Jan Pronk (PvdA) Nederlandse UNIFIL missie in Libanon was een succes…….

Gisteren in OVT op Radio1 aandacht voor de Nederlandse missie in Zuid-Libanon, een missie die een aanvang nam in 1979.

Veel militairen die een desastreus beeld schetsten van de situatie in Libanon en dat Nederland er eigenlijk niets te vertellen had (dat ook nog eens letterlijk daar de bevolking de Nederlandse militairen niet begreep en daarmee omgekeerd begrepen de militairen de bevolking niet…)….

Volgens de militairen die aan het woord kwamen was het vooral Israël dat agressief bezig was in hun werkgebied, van 1983 tot 1985 was het bewuste gebied zelfs bezet door Israël, dat volkomen lak had aan de Nederlandse troepen, die eigenlijk zoals in voormalig Joegoslavië geen mandaat hadden om geweld te gebruiken….* Het Israëlische leger nam de Nederlandse troepenmacht destijds dan ook nog minder serieus, dan de jaren daaraan voorafgaand…….

Tegen het eind van de OVT uitzending in het programmaonderdeel ‘Het Spoor Terug’, kwam PvdA zwatelaar Pronk nog even aan het woord, waarschijnlijk daar ook de PvdA deels mede verantwoordelijk was voor de uitzending van voornamelijk dienstplichtige militairen. Volgens Pronk was de Nederlandse missie een succes, daar er geen grote incidenten plaatsvonden tijdens de uitzending, die nog vele jaren lang zou duren……. Lachen past hier niet, daar er 9 Nederlandse militairen omkwamen in Libanon, maar het is toch wel een gotspe om te zeggen dat de missie een succes was…..

Ten eerste: wie zegt dat zonder die Nederlandse militairen er wel een groot conflict zou zijn ontstaan…?? Ten tweede brak er wel degelijk een groot conflict uit toen Israël de UNIFIL troepen onder de voet liep en het bewuste gebied innam…….

Ach ja Pronk, eens een oplichter……….

* Al valt daar wat betreft de missie in voormalig Joegoslavië nog wel een dikke boom over op te zetten, daar de Nederlandse troepen daar aanvankelijk wel daadwerkelijke militaire steun werd beloofd, o.a. met straaljagers….. Dat dit uiteindelijk niet gebeurde is te wijten aan het slappe internationale optreden van VVD hufter en zever de luxe Voorhoeve, die destijds minister was op Defensie in het afbraakkabinet kabinet Kok 1, een kabinet dat als Voorhoeve mede verantwoordelijk was voor de dood van duizenden mannen en jongens, die opgesloten zaten in en rond het Nederlandse kampement in ‘enclave’ Srebrenica…… (waar een aantal van de slachtoffers in de tijd voor de aanval op Srebrenica op rooftocht gingen buiten de enclave, iets waartegen Nederlandse troepen ‘ook al niet’ zijn opgetreden….. Tja, daar lult men liever al helemaal niet over in Nederland…)

Bij de labels direct onder dit bericht 2 keer de naam Dutchbat, waarvan er één met een dubbele ‘t’ aan het eind, dat was de naam van de Nederlandse troepenmacht bij de eerste missie in Libanon en die met een enkele ‘t’ was voor de troepenmacht in voormalig Joegoslavië (Srebrenica).

VS, NAVO en EU hebben de Macedonische democratie misdadig gemanipuleerd en naar eigen hand gezet

Onder
aanvoering van de VS, hebben andere NAVO lidstaten en de EU het Macedonische referendum over toetreding tot de NAVO ‘en de EU’ dusdanig
gemanipuleerd dat de uitkomst van het referendum en de bijna drie
weken latere stemming in het parlement volledig gemanipuleerd aan
naar eigen hand gezet……

Het
referendum, dat afgelopen 30 september plaatsvond, zou pas geldig
worden verklaard als de opkomst 50% plus 1 zou zijn, echter met een
opkomst van 36,91% van stemgerechtigden, werd het referendum onder
druk van de VS en de NAVO als rechtsgeldig verklaard……. De
stemming op 18 oktober jl. in het parlement werd veilig gesteld middels chantage, omkoping van de oppositie en de belofte voor niet verdere vervolging
van parlementariërs, die deelnamen aan ongeregeldheden in het
parlement op 27 april 2017…….

Ook heel
smerig is de belofte aan Macedonië gedaan dat het mag toetreden tot
de EU als men stemt voor toetreding tot de NAVO…….. Echter dat lidmaatschap kan Macedonië voorlopig vergeten (hoewel het onder druk zetten van de EU door de VS de zaak kan bespoedigen….)

Me dunkt
de hoogste tijd dat de top van de NAVO strafrechtelijk wordt
vervolgd, niet alleen voor deze schunnige manipulatie, maar ook voor
alle oorlogsmisdaden begaan door de NAVO, te beginnen met de
oorlogsmisdaden begaan in voormalig Joegoslavië, waar Macedonië NB
deel van uitmaakte…….

De NAVO
staat onder opperbevel van de VS en weer heeft de VS met deze zaak,
waar ook psychopaat en oorlogsmisdadiger en VS minister van defensie uh oorlog Mattis en opperhufter Pence
(vicepresident van de VS) zich mee bemoeiden, bewezen dat het niet
Rusland is, die zich mengt in verkiezingen of referenda, maar juist
de VS zelf, de bewijzen daarvoor uit de geschiedenis (inclusief de
recente geschiedenis), moeten intussen een kilometer aan dossiers
beslaan………

De
bedoeling van de VS is overduidelijk, men wil alle landen ten westen
van Rusland in de NAVO hebben om Rusland verder te isoleren……. Aan die landen ontbreekt na Macedonië, nog Servië en de Serviërs (of: Serven) in Bosnië-Herzegovina (dat je tegenwoordig blijkbaar als ‘Bosnië en Herzegovina’ moet schrijven….)…..

De NAVO
is bewezen een terreurorganisatie (waar de NAVO NB haar terreur ook heeft uitgeoefend in voormalig Joegoslavië) en zou ontbonden moeten worden, voorts zou de VS, de grootst terreurentiteit op aarde uit alle landen moeten worden geschopt waar het
militaire bases heeft, of waar het illegaal oorlog voert (ofwel
grootschalige terreur uitoefent), voorts zou het de VS verboden
moeten worden om in de toekomst nog militairen in welk buitenland dan ook te me hebben….. Verder zou de VS verboden moeten worden landen middels economische oorlogsvoering aan de rand van de afgrond te brengen, om zo een door de CIA georganiseerde coup te forceren!!!

Yankee
go home! (and stay there!)

