‘Goeie grap’: het VS ministerie van Defensie…….
Zie ook: ‘VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen……….‘
en: ‘‘False flag terror’ bestaat wel degelijk: bekentenissen en feiten over heel smerige zaken……….‘
Tag: Vietnam
About Vietnam
‘False flag terror’ bestaat wel degelijk: bekentenissen en feiten over heel smerige zaken……….
False Flag operaties ofwel terreur, dit is het moedwillig schade toebrengen aan eigen zaken dan wel zaken als het vermoorden van eigen burgers of burgers elders, met de opzet een tegenstander de schuld te geven, worden afgedaan als samenzweringstheorieën of complottheorieën. Echter een groot aantal feiten en bekentenissen bewijzen dat deze terreur wel degelijk bestaat en dat al heel lang………
In feite werd dit al duidelijk uit de Vault 7 en Vault 8 documenten op Wikileaks, waaruit bleek, dat de CIA en NSA over een groot aantal ‘instrumenten’ beschikken, waarmee men via het internet zaken kan manipuleren door te hacken en de schuld daarvoor in de schoenen van een ‘vijandige’ staat kan schuiven. in feite een ‘false flag’ operatie………
VS Generaal H.R. McMaster zei gisteren dat de vijanden van de VS, Rusland en China, plus extreem rechtse en linkse activisten vitriool spuien op het internet om het volk aan het twijfelen te brengen over de maatschappij waarin zij leven…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! E.e.a. werd een uur geleden gemeld op BBC World Service (rond 12.09 u. CET), ook al kan McMaster niet één bewezen feit opnoemen (zoals gewoonlijk in dit soort angst- en haatzaaierij)……. Als er nu één ‘land’ is dat zich wel bewezen met dergelijke zaken bezighoudt, is het de VS zelf wel!!
Van een aantal zaken was ik wel op de hoogte en toch verbaasde mij het enorme aantal ‘false flag operaties’, die niet zelden tot een enorm aantal moorden, nou zeg maar gerust ‘massamoorden’ hebben geleid, neem de aanleiding voor de illegale oorlogen die de VS voerde tegen Noord-Vietnam (plus tegelijkertijd in het geheim tegen andere landen in de regio) en Irak…..
Ook terreuraanslagen in Europa waren niet zelden ‘false flag operaties’, ofwel ‘false flag terreur…’
Overigens niets nieuws onder de zon, er bestaan al meer dan 2.000 jaar van dit soort operaties.
Het volgende artikel vond ik op het blog van Stan van Houcke, het origineel komt van Newsweek (een regulier nieuwsmedium*), van Houcke nam het over van WashingtonsBlog. Lezen mensen en geeft het door, je weet niet wat je leest!! Hiermee maken wat mij betreft de uitdragers van ‘Russische manipulaties’ in de VS presidentsverkiezingen en manipulaties in EU landen, zich voorgoed totaal ongeloofwaardig (al waren deze beweringen al langer bewezen lariekoek).
There
Are Now So Many Admissions by Government Officials of False Flag
Terror that Only the Willfully Ignorant Still Doubt the Reality
of the Concept
← Newsweek: “U.S. Government Planned False Flag Attacks to Start War”
Posted
on December
17, 2017 by WashingtonsBlog
Presidents,
Prime Ministers, Congressmen, Generals, Spooks, Soldiers and Police
ADMIT to False Flag Terror
Scores
of government officials throughout the world have admitted (either
orally, in writing, or through photographs or videos) to carrying out
– or seriously proposing – false flag attacks:
-
Japanese
troops set off a small explosion on a train track in 1931, and
falsely blamed it on China in order to justify an invasion of
Manchuria. This is known
as the
“Mukden Incident” or the “Manchurian Incident”. The Tokyo
International Military Tribunal found:
“Several of the participators in the plan, including Hashimoto [a
high-ranking Japanese army officer], have
on various occasions admitted their
part in the plot and have stated that the object of the ‘Incident’
was to afford an excuse for the occupation of Manchuria by the
Kwantung Army ….” And see this,
this and this.
(2)
A major with the Nazi SS admitted at
the Nuremberg trials that – under orders from the chief of the
Gestapo – he and some other Nazi operatives faked several attacks
on their own people and resources which they blamed on the Poles, to
justify the invasion of Poland. The staged attacks included:
-
The
German radio station at Gleiwitz [details below]
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The
strategic railway at Jabłonków Pass, located on the border between
Poland and Czechoslovakia
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The
German customs station at Hochlinden
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The
forest service station in Pitschen
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The
communications station at Neubersteich
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The
railroad station in Alt-Eiche
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A
woman and her companion in Katowice
The
details of the Gleiwitz radio station incident include:
On
the night of 31 August 1939, a small group of German operatives
dressed in Polish uniforms and led by Naujocks seized the Gleiwitz
station and broadcast a short anti-German message in Polish (sources
vary on the content of the message). The Germans’ goal was to make
the attack and the broadcast look like the work of anti-German Polish
saboteurs.
To
make the attack seem more convincing, the Germans used human corpses
to pass them off as Polish attackers. They murdered Franciszek
Honiok, a 43-year-old unmarried German Silesian Catholic farmer known
for sympathizing with the Poles. He had been arrested the previous
day by the Gestapo. He was dressed to look like a saboteur, then
killed by lethal injection, given gunshot wounds, and left dead at
the scene so that he appeared to have been killed while attacking the
station. His corpse was subsequently presented to the police and
press as proof of the attack.
-
The
minutes of the high command of the Italian government –
subsequently approved by Mussolini himself – admitted that
violence on the Greek-Albanian border was carried out by Italians
and falsely blamed on the Greeks, as an excuse for Italy’s 1940
invasion of Greece.
-
Nazi
general Franz Halder also testified at the Nuremberg trials that
Nazi leader Hermann Goering admitted to
setting fire to the German parliament building in 1933, and then
falsely blaming the communists for the arson.
-
Soviet
leader Nikita Khrushchev admitted in
writing that the Soviet Union’s Red Army shelled the Russian
village of Mainila in 1939 – while blaming the attack on Finland –
as a basis for launching the “Winter War” against Finland.
Russian president Boris Yeltsin agreed that
Russia had been the aggressor in the Winter War.
-
The
Russian Parliament, current Russian president Putin and former
Soviet leader Gorbachev all admit that
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered his secret police to execute
22,000 Polish army officers and civilians in 1940, and then falsely
blamed it on the Nazis.
-
The
British government admits that
– between 1946 and 1948 – it bombed 5 ships carrying Jews who
were Holocaust survivors attempting to flee to safety in Palestine
right after World War II, set up a fake group called “Defenders of
Arab Palestine”, and then had the psuedo-group falsely claim
responsibility for the bombings (and see this, this and this).
-
Israel admits that
in 1954, an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs
in several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then
left behind “evidence” implicating the Arabs as the culprits
(one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to
identify the bombers, and several of the Israelis later confessed)
(and see this and this).
The
U.S. Army does not believe this is an isolated incident. For example,
the U.S. Army’s School of Advanced Military Studies said of
Mossad (Israel’s intelligence service):
“Ruthless
and cunning. Has capability to target U.S. forces and make
it look like a Palestinian/Arab act.”
And
former Israeli Prime Moshe Minister admitted in
his diary:
I
have been meditating on the long chain of false
incidents and hostilities we have invented,
and on the many clashes we have provoked which cost us so much blood
….
-
The
CIA admits that
it hired Iranians in the 1950′s to pose as Communists and stage
bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its
democratically-elected prime minister.
(10)
The Turkish Prime Minister admitted that
the Turkish government carried out the 1955 bombing on a Turkish
consulate in Greece – also damaging the nearby birthplace of the
founder of modern Turkey – and blamed it on Greece, for the purpose
of inciting and justifying anti-Greek violence.
The
Economist notes:
Starting
in the 1950s Turkey’s deep state sponsored killings, engineered
riots, colluded with drug traffickers, staged “false flag”
attacks and organised massacres of trade unionists. Thousands died in
the chaos it fomented.
-
The
British Prime Minister admitted to
his defense secretary that he and American president Dwight
Eisenhower approved a plan in 1957 to carry out attacks in Syria and
blame it on the Syrian government as a way to effect regime change.
-
The
former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the former
head of Italian counterintelligence admit
that NATO,
with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings
in Italy and other European countries in the 1950s through the 1980s
and blamed the communists, in order to rally people’s support for
their governments in Europe in their fight against communism.
(13)
As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: “You
had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people,
unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was
quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian
public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security” … so
that “a state of emergency could be declared, so people would
willingly trade part of their freedom for the security” (and
see this)
(Italy and other European countries subject to the terror campaign
had joined NATO before the bombings occurred). And watch this
BBC special.
They also allegedly carried out terror attacks in France,
Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal,
the UK,
and other countries.
The
CIA also stressed to the head of the Italian program that Italy
needed to use the program to control internal uprisings.
False
flag attacks carried out pursuant to this program include – by way
of example only:
-
The murder
of the Turkish Prime Minister (1960)
-
Bombings
in Portugal (1966)
-
The Piazza
Fontana massacre in Italy (1969)
-
Terror
attacks in Turkey (1971)
-
The Peteano
bombing in Italy (1972)
-
The Atocha
massacre in Madrid, Spain (1977)
-
The abduction
and murder of the Italian Prime Minister (1978)
(and see
this)
In
1960, American Senator George Smathers suggested that
the U.S. launch “a false attack made on Guantanamo Bay which would
give us the excuse of actually fomenting a fight which would then
give us the excuse to go in and [overthrow Castro]”.
-
Official
State Department documents show that, in 1961, the head of the Joint
Chiefs and other high-level officials discussed blowing
up a consulate in the Dominican Republic in order to justify an
invasion of that country. The plans were not carried out, but they
were all discussed as serious proposals.
(15)
As admitted by the U.S. government, recently declassified documents
show that in 1962, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a
plan to blow
up AMERICAN airplanes (using
an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also
to commit
terrorist acts on American soil,
and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of
Cuba. See the following ABC
news report; the
official documents;
and watch this
interview with
the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC’s World News
Tonight with Peter Jennings. This plan was
subsequently admitted again
in other declassified government documents.
Provocations
considered by the Joint Chiefs of Staff included:
Sink
ship near harbor entrance. Conduct funerals for mock-victims ….
***
3.
A “Remember the Maine” incident could be arranged in several
forms:
a.
We could blow up a US ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba.
b.
We could blow up a drone (unmanned) vessel anywhere in the Cuban
waters. We could arrange to cause such incident in the vicinity of
Havana or Santiago as a spectacular result of Cuban attack from the
air or sea, or both. The presence of Cuban planes or ships merely
investigating the intent of the vessel could be fairly compelling
evidence that the ship was taken under attack. The nearness to Havana
or Santiago would add credibility especially to those people that
might have heard the blast or have seen the fire. The US could follow
up with an air/sea rescue operation covered by US fighters to
“evacuate” remaining members of the non-existent crew. Casualty
lists in US newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national
indignation.
4.
We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area,
in other Florida cities and even in Washington.
The terror
campaign could be pointed at Cuban refugees seeking haven in the
United States. We could sink a boatload of Cubans enroute to Florida
(real or simulated). We could foster attempts on lives of Cuban
refugees in the United States even to the extent of wounding in
instances to be widely publicized. Exploding a few plastic bombs in
carefully chosen spots, the arrest of Cuban agents and the release of
prepared documents substantiating Cuban involvement also would be
helpful in projecting the idea of an irresponsible government.
***
6.
Use of MIG type aircraft by US pilots could provide additional
provocation. Harassment of civil air, attacks on surface shipping and
destruction of US military drone aircraft by MIG type planes would be
useful as complementary actions. An F-86 properly painted would
convince air passengers that they saw a Cuban MIG, especially if the
pilot of the transport were to announce such fact. The primary
drawback to this suggestion appears to be the security risk inherent
in obtaining or modifying an aircraft. However, reasonable copies of
the MIG could be produced from US resources in about three months.
***
8.
it is possible to create an incident which will
demonstrate
convincingly that a Cuban-aircraft has attacked and
shot down a chartered civil airliner en route from the United States
to Jamaica, Guatemala, Panama or Venezuela. The destination would be
chosen only to cause the flight plan route to cross Cuba, The
passengers could be a group of college students off on a holiday or
any grouping of persons with a common interest to support chartering
a non-scheduled flight.
a.
