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

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

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

Overthrowing
Other People’s Governments: The Master List

By
William Blum

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

  • China
    1949 to early 1960s

  • Albania
    1949-53

  • East
    Germany 1950s

  • Iran
    1953 *

  • Guatemala
    1954 *

  • Costa
    Rica mid-1950s

  • Syria
    1956-7

  • Egypt
    1957

  • Indonesia
    1957-8

  • British
    Guiana 1953-64 *

  • Iraq
    1963 *

  • North
    Vietnam 1945-73

  • Cambodia
    1955-70 *

  • Laos
    1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *

  • Ecuador
    1960-63 *

  • Congo
    1960 *

  • France
    1965

  • Brazil
    1962-64 *

  • Dominican
    Republic 1963 *

  • Cuba
    1959 to present

  • Bolivia
    1964 *

  • Indonesia
    1965 *

  • Ghana
    1966 *

  • Chile
    1964-73 *

  • Greece
    1967 *

  • Costa
    Rica 1970-71

  • Bolivia
    1971 *

  • Australia
    1973-75 *

  • Angola
    1975, 1980s

  • Zaire
    1975

  • Portugal
    1974-76 *

  • Jamaica
    1976-80 *

  • Seychelles
    1979-81

  • Chad
    1981-82 *

  • Grenada
    1983 *

  • South
    Yemen 1982-84

  • Suriname
    1982-84

  • Fiji
    1987 *

  • Libya
    1980s

  • Nicaragua
    1981-90 *

  • Panama
    1989 *

  • Bulgaria
    1990 *

  • Albania
    1991 *

  • Iraq
    1991

  • Afghanistan
    1980s *

  • Somalia
    1993

  • Yugoslavia
    1999-2000 *

  • Ecuador
    2000 *

  • Afghanistan
    2001 *

  • Venezuela
    2002 *

  • Iraq
    2003 *

  • Haiti
    2004 *

  • Somalia
    2007 to present

  • Libya
    2011*

  • Syria
    2012

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

A: Because
there’s no American embassy there.

http://williamblum.org/  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Comments
on Gathering These Numbers


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

37
VICTIM NATIONS

Afghanistan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Angola

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

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

Argentina:
See South America: Operation Condor

Bangladesh:
See Pakistan

Bolivia

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

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

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

Also
see: See South America: Operation Condor

Brazil:
See South America: Operation Condor

Cambodia

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

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

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

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

Also
see Vietnam

Chad

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

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

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

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

Chile

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

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

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

Also
see South America: Operation Condor

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

Colombia

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

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

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

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

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

Cuba

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

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

Democratic
Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire)

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

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

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

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

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

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


Dominican
Republic

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

East
Timor

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

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

El
Salvador

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

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

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

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

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

Grenada

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

Guatemala

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

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

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

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

Haiti

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

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


Honduras

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

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

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

Hungary

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

Indonesia

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

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

Iran

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

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

Iraq

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

Israeli-Palestinian
War

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


Korea,
North and South


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


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

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


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

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


Laos


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


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

Also
See Vietnam

Nepal


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

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


Nicaragua


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


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


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


Pakistan


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

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

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


Panama


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


Paraguay:
See South America: Operation Condor


Philippines


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


South
America: Operation Condor


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


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


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


Sudan


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


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

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


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


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


Uruguay:
See South America: Operation Condor

Vietnam

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


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

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


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


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


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


Yugoslavia


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


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


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

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

Kosovo:
500 to 5,000. (7)


NOTES


Afghanistan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Angola

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

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

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

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

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

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

Argentina
: See South America: Operation Condor

Bolivia

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

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

Brazil
See South America: Operation Condor

Cambodia

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

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

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

Chad

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

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

Chile

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

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

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

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

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

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

China:
See Korea

Colombia

1.Chronology
of American State Terrorism, p.2

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

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

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

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

5.Virtual
Truth Commission, 1991

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

Cuba

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

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

Democratic
Republic of Congo (Formerly Zaire)

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

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

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

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

5.Ibid.,p.
260

6.Ibid.,p.
259

7.Ibid.,p.262

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

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


Dominican
Republic

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

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

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

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


East
Timor

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

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

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

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

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


El
Salvador

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

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

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

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


Grenada

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

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


Guatemala

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

2.Ibid.

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

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

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


Haiti

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

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

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


Honduras

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

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

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

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

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


Hungary

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

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


Indonesia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Iran

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

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

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


Iraq

Iran-Iraq
War

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

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


U.S.
Iraq War and Sanctions

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

2.Ibid.,
p. 52-54

3.Ibid.,
p. 43

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

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

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

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


U.S-Iraq
War 2003-?

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

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


Israeli-Palestinian
War

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

2.Chronology
of American State Terrorism

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


Korea

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Laos

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

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

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

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


Nepal

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

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

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

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

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


Nicaragua

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

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

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

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

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

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


Pakistan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Panama

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

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

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

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

Paraguay
See South America: Operation Condor


Philippines

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

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


South
America: Operation Condor

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

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

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


Sudan

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

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


Uruguay
See South America: Operation Condor


Vietnam

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

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

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

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

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

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


Yugoslavia

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

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

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

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

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

5.Chronology
of American State Terrorism

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

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

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

Related
Posts:

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

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Zie ook:

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

List of wars involving the United States

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

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

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

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

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

Hiroshima en Nagasaki, aanvallen zijn niet te verdedigen enorme oorlogsmisdaden >> The Indefensible Hiroshima Revisionism That Haunts America To This Day

In de afgelopen 9 dagen viel de herdenking van de VS atoomaanvallen 72 jaar geleden op de Japanse steden Hiroshima en Nagasaki, respectievelijk op 6 en 9 augustus 1945. Al 72 jaar vindt de discussie plaats over de noodzaak van die aanvallen.

