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Great List Vox.  Estimates are that Rampant Capitalism has killed over 100
million people.

America, over 10 million.

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> 1948 - PRESENT
> AMERICAN/ISRAELI STATE TERRORISM OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
> Estimated civilian deaths: 100,000 Palestinian people
> From the very beginning of the Zionist State of Israel in 1948, One of the
> earliest and most notorious incidents of Israeli terrorism was the Deir
> Yassin massacre in April, 1948. 250 Palestinian men, women and children
were
> murdered in cold blood by Menachem Begin's Zionist "Irgun" group as it
went
> from house to house seeking to drive all Palestinians out of their ancient
> homeland. It hasn't gotten any better since then.
> Besides murdering women and children, Israelis routinely torture
Palestinian
> prisoners in jail. And almost all of it has been kept hidden by the
> mainstream American mass-media for 55 years.
> Just to give you another example of who the Israelis really are: in 1946,
> Menachem Begin's terrorist organization blew up the King David Hotel in
> Jerusalem, murdering British nurses, in order to drive the British out of
> Palestine. Israeli society later rewarded Menachem Begin by electing him
> Prime Minister.
> The United States government gives billions of your tax dollars to the
> Israelis every year. And the U.S. government never pays people to do
things
> it doesn't want done. Israeli state terrorism is essentially American
state
> terrorism.
>
> 1953 - PRESENT
> AMERICAN-BACKED GENOCIDE OF THE GUATEMALAN PEOPLE
> Estimated civilian deaths: over 200,000 people
> From Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
> A CIA-organized coup overthrew the democratically-elected and progressive
> government of Jacobo Arbenz, initiating 40 years of military-government
> death squads, torture, disappearances, mass executions and unimaginable
> cruelty, totaling more than 200,000 victims - indisputably one of the most
> inhumane chapters of the 20th century.
> The justification for the coup that has been put forth over the years is
> that Guatemala had been on the verge of the proverbial Soviet takeover. In
> actuality, the Russians had so little interest in the country that it
didn't
> even maintain diplomatic relations. The real problem was that Arbenz had
> taken over some of the uncultivated land of the US firm, United Fruit
> Company [Chiquita bananas], which had extremely close ties to the American
> power elite.
> Moreover, in the eyes of Washington, there was the danger of Guatemala's
> social-democracy model spreading to other countries in Latin America.
> Despite a 1996 "peace" accord between the government and rebels, respect
for
> human rights remains as only a concept in Guatemala; death squads continue
> to operate with a significant measure of impunity against union activists
> and other dissidents; torture still rears its ugly head; the lower classes
> are as wretched as ever; the military endures as a formidable institution;
> the US continues to arm and train the Guatemalan military and carry out
> exercises with it; and key provisions of the peace accord concerning
> military reform have not been carried out.
>
> 1955 - 1973
> AMERICAN GENOCIDE OF THE CAMBODIAN PEOPLE
> Estimated total civilian deaths: 1,000,000 - 2,000,000 people
> Prince Sihanouk was yet another leader who did not fancy being an American
> client. After many years of hostility toward his regime, including
> assassination plots and the infamous Nixon/Kissinger secret "carpet
>  bombings" of 1969-70, Washington finally overthrew Sihanouk in a coup in
> 1970. This was all that was needed to impel Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge
> forces to enter the fray. Five years later, they took power. But the years
> of American bombing had caused Cambodia's traditional economy to vanish.
The
> old Cambodia had been destroyed forever.
> Incredibly, the Khmer Rouge were to inflict even greater misery upon this
> unhappy land. And to multiply the irony, the United States supported Pol
Pot
> and the Khmer Rouge after their subsequent defeat by the Vietnamese.
>
> 1957 - 1973
> AMERICAN GENOCIDE OF THE LAOTIAN PEOPLE
> Estimated total civilian deaths: over 500,000 people
> The Laotian left, led by the Pathet Lao, tried to effect social change
> peacefully, making significant electoral gains and taking part in
coalition
> governments. But the United States would have none of that.
> The CIA and the State Department, through force, bribery and other
> pressures, engineered coups in 1958, 1959 and 1960. Eventually, the only
> option left for the Pathet Lao was armed force.
> The CIA created its famous "Arme Clandestine" - totaling 30,000, from
every
> corner of Asia - to do battle, while the US Air Force, between 1965 and
> 1973, rained down more than two million tons of bombs upon the people of
> Laos, many of whom were forced to live in caves for years in a desperate
> attempt to escape the monsters falling from the sky.
> After hundreds of thousands had been killed, many more maimed, and
countless
> bombed villages with hardly stone standing upon stone, the Pathet Lao took
> control of the country, following on the heels of events in Vietnam.
>
> MID-1950S, 1970-71
> AMERICAN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS ON THE ELECTED LEADER OF COSTA RICA
> From Rogue State
> To liberal American political leaders, President Jose Figueres was the
> quintessential "liberal democrat", the kind of statesman they liked to
> think, and liked the world to think, was the natural partner of US foreign
> policy rather than the military dictators who somehow kept popping up as
> allies.
> Yet the United States tried to overthrow Figueres (in the 1950s, and
perhaps
> also in the 1970s, when he was again president), and tried to assassinate
> him twice. The reasons? Figueres was not tough enough on the left, led
Costa
> Rica to become the first country in Central America to establish
diplomatic
> relations with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and on occasion
> questioned American foreign policy, like the Bay of Pigs invasion.
>
> 1959 - PRESENT
> AMERICAN SUBVERSION AND STATE TERRORISM OF THE CUBAN PEOPLE
> From Killing Hope
> Fidel Castro came to power at the beginning of 1959. A U.S. National
> Security Council meeting of March 10, 1959 included on its agenda the
> feasibility of bringing "another government to power in Cuba." There
> followed 40 years of terrorist attacks, bombings, full-scale military
> invasion, sanctions, embargoes, isolation, assassinations...Cuba had
carried
> out The Unforgivable Revolution, a very serious threat of setting a "good
> example" in Latin America.
