Neo-nazi fakkeloptocht Oekraine, reguliere media en politiek doodstil

De neonazi’s in Oekraïne bepalen meer en meer het straatbeeld in Oekraïne en m.n. in Kiev. Hetzelfde Kiev van de uiterst corrupte neonazi-vriend Porosjenko, wiens junta met behulp van de VS aan de macht kwam, na de democratisch gekozen president Janoekovytsj te hebben afgezet.

Vorig jaar hebben de neonazi’s van het Azov-bataljon hun eigen partij opgericht, t.w. ‘Національний корпус’, ofwel: ‘Nationaal Korps’. Met andere woorden onze regering en die van andere EU landen, plus EU zelf (o.l.v. de VS), hebben er geen probleem mee als nazi’s een politieke partij oprichten…… Sterker nog: men doet niet anders dan stroopsmeren in Kiev en probeert nog enigszins te verhullen hoe enorm corrupt Porosjenko (en zijn dievenbende) werkelijk is……… De EU en de VS moeten intussen al een paar miljard hebben geïnvesteerd in Oekraïne, geld dat voor het grootste deel is verdwenen op de zwarte buitenlandse bankrekeningen van Porosjenko en de rest van het fascistisch geteisem…….

Onze regering weet NB dat Porosjenko ook in Nederland een heel dikke bankrekening heeft, maar laat deze figuur gewoon z’n gang gaan……. Alsof je het over Griekenland in de herhaling hebt: geld in een land pompen, geld dat voor een fiks deel naar buitenlandse bankrekeningen verdween, waarna de Griekse bevolking de enorme schulden mag ophoesten (en in diepe armoede is gedompeld…)…..

Lullig genoeg hadden de VS en de EU ook al geen problemen met het verbieden van democratische partijen door het fascistenbewind in Kiev……. Zelfs het aan banden leggen van de pers werd met stilzwijgen ‘begroet…..’

Nee, geen probleem met een door de VS georganiseerde opstand, die tot de staatsgreep tegen Janoekovytsj leidde en in feite een door de VS geparachuteerde marionet als juntaleider aan de macht heeft geholpen…….. Geen probleem met de oprichting van de eerste nazi-partij na WOII……. Schijt aan WOII en haar enorme aantal vermoorde slachtoffers………..

En mensen, datzelfde fascistische Oekraïne (bijna bankroet), wil men lid maken van de EU en de NAVO…….. Hetzelfde Oekraïne dat godbetert een smerige oorlog voert tegen de burgers in het oosten van het land, mensen die terecht in opstand kwamen tegen de staatsgreep van de VS en neonazi’s, waarmee de door hen democratisch gekozen president werd afgezet………

Vergeet niet, dat de fascisten al voor de inname door nazi-Duitsland uiterst sterk waren in Oekraïne……. De Oekraïense fascisten hebben daar tijdens WOII misdaden begaan, die zelfs veel Duitse militairen te ver gingen gaan………

Iedereen die achter Oekraïne stond en staat, wil niet zien hoe fout hun steun was (en nog is), vandaar dat westerse politici en de reguliere westerse (massa-) media, die zo enorm hebben gelogen over Oekraïne, De Krim* en Oost-Oekraïne, er het zwijgen toe doen……. Bovendien houden de VS, de NAVO en diverse andere oorlogshitsers de leugens angstvallig in de lucht……. En ach als daardoor sinds WOII voor het eerst weer nazi’s in een regering zullen komen, een kniesoor die daar wakker van ligt……..

Hier een artikel over deze zaak, gevonden op het blog van Stan van Houcke

Neo-Nazis
stage hateful torch-lit march – MSM says nothing

They
shouted “death to Russians” while praising local Nazi
collaborators as well as Adolf Hitler.

Adam Garrie

by ADAM
GARRIE
October
15, 2017, 14:07

Neo-Nazis
have taken to the streets of Kiev to celebrate the anniversary of the
Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Founded in 1942, the terrorist militia
committed countless atrocities on behalf of the Nazi regime of Adolf
Hitler, with whom they openly collaborated.

The
Ukrainian Insurgent Army targeted Russians, Soviet Ukrainians, Poles,
Jews and others during their campaign of genocide.

Along
with its sister group, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists,
led by the infamous Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera, the Ukrainian
Insurgent Army slaughtered over 100,000 Poles in  Volhynia and
Eastern Galicia.

When
German soldiers saw the carnage, even they were reportedly shocked by
the brutality of the Ukrainian Nazi collaborators.