     Afbeeldingsresultaat voor hiroshima en nagasaki voor en na 1945

Volgens oorlogsmisdadiger Truman, destijds president van de VS, zou de aanval een half miljoen levens van VS militairen hebben gered. Experts hebben echter berekend dat een aanval op het ‘vaste land’ van Japan, 40.000 militairen het leven hebben gekost, althans als die invasie werkelijk nodig was…….

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor hiroshima en nagasaki voor en na 1945

Precies dat betwijfelden NB een aantal verantwoordelijke VS topmilitairen, die destijds bevel voerden over de strijd tegen Japan. Volgens hen was Japan in feite al verslagen en had men in de onderhandelingen met Japan (over beëindiging van de oorlog) iets toegefelijker moeten zijn. Als de VS een onvoorwaardelijke overgave van Japan niet als noodzaak hadden gezien en daarmee het aanblijven van de Japanse keizer hadden goedgekeurd, was de oorlog zonder verder bloedvergieten beëindigd…… Uiteindelijk ging Truman wel akkoord met deze Japanse voorwaarden, echter na de steden Hiroshima en Nagasaki te hebben vernietigd, waarbij 250.000 mensen omkwamen…….. (dit nog buiten de slachtoffers die later aan de gevolgen van die oorlogsmisdaden zijn overleden >> na een meestal vreselijke lijdensweg….)

Gerelateerde afbeelding

Hier een artikel van Information Clearing House gepubliceerd op 11 augustus jl, onder het artikel kan u klikken voor het gehele ICH artikel (waaronder u voor een vertaling kan klikken):

Seventy
years ago this week the US vaporized 250,000 civilians, and yet still the bombings are seen as an act of mercy

Here
we are, 70 years after the nuclear obliteration of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, and I’m wondering if we’ve come even one step closer to a
moral reckoning with our status as the world’s only country to use
atomic weapons to slaughter human beings. Will an American president
ever offer a formal apology? Will our country ever regret the
dropping of “Little Boy” and “Fat Man,” those two bombs that
burned hotter than the sun? Will it absorb the way they instantly
vaporized thousands of victims, incinerated tens of thousands more,
and created unimaginably powerful shockwaves and firestorms that
ravaged everything for miles beyond ground zero? Will it finally come
to grips with the “black rain” that spread radiation and killed
even more people — slowly and painfully — leading in the end to a
death toll for the two cities 
conservatively
estimated
 at
more than 250,000?

By
1945, most Americans didn’t care that the civilians of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki had not committed Japan’s war crimes. American wartime
culture had for years drawn on a long history of “yellow peril”
racism to paint the Japanese not just as inhuman, but as subhuman. As
Truman put it in his diary, it was a country full of 
savages” 
“ruthless, merciless, and fanatic” people so loyal to the emperor
that every man, woman, and child would fight to the bitter end. In
these years, magazines routinely 
depicted Japanese
as monkeys, apes, insects, and vermin. Given such a foe, so went the
prevailing view, there were no true “civilians” and nothing short
of near extermination, or at least a powerful demonstration of
America’s willingness to proceed down that path, could ever force
their surrender. As Admiral William “Bull” Halsey 
said in
a 1944 press conference, “The only good Jap is a Jap who’s been
dead six months.”

On
August 9, 1945, President Harry Truman delivered a 
radio
address
 from
the White House. “The world will note,” he said, “that the
first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was
because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible,
the killing of civilians.” He did not mention that a second atomic
bomb had already been dropped on Nagasaki.

Truman
understood, of course, that if Hiroshima was a “military base,”
then so was Seattle; that the vast majority of its residents were
civilians; and that perhaps 100,000 of them had already been killed.
Indeed, he knew that Hiroshima was chosen not for its military
significance but because it was one of only a handful of Japanese
cities that had not already been firebombed and largely obliterated
by American air power.

Twenty
years ago, the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum 
planned
an ambitious exhibit
 to
mark the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. At its center
was to be an extraordinary artifact — the fuselage of the 
Enola
Gay
,
the B-29 Superfortress used to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. But
the curators and historical consultants wanted something more than
yet another triumphal celebration of American military science and
technology. Instead, they sought to assemble a thought-provoking
portrayal of the bomb’s development, the debates about its use, and
its long-term consequences. The museum sought to include some
evidence challenging the persistent claim that it was dropped simply
to end the war and “save lives.”

For
starters, visitors would have learned that some of America’s
best-known World War II military commanders opposed using atomic
weaponry. In fact, 
six
of the seven
 five-star
generals and admirals of that time believed that there was no reason
to use them, that the Japanese were already defeated, knew it, and
were likely to surrender before any American invasion could be
launched. Several, like Admiral William Leahy and General Dwight
Eisenhower, also had moral objections to the weapon. Leahy considered
the atomic bombing of Japan “barbarous” and a violation of “every
Christian ethic I have ever heard of and all of the known laws of
war.”