> The saddest part of this is that the world will never know what kind of
> society Cuba could have produced if left alone, if not constantly under
the
> gun and the threat of invasion, if allowed to relax its control at home.
The
> idealism, the vision, the talent were all there. But we'll never know. And
> that of course was the idea.
>
> 1960 - PRESENT
> AMERICAN ASSASSINATION OF PATRICE LUMUMBA AND SUPPORT OF STATE TERRORISM
OF
> THE PEOPLE OF THE CONGO/ZAIRE
> From Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since WWII
> In June 1960, Patrice Lumumba became the Congo's first prime minister
after
> independence from Belgium. But Belgium retained its vast mineral wealth in
> Katanga province, prominent Eisenhower administration officials had
> financial ties to the same wealth, and Lumumba, at Independence Day
> ceremonies before a host of foreign dignitaries, called for the nation's
> economic as well as its political liberation, and recounted a list of
> injustices against the natives by the white owners of the country. The man
> was obviously a "Communist." The poor man was obviously doomed.
> Eleven days later, Katanga province seceded, in September, Lumumba was
> dismissed by the president at the instigation of the United States, and in
> January 1961 he was assassinated at the express request of [President]
> Dwight Eisenhower. There followed several years of civil conflict and
chaos
> and the rise to power of Mobutu Sese Seko, a man not a stranger to the
CIA.
> Mobutu went on to rule the country for more than 30 years, with a level of
> corruption and cruelty that shocked even his CIA handlers. The Zairian
> people lived in abject poverty despite the plentiful natural wealth, while
> Mobutu became a multibillionaire.
>
> 1960S - PRESENT
> AMERICAN SUPPORT FOR COLOMBIAN STATE TERRORISM OF THE COLOMBIAN PEOPLE
> Estimated civilian deaths: over 67,000 people
> Under the guise of aid for "counternarcotics" operations, the U.S.
Corporate
> Mafia Government is supplying weapons, training, troops and $1.3 billion
of
> American taxpayers' money to its murderous apprentices in the Colombian
> military. The real purpose of all this aid is to support the government's
> massive political oppression of the Colombian people. It's Vietnam all
over
> again.
> Colombia is the most violent country in the world. The vast majority of
the
> terror is committed by the U.S.-supported military and right-wing
> paramilitary forces - who are heavily involved in cocaine production and
> smuggling. They have tortured and murdered tens of thousands of people in
> trade unions and left-wing movements, including many human rights
activists
> and grassroots organizers.
>
> 1963
> AMERICAN/BRITISH ASSASSINATION OF THE LEADER OF IRAQ
> In July 1958, Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem overthrew the monarchy and
established
> a republic. Though somewhat of a reformist, he was by no means any kind of
> radical. His action, however, awakened revolutionary fervor in the masses
> and increased the influence of the Iraqi Communist Party.
> By April of the following year, CIA Director Allen Dulles, with his
> customary hyperbole, was telling Congress that the Iraqi Communists were
> close to a "complete takeover" and the situation in that country was "the
> most dangerous in the world today." In actuality, Kassem aimed at being a
> neutralist in the Cold War and pursued rather inconsistent policies toward
> the Iraqi Communists, never allowing them formal representation in his
> cabinet, nor even full legality, though they strongly desired both. He
tried
> to maintain power by playing the Communists off against other ideological
> groups.
> A secret plan for a joint US-Turkish invasion of the country was drafted
by
> the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff shortly after the 1958 coup.
> Reportedly, only Soviet threats to intercede on Iraq's side forced
> Washington to hold back. But in 1960, the United States began to fund the
> Kurdish guerrillas in Iraq who were fighting for a measure of autonomy and
> the CIA undertook an assassination attempt against Kassem, which was
> unsuccessful.
> The Iraqi leader made himself even more of a marked man when, in that same
> year, he began to help create the Organization of Petroleum Exporting
> Countries (OPEC), which challenged the stranglehold Western oil companies
> had on the marketing of Arab oil; and in 1962 he created a national oil
> company to exploit the nation's oil.
> In February 1963, Kassem told the French daily, Le Monde, that he had
> received a note from Washington - "in terms scarcely veiled, calling upon
me
> to change my attitude, under threat of sanctions against Iraq... All our
> trouble with the imperialists [the US and the UK] began the day we claimed
> our legitimate rights to Kuwait." (Kuwait was a key element in US and UK
> hegemonic designs over mid-east oil.)
> A few days after Kassem's remarks were published, he was overthrown in a
> coup and summarily executed; thousands of communists were killed.
> The State Department soon informed the press that it was pleased that the
> new regime would respect international agreements and was not interested
in
> nationalizing the giant Iraq Petroleum Co., of which the US was a major
> owner. The new government, at least for the time being, also cooled its
> claim to Kuwait.
> Papers of the British cabinet of 1963, later declassified, disclose that
the
> coup had been backed by the British and the CIA.
>
> 1963 - 1966
> AMERICAN SUBVERSION AND TYRANNY IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
> From Killing Hope
> In February 1963, Juan Bosch took office as the first democratically
elected
> president of the Dominican Republic since 1924. Here at last was John F.
> Kennedy's liberal anti-Communist, to counter the charge that the U.S.
> supported only military dictatorships. Bosch's government was to be the
long
> sought "showcase of democracy" that would put the lie to Fidel Castro. He
> was given the grand treatment in Washington shortly before he took office.
> Bosch was true to his beliefs. He called for land reform, low-rent
housing,
> modest nationalization of business, and foreign investment provided it was
> not excessively exploitative of the country and other policies making up
the
> program of any liberal Third World leader serious about social change. He
> was likewise serious about civil liberties: Communists, or those labeled
as
> such, were not to be persecuted unless they actually violated the law.