Het
volgende meer uitgebreide artikel over deze zaak werd geschreven door
Alexander Pavic en werd gepubliceerd op Strategic Culture Foundation:

ALEKSANDAR
PAVIC
 |
31.10.2018 | 
WORLD / EUROPE

The
NATO/EU Rape of ‘Complex’ Macedonia

The NATO/EU Rape of ‘Complex’ Macedonia

In
an interview for the Russia-1 television channel, Russia’s Foreign
Minister Sergey Lavrov 
revealed that
he had raised the question of egregious Western meddling into
Macedonia’s recent (September 30) referendum and parliamentary
voting (October 19) to push through changes to the country’s name
and constitution in order accelerate its accession to NATO (and, much
later, if ever, to the EU) with US National Security Adviser John
Bolton during his recent visit to Moscow.

I
told him we were accused of meddling not only in the US, but also in
Spain, in Brexit and now also in anything that happens in the Western
Balkans… We said we kept silent on Macedonia’s referendum, while
its capital of Skopje was visited by NATO chief Stoltenberg, defense
minister Mattis, German chancellor Merkel… who publicly and bluntly
demanded that Macedonians ‘vote for their future’ and say ‘yes’
in a referendum on their membership in the EU and NATO by ‘only’
changing their country’s name,” recalled Lavrov, further
reminding that the referendum had flopped but that, nevertheless, the
Macedonian parliament went ahead with a vote to amend the country’s
constitution, and secured the necessary two-thirds vote “through
bribes and promises not to start criminal persecution,” overseen by
the US Ambassador to Macedonia, who was present during the
proceedings and “who did not merely sit there.”

Bolton’s
response? According to Lavrov, he simply smiled and replied that
Macedonia was a “quite complex country.”

So,
there you have it. It’s officially open season on all the world’s
“complex” countries – and guess who gets to define “complex”
– should they ever even contemplate voting the “wrong way,” as
interpreted by the West’s arbiters of democracy, even the avowed
non-interventionists
in the White House.

If
anything, Lavrov was understating what some observers literally
described as a “rape” of Macedonia’s democratic [sic]
institutions on the part of the Western deep state establishment
hell-bent on dragging the tiny country into NATO (with the highly
unrealistic prospect of EU membership merely being used as a carrot
to placate domestic and international public opinion), in order
to 
completely
encircle
 the
last staunch anti-NATO holdouts in Europe outside of Russia and
Belarus – Serbia and the Serbs in neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina.

It
was bad enough that Western officialdom simply ignored the popular
will of the Macedonians and 
collectively
pretended
 that
a 36.91% referendum turnout in fact expressed the “will of the
majority,” and that it was sufficiently legitimate to move the
matter to Parliament, where a two-thirds vote was required to move
forward with the process of amending the constitution. This despite
the fact that the West’s hand-picked prime minister, Zoran
Zaev, 
had
given assurances
 before
the referendum that “citizens will make the decision,” and that
Parliament would vote on the necessary constitutional changes only if
the referendum was successful (meaning a 50% + 1 turnout and a
majority “yes” vote).

Then,
five days before the parliamentary vote, US Vice-President Mike Pence
sent a “
letter
of support

to Zaev, ascertaining that Macedonians had, in fact, approved the
name change agreement with Greece after all, because, you see, “90%
(or less than a third of all the Macedonian voters – author’s
note) of those that voted approved the Prespa Agreement.” Two days
later, US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian
Affairs, Wess Mitchell, fired off a 
letter to
Hristijan Mickoski, the leader of Macedonia’s main opposition party
(which opposes the name change agreement with Greece), VMRO-DPMNE,
expressing “disappointment” with his party’s negative position
vis-à-vis the referendum and the upcoming parliamentary vote and
urging him to “create space” for his party’s MPs to vote “free
from threats of violence, retribution, or other forms of coercion.”

As
it turned out, Mitchell’s just wanted to make sure that “threats
of violence, retribution or other forms of coercion” would remain
the exclusive domain of Zaev’s puppet government and the US
Embassy. And, thus, four days before the parliamentary vote, Zaev put
forth an “
indecent
proposal

for the opposition, i.e. “amnesty for their members who are on
trial for unrest at the Assembly that took place on April 27 of last
year,” when a 
former
Albanian terrorist guerilla commander
 was
elected as Parliament Speaker under strong US and EU pressure. Or, as
Zaev pithily put it: “I know that everything has a price. I am
ready to pay it.”

On
voting day, October 19, the vote was delayed three times until the
necessary two-thirds majority was secured. As to how it was secured
was best summarized by a Russian Foreign Ministry 
statement:

We
consider what happened as a flagrant violation of all norms – both
from the point of view of the law and in the moral sense… Eight
votes that were necessary to secure a qualified majority were ensured
by the means of blackmailing, threats and bribing opposition
parliament members. Three of them, purely by chance, were released
from arrest on that same day. Two others, who had open cases
investigated by special prosecutors, were promised freedom. Others
received corrupt financial offers in exchange for ‘the right vote’.
Parliament members were locked in their rooms, their cell phones were
seized – this is very much in line with the spirit of European
democratic practice… The American ambassador was present in the
Parliament building until the end of the session, leaving no doubt as
to who was leading the process… Such dirty manipulations cannot be
considered the expression of will of parliament members….”

That
the Russians were not exaggerating was confirmed by, among others,
tweet from
Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos: “Who would have thought that
in Europe of values and democracy those who do not vote according to
instructions are jailed, and those who comply get a 2 million euro
bonus in black money.”

Opposition
leader Mickoski 
denounced the
parliamentary circus as Macedonia’s “Black Friday” and a case
of “classic rape,” and proceeded to 
expel from
the party the seven MPs who changed sides and helped secure the
necessary two-thirds vote. Bulgarian daily “Sliven Now” 
accused the
CIA and Greece’s Soros funds of bribing the renegade Macedonian
MPs. (Links between US diplomats – specifically the present US
Ambassador to Macedonia, Jess Baily – and billionaire
interventionist George Soros and their 
joint
work on destabilizing Macedonia
 using
US taxpayer money have been public knowledge for a couple of years.)
According to a former adviser to the Macedonian President, 
Cvetin
Chilimanov
,
the Parliament building was “under siege” on the day of the
voting, teeming with politicians, police and officials from the
public prosecutor’s office, and opposition leaders claimed that
their MPs were offered anywhere from 250.000 to 2 million euros to
change their vote.

Naturally,
as was the failed referendum, the parliamentary charade was hailed by
the usual EU/NATO suspects. EU Commissioner for European Neighborhood
and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn 
gushed that
it was “a great day for democracy in Skopje,” adding for good
measure his expectation that “the free choice of all MPs is fully
respected.” Hahn also issued a 
supportive
joint statement
 with
Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs
and Security Policy and Vice President of the EU Commission. And
NATO’s Gensec Jens Stoltenberg unflinchingly “
welcomed
the outcome of the Macedonian parliamentary shenanigans and urged the
MPs to “seize this historic opportunity.”