Regime
authorities, many of whom gave the march their blessing, estimated
that 2,000 neo-Nazi supporters of Great Patriotic War era crimes
against humanity, took part in the disgusting display. However, the
Nazi groups themselves claimed that 10,000 of their brethren turned
up to the streets of Kiev. Men holding torches and flares, carried
the insignia of 1940s era Nazi groups while shouting hateful slogans
including “death to Russians”. Men were also seen giving the
infamous Hitler salute.

The
international response to this atrocious display of fascism has been
resoundingly silent while the western mainstream media has said
nothing. This is especially true when compared with international
media coverage of a torch lit rally of the US based far-right which
took place over the summer in Charlottesville, Virginia.

While
the men in Charlottesville were engaging in highly distasteful
far-right politics, in expressions of vague but vulgar anger mixed
with a great deal of apparent political confusion, the neo-Nazis of
Kiev were marching in praise of specific Nazi atrocities while
shouting slogans which directly threatened the existence of ethnic
Russians, including those whom the Ukrainian regime and other Nazi
volunteers continue to slaughter in Donbass.

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According
to local reports, the Nazis were joined by regime politicians from
the fascist party Right Sector as well as officials from the
Fatherland Party.

While
there are many theories as to why the wider international community,
including the EU has not spoken out against the neo-Nazi march, the
most logical explanation is that because the US and EU helped the
current fascist regime in Kiev come to power, they simply do not want
to acknowledge the ugliness which is allowed to flourish under such a
regime.

5
reasons why Ukraine is a bigger threat to peace and safety than North
Korea

This
is almost certainly why western countries have said next to nothing
when it became clear that the Kiev regime used chemical weapons on
civilians in Donbass.   

When
Ukraine dropped chemical weapons on Donbass, the west didn’t care
(VIDEO)

Confirmed Ukrainian use of chemical weapons in Donbass continues to be ignored by the west. More

Western
complicity in bringing a violent fascist regime to power in Kiev also
helps explain why little is being said about the ticking nuclear
time-bomb in Ukraine, where multiple nuclear facilities are in danger
of total failure, something which could lead to a new Chernobyl
type of disaster.

UKRAINE:
a ticking nuclear time-bomb

Those
who are silent on the genocidal war against the people of Donbass,
the violent neo-Nazi politics of Kiev, the nuclear safety crisis and
the use of chemical weapons on civilians, ultimately bear
responsibility for looking the other way when a regime they helped
create, creates a hellish environment for its neighbours, its own
citizens and its wider region.

Tags:
ADOLF HITLER,
FASCISM, KIEV,
NAZIS, ORGANISATION
OF UKRAINIAN NATIONALISTS
, UKRAINE,
UKRAINIAN
INSURGENT ARMY

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 * De Krim werd niet geannexeerd (wat de VS en de NAVO hoopten), zoals politici en de media u keer op keer voorhouden, maar sloot zich aan bij Rusland, na een door internationale waarnemers erkend referendum……..

Gazastrook getto: 2 miljoen mensen leven in de hel, mede dankzij samenwerking Israël en Abbas…….

Dit bericht had ik al langere tijd in voorbereiding, te druk, dus……. Onlangs was de herdenking van Sabra en Shatila, 35 jaar geleden waarbij zo’n 3.500 Palestijnse vluchtelingen omkwamen, dit onder regie van het Israëlische leger, tijdens het zoeken naar gegevens kwam ik toevallig de Gazastrook weer tegen op dewereldmorgen.be. (zie voor het artikel de link onder dit bericht*) Zoals te verwachten was, is er amper iets verbeterd voor de Palestijnen in de Gazastrook. Al heeft men nu soms tot 6 uur uur elektriciteit per dag…….

Het leven voor de mensen in de Gazastrook is verschrikkelijk, de werkloosheid is daar enorm en ligt op 42%, voor jongeren ligt dat getal nog hoger, ter vergelijking: in 2011 was dit nog 29%……… 40 procent van de burgers zou arm zijn, echter dat is volgens mij 60%, een omdraaiing die ik meermaals tegen ben gekomen…….

De bevolking van de Gazastrook leeft in feite in een openluchtgevangenis, of wat je zelfs een getto zou kunnen noemen…..** Door het gebrek aan elektriciteit is het drinkwater verzilt en werkt de waterzuivering niet meer, waardoor ook het zeewater nog eens wordt vervuild…… Driekwart van de bevolking is afhankelijk van internationale voedselhulp….. Hulp die via Israël wordt aangevoerd, waar men niet zelden vrachtauto’s erg lang laat wachten, zodat verse groente e.d. verleppen, verdorren of snel gaan rotten…….