> A number of American officials and congresspeople expressed their
discomfort
> with Bosch's plans, as well as his stance of independence from the United
> States. Land reform and nationalization are always touchy issues in
> Washington, the stuff that "creeping socialism" is made of. In several
> quarters of the U.S. press Bosch was red-baited.
> In September, the military boots marched. Bosch was out. The United
States,
> which could discourage a military coup in Latin America with a frown, did
> nothing.
> Nineteen months later, a revolt broke out which promised to put the exiled
> Bosch back into power. The United States sent 23,000 troops to help crush
> it.
>
> 1964 - 1974
> AMERICAN-BACKED SUBVERSION, MASS-MURDER, TORTURE AND OVERTHROW OF
DEMOCRACY
> IN GREECE
> Estimated civilian deaths: over 10,000 people
> From Killing Hope
> The military coup took place in April 1967, just two days before the
> campaign for national elections was to begin, elections which appeared
> certain to bring the veteran liberal leader George Papandreou back as
prime
> minister. Papandreou had been elected in February 1964 with the only
> outright majority in the history of modern Greek elections. The successful
> machinations to unseat him had begun immediately, a joint effort of the
> Royal Court, the Greek military, and the American military and CIA
stationed
> in Greece.
> The 1967 coup was followed immediately by the traditional martial law,
> censorship, arrests, beatings, torture, and killings, the victims totaling
> some 8,000 in the first month. This was accompanied by the equally
> traditional declaration that this was all being done to save the nation
from
> a "Communist takeover." Corrupting and subversive influences in Greek life
> were to be removed. Among these were miniskirts, long hair, and foreign
> newspapers; church attendance for the young would be compulsory.
> It was torture, however, which most indelibly marked the seven-year Greek
> nightmare. James Becket, an American attorney sent to Greece by Amnesty
> International, wrote in December 1969 that "a conservative estimate would
> place at not less than two thousand" the number of people tortured,
usually
> in the most gruesome of ways, often with equipment supplied by the United
> States.
> Becket reported the following: Hundreds of prisoners have listened to the
> little speech given by Inspector Basil Lambrou, who sits behind his desk
> which displays the red, white, and blue clasped-hand symbol of American
aid.
> He tries to show the prisoner the absolute futility of resistance:
> "You make yourself ridiculous by thinking you can do anything. The world
is
> divided in two. There are the communists on that side and on this side the
> free world. The Russians and the Americans, no one else. What are we?
> Americans. Behind me there is the government, behind the government is
NATO,
> behind NATO is the U.S. You can't fight us, we are Americans."
> George Papandreou was not any kind of radical. He was a liberal
> anti-Communist type. But his son Andreas, the heir-apparent, while only a
> little to the left of his father had not disguised his wish to take Greece
> out of the Cold War, and had questioned remaining in NATO, or at least as
a
> satellite of the United States.
>
> 1964 - 1973
> AMERICAN-BACKED OVERTHROW OF THE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT OF CHILE
> Estimated civilian deaths: over 5000 people from the subsequent Pinochet
> terror campaign; at least 1000 people missing and presumed dead
> From Killing Hope
> [Democratic Marxist President] Salvador Allende was the worst possible
> scenario for a Washington imperialist, [who] could imagine only one thing
> worse than a Marxist in power - an elected Marxist in power, who honored
the
> constitution, and became increasingly popular. This shook the very
> foundation stones on which the anti-Communist tower was built: the
doctrine,
> painstakingly cultivated for decades, that "communists" can take power
only
> through force and deception, that they can retain that power only through
> terrorizing and brainwashing the population.
> After sabotaging Allende's electoral endeavor in 1964, and failing to do
so
> in 1970, despite their best efforts, the CIA and the rest of the American
> foreign policy machine left no stone unturned in their attempt to
> destabilize the Allende government over the next three years, paying
> particular attention to building up military hostility. Finally, in
> September 1973, the military overthrew the government, Allende dying in
the
> process.
> They closed the country to the outside world for a week, while the tanks
> rolled and the soldiers broke down doors; the stadiums rang with the
sounds
> of execution and the bodies piled up along the streets and floated in the
> river; the torture centers opened for business; the subversive books were
> thrown into bonfires; soldiers slit the trouser legs of women, shouting
that
> "In Chile women wear dresses!"; the poor returned to their natural state;
> and the men of the world in Washington and in the halls of international
> finance opened up their check-books. In the end, more than 3,000 had been
> executed, thousands more tortured or disappeared.
> (End of Killing Hope excerpt)
> In the bloody coup of September 11, 1973, Henry Kissinger and the CIA
helped
> General Augusto Pinochet overthrow the democratically-elected leftist
> government of President Salvador Allende. The Fascist puppet-regime of
> Augusto Pinochet then embarked on a 17-year terror campaign against the
> people of Chile, which included mass arrests and executions, death squads,
> torture and disappearances. Many of the victims were fingered as
"radicals"
> by lists provided by the CIA.
> Santiago's national stadium was used as a mass execution site. Robert
> Saldias, the first army officer to come forward publicly without
concealing
> his identity, said prisoners entering the stadium were identified by
yellow,
> black, and red discs. "Whoever received a red disc had no chance," Saldias
> said.
> Many of the professional torturers and assassins in the Chilean military
> (and in every other Fascist country of Central and South America) were
> trained at the School of the Americas, in Fort Benning, Georgia.
> Under Pinochet, Chile also participated in "Operation Condor," a joint
> collaboration between the U.S.-backed dictatorships of Chile, Argentina,
> Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil to hunt down and murder exiled opponents of
> those regimes. Successful hits included the 1976 car-bomb explosion in
> Washington D.C., which killed Allende's exiled foreign minister Orlando
> Letelier, and his aide, American Ronnie Moffitt.
> "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist
> because of the irresponsibility of its own people."