Truman
did not seriously consult with military commanders who had objections
to using the bomb.  He did, however, ask a panel of military
experts to offer an estimate of how many Americans might be killed if
the United States launched the two major invasions of the Japanese
home islands scheduled for November 1, 1945 and March 1, 1946. Their
figure: 40,000 — far below the half-million he would cite after the
war. Even this estimate was based on the dubious assumption that
Japan could continue to feed, fuel, and arm its troops with the U.S.
in almost complete control of the seas and skies.

The
Smithsonian also planned to inform its visitors that some key
presidential advisers had urged Truman
to drop his demand for “unconditional surrender” and allow Japan
to keep the emperor on his throne, an alteration in peace terms that
might have led to an almost immediate surrender. Truman rejected that
advice, only to grant the same concession after the
nuclear attacks. 

So
here we are, 70 years later, and we seem, if anything, farther than
ever from a rejection of the idea that launching atomic warfare on
Japanese civilian populations was an act of mercy. Perhaps some
future American president will finally apologize for our nuclear
attacks, but one thing seems certain: no Japanese survivor of the
bombs will be alive to hear it.

Hier de link naar het originele artikel, waaronder u ook kan klikken voor een vertaling:

The Indefensible Hiroshima Revisionism That Haunts America To This Day

PS: dat de keizer van Japan aan mocht blijven na de oorlog, is net zo vreemd als het aanblijven van het grootste deel van de repressieve fascistische overheid daar en die in Duitsland, al moet ik zeggen, dat het sparen van een enorme hoeveelheid mensenlevens, dit dubbel en dwars waard zou zijn geweest……. Overigens zou dit niet in de weg hebben gestaan voor vervolging en berechting na WOII van bijvoorbeeld rechters, politie en legeronderdelen (als de SS).

Zie ook:

In de VS berichtte men in 1945, dat Hiroshima ‘a military base’ was…….

Hiroshima, één van de grootste oorlogsmisdaden ooit, 71 jaar later redenen te over voor herdenking!

De werkelijke reden voor de VS atoomaanvallen op Hiroshima en Nagasaki…. Niet om de oorlog met Japan ten einde te brengen…….

Atoomaanvallen op Hiroshima en Nagasaki, één van de grootste oorlogsmisdaden uit de menselijke geschiedenis

Overlevenden atoomaanval op Hiroshima vragen om een verbod op kernwapens

Hashima en de Japanse ontkenning van wreedheden tijdens WOII

en zie voor verdere VS-terreur na WOII:

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………

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Saoedi-Arabië weert VN, pers en mensenrechtenorganisaties uit Jemen

De volgende cartoon (en retweet komt van Carlos Latuff:)

  Jul 26

in Blocked as /US Push Their Own Self-Serving Narrative. Cartoon

Jammer dat Latuff de BBC laat zien als persorgaan dat aandacht zou willen besteden aan de smerige oorlog van S-A tegen Jemen. De BBC is nu juist bij uitstek een mediaorgaan dat het liefs zo min mogelijk kritiek levert op S-A en de VS (dat meewerkt aan de smerige oorlog in Jemen).

Vannacht het bericht op BBC World Service radionieuws van 1.00 u., dat er volgens het Rode Kruis nu 700.000 mensen dreigen om te komen van honger in Jemen…… Een direct gevolg van de blokkades die S-A (op land en zee) en de VS (op zee) hebben opgeworpen, zodat er geen humanitaire hulp* kan worden geboden in Jemen (dat laatste meldde de BBC ‘natuurlijk’ niet…)….. Daarnaast heeft S-A de watervoorzieningen in Jemen gebombardeerd, waarmee het de cholera epidemie heeft veroorzaakt, waar intussen ook al duizenden Jemenieten aan lijden en u snapt het al, ook dat wordt verzwegen door de BBC……….

Wat de BBC en andere westerse afhankelijke massamedia ook al niet melden, is het feit dat S-A bezig is een genocide uit te voeren op de sjiitische bevolking in Jemen………. Overigens hetzelfde geldt voor het overgrote deel van de westerse politici.

Kortom de twee grootste terreurstaten op onze aarde, de VS en S-A hebben in Jemen ongekend smerige en enorme oorlogsmisdaden begaan en begaan die tot op dit moment, terwijl de westerse wereld wegkijkt………

Moet u nagaan, dan is S-A voorzitter van de VN mensenrechtenorganisatie (UNHRC)………….

* Er is in Jemen al een jaar lang een groot gebrek aan medicijnen, voedsel, water en brandstof (>> S-A heeft een groot deel van de Jemenitische ziekenhuizen in puin gegooid en wat nog staat is beperkt in wat het kan doen, zoals opereren, dit daar er amper brandstof is om de generatoren te laten draaien…….)

VS gaat neonazi-bataljons Oekraïne nu ook openlijk wapens, wapensystemen en munitie leveren…….

Alsof de bevolking van Oost-Oekraïne al niet veel te veel is geterroriseerd door de neonazi-bataljons van de zwaar corrupte topgraaier, fascist en juntaleider Porosjenko, maakte de VS gisteren bekend dat het extra wapens, wapensystemen en munitie zal leveren aan die junta in Kiev……… Dit doet de VS volgens enkele bronnen al langer, maar men kiest er nu dus voor dit openlijk te doen. Daarnaast trainen VS militairen het neonazi-leger van Oekraïne……

BBC World Service meldde e.e.a. afgelopen nacht (1.00 u. CET) op flink fout gekleurde manier, alsof de opstandelingen oorlogsmisdaden begaan tegen de terreurtroepen uit Kiev, opstandelingen die door de BBC consequent worden aangeduid als pro-Russische rebellen…….