The
process is not finished, as two more votes (or “votes”) are
pending in what’s left of the Macedonian Parliament – on a draft
proposal of the necessary constitutional amendments (needing a simple
majority), and on the adoption of the final amendments, for which a
two-thirds majority will once again be needed, along with the
signature of Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov, who
himself 
boycotted the
referendum. If everything goes as planned and/or paid, the scene will
then move to the Greek Parliament, which must also vote on the
changes. According to the 
Prespa
Agreement
,
the Macedonian side needs to finish its business by the end of 2018,
and it is expected that the Greek Parliament will do its part in
early 2019. With a little help from their Western friends, no doubt.

Tags: Macedonia 

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

Zie ook:

Macedonië in staat van grote chaos, belangstelling Nederlandse pers bijna nihil…….‘ In dit bericht o.a. aandacht voor de huidige president, waarbij ik tot mijn schaamte moet zeggen, dat ik me teveel op de reguliere media heb verlaten, wat betreft de berichtgeving. Al zal de huidige president waarschijnlijk ‘niet echt’ een lieverdje zijn, maar dat zijn Putin, Obama, May en ga nog maar even door, ‘ook al niet…..’ Waar aan toegevoegd moet worden, dat we met Putin in onze handen mogen knijpen, zonder hem, maar een figuur als Obama, hadden we allang in een volledige WOIII gezeten……. (toevoeging uit het bericht: ‘Armenië volgend doelwit VS terreurorganisaties USAID en CIA………‘)

Macedonië: NAVO doelwit in wording…….

Macedonië, volgende prooi voor NAVO oorlogsmisdaden…..????

NOS verslaggever van der Steen: Putin loopt te stoken op de Balkan……..

Wim Kok (PvdA), ‘een geweldige staatsman ging heen……’

Je wordt werkelijk poepziek van alle lof die men de overleden ex-PvdA premier Wim Kok probeert toe te kennen.

‘Probeert’, daar het m.i. niet lukt om deze plork te verheffen tot iets wat hij nooit was, namelijk een groot staatsman.

Wim Kok was één van de PvdA leden die aan de doodskist van de vakbonden stond, toen hij voordat hij de politiek inging, voorzitter van NVV en de opvolger van die vakbond was: de FNV……. Zogenaamd een grote bek over werkgevers, terwijl hij met velen van hen gemene zaak maakte….. Het zo bejubelde Poldermodel waarvan de arbeiders het slachtoffer werden, keer op keer……

Kok heeft het laatste restje socialisme van de ‘sociaaldemocratische’ PvdA afgescheurd en daar was hij nog trots op ook, gezien zijn uitlating als premier, dat de PvdA de ideologische veren had afgeschud….. De kabinetten Kok namen dan ook een neoliberale koers…….

Onder Koks bewind werden de pensioenfondsen van tientallen miljarden guldens bestolen, geld gespaard door de deelnemers, niet zelden arbeiders die heel wat harder moesten werken, dan hij ooit heeft gedaan……. Het gestolen geld werd aan de werkgevers gegeven…… Voorts vond Kok het prima dat deze pensioenfondsen hun geld vergokten op de beurs…….

Ook is Kok mede verantwoordelijk voor de opsplitsing van Joegoslavië en de vele oorlogsmisdaden daar begaan door de NAVO middels bombardementen op burgerdoelen……. Ook kan je Kok aanwijzen als één van de verantwoordelijken voor de massamoord op mannen en jongens in Srebrenica, immers net als Voorhoeve had hij van de VN luchtsteun moeten eisen bij het naderen van Mladics leger…… Om nog maar te zwijgen over de slappe bestrijding van terreur door moslimmannen vanuit Srebrenica in de omgeving…… (rooftochten en moorden waartegen Nederland niet optrad)

Verder kan je Kok nog aanwrijven dat hij de woningnood actief heeft helpen stimuleren en niet ingreep bij de belachelijke stijging van de huizenprijs, beide zaken waaronder velen nu nog lijden en die later tot de crisis in 2008 hebben geleid……

         Afbeeldingsresultaat voor cartoons wim kok

Kok spuugde het bijna uit toen hij sprak over ‘exorbitante zelfverrijkers’, ofwel topgraaiers uit het bedrijfsleven, echter hij was nog niet uit de politiek of hij behoorde zelf tot deze groep, toen hij een veel te dik betaalde bestuursbaan bij ING bekleedde en hetzelfde deed hij bij Shell en KLM…….

Beste bezoeker er is nog veel meer te vinden over het smerige handelen van Kok, me ontbreekt echter de lust om nog meer tijd aan deze oplichter te besteden.

Kok een geweldige man? Niet in de verste verte, hij was een ordinaire oplichter!!

Jens Stoltenberg (NAVO zetbaas): de NAVO bombardeerde Servië om het volk te kunnen redden, of Servië nu maar even NAVO lid wil worden……..

Het
is oplichter Stoltenberg nu geheel en al in de psychopathische bol geslagen,
bij een bezoek aan Servië durfde deze oorlogsmisdadiger en
NAVO-zetbaas voor de VS, tegen zijn gehoor te zeggen, dat de NAVO/VS
bombardementen op Servië in 1999 voor het bestwil van het Servische volk waren……..

Jens
S. zou gezegd hebben dat de NAVO daarmee burgers beschermde, om zo het bewind van destijds president Milosevic te
stoppen……. Gegarandeerd dat Jens S. nog steeds van mening is
dat Milosevic terecht werd veroordeeld door het Joegoslavië
tribunaal in Den Haag, terwijl na zijn dood is vast komen te staan,
dat Milosevic ten onrechte werd veroordeeld door dit lamme
tribunaal, hetzelfde tribunaal dat al de oorlogsmisdaden begaan door de NAVO/VS niet eens
heeft onderzocht, laat staan dat het de verantwoordelijken heeft aangeklaagd…….

Fijntjes
liet Jens S., de NAVO-zetbaas weten dat Servië geen lid behoeft te worden van
de NAVO, maar dat de NAVO dit wel heel graag zou willen, zeker nu de
NAVO de staatjes naast Servië allemaal binnenhengelt en daarmee de al wankele stabiliteit op de Balkan nog verder op het spel zet…… Dit alles is het gevolg
van eerdere smerige Duitse buitenlandpolitiek (Genscher*) en het latere
ingrijpen van de NAVO onder aanvoering van de VS, waarmee het Joegoslavische
deel van de Balkan in vuur en vlam werd gezet……… Ik kan deze uitlating van Stoltenberg dan ook niet anders zien dan een dreigement aan het adres van de Servische regering: meedoen of………

Overigens
hebben de NAVO en de VS** een ongelofelijke berg met verarmd uranium behandelde munitie gebruikt o.a. bij bombardementen van burgerdoelen (een oorlogsmisdaad)…….. De totale hoeveelheid van deze munitie zou tussen de 10 en 15 ton liggen, waardoor 33.000
mensen zwaar ziek werden en er nog steeds mensen ziek worden (veelal kanker),………

Kortom
Jens S. is niet alleen een oorlogsmisdadiger en oorlogshitser,
maar ook een smerige leugenaar die niet terugdeinst voor chantage! 