> - Henry Kissinger, 1970
> referring to Chilean voters
>
> 1965 - 1973
> AMERICAN TYRANNY AND TERRORIZATION OF THE PEOPLE OF THAILAND
> While using the country to facilitate its daily bombings of Vietnam and
> Laos, the US military took the time to try to suppress insurgents who were
> fighting for economic reform, an end to police repression and in
opposition
> to the mammoth US military presence, with its huge airbases, piers,
> barracks, road building and other major projects, which appeared to be
> taking the country apart and taking it over.
> Eventually, the American military personnel count in Thailand reached
> 40,000, with those engaged in the civil conflict - including 365 Green
Beret
> forces - officially designated as "advisers", as they were in Vietnam.
> To fight the guerillas, the US financed, armed, equipped and trained
police
> and military units in counter-insurgency, significantly increasing their
> numbers; transported government forces by helicopter to combat areas; were
> present in the field as well, as battalion advisers and sometimes
> accompanied Thai soldiers on anti-guerrilla sweeps.
> In addition, the Americans instituted considerable propaganda and
> psychological warfare activities, and actually encouraged the Thai
> government to adopt a more forceful response. However, the conflict in
> Thailand, and the US role, never approached the dimensions of Vietnam.
> In 1966, the Washington Post reported that "In the view of some observers,
> continued dictatorship in Thailand suits the United States, since it
assures
> a continuation of American bases in the country and that, as a US official
> put it bluntly, 'is our real interest in this place.'"
>
>
> 1975 - 1999
> AMERICAN-BACKED GENOCIDE OF THE PEOPLE OF EAST TIMOR
> Estimated civilian deaths: over 200,000 people
> From Killing Hope
> In December 1975, Indonesia invaded East Timor, which lies at the eastern
> end of the Indonesian archipelago, and which had proclaimed its
independence
> after Portugal had relinquished control of it. The invasion was launched
the
> day after U.S. President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger
> had left Indonesia after giving Suharto permission to use American arms,
> which, under U.S. law, could not be used for aggression. Indonesia was
> Washington's most valuable tool in Southeast Asia.
> Amnesty International estimated that by 1989, Indonesian troops, with the
> aim of forcibly annexing East Timor, had killed 200,000 people out of a
> population of between 600,000 and 700,000. The United States consistently
> supported Indonesia's claim to East Timor (unlike the UN and the EU), and
> downplayed the slaughter to a remarkable degree, at the same time
supplying
> Indonesia with all the military hardware and training it needed to carry
out
> the job.
> From Derailing Democracy
> by Dave McGowan:
> The U.S.-backed government of Indonesia invaded East Timor just one day
> after a visit by President Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger. As many as a
> third of the tiny island's population were exterminated using American
> supplied weaponry.
> The Indonesian government, kept propped up with U.S. taxpayers' money,
> continues to this day to be one of the worst human rights abusers on the
> planet.
>
> 1979 - 1992
> AMERICAN SUBVERSION IN AFGHANISTAN
> Estimated civilian deaths: over 1,000,000 people
> From Killing Hope
> Everyone knows of the unbelievable repression of women in Afghanistan,
> carried out by Islamic fundamentalists, even before the Taliban. But how
> many people know that during the late 1970s and most of the 1980s,
> Afghanistan had a government committed to bringing the incredibly backward
> nation into the 20th century, including giving women equal rights?
> What happened, however, is that the United States poured billions of
dollars
> into waging a terrible war against this government, simply because it was
> supported by the Soviet Union. Prior to this, CIA operations had knowingly
> increased the probability of a Soviet intervention, which is what
occurred.
> In the end, the United States won, and the women, and the rest of
> Afghanistan, lost. More than a million dead, three million disabled, five
> million refugees, in total about half the population.
> See also:
>
> Imperial Hypocrisy: American/British state terrorism of the Afghan
Peoples,
> 2001-2002
>
> The Truth About American Terrorism of the Afghan Peoples
>
> 1981 - 1989
> AMERICAN TERROR-CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE LIBYAN PEOPLE;
> NUMEROUS CIA ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS ON MUAMMAR QADHAFI
> Estimated civilian deaths from the April 1986 attack: over 100 people,
> including Qadhafi's two-year-old daughter
> From Rogue State
> The official reason for the Reagan administration's intense antipathy
toward
> Moammar Qaddafi was that he supported terrorism. In actuality, the Libyan
> leader's crime was not his support for terrorist groups per se, but that
he
> was supporting the wrong terrorist groups; i.e., Qaddafi was not
supporting
> the same terrorists that Reagan was, such as the Nicaraguan Contras, UNITA
> in Angola, Cuban exiles in Miami, the governments of El Salvador and
> Guatemala and the U.S. military in Grenada. The one band of terrorists the
> two men supported in common was the Moujahedeen in Afghanistan.
> On top of this, Washington has a deep-seated antipathy toward Middle east
> oil-producing countries that it can't exert proper control over. Qaddafi
was
> uppity, and he had overthrown a rich ruling clique and instituted a
welfare
> state. He and his country would have to be put in their place. Five years
> later, the United States bombed one of Qaddafi's residences, killing
scores
> of people. There were other attempts to assassinate the man, operations to
> overthrow him, economic sanctions, and a major disinformation campaign
> reporting one piece of nonsense after another, including conspicuous
> exaggerations of his support for terrorism, and shifting the blame for the
> 1988 bombing of PanAm 103 to Libya and away from Iran and Syria when the
> Gulf War campaign required the support of the latter two countries.
> To Washington, Libya was like magnetic north: the finger always pointed
> there.
> (End of Rogue State excerpt)
> On April 15, 1986, 19 warplanes of the U.S. Air Force took off from their
> bases in Great Britain and flew to Libya, whereupon the heroic F111 pilots
> bombed the private house of Muammar Qadhafi and violently murdered his
> little two-year-old daughter.
> At least 100 other people - including civilian men, women and children -
> were slaughtered as the U.S. Air Force pilots bombed private homes and
> mosques all over Tripoli and Benghazi.