Keer op keer lapten en lappen die neonazi-bataljons de gesloten wapenstilstanden aan hun smerige laarzen, waarbij de ergste overtreding was: het niet terugtrekken van zwaar militair materieel uit het strijdgebied…… Met dit zware materieel bestoken de neonazi’s de steden van de opstandelingen, kortom enorme oorlogsmisdaden!! Terreurentiteit VS vindt blijkbaar dat het plegen van oorlogsmisdaden wel een versnelling hoger kan………

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De stad Donetsk, kapotgeschoten door de neonazi’s van Porosjenko.

Vergeet daarbij niet, dat het de VS was, die een opstand organiseerde in Oekraïne, waarbij de opstandelingen (veelal neonazi’s) veel geweld gebruikten, zoals het neerschieten van mensen op het Maidanplein in Kiev, waarmee men de democratisch gekozen regering Janoekovytsj in een kwaad daglicht wilde stellen……. Een opzet die prima is gelukt, niet in de laatste plaats door de hulp van de reguliere westerse media, die de leugens uit Kiev zonder echte feitencontrole plaatsten……..

A destroyed airport building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, on February 26, 2015. VASILY MAXIMOV/AFP/Getty Images

Nog ‘een mooi plaatje’ uit Donetsk……….

Nadat Janoekovytsj moest vluchten (voor zijn leven), parachuteerde de VS de al eerder genoemde opperschoft Porosjenko als juntaleider. Ondanks dat deze Porosjenko en z’n fascistenmaten het land leegroven en de tegoeden o.a. op Nederlandse banken plaatsten, blijft het westen, inclusief Nederland, dit beestachtige regime steunen en niet alleen met geld……..

Het is dan ook niet voor niets, dat de bewoners van Oost-Oekraïne (of de ‘Donetsk of Donbass Regio’) en De Krim kozen om zich los te maken van Oekraïne. De bewoners kozen in een door internationale waarnemers goedgekeurd referendum voor aansluiting bij Rusland (dus geen annexatie door Rusland!) en de Donetsk Regio splitsten zich op in kleine republieken.

Rusland wordt beschuldigd van het meevechten in Oost-Oekraïne, een enorme leugen waar geen greintje bewijs voor is……..

Ongelofelijk dat de wereld nog steeds inzet op de Porosjenko kliek en toekijkt hoe deze junta de ene na de andere oorlogsmisdaad begaat……… En de VS? Ach ja, de grootste terreurentiteit op onze kleine aarde, iedereen met een beetje verstand kan begrijpen waarom dit zo is. Westerse politici moeten dit weten en laten we hopen dat die westerse politici, hun slippendragers van de reguliere media (die ook van e.e.a op de hoogte moeten zijn) voor hun steun aan de grootschalige VS terreur, in de nabije toekomst strafrechtelijk zullen worden vervolgd!! Ze hebben dit net als de VS, dubbel en dwars verdiend!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Verder een goed leesbaar artikel, met ontluisterende feiten:

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

July
11, 2017 at 2:21 pm

Written
by 
Darius
Shahtahmasebi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Creative
Commons
 / Anti-Media / Report
a typo

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

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

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

       en: ‘Mosul verwoest door VS………

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

(een ongelofelijk en ongeloofwaardige belofte….)

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

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

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

(met mogelijkheid tot vertaling) 

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

(met mogelijkheid tot vertaling)

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

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

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

Afgelopen woensdag meldde Anti-Media dat volgens The Independent, dat speciale rapporten mocht inzien, er in 9 maanden tijd meer dan 40.000 burgers in Mosul zijn omgekomen (lees: vermoord….)….

‘Vreemd genoeg’ haalde dit bericht niet de reguliere Nederlandse media (althans ik kan dit bericht niet terugvinden, buiten het feit, dat dit niet werd gemeld op Radio1 en BNR)……. ‘Vreemd’ daar in het geval van de bevrijding van Oost-Aleppo, de bevrijding van de vreselijke terreur die de ‘gematigde’ terreurgroepen op de bevolking uitoefende, er bij elke dode hysterische werd gereageerd in deze media, dit terwijl die doden werden gemeld door terreurgroepen….* Ach ja, er zijn geen onafhankelijke ‘massamedia organen’ over in ons land…..

Het reguliere Syrische leger en de Russen besloten 2 maanden voor de uiteindelijke inname van Oost-Aleppo, te stoppen met bombardementen, daar die teveel burgerslachtoffers zouden maken. De situatie in West-Mosul was nog veel gevaarlijker, daar de oude huizen die al veel te dicht op elkaar stonden, veel sneller zouden instorten. Ondanks dat bleef de VS gewoon doorgaan met de bombardementen……..

Volgens The Independent zijn er meerdere daders verantwoordelijk voor al die burgerslachtoffers: het Irakese leger (en politie), bombardementen en IS. Vreemd dat er bij die bombardementen niet werd gesteld, dat deze hoofdzakelijk door de VS werden uitgevoerd en het zal u niet verbazen, dat verreweg het grootste aantal slachtoffers is gevallen door die bombardementen……

De schrijver van het volgende artikel, Shahtahmasebi stelt zich aan het eind van zijn schrijven af, of je niet moet spreken van terreur als er zoveel mensen in zo’n korte tijd om het leven komen (vermoord, Ap)…… Het is niet gepast hierom te lachen, maar de vraag stellen is wat mij betreft hetzelfde als deze beantwoorden. Zoals al vaker op deze plek gesteld: de VS is de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde!!

