BBC World Service: Rusland heeft VS verkiezingen gemanipuleerd……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

‘Viel’ gistermiddag ongeveer middenin het programma HardTalk op BBC World Service radio. Hier was presentator Stephen Sackur in gesprek met de Russische woordvoerder van Buitenlandse Zaken, Konstantin Kosachev. Buiten dat Sackur een plaag is voor het oor, daar hij belachelijk hard spreekt….* (je kan hard talk overigens op een paar manieren uitleggen, het kan ook zoiets betekenen als iemand de waarheid zeggen) Zo spreekt Sackur zijn gasten uiterst irritant aan, zeker als het zoals in dit geval een lid van de Putin regering is, aan wie hij de pest heeft, dan verheft hij zijn stem nog meer….. (als je Rusland en China niet ‘basht’ kan je het wel vergeten bij de ‘onafhankelijke’ BBC…..)

 

Rusland heeft de VS presidentsverkiezingen gemanipuleerd, zo liet Sackur op hiervoor beschreven manier weten…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Ik dacht dat men zich nog enigszins serieus nam bij de BBC, duidelijk een heel verkeerde aanname! De bewijzen dat e.e.a. niet is gebeurd liggen voor het oprapen, maar de BBC doet net of haar neus bloedt……. Nee, volgens Sackur zijn de FBI, NSA en CIA ervan overtuigd dat Rusland schuldig is…… Het meest betrouwbaar vond Sackur de uitspraak van James Comey, ‘t voormalig opperhoofd van de FBI, die stelde dat Rusland absoluut schuldig is…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Comey is een enorme bedrieger en de genoemde geheime diensten zijn beter in het vertellen van leugens dan de waarheid, iets dat tegenwoordig zelfs elke imbeciel in de VS weet…… Hoe kan je nog beweren dat Rusland de VS presidentsverkiezingen heeft gemanipuleerd, als die geheime diensten en Comey alleen maar zaken beweren, zonder ook maar een flinter bewijs te leveren…….. Zoals gezegd voor het tegendeel, zoals het lekken uit het campagneteam van Clinton, is overtuigend bewijs, dat dit een ‘inside job’ was…….

Sackur had geen best halfuur, Kosachev veegde de vloer met hem aan, door hem met feiten om de oren te slaan…….. Sackur wilde nog wel even gezegd hebben dat de VS haar veiligheid en integriteit wel moet beschermen wat betreft Noord-Korea, dit daar Kosachev volkomen terecht stelde dat Noord-Korea alle reden heeft om zich te beschermen tegen de VS…… De VS, NB het land dat als eerste en enige atoomwapens tegen burgers heeft ingezet en het land dat het ene na het andere land illegaal binnenvalt……

Vergeet verder niet dat de VS vanaf het einde van WOII tot nu meer dan 22 miljoen mensen heeft vermoord in in feite illegale oorlogen, geheime militaire CIA acties, plus door de CIA georganiseerde opstanden en staatsgrepen (en in die volgorde…)…… Daarnaast heeft de VS tijdens de Koreaanse oorlog heel Noord-Korea platgebombardeerd en wel zo grondig, dat er geen doelen om te bombarderen overbleven, 20% van de burgerbevolking werd toen vermoord middels deze VS bombardementen………

Zo worden de westerse burgers dag in dag uit met deze smerige manipulatie van de werkelijkheid (ofwel ‘propaganda’) door de reguliere media besodemieterd……. (over ‘fake news’ gesproken..) Dit tot grote tevredenheid van het militair-industrieel complex dat vorig jaar haar grootste winst ooit behaalde…………. Tevreden kunnen ook de onmensen zijn, die zich aandeelhouders van deze doodsindustrie noemen……

* Meerdere BBC presentatoren van de BBC spreken op een belachelijke manier, zo ook Roger Hearing die als John Cleese in een sketch van Monty Python spreekt, zo bijt hij zijn gasten, uiterst irritant, de grootste leugens toe, als waren ze de waarheid, dit bij het verslaan van financiële activiteiten voor de BBC. Deze presentatoren ‘spreken op een belachelijk overdreven zangerige manier’, waarbij de verstaanbaarheid (op een kleine radio, terwijl je werkt) sterk in het gedrang komt. Buiten dat veel onderwerpen alles behalve leuk zijn, waar het echter wel op lijkt, gezien de manier van spreken…….

