Trump stuurt 800 militairen naar de Mexicaanse grens met de VS om arme vluchtende drommels tegen te houden……

Afgelopen
nacht in het BBC World Service radionieuws van 1.00 u. (CET) aandacht voor Trump die sprak over de karavaan met intussen duizenden
mensen die vanuit Latijns-Amerika op weg zijn naar de VS. Volgens Trump
brengen deze mensen de staatsveiligheid van de VS in gevaar…… ha!
ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Vandaar
ook dat Trump nog eens 800 militairen extra naar die grens stuurt,
gezien zijn woorden is het niet ondenkbaar dat deze militairen straks
zullen schieten op arme, ongewapende mensen, ook al ontkent bijvoorbeeld CNN dat dit zal gebeuren…..

© EPA

Intussen dreigt Trump landen als Honduras Guatemala en El Salvador met het inhouden van hulp, daar zij niets hebben ondernomen tegen deze onafzienbare karavaan met wanhopige mensen… Van Mexico eist Trump dat dit land de karavaan stopt, echter zelfs zijn eigen administratie ziet dondersgoed dat een dergelijke stroom mensen niet anders te stoppen is dan met grof geweld…..

De
mensen in die karavaan zijn op de vlucht voor de uitzichtloze armoede en voor geweld, beiden zaken waar de VS een wel heel dikke
vinger in de pap heeft, al was het alleen al vanwege de enorme
wapenexport van de VS naar Latijns-Amerikaanse landen, wapens die ook grootschalig worden gebruikt door de georganiseerde misdaad……

Hoe dik de VS vinger is, blijkt wel uit het volgende: de karavaan bestaat voor het grootste deel uit Hondurese burgers, daar voor de grote onderlaag van dat land de ellende totaal ondragelijk is geworden, dit is te danken aan de junta, die na een door de VS georganiseerde staatsgreep werd geparachuteerd door NB diezelfde VS……..

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De VS oorlog tegen drugs treft vooral de gewone Latijns-Amerikaanse
bevolkingen en zoals al zo vaak aangetoond: de VS stimuleert in feite
alleen de productie van drugs in dat deel van de wereld, niet alleen
door die zinloze VS oorlog, maar ook door diensten als de DEA en CIA, die
profiteren van de drugssmokkel en de verkoop van die drugs in de VS…….. 
(o.a. om uiterst illegale acties te bekostigen) Voorts worden hele arealen aan landbouwgrond onbebouwbaar gemaakt in Latijns-Amerika, dit door het sproeien van gif, zodat daar geen zaken als coca of marihuana kunnen worden bebouwd, zoals je begrijpt wordt dit veelal door de VS gedaan……

Trump heeft beloofd deze karavaan te stoppen, letterlijk zei hij: “They will be stopped” en zoals eerder gezegd, te vrezen valt dat dit met grof geweld zal gebeuren, daar deze vluchtelingen niet van zins zijn zich te laten tegenhouden, niet door gebieden die gevaarlijk zijn door bendes, niet door rivieren en niet door Trump!

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Het is
als met de illegale oorlogen van de VS in het Midden-Oosten: de bevolkingen van landen als Irak, Syrië en Afghanistan (waar de laatste eigenlijk buiten het Midden-Oosten ligt) worden getroffen en een groot deel van hen
probeert te vluchten naar de EU, dezelfde EU die de oorlogen van de
VS steunt, zowel politiek al militair….. Hoewel verantwoordelijk
voor de oorzaak van het vluchten door een enorm aantal mensen, weigeren de VS en de EU deze vluchtelingen op te
nemen…….. (en vergeet niet dat deze vluchtelingenstromen op gang kwamen met behulp van o.a. ons belastinggeld!)

Ongelofelijk
en onverdraaglijk!!!

Vanmorgen vond ik op Anti-Media het volgende artikel, geschreven door Emma Platoff, eerder gepubliceerd op de The Texas Tribune

Trump
Administration to Send at Least 800 Troops to the US-Mexico Border

National Guard troops leave Austin for the U.S.-Mexico border on April 6, 2018.

Photo credit: Callie Richmond

October 25, 2018 at 11:11 am

Written
by 
Texas
Tribune

President
Donald Trump has raised alarm about a caravan of migrants heading for
the border. He tweeted Thursday morning that he is “bringing out
the military for this National Emergency.”

(TT) — The
Trump administration is expected to send 800 or more troops to the
U.S.-Mexico border to support border enforcement already stationed
there at a time the president has called a “national emergency.”

According
to 
multiple reports,
Defense Secretary James Mattis could sign an order to that effect as
early as Thursday. The troops — who are expected to be in place by
next week — would be directed to help border authorities stop a
caravan of thousands of Central American migrants who are making
their way through Mexico toward the United States, 
according
to CNN
.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

Brandon Judd of the National Border Patrol Council is right when he says on @foxandfriends that the Democrat inspired laws make it tough for us to stop people at the Border. MUST BE CHANDED, but I am bringing out the military for this National Emergency. They will be stopped!

With
the midterm elections approaching, Republicans across the country
have been raising alarm about the threat posed by those migrants. At
rally
in Houston
 on
Monday, Trump suggested the migrants may be funded by Democrats, and
claimed that some of the migrants are Middle Eastern. There is no
evidence for either claim.

And
earlier this week, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, 
said it
may be necessary to staff up the border.

I
think this caravan is a serious threat,” Cruz told reporters in
Houston on Monday. “When you see thousands of people pledging to
come violate U.S. law, to cross into this country illegally, we have
to treat that seriously.”

We
have to stop it,” Cruz added, “whether that means putting Border
Patrol at the border to stop them or whether that means calling up
the National Guard.”

The
delegation is expected to include some active-duty forces, primarily
from the

Army, according
to the Washington Post
.
CNN 
reported that
the troops would not engage in “lethal operations” to stop the
migrants, but would reinforce fencing at spots where migrants might
cross, and also provide tents and medical care for border
authorities. It was not immediately clear Thursday morning where
along the border the reinforcements would be stationed.

The
president also directed 
troops to
the border in April in an effort to deter illegal immigration. The
tide of border crossings has persisted under Trump, and the number of
families crossing 
surged in
September to record levels.

Former
Texas Gov. Rick Perry deployed National Guard troops to the border in
summer 2014, and Gov. Greg Abbott 
kept
them in place
 after
taking office.

Gov.
Greg Abbott’s office did not immediately return a request for
comment.

By Emma
Platoff
 / Republished
with permission / 
Texas
Tribune

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

Zie ook:

VS gebruikt chemische wapens tegen ongewapende vluchtelingen waaronder kinderen

BBC volkomen krom over de vluchtelingen uit Honduras die wel degelijk door Trump met geweld worden bedreigd

Trump letterlijk: “Barbwire used in the right way can be a beautiful sight” Trump op een verkiezingsbijeenkomst over het ‘probleem van de vluchtelingenkaravaan’ uit de door de VS gecreëerde ellende in Honduras

VS stuurt 5.000 militairen extra naar de grens met Mexico, als wapen tegen de karavaan met armen uit Latijns-Amerika

Door VS gesteunde bewind in Honduras heeft de staat van beleg afgekondigd……..

VS heeft Hondurese speciale eenheden getraind die protesten tegen een waterkrachtcentrale gewelddadig hebben neergeslagen……

Hillary Clinton mede verantwoordelijk voor moord op Berta Cáceres………..

Hondurese activiste ontvoerd en vermoord (alweer…), met instemming van de VS………

Berta Cáceres voorvechter gelijke rechten en milieuactivist vermoord in Honduras

CBS cijfergoochelaars stellen dat meerderheid van Nederland niet gelovig is…… OEI!!!

Het CBS, het cijfergoochelinstituut van de regering, liet gisteren weten dat de meerderheid van Nederland voor het eerst niet gelovig is……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Dat is al heel lang zo, maar het is maar wie je bevraagd en hoe de vraagstelling is geformuleerd.

Volgens het CBS is 51 % van de Nederlanders niet gelovig en is derhalve 49% wel religieus…. Opvallend is het grote aantal rooms katholieken in de CBS ‘meting’, die zouden met maar liefst 24% deel uitmaken van het Nederlandse volk…..

Niet toevallig dat cijfer voor de rk gelovigen, immers het is nog steeds ingewikkeld om als gelovige uitgeschreven te worden uit de registers van die kerk….. Met andere woorden je kan ervan uitgaan dat het aantal echte rk gelovigen rond de 14% ligt!! (en dat percentage is meer in verhouding met het aantal belijdende protestanten)

Voorts meet het CBS de gelovigheid vanaf 16 jarige leeftijd, gegarandeerd dat veel van de jongeren hebben ingevuld wat hun ouders wenselijk vinden en dat zal in veel gevallen, zoals op de bijbelbelt (of biblebelt, wat je wilt), een positief antwoord opleveren als de vraag wordt gesteld of men gelovig is, m.a.w. het aantal gelovige Nederlanders kan je nog verder omlaag bijstellen…….

