Helga Salemon legt even uit welk land het gevaarlijkst is in onze wereld: Rusland

In MAX Weekend was afgelopen zaterdag de grootlobbyist voor de NAVO en de VS (het Vierde Rijk) te horen, t.w. Helga Salemon.

Alsof er nooit anti-Russische en om preciezer te zijn, anti-Putin propaganda te horen is op Radio1, zo ging hare kwaadaardigheid en lobbyist van het militair-industrieel complex Salemon op haar typische met (hysterisch) overslaande stem, tekeer over Putin, alsof hij en niet de VS vanaf het begin van deze eeuw verantwoordelijk is voor de meer dan 2,5 miljoen dodelijke slachtoffers (moorden) gemaakt in/met:

  • illegale oorlogen
  • het organiseren en regisseren van opstanden in landen waar de VS niets te zoeken had en heeft, met als doel de zittende macht ten val te brengen en als dat niet lukt: 
  • het plegen van staatsgrepen met hulp van omgekochte hooggeplaatste militairen, als ook dat niet slaagt start de VS een haatcampagne tegen zo’n land, die ‘niet zelden’ uitmondt in de al genoemde illegale oorlog…… Veelal gaat dit gepaard met:
  • economische oorlogen tegen landen die de VS niet welgevallig zijn, met door de VS ingevoerde illegale sancties, zoals die tegen Iran en Venezuela, waardoor in het laatste land al meer dan 40.000 mensen omkwamen, ofwel: ook deze mensen zijn door de VS vermoord….. Deze economische oorlogsvoering op basis van leugens, of een false flag operatie* is een specialiteit van de VS en haar misdadige geheime diensten….
  • het vermoorden van verdachten (een zware oorlogsmisdaad) met drones, waarbij meer dan 90% van de slachtoffers niet eens werd verdacht, dus veelal vrouwen en kinderen (wat zonder meer een misdaad tegen de menselijkheid is)……
  • geheime militaire acties in het buitenland, onder regie van de CIA, waarbij altijd een (fiks) aantal burgerslachtoffers vallen…..

Over het voorgaande moet nog opgemerkt worden dat de VS in veel zaken wordt bijgestaan door de NAVO, een terreurorganisatie die altijd onder militair opperbevel staat van de VS, een land dat zoals je kon lezen, de grootste terreurentiteit is op onze kleine aarde…… (en daarvoor zijn bij wijze van spreken kilometers aan bewijzen, neem alleen al de documenten in WikiLeaks)

Nee over het enorme aantal oorlogsmisdaden en misdaden tegen de menselijkheid van de VS hoor je Salemon niet….. Voor de gelegenheid had Salemon zich gestoken in een shirt waarop Putin staat afgebeeld als een maffiosi, ‘leuk hè?’ (als we een administratie als die van de VS hadden in Rusland, waren we al lang verwikkeld in WOIII, dat dit niet zo is hebben we vooral aan Putin te danken…..) 

Volgens Salemon voert Rusland een desastreus economisch beleid, zonder even te melden dat vooral de VS en de EU daar met hun illegale sancties verantwoordelijk voor zijn…… Sancties voor o.a. de enorme leugen dat Rusland De Krim heeft geannexeerd, terwijl iedereen kan weten dat dit een leugen is, immers de bewoners van De Krim kozen in een door internationale waarnemers als correct uitgevoerd en eerlijk verlopen referendum, voor aansluiting bij Rusland (die grote meerderheid geldt ook voor de oorspronkelijke bewoners van De Krim). Niet vreemd als je ziet dat de door de VS georganiseerde opstand in Oekraïne, resulteerde in een staatsgreep tegen de (ook) door de bevolking van De Krim democratisch gekozen president Janoekovytsj, voor wie de de zwaar corrupte neonazi Porosjenko door de VS werd geïnstalleerd als juntaleider….. Voor deze acties dokte de VS maar liefst 4 miljard dollar, hoofdverantwoordelijken in deze: oorlogsmisdadigers Hillary Clinton en ‘vredesduif’ Obama…… 

Salemon wees ook op het ondemocratisch gehalte van de Russische regering, alsof de VS het toonbeeld is van democratie, dat geldt overigens voor een groot deel ook voor de rest van de westerse landen** >> alleen de reguliere media berichten op een manier die de zittende neoliberale en/of fascistoïde regeringen dienen van het land waarin ze opereren……. Zo weten deze media en politiek het volk te besodemieteren….. In de VS komt daar nog eens bij dat presidentskandidaten, die niet zelf schunnig rijk zijn en geen kapitaalkrachtige bedrijven of multimiljonairs achter zich hebben staan, het presidentschap wel kunnen vergeten……

Salemon?? Niets meer en minder dan een kwaadaardige trol, ongelofelijk dat ze het volk mag blijven voorliegen……..