PS: als er één land bezig is verkiezingen in binnen- en buitenland te manipuleren, is het de VS zelf wel! Uit de Vault 7 documenten op WikiLeaks is te lezen welke van de vele digitale mogelijkheden de CIA en NSA daarvoor gebruiken. De VS gaat zover, omdat het zelfs inbreekt op de computers van bevriende staatshoofden, zoals de Duitse premier Merkel. Onbegrijpelijk dat de reguliere media hier zo laks op reageerden, zeker als je dit vergelijkt met de hysterische reactie van de media op de leugens van de geheime diensten over ‘Russische manipulaties’, zoals hiervoor beschreven………

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

Trump dreigt Noord-Korea volledig te vernietigen, mocht de VN niet optreden tegen dat land……..

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

Noord-Korea een agressor? Hier de feiten!

Noord-Koreaanse raket zorgt voor belachelijke massahysterie…….

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

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

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

North Korea: Killer Sanctions Imposed By The UN Security Council

North Korea Does Not Trust America for a Pretty Good Reason

Only Morons Believe What The US Government Says About North Korea

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


De VS en haar ‘zachte diplomatie’ t.a.v. Noord-Korea…..

 

Laatste update op 3 mei 2021, zeg tot m’n schrik dat is Sackur en Hearing heb verwisseld, het was dan ook Hearing die sprak als John Cleese; mijn excuus (hoor hem trouwens al een paar maanden niet meer op BBC W.S., dus op 3 mei 2021)

De VS en haar ‘zachte diplomatie’ t.a.v. Noord-Korea…..

Hier een paar cartoons van Carlos Latuff over de ‘zachte diplomatie’ van de VS t.a.v. Noord-Korea:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

De media slaan als het over Noord-Korea gaat, op de oorlogstrom, zo zou N-K een gevaar voor de wereldvrede zijn en spreekt men van Noord-Koreaanse agressie…… Terwijl er amper of geen aandacht is voor de jaarlijkse grootschalige militaire oefeningen van de VS en Zuid-Korea voor de grenzen van N-K (over agressie gesproken), iets waar Noord-Korea al decennialang tegen protesteert……..

Gisteren plaatste Anti-Media een artikel van Darius Shahtahmasebi, waarin hij opmerkte, dat Noord-Korea meermaals heeft aangeboden met het kernwapenprogramma te stoppen, iets waar geen belangstelling voor was in het Witte Huis en het Pentagon……..

‘Diezelfde belangstelling’ ontbreekt ook bij de reguliere westerse media, men stelt doodleuk dat Noord-Korea niet wenst te onderhandelen en dat het land daarom onberekenbaar en gevaarlijk is………

Overigens heeft ook de regering van ‘vredesduif’ Obama geweigerd te overleggen met China en Noord-Korea over het bevriezen van het kernwapenprogramma…… Ja u leest het goed: ook China heeft de VS verzocht, om samen met een VS / Chinese delegatie te onderhandelen met Noord-Korea….. U weet uiteraard wat het overgrote deel van de westerse politici en media ons voorhouden: China zou veel te weinig doen tegen de ‘Noord-Koreaanse agressie….’

Kortom ook hier wordt u door de westerse reguliere media besodemieterd met ”fake news’ en dikke leugens…..

Shahtahmasebi vestigt volkomen terecht nog eens de aandacht op het feit dat Noord-Korea alle reden heeft, bang te zijn voor het uiterst agressieve VS, de reden waarom het land atoomwapens wil hebben…… Zo kwam 20% van de Noord-Koreaanse bevolking om bij VS bombardementen tijdens de Koreaanse oorlog en begint de VS de ene illegale oorlog na de andere……..

Media
Silence: North Korea Has Repeatedly Offered to Give up Their Nukes

September
7, 2017 at 8:03 am

Written
by 
Darius
Shahtahmasebi

(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed)  As
the
 mass
media
 and
the
 establishment
figures
 who
keep mainstream outlets 
afloat continue
to beat the drums of war against North Korea, little attention is
being paid to one crucial detail regarding the current crisis
engulfing the Korean peninsula.

You
wouldn’t know it if you were to turn on your television every day
or simply
 skim
the media’s headlines
,
but North Korea has continuously
 offered to
freeze its nuclear program. The very threat we are continuously told
to fear could be immediately neutralized but is instead repeatedly
rejected by the United States.

However,
prominent media outlets such as the 
Washington
Post
 continue to
tell a different story, namely that:

[North
Korean dictator Kim Jong-un] has shown no interest in talks — he
won’t even set foot in China, his biggest patron. Even if
negotiations took place, the current regime has made clear that ‘it
will never place its self-defensive nuclear deterrence on the
negotiating table, 
as
one envoy recently put it
.”