Het is dan ook belachelijk dat er zoveel rekening wordt gehouden met gelovigen, terwijl het aantal gelovigen een (kleine) minderheid is en al helemaal te zot voor woorden dat in de laatste regels van de troonreden op de bedachte god wordt gewezen: “U mag zich daarbij gesteund weten door het besef dat velen u wijsheid toewensen en met mij om kracht en Gods zegen voor u bidden.

Die hele troonrede is trouwens belachelijk, zeker daar deze wordt voorgelezen door de koning, die volgens de protestantse bijbel door god is gegeven……. (ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!)

CDA plork Balkenende durfde als ‘premier’ te zeggen dat het moreel besef en ethisch handelen alleen kunnen bestaan door de ‘joods-christelijke’ belijdenis van het geloof door het volk, op die meer dan waanzinnige constatering kom ik zo terug.

De hoogste tijd ook dat er eindelijk een verbod komt op het religieus opvoeden en onderwijzen van kinderen (beter gezegd: het hersenspoelen van kinderen met het religieuze gif), pas als men ouder is dan 21 jaar zou kerkelijke werving toegestaan mogen worden… Hoewel: moet je wel toestaan dat mensen zwaar belazerd mogen worden met onbewezen zaken als god, hemel en hel??? Zeker als je ziet dat religies door de eeuwen heen verantwoordelijk zijn voor enorme slachtingen, zoals de grootste genocide ooit, die in de 3 Amerika’s op de oorspronkelijke bevolking werd uitgevoerd, een genocide die bij wijze van spreken met de bijbel in de hand werd uitgevoerd….. Overigens is die genocide nog steeds bezig in de oerwouden van Zuid-Amerika…. Zet het voorgaande eens af tegen de uitlatingen van Balkenende, die ‘godbetert’ geschiedenis heeft gestudeerd…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

,

Over Balkenende gesproken: juist regeringen op basis van geloof en despoten als de koningen/koninginnen hebben veel aan religie, ze kunnen zo bijvoorbeeld met de bijbel in de hand het volk onder de duim houden…… In de VS is het bijvoorbeeld ondenkbaar dat een president niet van het christelijk geloof is…. Niet zelden ook dat in de VS voor veel zaken op regeringsniveau het geloof als leidraad wordt gebruikt, neem de homo-emancipatie (ook het homohuwelijk), abortus en anticonceptie….. In Latijns-Amerika is het zelfs nog een graadje erger en daar worden niet zelden homo’s vervolgd, waar de priesters en bisschoppen van de rk kerk in bijna elke mis nog steeds haatzaaien tegen homo’s……

PS: christelijke gelovigen hebben voor ander religies het woord ‘bijgeloof’ uitgevonden, alsof het woord geloven 2 betekenissen heeft…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Het woord ‘geloven’ is duidelijk: je gelooft iets, maar kan dat niet bewijzen. Voor veel zaken zou je onderzoek kunnen doen en dan dat geloven omzetten in (zeker) weten, echter met religies is dat onmogelijk, zo is nog nooit bewezen dat god bestaat en dat zal ook nooit lukken!! (ofwel bijgeloof en geloof zijn precies hetzelfde en ‘hebben als ‘begrip’ evenveel ‘waarde’)

Zie ook: ‘Europees Hof voor Mensenrechten oordeelt dat een vrouw terecht werd veroordeeld voor de stelling dat profeet Mohammed een pedofiel was……

Duizenden ‘illegale’ kinderen in VS concentratiekampen…….

Hoewel
de Trump administratie keer op keer stelt dat de kinderen die van hun
ouders werden afgenomen, terug zijn bij hun ouders, blijkt dit ‘evenzovaak’ een leugen te zijn, maar het hieronder opgenomen artikel
overgenomen van Greed en eerder gebracht door Sputnik (VS)
is eigenlijk nog veel sterker verontrustend…..

Het
blijkt dat de VS duizenden kinderen, die zonder hun ouders en papieren de VS binnenkwamen vanuit Mexico en de rest van Midden-Amerika, vasthoudt in
wat niet anders kan worden aangeduid dan concentratiekampen…….. Je kan dan ook gerust spreken van een enorme schending van mensen- en kinderrechten…. 

Vergeet naast dit alles niet dat in het grootste deel van Latijns-Amerika het leven van een kind niets waard is en de VS er zelf voor zorgt het grootste deel van de volkeren in dit deel van de Amerika’s, in diepe armoede zitten, ofwel: de VS is zelf verantwoordelijk voor het vluchten van mensen naar de VS…….

Lees
het volgende artikel en huiver:

THOUSANDS
OF UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN KEPT IN ‘MODERN-DAY CONCENTRATION CAMPS’

Immigrant Camps

SEPTEMBER
14, 2018
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OF GREED 3
DHSICEIMMIGRANT
CHILDREN
IMMIGRANT
DETENTION
,IMMIGRATIONSPUTNIKTRUMP

United
States (
Sputnik)
– 
Although
hundreds of children were previously released to their families after
being separated by US federal agents earlier this year, data recently
obtained by The New York Times this week revealed that some 12,800
others are still being held in detention centers.

It
should be noted that the large amount of detainees isn’t due
to an influx in migrant children; rather it’s the result
of fewer children being released into the custody
of guardians or sponsors.

LET
OP: OP DEZE PLEK KAN JE IN HET ORIGINEEL EEN FRAGMENT VAN EEN RADIO UITZENDING (11 MINUTEN) TERUGLUISTEREN, HIER DE LINK

Juan
José Gutiérrez, the executive director of the Full Rights
for Immigrants Coalition (FRIC VS), told 
Radio
Sputnik’s Loud & Clear
 on Thursday
that a majority of those being detained are teenagers
from Mexico and Central America who traveled unaccompanied.

These
individuals are not being picked up by family, friends or
relatives or any kind of sponsor willing to sponsor
children, because the [US President] Donald Trump administration is
making it harder and harder under this zero tolerance
immigration policy for people to step forward and be able
to sponsor these children and get them out of detention,”
he told hosts Brian Becker and John Kiriakou.

What
we have here is that all these children are being kept in these
modern-day concentration camps called immigration shelters,” he
added, before noting that owners of the shelters are making
a profit off of others’ suffering.”

The
Trump administration issued a new rule in June that states
sponsors must be fingerprinted in order to have a child
released into their care, and that their information has to then
be shared with immigration officials.

Children
are being kept in dozens of shelters scattered
throughout the US as their individual cases travel
through the US court system at a snail’s space. On
Tuesday, it was reported that a tent city for migrant boys
in Tornillo, Texas, would stay open until at least the end
of 2019, marking the third time the temporary shelter saw its
closure delayed.

Kenneth
Wolfe, a Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) spokesperson,
told CBS News Tuesday that the compound would be expanding in order
to accommodate some 3,800 additional beds. Though the facility
originally held some 400 boys when it opened on June 14, 2018,
it currently has the means to house 1,200 kids.

Acknowledging
that owners of the private detention camps are lining their
pockets with dollar bills, Gutiérrez told Kiriakou that “this
is [being done] in the nature of capitalism, the so-called
free enterprise system, where you always put profits before people’s
rights and their needs.”

In
this case it is profits before the rights of undocumented
teenagers,” he said.

Reports
surfaced earlier this week that the Trump administration had diverted
some $10 million from several agencies, including the US Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to fund the US Immigration
and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). This was in addition
to the $200 million that the Trump administration redirected
from the Department of Homeland Security to ICE
over the summer. Of the $200 million, $93 million was allocated
for detention centers.

This
report prepared by 
Sputnik

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

Kortom eens te meer is duidelijk dat de VS niet alleen in het buitenland grootschalige terreur uitoefent, maar ook in eigen land…….

Zie ook:

13.000 kinderen van vluchtelingen zitten gevangen in VS ‘detentiekampen’

Peuter vluchtelingen moeten eigen zaak bepleiten in VS rechtszalen, de VS: het land van de ‘ongekende mogelijkheden….’

VS martelt gevluchte kinderen…..

VS sluit zelfs kinderen van 10 jaar op….. Met dat land onderhoudt Nederland hechte banden, een rechteloos land waaraan ‘we’ zelfs mensen uitleveren…..

Met nieuw VS ‘vluchtelingenbeleid’ zullen nog meer kinderen seksueel misbruikt worden…..

A Grandmother Seeking Asylum Separated From Disabled Grandson at the Border. It’s Been 10 Months

Children Drugged, Given Forced Injections at Texas Detention Facility: Lawsuit

Pentagon Accepts Trump’s Call to House 20,000 Children on US Military Bases

VS wil van 3.000 migrantenkinderen DNA afnemen om zo de ouders op te sporen…..

De VS heeft een lange geschiedenis in het ontvoeren van kinderen uit niet witte families…….

Jeff Sessions: ‘asielzoekers zijn alleen welkom in de VS als ze kunnen bewijzen dat ze overleden zijn t.g.v. geweld……….’

Immigrants& Muslims Are Trump’s Jews … Until He Comes for theActual Jews (van Harvey Wasserman)

Concentratiekampen in VS voor migranten…….

Concentratiekampen in VS voor migranten…….