> They actually managed to hit a military target too, the Al-Azizia
barracks,
> which was Qadhafi's headquarters. On April 16 the American pilots who
> perpetrated these war crimes openly admitted that the purpose of the
attack
> had been to assassinate Qadhafi.
> For years prior to this outrage the U.S. Corporate Mafia Government had
been
> trying to murder the popular Libyan leader. Navy jets from the U.S. Sixth
> Fleet had repeatedly violated Libyan airspace while Navy ships violated
> Libyan territorial waters in bullying attempts to provoke a reaction.
> The U.S. Navy shot down Libyan planes over Libyan territory, and sank
Libyan
> Coast Guard boats in Libyan territorial waters. Here are some of the
> highlights of this American terror campaign:
> �        In the summer of 1980 the CIA attempted to shoot down the plane
of
> Qadhafi as he was on a flight to Eastern Europe. An Italian plane flying
> over Ostika was mistakenly shot down instead.
> �        July 27, 1981 - Newsweek published an article reporting that CIA
> Director William Casey had authorized extensive plans to assassinate
Qadhafi
> and overthrow the popular democratic government of Libya. This classic
> American M.O. included a media propaganda campaign and numerous "psy-ops",
> or psychological warfare operations, aimed at creating turmoil within
Libya.
> �        August 19, 1981 - Eight American jet fighters attacked two Libyan
> air force reconnaissance planes over Libyan territory in the Gulf of
Sirte,
> shooting them down.
> �        1985 - The CIA recruited mercenaries to be trained for several
> attempts to assassinate Qadhafi. One of the plans called for sprinkling a
> special poison into his food that would weaken his immune system, causing
a
> gradual death with symptoms that would not be immediately recognized.
> �        March 25, 1986 - U.S. Navy warplanes from the Sixth Fleet bombed
> Libyan civilian targets in the Gulf of Sirte. They attacked a Libyan Coast
> Guard boat, murdering the crew of 10 men. The Navy jets also attacked a
> larger Libyan Coast Guard ship. 42 men of the crew escaped into the water
> and attempted to swim to shore. The U.S. Navy pilots slaughtered them all
in
> the water.
> �        April 4, 1986 - While on a victory tour of the aircraft carrier
> "Enterprise", stationed off the coast of Oman, Vice President George Bush
> characterized the U.S. Sixth Fleet's terror campaign against innocent
Libyan
> people as "a tough lesson for Qadhafi" which had given him a "nosebleed".
> The brainwashed morons of the crew cheered.
> Eleven days later, over 100 innocent people lay dead in the cities of
> Tripoli and Benghazi - including a little two-year-old girl. Murdered by
> these American heros.
>
> 1981 - 1990
> AMERICAN TERRORISM OF THE NICARAGUAN PEOPLE
> Estimated civilian deaths: over 13,000 people
> From Derailing Democracy
> Following the fall of the Somoza regime, which had been backed for decades
> by the U.S., the CIA formed and armed the covert army known as the
"Contras"
> from the remains of Somoza's National Guard. Assisted by covert U.S. air
> power, this proxy army inflicted considerable death and destruction across
> the Nicaraguan countryside.
> From Killing Hope
> When the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza dictatorship in 1978, it was
clear
> to Washington that they might well be that long-dreaded beast - "another
> Cuba." Under President Carter, attempts to sabotage the revolution took
> diplomatic and economic forms. Under Reagan, violence was the method of
> choice. For eight terribly long years, the people of Nicaragua were under
> attack by Washington's proxy army, the Contras, formed from Somoza's
vicious
> National Guard and other supporters of the dictator.
> It was all-out war, aiming to destroy the progressive social and economic
> programs of the government, burning down schools and medical clinics,
> raping, torturing, mining harbors, bombing and strafing. These were Ronald
> Reagan's "freedom fighters." There would be no revolution in Nicaragua.
>
> From a talk by John Stockwell, 13-year veteran of the CIA and former U.S.
> Marine Corps major:
> "Systematically, the Contras have been assassinating religious workers,
> teachers, health workers, elected officials, government administrators.
> Remember the 'Assassination Manual' that surfaced in 1984? It caused such
a
> stir that President Reagan had to address it himself in the presidential
> debates with Walter Mondale. They use terror to traumatize society so that
> it cannot function.
> "I don't mean to abuse you with verbal violence, but you have to
understand
> what your Government and its agents are doing.
> "They go into villages. They haul out families. With the children forced
to
> watch, they castrate the father. They peel the skin off his face. They put
a
> grenade in his mouth, and pull the pin. With the children forced to watch,
> they gang-rape the mother, and slash her breasts off. And sometimes, for
> variety, they make the parents watch while they do these things to the
> children.
> "This is nobody's propaganda!
> "There have been over a hundred thousand American 'Witnesses for Peace'
who'
> ve gone down there, and they have filmed and photographed and witnessed
> these atrocities immediately after they've happened, and documented
thirteen
> thousand people killed this way - mostly women and children.
> "These are the activities done by the Contras. The Contras are the people
> President Reagan called 'freedom fighters.' He said: 'they are the moral
> equivalent of our founding fathers.'"
>
> 1980 - PRESENT
> AMERICAN TERRORISM OF THE EL SALVADORAN PEOPLE
> Estimated civilian deaths: over 75,000 people
> From Derailing Democracy: The America the Media Don't Want You to See
> Massive amounts of arms, training and funding were poured into El Salvador
> to prop up the puppet government against a popular uprising. Featured the
> covert use of U.S. air power and ground forces, as well as the training,
at
> the "School of the Americas" [in Ft. Benning, Georgia], of the leaders of
> the right-wing death squads which executed thousands of Salvadorans.
> Some of the highlights of the death squad activities included the
> assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero, the execution of six Jesuit
> priests along with their housekeeper and her daughter, the rape and
> execution of four American church women, and the mass execution of some
800
> civilians at the village of El Mozote.
> From Killing Hope
> by William Blum:
> El Salvador's dissidents tried to work within the system. But with U.S.
