad Harm America
and the World, American University’s David Vine reported that, as of
that year, the US “controlled approximately 800 bases”
outside the country.

This
had resulted in a situation in which, he said, “we probably have
more bases in other people’s lands than any other people, nation, or
empire in world history”.

Vine
went on aptly to note that, for most Americans, “the idea of
even the nicest, most benign foreign troops arriving with their
tanks, planes, and high-powered weaponry and making themselves at
home in our country – occupying and fencing off hundreds or thousands
of acres of our land – is unthinkable”.

Thanks
to imperialism’s gloriously hypocritical logic, of course, America’s
disproportionate global footprint hasn’t stopped the US political
establishment from regularly accusing selected nemeses of meddling in
the internal affairs of other nations.


Hier de link naar het volledige artikel:

The Long Reach Of The US Border

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   

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

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

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

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

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

Mijn excuus voor de vormgeving.

Putin’s Assessment of Trump at the G-20 Will Determine Our Future

Paul Craig Roberts

The backdrops to the Putin/Trump meeting are the aspirations of Israel and the neoconservatives. It is these aspirations that drive US foreign policy.

What is Syria about? Why is Washington so focused on overthrowing the elected president of Syria? What explains the sudden 21st century appearance of “the Muslim threat”? How is Washington’s preoccupation with “the Muslim threat” consistent with Washington’s wars against Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, and Assad, leaders who suppressed jihadism? What explains the sudden appearance of “the Russian threat” which has been hyped into dangerous Russophobia without any basis in fact?

Saddam Hussein was a secular leader whose job was to sit on the animosities of the Sunni and Shia and maintain a non-violent political stability in Iraq. He, Assad, and Gaddafi suppressed the extremism that leads to jihadism. 

Saddam had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11, and under his rule Iraq constituted a ZERO threat to the US. He had been a faithful vassal and attacked Iran for Washington, which had hopes of using Iraq to overthrow the Iranian government.

Removing secular leaders is what unleashes jihadism. Washington unleashed Muslim terrorism by regime change that murdered secular leaders and left countries in chaos.

Fomenting chaos in Iraq was the beginning for spreading chaos into Syria and then Iran. Syria and Iran support Hezbollah, the militia in southern Lebanon that has twice driven out the Israeli Army sent in to occupy southern Lebanon so that Israel could appropriate the water resources.

Lees het hele artikel op Information Clearing House (met mogelijkheid tot ‘Dutch’ vertaling), hier vestigt Roberts o.a. aandacht op het feit, dat Osama Bin Laden niets van doen had met de 911 aanslagen in 2001:

Putin’s Assessment of Trump at the G-20 Will Determine Our Future

Qatar: Turkije op oorlogspad tegen Saoedische dreiging…. De dreiging van een groot internationaal conflict……

Vanavond verloopt de deadline, die de reli-fascistische terreurstaat Saoedi-Arabië heeft opgelegd aan Qatar.. Een paar van de eisen, Al Jazeera moet ‘uit de lucht gehaald worden’, de Turkse militaire basis in Qatar moet gesloten worden en de banden met Iran moeten min of meer verbroken worden……

De meest belachelijke eis is wel, dat Qatar de banden met terreurgroepen moet verbreken…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Als er één land is, dat terreur ondersteunt, is het Saoedi-Arabië wel. Zo bevoorraden de Saoediërs Al Qaida, IS en een aantal kleinere terreurgroepen  in Syrië met wapens en wapensystemen (zoals ‘schouderraketten’ made in the USA) Ook de financiën van de wat kleinere terreurgroepen en Al Qaida in Syrië (al-Nusra) worden door S-A beheerd………

Deze dreiging en m.n. die t.a.v. de Turkse basis in Qatar, is Turkije (en daarmee de psychopathische leider Erdogan) in het verkeerde keelgat geschoten zijn…. Volgens Anti-Media is Turkije druk doende troepen over te brengen naar Qatar……..