Onder het volgende artikel nog 6 links naar andere berichten, waarvan de laatste 2 naar Information Clearing House artikelen, onder die artikelen kan u klikken voor een vertaling.

Intel
Reports Reveal at Least 40,000 Civilians Killed in Mosul in Just 9
Months

July
20, 2017 at 9:48 am

Written
by 
Darius
Shahtahmasebi

(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed)  According
to intelligence reports
 revealed
exclusively
 to
the 
Independent,
a prominent U.K.-based news outlet, more than 40,000 civilians may
have been killed in the nine-month long battle of Mosul.

The Independent claims
these documents show that residents of Mosul were killed by Iraqi
ground forces, as well as by air strikes and ISIS fighters.

According
to Hoshyar Zebari, who until recently was a senior minister in
Baghdad, many bodies “are still buried under the rubble.

Kurdish
intelligence believes that over 40,000 civilians have been killed as
a result of massive firepower used against them, especially by the
federal police, air strikes and Isis itself,”
 Mr.
Zebari added.

The
monitoring group 
Airwars recently estimated that
at least 4,000 civilians were still buried under the rubble in Mosul,
but we will likely never know the exact number. Up until a month
ago, the U.S. only 
had
two personnel
 investigating
casualties in Iraq and Syria full time.

Zebari
also emphasized that the “
unrelenting
artillery bombardment by units of the Iraqi federal police, in
practice a heavily armed military unit, had caused immense
destruction and loss of life in west Mosul,” 
according
to the 
Independent.

Whether
we like to admit it or not, the Trump administration bears a huge
responsibility for these reported civilian deaths. It was
Trump’s
 decision to
give extraordinary scope to his military generals to call in
airstrikes with very little oversight that has led to an increase in
bombs and widespread civilian suffering. Giving the Iraqi army the
ability to call in airstrikes is also somewhat controversial
considering they have a
 history
of committing human rights abuses
.
One of the airstrikes called in by Iraqi forces 
killed
almost
 300
civilians in a single bombardment.

According
to the 
Independent,
even though Zebari’s figure of 40,000 civilians is higher than any
other previous reports, the intelligence service of the Kurdistan
Regional government “
has
a reputation for being extremely accurate and well-informed.”
 Zebari
also complained about the levels of corruption that have plagued the
Iraqi government and its military. It is for this reason that some
soldiers
 would
rather throw ISIS militants off rooftops
 than
hand them over to authorities, where they would allegedly be able to
bribe their way out of custody.

Further,
as 
Amnesty
International
 argued
in a recent
 report entitled
“At Any Cost: The Civilian Catastrophe in West Mosul, Iraq,” a
lot of the damage to Mosul was done by artillery shells and rockets.
The evidence compiled by 
Amnesty appears
to show a greater and more indiscriminate use of firepower by
pro-government forces over the past six months, which wreaked havoc
across the densely populated areas.

Given
the U.S. was leading this Mosul campaign, the responsibility is on
them to do their utmost to protect civilian lives.

If
Zebari’s figures are accurate, one has to question if the price of
“liberating” Mosul from a terrorist group that
 could
barely kill three U.S. soldiers last year
 –
let alone 40,000 civilians in a nine-month period – is worth it.

If
a military and its associated forces kill over 40,000 civilians in
such a short period of time, perhaps they are the real terrorists.
They are more than
 likely
war criminals
,
too.

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

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

* Berichten meestal via hun woordvoerder, een gevluchte Syrische misdadiger in Engeland, tevens de enige medewerker van het Syrian Observatory for Human Rights >> SOHR.

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

        en: ‘Mosul
‘zal met precisie ontdaan worden van de terroristen, inclusief een
minimum aan burgerslachtoffers…….’
‘ (een ongelofelijk en ongeloofwaardige belofte….)        en: ‘Hennis-Plasschaert
hoopte nog zo, dat IS de bevolking van Mosul niet als schild zou
gebruiken……..


         enHonderden
burgerslachtoffers in Mosul door VS bombardementen, ofwel
grootschalige terreur……

        en: ‘Mass Media Siege: Comparing Coverage Of Mosul and Aleppo‘ (met mogelijkheid tot vertaling)

       en: ‘After Mosul’s “Liberation,” Horror of US Siege Continues to Unfold‘ (met mogelijkheid tot vertaling)

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

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

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

      en: ‘Iraakse strijdmacht gaf grif toe dat tot hun orders voor West-Mosul ook het vermoorden van vrouwen en kinderen behoorde……..

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

Venezuela is zwaar ontwricht, dit zou volgens de reguliere zogenaamd onafhankelijke media de schuld zijn van president Maduro, maar wat u niet zal horen of lezen in dezelfde media, is de echte oorzaak van alle ellende: een smerige economische oorlog van de VS tegen het Maduro bewind in Caracas. Al in 2015 werden winkelketens van VS bedrijven (veelal supermarkten) slecht of niet bevoorraad, een direct gevolg van het agressieve Obama beleid. Deze winkels staan nu al voor meer dan een jaar leeg, waardoor er flinke tekorten zijn……

Uiteraard is het de bedoeling dat hierdoor een opstand uitbreekt, echter daar heeft de VS het geduld niet voor, dus heeft de CIA de oppositie voor haar kar gespannen en samen hebben ze deze opstand op poten gezet (benieuwd wat e.e.a. gekost heeft, voor de opstand met eenzelfde opzet in Oekraïne gaf Hillary Clinton daar maar liefs 4 miljard dollar aan uit….)…

Volgens de reguliere ‘onafhankelijke’ media treedt het Venezolaanse bewind keihard op tegen de demonstranten en zouden er daardoor doden zijn gevallen, echter het omgekeerde is waar, het geweld komt in hoofdzaak van de (veelal ultrarechtse) demonstranten en omgekochte jongeren……….