> support, the government made that impossible, using repeated electoral
fraud
> and murdering hundreds of protesters and strikers. In 1980, the dissidents
> took to the gun, and civil war.
> Officially, the U.S. military presence in El Salvador was limited to an
> advisory capacity. In actuality, military and CIA personnel played a more
> active role on a continuous basis. About 20 Americans were killed or
wounded
> in helicopter and plane crashes while flying reconnaissance or other
> missions over combat areas, and considerable evidence surfaced of a U.S.
> role in the ground fighting as well. The war came to an official end in
> 1992; 75,000 civilian deaths and the U.S. Treasury depleted by six billion
> dollars.
> Meaningful social change has been largely thwarted. A handful of the
wealthy
> still own the country, the poor remain as ever, and dissidents still have
to
> fear right-wing death squads.
>
> 1987 - 1994
> AMERICAN-SUPPORTED STATE TERRORISM OF THE HAITIAN PEOPLE
> From Killing Hope
> The U.S. supported the Duvalier family dictatorship for 30 years, then
> opposed the reformist priest, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Meanwhile, the CIA
was
> working intimately with death squads, torturers, and drug traffickers.
> With this as background, the Clinton White House found itself in the
awkward
> position of having to pretend - because of all their rhetoric about
> "democracy" - that they supported Aristide's return to power in Haiti
after
> he had been ousted in a 1991 military coup. After delaying his return for
> more than two years, Washington finally had its military restore Aristide
to
> office, but only after obliging the priest to guarantee that he would not
> help the poor at the expense of the rich, and that he would stick closely
to
> free-market economics. This meant that Haiti would continue to be the
> assembly plant of the Western Hemisphere, with its workers receiving
> literally starvation wages.
>
> 1988
> U.S. NAVY MASS-MURDER OF CIVILIAN IRANIAN AIRLINE PASSENGERS
> Known civilian deaths: 290 people
> From the WSWS article:
> "Pan Am Flight 103: Trial opens of Libyans accused of Lockerbie bombing"
> By Steve James
> 6 May 2000
> www.wsws.org/articles/200...-m06.shtml
> On July 3, 1988 the U.S. Navy warship the Vincennes was operating within
> Iranian waters, providing military support for Iraq in the ongoing
Iran/Iraq
> war. During a one-sided battle against a small number of lightly armed
> Iranian gunboats, the Vincennes fired two missiles at an [Iranian] Airbus,
> which was on a routine civilian flight. All 290 civilians onboard were
> killed.
> This act of mass murder by the U.S. has never resulted in any court case.
> The captain and crew of the Vincennes were militarily decorated. Attempts
by
> relatives of the victims to bring legal action against the American
> government were rejected by the US Supreme Court in 1993. Despite the fact
> that the vast majority of victims were Iranian, the US paid $2.9 million
in
> compensation only to non-Iranian victims of the shooting.
> "I will never apologize for the United States of America - I don't care
what
> the facts are."
> - President George Bush, Sr.
> referring to the mass-murder
> of Iranian civilian people
> by the U.S.S. Vincennes
>
> 1979 - 1984
> AMERICAN SUBVERSION AND INVASION OF TINY GRENADA
> Estimated civilian deaths: several hundred people
> From Rogue State
> How impoverished, small, weak or far away must a country be before it is
not
> a threat to the U.S. government? In a 1979 coup, Maurice Bishop and his
> followers had taken power in this island country of 110 thousand, and
though
> their actual policies were not as revolutionary as Castro's, Washington
was
> again driven by its fear of "another Cuba," particularly when public
> appearances by the Grenadian leaders in other countries of the region met
> with great enthusiasm.
> Reagan administration destabilization tactics against the Bishop
government
> began soon after the coup, featuring outrageous disinformation and
> deception. Finally came the invasion in October 1983, which put into power
> individuals more beholden to U.S. foreign policy objectives. The U.S.
> suffered 135 killed or wounded; there were also some 400 Grenadian
> casualties, and 84 Cubans, mainly construction workers. The invasion was
> attended by yet more transparent lies, created by Washington to justify
its
> gross violations of international law.
> (Added note: This invasion was not attended, however, by newsreporters.
The
> 1983 invasion of Grenada was the first major American military assault in
> which newsreporters were barred from being present. The U.S. government
didn
> 't want the world to witness the great superpower beating up on a tiny
> island and murdering its civilian inhabitants.)
> From What Uncle Sam Really Wants
> by Noam Chomsky:
> No country is exempt from this treatment [i.e. American state terrorism],
no
> matter how unimportant. In fact, it's the weakest, poorest countries that
> often arouse the greatest hysteria.
> Grenada has a hundred thousand people who produce a little nutmeg, and you
> could hardly find it on a map. But when Grenada began to undergo a mild
> social revolution, Washington quickly moved to destroy the threat.
> There's a reason for that. The weaker and poorer a country is, the more
> dangerous it is as an example. If a tiny, poor country like Grenada can
> succeed in bringing about a better life for its people, some other place
> that has more resources will ask, "why not us?"
> From Killing Hope
> by William Blum:
> At the end of 1984, a questionable election was held which was won by a
man
> supported by the Reagan administration. One year later, the human rights
> organization, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, reported that Grenada's new
> U.S.-trained police force and counter-insurgency forces had acquired a
> reputation for brutality, arbitrary arrest, and abuse of authority, and
were
> eroding civil rights.
> In April 1989, the government issued a list of more than 80 books which
were
> prohibited from being imported. Four months later, the prime minister
> suspended parliament to forestall a threatened no-confidence vote
resulting
> from what his critics called "an increasingly authoritarian style."