Dat deze spanning zo oploopt is aan het beest Trump en de rest van de westerse VS hielenlikkers te danken, hielenlikkers die te beroerd zijn om Saoedi-Arabië eindelijk eens de les te lezen, bijvoorbeeld als het gaat om de genocide die dit land momenteel uitvoert tegen de sjiieten in buurland Jemen…..

Waar is PvdA zwatelaar Koenders met commentaar op de Saoedische dreiging jegens Qatar?? Ach, het is als met de Saoedische genocide op de Jemenitische sjiieten: de jaknikkende hufter Koenders maakt er geen woord aan vuil, de poen gaat nu eenmaal ver voor op een futiliteit als genocide………

Mochten Saoedi-Arabië en haar arabisch, soennitische bondgenoten Qatar binnenvallen, wordt kruitvat Midden-Oosten nog verder op spanning gebracht, een spanning die nu in feite al zo groot is dat een internationaal conflict al bijna niet meer te vermijden is (zeker gezien de oorlogsmisdaden van de VS tegen het legitieme Syrische bewind..)… Een internationaal conflict met aan één kant terreurentiteiten VS, Saoedi-Arabië (en haar bondgenoten), Israël en de westerse hielenlikkers van de VS en aan de andere kant Rusland, Syrië, Iran en hoogstwaarschijnlijk China…….

De vraag is of Turkije zich dan zal aansluiten bij de laatst genoemde landen, dus Rusland en Iran (plus Syrië*), of bij de VS en haar (terreur) bondgenoten, dan wel zich neutraal zal opstellen… Mocht Turkije zich aansluiten bij Rusland en Iran, is het bijna onvermijdelijk dat Turkije zich uit de NAVO zal terugtrekken….. Gezien het overbrengen van Turkse troepen naar Qatar, is de kans groot dat Turkije zich inderdaad zal aansluiten bij Rusland en Iran (en Syrië)

More
Turkish Troops Arrive in Qatar as Gulf Tensions Continue to Escalate

July
1, 2017 at 10:59 am

Written
by 
Jason
Ditz

(ANTIWAR.COM) — When
Turkish troops were deployed to a military base in Qatar, it was huge
news across the region, primarily because it was a show of support by
the Erdogan government for the emirate at a time when many of Qatar’s
neighbors are blocking them.

The
number of troops sent last week was not publicly reported, and that’s
because it was not a lot, with the latest Turkish media
report
 suggesting
that 23 soldiers were sent back then, and the new deployments
announced today brought the number to “at least 88
.”

Turkish
media suggested this number could rapidly grow, reaching 1,000 as
Turkey looks to back its regional ally, and as Saudi Arabia and
others demand Qatar expel the Turks outright. 
The
deadline for that demand, and many others, is Sunday night, and
Turkey’s deployment likely underscores that they don’t intend to
leave.

Meanwhile,
Qatari Defense Minister Khalid al-Attiyah
 visited
the Turkish capital of Ankara today to meet his counterpart,and
discuss joint exercises 
to
be carried out in the future, along with the possibility of
accelerating deployments.

By Jason
Ditz
 /
Republished with permission / 
AntiWar.com / Report
a typo

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* Turkije en Syrië hebben op z’n zachtst gezegd geen hartelijke banden, echter als Turkije zich zal aansluiten bij Rusland en Iran, zal het in feite ook voor de Syrische regering Assad kiezen.

Zie ook: ‘Qatar Says Closing Turkish Military Base Is “Out of the Question”

Dit was ‘t voor vandaag, morgen meer Azijnpisser berichten, maak er een mooie dag van! (ook al hangen er donkere wolken aan de verre oostelijke horizon)

De VS ‘begint geen oorlogen’, ze wordt erin getrokken…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

De reguliere massamedia in de VS spreken de afgelopen maanden over de VS, als zou ‘het land’ in de Syrië oorlog worden getrokken (door krachten van buitenaf)…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! De eerste plannen voor een staatsgreep in Syrië, dateren uit de 80er jaren, de tijd van opperschoft Reagan! In 2006 werd dit plan nieuw leven ingeblazen, nadat bleek dat het bewind van Assad weigerde pijpleidingen over haar grondgebied toe te staan, pijpleidingen  voor olie en vooral gas transport richting EU.