Het Vierde Rijk timmert onder Trump nog harder aan de fascistische weg dan onder Obama en Bush….. E.e.a. blijkt bijvoorbeeld uit de barbaarse omgang met vluchtelingen, waar men zelfs kinderen van hun ouders afnam en deze samen met jongeren die op eigen gelegenheid dan wel onder begeleiding van een volwassene (veelal familie) opsloot in ‘jongerencentra’, ofwel gevangenissen die  het best te vergelijken zijn met concentratiekampen (een uitvinding van de Britten)……

Bij concentratiekampen denkt men meteen aan de doodskampen van nazi-Duitsland, echter concentratiekampen werden al veel eerder gebruikt door westerse regeringen en zijn zoals gezegd een Britse uitvinding uit de 19de eeuw……. Door WOII spreekt men liever niet meer over concentratiekampen, maar dat wil niet zeggen dat ze niet meer bestaan, zo bewijst o.a. de VS weer……

Concentratiekampen in de VS zijn niets nieuws, zo sloot men tijdens WOII VS burgers van Japanse en Duitse afkomst op in concentratiekampen, iets waar Trump over zei dat hij zich wat betreft de Japanners wel voor kon stellen iets dergelijks te hebben gedaan, ‘oorlogen zijn nu eenmaal hard….’ (waar hem, zo te zien in het hieronder opgenomen artikel, niet de VS burgers van Duitse komaf werden voorgelegd als voorbeeld, deze komen in het artikel niet eens ter sprake)

Echter met de vinger naar Trump wijzen doet ons vergeten dat bijvoorbeeld Obama 3 miljoen immigranten
deporteerde… (hiervoor kreeg hij de naam: ‘deporter in chief’) Al onder Clinton werden de eerste aanzetten gedaan tot het beleid zoals we dat de laatste jaren hebben gezien…

Kinderen zullen niet meer worden afgenomen van ouders, zo sprak het beest Trump, maar verder verandert er weinig, de concentratiekampen blijven bestaan voor kinderen van wie de ouders niet in de VS zijn……. Zoals het zich laat aanzien krijgen deze kinderen geen rechtsbijstand en blijven ze opgesloten in wat concentratiekampen zijn…… De families die de VS binnenkomen en die worden gepakt, worden in het geheel opgesloten, inclusief peuters en baby’s…… Niet dat ze misdaden hebben begaan, maar omdat ze ‘illegaal’ het land zijn binnengekomen….. (hoe kan je als mens in godsnaam illegaal zijn op onze kleine aarde???)

In het volgende artikel van Elliot Gabriel wijst deze op de VS invloed in Mexico tijdens de 80er
en 90er jaren >> via de Wereldhandelsorganisatie (WTO) heeft de VS in feite de arbeidersbevolking aan de
bedelstaf gebracht……… Ook verdragen als NAFTA bracht het arme deel van bevolkingen in Midden- (en Zuid-) Amerika vooral veel financiële ellende, ellende waardoor velen uiteindelijk zelfs hun land ontvluchtten richting VS….

Het meest smerige is wel dat Trump, plus een groot deel van de republikeinen en democraten durven te zeggen dat de migranten VS burgers hun banen afnemen…… Terwijl nu juist de grote bedrijven hun fabrieken verplaatsten naar landen in Azië en Midden-Amerika (m.n. naar Mexico) en zij daarmee de verantwoordelijken zijn voor de grote werkloosheid onder het arme deel van de VS bevolking……

Arme mensen die nu bespeeld worden door fascisten als Trump met leugens die hen moeten opzetten tegen migranten, die godbetert maar al te vaak vluchten voor door de VS aangerichte ellende in hun thuisland (neem de totaal mislukte ‘War on Drugs’ die in Mexico bijkans een oorlog van de drugsmaffia tegen de bevolking heeft veroorzaakt….. Mensen die dat geweld ontvluchten zijn niet langer welkom, zo liet opperschoft Sessions afgelopen week weten*)

Trump gaat zover met zijn angst en haatzaaierij, dat hij migranten beesten noemt die de VS komen ruïneren…… Hitler en Goebbels zouden trots zijn geweest op zo’n ijverige leerling……..

Yes,
US Immigration Prisons Are Absolutely ‘Concentration Camps’


June
22, 2018 at 9:45 am

Written by Elliott
Gabriel

(MPN
The ongoing furor over a drastic increase in the mass confinement of
migrant families and children has forced people in the United States
to cast a hard look at the immigration enforcement regime that has
aggressively developed in recent years.

The
discussion is increasingly recasting immigrant detention centers as
U.S. concentration camps. This has brought questions
of justice, human and civil rights back into focus — in contrast to
the Trump administration’s narrow reliance on the question of
law-and-order.

Prisons
for detained migrants conform to the basic, literal meaning of a
concentration camp: these are security enclosures where masses of
people from a targeted community are isolated from the general
population and subject to confinement, usually for political
purposes. Deprived of liberty, legal protections, or medical care,
those incarcerated in such camps see their lives reduced to a basic
biological existence.

Sexual
abuse, physical punishment, psychological trauma and even the
 forced
injection of children
 with
drugs are the daily reality for those captured at the border by U.S.
Customs and Border Protection officers or abducted from their homes
and workplaces by the Department of Homeland Security – Immigration
and Customs Enforcement, or DHS-ICE.

While
the term concentration camp is often
dismissed as extreme or exaggerated given its connotation of
Nazi Konzentrationslager like Auschwitz or Dachau —
which could more accurately be called death camps or forced
enslavement camps
 — concentration camps were widely used
by Western governments throughout the early 20th century as a
means to cope with insurgent populations in the colonies and waves of
migrants fleeing war in Europe.

Now,
in the 21st century, the U.S. immigrant enforcement regime has
assumed monstrous proportions. The country is being progressively
enveloped in a steel-clad mesh of stringent bureaucracy and inhumane
facilities devoted to legalized violence toward immigrants —
naturally, this has come in the name of security, sovereignty, and
enforcing the law.

Euphemisms,
Lies, and Mass Confinement

Like
the fig-leaf covering Adam and Eve’s genitals in Renaissance
paintings, a euphemism is a word or phrase meant to hide the true
nature of something considered embarrassing or offensive. Euphemisms
are common in our social interactions: We’re sleeping together; I’m
visiting the water closet; he passed away; we’re downsizing the
staff.

For
politicians, euphemisms are the bread and butter of “talking-points”
(propaganda) and serve to shield the state from public scrutiny and
criticism. Authorities will describe repressive police state measures
as necessary to 
public
safety, 
while
the elimination of public services is called 
balancing
the budget.
 Likewise, militaries
will refer to a blatantly imperialist war as a “
humanitarian
intervention,” 
while
an indiscriminate bombing 
campaign and
capture of enemy-held territory is an act of “
liberation.”

In
the world of criminal justice, solitary confinement and total
isolation from human contact — a form of torture – takes place in
the Security Housing Unit (SHU), a phrase that almost sounds like a
type of condominium apartment.

Immigration-related
U.S. concentration camps come in different varieties, each with its
own preferred euphemisms: there are 
detention
centers
 for
adults,
 childcare
facilities
 for
young children ripped from their families; and for those incarcerated
migrant adults (usually women) fortunate enough to remain with their
children, there are
 Family
Residential Centers
 –
a cheerful term that makes it sound as if families are having a
therapeutic retreat at Club Med rather than facing incarceration.

The
Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, provides a good
example of the concentration camps operated by the commercial prison
corporation, GEO Group. Immigrant detainees who went on hunger strike
last year describe the facility as riddled with filthy, exploitative
and abusive conditions. Incarcerated migrants are given cheap,
poor-quality food while being forced to wear soiled underwear.
Medical care access is restricted and often administered by
unqualified prison guards themselves; it’s not uncommon that
prisoners die from treatable diseases like staph infection,
pneumonia, or diabetes.

Those
confined to such camps “temporarily” spend much of their time
with no light at the end of the tunnel, as immigration court
proceedings face repeated delays without explanation. Forced to
languish in horrendous conditions for an indefinite period, prisoners
inevitably fall into a state of deep despondency that sometimes leads
to suicide. In other cases, prisoners who wage hunger strikes face
punitive detention and physical abuse. Prisoners are also expected to
take part in manual labor tasks, where they are paid $1 per hour to
take care of the upkeep of the facilities, drawing comparisons to
enslaved prison labor.

At
“childcare facilities,” young children ripped from their
families’ arms are kenneled in wire-cage compounds or encamped in
overcrowded former Wal-Marts where they are subject to 22-hour
lockdown and given only two hours of fresh air — effectively
amounting to conditions of punitive incarceration for children as
young as seven years old.

Even
toddlers under the age of five have been placed in
three
 so-called “tender
age shelters” located in Texas, with a fourth compound planned for
Houston at a former warehouse slated to be re-purposed into a
“permanent unaccompanied alien children program facility. ”During
the  Second World War, the government vocabulary was riddled
with similarly clean, bureaucratic euphemisms that obscured the
persecution of a community seen as a hostile and inherently “alien”
minority: Japanese immigrants and Japanese-descended citizens of the
U.S.