>
> 1989
> AMERICAN INVASION OF PANAMA
> Estimated civilian deaths: several thousand people
> From Rogue State
> Less than two weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the United States
> showed its joy that a new era of world peace was now possible by invading
> Panama, as Washington's mad bombers struck again. On December 20, 1989, a
> large tenement barrio in Panama City was wiped out; 15,000 people were
left
> homeless. Counting several days of ground fighting between U.S. and
> Panamanian forces, 500-something natives dead was the official body
count -
> i.e., what the United States and the new U.S.-installed Panamanian
> government admitted to. Other sources, examining more evidence, concluded
> that thousands had died. Additionally, some 3,000 Panamanians were
wounded,
> 23 Americans died, 324 were wounded.
> Question from reporter: "Was it really worth it to send people to their
> death for this? To get Noriega?"
> George Bush: "Every human life is precious, and yet I have to answer, yes,
> it has been worth it."
> Manuel Noriega had been an American ally and informant for years until he
> outlived his usefulness. But getting him was hardly a major motive for the
> attack. Bush wanted to send a clear message to the people of Nicaragua,
who
> had an election scheduled in two months, that this might be their fate if
> they reelected the Sandinistas. Bush also wanted to flex some military
> muscle to illustrate to Congress the need for a large combat-ready force
> even after the very recent dissolution of the "Soviet threat." The
official
> explanation for the American ouster was Noriega's drug trafficking, which
> Washington had known about for years and had not been at all bothered by.
> And they could easily have gotten their hands on the man without wreaking
> such terrible devastation upon the Panamanian people.
>
> 1991 - PRESENT
> AMERICAN/BRITISH STATE TERRORISM OF THE IRAQI PEOPLE
> Estimated total civilian deaths: at least 200,000 people directly from the
> 1991 terror campaign;
> 1,000,000 - 2,000,000 people since then from the combined effects of
> depleted uranium poisoning, polluted water and sanctions
> Like the terrorization of the entire civilian population of Yugoslavia,
the
> so-called Gulf "War" was in fact a cowardly, high-tech slaughter, a total
> mismatch of military power. 177 million pounds of bombs were dropped on
the
> people of Iraq in the most concentrated aerial bombardment in the history
of
> the world. Sadistic American forces even slaughtered retreating Iraqi
> soldiers as they tried to flee along a highway back to Iraq.
> And as with Yugoslavia, the "Desert Storm" terror campaign was directed
> primarily against the civilian population, a genocidal six-week assault on
> all the civilian people and infrastructure of Iraq. Particularly targeted
> were every grain silo and public water-treatment plant in the country. The
> assault included the most extensive use in history of depleted uranium
> missiles, and the most intensive use of cluster bombs, fuel-air bombs,
> napalm, cruise missiles and so-called "smart bombs".
> The Dutch Laka Foundation estimates that this particular U.S. terror
> campaign left behind 300-800 tons of radioactive waste from the depleted
> uranium ammunition all over Kuwait and Iraq - poisoning the air, the land,
> the water and the people everywhere.
> Afterwards, wherever the depleted uranium firing had been concentrated,
> there were cancer epidemics among Iraqi civilians living nearby. In the
ten
> years since, sanctions, bacteria-laden water and depleted uranium together
> have killed somewhere between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 Iraqi civilians.
Most
> of the victims were, and are, children.
> Since the American terror campaign, thousands of Iraqi babies have been
born
> with horrible birth defects. This is something that has never before been
> seen in Iraq.
> More than 120,000 American Gulf War veterans are chronically ill -
suffering
> from Gulf War Syndrome. A U.S. Department of Veterans study of 251
veterans'
> families found that 67% had children with severe illnesses or birth
defects.
> Even the United Nations estimates that over one million Iraqi civilians,
> including 600,000 children below the age of five have died as a result of
> diseases from polluted water - and the American sanctions which deny them
> the needed medicines.
>
> 1992 - PRESENT
> AMERICAN/NATO STATE TERRORISM AND SUBVERSION OF THE YUGOSLAVIAN PEOPLES
> Estimated civilian deaths: over 3000 people from the 1999 terror-bombing
> Weapons of mass-destruction used by U.S.-dominated NATO forces included
> cluster bombs, depleted uranium missiles, fuel-air bombs, napalm, cruise
> missiles and other so-called "smart bombs".
> 250,000 people were killed during the U.S./German-sponsored civil war in
> Bosnia of 1992-1995, and in Krajina, 1995.
> Estimated civilian injuries: 9000+ people from the 1999 American terror
> campaign alone. Many people, including children, dismembered and crippled
> for life by cluster bombs.
> In addition, over 1 million people who now live in Serbia-Yugoslavia are
> refugees from Krajina, Bosnia and Kosovo - victims of the
> U.S./German-sponsored terror campaigns of the 1990s.
> For 78 days and nights in the Spring of 1999, United States Air Force and
> Navy pilots rained death indiscriminately upon women and children, old men
> and women shopping in marketplaces, passengers in trains, people in cars
and
> buses, people in schools, patients in hospitals - anyone and everyone -
> everywhere in Yugoslavia.
> The American terror campaign actually began in 1992 with the
American/German
> sponsored subversion and breakup of Yugoslavia and subsequent civil war in
> Bosnia. It continued with the "ethnic cleansing" of approximately 300,000
to
> 500,000 Serbians from the Krajina region in 1995. Thousands of Serbian
> refugees were murdered as they tried to flee the sadistic, gratuitous
> bombing by the American-backed Croatian forces. American terrorism peaked
> with the bombing of the entire civilian population and infrastructure of
> Yugoslavia in 1999. It has continued to this day with the brutal
occupation
> of Kosovo.
> NATO/KFOR occupation troops have stood idly by, watching sympathetically
as
> Albanian extremists kidnapped, publicly beat, murdered and tortured Serbs,
> Roma and Jews, burning down their houses and dynamiting centuries-old
> Christian churches. Over 200,000 non-Albanians were "ethnically cleansed"
> from Kosovo with America's total blessing.