Twee vliegen in één klap, daar het bewind Assad, zeer tegen de zin van de VS, goede banden onderhield en onderhoudt met Rusland…….. In de besprekingen die de VS in 2006 startte met landen als Groot-Brittannië, Turkije, Saoedi-Arabië en een paar andere arabische landen, zette men in op een opstand in Syrië, die zou moeten uitmonden in een staatsgreep tegen Assad en de opdeling van Syrië…..

Vanaf 2011 heeft de VS jaarlijks 1 miljard dollar aan wapens en training in de zogenaamde oppositie gestoken……. Zogenaamde oppositie, daar het overgrote deel van de ‘gematigde rebellen’, uiterst gewelddadige buitenlandse terroristen zijn zoals die van Al Qaida en IS……. De VS liet na de val van Khadaffi in Libië (ook al via een door de VS georganiseerde opstand en illegale oorlog) een groot aantal terroristen transporteren naar Irak, om van daaruit Syrië in te trekken en daar het Assad bewind omver te werpen…….

De media in de VS stellen echter keer op keer, dat de VS de beste bedoelingen heeft en in een oorlog wordt gelokt, i.p.v. het vervolmaken van een jarenlange uitgedachte strategie om bijvoorbeeld in het Midden-Oosten (maar ook in Oekraïne) de lakens te kunnen uitdelen. Elk land waar een regime aan de macht is, dat niet klakkeloos knielt voor de VS, wordt door de VS als een gevaar voor het eigen voortbestaan afgeschilderd, zowel door de politiek als door de reguliere massamedia…….

Telkens weer wordt onomwonden gesteld dat de VS wordt aangevallen en zich derhalve dient te verdedigen……. Vanaf WOII tot het jaar 2000 heeft de VS meer dan 20 miljoen mensen vermoord in conflicten die door de VS zelf werden gecreëerd….. Sinds het begin van deze eeuw heeft diezelfde VS al 2 miljoen moorden op het geweten, alleen in Irak al meer dan 1,5 miljoen, middels de in 2003 illegaal begonnen oorlog tegen dat land (één van de grootste oorlogsmisdaden en daarmee terreuruitoefeningen die men kan bedenken……)……..

Uiteraard moeten Rusland en Iran het ook ontgelden in de reguliere VS media, als zouden zij i.p.v. de VS illegale oorlogen beginnen en opstanden op poten zetten waar het maar uitkomt………

Mensen het ligt er allemaal zo dik bovenop, dat je niet snapt dat de reguliere media en ‘intellectuele opiniemakers’ in de rest van het westen, zich zo laten gebruiken door de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, de VS…….. Zonder amper enige kritiek loopt men achter de VS aan, de enige uitzondering is Trump, die sinds zijn aantreden als joker wordt neergezet. Lullig genoeg vinden deze media en intellectuelen verder zo ongeveer alles wat Trump en zijn leger flikken over de wereld, boven elke kritiek verheven…….

Hier een artikel van Adam Johnson, die haarfijn met feiten uitlegt hoe e.e.a. in elkaar steekt. Het artikel werd eerder geplaatst op Fair.org en overgenomen door de redactie van Anti-Media:

Syria
Is Just the Latest Example of the US Gov’t Pretending to Be Dragged
Into War

June
24, 2017 at 6:48 pm

Written
by 
Anti-Media
News Desk

(FAIR) — A
recent headline in 
The
Atlantic
 (6/9/17)
earnestly pondered if the US was “Getting Sucked Into More War in
Syria.” “Even as Washington potentially stumbles into war…”
was how the article’s discussion began.

One
of the most common tropes in US media is that the US military always
goes to war reluctantly—and, if there are negative consequences,
like civilian deaths, it’s simply a matter of bumbling around
without much plan or purpose.