The
Wartime Precedent: Japanese-American Incarceration

On
February 19, 1942, long-seething anti-Asian racism and the Imperial
Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor culminated in the signing of
Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The order
gave xenophobia the seal of approval as official state policy and
decreed the “evacuation” or forced removal of 120,000 U.S.
residents of Japanese ancestry from their homes. Over two-thirds of
those impacted were U.S. citizens, including children.

The
mass incarceration of Japanese-descended families was justified on
the basis of a fear of sabotage by a yet-to-be-exposed “fifth
column,” as well as claims by military authorities that Justice
Department investigations were unable to keep pace with wartime
national-security needs. However, Depression-era white farmers also
saw Japanese Americans as a threat to their economic interests and
had clamored for stripping citizenship from the “Japs.”

apanese
immigrants and Japanese Americans were detained and placed in
assembly centers (temporary detention centers) and relocation
centers, which were at the time depicted as akin to “summer camps.”
In reality, these were concentration camps in the middle of harsh
desert climates, which were surrounded by guard towers and
barbed-wire fences, where Japanese-descended prisoners were overseen
and routinely abused by U.S. Army personnel equipped with machine
guns and even tanks.

By
January 2, 1945, the camps were closed; not a single incarcerated
Japanese had been successfully prosecuted as a spy or agent of the
Japanese government. Yet thousands of

Japanese
Americans incarcerated at the notorious Tule Lake Segregation Center
in California had already been coerced into renouncing their U.S.
citizenship, and were subsequently deported en masse back
to a Japan that was shattered by war.

Descendants
of incarcerated Japanese citizens and immigrants have struggled hard
in recent years to ensure that wartime mass-confinement is described
in terms that accurately reflect the unjust nature of their
experience. In 2013, the Japanese American Community League responded
to criticism over the use of the term “concentration camp,”
stating:

Misleading
government euphemisms like relocation camp, assembly center,
and internment camp
 should no longer be an insurmountable
obstacle to understanding. Ridiculous notions that we were being
protected or pampered will diminish.

Honest
terms like American concentration camp, incarceration camp,
illegal detention center, forced removal
, and others, can now
truthfully tell a story: How the government used language to cover up
the denial of constitutional rights, the racism, forced removal,
incarceration, and oppressive conditions directed against 120,000
innocent people of Japanese ancestry.”

By
2015, Republican then-candidate Donald Trump began floating the idea
of a database of Muslim Americans to prevent, “until we are able to
determine and understand,” the alleged threat of “horrendous
attacks by people that believe only in Jihad.”

When
asked if he would have supported the wartime incarceration of
Japanese Americans, the former reality-TV star answered that it may
have been an option he would have favored. He also suggested that the
concentration camps may have played a role in the U.S. victory over
Japan. Trump explained:

I
would have had to be there at the time to tell you, to give you a
proper answer … It’s a tough thing. It’s tough..  But you
know war is tough. And winning is tough. We don’t win anymore. We
don’t win wars anymore. We don’t win wars anymore. We’re not a
strong country anymore. We’re just so off.”

90s
Roots: White “Nativist” Anxiety and the Neoliberal Offensive

Aside
from the deeply racist, white-supremacist roots of the United States
as a whole, Trump-style xenophobia and anti-immigrant racism became a
major phenomenon in the 1990s, when mass-media outlets and right-wing
politicians filled Americans’ heads with lurid tales of the threat
posed by brown-skinned foreigners. War and terrorism in the Middle
East flooded headlines as the Gulf War in Iraq and resistance to
Israel in Palestine and Lebanon raged.

Meanwhile,
at the southern U.S. border, tens of thousands of Mexican migrants
poured through as a result of the desperate conditions and economic
chaos unleashed by the North American Free Trade Agreement of 1994
and previous neoliberal policies foisted on pliant Mexican
governments by the World Trade Organization (WTO). NAFTA led to a
major influx of investment in Mexico by Canadian and U.S.-based
multinationals, yet the net effect was the plundering of the
country’s resources and wealth, the devastation of its agricultural
sector and rural regions, and a huge uptick in unemployment and
poverty in the country.

As
scholar Richard D. Vogel wrote in his 2007
meticulously-researched 
essayTransient
Servitude
:

U.S.
financial and political intervention in the national life of Mexico
during the 1980s and 1990s, often carried out through the WTO, has
pauperized the Mexican working class. It is they who have had to
suffer the brunt of the mandatory austerity programs, strict debt
restructuring, and privatization initiatives that were imposed on
Mexico in the 1980s after the credit binge of the Mexican bourgeoisie
during the previous decade. The result of this foreign intervention
has been widespread unemployment and displacement from the land that
has produced onerous hardship and sparked internal migration from the
interior of Mexico to the industrialized border region and to the
United States.”

Unauthorized
migration from Mexico became a driving force for nativist resentment
and racism among white workers, resulting in a push for
anti-immigrant laws like California’s Proposition 187 ballot
initiative in 1994. White workers found convenient scapegoats in the
Mexican undocumented workforce, despite the fact that it was U.S.
capitalism as a whole that had undercut their jobs and living
standards through the search for cheap labor in Mexico and other
offshore locations.

The
U.S. responded to the nativist clamor by militarizing the U.S. border
— resulting in the deaths of thousands of border-crossers who died
in the harsh frontier climate — and by conducting showy Border
Patrol operations and raids such as 1993’s Hold the Line in
San Diego and 1995’s Operation Gatekeeper in El
Paso, which did little to stem the flow of migrants.

However,
the generally lax open border policy provided employers and
corporations with access to a huge pool of cheap labor to tap into,
handsomely benefiting a then-booming U.S. economy. By 2005, about 12
million undocumented migrants — over half of whom were Mexican —
resided in the United States.

The
2006 implementation of the U.S.-Central America Free Trade Agreement
(CAFTA, now CAFTA-DR) had a similarly negative impact on development
in Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Honduras, and Nicaragua, whose governments each signed. Rural
migrants were displaced and found no employment in cities, fueling
the growth of organized crime and acting as a sharp push factor for
migration to Mexico and the United States.

Subsequent
administrations’ security agreements with right-wing governments
and imperialist meddling — such as the Obama-Clinton State
Department’s success in overthrowing left-populist Honduran
President Manuel Zelaya in June 2009 — further 
exacerbated the
instability and misery plaguing Central America, creating
an 
inexorable
current
 that
continues to tens of thousands of desperate migrants to the doorstep
of the southern U.S. border in their life-or-death bid for asylum.

Fortress
America” and the Bipartisan Construction of DHS-ICE

The
double standards inherent in U.S. partisan politics have led some to
believe that concentration camps were reintroduced on such a broad
scale under Trump, when in fact the mass confinement of
asylum-seekers and non-citizens was a daily reality under the
administrations of both George W. Bush and Barack Obama, who both
oversaw the expansion of the sprawling DHS machinery.

Indeed,
ever since the Clinton administration’s 1996 Immigration Act, minor
misdemeanor convictions are enough reason for even legal permanent
residents to be deported.

This
history is often ignored by liberal critics of the Trump regime,
owing in no small part to his absolute disregard for the
multicultural sensitivities of his predecessors who built the
immigration enforcement apparatus. The president has no qualms about
resorting to blatantly dehumanizing rhetoric when describing whole
categories of asylum-seekers as “animals” that are “infesting”
the United States, drawing comparisons between the right-wing U.S.
leader’s political ideology and that of Nazi Germany.

Yet
Trump is merely picking up the baton that was passed to him, albeit
with a relish that appears to be both calculating and visceral.

After
September 11, 2001, the U.S. was pushed over the brink by hysteria
over the fear of another spectacular terrorist attack. Muslim
Americans and immigrant communities from Asia, Africa and the Middle
East became the target not only of racist attacks on the streets, but
also of anti-terrorism bills like the USA PATRIOT Act. The act
significantly widened the ability of immigration agents to conduct
mass-detention sweeps of terrorism suspects, while allowing for the
mandatory detention of non-citizens suspected of terrorism for up to
48 hours after arrest.

In
2003, the PATRIOT Act was followed by the establishment of the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which consisted of three
separate bureaus: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs
and Border Protection (CBP), and Citizen and Immigration Services
(CIS). ICE began to extend its facilities, field offices and subfield
offices across the country.

In
June, 2003, ICE introduced its 10-year strategic enforcement plan,
Operation ENDGAME. The plan
 called
for
 information
sharing across government agencies while also explicitly calling for
the forcible removal of the entire unauthorized migrant population of
12 million people from the United States by 2014. In a memorandum
describing the program, ICE Office of Detention and Removal
Operations (DRO) director Anthony Tangemann stated:

DRO
provides the endgame to immigration enforcement and that is the
removal of all removable aliens. This is also the essence of our
mission statement and the ‘golden measure’ to our successes …
We must strive for 100% removal rate.”