Ook Stoltenberg zou vervolgd moeten
worden door het Internationaal Strafhof (ICC) in Den Haag, er zijn meer dan voldoende bewijzen tegen hem, om hem voor de rest van z’n
leugenachtige leven op te sluiten in een Scheveningse cel……..

Jezus
wat een ploert die Stoltenberg, waar haalt hij het gore lef vandaan???

We
bombed you to save you’ – NATO head Stoltenberg speaks about 1999
bombings on visit to Serbia

Published
time: 7 Oct, 2018 21:58Edited time: 8 Oct, 2018 12:28

‘We bombed you to save you’ – NATO head Stoltenberg speaks about 1999 bombings on visit to Serbia

FILE
PHOTO: The south-west part of Pristina late March 24 after NATO
forces launched a missile attack against Yugoslavia © Reuters
**

Although
many people in Serbia hold “painful” memories of NATO’s 1999
bombing of their country, it was, in fact, done precisely to protect
them from their own government, NATO Secretary General Jens
Stoltenberg said in Belgrade.

He
was answering questions about the bombing and about the NATO campaign
against the government of the former Serbian President Slobodan
Milosevic, during a meeting with the students of Belgrade University.

I
stressed that we did this to protect civilians and to stop the
Milosevic regime,”
 Stoltenberg said,
as quoted by the local media, claiming locals have painful
memories of the events.

So
NATO wants the alliance and Belgrade to 
“look
into the future.”
 Stoltenberg
also boasted of an 
“excellent
relationship”
 between
NATO and Serbia, adding that the military bloc 
“respects” Belgrade’s
decision not to join the alliance. Still, he maintained that NATO
wants to be Serbia’s 
“partner.”

He
also said that NATO supports 
“dialogue” between
Serbia and its breakaway region-turned-self-proclaimed state Kosovo,
not only diplomatically but also 
“in
the form of KFOR”
 –
the NATO-led international peacekeeping force deployed to Kosovo.

His
words came about a week after a brief escalation of tensions between
Belgrade and Pristina sparked by the visit of Kosovo’s leader to a
northern part of the breakaway region, which is populated by Serbs
who refuse to recognize Pristina’s authority. The KFOR stayed
conspicuously inactive during the incident, according to some reports
while others suggested that the NATO-led force had even accompanied
the Kosovo representative on that trip.

In
March 1999, NATO launched airstrikes in what was then Yugoslavia,
without the backing of the UN Security Council, after it accused
Belgrade of 
“excessive
and disproportionate use of force”
 in
a conflict with insurgent Muslim ethnic Albanians in the region of
Kosovo, which unilaterally declared independence nine years later, in
2008.

During
the bombings, NATO dropped 
“between
10 and 15 tons of depleted uranium, which caused a major
environmental disaster”
and
prompted Serbians to sue NATO over its actions, linking them to a
rise in cancer-related illnesses across the region.

“In
Serbia, 33,000 people fall sick because of this every year. That is
one child every day,”
 a
member of the international legal team that was preparing the lawsuit
told RT in 2017. Back in 2015, Stoltenberg himself
expressed 
“regret” for
the civilian casualties of NATO’s 1999 bombing.

Trends:NATO
news 
Jens
Stoltenberg news
Serbia
news

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*    Genscher, de Duitse minister van buitenlandse zaken, die eind 80er, begin 90er jaren Kroatië en andere Joegoslavische staten opstookte onafhankelijkheid van Belgrado (Servië) te eisen, dit overgoten met een dikke saus aan Duitse marken…… Genscher was NB een minister van Duitsland, hetzelfde land dat tijdens WOII zo de beest heeft uitgehangen in wat later Joegoslavië zou gaan heten…… Ondanks dat werd Genscher door het westen, inclusief de reguliere (massa-) media, de hemel ingeprezen na zijn dood….

**   Ik blijf de VS apart noemen, daar deze grootste terreurentiteit op
aarde de NAVO in feite volledig in handen heeft en o.a. daarvoor betalen
wij belasting, sterker nog: daarvoor moeten wij in de nabije toekomst nog veel meer belastinggeld betalen (t.b.v. illegale oorlogsvoering)………

*** Het jaar wordt niet genoemd bij de foto, dit moet 1999 zijn.

Zie
ook: 

Pandora’s
box’ opened by Kosovo recognition, not by attempt to mend ties –
Serbia’s president to RT

‘We bombed you to save you’ – NATO head Stoltenberg speaks about 1999 bombings on visit to Serbia

One step from bloodshed: Moscow slams Kosovo invasion of Serb-majority area

FILE PHOTO: A man rides on a scooter along a street past parked Kosovo police armored vehicles in Kosovo, on March 27, 2018. © Laura Hasani

Italiaanse president heeft geen probleem met fascisme…….

De Italiaanse president Sergio Mattarella keurde eerder de voorgenomen minister van Financiën Paolo Savona af, de kandidaat die de Vijfsterrenbeweging en de Lega (voorheen Lega Nord) naar voren hadden geschoven. Savona van de Lega zou voorstander zijn van het uit de euro stappen door Italië en dat ging de president te ver…..

Vreemde zaak overigens, een president die een kandidaat van een (winnende) partij, na democratische verkiezingen, ter zijde kan schuiven, ook al gaat het hier om een fascist……..

Daarover gesproken: het is nog veel vreemder dat deze president geen bezwaar heeft tegen een kabinet dat hoofdzakelijk wordt bevolkt door fascisten…….

Fascisten die toch verantwoordelijk zijn voor een fiks aantal gitzwarte bladzijden in de Italiaanse geschiedenis………..

Vandaar dat de president en hoge ambtenaren veel eerder aan de rem hadden moeten trekken….. Fascisten hebben in het verleden bewezen dat ze eenmaal via verkiezingen groot geworden, het hele democratisch bestel aan de stoeprand zullen zetten, iets dat niet alleen in Italië, maar ook in Duitsland gebeurde…….

Ach het is als met bedrijven en aandeelhouders, ook zij hebben geen probleem met een fascistische regering, zo bleek ook tijdens de eerste jaren van WOII……… Het is zelfs zo zot dat Hitler en zijn NSDAP voor een groot deel door multinationals en hun aandeelhouders uit de VS werden gefinancierd en dat al ver voor WOII, ofwel: grote bedrijven, vooral uit de VS, hebben Hitler aan de macht geholpen……. (al hebben Duitse bedrijven als Bayer en Krupp ook een fikse steen bijgedragen….) Om bij het onderwerp te blijven: in Italië was het niet veel anders, de grote bedrijven als Fiat en hun aandeelhouders steunden de terreur van Mussolini en zijn misdadige trawanten…….