*  Een false flag operatie als het ‘Tonkin-incident’, op 2 en 4 augustus jl. 55 jaar geleden, waar Noord-Vietnam willens en wetens als agressor werd aangewezen….. Deze staat zou VS fregatten hebben aangevallen, wat later en zelfs vrij kort daarna een leugen bleek te zijn, zelfs de kapitein van één van de VS fregatten deed e.e.a. af als niet waar…… De VS begon op basis van deze leugen een illegale oorlog tegen Vietnam, Laos en Cambodja, die een paar miljoen mensen het leven kostte…… 

** Neem de EU, hoe is het mogelijk dat het volk met de EU verkiezingen niet de grofgraai patjepeeërs mag kiezen, die uit hun naam beslissingen nemen…??? Als dat democratie is, kan je ook Noord-Korea aanduiden als democratie…… Om nog maar te zwijgen over de leugens en manipulaties voorafgaand aan die verkiezingen, gebracht door de reguliere media in de verschillende EU-lidstaten…. Neem het hysterische geschreeuw van de media over PvdA oplichters Timmermans en Dijsselbloem, zij zouden zonder twijfel de posities verkrijgen die zij zo graag wilden bekleden, terwijl men in Brussel deze lobbyisten van het neoliberalisme (‘gewoon’ een vorm van fascisme) niet zag zitten….. Nu durven die media te stellen dat wanneer beroepsleugenaar Rutte zich had gekandideerd voor de positie van voorzitter van de Europese Commissie, hij deze functie had gekregen….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Voor meer berichten met Salemon, klik op het label met haar naam, direct onder dit bericht.

War on Drugs 48 jaar oud, 48 jaar lang leugens en bedrog

Deze maand is het 48 jaar geleden dat VS president en oorlogsmisdadiger Nixon de oorlog verklaarde aan drugs.

(Tricky Dicky, foto van BBC site)

BBC World Service radio had dit onderwerp gistermorgen in het onderdeel ‘Witness’ en ook dat was weer de opmaat naar een aantal leugens…… Moet zeggen dat het me meeviel dat er maar één keer werd gehakt op het gebruik van marihuana, de harddrug heroïne vormde de hoofdmoot van dit programmaonderdeel.

Heroïne was dan ook de drug waarmee de regering Nixon en de maffia de gekleurde jongeren rustig wilde houden, na de vele rellen van die jongeren in de 60er jaren tegen de discriminatie van zwarten in de VS….. De opzet destijds is wonderwel geslaagd, echter ‘een beetje te goed’ daar de verslaafde jongeren massaal de misdaad ingingen om hun verslaving te kunnen betalen (de heroïne werd uiteraard verkocht door de maffia…..)….

Een ander negatief effect (al was dat wel het plan) was het grote aantal doden, dit leidde echter tot nieuw verzet onder de zwarte bevolking, waarbij velen zich bekeerden tot de islam…….

De volgende stap was de introductie van methadon, een middel waarvan de ‘high’ veel langer duurt dan die van heroïne, terwijl de high of roes vergelijkbaar is met die van heroïne…. Zo kon men de heroïne verslaafden een goedkoper alternatief bieden en was de tijd beperkt die verslaafden hadden om middels inbraak e.d. aan geld te komen…… Eén groot nadeel: methadon is meer verslavend dan heroïne en richt zo mogelijk nog meer schade aan in het lichaam…

Veel van de heroïne die verspreid werd in de VS werd ingevoerd middels militaire vliegtuigen die uit Vietnam naar de VS vlogen, ofwel de heroïne kwam uit de zogenaamde Gouden Driehoek in Zuidoost-Azië, een gebied dat was verdeeld over Vietnam, Laos en Birma……

Vervelend voor de VS autoriteiten die de heroïne invoerden voor de opstandige zwarte jongeren, ook de VS militairen in Vietnam begonnen heroïne te gebruiken….. Daarvoor vond men een snelle detectiemethode uit, waarmee men uit de urine kon opmaken of de bewuste militair onlangs heroïne had gebruikt…… De militairen werd dan ook te verstaan gegeven dat ze langer moesten blijven in Vietnam als ze heroïne hadden gebruikt, waar zo’n 90% van de VS militairen maar al te graag zo snel mogelijk weg wilden uit Vietnam……

Tekenend weer in Witness: de claim dat de VS overheid zelf de zwarte bevolking overspoelde met heroïne werd afgedaan als onzin……. Tja, de BBC is er niet alleen om het waanzinnige regeringsbeleid van May te steunen, maar ook om dat van de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, de VS, goed te lullen, zelfs als dit over het verleden gaat……

Overigens hebben VS organisaties als de DEA en de CIA vanaf het eind van de 70er jaren zelf vele tonnen cocaïne geïmporteerd uit Zuid- en Midden Amerika……… Zo werd o.a. geld verzameld voor geheime acties van de CIA…..