Obviously,
the plan was never fulfilled, yet the Obama administration stubbornly
pushed forward in the fortification of ICE as a highly-funded,
fully-staffed and largely unaccountable organization with facilities
and contracted privately-operated concentration camps dotting the
entire country.

While
supporters of Obama will quickly point to his 2013 granting of
temporary relief to non-prioritized unauthorized migrant youth, in
the form of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA),
immigration-rights advocates will be just as quick to point to his
introduction of Secure Communities: A Comprehensive Plan to Identify
and Remove Criminal Aliens (SCOMM).

SCOMM,
which was guided by the goals stipulated in Operation Endgame,
cleared the way for ICE to deport hundreds of thousands of
unauthorized migrants through biometric data-sharing between federal
immigration authorities and thousands of local jails — leading to
the deportation of people convicted of minor crimes such as driving
under the influence or the possession of small amounts of drugs.

SCOMM
was eventually phased out by Obama owing to public pressure, only to
be
 revived by
the Trump administration. Obama’s campaign promises to reform the
U.S. immigration enforcement regime were never fulfilled and instead,
around three million were deported on his watch – earning the
former president the ignominious title “Deporter-In-Chief.”

The
Danger of Ignoring Homeland Security State Cruelty

Amid
the exponential growth of the federal government’s need for jails,
encampments, and kennels for migrant families, immigration-related
concentration camps are increasingly being normalized by an unashamed
Republican Party with Trump as its capo and ideological lodestar.
Even mainstream news hosts like Laura Ingraham of FOX News have
audaciously described incarceration facilities for children as
“essentially summer camps.”

And
on Wednesday — lost in the fanfare of his apparent
family-separation feint — Trump issued an executive order extending
the ability of ICE to incarcerate unauthorized migrants from 20 days
to an indefinite period.

The
United States government has long maintained the largest and most
technologically advanced system of mass confinement in human history.
Over time, a growing component of this system has consisted of new
migrant concentration camp.

It’s
about time that we recognize what led the U.S. to this point and
where that path may lead. Even the most superficial reading of
history reveals how in times of crisis, legal rights taken for
granted as permanent or foundational vanish like a puff of smoke when
security threats and a push to restore “law and order” casts a
dragnet into civilian populations.

In
1973, constitutional scholar Alexander Bickel offered a prescient
criticism of the concept of “citizenship as the tie that binds the
individual to government and [serves] as the source of his rights,”
noting that the right to citizenship can easily be revoked at the
will of the state:

A
relationship between government and the governed that turns on
citizenship can always be dissolved or denied … No matter what
safeguards it may be equipped with, it is at best something that was
given, and given to some and not to others, and it can be taken away.
It has always been easier, it always will be easier, to think of
someone as a noncitizen than to decide that he is a nonperson.”

As
history teaches us, threats to the nation — both external or
internal — can suddenly or gradually change. Today’s
flash-in-the-pan monster at our door might be migrant “animals”
from Latin America, but tomorrow it may take the form of anyone
or any group 
who threatens or disrupts social order — be
it a religious group, a national minority, the swelling homeless
population, the politically non-compliant or any other class of
people criminalized by a government that exclusively caters to the
needs of capital.

Disoriented
by sensationalist propaganda presented as objective news or informed
commentary, U.S. citizens gripped by anxiety and fear eagerly cheer
on the promise of misery for the “alien” as a means to ensure
fortune and safety for the “native.” Blinded by the false pride
found in white supremacy and the nostalgic idyll peddled by Trump and
his cohort, “conservatives” applaud as new walls, “residential
centers” and open-air penitentiaries for “illegals” are
constructed in their hometowns.

Trapped
in a daze of patriotic fervor, supporters of the punitive immigrant
policy regime under Trump remain oblivious to the consequences of
their faith in state violence guided by policies of official bigotry.

And
as for the rest of us, wringing our hands and expressing outrage
alone will get us nowhere in terms of preventing systematic cruelty
and state terror. Instead, we should continue to develop a serious
analysis of the overall situation and organize to defend our basic
rights before the windows of opportunity are bolted shut.

By Elliott
Gabriel
 / Creative
Commons
 / MintPress
News
 / Report
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Hier nog een video van Brasscheck TV met dezelfde strekking:

CONCENTRATION
CAMPS FOR CHILDREN IN THE US

SOME
SIMPLE FACTS YOU ARE NOT BEING TOLD

THIS
IS A BUSINESS OPERATION

  1. Seeking
    asylum in the US is not a crime. It’s an administrative process.
    After the hearings, the US can always no to the application.

  1. There’s
    absolutely no legal basis to take the children of asylum seekers
    from their parents.

  1. People
    who cross the border illegally and are found not to have criminal
    records used to be returned to the border they crossed. Now they are
    being jailed for six months – at taxpayer expense – and having
    their children taken from them.

  1. The
    revenues for these interments are going to the shareholders of
    PRIVATELY owned prisons.

  1. Privately
    owned Prison companies like GEO and CoreCivic donated nearly
    $500,000 to support Trump’s election campaign and underwrite his
    inauguration.

  1. The
    Trump administration has no procedure in place for reuniting
    children with the parents they have been taken from.

     7.
The government will not disclose where the children they have seized
are being held. Nor               will they allow Congressman or the news media to
enter these facilities.

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

* Zie: VS martelt gevluchte kinderen…..

Zie ook:Jeff Sessions: ‘asielzoekers zijn alleen welkom in de VS als ze kunnen bewijzen dat ze overleden zijn t.g.v. geweld……….’

Immigrants& Muslims Are Trump’s Jews … Until He Comes for theActual Jews (van Harvey Wasserman)

VS sluit zelfs kinderen van 10 jaar op….. Met dat land onderhoudt Nederland hechte banden, een rechteloos land waaraan ‘we’ zelfs mensen uitleveren…..

A Grandmother Seeking Asylum Separated From Disabled Grandson at the Border. It’s Been 10 Months

Met nieuw VS ‘vluchtelingenbeleid’ zullen nog meer kinderen seksueel misbruikt worden…..


Children Drugged, Given Forced Injections at Texas Detention Facility: Lawsuit


Pentagon Accepts Trump’s Call to House 20,000 Children on US Military Bases

VS wil van 3.000 migrantenkinderen DNA afnemen om zo de ouders op te sporen…..

De VS heeft een lange geschiedenis in het ontvoeren van kinderen uit niet witte families…….

Nikki Haley (VS ambassadeur bij de VN) UNHRC heeft commentaar op een land met een goede mensenrechten reputatie, t.w. Israël…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

De war on drugs is veel dodelijker dan over het algemeen gedacht

De
war on drugs is veel dodelijker dan u zich realiseert, zo luidt de
kop boven een artikel van Brian Saady. Daar moet ik hem toch
corrigeren, die oorlog is veel dodelijker dan gedacht door het publiek dat hier
weinig of geen aandacht voor heeft, immers er wordt behoorlijk bericht over het enorme aantal doden dat
jaarlijks valt in Mexico en in andere Midden- en Zuid-Amerikaanse
landen, plus de VS….* Neem alleen al de massagraven die men in Mexico heeft ontdekt (en nog zal ontdekken…)…..


Voorts komt Saady met beschuldigingen als zou Hezbollah verantwoordelijk zijn voor drugssmokkel, een vaststelling die eerder al onderuit werd gehaald vanwege het ontbreken van enig bewijs……. Hetzelfde geldt voor zijn uitlating t.a.v. de Koerdische PKK……….

Jammer
ook dat Saady volkomen negatief spreekt over de FARC, terwijl deze
organisatie bijzonder veel heeft gedaan bijvoorbeeld t.b.v. de kleine
boeren en een groot aantal van hen heeft bescherming gekregen van de FARC tegen de willekeur
van het leger, de politie, de rechtse doodseskaders (die samen met
politie en leger) alles wat maar links rook, als het even kon (en nog
kan) vermoordde……. Waar de grootgrondbezitters en hun legertjes aan
‘beveiligers’ in Colombia ‘natuurlijk’ hun steentje aan bij hebben gedragen, sterker nog: de doodseskaders werden en worden gesteund door die grootgrondbezitters……

Je zou bijna denken dat vooral links verzet tegen willekeur de grote drugskartels vormen, echter dit is uiteraard grote flauwekul!

Lees
het artikel van Saady over deze zaak:

The
War on Drugs Is Far Deadlier Than You Realize

March
26, 2018 at 12:09 pm

Written
by 
Anti-Media
News Desk

(FEE— While
accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016, Colombian President Juan
Manuel Santos 
said:

The
manner in which this war against drugs is being waged is equally or
perhaps even more harmful than all the wars the world is fighting
today, combined.”

The
death toll from the drug war is much less than the actual warfare
throughout the world. However, his sentiment is quite appropriate
because a significant percentage of the world’s violence could be
prevented with a flick of a pen by ending the War on Drugs.

Cartels
and Violence

Imagine
if we could essentially eliminate the black market for drug
trafficking in Chicago, which has the highest number of gang members
and homicides. It’s estimated that up to 
80
percent
 of
the city’s murders are gang-related. And one of the main causes of
this violence is connected to controlling turf for drug sales.