Lees het volgende artikel waarin links (en ‘humane mensen’ die verder nadenken dan hun neus lang is) terecht wordt opgeroepen zich achter de regering Maduro te stellen. Oordeel zelf, onder het artikel kan u klikken voor een vertaling (voor meer berichten over Venezuela, klik op de link onder het artikel en/of klik op het label met die naam, direct onder dit bericht):

Time
for the International Left to Take a Stand on Venezuela

By
Gregory Wilpert

July
16, 2017 “Information
Clearing House
” –  The mainstream media consistently
fails to report who is instigating the violence in this conflict.

Venezuela
is heading towards an increasingly dangerous situation, in which open
civil war could become a real possibility. So far over 100 people
have been killed as a result of street protests, most of these deaths
are the fault of the protesters themselves (to the extent that we
know the cause).

The
possibility of civil war becomes more likely as long as the
international media obscure who is responsible for the violence and
the international left remains on the sidelines in this conflict and
fails to show solidarity with the Bolivarian socialist movement in
Venezuela.

If
the international left receives its news about Venezuela primarily
from the international media, it is understandable why it is being so
quiet. After all, this mainstream media consistently fails to report
who is instigating the violence in this conflict.

For
example, a follower of CNN or the New York Times would not know that
of the 103 who have been killed as a result of street protests, 27
were the direct or indirect result of the protesters themselves. 

Another 14 were the result of lootings; in one prominent case,
because looters set fire to a store and ended up getting engulfed in
the flames themselves. Fourteen deaths are attributable to the
actions of state authorities (where in almost all cases those
responsible have been charged), and 44 are still under investigation
or in dispute. This is according to data from the office of the
Attorney General, which itself has recently become pro-opposition.

Also
unknown to most consumers of the international media would be that
opposition protesters detonated a bomb in the heart of Caracas on
July 11, wounding seven National Guard soldiers or that a building
belonging to the Supreme Court was burnt by opposition protesters on
June 12th or that opposition protesters attacked a maternity hospital
on May 17. 

In
other words, it is possible that much of the international left has
been misled about the violence in Venezuela; thinking that the
government is the only one responsible, that President Nicolas Maduro
has declared himself to be dictator for life (though he has actually
confirmed that the presidential elections scheduled for late 2018
will proceed as planned), or that all dissent is punishable with
prison (disputed by major opposition leader, Leopoldo Lopez – who
was partly responsible for the post-election violence in 2014 –
recently being released from prison and placed under house arrest).

If
this is the reason for the silence on Venezuela, then the left should
be ashamed for not having read its own critiques of the mainstream
media.

All
of the foregoing does not contradict that there are plenty of places
where one might criticize the Maduro Government for having made
mistakes with regard to how it has handled the current situation,
both economically and politically. However, criticisms – of which I
have made several myself – do not justify taking either a neutral
or pro-opposition stance in this momentous conflict. As South African
anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu once said, “If you are neutral
in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the
oppressor.” 

Perhaps
the Venezuelan case is also confusing to outsiders because President
Maduro is in power and the opposition is not. It could thus be
difficult to see the opposition as being an “oppressor.”

However,
for an internationalist left, it should not be so confusing. After
all, the opposition in Venezuela receives significant support not
only from private businesses but also the U.S. Government,
the international right and transnational capital.

Perhaps
progressives feel that the Maduro Government has lost all democratic
legitimacy and that this is why they cannot support it. According to
the mainstream media coverage, Maduro canceled regional elections
scheduled for December 2016, prevented the recall referendum from
happening and neutralized the National Assembly.

Let’s
take a brief look at each of these claims one by one. 

First,
regional elections (state governors and mayors) were indeed supposed
to take place in late 2016, but the National Electoral Council (CNE)
postponed them with the argument that political parties needed to
re-register first. Leaving aside the validity of this argument, the
CNE rescheduled the elections recently for December 2017. This
postponement of a scheduled election is not unprecedented in
Venezuela because it happened before, back in 2004, when local
elections were postponed for a full year. Back then, at the height of
President Hugo Chavez’s power; hardly anyone objected.

As
for the recall referendum, it was well known that it would take
approximately ten months to organize between its initiation and its
culmination. However, the opposition initiated the process in April
2016, far too late for the referendum to take place in 2016 as they
wanted. If it takes place in 2017, there would be no new presidential
election – according to the constitution – and the
vice-president would take over for the remainder of the term.

Finally,
with regard to the disqualification of the National Assembly, this
was another self-inflicted wound on the part of the opposition. That
is, even though the opposition had won 109 out of 167 seats (65%)
outright, they insisted on swearing in three opposition members whose
election was in dispute because of fraud claims.

As
a result, the Supreme Court ruled that until these three members are
removed, most decisions of the national assembly would not be valid.