Israël wordt ook nog eens beloond voor de blokkade van de Gazastrook, daar het land verdient op de aanvoer van hulpgoederen, bijvoorbeeld die van de VN………

Volgens deskundigen is de Gazastrook in 2020 onleefbaar geworden, maar dat zal de Israëlische opzet wel zijn……

Ongelofelijk dat het westen toe blijft kijken, of beter: weg blijft kijken, hoe Israël het leven van een paar miljoen mensen tot een hel maakt…….. Hoe kan men aanzien dat Israël de Palestijnen behandelt als Untermenschen en keer op keer haar gang laat gaan met het aanrichten van bloedbaden in de Gazastrook en op de West Bank??? Bij de laatste Intifada kwamen alleen al meer dan 500 kinderen om het leven…… Als men met een ‘fake news’ bericht komt, dat Assad en de Russen 5 kinderen hebben vermoord, staat de wereld op z’n kop…….. Mede met grote dank aan de reguliere westerse (massa-) media, die allesbehalve onafhankelijk zijn………

Bij diezelfde intifada kwamen bij elkaar 2.200 mensen om het leven en werden ‘maar liefst’ 18.000 huizen vernietigd………

Op de koop toe is daar ook nog eens de strijd van Abbas (Fatah) tegen Hamas, dat het bestuur van de Gazastrook voor haar rekening neemt….. Abbas is in feite niet eens democratisch gekozen, in 2009 liep zijn termijn als president af, maar de dictator is gewoon aangebleven…….. Uiteraard maakt Abbas gemene zaak met de Israëliërs, dat merkten de Palestijnen afgelopen zomer, toen Abbas er en Israël de stroom voor de Gazastrook voor het grootste deel uitschakelden……. Dit gebrek aan stroom heeft al vele mensenlevens gekost, ga maar na…. Niet vreemd ook, dat het aantal suïcides sterk oploopt in de Gazastrook, het leven wordt de mensen letterlijk onmogelijk gemaakt…..

Naast Israël en Fatah is er ook nog eens Egypte dat onder dictator al-Sisi de Palestijnen in de Gazastrook afknijpt en de smokkel van goederen via tunnels onmogelijk maakt, nadat Israël hetzelfde aan de andere kant van de grens had gedaan…..

Nogmaals: de Palestijnen moeten boeten voor de holocaust die in Europa plaatsvond. Een schande van enorme proporties……… Israël is intussen een volwaardige fascistische apartheidsstaat geworden en zoals gezegd internationaal laat men haar gewoon begaan…..

Abbas en Israël zouden voor het Internationaal Strafhof moeten worden gedaagd!! Waar je een deel van de westerse landen medeplichtig zou kunnen noemen, maar ja, die geven af en toe een bot aan de Palestijnen, een bot dat de Israëlische laars vermorzelt……. Zo hebben ze toch iets voor de Palestijnen gedaan, hoewel ze verder geen bliksem voor de Palestijnen doen en zelfs geen commentaar hebben als door hen bekostigde projecten worden vernield door Israël (ja, men zegt ontsteld te zijn en gaat vervolgens verder met de dagelijkse beslommeringen…..)…..

Hier een bericht van 12 augustus jl. op Anti-Media geplaatst, klik ook op de link, die u onder het volgende artikel terugvindt:

Nearly
2 Million People in the Gaza Strip Are Now Without Power

August
12, 2017 at 10:34 am

Written
by 
MintPress
News Desk

(MPN) — The
nearly two million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, under the dual
thumbs of Israel and the Palestinian Authority, have faced waves of
military destruction, along with enforced shortages of basic goods
and services. Israel, at the Authority’s request, has cut off most
of Gaza’s electricity as well.

The
Gaza Strip — one of the most densely populated areas in the world
and often referred to as an open-air prison — rarely makes
headlines nowadays, despite a situation there that is becoming
increasingly dire for local Palestinians. The Strip, which is 
about
the size of Detroit
,
is home to nearly 2 million people, a majority of whom are 
under
the age of 25
.

Since
the 2005 election of Hamas in Palestine, the Israeli government has
controlled Gaza’s airspace, food access, acquisition of building
materials, and electricity. In the last 10 years, the local
population has faced recurrent, if not perpetual, military action,
including six full-fledged military operations launched by Israel,
with the unwavering support of the United States. In 2014, 
Operation
Protective Edge
—a
51-day war—further devastated Gaza, 
killing
over 2,200 Palestinians, more than 500 of them children
.
It also left the small enclave still more vulnerable, as the homes of
some 18,000 residents were destroyed by Israeli bombs.