Gang
violence isn’t as rampant throughout the U.S., but the National
Gang Center estimated that 
13
percent
 of
the murders in the U.S. are gang-related. That falls in line with a
similar 
report by Narco
News
 that
concluded that 1,100 drug war-related murders occur each year in the
U.S. Keep in mind, that figure is fairly conservative due to the lack
of full transparency with crime statistics.

The
U.S. represents the largest market in the world for illegal drugs.
Currently, there is a well-documented opioid crisis but the U.S. also
consumes more 
cocainethan
all of Europe—and by a wide margin. All told, the U.S. illegal drug
black market represents a 
$100
billion
 annual
industry.

Although
there is a serious black market violence problem in the U.S., it
pales in comparison to the countries that are source and
transshipment points of illegal drugs. For example, there were over
29,000 murders in Mexico last year with roughly 
33–50
percent
 being
related to the drug war. That’s not factoring the 
30,000 missing
persons who are presumed to be dead.

The
cartels conduct warfare in a brazen manner that is essentially
indistinguishable from terrorist groups. Their conduct is so brutal,
they have been known to hang rival gang members from bridges or
publicly put bounties on corrupt government officials. Narco money
has enabled these organized crime groups to operate with impunity.

The
latest example of this corruption involves the leader of the Los
Rojos cartel 
financing the
campaigns of 11 mayoral candidates in exchange for political
protection. Bear in mind, this isn’t a matter of simple greed. If
these officials don’t take the bribes, they’ll likely be killed.
After all, over 
100
mayors
 have
been murdered in Mexico since 2006.

All
in all, narco money has corrupted every segment of the government
necessary to protect their organizations. (My 
free
e-book
America’s
Drug War is Devastating Mexico
,
gives much more detail of organized crime’s reign in Mexico.)

As
a matter of fact, Los Zetas have even corrupted the highest levels of
government in neighboring countries. The Ex-Vice President and former
Minister of Interior have each been arrested for allegedly accepting
bribes of 
$250,000 and $1.5
million
,
respectively.

The
Los Zetas cartel is responsible for the worst massacre in Guatemala
since the civil war. In 2011, cartel members 
beheaded 27
innocent farmworkers in search of a ranch owner who the cartel
suspected of stealing a drug shipment.

Due
largely to the War on Drugs, the four countries immediately south of
Mexico (Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador) are listed
within the top six highest murder rates in the world. Furthermore,
nine out of the 
top
ten
 are
in Latin America or the Caribbean.

Likewise,
43 of the 50 cities with the highest 
murder
rates
 are
in Latin America or the Caribbean. Four of the remaining cities are
in the continental U.S., i.e. Baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans, and
St. Louis. Only three cities are not in this hemisphere (South
Africa).

Obviously,
there are a variety of factors that contribute to violence, notably
extreme poverty. One city on the list (San Juan, Puerto Rico) has had
fairly 
low
crime
 in
recent years, but Hurricane Maria brought about much instability to
the island.

Otherwise,
it’s clear that the War on Drugs is one of the leading factors to
the high violence. Mexico had 12 cities in the top 50, which was the
second highest number behind Brazil.

It’s
important to note, Brazil isn’t a major source of drug production.
However, it has historically been the second largest consumer market
for cocaine and it is the leading 
transshipment point
of illegal drugs into Europe, Africa, and Asia. This is evident in
the fact that 17 Brazilian cities are in the top 50 global homicide
rates. Fourteen of those cities are located along the Atlantic Coast,
which is prime real estate for drug trafficking.

This
violence isn’t a result of a “soft on crime” approach; the
Brazilian government takes the term “War on Drugs” literally.
Like Mexico, the military, along with the police, conduct law
enforcement operations and the results are predictable. The Brazilian
police kill an average of 
six
people
each
day. Remarkably, the police are responsible for roughly one out of
five 
murders in
Rio de Janeiro, with few being held accountable.

The
police, in many cases, are acting in self-defense. However, the
Brazilian government has essentially provided the police with
impunity for extrajudicial murder and they operate in a brazen
manner. In this 
video, for
example, the police performed a drive-by shooting of two unarmed
teenagers.

It
should also be noted that several of the gangs conduct open warfare
against the police. The most gruesome example occurred in Sao Paulo
in May of 2006. Over the course of a week, more than 
150
people
 were
killed after Brazil’s most powerful gang, PCC, launched a wave of
attacks against multiple police stations. The police responded by
rounding up suspected gang members and executing them in kind.

Narco-Terrorism

As
you read more about the PCC and other criminal organizations, you are
likely to come across the term “narco-terrorism.” This term
was 
coined in
1982 by the President of Peru, Fernando Belaunde Terry.
Peru was and continues to be one of the top cocaine producers in the
world.

The
Peruvian communist terrorist group, Shining Path, has been largely
funded by “taxing” cocaine traffickers. Those profits have helped
them kill approximately 
11,000
civilians
.
Fortunately, the Shining Path’s membership numbers have drastically
dwindled and the organization is substantially less active.

Cocaine
money also played a major role in the 52-year Colombian civil war
that resulted in 220,000 deaths and over seven million domestic
refugees. Thankfully, the communist terrorist group, FARC, came
to a peace agreement in 2016. This group was responsible for numerous
bombings, kidnappings, and thousands of murders.

Most
of their members have agreed to lay down their arms. However, an
estimated 
1,200
dissidents
 have
refused to leave the criminal underworld. Likewise, another communist
rebel group and officially designated terrorist group, ELN, has been
in on-and-off peace negotiations. However, their group has walked
away from the table, each time due to the tremendous profits from
cocaine.

Similarly,
Colombia’s former right-wing paramilitary terrorist group, AUC,
officially disbanded in 2006, but the majority of these men simply
splintered into various organized crime groups. The Colombian and
U.S. governments haven’t designated these groups as terrorists
because they seem to be more driven by greed than ideology.

However,
the tactics by Colombia’s crime groups are indisputably
terrorizing. These neo-paramilitary organized crime groups, known as
BACRIMs, exert totalitarian control in their territory. They
indiscriminately murder leftist activists, journalists, and human
rights workers. In some cases, they impose a 
9
P.M. curfew
 and
invisible borders that are enforced with the death penalty. That’s
in addition to their brand of “
social
cleansing
,”
i.e. murdering homeless, drug addicts, LGTBQ, etc.

This
leads to a concept mentioned in academia, “the crime-terrorism
nexus.” In other words, the line dividing organized crime from
terrorism is increasingly blurry. Also, many terrorist
organizations fund their activities from crime.

Various
nations were listed earlier by the highest homicide rates. However,
those studies don’t include countries at war. With that in mind,
it’s no secret that both sides of the Afghanistan War are funded
with opium profits. The Taliban are grossing an estimated $400
million annually from drugs. For many years, the Taliban simply
“taxed” drug traffickers in their territory, but credible reports
suggest that they’ve expanded into 
production.

Of
the 64 foreign terrorist organizations designated by the U.S. State
Department, twenty-three profit from illegal drugs to some
degree. Albeit, drug money is generally a small portion of the
budget for most terrorist organizations and it is usually derived
from “taxing” drug traffickers rather than direct participation.

North
Africa has become a major drug transshipment point for South American
cocaine headed to Europe and Asia. Heroin from Asian countries is
also often smuggled through this region. As a result, the
Somali-based, Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group, al Shabaab and the
West-Africa based Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) profit from
this 
underground
market
.
Boko Haram not only taxes traffickers, but the group has expanded
their role in this racket. Furthermore, ISIS has taxed shipments of
Moroccan 
hashish destined
for Europe by way of Libya.

On
the other hand, there are terror groups, such as the Kurdistan
Workers Party (PKK) and the Islamic

Movement
of Uzbekistan (UMI), that are directly responsible for smuggling
large quantities of illegal drugs, which comprises a large portion of
their funding.

The
U.S. Government’s Role

These
links between terrorism and drug trafficking, ironically, have
boosted the DEA in a self-serving manner. In 2006, Congress amended
the PATRIOT Act with a 
statute regarding
drug trafficking that directly or indirectly benefits a foreign
terrorist organization. As a result, the DEA’s international
jurisdiction and budget expanded tremendously.

However,
the agency has launched a series of high-profile cases that have
resulted in major headlines, instead of actual narco-terrorists being
captured. Case in point, three West Africans were indicted in 2009
from an undercover sting operation involving DEA informants who posed
as members of the FARC.

The
informants repeatedly told the traffickers that they wanted to do
business with Al Qaeda. Hence, these men simply 
pretended to
have links with a terrorist group to seal the deal. Nonetheless, this
aspect of the case hasn’t been widely reported and this case was a
major PR win for the DEA.

On
the other hand, the DEA had built a long-running and credible
investigation, Project Cassandra, against Hezbollah. Their group is
widely known as being sponsored by the Iranian government. However,
Hezbollah also has generated millions of dollars by smuggling
several 
tons of
South American cocaine. The group has business ties with the
Colombian FARC and the Brazilian 
PCC.