An aircraft at Eglin AFB would be painted and numbered as an exact
duplicate for a civil registered aircraft belonging to a CIA
proprietary organization in the Miami area. At a designated time the
duplicate would be substituted for the actual civil aircraft and
would be loaded with the selected passengers, all boarded under
carefully prepared aliases. The actual registered aircraft would be
converted to a drone.
b.
Take off times of the drone aircraft and the actual aircraft will be
scheduled to allow a rendezvous south of Florida. From the rendezvous
point the passenger-carrying aircraft will descend to minimum
altitude and go directly into an auxiliary field at Eglin AFB where
arrangements will have been made to evacuate the passengers and
return the aircraft to its original status. The drone aircraft
meanwhile will continue to fly the filed flight plan. When over Cuba
the drone will being transmitting on the inter-national distress
frequency a “MAY DAY” message stating he is under attack by Cuban
MIG aircraft. The transmission will be interrupted by destruction of
the aircraft which will be triggered by radio signal. This will allow
ICAO radio stations in the Western Hemisphere to “tell” the US
what has happened to the aircraft instead of the US trying to “sell”
the incident.
9.
It is possible to create an incident which will make it appear that
Communist Cuban MIGs have destroyed a USAF aircraft over
international waters in an unprovoked attack.
a.
Approximately 4 or 5 F-101 aircraft-will be dispatched in trail from
Homestead AFB, Florida, to the vicinity of Cuba. Their mission will
be to reverse course and simulate fakir aircraft for an air defense
exercise in southern Florida. These aircraft would conduct variations
of these flights at frequent intervals. Crews would be briefed to
remain at least 12 miles off the Cuban coast; however, they would be
required to carry live ammunition in the event that hostile actions
were taken by the Cuban MiGs.
b.
On One such flight, a pre-briefed pilot would fly tail-end Charley at
considerable interval between aircraft. While near the Cuban Island
this pilot would broadcast that he had been Jumped by MIGs and was
going down. No other calls would be made. The pilot would then fly
directly west at extremely low altitude and land at a secure base, an
Eglin auxiliary. The aircraft would be met by the proper people,
quickly stored and given a new tail number. The pilot who had
performed the mission under an alias, would resume his proper
identity and return to his normal place of business. The pilot and
aircraft would then have disappeared.
c.
At precisely the same time that the aircraft was presumably shot down
a submarine or small surface craft would disburse F-101 parts,
parachute, etc., at approximately 15 to 20 miles off the Cuban coast
and depart.
U.S.
government documents declassified in October 2017 admitted that
a very high-level 1962 meeting of U.S. government officials –
separate from the Joint Chiefs of Staff – also discussed:
The
possibility of U.S.
manufacture or acquisition of Soviet aircraft ….
There is a possibility that such aircraft could be used in a
deception operation designed to confuse enemy planes in the air, to
launch a surprise attack against enemy installations or in a
provocation operation in which Soviet aircraft would appear to attack
U.S. or friendly installations in order to provide an excuse for U.S.
intervention.
And see
this.
-
In
1963, the U.S. Department of Defense wrote a paper promoting attacks
on nations within the Organization of American States – such as
Trinidad-Tobago or Jamaica – and then falsely blaming them on
Cuba.
-
The
U.S. Department of Defense also suggested covertly
paying a person in the Castro government to attack the United
States: “The only area remaining for consideration then would be
to bribe one of Castro’s subordinate commanders to initiate an
attack on Guantanamo.”
-
A
U.S. Congressional committee admitted that
– as part of its “Cointelpro” campaign – the FBI had
used many provocateurs
in the 1950s through 1970s to carry out violent acts and falsely
blame them on political activists.
-
A top Turkish
general admitted that
Turkish forces burned down a mosque on Cyprus in the 1970s and
blamed it on their enemy. He explained:
“In Special War, certain acts
of sabotage are staged and blamed on the enemy to
increase public resistance. We did this on Cyprus; we even burnt
down a mosque.” In response to the surprised correspondent’s
incredulous look the general said, “I am giving an example”.
(20)
A declassified 1973
CIA document reveals a
program to train foreign police and troops on how to make booby
traps, pretending that they were training them on how
to investigate terrorist
acts:
The
Agency maintains liaison in varying degrees with foreign
police/security organizations through its field stations ….
[CIA
provides training sessions as follows:]
a.
Providing trainees with basic
knowledge in the uses of commercial and military demolitions and
incendiaries as
they may be applied in terrorism and industrial sabotage operations.
b.
Introducing the trainees to commercially
available materials and home laboratory techniques,
likely to he used in the manufacture of explosives and incendiaries
by terrorists or saboteurs.
c.
Familiarizing the trainees with the concept of target
analysis and operational planning that
a saboteur or terrorist must employ.
d.
Introducing the trainees to booby trapping devices and techniques
giving practical
experience with
both manufactured and improvised devices through
actual fabrication.
***
The
program provides the trainees with ample
opportunity to develop basic familiarity and use proficiently through
handling, preparing and applying the various explosive charges,
incendiary agents, terrorist devices and sabotage techniques.
-
The
German government admitted (and see
this)
that, in 1978, the German secret service detonated a bomb in the
outer wall of a prison and planted “escape tools” on a prisoner
– a member of the Red Army Faction – which the secret service
wished to frame the bombing on.
-
A
Mossad agent admits that,
in 1984, Mossad planted a radio transmitter in Gaddaffi’s compound
in Tripoli, Libya which broadcast fake terrorist transmissions
recorded by Mossad, in order to frame Gaddaffi as a terrorist
supporter. Ronald Reagan bombed Libya immediately thereafter.
-
The
South African Truth and Reconciliation Council found that,
in 1989, the Civil Cooperation Bureau (a covert branch of the South
African Defense Force) approached an explosives expert and asked him
“to participate in an operation aimed at discrediting the ANC [the
African National Congress] by bombing the police vehicle of the
investigating officer into the murder incident”, thus framing the
ANC for the bombing.
-
An
Algerian diplomat and several officers in the Algerian
army admit that,
in the 1990s, the Algerian army frequently massacred Algerian
civilians and then blamed Islamic militants for the killings (and
see this
video;
and see Agence France-Presse, 9/27/2002, French
Court Dismisses Algerian Defamation Suit Against Author).
-
In
1993, a bomb in Northern Ireland killed 9 civilians. Official
documents from the Royal Ulster Constabulary (i.e. the British
government) show that
the mastermind of the bombing was a British agent, and that the
bombing was designed to inflame sectarian tensions. And
see this and this.
-
The
United States Army’s 1994 publication Special
Forces Foreign Internal Defense Tactics Techniques and Procedures
for Special Forces –
updated in 2004 – recommends employing
terrorists and using false flag operations to destabilize leftist
regimes in Latin America. False flag terrorist attacks were carried
out in Latin America and other regions as part of the CIA’s “Dirty
Wars“.
And see
this.
(27)
Similarly, a CIA “psychological operations” manual prepared by a
CIA contractor for the Nicaraguan Contra rebels noted the
value of assassinating someone on your own side to create a “martyr”
for the cause. The manual was authenticated by
the U.S. government. The manual received so much publicity from
Associated Press, Washington Post and other news coverage that –
during the 1984 presidential debate – President Reagan
was confronted with
the following question on national television:
At
this moment, we are confronted with the extraordinary story of a CIA
guerrilla manual for the anti-Sandinista contras whom we are backing,
which advocates not only assassinations of Sandinistas but the hiring
of criminals to assassinate the guerrillas we are supporting in order
to create martyrs.
-
A
Rwandan government inquiry admitted that
the 1994 shootdown and murder of the Rwandan president, who was from
the Hutu tribe
– a murder blamed by the Hutus on the rival Tutsi tribe,
and which led to the massacre of more than 800,000 Tutsis by Hutus –
was committed by Hutu soldiers
and falsely blamed on the Tutis.
-
An
Indonesian government fact-finding team investigated violent riots
which occurred in 1998, and determined that “elements
of the military had been involved in the riots, some of which were
deliberately provoked”.
-
Senior
Russian Senior military and intelligence officers admit that
the KGB blew up Russian apartment buildings in 1999 and falsely
blamed it on Chechens, in order to justify an invasion of Chechnya
(and see this
report and this
discussion).
-
As
reported by the New
York Times, BBC and Associated
Press,
Macedonian officials admit that in 2001, the government murdered 7
innocent immigrants in cold blood and pretended that they were Al
Qaeda soldiers attempting to assassinate Macedonian police, in order
to join the “war on terror”. They lured foreign migrants into
the country, executed them in a staged gun battle, and then claimed
they were a unit backed by Al Qaeda intent on attacking Western
embassies”. Specifically, Macedonian authorities had lured the
immigrants into the country, and then – after killing them –
posed the victims with planted evidence – “bags of uniforms and
semiautomatic weapons at their side” – to show Western
diplomats.
-
At
the July 2001 G8 Summit in Genoa, Italy, black-clad thugs
were videotaped getting
out of police cars, and were seen by
an Italian MP carrying “iron bars inside the police station”.
Subsequently, senior police officials in Genoa admitted that
police planted two Molotov cocktails and faked the stabbing of a
police officer at the G8 Summit, in order to justify a violent
crackdown against
protesters.
-
The
U.S. falsely
blamed Iraq for
playing a role in the 9/11 attacks – as shown by a memo
from the defense secretary –
as one of the main
justifications for
launching the Iraq war. Even
after the 9/11 Commission admitted that
there was no connection, Dick Cheney said that
the evidence is “overwhelming” that al Qaeda had a relationship
with Saddam Hussein’s regime, that Cheney “probably” had
information unavailable to the Commission, and that the media was
not ‘doing their homework’ in reporting such ties. Top U.S.
government officials now admit that
the Iraq war was really launched for oil … not 9/11 or weapons of
mass destruction.
Despite
previous “lone wolf” claims, many U.S. government officials
now say that
9/11 was state-sponsored terror; but Iraq was not the
state which backed the hijackers. (Many U.S. officials
have allegedthat
9/11 was a false flag operation by rogue elements of the U.S.
government; but such a claim is beyond the scope of this discussion.
The key point is that the U.S. falsely blamed it on Iraq, when
it knew Iraq
had nothing to do with it.).
(Additionally,
the same
judge who has shielded the Saudis for
any liability for funding 9/11 has awarded a default judgment against
Iran for $10.5
billion for carrying out 9/11 …
even though no one seriously believes that Iran had any part in
9/11.)
-
Although
the FBI now admits that the 2001 anthrax attacks were carried out by
one or more U.S. government scientists, a senior FBI official says
that the FBI was actually told to
blame the Anthrax attacks on Al Qaeda by White House
officials (remember
what the anthrax letters looked
like).
Government officials also confirm that the white House tried
to link the anthrax to Iraq as
a justification for regime change in that country. And see
this.
-
According
to the Washington
Post,
Indonesian police admit that the Indonesian military killed American
teachers in Papua in 2002 and blamed the murders on a Papuan
separatist group in order to get that group listed as a terrorist
organization.
-
The
well-respected former Indonesian president also admits that
the government probably had a role in the Bali bombings.
-
Police
outside of a 2003 European Union summit in Greece were
filmed planting
Molotov cocktails on a peaceful protester.
(38)
In 2003, the U.S. Secretary of Defense admitted that
interrogators were authorized to use the following method:
False
Flag: Convincing the detainee that individuals from a country other
than the United States are interrogating him.
While
not a traditional false flag attack,
this deception could lead to former detainees – many
of whom were tortured –
attacking the country falsely blamed for the interrogation and
torture.
-
Former
Department of Justice lawyer John Yoo suggested in
2005 that the US should go on the offensive against al-Qaeda, having
“our intelligence agencies create a false
terrorist organization.
It could have its own websites, recruitment centers, training camps,
and fundraising operations. It could launch fake
terrorist operations and
claim credit for real terrorist strikes, helping to sow confusion
within al-Qaeda’s ranks, causing operatives to doubt others’
identities and to question the validity of communications.”