As
the 
Intercept explains,
this is a false assertion:

There’s
of course a significant difference between
 North
Korea saying it will never negotiate to halt or eliminate its nuclear
weapons program, and that it will never negotiate as long as the U.S.
continues to threaten it…The reality is that 
North
Korea is saying that, under certain conditions, 
it
will put its nuclear weapons on the table.” 
[emphasis
added]

Not
only does the media continue to misinform the public on this issue,
but as Noam Chomsky explained in an
 interview with Democracy!
Now
,
the United States continues to categorically reject North Korea’s
proposal:

There
is one proposal that’s ignored. You see a mention of it now and
then. It’s a pretty simple proposal. Remember the goal is to get
North Korea to freeze its weapons systems – weapons and missile
systems. One proposal is to accept their offer to do that. Sounds
simple, they’ve made a proposal – China and North Korea –
proposed to freeze the North Korean missile and nuclear weapons
systems and the
 U.S.
instantly rejected it. And you can’t blame that on Trump, Obama did
the same thing, a couple of years ago. Same offer was presented – I
think it was 2015 – the Obama administration instantly rejected
it.”

Why
would they do that? Why fear North Korea’s nuclear weapons
capabilities but then reject a proposal to freeze their production?
As Chomsky explains further:

The
reason is that it calls for a quid pro quo
.
It says in return the United States should put an end to threatening
military maneuvers on North Korea’s borders, which happen to
include under Trump, 
sending of nuclear-capable
B-52s
 flying
right near the border. Maybe Americans don’t remember very well but
North Koreans have a memory of not too long ago when 
North
Korea was absolutely flattened
 –
literally – by
American bombing. 
There was literally no
targets left.
” [emphasis
added]

In
the early 1950s, the U.S. relentlessly bombed North
Korea, 
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 U.S. did, indeed, drop so many bombs that they eventually
ran out of targets to hit and bombed 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]

Despite
the people and leadership of North Korea 
knowing
this history
 and
the history of other
 like-minded
states
 who
became easy targets for the U.S. military upon dismantling their
weapons programs, North Korea is still to this day offering this
proposal to freeze its program.

As
the 
Intercept explained at
the end of August:

North
Korea’s proclamations have been 
closely
tracked
 by
Robert Carlin, currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s
Center for International Security and Cooperation and formerly head
of the Northeast Asia Division in the State Department’s
intelligence arm. Carlin has visited North Korea over 30 times.

Via
email, Carlin described how it is difficult but critical to
accurately decode North Korean communications. ‘Observers dismiss
as unimportant what the North Koreans say,’ Carlin writes, and
‘therefore don’t read it carefully, except of course if it is
colorful, fiery language that makes for lovely headlines. Some of
what the North says is simply propaganda and can be read with one eye
closed. Other things are written and edited very carefully, and need
to be read very carefully. And then, having been read, they need to
be compared with past statements, and put in context.’”

The media’s
insistence
 that
North Korea will never give up its weapons systems is completely
disingenuous when one reads the entire context of the statements
offered by Kim Jong-un’s government. On July 4, Kim’s statement
read as follows:

[T]he
DPRK would neither put its nukes and ballistic rockets on the table
of negotiations in any case nor flinch even an inch from the road of
bolstering the nuclear force chosen by itself 
unless the
U.S. hostile policy and nuclear threat to the DPRK are definitely
terminated
.” [emphasis
added]

Quid
pro quo
.

This
is a deal-breaker for the U.S. even though it would undoubtedly
diffuse the entire situation and provide the region with at least a
brief period of stability.

The
U.S., together with South Korea,
 simulates an
invasion of North Korea every year. In Donald Trump’s first six
months in office, he
 dropped over
20,650 bombs in approximately seven countries, which
 killed
thousands of civilians
.
By comparison, Kim Jong-un
 bombs the
ocean.

No
matter how objectively you look at it, North Korea has a genuine
reason to want to be prepared in the face of American aggression. But
a military strike option to counter any potential North Korean threat
is not the only option and, further, is almost
 certainly
the worst option on the table
.

After
the failures and crimes of U.S. politicians and the military in Iraq,
Libya, Yemen, and Afghanistan — to name a few — we should be
demanding that our world leaders try the diplomatic option advanced
by the North Korean regime to the fullest extent in order to avoid a
potential nuclear holocaust and the deaths of millions of innocent
civilians.