Ziek te zien dat heden ten dage de aandeelhouders uit de wind worden gehouden ten koste van de kleine spaarders, die nul komma nada rente op hun spaargeld krijgen, immers een lage rente is goed voor de aandeelhouders…….. Deze rente wordt laag gehouden door de verschillende centrale banken die onder verantwoording vallen van de regering waaronder zij dienen, (nogmaals) ofwel de verschillende regeringen houden de rente laag t.b.v. de aandeelhouders en hun bedrijven….. Heel wrang te zien dat bedrijvenkabinet* Rutte 3 dan ook nog eens de dividendbelasting voor buitenlandse aandeelhouders heeft afgeschaft…….

Kortom de Italiaanse president Mattarella is een enorme hypocriet, die als hij nog een greintje moraliteit zou hebben gehad, al lang zijn functie ter beschikking had gesteld……. Opvallend dat de EU alles maar laat gebeuren, terwijl men maar niet kan ophouden te stellen dat zonder de EU er al lang weer oorlog was geweest in Europa (op zich al een leugen: wat is vrede als je onder een dictatuur moet leven? Een dictatuur zoals na WOII in Spanje, Griekenland en in feite Turkije vanwege haar NAVO lidmaatschap )….. Daarbij ‘vergeet’ men  even te vertellen dat we in de 90er jaren een door Duitsland gestookte oorlog hadden in voormalig Joegoslavië…… (met grote dank aan oorlogshitser Genscher, destijds minister van BuZa in Duitsland)

Overigens was er na WOII ook een oorlog in Griekenland, een door GB opgezette oorlog tegen de Griekse communisten, die zich eerder bijna dood hadden gevochten tegen de nazi-Duitse bezetter tijdens WOII…… Niet voor niets dat de communistische partij na die wereldoorlog mateloos populair was bij het grootste deel van de Griekse bevolking……

* Terwijl ons op school en daarna werd verteld dat een kabinet een volksvertegenwoordiging is, sterker nog: dat wordt ons nog steeds voorgehouden………

Als de VS niet de VS was, zou de Verenigde Staten dit gestolen land bombarderen………

Zoals op deze pek al veelvuldig gesteld: de VS is de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, het middels de grootste genocide ooit* gestolen land dat alleen al vanaf WOII meer dan 22 miljoen mensen vermoordde……………..

Gisteren kwam Anti-Media met een artikel onder de titel: ‘If America Wasn’t America, the United States Would Be Bombing It’. Hoewel ik de opzet van deze zin begrijp, klopt deze toch niet helemaal. Immers de VS laat andere terreurstaten gewoon hun gang gaan, zolang ze maar de VS steunen…. Neem Israël en Saoedi-Arabië, die zelfs door de VS worden gesteund in de terreur die ze brengen, en door diezelfde VS worden ontzien in de VN Veiligheidsraad, als het om resoluties tegen de smerige, bloederige praktijken gaat waar deze 2 landen zich keer op keer schuldig aan maken……

Maar geen gezeik: zeker niet als je ziet dat de VS haar illegale oorlogen verdedigt door te stellen dat het voor de verdrukte volkeren opkomt en democratie wil brengen**.

Darius Shahtahmasebi schreef het artikel n.a.v. een opiniestuk van voormalig VS regeringsadviseur Edward Luttwak. Deze oorlogshitser stelde in de kop dat het tijd is voor de VS om Noord-Korea te bombarderen.

Lullig genoeg voor Luttwak, gebruikte hij argumenten die nu juist van toepassing zijn op de wandel en handel van de VS… Zo geeft Shahtahmasebi een aantal voorbeelden, zoals het gebruik van atoombommen door de VS tegen Hiroshima en Nagasaki, terwijl deze aanvallen totaal onnodig waren zoals o.a. de hoge VS militairen Nimitz en Halsey destijds betoogden.

Lees het volgende artikel van Shahtahmasebi en oordeel zelf:

If
America Wasn’t America, the United States Would Be Bombing It

February
12, 2018 at 1:00 pm

Written
by 
Darius
Shahtahmasebi

(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — On
January 8, 2018, former government advisor Edward Luttwak wrote
an
 opinion
piece
 for Foreign
Policy 
titled
“It’s Time to Bomb North Korea.”

Luttwak’s
thesis is relatively straightforward. There is a government out there
that may very soon acquire nuclear-weapons capabilities, and this
country cannot be trusted to responsibly handle such a stockpile. The
responsibility to protect the world from a rogue nation cannot be
argued with, and we understandably have a duty to ensure the future
of humanity.

However,
there is one rogue nation that continues to hold the world ransom
with its nuclear weapons supply. It is decimating non-compliant
states left, right, and center. This country must be stopped dead in
its tracks before anyone turns to the issue of North Korea.

In
August of 1945, this rogue nation dropped two atomic bombs on
civilian targets, not military targets, completely
obliterating
 between 135,000
and 300,000 Japanese civilians in just these two acts alone. Prior to
this event, this country killed even more civilians in the
 infamous
firebombing
 of
Tokyo and other areas of Japan, dropping close to 500,000 cylinders
of napalm and petroleum jelly on some of Japan’s most densely
populated areas.

Recently,
historians have become more open to the possibility that dropping the
atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not actually necessary to
end World War II. This has also been confirmed by those who actually
took part in it. As
 the Nation explained:

Fleet
Adm. Chester Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet, stated
in a public address at the Washington Monument two months after the
bombings that 
the
atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military
standpoint, in the defeat of Japan…’ 
Adm.
William “Bull” Halsey Jr., Commander of the US Third Fleet,
stated publicly in 1946 that 
the
first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment…. 
It
was a mistake to ever drop it…. [the scientists] had this toy and
they wanted to try it out, so they dropped it…” 
[emphasis
added]

A
few months’ prior, this rogue country’s
 invasion of
the Japanese island of Okinawa also claimed at least one quarter of
Okinawa’s population. The Okinawan people have been protesting this
country’s military presence ever since. The most recent ongoing
protest
 has
lasted well over 5,000 days
 in
a row.

This
nation’s bloodlust continued well after the end of World War II.
Barely half a decade later, this country bombed North Korea into
complete oblivion, 
destroying over
8,700 factories, 5,000 schools, 1,000 hospitals, 600,000 homes,
and 
eventually
killing
 off
as much as 20 percent of the country’s population. As the 
Asia
Pacific Journal
 has
noted, the assaulting country dropped so many bombs that they
eventually ran out of targets to hit, turning to bomb the irrigation
systems, instead:

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

This
was just the beginning. Having successfully destroyed the future
North Korean state, this country moved on to the rest of East Asia
and Indo-China, too. As 
Rolling
Stone’s
 Matt
Taibbi
 has explained:

We
[this loose cannon of a nation] dumped 20 million gallons of toxic
herbicide on Vietnam from the air, just to make the shooting easier
without all those trees, an insane plan to win ‘hearts and minds’
that has left about a million still disabled from defects and disease
– including about 100,000 children, even decades later, little kids
with misshapen heads, webbed hands and fused eyelids writhing on
cots, our real American legacy, well out of view, of course.”