Still
reeling from war, the Palestinians of Gaza have continued to face
electricity shortages that leave them without power in extreme
weather conditions 
for
up to 20 hours a day
.
According to the Israeli head of the Coordinator of Government
Activities in the Territories (COGAT), Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas requested that Israel stop supplying
electricity to Gaza in April of this year, due to the Authority’s
power struggle with Hamas for control over the Strip. Israel has
happily obliged.

These
outages have led to creative endeavors such as 
solar
power initiatives
.
But, especially with Israel denying crucial building materials from
entering the Strip, the solar power alternative falls short of
allowing residents to have normal lives. Having electricity for two
to four hours a day is the worst it has been, according to locals;
but 
they’re
not holding out hope that things will get better
.

Not
until Israel’s siege ends, and those funding the siege, and larger
occupation, stop financing this devastation.

By Roqayah
Chamseddine
 /
Republished with permission / 
MintPress
News
 / Report
a typo
 

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* Zie: ‘Gaza wordt in onderontwikkeling geduwd‘ (lezen mensen!)

** Niet geheel toevallig: begin 90er jaren traden een aantal Israëlische officieren naar buiten, met het nieuws dat zij onderwijs kregen uit het SS handboek, o.a. hoe een getto te beheersen. Overigens ook de wraakneming na een wanhopige aanslag, komt regelrecht uit dit handboek……..

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……….

        en:  ‘List of wars involving the United States

Blockbuster in Frankfurt ontmanteld, met ‘vreemde’ BBC berichtgeving………

Gisteren werd in Frankfurt een bom met 1,5 ton TNT uit WOII ontmanteld waarbij een groot aantal mensen geëvacueerd moestworden, men gebruikte zelfs warmte camera’s om te zien of iedereen in de buurt echt zijn/haar huis uit was. In totaal moesten 60.000 mensen hun huis verlaten.

BBC meldde e.e.a. in haar nieuwsbericht van 12.00 u. (CET). Redelijk uitgebreid werd e.e.a. verteld, waarbij men niet één keer de benaming van dergelijke bommen noemde: ‘blockbusters’. Blockbusters zijn bommen die speciaal werden gemaakt om hele huizenblokken plat te leggen. Deze bom was er een met 1.400 kilo TNT, dus bijna 1,5 ton, er werden bij bombardementen op Duitsland ook nog zwaardere bommen gebruikt, de zwaarste blockbuster was er één met 2 ton TNT………

Uiteraard is het een enorme oorlogsmisdaad om huizenblokken plat te gooien. Mocht u het niet weten: de bommenwerpers die deze blockbusters afwierpen kwamen uit Engeland.

Een minuut of 15 later was dit onderwerp uitgebreid nog eens aan de beurt op BBC W.S. en verdomd, weer werd het woord ‘blockbuster’ vermeden…… Wel stelde de verslaggever dat deze bommen alleen op steden werden gebruikt waar industrie was…….. Alsof dat een reden is om de bevolking van zo’n stad te bombarderen……..

Bovendien is het een leugen, dat deze bommen alleen op strategische steden werden gebruikt! Een vuil staaltje geschiedvervalsing, benieuwd wat de Britse jeugd hierover leert op school…….. Ik vrees ‘t ergste……..


Hier nog een link naar het Duitse WEB.DE met een artikel over dit onderwerp.

PS: het woord ‘blockbuster’ wordt schunnig genoeg ook gebruikt voor een goedlopende film (klik op het label ‘blockbuster’ direct onder dit bericht)…….

The Sound of Music: Maria von Trapp, geen straatnaam vanwege haar mishandeling van de kinderen………

De lokale overheid van Salzburg weigert een straat te vernoemen naar Maria von Trapp, de hoofdfiguur uit The Sound of Music, zo meldde de BBC World Service zojuist in het nieuws van 13.00 u. (CET).

De reden daarvoor: Maria von Trapp mishandelde haar kinderen, iets dat ze toegaf in haar dagboek….. Vergelijk dat eens met de film!

Overigens klopt het verhaal van de film ook op andere punten voor geen meter, het gezin von Trapp reisde met de trein af richting Italië, vanwaar het gezin naar Londen vloog, om vandaar richting VS te vertrekken. Het enige stuk dat het gezin lopend aflegde was van hun huis in Salzburg naar het station…….

Hier een link naar een nummer van het eerste album van Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (Bonzo Dog Band), waarin zij ‘een interpretatie’ geven van de muziek uit The Sound of Music:

Hier het volledige geweldige album:

Charlottesville: twee schuldigen? Of is het de taak van eenieder te vechten tegen fascisme?