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

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

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

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

        en: ‘BBC World Service: Rusland heeft VS verkiezingen gemanipuleerd……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

        en: ‘Trump dreigt Noord-Korea volledig te vernietigen, mocht de VN niet optreden tegen dat land……..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

September
5, 2017 at 8:58 am

Written
by 
Jake
Johnson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There
is no more road left” for diplomacy.

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Noord-Korea een agressor? Hier de feiten!

Noord-Korea wordt door de regering van Trump en daarmee door de rest van de westerse landen gezien als een bedreiging…… Niet dat Noord-Korea, zoals de VS, de ene na de andere illegale oorlog begint, of illegale geheime militaire missies uitvoert in landen waar het haar maar uitkomt, zoals de VS al meer dan 100 jaar doet en nee N-K organiseert geen staatsgrepen, of opstanden die tot staatsgrepen moeten leiden, zoals de VS keer op keer doet…… Ondanks dat wordt Noord-Korea niet alleen gezien als een bedreiging voor de VS en andere landen, maar wordt het land zelfs gezien als een bedreiging voor de wereldvrede………

Ondanks alle ‘mooie praatjes’ van het beest Trump, de huidige president van de VS, ten spijt, wenst dit ‘land’ niet in gesprek te gaan met Noord-Korea, zoals een woordvoerder van Tillerson, de VS minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, op 5 augustus jl. in Manilla liet weten……..

Het is niet vreemd dat Noord-Korea een eigen atoomwapen wil hebben, immers de VS heeft zoals gezegd al zoveel landen aangevallen, dat het bewind serieus moet vrezen voor een VS aanval op haar grondgebied……. Vergeet daarnaast niet dat de VS maar liefst 15 militaire bases in Zuid-Korea heeft, waarvan er 1 direct aan de grens (gedemilitariseerde zone) van N-K staat en een andere dichtbij die grens. Deze bases zijn voorzien van het modernste militaire moordwapentuig en meerdere massavernietigingswapens…….

Beste bezoeker, lees het volgende artikel waarin nog veel meer feiten op een rij worden gezet, dit artikel werd vorige week donderdag op Information Clearing House gepubliceerd en werd overgenomen van Global Research. Onder het artikel kan u klikken voor een vertaling (neemt wel enige tijd in beslag):

North
Korea, An Aggressor? A Reality Check

By
Felicity Arbuthnot

“ … war
in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war
against children.”(
Howard
Zinn
,
1922-2010.)



All
war represents a failure of diplomacy.” (
Tony
Benn
,
MP. 1925-2014.)

No
country too poor, too small, too far away, not to be threat, a threat
to the American way of life.” (
William
Blum
,
“Rogue State.”)   

August
24, 2017 “Information
Clearing House
” – 
The
mention of one tiny country appears to strike at the rationality and
sanity of those who should know far better. On Sunday, 6
th August,
for example, The Guardian headed an editorial: “The Guardian view
on sanctions: an essential tool.” Clearly the average of five
thousands souls a month, the majority children, dying of “embargo
related causes” in Iraq, year after grinding year – genocide in
the name of the UN – for over a decade has long been forgotten by
the broadsheet of the left.

This
time of course, the target is North Korea upon whom the United
Nations Security Council has voted unanimously to freeze, strangulate
and deny essentials, normality, humanity. Diplomacy as ever, not even
a consideration. The Guardian, however, incredibly, declared the
decimating sanctions: “A rare triumph of diplomacy …” (Guardian
6th August 2017.)

As
US Secretary of State, 
Rex
Tillerson
,
the US’ top “diplomat” and his North Korean counterpart 
Ri
Yong-ho
 headed
for the annual Ministerial meeting of the Association of Southeast
Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Manila on 5
th August,
a State Department spokesperson said of Tillerson:

The
Secretary has no plans to meet the North Korean Foreign Minister in
Manila, and I don’t expect to see that happen”

Pathetic.
In April, approaching his hundredth day in office, Trump said of
North Korea:

We’d
love to solve things diplomatically but it’s very difficult.”

No
it is not. Talk, walk in the other’s psychological shoes. Then,
there they were at the same venue but the Trump Administration
clearly does not alone live in a land of missed opportunities, but of
opportunities deliberately buried in landfill miles deep. This in
spite of his having said in the same statement:

There
is a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with
North Korea. Absolutely.”

A
bit of perspective: 27th July 2017 marked sixty four
years since the armistice agreement that ended the devastating three
year Korean war, however there has never been a peace treaty, thus
technically the Korean war has never ended. Given that and American’s
penchant for wiping out countries with small populations which pose
them no threat (think most recently, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya) no
wonder North Korea wishes to look as if it has some heavy protective
gear behind the front door, so to speak.