This
mass murder led to the deaths of between 1.5 million and 3.8 million
people,
 according to
the 
Washington
Post
.
More bombs were dropped on Vietnam than were unleashed during
the
 entire
conflict in World War II
.
While this was going on, this same country was also
 secretly
bombing
 Laos
and Cambodia, too, where there are over
 80
million unexploded bombs
 still
killing people to this day.

This
country also decided to bomb
 YugoslaviaPanama,
and 
Grenada before
invading Iraq in the early 1990s***. Having successfully bombed Iraqi
infrastructure, this country then punished Iraq’s entire civilian
population with brutal sanctions. At the time, the
U.N.
 estimated that
approximately 1.7 million Iraqis had died as a result,
 including
500,000 to 600,000 children
.
Some years later, a prominent medical journal 
attempted
to absolve the cause
 of
this infamous history by refuting the statistics involved despite the
fact that, when interviewed during the sanctions-era, Bill Clinton’s
secretary of state,

Madeleine
Albright, 
intimated that
to this rogue government, the deaths of half a million children were
“worth it” as the “price” Iraq needed to pay. In other words,
whether half a million children died or not was irrelevant to this
bloodthirsty nation, which barely blinked while carrying out this
murderous policy.

This
almighty superpower then invaded Iraq again in 2003 and plunged the
entire 
region
into chaos
.
At the end of May 2017, the Physicians for Social Responsibility
(PSR) released a
 study concluding
that the death toll from this violent nation’s 2003 invasion of
Iraq had led to over one million deaths and that at least one-third
of them were caused directly by the invading force.

Not
to mention this country also invaded Afghanistan prior to the
invasion of Iraq (even though the militants 
plaguing
Afghanistan
 were
originally trained and financed by this warmongering nation). It
then 
went
on to bomb
 Yemen,
Syria, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, and the 
Philippines.

Libya famously had
one of the highest standards of living in the region. It had
state-assisted healthcare, education, transport, and affordable
housing. It is now a lawless war-zone 
rife
with extremism
 where
slaves are 
openly
traded
 like
commodities amid the power vacuum created as a direct result of the
2011 invasion.

In
2017, the commander-in-chief of this violent nation took the
monumental death and destruction to a new a level by
 removing
the restrictions
 on
delivering airstrikes, which resulted in
 thousands upon thousands of
civilian deaths. Before that, in the first six months of 2017, this
country
 dropped
over 20,650 bombs
,
a monumental increase from the year that preceded it.

Despite
these statistics, all of the above conquests are mere child’s play
to this nation. The real prize lies in some of the more defiant and
more powerful states, which this country has already unleashed a
containment strategy upon. This country has deployed its own troops
all across the 
border
with Russia 
even
though it 
promised
in the early 1990s
 it
would do no such thing. It also has a specific policy of 
containing
Russia’s close ally, China,
 all
the while threatening China’s borders with talks of direct strikes
on North Korea (again, remember it already did so in the 1950s).

This
country also elected a president who not only believes it is okay
to 
embrace
this rampantly violent militarism
 but
who openly calls 
other
countries
 “shitholes”
– the very same term that aptly describes the way this country has
treated the rest of the world for decades on end. This same president
also reportedly once asked 
three
times in a meeting
,
If
we have nuclear weapons, why don’t we use them
?”
and shortly after proposed a policy to
 remove
the constraints
 protecting
the world from his dangerous supply of advanced nuclear weaponry.

When
it isn’t directly bombing a country, it is also 
arming
radical insurgent groups
,
creating instability, and directly 
overthrowing
governments
 through
its 
covert
operatives
 on
the ground.

If
we have any empathy for humanity, it is clear that this country must
be stopped. It cannot continue to act like this to the detriment of
the rest of the planet and the safety and security of the rest of us.
This country 
openly
talks
 about
using its nuclear weapons, has used them before, and has continued to
use all manner of weapons unabated in the years since while
threatening to expand the use of these weapons to other countries.

Seriously,
if North Korea seems like a threat, imagine how the rest of the world
feels while watching one country violently take on the rest of the
planet single-handedly, leaving nothing but destruction in its wake
and promising nothing less than a nuclear holocaust in the years to
come.

There
is only one country that has done and that continues to do the very
things North Korea is being accused of doing.

Take
as much time as you need for that to resonate.

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

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

*    De grootste genocide ooit werd uitgevoerd in Noord-, Midden- en Zuid-Amerika

**  ‘Democratie brengen’, zelfs in landen waar NB een democratisch gekozen regering zat of zit, neem Syrië en Oekraïne (onder Janoekovytsj), waar de CIA eerst een opstand organiseerde, om deze te laten eindigen in een staatsgreep; deze zaak lukte wel in Oekraïne, maar niet in Syrië, waardoor deze landen wel in oorlog raakten en in chaos werden gestort……

*** De oorlog van de VS (NAVO) tegen Joegoslavië vond plaats nadat de VS op 17 januari 1991 onder de oude Bush-slachter (George H.W. Bush) de eerste VS oorlog tegen Irak begon, dit in tegenstelling tot wat Shahtahmasebi daar hierboven over heeft geschreven.

En om nog even te herinneren aan de enorme agressie van de VS, die niet op een illegale oorlog meer of minder kijkt:  ‘VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen……….‘ en:  ‘List of wars involving the United States

Zie ook: ‘Top VS generaal stelt dat er een grote oorlog met Rusland op komst is, ofwel: WOIII……

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

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

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

        en: ‘VS op weg naar daadwerkelijk gebruik van het kernwapen…………..‘ (plus twee andere Engelstalige artikelen)

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

        en: ‘NAVO oefent op een nucleaire aanval tegen ‘een denkbeeldige vijand’, ofwel Rusland……….‘ (de NAVO is in feite een organisatie van de VS en is daarmee een organisatie die dan ook precies doet wat de VS wil en de VS helpt in haar grootschalige terreur )

       en: ‘Pompeo (CIA opperhoofd met koperen fluit): heeft alle aanwijzingen dat Rusland de midterm verkiezingen zal manipuleren……

En om nog even te herinneren aan de enorme agressie van de VS, die niet op een illegale oorlog meer of minder kijkt:  ‘VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen……….‘ en:  ‘List of wars involving the United States

Dan nog over het bedreigen van Noord-Korea door Trump met ‘Fire and Fury): ‘Noord-Korea verkeerd begrepen: het land wordt bedreigd door de VS, dat alleen deze eeuw al minstens 4 illegale oorlogen begon……..‘   en: ‘Noord-Korea wil graag overleggen met de VS dat alweer de boot afhoudt………