-
Similarly,
in 2005, Professor John Arquilla of the Naval Postgraduate School –
a renowned US defense analyst credited with developing the concept
of ‘netwar’ – called
for western
intelligence services to create
new “pseudo gang” terrorist groups,
as a way of undermining “real” terror networks. According to
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh, Arquilla’s
‘pseudo-gang’ strategy was, Hersh reported, already
being implemented by
the Pentagon:“Under
Rumsfeld’s new approach, I was told, US military operatives would
be permitted to pose abroad as corrupt foreign businessmen seeking
to buy contraband items that could be used in nuclear-weapons
systems. In some cases, according to the Pentagon advisers, local
citizens could be recruited and asked to join up with guerrillas or
terrorists…
The
new rules will enable the Special Forces community to set up what it
calls ‘action teams’ in the target countries overseas which can
be used to find and eliminate terrorist organizations. ‘Do
you remember the right-wing execution squads in El Salvador?’ the
former high-level intelligence official asked me, referring to the
military-led gangs that committed atrocities in the early
nineteen-eighties. ‘We founded them and we financed them,’ he
said. ‘The objective now is to recruit locals in any area we want.
And we aren’t going to tell Congress about it.’ A former military
officer, who has knowledge of the Pentagon’s commando capabilities,
said, ‘We’re going to be riding with the bad boys.’”
(41)
United Press International reported in
June 2005:
U.S.
intelligence officers are reporting that some of the insurgents in
Iraq are using recent-model Beretta 92 pistols, but the pistols seem
to have had their serial numbers erased. The numbers do not appear to
have been physically removed; the pistols seem to have come off a
production line without any serial numbers. Analysts suggest the lack
of serial numbers indicates that the weapons were intended for
intelligence operations or terrorist cells with substantial
government backing. Analysts speculate that these guns are probably
from either Mossad or the CIA. Analysts speculate that agent
provocateurs may be using the untraceable weapons even as U.S.
authorities use insurgent attacks against civilians as evidence of
the illegitimacy of the resistance.
-
In
2005, British
soldiers dressed
as Arabs were caught by Iraqi police after a shootout against the
police. The British soldiers shot two Iraqi policemen, killing
one.
The soldiers apparently possessed
explosives,
and were accused of
attempting to set
off bombs.
While none of the soldiers admitted that they were carrying out
attacks, British soldiers and a column of 10 British tanks stormed
the jail they were held in, broke
down a wall of the jail, and busted them out.
The extreme measures used to free the soldiers – rather than have
them face questions and potentially stand trial – could be
considered an admission.
-
Undercover
Israeli soldiers admitted in
2005 to throwing stones at other Israeli soldiers so they could
blame it on Palestinians, as an excuse to crack down on peaceful
protests by the Palestinians.
-
Quebec
police admitted that,
in 2007, thugs carrying rocks to a peaceful protest were actually
undercover Quebec police officers (and see
this).
-
A
2008 US Army special operations field manual recommends that
the U.S. military use surrogate non-state groups such as
“paramilitary forces, individuals, businesses, foreign political
organizations, resistant or insurgent organizations,
expatriates, transnational
terrorism adversaries, disillusioned transnational terrorism
members,
black marketers, and other social or political ‘undesirables.’”
The manual specifically acknowledged that U.S. special operations
can involve both counterterrorism and “Terrorism” (as well as
“transnational criminal activities, including narco-trafficking,
illicit arms-dealing, and illegal financial transactions.”)
(46)
The former Italian Prime
Minister, President, and head of Secret Services (Francesco
Cossiga) advised the
2008 minister in charge of the police, on how to deal with protests
from teachers and students:
He
should do what I did when I was Minister of the Interior … infiltrate
the movement with agents provocateurs inclined
to do anything …. And after that, with the strength of the gained
population consent, … beat
them for blood and beat for blood also
those teachers that incite them. Especially the teachers. Not the
elderly, of course, but the girl teachers yes.
-
An
undercover officer admitted that
he infiltrated environmental, leftwing and anti-fascist groups in 22
countries. Germany’s federal police chief admitted that
– while the undercover officer worked for the German police – he
acted illegally during a G8 protest in Germany in 2007 and committed
arson by setting fire during a subsequent demonstration in Berlin.
The undercover officer spent many years living
with violent
“Black Bloc” anarchists.
-
Denver
police admitted that
uniformed officers deployed in 2008 to an area where alleged
“anarchists” had planned to wreak havoc outside the Democratic
National Convention ended up getting into a melee with two
undercover policemen. The uniformed officers didn’t know the
undercover officers were cops.
-
At
the G20 protests in London in 2009, a British member of
parliament saw plain
clothes police officers attempting to incite the crowd to violence.
-
The
oversight agency for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police admitted that
– at the G20 protests in Toronto in 2010 – undercover police
officers were arrested with a group of protesters. Videos and photos
(see this and this,
for example) show that violent protesters wore very similar boots
and other gear as the police, and carried police batons. The Globe
and Mail reports that
the undercover officers planned the targets for violent attack, and
the police failed to stop the attacks.
-
Egyptian
politicians admitted (and see
this)
that government employees looted priceless museum artifacts 2011 to
try to discredit the protesters.
-
Austin
police admit that
3 officers infiltrated the Occupy protests in that city.
Prosecutors admit that
one of the undercover officers purchased and constructed illegal
“lock boxes” which ended up getting many protesters arrested.
-
In
2011, a Colombian colonel admitted that
he and his soldiers had lured 57 innocent civilians and killed them
– after dressing many of them in uniforms – as part of a scheme
to claim that Columbia was eradicating left-wing terrorists. And see
this.
-
Rioters
who discredited the peaceful protests against the swearing in of the
Mexican president in 2012 admitted that
they were paid 300 pesos each to destroy everything in their path.
According to Wikipedia, photos also show the
vandals waiting in groups behind police lines prior to the violence.
-
On
November 20, 2014, Mexican agent provocateurs were transported by
army vehicles to participate in the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping
protests, as was shown by
videos and pictures distributed via social networks.
-
The
highly-respected writer for the Telegraph Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
says that the head of Saudi intelligence – Prince Bandar –
recently admitted that
the Saudi government controls “Chechen” terrorists.
(57) Two
members of the Turkish parliament, high-level
American sources and
others admitted that the Turkish government – a NATO country –
carried out the chemical weapons attacks in Syria and falsely blamed
them on the Syrian government; and high-ranking Turkish
government admitted on
tape plans to carry out attacks and blame it on the Syrian
government.
-
The
former Director of the NSA and other American government
officials admit said
that the U.S. is a huge supporter of terrorism. Jimmy Carter’s
National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski admitted on
CNN that the U.S. organized
and supported Bin Laden and the other originators of “Al Qaeda”
in the 1970s to
fight the Soviets. The U.S. and its allies have been supporting Al
Qaeda and other Islamic terrorist groups for many decades, and
providing them arms, money and logistical support
in Libya, Syria, Mali, Bosnia, Chechnya, Iran,
and many
other countries.
U.S. allies are also directly responsible
for creating and supplying ISIS.
It’s
gotten so ridiculous that a U.S. Senator has introduced a “Stop
Arming Terrorists Act”,
and U.S. Congresswoman – who introduced a similar bill in the House
– says:
“For years, the U.S. government has been supporting armed militant
groups working directly with and often under the command of terrorist
groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda in their fight to overthrow the Syrian
government.”
-
Government
officials on both
sides of
the conflict, as well as the snipers who actually pulled the
trigger, all admit that
shots were fired on both sides
– killing both government officials and anti-government protesters
in Ukraine – to create maximum chaos and destabilization.
-
Speaking
of snipers, in a secret recording, Venezuelan generals admit that
they will deploy snipers to shoot protesters, but keep the marksmen
well-hidden from demonstrator and the reporters covering the events
so others would be blamed for the deaths.
-
Burmese
government officials admitted that
Burma (renamed Myanmar) used false flag attacks against Muslim and
Buddhist groups within the country to stir up hatred between the two
groups, to prevent democracy from spreading.
-
Israeli
police were again filmed in
2015 dressing up as Arabs and throwing stones, then turning over
Palestinian protesters to Israeli soldiers.
-
Britain’s
spy agency has admitted (and see
this)
that it carries out “digital false flag” attacks on
targets, framing
people by
writing offensive or unlawful material … and blaming it on the
target.
-
The
CIA has admitted that
it uses viruses and malware from Russia and other countries to carry
out cyberattacks and blame other countries.
-
U.S.
soldiers have admitted that
if they kill innocent Iraqis and Afghanis, they then “drop”
automatic weapons near their body so they can pretend they
were militants.
-
German
prosecutors admit that
a German soldier disguised himself as a Syrian refugee and planned
to shoot people so that the attack would be blamed on asylum
seekers.
(67)
Police frame innocent people for crimes they didn’t commit. The
practice is so well-known that the New York Times noted in
1981:
In
police jargon, a throwdown is a weapon planted on a victim.
Newsweek reported in
1999:
Perez,
himself a former [Los Angeles Police Department] cop, was caught
stealing eight pounds of cocaine from police evidence lockers. After
pleading guilty in September, he bargained for a lighter sentence by
telling an appalling story of attempted murder and
a “throwdown”–police
slang for a weapon planted by cops to make a shooting legally
justifiable.
Perez said he and his partner, Officer Nino Durden, shot an unarmed
18th Street Gang member named Javier Ovando, then planted
a semiautomatic rifle on the unconscious suspect and claimed that
Ovando had tried to shoot themduring
a stakeout.
Wikipedia notes:
As
part of his plea bargain, Pérez implicated scores of officers from
the Rampart Division’s anti-gang unit, describing routinely beating
gang members, planting
evidence on suspects, falsifying reports and covering up unprovoked
shootings.
(As
a side note – and while not technically false flag attacks –
police have been busted framing
innocent people in many other ways,
as well.)
(68)
A former U.S. intelligence officer recently alleged:
Most
terrorists are false flag terrorists or are created by our own
security services.
He
has himself admitted to
carrying out a false flag attack.
-
The
head and special agent in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles
office said that
most terror attacks are committed by the CIA and FBI as false flags.
(70)
The Director of
Analytics at the interagency Global Engagement Center housed at the
U.S. Department of State, also an adjunct professor at George Mason
University, where he teaches the graduate course National Security
Challenges in the Department of Information Sciences and Technology,
a former branch chief in the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, and an
intelligence advisor to the Secretary of Homeland Security (J.D.
Maddox) notes:
Provocation
is one of the most basic, but confounding, aspects of
warfare. Despite
its sometimes obvious use, it has succeeded consistently against
audiences around the world, for millennia, to compel war.
A well-constructed provocation narrative mutes even the most vocal
opposition.
***
The
culmination of a strategic provocation operation invariably reflects
a narrative of victimhood: we
are the victims of the enemy’s unforgivable atrocities.
***
In
the case of strategic provocation the
deaths of an aggressor’s own personnel are a core tactic of the
provocation.
***
The
persistent use of strategic provocation over centuries – and its
apparent importance to war planners – begs the question of its
likely use by the US and other states in the near term.
(71)
Leaders throughout history have acknowledged the “benefits” of of
false flags to justify their political agenda:
“Terrorism
is the best political weapon for
nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death”.
– Adolph
Hitler
“Why
of course the people don’t want war … But after all it is the
leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a
simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or
a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship
… Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the
bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell
them they are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the
country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
– Hermann
Goering, Nazi leader.
“The
easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry
out acts
of terror. [The public] will clamor for such laws if their personal
security is threatened”.
– Josef Stalin
Postscript
1: It is not just “modern” nations which have launched false flag
attacks. For example, a Native American from one tribe (Pomunkey)
murdered a white Englishwoman living in Virginia in 1697 and then
falsely blamed it on second tribe
(Piscataway). But he later admitted in
court that he was not really Piscataway, and that he had been paid by
a provocateur from a third tribe
(Iroquois) to kill the woman as a way to start a war between the
English and the Piscataway, thus protecting the profitable Iroquois
monopoly in trade with the English.
Postscript
2: On multiple occasions, atrocities or warmongering are falsely
blamed on the enemy as a justification for war … when no
such event ever occurred. This is more like a “fake flag”
than a “false flag”, as no actual terrorism occurred.
For
example:
-
The
NSA admits that
it lied about
what really happened in the Gulf
of Tonkin incident in
1964 … manipulating data to make it look like North Vietnamese
boats fired on a U.S. ship so as to create a false justification for
the Vietnam war -
One
of the central lies used to justify the 1991 Gulf War against Iraq
after Iraq invaded Kuwait was the false
statement by
a young Kuwaiti girl that Iraqis
murdered Kuwaiti babies in
hospitals. Her statement was arranged by a Congressman who knew that
she was actually the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the U.S.