Tiny
North Korea has a population of just 25.37 million and landmass of
120,540 km² (square kilometres.) The US has a population of 323.1
million and a landmass of 9.834 MILLION km² (square kilometres.)
Further, since 1945, the US is believed to have produced some 70,000
nuclear weapons – though now down to a “mere” near 7,000 –
but North Korea is a threat?  

America
has fifteen military bases in South Korea – down from a staggering
fifty four – bristling with every kind of weapons of mass
destruction. Two bases are right on the North Korean border and
another nearly as close
.
See full details of each, with map at (1.)

North
Korea also has the collective memory of the horror wrought by the US
in the three year conflict on a country then with a population of
just 9.6 million souls. US General Curtis Lemay in the aftermath
stated: “After destroying North Korea’s seventy eight cities and
thousands of her villages, and killing countless numbers of her
civilians … Over a period of three years or so we killed off –
what – twenty percent of the population.”

It
is now believed that the population north of the imposed 38th
Parallel lost nearly a third its population of 8 – 9 million people
during the 37-month long ‘hot’ war, 1950 – 1953, perhaps an
unprecedented percentage of mortality suffered by one nation due to
the belligerence of another.” (2)
 

In
context:

During
The Second World War the United Kingdom lost 0.94% of its population,
France lost 1.35%, China lost 1.89% and the US lost 0.32%. During the
Korean war, North Korea lost close to 30 % of its
population.” 
(Emphasis
added.)

We
went over there and fought the war and 
eventually
burned down every town in North Korea anyway, some way or another
 …”,
boasted Lemay.

Gen.
Douglas MacArthur
 said
during a Congressional hearing in 1951 that he had never seen such
devastation.

I
shrink with horror that I cannot express in words … at this
continuous slaughter of men in Korea,” MacArthur said. “I have
seen, I guess, as much blood and disaster as any living man, and it
just curdled my stomach, the last time I was there.” (CNN,
28
th July
2017.)

Horrified
as he was, he did not mention the incinerated women, children,
infants in the same breath.

Moreover,
as 
Robert
M. Neer
 wrote
in “Napalm, an American Biography”:

‘“Practically
every U.S. fighter plane that has flown into Korean air carried at
least two napalm bombs,” Chemical Officer Townsend wrote in January
1951. About 21,000 gallons of napalm hit Korea every day in 1950. As
combat intensified after China’s intervention, that number more
than tripled (…) a total of 32,357 tons of napalm fell on Korea,
about double that dropped on Japan in 1945. Not only did the allies
drop more bombs on Korea than in the Pacific theater during World War
II – 635,000 tons, versus 503,000 tons – more of what fell was
napalm …’

In
the North Korean capitol, Pyongyang, just two buildings were reported
as still standing.

In
the unending history of US warmongering, North Korea is surely the
smallest population they had ever attacked until their assault on
tiny Grenada in October 1983, population then just 91,000 (compulsory
silly name: “Operation Urgent Fury.)

North
Korea has been taunted by the US since it lay in ruins after the
armistice sixty five years ago, yet as ever, the US Administration
paints the vast, self appointed “leader of the free world” as the
victim.

As
Fort-Russ pointed out succinctly (7th August 2017):

The
Korean Peninsula is in a state of crisis not only due to constant US
threats towards North Korea, but also due to various provocative
actions, such as Washington conducting joint military exercises with
Seoul amid tensions, and which Pyongyang considered a threat to its
national security.”

This
month “massive land, sea and air exercises” involving “tens of
thousands of troops” from the US and South Korea began on 21st  of
August and continue until 31st.

In
the past, the practices are believed to have included “decapitation
strikes” – trial operations for an attempt to kill 
Kim
Jong-un
 and
his top Generals …’, according to the Guardian (11
th August
2017.)

The
obligatory stupid name chosen for this dangerous, belligerent, money
burning, sabre rattling nonsense is Ulchi-Freedom Guardian. It is an
annual occurrence since first initiated back in 1976.

US
B-1B bombers flying from Guam recently carried out exercises in South
Korea and “practiced attack capabilities by releasing inert weapons
at the Pilsung Range.” In a further provocative (and illegal) move,
US bombers were again reported to overfly North Korea, another of
many such bullying, threatening actions, reportedly eleven just since
May this year.

Yet
in spite of all, North Korea is the “aggressor.”