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

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

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

Overthrowing
Other People’s Governments: The Master List

By
William Blum

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

  • China
    1949 to early 1960s

  • Albania
    1949-53

  • East
    Germany 1950s

  • Iran
    1953 *

  • Guatemala
    1954 *

  • Costa
    Rica mid-1950s

  • Syria
    1956-7

  • Egypt
    1957

  • Indonesia
    1957-8

  • British
    Guiana 1953-64 *

  • Iraq
    1963 *

  • North
    Vietnam 1945-73

  • Cambodia
    1955-70 *

  • Laos
    1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *

  • Ecuador
    1960-63 *

  • Congo
    1960 *

  • France
    1965

  • Brazil
    1962-64 *

  • Dominican
    Republic 1963 *

  • Cuba
    1959 to present

  • Bolivia
    1964 *

  • Indonesia
    1965 *

  • Ghana
    1966 *

  • Chile
    1964-73 *

  • Greece
    1967 *

  • Costa
    Rica 1970-71

  • Bolivia
    1971 *

  • Australia
    1973-75 *

  • Angola
    1975, 1980s

  • Zaire
    1975

  • Portugal
    1974-76 *

  • Jamaica
    1976-80 *

  • Seychelles
    1979-81

  • Chad
    1981-82 *

  • Grenada
    1983 *

  • South
    Yemen 1982-84

  • Suriname
    1982-84

  • Fiji
    1987 *

  • Libya
    1980s

  • Nicaragua
    1981-90 *

  • Panama
    1989 *

  • Bulgaria
    1990 *

  • Albania
    1991 *

  • Iraq
    1991

  • Afghanistan
    1980s *

  • Somalia
    1993

  • Yugoslavia
    1999-2000 *

  • Ecuador
    2000 *

  • Afghanistan
    2001 *

  • Venezuela
    2002 *

  • Iraq
    2003 *

  • Haiti
    2004 *

  • Somalia
    2007 to present

  • Libya
    2011*

  • Syria
    2012

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

A: Because
there’s no American embassy there.

http://williamblum.org/  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Comments
on Gathering These Numbers


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

37
VICTIM NATIONS

Afghanistan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Angola

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

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

Argentina:
See South America: Operation Condor

Bangladesh:
See Pakistan

Bolivia

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

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

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

Also
see: See South America: Operation Condor

Brazil:
See South America: Operation Condor

Cambodia

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

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

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

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

Also
see Vietnam

Chad

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

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

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

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

Chile

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

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

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

Also
see South America: Operation Condor

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

Colombia

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

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

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

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

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

Cuba

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

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

Democratic
Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire)

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

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

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

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

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

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


Dominican
Republic

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

East
Timor

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

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

El
Salvador

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

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

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

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

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

Grenada

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

Guatemala

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

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

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

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

Haiti

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

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


Honduras

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

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

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

Hungary

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

Indonesia

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

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

Iran

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

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

Iraq

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

Israeli-Palestinian
War

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


Korea,
North and South


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


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

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


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

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


Laos


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


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

Also
See Vietnam

Nepal


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

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


Nicaragua


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


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


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


Pakistan


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

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

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


Panama


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


Paraguay:
See South America: Operation Condor


Philippines


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


South
America: Operation Condor


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


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


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


Sudan


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


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

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


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


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


Uruguay:
See South America: Operation Condor

Vietnam

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


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

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


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


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


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


Yugoslavia


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


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


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

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

Kosovo:
500 to 5,000. (7)


NOTES


Afghanistan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Angola

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

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

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

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

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

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

Argentina
: See South America: Operation Condor

Bolivia

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

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

Brazil
See South America: Operation Condor

Cambodia

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

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

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

Chad

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

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

Chile

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

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

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

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

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

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

China:
See Korea

Colombia

1.Chronology
of American State Terrorism, p.2

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

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

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

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

5.Virtual
Truth Commission, 1991

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

Cuba

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

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

Democratic
Republic of Congo (Formerly Zaire)

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

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

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

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

5.Ibid.,p.
260

6.Ibid.,p.
259

7.Ibid.,p.262

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

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


Dominican
Republic

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

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

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

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


East
Timor

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

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

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

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

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


El
Salvador

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

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

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

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


Grenada

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

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


Guatemala

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

2.Ibid.

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

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

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


Haiti

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

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

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


Honduras

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

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

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

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

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


Hungary

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

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


Indonesia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Iran

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

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

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


Iraq

Iran-Iraq
War

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

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


U.S.
Iraq War and Sanctions

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

2.Ibid.,
p. 52-54

3.Ibid.,
p. 43

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

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

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

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


U.S-Iraq
War 2003-?

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

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


Israeli-Palestinian
War

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

2.Chronology
of American State Terrorism

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


Korea

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Laos

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

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

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

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


Nepal

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

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

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

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

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


Nicaragua

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

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

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

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

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

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


Pakistan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Panama

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

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

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

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

Paraguay
See South America: Operation Condor


Philippines

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

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


South
America: Operation Condor

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

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

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


Sudan

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

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


Uruguay
See South America: Operation Condor


Vietnam

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

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

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

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

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

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


Yugoslavia

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

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

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

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

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

5.Chronology
of American State Terrorism

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

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

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

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General Carlos Martins Branco is one of the most fascinating (and until quite recently also inaccessible) actors in the Srebrenica controversy. From his Zagreb vantage point as deputy head of the U.N. Protection Force (UNPROFOR) between 1994 and 1996, during the latter phase of the 1990s Yugoslav conflict as it unfolded in Croatia and Bosnian and Herzegovina, this Portuguese officer had privileged access to significant information. Confidential reports about the goings on in the field were crossing his desk.

With first-hand information and further enlightened by discrete conversations with colleagues from various intelligence structures, Martins Branco was positioned ideally to learn facts which many officials would have preferred to cover up, and the media frequently ignored.

«War in the Balkans» – the Memoirs of a Portugese Peacekeeper (I)

«Given that military advantage favored the defense, why did the Bosnian army fail to put up any resistance to Serbian forces? Why did the command of the 28th Division of the Bosnian army – acting apparently contrary to its interest – fail to establish a defense line, as at other times it knew well how to do, as for instance during the April 1993 crisis? Why did Muslim forces in the enclave fail to act to regain control over their heavy weapons, which had been deposited in a local warehouse under UN’s lock and key? Was it no more than an oversight?» (Page 197)

                 

As a supplement to these well-formulated questions, we may note that already on July 6, as the Serbian attack was commencing, the Dutch battalion command in Srebrenica let it be known to the 28th Division that it was free to retrieve its warehoused heavy armaments, if it so wished. That fact was revealed in the Dutch battalion «Debriefing», which came out in October of 1995. However, Muslim forces in Srebrenica inexplicably ignored this invitation, thus reinforcing the impression that – for political or other reasons – they lacked the purpose of militarily resisting the Serbian attack.

Which leads the author to the following reflections:

«Twenty years later, we still lack satisfactory answers to questions that seem crucial, assuming that we are seeking to find out what exactly happened. The passivity and absence of a military reaction on the part of Muslim forces in the enclave is in stark contrast to their offensive behavior during the preceding two years, which was manifested in the form of systematic slaughter of Serbian civilians in the villages surrounding Srebrenica». (Page 197)

ICTY in het artikel staat voor het Joegoslaviëtribunaal >> International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Lees het hele artikel op >> stan van houcke: «War in the Balkans»

Nederlandse Veteranendag: ook voor ‘Indië veteranen…………..’