Sinds de gebeurtenissen in Charlottesville, waar een fascist een jonge vrouw vermoordde en andere neonazi’s met wapens en knuppels tekeergingen, is er een discussie losgebarsten waarin ook linkse antifascisten* (Antifa) verantwoordelijk worden gesteld voor het geweld…….. Terwijl je kan stellen dat zij zich zelf en andere demonstranten verdedigden tegen het fascistische geteisem, dat zelfs met wapens rondliep in Charlottesville……..

Die antifascisten, o.a. door Clinton cs aangeduid als ‘alt-left’ (dit al tijdens de voorverkiezingen van het presidentschap in de VS vorig jaar), bevechten terecht het fascisme, waarbij ze tot nu toe niet  één dodelijk slachtoffer hebben gemaakt, dit i.t.t. tot de neonazi’s die vanaf het jaar 2000 tot 2016 in de VS al 49 mensen hebben vermoord …….

Na WOII zou het de taak van eenieder moeten zijn, zich te verzetten tegen het opnieuw opkomende fascisme………

Bent u van mening, dat links schuld heeft aan de gebeurtenissen in Charlottesville, dan raad ik ook u aan, de hieronder opgenomen video te bekijken. Onder het begeleidende artikel kan u klikken voor een vertaling:

This
Vice News Documentary from Charlottesville Is Horrifying

Watch
it and share it.

By
Jack Holmes

August
16, 2017 “Information
Clearing House
” – Hundreds of white
supremacists 
marched
with torches in an American city Friday night
.
They arrived the next day brandishing weapons and armor. One white
supremacist 
allegedly
murdered an anti-racist protester
 in
the street with his car and injured several others. This is what
really happened when you peel back all the rhetoric flying in the
aftermath, and after you tune out the first reprehensible response
from the President of the United States, and his subsequent update to
it 
that
was two days late and a dollar short
.


Vice News, to the outlet’s immense credit, was on the ground to document the events in Charlottesville this weekend. Reporter Elle Reeve even embedded, for a time, with white supremacist leader Chris Cantwell. What she found speaks for itself, but keep an eye out for the little things. Like, say, how many guns these white supremacists have

The
question before us is obvious. Is this the country we’ve built for
ourselves? And can we allow it to continue this way?


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* Bestaan er eigenlijk nog rechtse antifascisten?

Zie ook:

Before Trump, Clinton Democrats Invoked the Term ‘Alt-Left’ to Demonize Critics

Among the Racists‘ (met mogelijkheid tot vertaling)

Neonazi
terreuraanslag in VS, westerse media spreken ‘op hun best’ over ‘een
daad van agressie……’

Charlottesville:
Trump haalt antifascisten toch onderuit………

Charlottesville: twee schuldigen? Of is het de taak van eenieder te vechten tegen fascisme?

Charlottesville: wat er fout ging voor de verzamelde gewelddadige en bewapende fascisten……….

De evolutie van politiestaat VS o.a. te zien in het buitenspel zetten van burgerrechten in steden als Boston en Charlottesville

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

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

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

Overthrowing
Other People’s Governments: The Master List

By
William Blum

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

  • China
    1949 to early 1960s

  • Albania
    1949-53

  • East
    Germany 1950s

  • Iran
    1953 *

  • Guatemala
    1954 *

  • Costa
    Rica mid-1950s

  • Syria
    1956-7

  • Egypt
    1957

  • Indonesia
    1957-8

  • British
    Guiana 1953-64 *

  • Iraq
    1963 *

  • North
    Vietnam 1945-73

  • Cambodia
    1955-70 *

  • Laos
    1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *

  • Ecuador
    1960-63 *

  • Congo
    1960 *

  • France
    1965

  • Brazil
    1962-64 *

  • Dominican
    Republic 1963 *

  • Cuba
    1959 to present

  • Bolivia
    1964 *

  • Indonesia
    1965 *

  • Ghana
    1966 *

  • Chile
    1964-73 *

  • Greece
    1967 *

  • Costa
    Rica 1970-71

  • Bolivia
    1971 *

  • Australia
    1973-75 *

  • Angola
    1975, 1980s

  • Zaire
    1975

  • Portugal
    1974-76 *

  • Jamaica
    1976-80 *

  • Seychelles
    1979-81

  • Chad
    1981-82 *

  • Grenada
    1983 *

  • South
    Yemen 1982-84

  • Suriname
    1982-84

  • Fiji
    1987 *

  • Libya
    1980s

  • Nicaragua
    1981-90 *

  • Panama
    1989 *

  • Bulgaria
    1990 *

  • Albania
    1991 *

  • Iraq
    1991

  • Afghanistan
    1980s *

  • Somalia
    1993

  • Yugoslavia
    1999-2000 *

  • Ecuador
    2000 *

  • Afghanistan
    2001 *

  • Venezuela
    2002 *

  • Iraq
    2003 *

  • Haiti
    2004 *

  • Somalia
    2007 to present

  • Libya
    2011*

  • Syria
    2012

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

A: Because
there’s no American embassy there.