Syria War

This
framing serves to flatter two sensibilities: one right and one
vaguely left. It satisfies the right-wing nationalist idea that
America only goes to war because it’s compelled to by forces
outside of its own control; the reluctant warrior, the gentle giant
who will only attack when provoked to do so. But it also plays to a
nominally liberal, hipster notion that the US military is actually
incompetent and boobish, and is generally bad at war-making.

This
is expressed most clearly in the idea that the US is “drawn into”
war despite its otherwise unwarlike intentions. “Will US Be Drawn
Further Into Syrian Civil War?” asked 
Fox
News
 (4/7/17).
“How America Could Stumble Into War With Iran,” disclosed 
The
Atlantic
 (2/9/17),
“What It Would Take to Pull the US Into a War in Asia,”
speculated 
Quartz (4/29/17).
“Trump could easily get us sucked into Afghanistan
again,” 
Slate predicted
(
5/11/17).
The US is “stumbling into a wider war” in Syria, the 
New
York Times 
editorial
board 
(5/2/15)
warned. “A Flexing Contest in Syria May Trap the US in an Endless
Conflict,” 
Vice
News
 (6/19/17)
added.

Sliding,”
stumbling,”
sucked
into
,”
dragged
into
,”
drawn
into
”:
The US is always reluctantly—and 
without
a plan
—falling
backward into bombing and occupying. The US didn’t enter the
conflict in Syria in September 2014 deliberately; it was forced into
it by outside actors. The US didn’t arm and fund anti-Assad rebels
for four years to the 
tune
of $1 billion a year
 as
part of a broader strategy for the region; it did so as a result of
some unknown geopolitical dark matter.

Syria
especially evokes the media’s “reluctantly sucked into war”
narrative. 
Four
times
 in
the past month, the Trump administration has attacked pro-regime
forces in Syria, and in all four instances they’ve claimed
“self-defense.” All four times, media accepted this justification
without question (e.g., 
Reuters6/19/17),
despite not a single instance of “self-defense” attacks occurring
under two-and-a-half years of the Obama administration fighting in
Syria. (The one time Obama directly attacked Syrian government
forces, the US 
claimed
it was an accident
.)

Why
the sudden uptick in “self-defense”? Could it be because, as with
the 
bombing
of ISIS (and nearby civilians)
,
Trump has given a green light to his generals to adopt an itchy
trigger finger? Could it be Trump and Secretary of Defense James
Mattis, who has a 
decades-long
grudge against Iran
want to
blow up Iranian drones and kill Iranian troops? No such questions are
entertained, much less interrogated. The US’s entirely defensive
posture in Syria is presented as fact and serves as the premise for
discussion.

When
US empire isn’t reluctant, it’s benevolent. “Initially
motivated by humanitarian impulse,” 
Foreign
Policy
‘s
Emile Simpson (
6/21/17)
 insisted, “the United States and its Western allies achieved
regime change in Libya and attempted it in Syria, by backing rebels
in each case.”

At
least in recent decades, American presidents who took military action
have been driven by the desire to promote freedom and democracy,”
the 
New
York Times
 editorial
board 
(2/7/17)
swooned.

Every
American president since at least the 1970s,” 
Washington
Post
’s
Philip Rucker (
5/2/17)
declared, “has used his office to champion human rights and
democratic values around the world.” Interpreting US policymakers’
motives is permitted, so long as the conclusion is never critical.

In
contrast, foreign policy actions by Russia are painted in diabolical
and near-omnipotent terms. “Is Putin’s Master Plan Only
Beginning?” worried 
Vanity
Fair 
(12/28/16).
“Putin’s Aim Is to Make This the Russian Century,”
insists 
Time magazine
(
10/1/16).

Russia
isn’t “drawn into” Crimea; it has a secret “Crimea takeover
plot” (
BBC3/9/15).
Putin doesn’t “stumble into” Syria; he has a “Long-Term
Strategy” there (
Foreign
Affairs
3/15/16).
Military adventurism by other countries is part of a well-planned
agenda, while US intervention is at best reluctant, and at worst
bumfuzzled—Barney Fife with 8,000 Abrams tanks and 19 aircraft
carriers.