In
other words, none of the arguments against the democratic legitimacy
of the Maduro Government hold much water. Moreover, polls repeatedly
indicate that even though Maduro is fairly unpopular, a majority of
Venezuelans want him to finish his term in office, which expires in
January 2019. As a matter of fact, Maduro’s popularity (24% in
March, 2017) is not as low as several other conservative presidents
in Latin America at the moment, such as that of Mexico’s Enrique
Pena Nieto (17% in March, 2017), Brazil’s Michel Temer (7% in June,
2017) or Colombia’s Juan Manuel Santos (14% in June, 2017). 

Now
that we have addressed the possible reasons the international left
has been reluctant to show solidarity with the Maduro Government and
the Bolivarian socialist movement, we need to examine what
“neutrality” in this situation would end up meaning – in other
words, what allowing the opposition to come to power via an illegal
and violent transition would mean. 

First
and foremost, their coming to power will almost certainly mean that
all Chavistas – whether they currently support President Maduro or
not – will become targets for persecution. Although it was a long
time ago, many Chavistas have not forgotten the “Caracazo” –
when in February 1989, then-president Carlos Andres Perez meted out
retaliation on poor neighborhoods for protesting against his
government and wantonly killed somewhere between 400 and 1,000
people. More recently, during a short-lived coup against President
Chávez in April 2002 the current opposition showed it was more than
willing to unleash reprisals against Chavistas.

Most
do not know this, but during the two-day coup over 60 Chavistas were
killed in Venezuela – not including the 19 killed, on both sides of
the political divide, in the lead-up to the coup. The post-election
violence of April 2013 left 7 dead, and the Guarimbas of February to
April 2014 left 43 dead. Although the death count in each of these
cases represented a mix of opposition supporters, Chavistas and
non-involved bystanders; the majority belonged to the Chavista side
of the political divide.

Now,
during the most recent wave of guarimbas, there have also been
several incidents in which a Chavista, who was near an opposition
protest, was chased and killed because protesters recognized them to
be a Chavista in some way. 

In
other words, the danger that Chavistas will be generally persecuted
if the opposition should take over the government is very real. Even
though the opposition includes reasonable individuals who would not
support such a persecution, the current leadership of the opposition
has done nothing to rein in the fascist tendencies within its own
ranks. If anything, they have encouraged these tendencies.

Second,
even though the opposition has not published a concrete plan for what
it intends to do once in government – which is also one of the
reasons the opposition remains almost as unpopular as the government
– individual statements by opposition leaders indicate that they
would immediately proceed to implement a neoliberal economic program
along the lines of President Michel Temer in Brazil or Mauricio Macri
in Argentina. They might succeed in reducing inflation and shortages
this way, but at the expense of eliminating subsidies and social
programs for the poor across the board. Also, they would roll back
all of the policies supporting communal councils and communes that
have been a cornerstone of participatory democracy in the Bolivarian
revolution.

So,
instead of silence, neutrality or indecision from the
international left in the current conflict in Venezuela, what is
needed is active solidarity with the Bolivarian socialist movement.
Such solidarity means vehemently opposing all efforts to overthrow
the government of President Maduro during his current term in office.
Aside from the patent illegality that overthrowing the Maduro
Government would represent, it would also literally be a deadly blow
to Venezuela’s socialist movement and to the legacy of President
Chavez. The international left does not even need to take a position
on whether the proposed constitutional assembly or negotiations with
the opposition is the best way to resolve the current crisis. 


That is
really up to Venezuelans to decide. Opposing intervention and
disseminating information on what is actually happening in Venezuela,
though, are the two things where non-Venezuelans can play a
constructive role. 


Gregory
Wilpert is the author of Changing Venezuela by Taking Power: The
History and Policies of the Chávez Government (Verso Books, 2007)


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Hier de link naar het originele bericht, waarin ook 2 video’s die ik niet kan overnemen, één met een pro-Maduro demo en een ander met de bekentenis van een tiener, die toegeeft betaald te zijn om te gaan demonstreren en geweld te gebruiken.

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

       en: ‘Venezolaanse regering treedt terecht op tegen de uiterst gewelddadige oppositie!!

       en: ‘Venezuela:
Target of Economic Warfare

 
     
en:
Venezuela’s
US-Backed Opposition Turns Up The Violence Following Assembly
Vote

 
     
en:
10
Things You Need to Know About the Terrorist Attack in Venezuela

 
     
en:
Venezuelans
in the Streets to Support Constituent Assembly

 
     
en:
What
Mainstream Media Got Wrong About Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly
Vote

(met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)

 
     
en:
The
Left and Venezuela

(met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)

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

       en: ‘Rondje Venezuela schoppen op Radio1………

      en: ‘Karabulut (SP) blij dat ze Maduro eindelijk ook kan schoppen………

      en: ‘EU neemt uiterst hypocriet sancties tegen de Venezolaanse regering Maduro………

      en: ‘Abby Martin Busts Open Myths on Venezuela’s Food Crisis: ‘Shelves Fully Stocked’‘ (zie ook de video in dat artikel!)

      en: ‘Venezuela: VS verandering van regime mislukt >> de Venezolanen wacht een VS invasie

      en: ‘Venezuela: de anti-propaganda van John Oliver (en het grootste deel westerse massamedia) feilloos doorgeprikt

       en: ‘Trump wilde naast de economische oorlogsvoering tegen Venezuela dat land daadwerkelijk militair aanvallen……

Mijn excuus voor de vormgeving.