Several
high-level members of Hezbollah were implicated in Project Cassandra.
However, an impressive 
report by Politico revealed
that the Obama administration suppressed this investigation to help
finalize the nuclear deal with Iran.

One
of the open secrets of the War on Drugs is that the U.S. government,
among other nations, has given support to drug trafficking for
geopolitical purposes. In this case, the U.S. used the drug war as a
bargaining tool with an adversary.

However,
the U.S. government’s complicity with drug trafficking has
generally benefited its allies. That’s the case in the Afghanistan
War and it was certainly the case during the Vietnam War. Likewise,
drug money helped U.S. interests in dirty wars, such as the Contras
in Nicaragua or the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. Furthermore, several
narco-linked, right-wing dictators in Latin America, including Manuel
Noriega, have benefitted from strong U.S. support.

All
in all, there are many forms of violence resulting from the War on
Drugs. Nonetheless, our politicians have been unwilling to address
the root cause. As a result, government bureaucrats have pointed to
this violence to justify larger budgets for the drug war.

However,
with multiple decades of this failed policy behind us, we should
realize that the demand for illegal drugs will never decrease in a
substantial manner. Hence, continuing down this path will
continue to enable the violent tactics of low-level criminals, mafia
organizations, terrorists, dictators, and empire-driven governments.

By Brian
Saady
 / Creative
Commons
 / FEE.org / Report
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* Al bericht men dan wel over de vele doden en bijvoorbeeld gevonden massagraven, de oorzaak wordt niet aangegeven in de reguliere (massa-) media en dat is nu juist de meer dan walgelijke oorlog tegen drugs, waar alleen de georganiseerde misdaad, het militair-industrieel complex en de geheime diensten in de VS het meest van profiteren, zelfs de DEA heeft in het verleden drugstransporten geregeld……… (uiteraard aangevuld met lobbyende politici voor één of meerdere van de hiervoor genoemde 3 partijen) Op die manier zijn ook aandeelhouders van het militair-industrieel complex verantwoordelijk te houden voor het enorme aantal moorden in deze smerige oorlog……….) Het feit dat de meeste drugs (en zelfs softdrugs) verboden zijn zorgt er uiteraard voor dat zoals gezegd de georganiseerde misdaad helemaal binnenloopt met de inkomsten uit die drugshandel. Zo kan je dan ook stellen dat regeringen die hard optreden tegen drugs, daarmee in feite lobbyen voor de drugsmaffia!!

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

        en:  ‘List of wars involving the United States

        en: ‘VS commando’s vechten o.a. in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika, aldus het VS ministerie van oorlog………

        en: ‘NAVO gaat VS helpen in Zuid-Amerika terreur uit te oefenen: Colombia lid van de NAVO………

VS commando’s vechten o.a. in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika, aldus het VS ministerie van oorlog………

In
het volgende bericht van Darius Shahtahmasebi geeft de VS letterlijk
toe ook speciale troepen te hebben in Midden- en Zuid-Amerikaanse
landen….. Dit was al bekend, maar een officiële bevestiging daarvoor was er tot nu toe niet. Waar deze speciale troepen (commando’s) zijn, adviseren ze niet alleen, maar vechten ze ook en in dit geval zou dat tegen acties van Al Qaida of IS zijn…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! En dat door een ‘land’, de VS, dat het beste is aan te duiden als de
grootste terreurentiteit op aarde………..

Shahtahmasebi legt in zijn artikel uit, dat de VS ook de gewone
troepen wil gaan inzetten als speciale troepen, ofwel de geheime terroristische acties van de VS, zullen worden uitgebreid met
gebruikmaking van onderdelen uit het gewone leger als speciale commando’s………. Dit naast de openlijke terreur die de VS uitoefent middels illegale oorlogen…..

In Afrika zou de VS in 20 landen bezig zijn met speciale troepen, wat tot nu toe tot 100 operaties heeft geleid……

Arme mensen, die met deze gehersenspoelde (en onder invloed van o.a. psychofarmaca), psychopathische moordenaars te maken krijgen……..

Overigens zou de NAVO intussen een militaire bases in Zuid-Amerika hebben (Colombia), uiteraard onder direct bevel van het Pentagon….. Zo mogen wij via de NAVO meebetalen aan VS-terreur in steeds meer landen…… Eén van de redenen waarom meer van de door ons opgebrachte belastinggelden naar de NAVO moeten…….

Department
of Defense Announces Major Changes to US Military Operations in 2018

January
4, 2018 at 2:00 pm

Written
by 
Darius
Shahtahmasebi

(ANTIMEDIA)  An
interesting overlooked development taking place within the U.S.’
ever-expanding military is the recent announcement that conventional
forces will begin blurring their roles with those of Special Forces,
according to the
 Department
of Defense
.

At
the end of last year, Defense Secretary James “Mad Dog” Mattis
told Pentagon reporters that the experiences of war since the 9/11
attacks have blurred the lines between the two forces, noting that
general purpose forces will eventually shoulder missions of their
Special Forces counterparts.

I
anticipate more general purpose forces being used for some of the
missions,”
 he said. “In
the past, we used only special forces to do it. The general purpose
forces can do a lot of the kind of work that you see going on and, in
fact, are now.

Specifically,
Mattis expects this to happen within Iraq and Syria (bear in mind
that U.S. troops, whether or not they are Special Forces, do not have
the legal basis to operate in Syrian territory).

I
mean, there was a time when the only people who ran drones were the
Special Forces,”
 Mattis
also
 said,
as quoted by 
Military.com.
He said the use of drones is now widespread in the conventional
force.

Special
Operators have complained that they are overstretched, having
been
 deployed
almost everywhere across the globe
.
In 2017, fourteen of the 33 U.S. troops
 killed
were assigned
 to
Special Forces operations, several of whom died in battle arenas
where the Trump administration has expanded counter-terrorism
operations over the past year.

We
are not the ultimate solution to every problem, and you will not hear
that coming from us,”
 Gen.
Raymond “Tony” Thomas (III), SoCom commander,
 told the
Senate Armed Services Committee in May 2017.

We
operate and fight in every corner of the world,”
  Thomas
also
 reportedly
said
. “On
a daily basis, we sustain a deployed or forward stationed force of
approximately 8,000 across 80-plus countries. They are conducting the
entire range of SOF [Special Operations Forces] missions in both
combat and non-combat situations.”

Special
Forces are
 typically
tasked
 with
carrying out 12 core missions, including counterinsurgency and
unconventional warfare to hostage rescue. As the 
Washington
Post
 established,
these Special Forces are frequently on the ground to coordinate fire
support, acting as an “
observation
element for what appears to be US airstrikes carried out by A-10
ground attack aircraft.”
 According
to a
 report by Vice
News
,
at any given time, U.S. Special Forces are conducting nearly 100
missions across 20 African countries. According to the 
Nation, Thomas
also said:

Special
Operations Forces are the main effort, or major supporting effort for
US VEO-focused operations in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen,
Somalia, Libya, across the Sahel of Africa, the Philippines, and
Central/South America—essentially, everywhere Al Qaeda (AQ) and the
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are to be found…”

The
recent change seems likely to indicate that the U.S. will be stepping
up its involvement in areas it deems hotbeds of terrorism, perhaps
opening up the door to
 something
more confrontational
.

It
also seems likely that we will see the increased presence of Special
Forces — as well conventional forces who have been trained to act
like Special Forces — in places well outside the Middle East and
Africa, including 
the
Philippines
.

According
to Mattis, this change will most likely affect the dynamics in the
Afghanistan theater, as well. The Army’s new “Security Force
Assistance Brigades” (SFAB) is expected to deploy in the spring to
Afghanistan to train, advise, and assist the duties of the Special
Forces with the conventional Afghan forces.

We’re
going to be putting more American forces, advisers, in the more
conventional force in the Afghan army. As you know, they have not had
them, and they’ve not — they were not ready to fight in the way
we want them to,”
 Mattis
said.

Creative
Commons
 / Anti-Media / Report
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9 ‘ex-FARC rebellen’ vermoord door leger Colombia: FARC-EP opgericht

Mensenrechten- en milieuactivisten worden massaal vermoord in Brazilië en Colombia, waar het laatste land NAVO bases heeft…….

Koenders heeft vrijlating gegijzelde Spoorloos makers in Colombia bewerkstelligt……. AUW!!!

Paus Franciscus in Colombia om vrede te prediken……

People of Brazil: my sincere condolences with ‘your’ fascistic, psychopathic president Bolsonaro……

NAVO gaat VS helpen in Zuid-Amerika terreur uit te oefenen: Colombia lid van de NAVO………

NAVO naar Zuid-Amerika? Weg met dit agressieve, terroristische bondgenootschap, NU!!!

Bolton geeft toe dat de VS een fascistisch beleid voert……

Bolsonaro, de fascistische nieuwe president van Brazilië, werd volgens Avaaz en fake news brengers als de NYT gekozen door manipulatie via WhatsApp

Bolsonaro wint Braziliaanse verkiezingen >> weer zijn we een fascistisch geleid land ‘rijker…’

Braziliaanse verkiezingen: democratie versus (neo-) fascisme, ook een groot gevaar in Europa

Katy Sherriff (Radio1 correspondent Z-Amerika) brandt socialistische partij Brazilië af……

Voor meer grootschalige VS terreur zie:

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

List of wars involving the United States

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

NAVO gaat VS helpen in Zuid-Amerika terreur uit te oefenen: Colombia lid van de NAVO………

De war on drugs is veel dodelijker dan over het algemeen gedacht

NAVO militair bevelhebber wil verdere uitbreiding troepen in Europa in kader van oorlogvoering tegen Rusland…………

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

PS: vergeet niet de coup tegen de democratisch gekozen regering van Honduras in 2009, dit o.l.v. de VS (Hillary Clinton speelde ook daar een heel smerige rol) en de economische oorlog tegen Venezuela, waar de VS directe banden heeft met gewapende groepen in dat land en hen ondersteunt……..

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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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’

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

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

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



The Long Reach Of The US Border

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Hier de link naar het volledige artikel:

The Long Reach Of The US Border

Mexico: mensenrechten- en milieuactivist Isidro Baldenegro vermoord……..

Mensen het is alweer zover, BBC World Service meldde gisteren in het radionieuws van 1.00 u. (CET) dat er alweer een mensenrechtenactivist, te weten Isidro Baldenegro, werd vermoord in Latijns Amerika…… .Isidro Baldenegro was net terug uit ballingschap, hij moest eerder voor zijn leven Mexico ontvluchten……. Daar hij de strijd tegen onrecht te belangrijk vond en keerde Baldenegro terug naar Mexico, met de meer dan laffe en schandelijke moord op deze gelauwerde activist tot gevolg…….

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor isidro baldenegro

Isidro Baldenegro met de Goldman Environmental Prijs, die hij in 2005 ontving.

Een bijzonder triest begin van het nieuwe jaar……. Vorig jaar werden er in een aantal Latijns-Amerikaanse landen mensenrechten- en/of milieuactivisten (meestal waren de slachtoffers beide) vermoord, zoals in Honduras, Guatemala en Brazilië…….. Alleen in Mexico werden in de periode van 2010 t/m 2015 ‘maar liefst’ 33 van deze activisten vermoord……

In Argentinië pakt men het onder de fascistisch/neoliberale regering anders aan, men klaagt die activisten ‘gewoon’ aan, als ze zich verzetten tegen de grote landeigenaren en de inhumane overheid….. Landeigenaren, vaak behorend tot de vriendenkring van de Zorreguieta’s (dus ook uw pampakoningin), die naar willekeur handelen en de oorspronkelijke bevolking met behulp van politie en bewapende bendes als derderangs burgers behandelen…. En pampakoningin Maxima maar micro-kredieten steunen in ontwikkelingslanden, zodat arme sodemieters zich tot de nek in de schulden steken, niet zelden reden tot suïcide na faillissement….*

‘Fijn ook’, dat deze moorden zo in de belangstelling staan bij PvdA opperknurft Koenders, oh wacht: hij is natuurlijk weer met ‘doodstille diplomatie’ bezig……… Datzelfde, geen aandacht, geldt trouwens ook voor de Nederlandse media, ik kon gisteren over dit onderwerp geen artikel vinden………… Ach eigenlijk wel ‘logisch’, daar in 99 van de 100 gevallen de CIA zich ook met deze zaken bemoeit en zoals u weet: alles wat de VS flikt in het buitenland is heilig voor de westerse politiek en de reguliere media……….

Hier het bericht van Reuters over de zaak:

Murder
of Mexican activist triggers calls for better protection of
campaigners

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A prominent environmentalist in Mexico was shot dead over the weekend, highlighting the dangers facing activists in Latin America and prompting calls for better protection of land and indigenous rights campaigners.

Isidro Baldenegro, an environmental rights activist, was killed by gunmen on Sunday in Mexico’s northern state of Chihuahua after having received death threats.

A community leader of Mexico’s indigenous Tarahumara people, Baldenegro was known for his fight against illegal logging in the country’s Sierra Madre mountain region.

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor isidro baldenegro

For years he led non-violent protests against logging projects, including sit-ins and human blockades.

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor isidro baldenegro

“The killing of Isidro Baldenegro Lopez is a tragic illustration of the many dangers faced by those who dedicate their lives to defend human rights in Latin America, one of the most dangerous regions in the work for activists,” said Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International, in a statement on Wednesday.

“It is imperative that Mexico investigates this crime and that all governments across the Americas take more action to promote and protect the very important work human rights activists do with so much courage.”

Baldenegro, one of Mexico’s most prominent environmentalists, was awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize in 2005 for his work against deforestation.

He is the second recipient of the prize, given to grassroots environmental activists, to be murdered in less than a year.

Honduran environmental campaigner Berta Caceres, who won the Goldman Prize in 2015 for her battle against construction of a dam that threatened to displace indigenous people, was killed in March 2016.

Campaign group Global Witness also urged Mexico to make sure Baldenegro’s killers are brought to justice.

“This crime must not be met with impunity, like the majority of these killings are,” Ben Leather, a campaigner for Global Witness, said in a statement, also on Wednesday.

“The Mexican authorities must act with conviction, prosecuting those responsible for Isidro’s murder and protecting his family and colleagues.”

At least 33 right defenders were killed in Mexico from 2010 to 2015, according to a 2016 report by Global Witness.

Baldenegro’s murder came at the start of a nine-day mission by United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders Michel Forst to Mexico.

Making his first visit to Mexico, Forst planned to assess the situation facing the country’s human rights defenders and measures Mexican authorities are taking to protect activists.

“I’m deeply outraged by the murder of Isidro Baldenegro,” Forst wrote on Twitter on Wednesday.

Mexico’s state prosecutor’s office has started an investigation into Baldenegro’s murder.

One gunman, who reportedly fled the crime scene, has been identified but not detained, according to local media.

(Reporting by Anastasia Moloney @anastasiabogota, Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women’s rights, trafficking, property rights, climate change and resilience. Visit news.trust.org)


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* Zie: ‘Argentinië: protesten bij politiek proces tegen welzijnsactivist……

Zie ook: ‘Obama biedt excuses aan voor staatsgreep in Argentinië en stelt dat het VS beleid drastisch is veranderd…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

       en:  ‘Argentinië: protesten bij politiek proces tegen welzijnsactivist……

       en: ‘Berta Cáceres voorvechter gelijke rechten en milieuactivist vermoord in Honduras

       en: ‘Hillary Clinton mede verantwoordelijk voor moord op Berta Cáceres………..

       en: ‘Hondurese activiste ontvoerd en vermoord (alweer…), met instemming van de VS………

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

CIA coup (terreur) tegen democratisch gekozen bewind Guatemala 1954……..

BBC World Service bracht afgelopen week in het programma ‘Witness’, o.a. de CIA coup tegen het democratisch gekozen bewind van Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala. In het programma was de zoon van deze president te horen, die vertelde onder welke hachelijke situaties het gezin kon ontkomen aan de fascistische dictatuur o.l.v. Carlos Castillo Armas, die de VS installeerde in dit land……. Een coup die een vreselijke wissel heeft getrokken op het gezin van Árbenz……

 Armas was volgens BBC W.S. de eerste, in een lange rij door de VS gesteunde dictators in Guatemala, daarover zo meer. Overigens werd Guatemala tot 1944 ook geregeerd door de VS gunstig gestemde dictators. Een revolutie maakte een einde aan die dictatuur, waarna Juan José Arévalo de eerste democratisch gekozen president werd in Guatemala.

In 1950 werd Árbenz gekozen tot president en hij zette het liberaal-kapitalistische beleid voort, dat zijn voorganger Arévalo had ingezet. Árbenz voerde (bijna) algeheel kiesrecht in en onteigende veel land van grootgrondbezitters en bedrijven als de United Fruit Company (UFC). Voorts voerde hij het minimumloon in en gaf de grote arme onderlaag echt onderwijs, door de budgetten, die volkomen ontoereikend waren, aanzienlijk te vergroten………

President Truman gaf al toestemming voor de coup tegen het democratisch gekozen bewind van Árbenz en Trumans opvolger Eisenhower, die in 1952 werd gekozen, beloofde het ‘communisme’ wereldwijd nog harder aan te pakken…. ‘Uiteraard’ werd het bewind van Árbenz als communistisch afgeschilderd in de VS (waar velen dit nog steeds doen, zelfs in sommige geschiedenislesboeken………) en iets langer dan 1,5 jaar later (juni 1954) vond de coup plaats, middels staatsterreur van de VS……

Zoals gezegd: in het commentaar van de BBC bij dit programma werd gemeld, dat dit de eerste VS coup was in Latijns Amerika……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Was dat maar waar, dat had zo’n tweehonderdduizend burgerslachtoffers het leven bespaard……..

Voor meer berichten, n.a.v. het bovenstaande, klik op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden, dit geldt niet voor de labels: Eisenhower, Jacobo Árbenz, Armas, Juan José Arévalo, Truman en UFC,