– who was desperately trying to lobby the U.S. to enter the war –
but the Congressman hid
that fact from the public and from Congress -
nother
central lie used to justify the Gulf War was the statement that a
quarter of a million Iraqi troops were massed on the border with
Saudi Arabia (see
also this
article) -
Pulitzer
prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind reported that
the White House ordered the CIA to forge and backdate a document
falsely linking Iraq with Muslim terrorists and 9/11 … and that
the CIA complied with those instructions and in fact created the
forgery, which was then used to justify war against Iraq. And
see this and this -
Time
magazine points
out that
the claim by President Bush that Iraq was attempting to buy “yellow
cake” Uranium from Niger:
had
been checked out — and debunked — by U.S. intelligence a year
before the President repeated it.
-
Everyone
knew that
Iraq didn’t have weapons of mass destruction. More -
The entire
torture program was geared towards obtaining false
confessions linking
Iraq and 9/11 -
CIA
agents and documents admit that
the agency gave Iran plans for building nuclear weapons … so it
could frame
Iran for trying to build the bomb -
The
“humanitarian” wars in Syria, Libya and Yugoslavia were all
justified by highly exaggerated
reports that
the leaders of those countries were committing atrocities against
their people. And see
this
==========================================
* Op WashingtonBlog wordt ook verwezen naar een ander artikel op Newsweek:
MainstreamMedia Admits that False Flags Are Real
Last
month, Newsweek ran an
article headlined:
U.S. GOVERNMENT PLANNED FALSE FLAG ATTACKS TO START WAR WITH SOVIET UNION, JFK DOCUMENTS SHOW Zie wat deze link betreft ook: ‘Newsweek erkent ‘false flag’ operatie van de VS tegen de Sovjet Unie……‘
————————————
Voorts zie ‘Onderbroekbom (25 december 2009) een enorm onzin verhaal, weer zijn we voorgelogen…….‘
‘WannaCry niet door Noord-Korea ‘gelanceerd!’‘
‘FBI, de spin in het Russiagate web……..‘
‘‘Russiagate’ een complot van CIA, FBI, Hillary Clinton en het DNC………..‘
‘Syrië: nieuwe gifgasaanval als ‘false flag’ operatie tegen Syrisch bewind in voorbereiding……..‘
‘VS geeft toe dat er geen bewijs is voor het gebruik van gifgas ‘door Assad’, ofwel: alweer ‘fake news’ van de massamedia doorgeprikt!‘
‘Oost-Ghouta, wat je niet wordt verteld‘
‘Assad heeft geen gifgas gebruikt tegen de Syrische bevolking!‘
‘BBC World Service en BNR met ‘fake news’ over Ghouta……..‘
‘US Aggression in Syria – an Imperialist Blueprint‘
‘SOHR, het orgaan dat door de reguliere media wordt aangehaald i.z. Syrië, is gevestigd in Coventry‘
J.F. Kennedy vermoord door Lyndon Johnson en z’n maten in misdaad, geheime diensten en politiek…..
De avond voor de moord op J.F. Kennedy, vond er overleg plaats in Dallas, op een feest van oliebaron Clint Murchison. Aanwezig: Edgar Hoover (destijds hoofd FBI), L.B. Johnson (de democratische vicepresident, die door de dood van Kennedy werd benoemd tot president en die in tegenstelling tot Kennedy voor deelname was van de VS aan de oorlog in Vietnam), R. Nixon (de latere republikeinse president, ook al voorstander van de oorlog tegen Noord-Vietnam) en H.L. Hunt (een andere oliebaron).
De oliebaronnen vreesden grote verliezen, door een beslissing van Kennedy over olievoorraden. Het militair-industrieel complex had alle belang bij de VS deelname aan de oorlog tegen Noord-Vietnam, dit complex werd na de dood van Kennedy uiterst kundig bediend door eerst L.B. Johnson en later R. Nixon….. (Overigens is een oorlog altijd goed voor oliemaatschappijen, immers het verbruik van benzine, diesel en kerosine gaat als een pijl omhoog…)
Een aantal belangrijke punten, die ook in de film ‘JFK’ van Oliver Stone terug te vinden zijn: De CIA plus hun collega’s in de georganiseerde misdaad en de olie industrie vreesde te worden aangepakt door de regering Kennedy. Het Pentagon en de wapenindustrie zagen grote toekomstige winsten en steekgelden verdampen, als Kennedy de oorlog tegen Noord-Vietnam zou afblazen. Daarnaast hadden L.B. Johnson en E. Hoover de pest aan Kennedy en hadden persoonlijke belangen bij de dood van Kennedy, beiden waren afzonderlijk betrokken bij een aantal politieke moorden……
De broer van Kennedy, Robert en Martin Luther King werden vermoord onder het bewind van Johnson en Hoover, waarbij het opvallend is dat beiden fel gekant waren tegen de oorlog in Vietnam…….
Voor een totaaloverzicht en verdere details zie de volgende video en tekst daaronder, gepubliceerd door Brasscheck TV:
The
party before the assassination
AND THE MISSING
FINGERPRINT
THERE’S
NO MYSTERY HERE, NEVER WAS
The
meeting in Dallas the night before the assassination of J.F. Kenedy
included:
H.L.
Hunt
J. Edgar Hoover
Richard Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson
The
big party before the JFK assassination
…At
the home of Clint Murchison, the Texas oil tycoon.
Murchison
owned J. Edgar Hoover, Lyndon B. Johnson, and State of Texas law
enforcement and stood to lose a fortune if Kennedy changed the oil
depletion allowance and faced the very real possibility of jail time
should then-Vice President Johnson be indicted, which gave the
appearance of being a certainty.
Nixon
and others involved claimed not to remember where he was that night.
The
fingerprint found in the Book Depository sniper’s nest and
suppressed by the FBI belonged to LBJ’s henchman who was convicted
in at least one murder and was suspected of committing several others
on Johnson’s behalf.
But
it doesn’t matter who did what, what weapon they used, and what
position they fired from.
That’s
like asking which janitor they sent and whether he used a wire or
nylon brush.
The
mountains of minutia, endless conferences, books and assassination
experts including Oliver Stone’s artfully loopy movie all obscure
the basic points.
-
The
CIA was facing a thorough gutting at the hands of Kennedy as were
their close colleagues in organized crime and the oil industry
-
The
Pentagon and the scumbags who supply them were facing the loss of
billions upon billion of of dollars in profits and payoffs if
Kennedy turned off the Vietnam gravy train.
-
Hoover
and Johnson knew each other very well, hated Kennedy and had very
strong self-preservation reasons to want him dead. Both had been
involved in political murders separately – and were to collaborate
on future ones.
Recall
that Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King were both assassinated
during the Johnson-Hoover regime and that Johnson was the president
during the infamous USS Liberty incident. Robert Kennedy, like his
brother, and Martin Luther King were murdered after they started
talking against war in Vietnam. Another too rarely mentioned
connection.)
These
people – the CIA, organized crime, the Pentagon, Hoover and Johnson
– were all murderers and they did what murderers do.
With
Hoover in charge of the FBI and Johnson in control of the Federal
government and Texas law enforcement, there was no investigation of
the crime and any evidence that contradicted the manufactured “lone
nut” theory was altered and in some cases outright destroyed.
Ongoing
media suppression was carried out by the CIA and the cooperative and
craven US news media.
It
didn’t matter how good or bad your evidence is if you don’t
control the process and it’s the new leader who controls the
process.
Attorney
Allen Dulles, the CIA head who supervised numerous coups and
assassinations in other countries and had a grudge against Kennedy
for firing him, understood this simple principle better than anyone.
That’s
it. The beginning, middle and end of the story.
Discussions
about the minutia of the specific mechanics of the operation are
nothing more than a distraction and far off the key points which are:
-
When
push comes to shove, the military-industrial complex is in control
of the US2.
A criminally minded CIA and organized crime figures in the US and
abroad collaborate on projects of mutual interest (drug running,
assassination, the suppression of dissent) on a daily basis as they
have done since WW II.3.
The US news media – as well as the vast majority of academia –
is an impotent joke.
These
are the three elements that have guided and controlled the US since
Kennedy’s assassination and they can, and continue to, get away
with just about anything.
– Brasscheck
=========================
en: ‘Martin Luther King jr. vermoord door de overheid, aldus rechter……..‘
en: ‘Kabinet ‘wil kunnen hacken’, zonder daar melding van te maken………. Hoe bedoelt u, ‘politiestaat??’‘
JFK de moord: de macht van de geheime diensten gecombineerd met die van het militair-industrieel complex
Het volgende artikel geschreven door Ray McGovern was nog niet gepubliceerd of Trump beloofde ook de rest van de JFK documenten vrij te geven, terwijl hij eerder onder druk van de CIA en NSA 300 pagina’s achterhield.
Daarmee was de kop van het McGovern artikel achterhaald, al moeten we eerst nog zien, of Trump kan leveren, immers de geheime diensten hebben hem bijna volledig in hun macht gekregen met de Russia-gate leugens*.
Verder een artikel met alweer toch een aantal nieuwe feiten, waaruit de conclusie bijna niet is te vermijden dat de CIA heeft meegewerkt aan de moord op J.F. Kennedy, uiteraard in opdracht en samenwerking met het militair-industrieel complex. Kennedy was van plan de aanwezige troepen uit Zuid-Vietnam terug te trekken, dat zou deze industrie een paar miljard dollar aan winst kosten…… Uiteraard was de mislukte invasie op Cuba een stevige plank aan de doodskist van Kennedy, men heeft hem nooit vergeven dat hij geen troepen stuurde naar Cuba om de gevangen genomen militairen te bevrijden, sterker nog: Kennedy ontsloeg de verantwoordelijken voor het Bay of Pigs incident…..
Truman, de ex-president plaatste een maand na de moord op Kennedy een artikel in de Washington Post, waarin hij pleitte de macht van de CIA aan banden te leggen, dit werd niet herhaald in de late editie van deze krant en werd gemeden door de rest van de reguliere media in de VS, terwijl Truman NB de CIA had opgezet in 1947……….
Lees het volgende (verder) prima artikel:
The
Deep State’s JFK Triumph Over Trump
October
30, 2017 at 9:27 am
Written
by Ray
McGovern
Fifty-four
years after President Kennedy’s assassination, the CIA and FBI
demanded more time to decide what secrets to keep hiding – and a
chastened President Trump bowed to their power, observes ex-CIA
analyst Ray McGovern.
(CN) — It
was summer 1963 when a senior official of CIA’s operations
directorate treated our Junior Officer Trainee (JOT) class to an
unbridled rant against President John F. Kennedy. He accused
JFK, among other things, of rank cowardice in refusing to send U.S.
armed forces to bail out Cuban rebels pinned down during the
CIA-launched invasion at the Bay of Pigs, blowing the chance to drive
Cuba’s Communist leader Fidel Castro from power.
It
seemed beyond odd that a CIA official would voice such scathing
criticism of a sitting President at a training course for those
selected to be CIA’s future leaders. I remember thinking to
myself, “This guy is unhinged; he would kill Kennedy, given the
chance.”
Our
special guest lecturer looked a lot like E. Howard Hunt, but more
than a half-century later, I cannot be sure it was he. Our notes
from such training/indoctrination were classified and kept under lock
and key.
At
the end of our JOT orientation, we budding Agency leaders had to make
a basic choice between joining the directorate for substantive
analysis or the operations directorate where case officers run spies
and organize regime changes (in those days, we just called the
process overthrowing governments).
I
chose the analysis directorate and, once ensconced in the brand new
headquarters building in Langley, Virginia, I found it strange that
subway-style turnstiles prevented analysts from going to the
“operations side of the house,” and vice versa. Truth be told, we
were never one happy family.
I
cannot speak for my fellow analysts in the early 1960s, but it never
entered my mind that operatives on the other side of the turnstiles
might be capable of assassinating a President – the very President
whose challenge to do something for our country had brought many of
us to Washington in the first place. But, barring the emergence of a
courageous whistleblower-patriot like Daniel Ellsberg, Chelsea
Manning or Edward Snowden, I do not expect to live long enough to
learn precisely who orchestrated and carried out the assassination of
JFK.