The
nuclear warheads of United States of America are stored in some
twenty one locations, which include thirteen U.S. states and five
European countries … some are on board U.S. submarines. There are
some “zombie” nuclear warheads as well, and they are kept in
reserve, and as many as 3,000 of these are still awaiting their
dismantlement. (The US) also extends its “nuclear umbrella” to
such other countries as South Korea, Japan, and Australia.”
(
worldatlas.com)

Russian Foreign
Minister Sergey Lavrov
 who
also attended the ASEAN meeting in Manila, did of course, do what
proper diplomats do and talked with his North Korean counterpart Ri
Yong-ho. Minister Lavrov’s opinion was summed up by a Fort Russ
News observer as:

The
Korean Peninsula is in a state of crisis not only due to constant US
threats towards North Korea, but also due to various provocative
actions, such as Washington conducting joint military exercises with
Seoul amid tensions, and which Pyongyang considered a threat to its
national security.”

The
“provocative actions” also include the threatening over-flights
by US ‘planes flying from Guam. However when North Korea said if
this continued they would consider firing missiles in to the ocean
near Guam – not as was reported by some hystericals as threatening
to bomb Guam – Agent Orange who occasionally pops in to the White
House between golf rounds and eating chocolate cake whilst muddling
up which country he has dropped fifty nine Tomahawk Cruise missiles
on, responded that tiny North Korea will again be: “… met with
fire and fury and frankly power, the likes of which the world has
never seen before.”

It
was barely noticed that North Korea qualified the threat of a shot
across the bows by stating pretty reasonably:

(The
US) “should immediately stop its reckless military provocation
against the State of the DPRK so that the latter would not be forced
to make an unavoidable military choice.” (3)

As Cheryl
Rofer
 (see
3) continued, instead of endless threats, US diplomacy could have
many routes:

We
could have sent a message to North Korea via the recent Canadian
visit to free one of their citizens. We could send a message through
the Swedish embassy to North Korea, which often represents US
interests. We could arrange some diplomatic action on which China
might take the lead. There are many possibilities, any of which might
show North Korea that we are willing to back off from practices that
scare them if they will consider backing off on some of their
actions. That would not include their nuclear program explicitly at
this time, but it would leave the way open for later.”

are
in fact, twenty four diplomatic missions in all, in North Korea
through which the US could request to communicate – or Trump could
even behave like a grown up and pick up the telephone.

Siegfried
Hecker
 is
the last known American official to inspect North Korea’s nuclear
facilities. He says that treating Kim Jong-un as though he is on the
verge of attacking the U.S. is both inaccurate and dangerous.

Some
like to depict Kim as being crazy – a madman – and that makes the
public believe that the guy is undeterrable. He’s not crazy and
he’s not suicidal. And he’s not even unpredictable. The real
threat is we’re going to stumble into a nuclear war on the Korean
Peninsula.” (5)

Trump
made his crass “fire and fury” threat on the eve of the sixty
second commemoration of the US nuclear attack on Nagasaki, the
nauseating irony seemingly un-noticed by him.

Will
some adults pitch up on Capitol Hill before it is too late?

Notes

1. https://militarybases.com/
south-korea/

2. http://www.globalresearch.ca/
know-the-facts-north-korea- lost-close-to-30-of-its-
population-as-a-result-of-us- bombings-in-the-1950s/22131

3. https://nucleardiner.
wordpress.com/2017/08/11/ north-korea-reaches-out/

4. https://www.commondreams.org/
news/2017/08/08/sane-voices- urge-diplomacy-after-lunatic-
trump-threatens-fire-and-fury

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

De VS heeft de waarschuwing van China en Rusland in de wind geslagen en zet de jaarlijkse militaire oefening ‘gewoon’ door, sterker nog die is nu on volle gang……. Om te laten zien, dat het niet gaat ‘om Noord-Korea niet te provoceren’, zet de VS 8.000 militairen minder in dan vorig jaar, dan blijven er nog 17.000 over…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Nee, dat scheelt echt een slok op een borrel!

De VS en Zuid-Korea oefenen jaarlijks langs de grenzen (plus de gedemilitariseerde zones en langs de territoriale wateren) van Noord-Korea, dit vanwege ‘de Noord-Koreaanse dreiging….’ Moet u nagaan: de VS heeft tijdens de Koreaanse oorlog van 25 juni 1950 tot 27 juli 1953, zo ongeveer heel Noord-Korea platgebombardeerd, men had op een gegeven moment zelfs geen doelen meer te bombarderen……… Naar schatting 20% van de Noord-Koreaanse bevolking werd vermoord tijdens deze smerige oorlog…….