Eén ding is zeker: de oorlog tegen drugs is één grote mislukking geworden, waar honderdduizenden (als niet een paar miljoen) mensen het slachtoffer van zijn geworden en waar hele gebieden in Latijns-Amerika met gif werden bespoten door de VS, gebieden die voor jaren niet meer te gebruiken zijn ten behoeve van landbouw……

VS nog steeds bereid Rusland en China te vernietigen met kernwapens……..

Uit
onlangs vrijgegeven documenten blijkt dat de VS al in de 60er jaren
plannen had om Rusland en China aan te vallen met kernwapens…….

Ongelofelijk
te lezen dat men moedwillig burgerdoelen wilde aanvallen om zo de
economie hard te treffen. McNamara was de grote architect van de
plannen, dit onder de ‘vredelievende’ president John F.
Kennedy……

Wat dat
laatste betreft stelt Whitney Webb in het hieronder opgenomen
artikel, eerder gepubliceerd op MintPress News, dat McNamara tijdens WOII ook
verantwoordelijk was voor de aanvallen met brandbommen op 67 Japanse steden…… In een documentaire uit 2003 stelde McNamara dat er bij zo’n bombardement op Tokio in één nacht ‘maar
liefst’ 100.000 burgers werden verbrand, inclusief vrouwen en
kinderen, daar was hij nog steeds trots op…..

Voorts
was McNamara verantwoordelijk voor de deelname van de VS aan de
Vietnamoorlog. Hij was de architect achter de false flag operatie die
bekend staat als het ‘Tonkin incident’, waarmee de VS ‘een reden had’
om zich verder in die oorlog te mengen. In Vietnam kwamen naar
schatting minstens 3 miljoen mensen om het leven, in buurlanden Laos
en Cambodja vermoordde de VS nog eens 1 miljoen mensen….. McNamara
verklaarde in 1964 dat hij er (alweer) trots op was dat zijn naam verbonden blijft aan de Vietnamoorlog, die ook nog eens aan 58.000 VS militairen het
leven kostte…..

Je denkt
misschien, ach plannen van meer dan 50 jaar geleden, niets om je druk
om te maken, echter onder Trump heeft de VS gesteld een eerste aanval
met kernwapens niet uit te sluiten, zelfs als reactie op een
cyberaanval…… Ook hare kwaadaardigheid May, godbetert premier van
Groot-Brittannië, liet een paar jaar geleden weten een eerste aanval
met kernwapens niet uit te sluiten……

De geschiedenis met de agressie van de VS (zonder meer de grootste
terreurentiteit op aarde) laat vanaf WOII zien dat dit gestolen land meer dan 22 miljoen
mensen heeft vermoord in: illegale oorlogen en door de VS (CIA) opgezette
opstanden en staatsgrepen…..* Bij die moorden kunnen nu nog eens duizenden moorden opgeteld worden, moorden die de VS
pleegt op verdachten met gebruikmaking van drones…… Gezien deze geschiedenis moet gevreesd worden dat er nog steeds dergelijke plannen liggen…..
Daarnaast heeft de VS in de geschiedenis al laten zien het gebruik van kernwapens niet
uit de weg te gaan, zie Hiroshima en Nagasaki…..

Lees en
huiver:

Declassified
Docs Reveal Pentagon Plan to Drop Nuclear Bombs on the USSR and China

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor Declassified Docs Reveal Pentagon Plan to Drop Nuclear Bombs on the USSR and China

September
3, 2018 at 11:33 am

Written
by 
Whitney
Webb

(MPN— Recently
declassified documents shed light on a U.S. nuclear war plan
developed in 1964 by the Pentagon’s Joint Staff to bomb Russia –
then the Soviet Union – and China with nuclear weapons so
extensively that it would destroy them “as viable societies.” The
war plan itself, known as Single Integrated Operational Plan 64
(SIOP-64), has not been declassified, as no SIOP has ever been
released to the public by the United States government.

However,
newly declassified documents that record the Pentagon Joint Staff’s
review of SIOP-64 were recently
 made
available
 through
George Washington University’s National Security Archive project.
The documents reveal numerous details about the still-classified plan
that shine light on the Pentagon’s willingness to wage nothing
short of total war against its adversaries at the time.

In
particular, the documents show that the plan sought to accomplish the
destruction of Russian and Chinese society by targeting and
eliminating their industrial potential while also wiping out the
majority of their urban populations. Still more troubling, urban
civilians were proposed to be the main target and
measure of the U.S. nuclear war plan as the Joint Staff sought to use
“population loss as the primary yardstick for effectiveness in
destroying the enemy society, with only collateral attention to
industrial damage.”

This
gambit to use population loss as a “primary yardstick” was
notably developed prior to the 1964 meeting detailed in the newly
released document. The meeting considered studies that had been
jointly conducted by the Joint Staff and the Joint Strategic Target
Planning Staff in order to determine how many Soviet and Chinese
cities and industrial areas needed to be wiped out in order to
destroy both countries as “viable societies.”

In
the case of the Soviet Union, it was determined that destroying 70
percent of the country’s industrial floor space, mostly urban areas
that can be used for industrial activity, would likely result in “the
destruction of the USSR as a viable society.” The plan notes that
targeting such a significant amount of the Soviet Union’s
industrial floor space would put nearby urban populations “at
risk.” Though no estimates for civilian casualties in the Soviet
Union are given in the declassified documents,
 a
1962 estimate
 projected
70 million Soviet fatalities would result from a no-warning U.S.
strike on military and urban-industrial targets.

China
– characterized then by its largely agrarian economy – posed a
challenge, given that an estimated 84 percent of the Chinese
population lived in rural areas away from urban centers, complicating
the plan to target civilian urban populations in order to destroy
China as “a viable nation.” In the case of China, the Joint Staff
ultimately settled on a plan that would destroy 30 of China’s
largest cities, with a goal of 30 percent urban fatalities, or 212
million people, and the destruction of 50 percent of industrial floor
space.

Furthermore,
the plan featured options that included both preemptive and
retaliatory bombings. The university researchers who obtained and
published the documents
 noted
that
 “preemptive”
bombings do not necessarily indicate plans for a first strike but
instead indicated that the U.S. would enact the plan if U.S.
intelligence was able to “produce warning of an impending Soviet
attack that a U.S. strike could avert or at least blunt.”

A
Mad Plan, but Very Much in Character

According
to these same researchers, the influence of then-Secretary of Defense
Robert McNamara on the SIOP-64 is clear, given that McNamara “made
the concept of ‘assured destruction’ basic to the way that top
Pentagon officials sized U.S. strategic forces.”

Furthermore,
the consideration of civilian fatalities as the “primary yardstick”
of the plan’s effectiveness also bears McNamara’s “fingerprints.”
Indeed, McNamara was an “architect” of the U.S.’ War in
Vietnam,
 including
the Gulf of Tonkin “false flag”
 that
initiated it, leading some in the press to call the conflict
“McNamara’s War.” In 1964, McNamara
 stated
that
 he
was “pleased to be identified with” the war, which killed at
least 3 million Vietnamese, a million Cambodians and Laotians and
58,000 Americans, and laid waste to Southern Vietnam through the
chemical warfare campaign that McNamara helped
 develop
and oversee
.

Aside
from Vietnam, McNamara was also
 intimately
involved
 in
the firebombing of 67 Japanese cities shortly before the end of World
War II, which destroyed 50 to 90 percent of all Japanese urban areas.
In
 a
2003 documentary
,
McNamara calmly recounted how, in a single night, “we burned to
death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo —  men, women, and
children.”

With
architect of mass-destruction McNamara serving as the head of the
Pentagon when SIOP-64 was developed, its consideration of hundreds of
millions of human lives as a “yardstick” for military
effectiveness is unsurprising. It is, however, no less chilling for
being in character, given that the some 300 million civilians that
were estimated to be killed if SIOP-64 had been enacted, dwarfs even
the vast numbers who died as a result of McNamara’s other, enacted
policies.

Unfortunately,
McNamara-esque military policies are hardly a thing of the past.
Indeed, the recent changes to 
the
Nuclear Posture Review
 under
the Trump administration ended the once clear rejection of a nuclear
first strike launched by the U.S. as it states that the U.S. can use
atomic bombs in response to “significant non-nuclear strategic
attacks”, which include alleged cyberattacks. Furthermore, this
year’s National Defense Strategy 
replaced the
U.S. military’s decades-long focus on the “War on Terror” with
a focus on preparing for a “great power war” against both Russia
and China, countries that are
 now
considered
 by
the Pentagon to present the “central challenges” to global U.S.
hegemony.

Though
there may be a temptation to dismiss the SOIP-64 as a relic of the
Cold War past, present circumstances should caution us to think
otherwise.

By Whitney
Webb
 / Creative
Commons
 / MintPress
News
 / Report
a typo

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

* Zie: ‘VS vermoordde meer dan 20 miljoen mensen sinds het einde van WOII……..

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

List of wars involving the United States

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

Zie ook: ‘Kernwapens in Europa: Rode Kruis >> Nederland moet het VN kernwapenverbod tekenen

PS: in Rusland heeft men intussen al een groot aantal atoomschuilkelders ingericht en zoals je hierboven kon lezen, bepaald niet onterecht……. Dit roept meteen de vraag op waarom Rutte 2 en Rutte 3 niet al lang hebben ingezet op het bouwen van dergelijke schuilkelders, immers als je de leugens van deze kabinetten terughoort, is Rusland uiterst agressief en onberekenbaar…… Wel VS kernwapens op onze bodem (kernwapens NB van een land dat niet anders dan als grootste terreurentiteit op aarde kan worden aangemerkt) maar geen verdediging tegen deze wapens in de vorm van schuilkelders, anders dan voor de machthebbers (niet alleen voor politici en ambtenaren maar ook voor de topgraaiers van de grote bedrijven en de financiële maffia)…………..