Hoorde een dag of tien geleden een spotje van de Stichting Nederlandse Veteranendag op de radio, waar men speciaal de aandacht vestigde op de veteranen die in Indonesië zo gruwelijk tekeer zijn gegaan (en dat allesbehalve ‘incidenteel’)……………

Dit terwijl de Nederlandse regering het verdomt om excuses te maken voor de smerige koloniale oorlog van Nederland tegen het Indonesische volk……..

Waarom moet er ééns per jaar een veteranendag worden gehouden? Je zou je nog kunnen voorstellen dat er voor de destijds uitgezonden dienstplichtigen, een dag wordt belegd, echter voor de beroepsmilitairen zo’n dag beleggen, is vragen om moeilijkheden.

Zij hebben de laatste 25 jaar veelal meegewerkt aan illegale oorlogen (door de VS begonnen, of door VS machinaties uitgebroken oorlogen), moeten we daar trots op zijn??

Bovendien aardig hypocriet van de Nederlandse overheid (en regering), die immers zo min mogelijk ex-militairen wil erkennen als getraumatiseerd (posttraumatische stressstoornis ofwel: PTSS)…….

Kortom: moeten we trots zijn op heel foute militaire acties?? (uiteraard hebben veel militairen geen misdaden begaan en zijn ze min of meer gedwongen mee te doen aan die foute acties)

Moet dit jaarlijks gevierd worden, o.a. middels het overvliegen van militair tuig (met een oorverdovende herrie), zoals straaljagers die zelfs burgerslachtoffers hebben gemaakt? Neem verder de oorlogsmisdaden begaan in het toenmalige Joegoslavië en later Servië, waar o.a. burgerdoelen werden gebombardeerd onder NAVO vlag…….. Overigens het schijnt dat er vandaag ook op Haagse grond veel rollend (en stinkend) militair tuig te zien is geweest, dit ter ere van historische (vaak fout) geweld…….

Kap ajb met deze hypocriete en foute verering van het leger, het is meer dan walgelijk!! Een goede zorg voor veteranen en echt kritisch nadenken voordat er militairen worden uitgezonden (naar landen waar we niets te zoeken hebben) is veel belangrijker!

Erdogan heeft ‘gewonnen’, aanhang blij dat ze tot 2029 grof bestolen zullen worden en de kans lopen willekeurig gevangen te worden gezet……..

BBC World Service radio berichtte gisternacht na het nieuws van 2.00 u. (CET) over ‘ de winst’ van autocraat Erdogan, in het de dag daarvoor gehouden referendum. Met die winst wordt Erdogan een alleenheerser, nou zeg maar gerust dictator, die zelfs het parlement naar believen kan herschikken……..

Dat Erdogan met 51% van de stemmen heeft gewonnen, zal hem niet in z’n koude kleren hebben gezeten. Gegarandeerd dat hij verwachtte met meer te zullen winnen, maar geen nood: toen bleek dat e.e.a. echt op kantelen stond, heeft men de voorgenomen manipulatie ingezet, alleen niet te groot: 1,5 miljoen stemmen (die het verschil maakten) werden opgevoerd, die niet waren voorzien van de officiële stempels die normaal op de stembiljetten moeten staan…………

Zoals gisteren al op deze plek opgemerkt*, vreemd, dat de NAVO niet al voor dit referendum Erdogan heeft gewaarschuwd een dergelijke stap (het houden van dit referendum) niet te nemen…….. Hoewel, ‘vreemd’, eigenlijk is het helemaal niet vreemd, daar de NAVO in haar geschiedenis nooit moeite heeft gehad met dictatoriaal geregeerde lidstaten, zoals Portugal, Griekenland en… Turkije!!

Wel ‘vreemd’, daar de NAVO, als de VS stelt, dat het democratie moet brengen in landen waar we geen bliksem te zoeken hebben, zoals in Libië en in feite ook Irak en Afghanistan…… Om de oorlog in oud-Joegoslavië niet te vergeten, waar de NAVO precies als in de hiervoor genoemde landen, enorme oorlogsmisdaden beging……….. Irak waar een aantal NAVO landen hebben meegeholpen aan wat de moord op meer dan 1,5 miljoen Irakezen zou worden………

Terug naar Erdogan, deze zwaar corrupte reli-fascist nam in zijn overwinningspraatje minstens 4 keer het woord ‘democratie’ in de vuilbek…… De democratie zou er met zijn overwinning op vooruit gaan…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! De BBC had een doctor Ira Gill** in de studio, deze vroeg zich waarachtig af, of dit de weg naar meer democratie is….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

In het Radio1 Journaal bracht men later gisterochtend Jeroen de Jager, Lucas Waagmeester en nog een journalist (V), ik neem aan een Turkse, die niet aan het woord kwam. Jeroen de Jager was afgereisd naar Turkije, waar Waagmeester NOS correspondent is. De twee zaten samen wat te kouten over het referendum, een lulpraatje dat de moeite niet waard is om te herhalen….. Ongelofelijk!!!

Later op de dag sprak men nog over het volgende referendum dat Erdogan wil houden, dat over de doodstraf (een meerderheid van de Turken is voor…) en dat dit een definitieve streep zal zetten ‘onder het voornemen’ Turkije toe te laten tot de EU…… Op dat moment schoot ‘t door m’n hoofd: hoe kan de EU de wil hebben wel een vrijhandelsverdrag met de VS af te sluiten (TTIP), terwijl dat ‘land’ al sinds de oprichting de doodstraf kent en daadwerkelijk uitvoert…..???? Wat een hypocrieten!!

Over de EU gesproken en PvdA sierdrol Timmermans in het bijzonder: waar blijft dit dictatoriale orgaan en haar mislukte praalhans met kritiek op het vluchtelingenverdrag met Turkije?? Dit vanwege de barbaarse omgang van Turkije met vluchtelingen. Niet alleen wat betreft ‘de opvang’ in provisorische gevangenissen (waar het aan van alles ontbreekt) van vaak hele gezinnen en het terugsturen van vluchtelingen, regelrecht naar de oorlogsgebieden Afghanistan en Syrië……..

*  Zie: ‘Turks referendum: een NOS ‘verslag’ door Lucas Waagmeester……….

** De naam ‘Ira Gill’ is waarschijnlijk niet goed gespeld >> ik heb de naam niet terug kunnen vinden op het net.

Zie ook:

Zie voor meer berichten met een dubieuze rol van Waagmeester:

Lucas Waagmeester, NOS correspondent in Turkije, met 5 km/u. uit de ‘Koerdenbocht’‘ (en zie de andere links in dat bericht)

Bomaanslag in Istanbul: anti-PKK propaganda op Radio1……..

Koenders doodstil over Turkse terreur tegen de Koerden en Lucas Waagmeester (NOS) met kromme berichtgeving over de Koerden en de Turkse overheid…….

Klik voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden.