De onderbroekbom: één grote leugen, die duizenden vliegveld bodyscanners heeft ‘opgeleverd’

Michael
Chertoff was de topgraaier van Homeland Security (DHS) toen een
‘terrorist’,
Umar
Farouk Abdulmutallab, werd aangehouden vanwege een niet werkende
onderbroekbom. Deze Nigeriaan was in Amsterdam opgestapt

en werd zonder een boardingpass (‘instapkaart’) na interventie van
een VS beambte toegelaten tot het vliegtuig……

E.e.a. gebeurde op 25 december 2009 en Brasscheck TV herhaalde een eerder bericht met video’s, waar ik al eens een bericht over schreef, echter het kan bepaald geen kwaad deze zaak nog eens op te halen en te laten zien hoe Rusland wordt gedemoniseerd en het publiek bang wordt gemaakt voor dat land en voor terreuraanslagen, maar bovendien waar zaken als de onderbroekbom toe kunnen leiden, zeker na alle hysterie over ‘Russiagate’, de grote leugen over Russische bemoeienis met een groot aantal politieke zaken in het westen…… 

Ondanks de vele uren die al over ‘Russiagate’ zijn volgeluld, aangevuld met de vele meters aan geschreven dossiers door de VS en andere overheden, plus het enorme aantal artikelen die hierover verschenen in de reguliere westerse media, is voor Russiagate geen millimeter aan bewijs geleverd……. Hetzelfde geldt eigenlijk ook voor de onderbroekbom, terwijl er van meet af aan grote twijfels waren over dit verhaal, zelfs onder de getuigen in het vliegtuig, daarover zo meer.

Om zaken als de onderbroekbom tegen te gaan werden op vliegvelden tegen een enorm kapitaal ‘full body scanners’ geplaatst…… Volgens deskundigen zijn deze scanners gevaarlijk voor de gezondheid……

Chertoff
vertegenwoordigde toevallig ook het bedrijf die de gevaarlijke
bodyscanners levert, scanners die te vinden op veel vliegvelden….. Ofwel Chertoff profiteert van die scanners…… Schiphol schafte na het incident met de onderbroekbom 60 ProVision bodyscanners van de Amerikaanse fabrikant L-3 Communications aan, i.p.v. eerst eens de regels te verstevigen, regels waarmee iemand zonder instapkaart, echt nooit weer in een vliegtuig kan plaatsnemen……. (Nederland had al lang een strafrechtelijk onderzoek naar deze zaak in moeten stellen…..)

Het is
dan ook niet moeilijk te bedenken dat de VS deze ‘aanslag’ zelf heeft
georganiseerd, met het doel deze ‘full body scanners’ op de
vliegvelden te krijgen…… 

Twee advocaten die aan boord waren van
de bewuste vlucht met de onderbroekbom zijn ervan overtuigd dat de VS zelf de hand had in
deze ‘aanslag…’

Volgens
de tweede video van Brasscheck TV, hieronder opgenomen, is e.e.a.
mede het gevolg van het opnemen van nazi’s door de VS na WOII, waar
deze nazi’s al in 1943 werden gepolst door Allen Dulles, die in
Zwitserland overleg voerde met nazi-kopstukken. Dulles was destijds het hoofd van wat nu de CIA is (deze
terreurorganisatie werd in 1947 opgericht)…..

De
nazi’s werden met grote graagte opgenomen in de geheime diensten van
de VS en bepaalden mede het beleid dat tot zoveel ellende heeft
geleid…… Neem alleen al de communistenjacht van McCarthey die in 1950 begon en de bescherming van fascistische dictaturen in
Latijns-Amerika door de VS, sterker nog: de VS heeft na WOII diverse
staatsgrepen tegen democratisch gekozen regeringen georganiseerd in
dat deel van de wereld, waarna een door de VS uitgekozen fascist werd
geparachuteerd als leider van zo’n land….*

Terug
naar de ‘onderbroekbom’: vreemd genoeg zijn veel getuigenverklaringen
verdwenen en Chertoff wordt nog steeds niet vervolgd voor zijn
overduidelijke smerige klus….. Verwonder je nogmaals hoe het mogelijk is dat met een dergelijk smerig spel, in feite een ‘false flag operatie’, de VS een bedrijf stinkend rijk maakte door de productie van gevaarlijke scanners en de hysterie over terroristen verder voedde, niet alleen ten behoeve van bedrijven, maar ook voor de geheime diensten die steeds meer macht en geld weten te verzamelen, door de angst erin te houden bij de bevolking…….. Vergeet niet dat de kans dat je omkomt bij een verkeersongeluk ongeveer een miljoen keer groter is dan dat je omkomt bij een terreuraanslag………

REMEMBER
THE UNDERWEAR BOMBER?

A
TOTAL FRAUD

WHEN
WILL MICHAEL CHERTOFF BE INVESTIGATED?

It’s
December 22, the anniversary of the “underwear bomber”

He
– and Michael Chertoff – are the reason why air travelers are now
forced to go through medically untested body scanners.

In
case you forgot, the “need” for this “security” equipment was
based on a total fraud.

Good
insight into how the criminals in the FBI make eye witnesses accounts
disappear.

Michael
Chertoff is involved with the company that makes this equipment and
shilled aggressively both before and after this bogus event.

Michael
Chertoff: The profiteer behind the scam.

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

* Zie: ‘VS vermoordde meer dan 20 miljoen mensen sinds het einde van WOII……..‘ en: ‘VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen……….‘ en: ‘List of wars involving the United States‘ en: ‘CIA 70 jaar: 70 jaar moorden, martelen, coups plegen, nazi’s beschermen, media manipulatie enz. enz………

Zie ook: 

De onderbroekbom-leugen ten behoeve van onveilige body scanners‘ 

 
Onderbroekbom (25 december 2009) een enorm onzin verhaal, weer zijn we voorgelogen…….


Azijnpisser eist per direct strengere anti-terreurmaatregelen!!!


Een onderbroekbom

Diefstal van de Nieuwe Wereld en genocide op de oorspronkelijke bevolking daar, onder de doctrine van het christelijk geloof……….

De
diefstal van de nieuwe wereld, de drie Amerika’s, werd
gelegitimeerd door het christelijk geloof, immers jezus zou zijn
volgelingen opgedragen hebben het geloof over over heel de wereld te
verkondigen…… 

Er was maar weinig voor nodig om destijds iedereen
te overtuigen van de noodzaak volkeren te onderwerpen in de naam van
god en dat met grof geweld, tot en met het uitroeien van hele stammen…..

Het gaat hier dan ook om de
eerste grote genocide ooit (en de grootste), waar deze tot op de dag van vandaag voortduurt in het Amazonewoud en andere delen van Latijns-Amerika….. Terwijl de oorspronkelijke volkeren van Noord-Amerika nog steeds worden onderdrukt…….

Zie de
volgende video van Brasscheck TV en deel deze ajb! De hoogste tijd dat de macht van de christelijke religie (en andere religies) voorgoed wordt gebroken! Vergeet bijvoorbeeld niet dat de rk kerk nog steeds verantwoordelijk is voor miljoenen aidsdoden, met haar achterlijk verbod op anticonceptie (paus Franciscus is een massamoordenaar!)……. Waar de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, de VS, een presidentskandidaat alleen kans maakt om te winnen, als hij van het christelijk geloof is (uiteraard is een enorm kapitaal het tweede vereiste voor kandidaten, kapitaal van miljonairs, miljardairs en grote bedrijven >> terwijl de VS een democratie zou zijn….)

The
theft of the New World

HOW
DID THEY JUSTIFY IT?

IT
STARTS A LITTLE SLOW – THEN IT GETS GOING

It
starts very slowly, but then when it gets to the point it is begins a
fascinating story.


Have
you ever wondered how European powers justified coming in and taking
the New World?

After
all, it belonged to someone.

We
all know the European powers used violence, but they also operated
“under the law.”

What
law are we talking about?

The
savage “Doctrine of Discovery in the Name of Christ.”

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

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

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

© EPA

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

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

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

© EPA

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

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

© EPA

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

Ongelofelijk
en onverdraaglijk!!!

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

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

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

Photo credit: Callie Richmond

October 25, 2018 at 11:11 am

Written
by 
Texas
Tribune

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

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

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

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Emma
Platoff
 / Republished
with permission / 
Texas
Tribune

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

Zie ook:

VS gebruikt chemische wapens tegen ongewapende vluchtelingen waaronder kinderen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Berta Cáceres voorvechter gelijke rechten en milieuactivist vermoord in Honduras

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

,

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

Lees
het artikel van Saady over deze zaak:

The
War on Drugs Is Far Deadlier Than You Realize

March
26, 2018 at 12:09 pm

Written
by 
Anti-Media
News Desk

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

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

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

Cartels
and Violence

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Narco-Terrorism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The
U.S. Government’s Role

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Brian
Saady
 / Creative
Commons
 / FEE.org / Report
a typo

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

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

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

        en:  ‘List of wars involving the United States

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

January
4, 2018 at 2:00 pm

Written
by 
Darius
Shahtahmasebi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Creative
Commons
 / Anti-Media / Report
a typo

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9 ‘ex-FARC rebellen’ vermoord door leger Colombia: FARC-EP opgericht

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

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

Paus Franciscus in Colombia om vrede te prediken……

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Voor meer grootschalige VS terreur zie:

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

List of wars involving the United States

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rabobank ‘Growing a better world together’, zonder aandacht voor mensenrechten……..

Wellicht heb je de radioreclame’s van de Rabobank al eens gehoord met de leus: ‘Growing a better world together’, terwijl deze bank dik in de intensieve veehouderij heeft geïnvesteerd en investeert……. In deze doodsindustrie worden jaarlijks 500 miljoen dieren (ja een half miljard!) groot en doodgemarteld…..

Het voer voor die dieren komt voor een groot deel uit ontwikkelingslanden, waarvoor men oerwouden kapt dan wel verbrand om daar groente voor ‘ons’ diervoeder te kunnen verbouwen. Overigens wordt er ook aan landjepik gedaan voor diezelfde doodsindustrie: kleine boeren in ontwikkelingsland worden van hun land geschopt, zodat men daar ook groente voor datzelfde diervoeder kan telen…..*

Op BNR gistermorgen voor 8.00 u. Juriaan Kalf van de Rabobank die kwam uitleggen dat uit een onderzoek van de bank het volgende blijkt: je kan als bedrijf beter niet naar de traditionele BRIC landen kijken, maar naar landen als Georgië, Chili en Maleisië…… De bank heeft daar 5 criteria voor, waar de mensenrechten echter aan ontbreken……. Voor Zuid-Amerika zouden dat het eerder genoemde Chili, plus Uruguay en Costa Rica zijn….

De Rabobank let wel op zaken als politieke stabiliteit (dat kan heel goed gecombineerd worden met een ‘stabiele’ dictatuur…) en het ‘operationele risico’ dat je als bedrijf loopt in het buitenland. Zowaar Bas van Werven, de presentator en zijn sidekick Lamyae Aharouay schoten uit hun slof toen Kalf vertelde dat bedrijven maar zelf moeten letten hoe het met de mensenrechten zit…….. En tja mensenrechtenschendingen kunnen zelfs positief uit pakken voor bedrijven, ‘die het niet zo nauw nemen….’ (zoals je begrijpt niet de woorden van Kalf)

Volgens Kalf let de Rabobank wel op of er een goed functionerend rechtssysteem bestaat in een land, of beter zoals Kalf het verwoorde: of het volk wordt beschermd door rechters……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Als het volk wordt beschermd door rechters vinden er in 9 van de 10 gevallen geen grove mensenrechtenschendingen plaats (en tja die ene van die 10 zou zomaar Nederland kunnen zijn, immers wij worden nogal eens aangesproken op het schenden van mensenrechten en kinderrechten (vooral als het om vluchtelingen gaat….)

‘Growing a better world together……’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Hier het relaas van de BNR website:

‘NAAR
MENSENRECHTEN MOETEN BEDRIJVEN ZELF KIJKEN’

Niet
de traditionele BRIC-landen, maar outsiders zoals Chili, Maleisië en
Georgië blijken veel interessanter voor ondernemers. Dat blijkt uit
een analyse van de Rabobank. De bank keek daarvoor naar vijf
factoren, maar niet naar mensenrechten.


De
bank keek naar factoren die relevant zijn voor ondernemers, legt
Juriaan Kalf van de Rabobank uit. ‘Dan zie je dat veel factoren
sector- of bedrijfsspecifiek zijn. Wij hebben gekeken naar het
investeringsklimaat in de regio waarvan ondernemers al globaal een
idee hebben dat ze daar moeten zijn. Kijk je naar Zuid-Amerika, dan
kom je uit op Chili, Uruguay en Costa Rica.’

Mensenrechten
niet meegenomen

De
Rabobank bracht een aantal factoren in kaart, zoals het operationeel
risico en politieke stabiliteit. Maar het het met de mensenrechten
gaat heeft de Rabobank niet onderzocht. ‘Wij hebben het kader
geschetst. In de kwaliteit van de rechtstaat zit natuurlijk ook of de
eigen bevolking is beschermd door zijn eigen rechters. Je moet een
bepaald kader schetsen. Je kunt naar honderd dingen kijken en daar
hebben we er vijf van gekozen.’

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

* Zo wordt 80% van de wereldsojaproductie in diervoer verwerkt……. (overigens veelal genetisch gemanipuleerde soja, zodat deze plant het ook in de tropen goed doet……)

Zie ook: ‘Rabobank: ‘Growing a better world together…’ AUW!!!

       en: ‘ABN Amro (daarmee ook u en ik) en Rabobank investeren in bosbrand en zware luchtvervuiling……..

       en: ‘Friesland Campina en Rabobank komen met vals groen label voor melkveehouders…….

       en: ‘Suikerquota verdwijnen: goed volgens de Rabobank, zo kan de concurrentie groeien en kunnen we de wereld volproppen met geraffineerd suikergif…..‘ (na publicatie van dit bericht werd bekend gemaakt wat velen al wisten: suiker is kankerverwekkend en wat wel nieuws was: suiker doet tumoren zelfs groeien….. Dit nog naast het feit, dat suiker de laatste 10 jaar in tegenstelling tot het gezonde alternatief Stevia en andere gezonde ingrediënten voor voedselbereiding minstens een keer duurder zijn geworden…….. Al weet ik niet zeker of Stevia 10 jaar geleden al was vrijgegeven voor de Nederlandse markt, ik dacht het wel; voor die tijd was gebruik van Stevia zelfs verboden……. Stevia is niet slecht voor het gebit, zorgt niet voor obesitas en diabetes, Stevia kan zelfs zorgen dat diabetes niet verergert en kan diabetes voorkomen…… Het verbod op Stevia was het gevolg van een innige samenwerking tussen de suikermaffia en de politiek…….)

Zie ook het verslag over het smerige Rabobank praatje: ‘Afrika zoekt andere markten. Afschaffing suikerquotum treft Sub Sahara‘ (uiteraard kritisch lezen)

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

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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’

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

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

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



The Long Reach Of The US Border

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Hier de link naar het volledige artikel:

The Long Reach Of The US Border

Van Kappen (VVD & koperen fluit van verdienste): Noord-Korea heeft atoomwapens en kan daarmee WOIII starten……….

Van Kappen de ex-militair, VVD lobbyist voor het militair-industrieel complex en in die hoedanigheid lid van de Eerste Kamer, was afgelopen vrijdagmiddag te horen op Radio1 (na 15.30 u.).

Uiteraard moest van Kappen het over Nord-Korea hebben, immers dat land ‘kan ons zomaar in WOIII storten….’ Dat gevaar blijkt wel uit het feit, dat Noord-Korea:

  • in 2001 illegaal Afghanistan binnenviel. 
  • in 2003 illegaal Irak binnenviel (met tot nu toe als ‘resultaat’: de moord op meer dan 1,5 miljoen Irakezen……..)  
  • in 2011 met een illegale oorlog een eind maakte aan het Khadaffi bewind in Libië. 
  • na de eerste stappen vanaf 2006 te hebben gezet, voor omverwerping van de regering Assad in Syrië, nu voluit een illegale oorlog voert in dat land tegen deze regering…… 
  • met dezelfde truc in Oekraïne een coup pleegde tegen de democratisch gekozen president Janoekovytsj, waar Noord Korea 4 miljard dollar besteedde aan de opstand die tot e.e.a. leidde… Waar Noord-Korea haar marionet, de corrupte neonazi-vriend Porosjenko parachuteerde, die op zijn beurt nu oorlog voert tegen dat deel van het land, waar men tegen de coup van Noord-Korea was……

Oh nee, ik vergis me beste lezer, dat land was niet Noord-Korea, maar natuurlijk de VS…….. Goed dat ‘t weer eens genoteerd staat, want over deze zaken hoor je van Kappen niet, hij komt met een leugen van de VS, waarmee men Noord-Korea tot een gevaar voor de wereldvrede verklaart, ook al spreken bijvoorbeeld Wikileaks documenten boekdelen over juist de grootschalige VS terreur….

Moet u nagaan, dan schreef ik nog niet over de inmenging van de CIA in een groot aantal andere landen, zoals in Zuid-Amerika, waar deze dienst, gevuld met smerige psychopaten, bezig is landen als Venezuela naar de kloten te helpen, o.a. door een economische boycot, waar winkelketens van VS origine, geen goederen meer geleverd krijgen en de opdracht kregen de tent te sluiten, dit nog naast het verbod voor grote farmaceuten, bepaalde medicijnen te leveren aan Venezuela………

Nee, van Kappen weet het zeker: Noord-Korea heeft een atoomwapen, ook al zou je daarvoor na een ondergrondse test met zo’n wapen, na verloop van een dag of 2 straling bovengronds moet kunnen meten, die zelfs met satellieten is te bespeuren….. Dat is tot nu toe niet één keer bevestigd, m.a.w. Noord-Korea heeft niet eens een atoomwapen…….

Hoorde een Nederlander in hetzelfde programmaonderdeel op Radio1, die vertelde dat kinderen op school leren, waar de atoomwapens van Noord-Korea zich bevinden, daar heeft men zelfs een speciale landkaart voor ontwikkeld……… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Als je dat doet, weet je zeker, dat die informatie bekend wordt en welk land met atoomwapens gaat in godsnaam kinderen onderwijzen, waar de wapens zich bevinden……. Immers daarmee zouden die plekken onmiddellijk doelwit worden van vijandige regimes…….. Kortom Noord-Koreaanse bluf van een slecht niveau………

Volgens van Kappen, kan Noord-Korea vanaf een duikboot, voor de kust van de VS, dat land wel degelijk aanvallen met een kernraket……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Die raketten van Noord-Korea halen met wat geluk 100 kilometer, maar storten meestal bijzonder snel in zee….. Dan nogmaals: Noord-Korea heeft geen atoomwapen, dus ook geen kernraket………

Duikboten zie je niet, was een wijsheid die van Kappen gebruikte…… Nu lijkt het me bijzonder sterk, dat de VS niet weet, waar de duikboten van Noord-Korea zich bevinden, immers de territoriale wateren van Noord Korea worden scherp in de gaten gehouden en aan land kan men daar nog niet een scheet laten, of één van de VS satellieten ‘vangt ‘m wel op…..’

Van Kappen stelde eerder al, o.a. op de Radio, dat men in Zuid-Korea bang is van Noord-Korea, een verhaal dat regelmatig opduikt in de reguliere media. Een Nederlander van Zuid-Koreaanse afkomst maakte gehakt van dit verhaal in hetzelfde programmaonderdeel, volgens hem is men niet bang van Noord-Korea…… Jammer genoeg vroeg men niet professioneel even door, om erachter te komen, of diezelfde Zuid-Koreanen wel bang zijn voor de agressie van de VS en wat dit kan veroorzaken….. Iets dat in Zuid-Korea een feit schijnt te zijn……..

Als er jaarlijks grote oefeningen van de VS en Zuid-Korea langs de gedemilitariseerde zone en langs de territoriale wateren van Noord-Korea plaatsvinden, krijgt dit alleen aandacht in de reguliere westerse pers, als er spanningen zijn met Noord-Korea, verder schijnt men dit getreiter normaal te vinden. Let wel: oefeningen waaraan het machtigste land op aarde meedoet, een land dat schijt heeft aan internationale verdragen, een land dat al 2 keer het atoomwapen heeft ingezet tegen burgers en aantoonbaar al een aantal illegale oorlogen is begonnen, zoals u onder andere hiervoor kon lezen………. Dat de VS een vloot heeft laten ‘opstomen’ naar Noord-Korea, schijnt ook niemand te deren, alsof het de normaalste zaak van de wereld is……. Terwijl dat de wereldvrede pas echt in gevaar brengt!!

Van Kappen heeft weer een ‘mooi lulpraatje’ op mogen hangen en daarmee angst gezaaid, waarmee hij tevens zijn hoogste bazen een plezier heeft gedaan: de VS en het militair-industrieel complex (en die 2 overlappen elkaar, zoals u ongetwijfeld weet….)……

Hé van Kappen, als er één ‘land’ is, dat WOIII kan starten is dat de VS terreurentiteit wel

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