VS ‘ministerie van propaganda’ had supervisie over meer dan 800 films en minstens duizend tv series……..

Het
Pentagon en de CIA, onderdeel van ‘het geheime propaganda ministerie’ van de VS hebben de
directe supervisie gehad over honderden bekende films. Vorig jaar maakten de
schrijvers Tom Secker en Matthew Alford op basis van 4.000 voormalig
geheime documenten bekend hoe het Pentagon en de CIA via programma’s
deelnamen aan het maken van honderden films en tv series en daarbij invloed uitoefenden op het aan het publiek gepresenteerde materiaal…. 

Je snapt dat de VS overheid ook op deze manier het volk in de VS en de consument buiten de VS hersenspoelt met haar smerige geschiedvervalsing en het goedlullen van de ronduit grootscheepse terreur die het buiten haar grens uitoefent……. (uiteraard worden voor de leugens van de VS overheid niet de typeringen gebruikt die ik hiervoor neerschreef)

Secker
en Alford kwamen aan deze documenten door een beroep te doen op de
‘Freedom of Information Act’ (FOIA), of zoals wij dat noemen een beroep te
doen op de Wet Openbaarheid Bestuur (WOB). Uit de documenten bleek
dat het Pentagon en de CIA achter de schermen hadden meegewerkt aan meer dan 800 belangrijke films en 1.000 tv series en onder druk de strekking van deze films en series hebben bepaald…….

Overigens
zal de oplettende kijker van Hollywood films en series al lang geleden hebben geconcludeerd dat de VS overheid betrokken is bij het propaganda
maken via films of tv series…… Neem alleen al een groot deel van al de A- en B-films en series die werden gemaakt over de Vietnam oorlog, waar zelfs decennia na die oorlog de Noord-Vietnamezen als de wrede en foute tegenstanders van ‘de heldhaftige VS militairen’ worden afgeschilderd…….. 


‘Heldhaftige VS militairen’ die alleen al in Vietnam verantwoordelijk zijn voor meer dan twee miljoen moorden…… Nog steeds zijn de gevolgen van deze oorlog zichtbaar in Vietnam, bijvoorbeeld de slachtoffers van napalm bombardementen of de slachtoffers die het chemische wapen ‘Agent Orange’ maakte en nog maakt….. (ook Laos en Cambodja werden ‘stiekem’ zwaar gebombardeerd, waarbij ook nog eens honderdduizenden burgers omkwamen…….)

Er worden nu al een aantal jaren films over de illegale oorlog van de VS tegen Irak gemaakt, waarin de VS uiteraard de goede partij is, ondanks dat deze grootste terreurentiteit op aarde met die oorlog verantwoordelijk is voor de moord op meer dan anderhalf miljoen Irakezen……

Niet
alleen de VS maakt zich schuldig aan dit soort propaganda, de Britten
kunnen er ook wat van. De BBC gaat zelfs zover dat men de militaire
missies van de Britten als een vorm van vermaak op tv brengt…. (ook Nederland doet dit…) Twee vliegen in één klap: namelijk het volk tonen dat de Britten
goed bezig zijn in het buitenland, ook al helpen de Britten de
reli-fascistische dictatuur Saoedi-Arabië en zijn daarmee mede
verantwoordelijk voor de genocide die dit land in Jemen
uitvoert……. Voorts zijn dit soort propaganda documentaires goed
voor het ronselen van kinderen voor het leger…….

410
Movies Made Under the Direct Supervision of the Pentagon

August
7, 2018 at 8:38 pm

Written
by 
Tyler
Durden

(ZHE) — A
year ago we featured 
a
detailed report
 by
authors Tom Secker and Matthew Alford exposing just how vast the
Pentagon and CIA programs for partnering with Hollywood actually are,
based on some 4,000 new pages of formerly classified archived
documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

The report
noted at the time that
 “These
documents for the first time demonstrate that the US government has
worked behind the scenes on over 800 major movies and more than 1,000
TV titles.”

Reviewing
the ever expanding list, the average movie watcher might be in for a
shock at what films are actually included 
— there
are the more predictable ones like 
Black
Hawk Down, Zero Dark Thirty
,
and 
Lone
Survivor
;
but also 
entirely
unexpected ones that apparently needed the military-industrial
complex’s propaganda touch like 
Earnest
Saves Christmas
Karate
Kid 2, The Silence of the Lambs
Twister,
the 
Iron
Man 
movies, and
more recently 
Pitch
Perfect 3
.

When
a Hollywood writer or producer approaches the Pentagon and asks for
access to military assets to help make their film, they have to
submit their script to the entertainment liaison offices for
vetting. 
Ultimately,
the man with the final say is Phil Strub, the Department of Defense’s
(DOD) chief Hollywood liaison
,
who has been at the helm of this formerly semi-secret department
going all the way back to 1989.

If
there are characters, action or dialogue that the DOD doesn’t
approve of then the film-maker has to make changes to accommodate the
military’s demands. If they refuse then the Pentagon packs up its
toys and goes home. To obtain full cooperation the producers have to
sign contracts, called Production Assistance Agreements, which 
lock
them into using a military-approved version of the script
.

David Sirota

@davidsirota

The Pentagon directly influences Hollywood — in some cases, scripts are literally line edited by the military. Part of my last book was all about this — I call it the Military-Entertainment Complex. Read this WashPost piece I did summarizing the situation: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/25-years-later-remembering-how-top-gun-changed-americas-feelings-about-war/2011/08/15/gIQAU6qJgJ_story.html 

Boots Riley

@BootsRiley

Here’s a list. Find a bunch of war movies that Department of Defense helped develop, but also find superhero movies and “apolitical” movies too. https://twitter.com/MrJames_Casey/status/1025703827624914948 

Months
ago, Strub was again profiled in a report called 
Elisting
an Audience: How Hollywood Peddles Propaganda
,
which quoted him trying to push back against the growing media
exposure over the past year: 
We’re
not trying to brainwash people! We’re out to present the clearest,
truest view,”
 Strub
told 
The
Outline
.

The
report rightly noted that while Americans generally pride themselves
on living in a free speech anti-censorship society, while
simultaneously mocking the propaganda examples in places like Russia
or China, the US public is subject to more homegrown 
state-run
propaganda than it thinks
:

Military
pageantry in Russia, massive rallies in North Korea, blunt messaging
from China. 
We
cluck at shameless self-aggrandizing when we see it overseas. But it
doesn’t take much effort to see that American propaganda is
everywhere, too.
 It’s
not government-made, and it’s not quite as brazen as its
counterpart from abroad. But it’s here, and to ignore that a piece
of content is, at its core, propaganda — especially these days,
while Trump openly pines for grand army parades — is a mistake.
“There’s all kinds of ways to make an ideological point,”
Harris added. 
Sometimes
I do think we’re not attuned enough. We do not look hard enough for
propaganda.”

And
what’s more, unlike in authoritarian systems, in the West it is the
consumers that are actually willing, if perhaps unwitting,
participants in state propaganda. 
The
Outline 
report continues:

Certainly,
the content has alternative, sincere agendas, too, but it’s the
giant, amorphous market of consumers that has called it forth. That’s
the difference between our propaganda and everyone else’s. 
In
autocratic regimes, a government-backed entity pushes it onto
indifferent or unwilling consumers. In America, we, the consumers,
happily demand it.

Want
to see what Hollywood films 
— some
recent and some going back decades 
— that
you’ve seen but were unaware had the US Department of Defense’s
official imprimatur?

* *
*

Below
is a
 merely
partial list
 of
films in alphabetical order that had Pentagon involvement either
during the script or production phase
,
according to declassified US government documents. Amazingly the list
of 410 movies is but half of the total number (for example, 
Zero
Dark Thirty 
and
some other prominent ones are not on there) and was
compiled by the FOIA investigative website 
Spy
Culture

By Tyler
Durden
 /
Republished with permission / 
Zero
Hedge
 / Report
a typo

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

Zie ook:

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

Iran: moderne oorlogspropaganda ingezet door VS tegen ‘ongehoorzaam land…

VS en GB brengen propaganda die moet verdoezelen wat er echt gebeurt in Syrië…….. Door VS gebombardeerde ‘gifgasfabriek’ niet bestaand….

Chinese marine troeft VS af in Zuid-Chinese Zee

Nam Kurt Cobain zijn eigen leven? Niet volgens een flink aantal mensen

Brasscheck
TV kwam afgelopen maandag met een paar video’s waarin
men stellig beweert dat Kurt Cobain (20 feb. 1967 – 5 april 1994), de zanger van Nirvana, zich niet suïcideerde, maar dat
hij werd vermoord……..

Uiteraard
noemt men dergelijke verhalen complottheorieën (of samenzwerings-), immers welke staat zou
bekende voor haar lastige muzikanten/zangers (m en v) en andere bekende figuren vermoorden?
Precies, heel wat staten of landen zouden precies dat doen als het
even zou kunnen… 
Zoals je weet was en is een mensenleven in de VS niet veel waard, zeker als je gekleurd bent, tenzij je tegelijkertijd welgesteld en politiek braaf bent natuurlijk…..