> As if this weren't appalling enough, a massive sex-slave trade of Eastern
> European women and girls has flourished in Kosovo since the American/NATO
> occupation began. The women and girls are often beaten, they are forced to
> live in poverty and filth, they are raped many times every day, and many
are
> murdered. The pimps are all Albanian KLA/mafia with a reputation for
brutal
> violence. The customers are American/NATO occupation troops (ludicrously
> called "peacekeepers" by the corporate-owned mass-media) and so-called
> "international peace workers".
> Ah yes, "humanitarianism" and "democracy". Isn't that what America is all
> about?
>
> 1993
> AMERICAN SLAUGHTER OF PEOPLE IN SOMALIA
> Estimated civilian deaths: 10,000 people
> From Rogue State
> It was supposed to be a mission to help feed the starving masses. Before
> long, the U.S. was trying to rearrange the country's political map by
> eliminating the dominant warlord, Mohamed Aidid, and his power base. On
many
> occasions, beginning in June, U.S. helicopters strafed groups of Aidid's
> supporters and fired missiles at them. Scores were killed. Then, in
October,
> a daring attempt by some 120 elite American forces to kidnap two leaders
of
> Aidid's clan resulted in a horrendous bloody battle. The final tally was
> five U.S. helicopters shot down, 18 Americans dead, 73 wounded, 500 to
1000
> Somalians killed, many more injured.
> It's questionable that getting food to hungry people was as important as
the
> fact that four American oil giants were holding exploratory rights to
large
> areas of land and were hoping that U.S. troops would put an end to the
chaos
> which threatened their highly expensive investments. There was also the
> Pentagon's ongoing need to sell itself to those in Congress who were
trying
> to cut the military budget in the post-Cold War world. "Humanitarian"
> actions and (unnecessary) amphibious landings by U.S. Marines on the beach
> in the glare of T.V. cameras were thought to be good selling points.
> Washington designed the operation in such a way that the show would be run
> by the U.S. military and not the United Nations, under whose aegis it
> supposedly fell.
> In any event, by the time the Marines landed, the worst of the famine was
> over. It had peaked months before.
> From the International Action Center:
> On December 12, 1992, the U.S. sent 28,000 soldiers into Somalia under the
> cover of the United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM) in what they
said
> was a "humanitarian mission" to bring food to starving people. The
invasion
> came when a several-year drought that had taken tens of thousands of lives
> was actually abating. At the time, the evening news showed images of
> thousands of starving Somalis. What people didn't see was U.S. troops -
not
> delivering food - but instead engaged in daily gun battles and bombing
raids
> in heavily populated neighborhoods. In ten months, more than 10,000
Somalis
> died as the U.S. engaged in aggressive military action against those who
> resisted.
> Resistance among Somali women, men and even children to the foreign troops
> became widespread. The Somali people have a long and proud history of
> resistance. They fought for the freedom of their country from Italian,
> French and British colonialism - and they resisted the U.S. attempts to
> recolonize their country.
> In the beginning of the military intervention in 1992, Colin Powell, at
the
> time the chairman of the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff, called the
> invasion a "paid political advertisement" for the Pentagon at a time (less
> than a year after the end of the so-called Cold War) when Congress was
under
> growing pressure to cut the war budget. Powell opposed calls that money be
> used instead for jobs, education, health care, housing and other social
> needs, and instead sought to maintain the $300-billion-plus military
budget.
> In reporting on the U.S./UN Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM), the human
rights
> organization Africa Rights stated that troops "have engaged in abuses of
> human rights, including killing of civilians, physical abuse, theft...
Many
> UNOSOM soldiers have also displayed unacceptable levels of racism toward
> Somalis." These abuses included opening fire with machine guns against
> unarmed protesters, firing missiles into residential areas and outright
> murder civilians, including many youth. The report states "UNOSOM has
become
> an army of occupation."
>
> 2001 - PRESENT
> AMERICAN STATE TERRORISM OF THE AFGHAN PEOPLES
> Estimated civilian deaths: 4000-5000 people
> With total hypocrisy the United States military terrorized and
mass-murdered
> thousands of innocent Afghan civilian people, supposedly in reprisal for
the
> terror attacks of September 11. As they did in Yugoslavia and Iraq, heroic
> U.S. Air Force pilots murdered thousands of women and children by bombing
> hospitals and schools and private homes. They even bombed an Afghan
wedding
> party. None of these innocent, civilian victims had anything whatsoever to
> do with the September 11 attacks.
> Obviously the so-called "war on terrorism" is a total sham. The real
reason
> the U.S. is in Afghanistan is to get control of Caspian Sea oil. To get
the
> oil out of the Caspian basin they have to run pipelines through
Afghanistan.
> Most unfortunate for the hapless Afghan people.
>
> 2003 - Present
> AMERICAN/BRITISH INVASION AND STATE TERRORISM OF THE IRAQI PEOPLE
> Estimated civilian deaths: tens of thousands of people
> In March 2003 the literally satanic U.S. military/government launched a
> murderous invasion of Iraq. Disregarding America's widely scorned state
> propaganda, there are three true reasons for the invasion and occupation:
1)
> taking control of Iraq's oil; 2) forcing Iraq to return to using the
dollar
> instead of the euro for oil payments; 3) eliminating the largest,
> independent Arab power on behalf of the terrorist, racist State of Israel.
> Along with its British puppets, the American military destroyed the
> hopelessly outgunned Iraqi military, once again slaughtering thousands of
> Iraqi civilian men, women and children in the process. The racist invaders
> now occupy the country and are continuing the mass murder and
terrorization
> of its people.
>
> >
> > P
>
> --
> "The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden.
> It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we
>           find him." ~ George Bush Jr. 2001-09-13
>
> "I don't know where he (bin Laden) is. I have no idea and I
> really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our
>            priority." ~ George Bush Jr. 2002-03-13
>
> "I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun in
> order to get a deferment. Not was I willing to go to Canada.
> So I chose to better myself by learning how to fly airplanes."
>           ~George W. Bush on how he dodged the
>                                         Vietnam draft---1994
>
>