http://williamblum.org/  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Comments
on Gathering These Numbers


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

37
VICTIM NATIONS

Afghanistan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Angola

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

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

Argentina:
See South America: Operation Condor

Bangladesh:
See Pakistan

Bolivia

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

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

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

Also
see: See South America: Operation Condor

Brazil:
See South America: Operation Condor

Cambodia

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

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

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

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

Also
see Vietnam

Chad

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

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

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

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

Chile

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

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

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

Also
see South America: Operation Condor

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

Colombia

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

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

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

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

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

Cuba

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

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

Democratic
Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire)

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

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

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

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

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

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


Dominican
Republic

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

East
Timor

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

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

El
Salvador

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

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

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

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

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

Grenada

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

Guatemala

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

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

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

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

Haiti

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

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


Honduras

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

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

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

Hungary

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

Indonesia

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

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

Iran

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

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

Iraq

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

Israeli-Palestinian
War

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


Korea,
North and South


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


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

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


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

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


Laos


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


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

Also
See Vietnam

Nepal


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

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


Nicaragua


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


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


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


Pakistan


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

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

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


Panama


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


Paraguay:
See South America: Operation Condor


Philippines


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


South
America: Operation Condor


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


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


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


Sudan


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


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

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


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


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


Uruguay:
See South America: Operation Condor

Vietnam

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


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

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


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


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


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


Yugoslavia


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


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


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

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

Kosovo:
500 to 5,000. (7)


NOTES


Afghanistan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Angola

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

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

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

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

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

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

Argentina
: See South America: Operation Condor

Bolivia

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

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

Brazil
See South America: Operation Condor

Cambodia

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

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

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

Chad

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

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

Chile

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

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

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

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

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

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

China:
See Korea

Colombia

1.Chronology
of American State Terrorism, p.2

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

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

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

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

5.Virtual
Truth Commission, 1991

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

Cuba

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

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

Democratic
Republic of Congo (Formerly Zaire)

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

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

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

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

5.Ibid.,p.
260

6.Ibid.,p.
259

7.Ibid.,p.262

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

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


Dominican
Republic

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

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

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

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


East
Timor

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

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

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

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

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


El
Salvador

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

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

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

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


Grenada

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

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


Guatemala

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

2.Ibid.

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

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

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


Haiti

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

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

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


Honduras

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

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

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

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

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


Hungary

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

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


Indonesia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Iran

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

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

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


Iraq

Iran-Iraq
War

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

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


U.S.
Iraq War and Sanctions

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

2.Ibid.,
p. 52-54

3.Ibid.,
p. 43

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

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

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

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


U.S-Iraq
War 2003-?

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

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


Israeli-Palestinian
War

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

2.Chronology
of American State Terrorism

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


Korea

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Laos

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

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

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

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


Nepal

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

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

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

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

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


Nicaragua

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

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

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

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

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

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


Pakistan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Panama

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

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

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

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

Paraguay
See South America: Operation Condor


Philippines

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

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


South
America: Operation Condor

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

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

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


Sudan

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

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


Uruguay
See South America: Operation Condor


Vietnam

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

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

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

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

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

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


Yugoslavia

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

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

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

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

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

5.Chronology
of American State Terrorism

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

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

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

Related
Posts:

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

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Zie ook:

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

List of wars involving the United States

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

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

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

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

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

Charlottesville: Trump haalt antifascisten toch onderuit………

Nadat Trump in een voor hem gemaakte tekst afstand nam van de neonazi’s die hem al als Führer vereerden, gaf hij gisteren alsnog de antifascisten mede de schuld van de ellende in Charlottesville……

Charlottesville, waar één van de neonazi’s een terreuraanslag pleegde, door met een auto op vreedzame demonstranten in te rijden en daarbij een vrouw vermoordde……. Vanaf het jaar 2000 tot 2016, voerden deze neonazi’s in de VS 26 aanvallen uit en begingen maar liefst 49 moorden……. De beweging die zich verzet tegen het neonazi-geweld, Antifa heeft bij mijn weten nooit één dodelijk slachtoffers gemaakt…….

Ook bij de protesten tegen de Dakota Acces Pipeline (DAPL), waar de oorspronkelijke bewoners* terecht protesteerden tegen het aanleggen van een oliepijpleiding, over/onder voor hen respectievelijk heilige grond en water, waren deze neonazi’s met geweld bezig tegen de vreedzame demonstranten……. Me dunkt, ook gezien de geschiedenis van WOII, een nobele zaak: vechten tegen deze neonazi’s, die niet anders zijn dan inhumane psychopathische schoften, die anderen het licht in de ogen niet gunnen…….

Gisteren in het megasuffe Mediaforum op Radio1, Catherine Keyl, deze hufter stelde dat Trump niet op de hoogte was van de neonazi’s in Charlottesville…. Wel Keyl, Trump zelf heeft jou ongelijk gegeven! Keyl ging overigens fiks tekeer tegen Antifa en stelde dat deze even gewelddadig waren…… Alsof Antifa al vele dodelijke slachtoffers heeft gemaakt…… Uiteraard noemde ze het inrijden door een neonazi op vreedzame demonstranten geen terreuraanslag, dat laatste woord kwam in haar gezwets niet voor………

Op de Post Online durfde Sietske Bergsma te stellen, dat ze liever met de neonazi’s te maken had, dan met de mensen van Antifa…… Alsof de laatsten verantwoordelijk zijn voor 49 doden deze eeuw, of zelfs voor meer doden dan de neonazi’s………. Alsof de antifascisten een terreuraanslag pleegden, i.p.v. de neonazi’s….. Eén ding is zeker, Bergsma is een aanhanger van het fascisme, dat heeft ze uit en te na aangegeven!!

Langzaam maar zeker weet het fascisme steeds meer aanhang te winnen onder de bevolking in de VS en de EU, lullig genoeg schijnt iedereen dat normaal te vinden. Het is onze plicht te vechten tegen het fascisme, een plicht die voortvloeit uit de vreselijke terreur die Duitsland en Italië voor en tijdens WOII op miljoenen hebben doen neerdalen, o.a. met een genocide op de joden, Roma en Sinti………

Hier een korte reactie van Moon of Alabama op het gebeuren in Charlottesville (onder het artikel kan u klikken voor een vertaling):

Charlottesville:
What You Wish Upon Others, You Wish Upon Yourself

By
Moon Of Alabama

August
14, 2017 “Information
Clearing House
” – U.S. “liberals” cuddle fascists
and right-wing religious extremists in Libya, Syria, Ukraine,
Venezuela and elsewhere.

      

But
when similar movements appear on their own streets they are outraged.

The
person 
in the
center on the above picture drove his car into a crowd of
counter-protesters in Charlottesville killing one and wounding
several.

Politicians
and media hail such persons when they appear, often hired by the CIA,
to overthrow the government of some foreign country. They condemn the
same mindset and actions at home. But 
glorification of
right-wing violence elsewhere hands justification to right-wing
groups at home.

Above:
Fascist torch march 
in Kiev
January 28 2017. Then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Republican
Senator McCain, The New York Times, the Washington Post and many
“liberals” supported the above nazis.

Above:
Fascist torch march 
in Charlottesville,
August 11 2017. Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton,
Republican Senator McCain, the New York Times, the Washington Post
and many “liberals” condemned the above nazis.

You
can not have only one of these. 

To
claim, as “liberals” do now, that such marches as in
Charlottesville, “is not what and who we are”, is a lie.
Ask people from outside the U.S. how the empire appears and acts
towards them.

The
U.S. uses fascism, religious extremism, torture, targeted killing and
many other vile instruments of power in its quest for global
dominance. All of these methods and ideologies, all of them, will one
day come home.

This
article was first published by
 Moon
Of Alabama
 

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Afbeeldingsresultaat voor fakkeloptocht nazi-duitsland

Oekraïense neonazi’s herdenken SS divisie (onder goedkeuring van de corrupte juntaleider Porosjenko en de EU!)

* De oorspronkelijke bewoners van Noord-Amerika (plus die in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika) die middels de grootste genocide ooit bijna werden uitgeroeid……… (waarbij een aantal stammen daadwerkelijk werden uitgemoord……..)

Zie ook:

Neonazi terreuraanslag in VS, westerse media spreken ‘op hun best’ over ‘een daad van agressie……’

Charlottesville: twee schuldigen? Of is het de taak van eenieder te vechten tegen fascisme?

Charlottesville: wat er fout ging voor de verzamelde gewelddadige en bewapende fascisten……….

Before Trump, Clinton Democrats Invoked the Term ‘Alt-Left’ to Demonize Critics

Among the Racists‘ (met mogelijkheid tot vertaling)

Mijn excuus voor de vormgeving.

De evolutie van politiestaat VS o.a. te zien in het buitenspel zetten van burgerrechten in steden als Boston en Charlottesville

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Arib (PvdA) over vergeten oorlog in Indonesië en de Japanse bezetter……

‘Viel’ gistermiddag na 16.30 u. op Radio1 in een praatje van PvdA volksverlakker Arib over ‘de vergeten oorlog’, waarmee ze WOII in Indonesië bedoelde……. Even later stelde ze doodleuk dat de Japanners de bezetters waren van ‘Nederlands Indië…’

Het is Arib waarschijnlijk ontgaan, dat Nederland zo’n 300 jaar lang volkomen illegaal Indonesië heeft bezet……

Ik was druk met andere zaken bezig en mij is ontgaan, waarom Arib daarover vertelde, ik dacht n.a.v. een nieuw boek over WOII in Indonesië……

Vandaar dat ik op het internet zocht waar en wanneer Arib precies haar praatje hield, toen ik een artikel over Arib uit 2016 tegen kwam.

Op 3 september 2016 sprak Arib over Indonesië, alleen was het toen ter gelegenheid van de jaarlijkse herdenking bij het ‘Nationaal Indië-monument 1945-1962‘  in Roermond………. Met andere woorden, daar werden en worden de ‘Politionele Acties’ herdacht, ofwel de herdenking van de smerige koloniale oorlog die Nederland tegen het Indonesische volk voerde en waarbij Nederland een enorm aantal oorlogsmisdaden beging……… ‘Echt het herdenken waard…..’

Arib durfde destijds te zeggen, dat velen misschien vinden, dat Nederland niet in Indonesië thuishoorde, maar dat alles via democratische besluitvorming tot stand was gekomen…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Oh, dus wij hebben een paar honderd jaar geleden democratisch besloten een land in te nemen, dit leeg te zuigen, middels een enorme repressie, waarbij niet zelden hele dorpen of kampongs werden afgeslacht, inclusief vrouwen, kinderen en huisdieren….. Eén keer zelfs een heel eiland >> één van de Banda-eilanden, onderdeel van de Molukken, dit vanwege de kruidnagel productie. Kortom wij hebben democratisch besloten: -te brandschatten, -te stelen, -opium te verhandelen, -mensenhandel te promoten, dit middels slavernij, -te verkrachten en -op grote schaal te moorden………

Lullig dat Nederland nog steeds schroomt volledige schuld te erkennen aan wat er is gebeurd tijdens deze smerige koloniale oorlog…… Tweede Kamervoorzitter Arib heeft er intussen totaal geen moeite mee, dergelijke nonsens te berde te brengen…….. De Nederlandse militairen (en anderen) die verzet pleegden tegen deze vuile oorlog, zijn nooit geëerd……. Integendeel, Poncke Princen, één van die militairen, mocht tot zijn dood niet meer in Nederland komen……. Nee, de schoften die zich te buiten gingen aan oorlogsmisdaden werden tot hun dood toe beschermd, dat moorden was immers ‘democratisch besloten’, sterker nog: op de koop toe werden en worden zij wel geëerd……….

             Afbeeldingsresultaat

             Poncke Princen, één van de Nederlanders die een juiste keus

             maakten en zich verzetten tegen de Nederlandse bezetting van

             Indonesië maar tot op de dag van vandaag door hypocriet

             Nederland worden verguisd…….

Overigens toch een rare snuiter, die Arib, zo was zij al eens adviseur van de dictatorkoning van Marokko, terwijl ze tegelijkertijd voor de PvdA in de Kamer zat………. Ook al geen reden haar niet tot Kamervoorzitter te kiezen……. Wat een land!

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

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

     Afbeeldingsresultaat voor hiroshima en nagasaki voor en na 1945

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

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor hiroshima en nagasaki voor en na 1945

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Indefensible Hiroshima Revisionism That Haunts America To This Day

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

Zie ook:

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

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

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

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

Overlevenden atoomaanval op Hiroshima vragen om een verbod op kernwapens

Hashima en de Japanse ontkenning van wreedheden tijdens WOII

en zie voor verdere VS-terreur na WOII:

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

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

List of wars involving the United States

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

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