Vergeet
niet dat bijvoorbeeld ondanks de enorme repressie in de VS van de
60er en begin 70er jaren, de jongeren, veelal gesteund door vooraanstaande
popmuzikanten/zangers, journalisten en schrijvers toch heel wat voor elkaar wisten te krijgen, niet alleen werd toen de aanzet gegeven tot de vrouwenemancipatie, maar ook door het voeden van de uiteindelijk enorme weerzin tegen de meer dan waanzinnige en uiterst wrede oorlog die de VS
in Vietnam uitvocht (en daar zelfs verslagen werd, terwijl de VS tijdens die oorlog ook nog eens dubbel-illegaal honderdduizenden doden maakte in buurlanden als Laos en Cambodja…..) Ook Martin Luther King werd door de staat vermoord*, daar hij destijds een gevaar voor de blanke status quo was en ook hij zich uitsprak tegen de Vietnam oorlog en het inhumane kapitalisme…… 

Het
Vietnam debacle werd door de conservatieve fascisten in de VS
verweten aan de (echte) hippies en alles wat daar mee te maken heeft en al
helemaal de bands, die in hun muziek en in interviews lieten weten
tegen het VS oorlogsgeweld te zijn dat duizenden kilometers ver werd uitgeoefend…..
Oorlogsgeweld? Zeg maar gerust extreem gewelddadige en grootschalige terreur!

Niet
vreemd dus dat diezelfde overheid mensen liet vermoorden die zich
tegen hen hebben verzet, een overheid die jaarlijks alleen in
de VS al verantwoordelijk is voor duizenden doden, mensen die zonder
iets te hebben misdaan (of men moet een kleur op het gezicht als misdaad zien…), of als verdachte werden vermoord door
diezelfde overheid…… Vergeet niet dat oorlogvoeren een uiterst
lucratieve bezigheid is en de lobby van het militair-industrieel
complex een enorme invloed heeft op de politiek in Washington…… Overigens heeft ook dat
complex geen probleem met het uit de weg laten ruimen van
figuren die de winsten kunnen drukken…….

Zo
bezien zou een moord op Kurt Cobain totaal niet vreemd zijn.

Zie
de volgende 2 video’s en oordeel zelf:

How
did Kurt Cobain die?

A
DANGEROUS PROFESSION

SUICIDE?

Being
a high profile popular music star with progressive leanings is a very
dangerous profession…

Jimmy
Hendrix, John Lennon, Jim Morrison, Bob Marley, just to name a few.

Not
saints to be sure, but high profile people – with millions of fans
– who did not buy the party line and weren’t shy about saying so.

Kurt
Cobain fit the mold.

How
did he die?

Suicide?

No
way.

What
happened to the body? It was cremated.

What
happened to the shotgun? Not dusted for prints for 30 days and then
given to Courtney Love who then had it melted down.

What
happened to the crime scene? Torn down and bulldozed.

Draai hierna het geweldige, intussen klassieke album ‘Nevermind van Nirvana’:

* Zie: ‘Martin Luther King jr. vermoord door de overheid, aldus rechter……..

Zie ook: ‘J.F. Kennedy vermoord door Lyndon Johnson en z’n maten in misdaad, geheime diensten en politiek…..

       en: ‘John Lennon 9 oktober 1940 – 8 december 1980 Power to the People!

       en: ‘Georganiseerde misdaad en overheid, wat is het verschil tussen die twee? Een uiterst hilarische lezing van Michael Parenti over de moord op JFK!

       en: ‘Geëxecuteerd middels suïcide, de manier om van lastige VIP’s af te komen…….‘ (met interview Kurt Cobain)

Esmond Bradley Martin, anti-ivoorhandel activist vermoord………..

In het BBC World Service nieuws van 12.30 u. (CET) vandaag, het bericht dat Esmond Bradley Martin, een anti-ivoorhandel activist is vermoord in Kenia…… Eerder werkte Martin voor de VN, waar hij zich ook met de bestrijding van de ivoorhandel bezig hield.

Dr. Esmond Martin speaking on May 5, 2008 in Washington, DC

Esmond Bradley Martin documenteerde de (illegale) handel in ivoor, o.a. door het bezoeken van zwarte markten waar ivoor werd verhandeld in landen als Laos, China en Vietnam, waar hij onder meer in het geheim foto’s maakte en prijzen van ivoor vastlegde.

Mede door het werk van Esmond Bradley Martin heeft China de import van ivoor verboden. (onlangs had Avaaz alweer het gore lef te stellen dat dit succes, het verbod op ivoorimport in China, hoofdzakelijk te danken is aan het werk van haar organisatie……. Avaaz doet dit keer op keer als een zaak wordt verboden, waar zij als één van de vele organisaties een petitie tegen voerden……. Ach ja het is dan ook lucratief een dergelijke organisatie op te zetten, althans voor de top van die organisaties……..)