Gezien het feit, dat de VS nog steeds het meest moderne en machtigste leger heeft, is het dus totaal niet vreemd dat men in Noord-Korea bang is voor de VS en verwoede pogingen doet een atoomwapen te ontwikkelen……..* Triest genoeg is de enige bescherming tegen de uiterst agressieve VS een atoombom, zoals Khadaffi en Hoessein proefondervindelijk zouden kunnen bevestigen, ware het niet dat ze zijn vermoord nadat de VS (met hulp van oorlogshond NAVO) een illegale oorlog tegen de door hen geleidde landen begon…….

Dezelfde VS dat inclusief de doden in de Koreaanse oorlog, vanaf het einde van WOII tot nu toe meer dan 22 miljoen mensen heeft vermoord………22 miljoen slachtoffers gevallen in: -de zojuist genoemde illegale oorlogen van de VS (inclusief het bombarderen van landen waarmee de VS niet eens in oorlog was, zoals Cambodja en Laos, ten tijde van de Vietnamoorlog)  -het op poten zetten van opstanden (middels de CIA), -geheime militaire CIA acties, -drone aanvallen (waarbij meer dan 90% van de dodelijke slachtoffers niet eens verdacht was..!!)  en -staatsgrepen………..

De Noord-Koreaanse dreiging…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

US
Ignores China’s Warning About Inciting Tension Across East Asia


August
18, 2017 at 11:07 am

Written
by 
James
Holbrooks

(ANTIMEDIA)  — According
to the most senior official in the U.S. armed forces, canceling the
upcoming joint military
 drills between
the United States and South Korea — drills both China and North
Korea have
 said will
only ratchet up regional tension — is simply
 not
an option
.

Stating
that a cancellation is “
not
currently on the table as part of the negotiation at any
level,”
 Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford
 said Thursday
the U.S. military must stay sharp and alert:

As
long as the threat in North Korea exists, we need to maintain a high
state of readiness to respond to that threat.”

As Anti-Media has reported,
in addition to
 delaying a
proposed missile launch toward Guam, Kim Jong-un appeared
to
 suggest this
week that if the U.S. and South Korea decide to call off the drills,
all parties can move toward de-escalation.

Considering
Chairman Dunford’s comments, however, de-escalation doesn’t seem
to be a priority for the United States. Nor does it seem to be a
priority for the third member of the regional coalition with the U.S.
and South Korea, Japan.

On
Thursday, senior officials from the United States and Japan, citing
the North Korean nuclear threat, 
announced that
the two countries will bolster their military partnership.

For
this threat of North Korea, at this meeting we agreed to increase the
pressure and to strengthen the alliance capability,”
 said Japanese
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera at a press conference in
Washington, D.C.

Onodera
and his countryman, Foreign Minister Taro Kono, had just had a
private meeting with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary
of Defense Jim Mattis. Given the group’s announcement, no doubt a
topic of discussion was Japan’s desire to install a new
U.S.-supplied missile system within its borders.

From the Japan
Times
:

The
Defense Ministry plans to introduce a land-based Aegis missile
defense system to respond to North Korea’s missile threats and will
seek funding in the next fiscal year to cover system design costs, a
government source said Wednesday.”

Further
highlighting the increasingly interwoven nature of the two countries’
militaries in East Asia, the Japan Times writes that
the defense ministry “also plans to budget a space unit
that will be created within the Self-Defense Forces to protect
satellites used by Japan and the United States to detect ballistic
missile launches.”

As
for the price of the
 Aegis system
and its associated costs, the defense ministry will have to wait to
reveal the amount “
because
of the need for consultations with the United States.”

Creative
Commons
 / Anti-Media / Report
a typo

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*  Noord-Korea heeft geen atoomwapen: na een ondergrondse kernproef is in de dagen daarna boven de plek waar de proef werd gedaan (een plek die bekend is bij o.a. de VS) altijd radioactieve straling te bespeuren (met satellieten). Als dit was aangetroffen was dit gegarandeerd groot nieuws geweest. De ‘aardbeving’ na een ondergrondse kernproef is te imiteren middels de ontploffing van een grote hoeveelheid springstof…… De westerse media en politiek houden deze VS leugen in stand >> goed voor de winsten van het militair-industrieel complex……… Noord-Korea speelt blufpoker en is allang blij dat men wereldwijd blijkbaar ‘gelooft’ in haar kernwapens…….