And
yet, in a sense, those particulars seem less important than two main
lessons learned: (1) If a President can face down intense domestic
pressure from the power elite and turn toward peace with perceived
foreign enemies, then anything is possible. The darkness of
Kennedy’s murder should not obscure the light of that basic truth;
and (2) There is ample evidence pointing to a state execution of a
President willing to take huge risks for peace. While no
post-Kennedy president can ignore that harsh reality, it remains
possible that a future President with the vision and courage of JFK
might beat the odds – particularly as the American Empire
disintegrates and domestic discontent grows.
I
do hope to be around next April after the 180-day extension for
release of the remaining JFK documents. But – absent a gutsy
whistleblower – I wouldn’t be surprised to see in April,
a Washington
Post banner
headline much like the one that appeared Saturday: “JFK
files: The promise of revelations derailed by CIA, FBI.”
The
New Delay Is the Story
You
might have thought that almost 54 years after Kennedy was murdered in
the streets of Dallas – and after knowing for a quarter century the
supposedly final deadline for releasing the JFK files – the CIA and
FBI would not have needed a six-month extension to decide what
secrets that they still must hide.
Journalist
Caitlin Johnstone hits
the nail on the head in
pointing out that the biggest revelation from last week’s limited
release of the JFK files is “the fact that the FBI and CIA still
desperately need to keep secrets about something that happened 54
years ago.”
What
was released on Oct. 26, was a tiny fraction of what had remained
undisclosed in the National Archives. To find out why, one needs
to have some appreciation of a 70-year-old American political
tradition that might be called “fear of the spooks.”
That
the CIA and FBI are still choosing what we should be allowed to see
concerning who murdered John Kennedy may seem unusual, but there is
hoary precedent for it. After JFK’s assassination on Nov. 22,
1963, the well-connected Allen Dulles, whom Kennedy had fired as CIA
director after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, got himself appointed to the
Warren Commission and took the lead in shaping the investigation of
JFK’s murder.
By
becoming de
facto head
of the Commission, Dulles was perfectly placed to protect himself and
his associates, if any commissioners or investigators were tempted to
question whether Dulles and the CIA played any role in killing
Kennedy. When a few independent-minded journalists did succumb to
that temptation, they were immediately branded – you guessed it –
“conspiracy theorists.”
And
so, the big question remains: Did Allen Dulles and other
“cloak-and-dagger” CIA operatives have a hand in John Kennedy’s
assassination and subsequent cover-up? In my view and the view of
many more knowledgeable investigators, the best dissection of the
evidence on the murder appears in James Douglass’s 2008 book, JFK
and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters.
After
updating and arraying the abundant evidence, and conducting still
more interviews, Douglass concludes that the answer to the big
question is Yes. Reading Douglass’s book today may help
explain why so many records are still withheld from release, even in
redacted form, and why, indeed, we may never see them in their
entirety.
Truman:
CIA a Frankenstein?
When
Kennedy was assassinated, it must have occurred to former President
Harry Truman, as it did to many others, that the disgraced Allen
Dulles and his associates might have conspired to get rid of a
President they felt was soft on Communism – and dismissive of the
Deep State of that time. Not to mention their vengeful desire to
retaliate for Kennedy’s response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco. (Firing
Allen Dulles and other CIA paragons of the Deep State for that fiasco
simply was not done.)
Exactly
one month after John Kennedy was killed, the Washington
Post published
an op-ed by Harry Truman titled “Limit CIA Role to Intelligence.”
The first sentence read, “I think it has become necessary to take
another look at the purpose and operations of our Central
Intelligence Agency.”
Strangely,
the op-ed appeared only in the Post’s early
edition on Dec. 22, 1963. It was excised from that day’s later
editions and, despite being authored by the President who was
responsible for setting up the CIA in 1947, the all-too-relevant
op-ed was ignored in all other major media.
Truman
clearly believed that the spy agency had lurched off in what Truman
thought were troubling directions. He began his op-ed by
underscoring “the original reason why I thought it necessary to
organize this Agency … and what I expected it to do.” It would be
“charged with the collection of all intelligence reports from every
available source, and to have those reports reach me as President
without Department ‘treatment’ or interpretations.”
Truman
then moved quickly to one of the main things clearly bothering
him. He wrote “the most important thing was to guard against
the chance of intelligence being used to influence or to lead the
President into unwise decisions.”
It
was not difficult to see this as a reference to how one of the
agency’s early directors, Allen Dulles, tried to trick President
Kennedy into sending U.S. forces to rescue the group of invaders who
had landed on the beach at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961 with no
chance of success, absent the speedy commitment of U.S. air and
ground support. The planned mouse-trapping of the then-novice
President Kennedy had been underpinned by a rosy “analysis”
showing how this pin-prick on the beach would lead to a popular
uprising against Fidel Castro.
Wallowing
in the Bay of Pigs
Arch-Establishment
figure Allen Dulles was offended when young President Kennedy, on
entering office, had the temerity to question the CIA’s Bay of Pigs
plans, which had been set in motion under President Dwight
Eisenhower. When Kennedy made it clear he would not approve
the use of U.S. combat forces, Dulles set out, with supreme
confidence, to give the President no choice except to send U.S.
troops to the rescue.
Coffee-stained
notes handwritten by Allen Dulles were discovered after his death and
reported by historian Lucien S. Vandenbroucke. In his notes, Dulles
explained that, “when the chips were down,” Kennedy would be
forced by “the realities of the situation” to give whatever
military support was necessary “rather than permit the enterprise
to fail.”
The
“enterprise” which Dulles said could not fail was, of course, the
overthrow of Fidel Castro. After mounting several failed operations
to assassinate Castro, this time Dulles meant to get his man, with
little or no attention to how Castro’s patrons in Moscow might
react eventually. (The next year, the Soviets agreed to install
nuclear missiles in Cuba as a deterrent to future U.S. aggression,
leading to the Cuban Missile Crisis).
In
1961, the reckless Joint Chiefs of Staff, whom then-Deputy Secretary
of State George Ball later described as a “sewer of deceit,”
relished any chance to confront the Soviet Union and give it, at
least, a black eye. (One can still smell the odor from that
sewer in many of the documents released last week.)
But
Kennedy stuck to his guns, so to speak. A few months after the
abortive invasion of Cuba — and his refusal to send the U.S.
military to the rescue — Kennedy fired Dulles and his
co-conspirators and told a friend that he wanted to “splinter the
CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.” Clearly,
the outrage was mutual.
When JFK
and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters came
out, the mainstream media had an allergic reaction and gave it almost
no reviews. It is a safe bet, though, that Barack Obama was given a
copy and that this might account in some degree for his continual
deference – timorousness even – toward the CIA.
Could
fear of the Deep State be largely why President Obama felt he had to
leave the Cheney/Bush-anointed CIA torturers, kidnappers and
black-prison wardens in place, instructing his first CIA chief, Leon
Panetta, to become, in effect, the agency’s lawyer rather than take
charge? Is this why Obama felt he could not fire his clumsily
devious Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who had to
apologize to Congress for giving “clearly erroneous” testimony
under oath in March 2013? Does Obama’s fear account for his
allowing then-National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander and
counterparts in the FBI to continue to mislead the American people,
even though the documents released by Edward Snowden showed them –
as well as Clapper – to be lying about the government’s
surveillance activities?
Is
this why Obama fought tooth and nail to protect CIA Director John
Brennan by trying to thwart publication of the comprehensive Senate
Intelligence Committee investigation of CIA torture, which was
based
on original Agency cables, emails, and headquarters memos?
[See here and here.]
The
Deep State Today
Many
Americans cling to a comforting conviction that the Deep State is a
fiction, at least in a “democracy” like the United States.
References to the enduring powers of the security agencies and other
key bureaucracies have been essentially banned by the mainstream
media, which many other suspicious Americans have come to see as just
one more appendage of the Deep State.
But
occasionally the reality of how power works pokes through in some
unguarded remark by a Washington insider, someone like Sen. Chuck
Schumer, D-New York, the Senate Minority Leader with 36 years of
experience in Congress. As Senate Minority Leader, he also is an ex
officio member
of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is supposed to oversee
the intelligence agencies.
During
a Jan. 3, 2017 interview with MSNBC’S Rachel Maddow, Schumer told
Maddow nonchalantly about the dangers awaiting President-elect Donald
Trump if he kept on “taking on the intelligence community.” She
and Schumer were discussing Trump’s sharp tweeting regarding U.S.
intelligence and evidence of “Russian hacking” (which both
Schumer and Maddow treat as flat fact).
Schumer said:
“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have
six ways from Sunday at getting back at you. So even for a
practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he’s being really
dumb to do this.”
Three
days after that interview, President Obama’s intelligence chiefs
released a nearly evidence-free “assessment” claiming that the
Kremlin engaged in a covert operation to put Trump into office,
fueling a “scandal” that has hobbled Trump’s presidency. On
Monday, Russia-gate special prosecutor Robert Mueller indicted
Trump’s one-time campaign manager Paul Manafort on unrelated money
laundering, tax and foreign lobbying charges, apparently in the hope
that Manafort will provide incriminating evidence against Trump.
So,
President Trump has been in office long enough to have learned how
the game is played and the “six ways from Sunday” that the
intelligence community has for “getting back at you.” He appears
to be as intimidated as was President Obama.
Trump’s
awkward acquiescence in the Deep State’s last-minute foot-dragging
regarding release of the JFK files is simply the most recent sign
that he, too, is under the thumb of what the Soviets used to call
“the organs of state security.”
Ray
McGovern works with the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in
inner-city Washington. During his 27-year career at CIA, he
prepared the President’s
Daily Brief for
Nixon, Ford, and Reagan, and conducted the one-on-one morning
briefings from 1981 to 1985. He is co-founder of Veteran
Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
By Ray
McGovern /
Republished with permission / Consortium
News / Report
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* Zie o.a.: ‘Walls Closing in on Russiagate Conspiracy Theorists: Evidence Mounts That DNC Emails Provided to WikiLeaks By Inside Source‘ en: ‘WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Drops Russiagate Shell!!!‘ (video).
Zie ook: ‘Martin Luther King jr. vermoord door de overheid, aldus rechter……..‘
en: ‘J.F. Kennedy vermoord door Lyndon Johnson en z’n maten in misdaad, geheime diensten en politiek…..‘
en: ‘Newsweek erkent ‘false flag’ operatie van de VS tegen de Sovjet Unie……‘
en: ‘Kabinet ‘wil kunnen hacken’, zonder daar melding van te maken………. Hoe bedoelt u, ‘politiestaat??’‘
Zie ook de volgende links, die weliswaar niets met Kennedy te maken hebben maar die wel aangeven hoe groot de macht de reguliere VS media en vooral de geheime diensten hebben, iets dat weer eens goed duidelijk werd door de leugens over ‘Russiagate’ (alleen dat woord is al een leugen op zich en werd voor het eerst gebruikt voor de Russische oligarchen die eind 90er jaren hun geld witwasten in het westen):
‘Hillary Clinton moet op de hoogte zijn geweest van aankoop Steele dossier over Trump……..‘ (een vervolg op het bovenstaande bericht)
en: ‘FBI Director Comey Leaked Trump Memos Containing Classified Information‘
en: ‘Publicly Available Evidence Doesn’t Support Russian Gov Hacking of 2016 Election‘
en: ‘Russia Is Trolling the Shit out of Hillary Clinton and the Mainstream Media‘
en: ‘Democraten VS kochten informatie over Trump >> Forgetting the ‘Dirty Dossier’ on Trump‘
en: ‘Russia Is Trolling the Shit out of Hillary Clinton and the Mainstream Media‘
en: ‘‘Russiagate’ een verhaal van a t/m z westers ‘fake news…..’‘
en: ‘New York Times met schaamteloze anti-Russische propaganda en ‘fake news….’‘
en: ‘BBC World Service: Rusland heeft VS verkiezingen gemanipuleerd……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘
PS: Kennedy en dan met name zijn broer Robert gingen ook behoorlijk tekeer tegen de maffia en volgens een aantal deskundigen zou de maffia hebben samengewerkt met de geheime dienst. Lee Harvey Oswald, die Kennedy als zou hebben vermoord, werd door Jack Ruby doodgeschoten, deze zou lid van de maffia zijn geweest of daar hechte banden mee hebben gehad………
CIA 70 jaar: 70 jaar moorden, martelen, coups plegen, nazi’s beschermen, media manipulatie enz. enz………
Het is 70 jaar gelden dat de CIA met ‘haar heilzame werk’ begon. 70 jaar waarin de CIA:
- staatsgrepen pleegde, o.a. tegen Iran (destijds Perzië), Congo, Chili en Brazilië.
- ‘false flag’ operaties leidde, operaties zogenaamd uitgevoerd door vijanden van de VS, zodat de VS ‘acties’ tegen haar onwelgevallige, veelal democratisch gekozen regimes kon beginnen……. (niet zelden door het voeren van illegale oorlogen)
- honderden (wellicht nog veel meer) verdachten martelde (en martelt), dit vooral in het buitenland en buitenlandse regimes (veelal niet democratisch gekozen) leerde ‘hoe het best kan worden gemarteld…….
- drugsoperaties leidde, zodat men met de opbrengsten geheime missies in het buitenland kon bekostigen……..
- oud-nazi’s uit de gevangenis houden en hen zelfs naar de VS te brengen om daar hun werk voort te zetten. Voorts leidde de CIA een netwerk van 600 ex-nazi agenten in het door de Sovjet-Unie bezette deel van Duitsland, De dagelijkse leiding van deze nazi’s was in handen van Reinhard Gehlen, voormalig hoofd van de nazi-inlichtingendienst voor de Sovjet-Unie……
Er zijn nog veel meer zaken te noemen, waarvoor ik naar het onderstaande artikel van Anti-Media wil verwijzen
Happy
Birthday CIA: 7 Truly Terrible Things the Agency Has Done in 70 Years
September
18, 2017 at 5:26 pm
Written
by Carey
Wedler
(ANTIMEDIA) —
On
Monday, President Trump tweeted birthday
wishes to the Air Force and the CIA. Both
became official organizations
70 years ago on September 18, 1947, with the implementation of the
National Security Act of 1947.
After
spending years as a wartime intelligence agency called the Office of
Strategic Services, the agency was solidified as a key player in the
federal government’s operations with then-President Harry Truman’s
authorization.
In
the seventy years since, the CIA has committed a wide variety of
misdeeds, crimes, coups, and violence. Here are seven of the worst
programs they’ve carried out (that are known to the public):
1.
Toppling governments around the world —
The CIA is best known for its first coup, Operation Ajax, in 1953,
in which it ousted the democratically elected leader of Iran,
Mohammed Mossadegh, reinstating the autocratic Shah, who favored
western oil interests. That operation, which the CIA now admits to
waging with British intelligence, ultimately resulted in the 1979
revolution and
subsequent U.S. hostage crisis. Relations between the U.S. and Iran
remain strained to this day, aptly described by the CIA-coined term
“blowback.”
But
the CIA has had a hand in toppling a
number of other democratically elected governments, from Guatemala
(1954) and the Congo (1960) to the Dominican Republic (1961), South
Vietnam (1963), Brazil (1964), and Chile (1973). The CIA has aimed to
install leaders who appease American interests,
often empowering oppressive, violent
dictators.
This is only a partial list of countries where the CIA covertly
attempted to exploit and manipulate sovereign nations’ governments.
-
Operation
Paperclip —
In one of the more bizarre CIA plots, the agency and other
government departments employed Nazi scientists both within and
outside the United States to gain an advantage over the
Soviets. As summarized by NPR:
“The
aim [of Operation Paperclip] was to find and preserve German weapons,
including biological and chemical agents, but American scientific
intelligence officers quickly realized the weapons themselves were
not enough.
“They
decided the United States needed to bring the Nazi scientists
themselves to the U.S. Thus began a mission to recruit top Nazi
doctors, physicists and chemists — including Wernher von Braun, who
went on to design the rockets that took man to the moon.”
They
kept this plot secret, though they admitted to
it upon the release of Operation
Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi
Scientists To America by
Annie Jacobsen. In a book review, the CIA wrote that “Henry
Wallace, former vice president and secretary of commerce, believed
the scientists’ ideas could launch new civilian industries and
produce jobs.”
They
praised the book’s historical accuracy, noting “that the
Launch Operations Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, was headed by
Kurt Debus, an ardent Nazi.” They acknowledged that “General
Reinhard Gehlen, former head of Nazi intelligence operations against
the Soviets, was hired by the US Army and later by the CIA to operate
600 ex-Nazi agents in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany.”
Remarkably,
they noted that Jacobsen “understandably questions the morality
of the decision to hire Nazi SS scientists,” but praise her for
pointing out that it was done to fight Soviets. They also made sure
to add that the Soviets hired Nazis, too, apparently justifying their
own questionable actions by citing their most loathed enemy.
-
Operation
CHAOS —
The FBI is widely known for its COINTELPRO schemes
to undermine communist
movements in the 1950s and anti-war, civil rights,
and black
power movements
in the 1960s, but the CIA has not been implicated nearly as deeply
because, technically, the CIA cannot legally engage in domestic
spying. But that was of little concern to President Lyndon B.
Johnson as opposition to the Vietnam war grew. According to
former New
York Times journalist
and Pulitzer Prize-winner Tim Weiner, as documented in his extensive
CIA history, Legacy
of Ashes,
Johnson instructed then-CIA Director Richard Helms to break the law:
“In
October 1967, a handful of CIA analysts joined in the first big
Washington march against the war. The president regarded protesters
as enemies of the state. He was convinced that the peace movement was
controlled and financed by Moscow and Beijing. He wanted proof. He
ordered Richard Helms to produce it.
“Helms
reminded the president that the CIA was barred from spying on
Americans. He says Johnson told him: ‘I’m quite aware of that.
What I want for you is to pursue this matter, and to do what is
necessary to track down the foreign communists who are behind this
intolerable interference in our domestic affairs…’”
Helms
obeyed. Weiner wrote:
“In
a blatant violation of his powers under the law, the director of
central intelligence became a part-time secret police chief. The CIA
undertook a domestic surveillance operation, code-named Chaos. It
went on for almost seven years… Eleven CIA officers grew long hair,
learned the jargon of the New Left, and went off to infiltrate peace
groups in the United States and Europe.”
According
to Weiner, “the agency compiled a computer index of 300,000
names of American people and organizations, and extensive files on
7,200 citizens. It began working in secret with police departments
all over America.” Because they could not draw a “clear
distinction” between the new far left and mainstream opposition to
the war, the CIA spied on every major peace organization in the
country. President Johnson also wanted them to prove a connection
between foreign communists and the black power movement. “The
agency tried its best,” Weiner noted, ultimately noting that
“the CIA never found a shred of evidence that linked the leaders
of the American left or the black-power movement to foreign
governments.”
-
Infiltrating
the media — Over the years, the CIA has successfully
gained influence in the news media, as well as popular media like
film and television. Its influence over the news began almost
immediately after the agency was formed. As Weiner explained, CIA
Director Allen Dulles established firm ties with newspapers:
“Dulles
kept in close touch with the men who ran the New York Times, The
Washington Post, and the nation’s leading weekly magazines. He
could pick up the phone and edit a breaking story, make sure an
irritating foreign correspondent was yanked from the field, or hire
the services of men such as Time’s Berlin bureau chief and
Newsweek’s man in Tokyo.”
He
continued:
“It
was second nature for Dulles to plant stories in the press. American
newsrooms were dominated by veterans of the government’s wartime
propaganda branch, the Office of War Information…The men who
responded to the CIA’s call included Henry Luce and his editors at
Time, Life, and Fortune; popular magazines such as Parade, the
Saturday Review, and Reader’s Digest; and the most powerful
executives at CBS News. Dulles built a public-relations and
propaganda machine that came to include more than fifty news
organizations, a dozen publishing houses, and personal pledges of
support from men such as Axel Springer, West Germany’s most
powerful press baron.”
The
CIA’s influence had not waned by 1977 when journalist Carl
Bernstein reported on
publications with CIA agents in their employ, as well as “more
than 400 American journalists who in the past twenty five years
have secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence
Agency.”
The
CIA has also successfully advised
on and influenced numerous
television shows, such
as Homeland and 24 and films like Zero
Dark Thirty and Argo,
which push narratives that ultimately favor the agency. According to
Tricia Jenkins, author of The
CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film & Television, a
concerted agency effort began in the 1990s to counteract negative
public perceptions of the CIA, but their influence reaches back
decades. In the 1950s, filmmakers produced films for the
CIA,
including the 1954 film adaptation of George Orwell’s Animal
Farm.
Researchers
Tom Secker and Matthew Alford, whose work has been published in
the American
Journal of Economics and Sociology,
say their recent Freedom of Information Act requests have shown that
the CIA — along with the military — have influenced over
1,800 films and television shows, many of which have nothing to do
with CIA or military themes.
-
Drug-induced
Mind control –
In the 1950s, the CIA began experimenting with drugs to determine
whether they might be useful in extracting information.
As Smithsonian
Magazine has noted of
the MKUltra project:
“The
project, which continued for more than a decade, was originally
intended to make sure the United States government kept up with
presumed Soviet advances in mind-control technology. It ballooned in
scope and its ultimate result, among other things, was illegal drug
testing on thousands of Americans.”
Further:
“The
intent of the project was to study ‘the use of biological and
chemical materials in altering human behavior,’ according
to the
official testimony of CIA director Stansfield Turner in 1977. The
project was conducted in extreme secrecy, Turner said, because of
ethical and legal questions surrounding the program and the negative
public response that the CIA anticipated if MKUltra should become
public.
“Under
MKUltra, the CIA gave itself the authority to research how drugs
could:’ ‘promote the intoxicating effects of alcohol;’ ‘render
the induction of hypnosis easier;’ ‘enhance the ability of
individuals to withstand privation, torture and coercion;’ produce
amnesia, shock and confusion; and much more. Many of these questions
were investigated using unwitting test subjects, like drug-addicted
prisoners, marginalized sex workers and terminal cancer patients–
‘people who could not fight back,’ in
the words of Sidney
Gottlieb, the chemist who introduced LSD to the CIA.”
Further,
as Weiner noted:
“Under
its auspices, seven prisoners at a federal penitentiary in Kentucky
were kept high on LSD for seventy-seven consecutive days. When the
CIA slipped the same drug to an army civilian employee, Frank Olson,
he leaped out of the window of a New York Hotel.”
Weiner
added that senior CIA officers destroyed “almost all of the
records” of the programs, but that while the “evidence that
remains is fragmentary…it strongly suggests that use of secret
prisons for the forcible drug-induced questioning of suspect agents
went on throughout the 1950s.”
Years
later, the CIA would be accused of distributing crack-cocaine into
poor black communities, though this is currently less substantiated
and supported mostly
by accounts of those who claim to have been involved.
-
Brutal
torture tactics —
More recently, the CIA was exposed for
sponsoring abusive, disturbing terror tactics against detainees at
prisons housing terror suspects. An extensive 2014 Senate report
documented agents committing sexual abuse, forcing detainees to
stand on broken legs, waterboarding them so severely it sometimes
led to convulsions, and imposing forced rectal feeding, to name a
few examples. Ultimately, the agency had very little actionable
intelligence to show for their torture tactics but lied to
suggest they did, according to the torture report. Their torture
tactics led the
International Criminal Court to suggest the CIA, along with the U.S.
armed forces, could be guilty of war crimes for their abuses.7.
Arming radicals — The CIA has a long habit of arming
radical, extremist groups that view the United States as enemies. In
1979, the CIA set out to support Afghan rebels in their bid to
defeat the Soviet occupation of the Middle Eastern country. As
Weiner wrote, in 1979, “Prompted by Zbigniew Brzezinski,
President Carter signed a covert-action order for the CIA to provide
the Afghan rebels with medical aid, money, and propaganda.”
As
Weiner detailed later in his book:
“The
Pakistani intelligence chiefs who doled out the CIA’s guns and
money favored the Afghan factions who proved themselves most capable
in battle. Those factions also happened to be the most committed
Islamists. No one dreamed that the holy warriors could ever turn
their jihad against the United States.”
Though
some speculate the CIA directly armed Osama bin Laden, that is yet to
be fully proven or admitted. What is clear is that western
media revered him
as a valuable fighter against the Soviets, that he arrived to
fight in Afghanistan in1980, and that al-Qaeda emerged from the
mujahideen, who were beneficiaries of the CIA’s program. Stanford
University has noted that Bin
Laden and Abdullah Azzam, a prominent Palestinian cleric,
“established
Al Qaeda from the fighters, financial resources, and training and
recruiting structures left over from the anti-Soviet war.”
Much of those “structures” were provided by the agency.
Intentionally or not, the CIA helped fuel the rise of the terror
group.
Weiner
noted that as the CIA failed in other countries like Libya, by the
late 1980s “Only the mujahideen, the Afghan holy warriors, were
drawing blood and scenting victory. The CIA’s Afghan operation was
now a $700-million-dollar-a-year-program” and represented 80%
of the overseas budget of the clandestine services. “The CIA’s
briefing books never answered the question of what would happen when
a militant Islamic army defeated the godless invaders of
Afghanistan,” though Tom Twetten, “the number two man in
the clandestine service in the summer of 1988,” was tasked with
figuring out what would happen with the Afghan rebels. “We don’t
have any plan,” he concluded.
Apparently
failing to learn their lesson, the CIA adopted nearly the exact same
policy in Syria decades later, arming what they called “moderate
rebels” against the Assad regime. Those groups
ultimately aligned with
al-Qaeda groups. One CIA-backed faction made headlines last year
for beheading a
child (though President Trump cut off the CIA program in June, the
military continues to
align with “moderate” groups).
Unsurprisingly,
this list is far from complete. The CIA has engaged in a wide variety
of extrajudicial
practice,
and there are likely countless transgressions we have yet to learn
about.
As
Donald Trump cheers the birthday of an agency he himself
once criticized,
it should be abundantly clear that the nation’s covert spy agency
deserves scrutiny and skepticism — not celebration.
Creative
Commons / Anti-Media / Report
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Moet u nagaan, dan durft men nog te spreken over ‘fake news’ en een land als Rusland de schuld voor veel internet ellende te geven en te beschuldigen van agressief gedrag………….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Zie ook: ‘CIA en 70 jaar desinformatie in Europese opiniebladen…………‘
en: ‘VS vermoordde meer dan 20 miljoen mensen sinds het einde van WOII……..‘
en: ‘VS centraal commando werkt in Syrië samen met IS en verklaarde Rusland de oorlog………‘
en: ‘Al Qaida de bondgenoot van de VS in de strijd tegen…… terrorisme! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘ (intussen heeft de VS ‘Al Qaida Syrië’ van de zwarte lijst met terreurorganisaties gehaald!!)
en: ‘CIA valt nogmaals door de mand als wapenleverancier van IS…….‘
VS en haar eerste Vietnam: de Filipijnen……..
Brasscheck TV kwam afgelopen vrijdag met een video-documentaire over het eerste Vietnam van de VS. Dat vond plaats op de Filipijnen, tegen een eerst nog vrij weerloze bevolking.
Spanje en de VS waren in 1898 in oorlog met elkaar en tijdens die oorlog verklaarde de Filipijnen zich onafhankelijk. Spanje had niet genoeg manschappen om de Filipijnen in hun macht te houden.
Tijdens de vredesonderhandelingen stelde de VS aan Spanje de vraag, of het de Filipijnen niet kon kopen en u snapt ‘t al, daar had Spanje geen moeite mee.
Vanaf het begin heeft de VS de Filipijnen leeggezogen en één van de VS presidenten merkte zelfs op, dat de Filipijnen altijd tot de VS zouden blijven behoren……..
Er was wel degelijk verzet tegen de VS bezetting, echter dat was een zeer ongelijke strijd tegen het goed bewapende VS leger…….. Nadat een paar VS militairen omkwamen op de Filipijnen, liet de VS commandant van het eiland waarop dit gebeurde, alle ‘mannen’ vanaf 10 jaar vermoorden (!!!)……….
Voorts had de VS, zoals Groot-Brittannië in Zuid-Afrika, al ver voor WOII concentratiekampen ingericht op de Filipijnen, kampen waarin de mensen stierven als vliegen……. Dit nog naast een groot aantal bloedbaden, waarbij de VS grote aantallen burgers vermoordde…….
De VS vermoordde in een paar jaar tijd meer Filipijnse burgers, dan Spanje in 300 jaar tijd (en ‘die konden er ook wat van…’)
Manlijke bewoners van de Filipijnen werden tijdens WOII door de VS verzocht mee te vechten tegen Japan en velen gaven daar gehoor aan, niet in de laatste plaats, daar hen na de oorlog banen en een pensioen werden beloofd. Helaas voor deze vrijwilligers, tot op de dag van vandaag vechten ze voor het inlossen van deze toezeggingen, die de VS niet nakwam………
Het verzet op de Filipijnen tegen de Japanse bezetter was groot en zoals op veel andere plekken op aarde werd dit verzet voornamelijk bevolkt door communisten, die aan het eind van de oorlog de onafhankelijkheid uitriepen (van de VS). Tegelijk verdeelde men het land van de grote landeigenaren onder de arme boerenbevolking…… Hiermee maakte de VS korte metten na WOII……. Op 4 juli 1946 kregen de Filipijnen eindelijk onafhankelijkheid…..
Daarmee waren de bemoeienissen van de VS met de Filipijnen nog lang niet afgelopen, tot een paar keer na het uitroepen van de onafhankelijkheid, heeft de VS nog huisgehouden op de Filipijnen………….
Zie nog veel meer feiten over deze eerdere kolonie van Spanje en de VS, plus haar strijd tegen de koloniale machten (vooral de VS):
Zie ook: ‘VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen……….‘
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.
# 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
Terrorismhttp://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_
terrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html
3.Soviet
War in
Afghanistanhttp://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,
Wikipediahttp://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,
paperhttp://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
12/4/06http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=11560§ionID=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
Invasionhttp://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
Reporthttp://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 ,
2000www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/congo.htm
Dominican
Republic
1.Norman
Solomon, (untitled) Baltimore Sun April 26,
2005http://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
Terrorismhttp://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,
Wikipediahttp://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
Commissionhttp://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,
2002http://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
Terrorismhttp://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_terrorism/ChronologyofTerror.html.
3.BBC
1988: US Warship Shoots Down Iranian
Airlinerhttp://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,
2001http://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,
2006http://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.comhttp://www.answers.com/topic/Korean-war
6.Exploring
the Environment: Korean
Enigmawww.cet.edu/ete/modules/korea/kwar.html)
7.S.
Brian Wilson, Who are the Real Terrorists? Virtual Truth
Commissonhttp://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
Terrorismhttp://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,
2001http://india.indymedia.org/en/2002/09/2190.shtml.
Nicaragua
1.Virtual
Truth Commissionhttp://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/.
2.Timeline
Nicaraguawww.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§ionID=1
5.Leo
Kuper, Genocide (Yale University Press, 1981), p. 79.
6.Bangladesh
Liberation War , Wikipedia, the Free
Encyclopediahttp://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
Americawww.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/condor.htm)
3.Operation
Condorhttp://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
2006http://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
Commissionhttp://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§ionID=1
5.David
K Shipler, Robert McNamara and the Ghosts of
Vietnamnytimes.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 1990shttp://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,
Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian_War_of_Independence
7.Human
Rights Watch, New Figures on Civilian Deaths in Kosovo War, (February
7, 2000) http://www.hrw.org/press/2000/02/nato207.htm.
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VS bereid zich voor op oorlog met Rusland en China >> On the Beach 2017: The Beckoning Of Nuclear War
Information
Clearing House (ICH) bracht gisteren een artikel van John Pilger, een
Australische journalist en documentaire maker.
In zijn
schrijven waarschuwt Pilger voor een komende nucleaire wereldoorlog.
Met een aantal voorbeelden geeft Pilger aan hoe de VS zich voorbereid
op zo’n oorlog…….
Lees dit
(uitstekende) bericht en oordeel zelf (onder het artikel kan u
klikken voor een vertaling):
On
the Beach 2017: The Beckoning Of Nuclear War
By
John Pilger
The
US submarine captain says, “We’ve all got to die one day, some
sooner and some later. The trouble always has been that you’re
never ready, because you don’t know when it’s coming. Well, now
we do know and there’s nothing to be done about it.”
He
says he will be dead by September. It will take about a week to die,
though no one can be sure. Animals live the longest.
The
war was over in a month. The United States, Russia and China were the
protagonists. It is not clear if it was started by accident or
mistake. There was no victor. The northern hemisphere is contaminated
and lifeless now.
A
curtain of radioactivity is moving south towards Australia and New
Zealand, southern Africa and South America. By September, the last
cities, towns and villages will succumb. As in the north, most
buildings will remain untouched, some illuminated by the last
flickers of electric light.
This
is the way the world ends
Not
with a bang but a whimper
These
lines from T.S. Eliot’s poem The
Hollow Men appear at
the beginning of Nevil Shute’s novel On
the Beach, which
left me close to tears. The endorsements on the cover said the same.
Published
in 1957 at the height of the Cold War when too many writers were
silent or cowed, it is a masterpiece. At first the language suggests
a genteel relic; yet nothing I have read on nuclear war is as
unyielding in its warning. No book is more urgent.
I
read On
the Beach for
the first time the other day, finishing it as the US Congress passed
a law to wage economic war on Russia, the world’s second most
lethal nuclear power. There was no justification for this
insane vote, except the promise of plunder.
The
“sanctions” are aimed at Europe, too, mainly Germany, which
depends on Russian natural gas and on European companies that do
legitimate business with Russia. In what passed for debate on Capitol
Hill, the more garrulous senators left no doubt that the embargo was
designed to force Europe to import expensive American gas.
Their
main aim seems to be war – real war. No provocation as extreme can
suggest anything else. They seem to crave it, even though Americans
have little idea what war is. The Civil War of 1861-5 was the last on
their mainland. War is what the United States does to others.
The
only nation to have used nuclear weapons against human beings, they
have since destroyed scores of governments, many of them democracies,
and laid to waste whole societies – the million deaths in Iraq were
a fraction of the carnage in Indo-China, which President Reagan
called “a noble cause” and President Obama revised as the tragedy
of an “exceptional people”He was not referring to the Vietnamese.
Filming
last year at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, I overheard a
National Parks Service guide lecturing a school party of young
teenagers. “Listen up,” he said. “We lost 58,000 young soldiers
in Vietnam, and they died defending your
freedom.”
At
a stroke, the truth was inverted. No freedom was defended. Freedom
was destroyed. A peasant country was invaded and millions of its
people were killed, maimed, dispossessed, poisoned; 60,000 of the
invaders took their own lives. Listen up, indeed.
A
lobotomy is performed on each generation. Facts are removed. History
is excised and replaced by what Time magazine
calls “an eternal present”. Harold Pinter described this as
“manipulation of power worldwide, while masquerading as a force for
universal good, a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of
hypnosis [which meant] that it never happened. Nothing ever happened.
Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t
matter. It was of no interest.”
Those
who call themselves liberals or tendentiously “the left” are
eager participants in this manipulation, and its brainwashing, which
today revert to one name: Trump.
While
they pursue their fossilised anti-Russia agendas, narcissistic media
such as the Washington
Post,
the BBC and the Guardian suppress
the essence of the most important political story of our time as they
warmonger on a scale I cannot remember in my lifetime.
On
3 August, in contrast to the acreage the Guardian has
given to drivel that the Russians conspired with Trump (reminiscent
of the far-right smearing of John Kennedy as a “Soviet agent”),
the paper buried, on page 16, news that the President of the United
States was forced to sign a Congressional bill declaring economic war
on Russia.
Unlike
every other Trump signing, this was conducted in virtual secrecy and
attached with a caveat from Trump himself that it was “clearly
unconstitutional”.
A
coup against the man in the White House is under way. This is not
because he is an odious human being, but because he has consistently
made clear he does not want war with Russia.
This
glimpse of sanity, or simple pragmatism, is anathema to the “national
security” managers who guard a system based on war, surveillance,
armaments, threats and extreme capitalism. Martin Luther King called
them “the greatest purveyors of violence in the world today”.
They
have encircled Russia and China with missiles and a nuclear arsenal.
They have used neo-Nazis to instal an unstable, aggressive regime on
Russia’s “borderland” – the way through which Hitler invaded,
causing the deaths of 27 million people. Their goal is to
dismember the modern Russian Federation.
The
threat is simultaneous. Russia is first, China is next. The US has
just completed a huge military exercise with Australia known as
Talisman Sabre. They rehearsed a blockade of the Malacca Straits and
the South China Sea, through which pass China’s economic lifelines.
The
admiral commanding the US Pacific fleet said that, “if required”,
he would nuke China. That he would say such a thing publicly in the
current perfidious atmosphere begins to make fact of Nevil Shute’s
fiction.
None
of this is considered news. No connection is made as the bloodfest of
Passchendaele a century ago is remembered. Honest reporting is no
longer welcome in much of the media. Windbags, known as pundits,
dominate: editors are infotainment or party line managers. Where
there was once sub-editing, there is the liberation of axe-grinding
clichés. Those journalists who do not comply are defenestrated.
At
the height of the Cold War, the anti-communist hysteria in the United
States was such that US officials who were on official business in
China were accused of treason and sacked. In 1957 – the year Shute
wrote On
the Beach –
no official in the State Department could speak the language of the
world’s most populous nation. Mandarin speakers were purged under
strictures now echoed in the Congressional bill that has just passed,
aimed at Russia.
The
bill was bipartisan. There is no fundamental difference between
Democrats and Republicans. The terms “left” and “right” are
meaningless. Most of America’s modern wars were started not
by conservatives, but by liberal Democrats.
When
Obama left office, he presided over a record seven wars, including
America’s longest war and an unprecedented campaign of
extrajudicial killings – murder – by drones.
In
his last year, according to a Council on Foreign Relations study,
Obama, the “reluctant liberal warrior”, dropped 26,171 bombs –
three bombs every hour, 24 hours a day. Having pledged to help
“rid the world” of nuclear weapons, the Nobel Peace Laureate
built more nuclear warheads than any president since the Cold War.
Trump
is a wimp by comparison. It was Obama – with his secretary of
state Hillary Clinton at his side – who destroyed Libya as a modern
state and launched the human stampede to Europe. At home, immigration
groups knew him as the “deporter-in-chief”.
One
of Obama’s last acts as president was to sign a bill that handed a
record $618billion to the Pentagon, reflecting the soaring ascendancy
of fascist militarism in the governance of the United States. Trump
has endorsed this.
Buried
in the detail was the establishment of a “Center for Information
Analysis and Response”. This is a ministry of truth. It is tasked
with providing an “official narrative of facts” that will prepare
us for the real possibility of nuclear war – if we allow it.
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het volledige artikel, hier de link naar het origineel:
The US State of War >> De VS creëert terreur met de enorme terreur die het zelf uitoefent in landen waar het niets te zoeken heeft…..
Een uitstekend artikel van ICH, met de mogelijkheid tot vertaling (zie link naar origineel, onder dit bericht):
“Every
country destroyed or destabilized by U.S. military action is now a
breeding ground for terrorism.”
The
U.S. bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria is now the heaviest since the
bombing of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in the 1960s-70s, with 84,000
bombs and missiles dropped between 2014 and the end of May 2017. That
is nearly triple the 29,200 bombs and missiles dropped on Iraq in the
“Shock and Awe” campaign of 2003.
The
Obama administration escalated the bombing campaign last October, as
the U.S.-Iraqi assault on Mosul began, dropping 12,290 bombs and
missiles between October and the end of January when President Obama
left office. The Trump administration has further escalated the
campaign, dropping another 14,965 bombs and missiles since February
1st. May saw the heaviest bombing yet, with 4,374 bombs and
missiles dropped.
The U.K.-based Airwars.org monitoring group
has compiled reports of between 12,000 and 18,000 civilians killed by
nearly three years of U.S.-led bombing in Iraq and Syria. These
reports can only be the tip of the iceberg, and the true number of
civilians killed could well be more than 100,000, based on typical
ratios between reported deaths and actual deaths in previous
war-zones.
As
the U.S. and its allies closed in on Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in
Syria, and as U.S. forces now occupy eight military bases in Syria,
Islamic State and its allies have struck back in Manchester and
London; occupied Marawi, a city of 200,000 in the Philippines; and
exploded a huge truck bomb inside the fortifications of the “Green
Zone” in Kabul, Afghanistan.
What
began in 2001 as a misdirected use of military force to punish a
group of formerly U.S.-backed jihadis in Afghanistan for the crimes
of September 11th has escalated into a global asymmetric war.
Every country destroyed or destabilized by U.S. military action is
now a breeding ground for terrorism. It would be foolish to
believe that this cannot get much, much worse, as long as both sides
continue to justify their own escalations of violence as responses to
the violence of their enemies, instead of trying to deescalate the
now global violence and chaos.
Voor het gehele artikel zie:
Ruding (CDA, o.a. ex- Citibank) leest Nederland de les en wil meer armslag voor de banken……
CDA volksverlakker Onno Ruding, die het ABP 33 miljard gulden afhandig heeft gemaakt (verdwenen!), de ex-bankier van de Citibank, de bank die zovelen in de VS grote ellende bracht, topman van de bank die mede hoofddader was van de bankencrisis die in 2008 ontstond (en nog steeds voortduurt), was gisteren zeverend van achter uit z’n oplichtersstrot te horen op Radio1 (vanaf ongeveer 10.07 u.).
Hier sprak Ruding over zijn ‘boek: Het gaat niet om geld alleen’. Hij is het eens met Dijsselbloem de buffers op te bouwen en de staatsschuld terug te brengen. Al wil hij wel investeren op infrastructuur en onderwijs, niet met extra geld, maar ‘wat verschuivingen’.
De hufter durft kritiek te hebben op het beleid van Rutte 2 en dan m.n.op Asscher, Ruding wil veel meer flexibiliteit…….. Ten dele is er een verband tussen de financiële crisis en de het populisme, dat is maar ten dele waar (Dijsselbloem noemde dit zo), daar Ruding wijst naar de opkomst van Fortuyn….. Ruding vergat even, dat Fortuyn ook populair werd ten tijde van een crisis!!
Plag vond het nog wel interessant om even te melden dat Ruding voor de Citibank heeft gewerkt (dus héééél deskundig is….. ha! ha! ha! ha!). Ruding wast z’n handen in onschuld wat betreft de banken, daar hij al eens heeft gezegd,m dat er veel fout is gegaan…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Ja zo kan je het ook noemen: een sector die zo ongeveer de hele wereld in een diepe crisis heeft gestort!!
Moet u nagaan, Ruding werkt nu voor o.a. voor een bureau dat de internationale kredietcrisis (ofwel bankencrisis) analyseert……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Ruding wil meer financiële macht overdragen aan Europa (hij bedoelde de EU)…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Ja, Ruding stond aan de wieg van de euro, de vermaledijde munt, die een politieke EU unie moest doordrukken…….
Hufter Ruding stelde dat het nu afgelopen moet zijn met bankenbelasting, een straf voor de miljarden aan belastinggeld om de banken te redden, de banken hebben die bedragen nu terugbetaald, dus klaar met die belasting……….. Alsof er niet meer dan 4 miljoen Nederlanders tegen-. op- of onder de armoedegrens leven, dat is drie maal in armoede leven, met als hoofdoorzaak het schofterige handelen van banken…….. Als de banken alle schade zouden moeten vergoeden, die door de bankencrisis is veroorzaakt, zouden ze die bankenbelasting nog minstens 100 jaar moeten betalen!!
Nederland moet een geloofwaardige partner in Europa blijven en we moeten ons te weer stellen tegen Rusland, daarom is het goed dat het associatieverdrag is getekend, al moet het nog door de Eerste Kamer, aldus zijne kwaadaardigheid Ruding……. Ruding wil zoals eerder gezegd een politieke EU eenheid, logisch dat hij wil dat Nederland braaf meedraait en overal blindelings voor tekent, dan pas kan je spreken van een ‘geloofwaardige partner…….’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Hier een beschrijving over een ‘fijn’ deel van Onno Rudings leven, zoals die te vinden is op The Money Crisis (waar u ‘meer moois’ kan lezen over CDA oplichters):
Foute
man Onno Ruding, CDA… en de verdwenen miljarden
Onno Ruding
werd bekend als minister van Financiën namens het CDA van 1982 tot
1989, in kabinetten Lubbers I en II. Hij ging in 1965 werken op
het ministerie van Financiën en klom in korte tijd op tot hoofd van
Internationale Monetaire Zaken. In 1969 promoveerde hij cum laude op
het proefschrift:
‘Naar één geïntegreerde Europese
kapitaalmarkt?’.
Een
neoliberaal stuk dat de basis vormt van Nederland als onderdeel van
het grote casinobankspel.
In 1971
gaat hij naar de AMRO Bank. Van 1977 tot en met 1980 was hij
voorzitter van het Internationale Monetaire Fonds (IMF) in
Washington. Na de AMRO keerde hij in 1981 terug als lid van de raad
van bestuur.
Ruding
nam als minister van financiën 33 miljard uit het ABP. Niemand weet
tot op heden waar het is gebleven en er kwam geen onderzoek. Sterk
wordt vermoed dat het werd ingelegd op de kapitaalmarkt via Citibank
om Nederland een start te geven in het wereldwijde neoliberale
poltiek-bancaire casinospel. Na zijn ministerpost werd hij
bestuursvoorzitter van Citibank aan Wallstreet. Feit is, hij en
Lubbers hebben Nederland in het kapitale gokspel gestort, benadrukte
VPRO’s “Het snelle geld” nog eens.
Vóór
het ministerschap was hij voorzitter van het IMF. Een omstreden
monetaire wereldorganisatie, omdat het is ontstaan uit de
FED dat uit zijn beurt is ontstaan uit de Central Bank of England die
beiden worden bezet en gedomineerd door het Rothschild bancaire
imperium tot de dag van vandaag.
Het IMF heeft vele omstreden,
perverse ontwikkelingen in Zuid-America op z’n geweten en stond in
verband met de Vietnam-oorlog. Vele publieke voorzieningen in
Zuid-America kwamen in handen van grote Amerikaanse ondernemingen die
vervolgens de prijzen opdreven tot grote woede van de bevolking. In
de Vietnam-oorlog zijn 58.226 Amerikanen gesneuveld of vermist
geraakt.Overigens
is Nederlands-Joods econoom Jacques
Polak dé
iconische mede-oprichter van het IMF.
Hij onderhandelde namens
Nederland tot de oprichting in dec. 1945 en fungeerde als
hoofdeconoom en bewindsvoerder. Het IMF’s werkmodel draagt nog
steeds zijn naam. De eerste directeur was Camille Gutt die de
baas was bij Société Générale de Belgique, de grootste
investeringsbank van België opgericht door Koning Willem I. Deze
bank is eveneens één van de grondleggers van de EU. Gutt
maakte perverse keuzes. Hij had Belgisch-Congo gedwongen om
leningen te nemen, terwijl hij in Londen kon beschikken over het
grootste deel van het goud van de Nationale Bank. Dat laatste stelde
hij liever ter beschikking aan de Central Bank of England.
En
uit dit perverse IMF (als voorzitter), kwam Onno Ruding als minister
van Financiën… CDA…
Hij liet 33 miljard verdwijnen uit het
ABP… en stortte Nederland in het Angelsaksische casinospel.
Na
Citibank behoudt Ruding een oceaan van dominante posities in
wereldfinanciën, wereld handel, privatisering, EU, Euro, economisch
advies en RTL media, zoals:Commissaris
Nationale-Nederlanden, raad van bestuur Unilever, adviseur Robeco,
commissaris Philips, kroonlid SER, internationale adviesraad
FED, Commissie voor Europese Monetaire Unie,Advisory
Board of the American-European Community Association, voorzitter
commissie private financiering infrastructuur, commissaris Bank
Nederlandse Gemeente, commissie private financiering
infrastructuur, commissaris RTL group, audit commissie RTL
group, bestuur UNIAPAC, International Bureau of Fiscal
Documentation, Europese werkgroep die de internationale
kredietcrisis analyseert, Trilaterale
Commissie.
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Nee, het gaat niet om geld alleen, hè Ruding??!!! Godallemachtig!!
en: ‘Onno Ruding (CDA): salarissen normeren is gevaarlijk……… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘
en: ‘Ruding alweer over een mank schuldenpaard getild‘
en: ‘Ruding alweer over een mank schuldenpaard getild 2‘
en: ‘Ruding: ‘de burger wil hervormingen…….’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘
en: ‘Onno Ruding leest de les… zandzakken voor de deur!‘
en: ‘De bankencode, de Jager en Ruding‘
en: ‘De bankencode of hoe er niets verandert‘
Voor meer ‘moois’ met Ruding, klik op hel label met zijn naam, onder dit bericht, waar u ook kan klikken op meerdere onderwerpen, n.a.v. het bovenstaande.