Esmond Bradley Martin is schandalig genoeg bepaald niet de eerste activist die tegen de ivoorhandel werkte en werd vermoord…….. De politie in Kenia houdt het op een ordinaire roofoverval, echter als je ziet hoeveel mensen er al zijn vermoord, die zich verzetten tegen deze barbaarse handel, rijst de vraag of de Keniaanse politie gelijk heeft met haar constatering…… ( de vraag stellen is haar beantwoorden)

Voor meer berichten over ivoorstroperij, klik op dat label, direct onder dit bericht.

Zie wat betreft Avaaz ook:

Avaaz valt met fake news en desinformatie ‘fake news en desinformatie’ aan…..‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht naar andere Avaaz manipulaties)

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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Posts:

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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’

The US State of War >> De VS creëert terreur met de enorme terreur die het zelf uitoefent in landen waar het niets te zoeken heeft…..

Een uitstekend artikel van ICH, met de mogelijkheid tot vertaling (zie link naar origineel, onder dit bericht):

“Every
country destroyed or destabilized by U.S. military action is now a
breeding ground for terrorism.”

The
U.S. bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria is now the heaviest since the
bombing of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in the 1960s-70s, with 84,000
bombs and missiles dropped between 2014 and the end of May 2017. That
is nearly triple the 29,200 bombs and missiles dropped on Iraq in the
“Shock and Awe” campaign of 2003.

The
Obama administration escalated the bombing campaign last October, as
the U.S.-Iraqi assault on Mosul began, dropping 12,290 bombs and
missiles between October and the end of January when President Obama
left office. The Trump administration has further escalated the
campaign, dropping another 14,965 bombs and missiles since February
1st.  May saw the heaviest bombing yet, with 4,374 bombs and
missiles dropped.

The U.K.-based Airwars.org monitoring group
has compiled reports of between 12,000 and 18,000 civilians killed by
nearly three years of U.S.-led bombing in Iraq and Syria. These
reports can only be the tip of the iceberg, and the true number of
civilians killed could well be more than 100,000, based on typical
ratios between reported deaths and actual deaths in previous
war-zones.

As
the U.S. and its allies closed in on Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in
Syria, and as U.S. forces now occupy eight military bases in Syria,
Islamic State and its allies have struck back in Manchester and
London; occupied Marawi, a city of 200,000 in the Philippines; and
exploded a huge truck bomb inside the fortifications of the “Green
Zone” in Kabul, Afghanistan.

What
began in 2001 as a misdirected use of military force to punish a
group of formerly U.S.-backed jihadis in Afghanistan for the crimes
of September 11th has escalated into a global asymmetric war. 
Every country destroyed or destabilized by U.S. military action is
now a breeding ground for terrorism.  It would be foolish to
believe that this cannot get much, much worse, as long as both sides
continue to justify their own escalations of violence as responses to
the violence of their enemies, instead of trying to deescalate the
now global violence and chaos.

Voor het gehele artikel zie:

The US State of War

Anne Frank, stek van haar boom wordt geplant op Ground Zero, New York……..

Ik wist niet wat ik hoorde, toen afgelopen maandag (voor 17.00 u.) in het BNR media overzicht werd gemeld, dat 1 stek van de boom, waarop Anne Frank had uitgekeken vanuit het Achterhuis, zal worden geplant op Ground Zero in New York……. Waar slaat ‘t godverdomme op??!!! Hebben nazi’s de aanslagen in 2001 bedacht en geregisseerd, i.p.v. de CIA en de NSA???

Trouwens als ik me niet vergis, waren er wonderwel amper, of geen Joodse slachtoffers te betreuren bij die aanslagen……… Als het om de herdenking gaat van het grote aantal slachtoffers dat daar viel, kan er beter een stek worden geplant in Vietnam, Cambodja, Laos, Indonesië en Irak, waar de VS zo ongehoord en illegaal tekeer ging………….. Waar er ook nog een paar gereserveerd kunnen worden, voor de grote hoeveelheid doden in Zuid- en Midden-Amerika, die daar door toedoen van illegaal VS ingrijpen zijn gevallen……… Intussen zijn er door VS bemoeienis een enorm aantal doden gevallen in Syrië, daar de VS daar islamitische terreurorganisaties van wapens en training voorzag……

Zie bijvoorbeeld: ‘Indonesië, Untung-putsch: 2 oktober 1965, de dag dat de grote slachting begon……….

Zie ook: ‘Anne’ het toneelstuk…….

        en: ‘Anne Frank, of het grote geld verdienen over de rug van een nazi-slachtoffer………..

        en: ‘Achterhuis van Anne Frank als decor voor een spel, héééél educatief en héééél plat geldgraaien………

        en: ‘Dagboek Anne Frank: of geld verdienen over de rug van een vermoorde meid……

        en: ‘Anne Frank Stichting schiet er mijlenver naast wat betreft discriminatie……

        en: ‘Anne Frank opnieuw uitgenomen, nu door Ilja Pfeijffer

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