Even
liberals talk about war in this agency-free manner. Jon Stewart was
fond of saying, for example, that the Iraq war was a
mistake”—implying
a degree of “aw shucks” mucking up, rather than a 
years-long
plan
 by
ideologues in the government to assert US hegemony in the Middle
East.

War,
of course, isn’t a “mistake.” Nor, unless your country is
invaded, is it carried out against one’s will. The act of
marshalling tens of thousands of troops, scores of ships, hundreds of
aircraft, and coordinating the mechanisms of soft and covert power by
State and CIA officials, are deliberate acts by conscious, very
powerful actors.

Media
shouldn’t make broad, conspiratorial assumptions as to what the
bigger designs are. But neither are they under any obligation to buy
into this mythology that US foreign policy is an improvised peace
mission carried out by good-hearted bureaucrats, who only engage in
war because they’re “sucked into” doing so.

By Adam
Johnson
 / Creative
Commons
 / FAIR.org / Report
a typo

Jonathan Marcus (BBC) met anti-Assad propaganda: Deir ez-Zor ligt op de weg van Teheran naar Libanon…..

Jonathan Marcus, correspondent van de BBC, vertelde afgelopen zaterdag (rond 10.19 u. CET) op BBC World Service radio, dat de VS volkomen legitiem een Syrische straaljager en een Iraanse drone uit de lucht hebben geschoten, een enorme oorlogsmisdaad, daar de VS volkomen illegaal in en boven Syrië opereert……. (Let wel: de BBC verkoopt zich als een onafhankelijke zendgemachtigde…….)

Dit terwijl deze toestellen bezig waren met de strijd tegen moorddadige terreurgroepen als IS en Al Qaida (de laatste is wat betreft de tak in Syrië, door de VS tot partner in de strijd verklaard en van de ‘zwarte lijst’ gehaald……). Als je Marcus moet geloven bestookten Syrië en Iran ‘gematigde rebellen…….’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Wat een vieze oplichter, ‘gematigde rebellen’ bestaan niet in Syrië!! (over ‘nepnieuws’ gesproken….)

Dat Syrië inzet op de stad Deir ez-Zor, heeft alles te maken met het feit, dat daarmee voor Iran de weg vanuit Teheran naar Libanon (Hezbollah) wordt veilig gesteld, aldus Marcus……* Alsof de leugenaar niet weet, dat er juist in het gebied rond Deir ez-Zor grote olievoorraden zitten, uiterst belangrijk voor een land dat door machinaties van de VS en haar soennitisch arabische en westerse bondgenoten, bijna geheel in puin ligt……..

Maar nee, voor Marcus is het behoud van de stad in het belang van Iran, dat grotere invloed wil hebben in de regio…… De schoft moet weten, dat Iran slechts met een bescheiden ‘troepenmacht’ in Syrië zit, maakt niet uit Marcus liegt gewoon keihard door………

Rex Tillerson en James ‘mad dog’ Mattis, u weet wel 2 gevaarlijke psychopathische gekken, die door Trump (respectievelijk) zijn aangewezen als minister van Buitenlandse Zaken en Defensie (Defensie: lees; ‘Oorlog’), zijn beiden gewichtige staatsmannen aldus Marcus…….. 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! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Halleluja jutteperen, wat een slechte propaganda verspreider die Marcus, jezus!!!

* De BBC verdedigde eerder al de leugen, dat de illegale bombardementen van Israël op konvooien van het reguliere Syrische leger, bedoeld waren om te voorkomen dat er wapens van Teheran naar Hezbollah in Libanon werden vervoerd…….. Enorme oorlogsmisdaden begaan door Israël, met een excuus waar geen flinter bewijs voor was/is……. Wel werd door die bombardementen de opmars van het Syrische leger richting IS/Al Qaida gebied vertraagd…….

Zie ook: ‘BBC publieksmanipulatie via het nieuws: Rusland steunt de slechteriken……‘ (met daaronder meerdere links naar BBC propaganda berichten, dan wel berichten over die propaganda)