Paus Franciscus tegen glutenvrije hosties, hij prefereert genetisch gemanipuleerde ingrediënten……..

Paus Franciscus, alias Bergoglio, wenst dat de rk kerk geen gebruik maakt van glutenvrije hosties, deze massamoordenaar prefereert genetisch gemanipuleerde ingrediënten, zo lekte onlangs uit het Vaticaan…….

Logisch, deze vriend van moordenaar, verkrachter, martelbeul en ontvoerder Videla is uiterst goed bevriend met de grootgrondbezitters en andere vooraanstaande schoften in Argentinië, of dat nu veeboeren, landbouwers of figuren als fascist Jorge Zorreguieta zijn (u weet wel; de vader van uw pampakoningin Maxima…)……..

Met andere woorden: pias Franciscus is grootlobbyist voor Bayer* (dat intussen ook Monsanto bezit)  en andere gifmengers die zich te buiten gaan aan het vernietigen van onze aarde en alles wat daar op leeft…..

Dan durft deze schijnheilige ‘herder’ ook nog z’n bek open te doen over het belang van duurzaamheid…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Wat een doortrapte oplichter die Franciscus!!

U vraagt zich af waarom ik Franciscus massamoordenaar noem? Welnu dat heeft alles te maken met zijn verbod op anticonceptie, waarmee niet alleen hij, maar ook z’n voorgangers minstens een miljoen mensen bloot hebben gesteld aan Hiv, waardoor ze overleden aan aids…… Daarnaast onderneemt de schijnheilige schoft niets tegen priesters, bisschoppen en kardinalen die homo’s vervloeken vanaf de kansel, waardoor deze mensen nog steeds in fikse getale worden vermoord in over het algemeen ontwikkelingslanden, of die zich nu on Afrika, Zuid- en Midden-Amerika, dan wel in Azië bevinden……

Paus Franciscus is een schijnheilige, hypocriete genetisch gemanipuleerde boon!!

* Hetzelfde Bayer dat in nazi-Duitsland gebruik maakte van mensproeven voor haar medicijnen, proeven op mensen uit concentratiekampen………

Mosul, de duizenden doden door VS bombardementen >> Mosul Families Complain Overuse of Airstrikes Killed Thousands

Zoals al vaker opgemerkt in dit blog: de Irak-coalitie (o.l.v. de VS) bleef tot het eind toe West-Mosul bombarderen (vooral door de luchtmacht van de VS), terwijl men wist dat dit tot een ongelofelijk aantal doden zou leiden, zeker daar in de oude binnenstad de huizen dicht op elkaar staan en de oude huizen al niet stevig waren.

De reguliere media hebben hier geen aandacht aan besteed, terwijl ze bij de bevrijding van Oost-Aleppo dagelijks uit de hysterische bol gingen, over het ‘barbaarse optreden’ van Rusland en het Syrische leger. Echter in tegenstelling tot de ‘bevrijders’ van Mosul, besloten de Russen en het Syrische leger al 2 maanden voor de uiteindelijke bevrijding te stoppen met bombardementen op Oost-Aleppo, waardoor het leven van duizenden inwoners werd gespaard. Ook daarvoor geen aandacht in de reguliere (massa-) media……..

Information Clearing House (ICH) kwam een paar dagen geleden met getuigenissen van bewoners uit West-Mosul, die aangeven dat er veelal zelfs zinloos werd gebombardeerd, daar er geen of amper strijders van IS aanwezig waren in hun wijken dan wel huizenblokken……..

Het aantal door de VS met hun bombardementen vermoordde burgers in West-Mosul moet ongelofelijk groot zijn. echter het bergen van de lijken zal nog maanden duren…….

Hier een deel van het ICH artikel, daaronder kan u klikken voor het volledige artikel, daaronder kan u klikken voor een vertaling:

Many
bodies are still buried in the rubble with parts of the city
inaccessible thanks to streets choked with debris, writes Patrick
Cockburn in the latest of his series from Iraq

There
were very few Daesh [
Isis fighters]
in our neighbourhood, but they dropped a lot of bombs on them,”
says Qais, 47, a resident of the al-Jadida district of 
Mosul.
“We reckon that the airstrikes here killed between 600 and 1,000
people.”

He
shows pictures on his phone of a house that had stood beside his own
before it was hit by a bomb or missile that had reduced it to a heap
of smashed-up bricks. “There were no Daesh in the house,” says
Qais. But there were seven members of the Abu Imad family living
there, of whom five were killed along with two passers-by.

People
in west Mosul say that the intensity of the bombardment from the air
was out of all proportion to the number of Isis fighters on the
ground. Saad Amr, a volunteer medic, worked in both east and west
Mosul during the nine-month siege. He says that “the airstrikes on
east Mosul were fewer but more accurate, while on the west there were
far more of them, but they were haphazard.”

Nobody
knows how many civilians died in Mosul because many of the bodies are
still buried under the rubble in 47 degrees heat. Asked to estimate
how many people had been killed in his home district of al-Thawra,
Saad Amr said: “we don’t know because houses were often full of
an unknown number of displaced people from other parts of the city.”

Some
districts are so badly damaged that it is impossible to reach them.
We heard that there had been heavy airstrikes on the districts of
Zanjily and Sahba and, from a distance, we could see broken roofs
with floors hanging down like concrete flaps. But we could not get
there in a car because the streets leading to them were choked with
broke masonry and burned out cars.

Mosul Families Complain Overuse of Airstrikes Killed Thousands