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lees dit uitstekende artikel van Shahtahmasebi: 

Everyone
Is Wrong About North Korea

August
16, 2017 at 10:13 am

Written
by 
Darius
Shahtahmasebi

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lewis explains
further:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Who
is provoking whom?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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List of wars involving the United States

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

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

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

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

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

Koude Oorlog retoriek in OVT…….

Vanmorgen in het kader ‘Vriend & Vijand’ bij OVT aandacht voor de Koude Oorlog. Het programma werd uitgzonden vanuit het voormalige Mobilisatiecomplex Wanroij, waar wapens en andere zaken lagen opgeslagen, voor het geval de Sovjet-Unie de rest van Europa aan zou vallen. Een getuige, die gebonden was aan de geheimhoudingsplicht, mocht niet vertellen welke wapens, daar waren opgeslagen…… Zo ziet u maar weer, hoe sterk het verlangen naar transparantie, zelfs zolang na de Koude Oorlog, bij de overheid is…….. Je kan er dus vanuit gaan, dat in Wanroij atoom-, chemische- en biologische wapens lagen opgeslagen…..

In het programma was het woord ‘communisme’ niet weg te branden, terwijl de Sovjet-Unie een ordinaire politiestaat was, met sterk fascistoïde trekken, zogenaamd gebaseerd op communisme, ook al waren de leiders (als zij dat wilden en dat waren er ‘nogal wat’) voorzien van alle luxe, die ze konden bedenken…… Als je de politiek en het handelen van de Sovjet Unie bekijkt, kan je daar zelfs het etiket ‘links’ niet opplakken….

Jolande Withuis ziet als dochter uit een communistisch gezin, nog steeds het gevaar van voornoemd communisme. De monkelende non-presentator Palm vroeg of de ‘vijand’ nog onder ons is, dat kon Withuis uiteindelijk wel beamen……… Withuis durfde te zeggen, dat onderdrukten altijd denken dat ze gelijk hebben….. Waar dit op sloeg weet ik niet, maar ik vermoed dat ze bedoelde, dat mensen, die zich te weer stellen tegen onderdrukking, altijd gelijk denken te hebben…… Als onderdrukten altijd denken dat ze gelijk hebben, ben ik benieuwd wat Withuis vindt van de grote onderdrukte massa in de Sovjet-Unie……… Terwijl je toch eigenlijk niets op het verzet tegen onderdrukking kan hebben…… Vreemd…. Als je het woord ‘klassenmaatschappij’ in de mond durft te nemen, ben je ook communist volgens Withuis…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Dus je mag alleen opmerken, dat je misstanden ziet, maar als je die misstanden terug kan voeren op sociale ongelijkheid, mag je niet zeggen, dat dit het gevolg is van de steeds duidelijker terugkerende (terug van nooit weggeweest) klassenmaatschappij, want oei, oei, dan ben je een communist…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Wat een dwaas!!!

Ook in de het programma Christ Klep, de ‘historicus’, die voor zijn regeringsgetrouwe koekwous praatjes ‘de trouwe-dienstmedaille voor militairen onder de rang van officier’ kreeg….. Hij vertelde dat wetenschappers al in  begin 80er jaren stelden, dat ‘we’ een aanval van de Sovjet-Unie hadden kunnen tegenhouden…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! Dat wisten de westerse regeringen en de NAVO* al eind 70er jaren, daar men toen al zag, dat het ‘Sovjet-Russische’ militaire materieel inferieur was aan het westerse materieel en dat het de militairen sterk aan motivatie ontbrak…… Natuurlijk werd dat niet aan de westerse bevolking gemeld, immers het militair-industriële complex moest op volle toeren doordraaien, want dat was goed voor de aandeelhouders, waaronder familie, vrienden en kennissen van de toenmalige (en huidige politici)……

Een misleidde Nederlandse veteraan, die deelnam aan de Koreaanse Oorlog, vertelde dat hij o.a. verantwoordelijk was voor de dood van 600 Chinezen, daar kreeg hij de volgende reactie van katholiekenlikker Palm op: “kijk dat willen we horen!”        Werkelijk ongelofelijk, wat een lul!

Ook dit programma werd ‘levend’ uitgezonden, opvallend dat het publiek praktisch om alles lacht, wat Palm zegt, terwijl deze zak de humor heeft van een dubbel versleten schoenzool, gedoopt in hondenkak……..

* De vorming van het Warschaupact (het militaire apparaat van de Sovjet-Unie) was een direct gevolg, van de totstandkoming van de NAVO…….