For more than 70 years, the United States convinced much of the world that … it somehow needed the United States to save it from communist darkness. ‘Just buy our weapons,’ said Washington, ‘let our military and our corporations roam freely across your land, and give us veto power over who your leaders will be, and we’ll protect you.’ William Blum, Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower p1, third ed 2006
Between 1945 and 2005 the United States has attempted to overthrow more than 50 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements struggling against intolerable regimes. In the process, the US caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair.
No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine. ibid.
There have also been cases where the United States, while (perhaps) not interfering in the election process, was, however, involved in overthrowing a democratically-elected government, such as in Iran 1953, Guatemala 1954, the Congo 1960, Ecuador 1961, Bolivia 1964, Greece 1967, and Fiji 1987. ibid.
It was in the early days of the fighting in Vietnam that a Vietcong officer said to his American prisoner: ‘You were our heroes after the War. We read American books and saw American films, and a common phrase in those days was ‘to be as rich and as wise as an American’. What happened?’ An American might have been asked something similar by a Guatemalan, an Indonesian or a Cuban during the ten years previous, or by a Uruguayan, a Chilean or a Greek in the decade subsequent. The remarkable international goodwill and credibility enjoyed by the United States at the close of the Second World War was dissipated country by country, intervention by intervention. The opportunity to build the war-ravaged world anew, to lay the foundations for peace, prosperity and justice, collapsed under the awful weight of anti-communism. William Blum, Killing Hope: US Military & CIA Interventions Since World War I
Cuba: Throughout the 1960s, the Caribbean island was subjected to countless sea and air commando raids by exiles, at times accompanied by their CIA supervisors, inflicting damage upon oil refineries, chemical plants and railroad bridges, cane fields, sugar mills and sugar warehouses; infiltrating spies, saboteurs and assassins … anything to damage the Cuban economy, promote disaffection, or make the revolution look bad … taking the lives of Cuban militia members and others in the process … Pirate attacks on Cuban fishing boats and merchant ships, bombardments of Soviet vessels docked in Cuba, an assault upon a Soviet army camp with 12 Russian soldiers reported wounded … a hotel and a theatre shelled from offshore because Russians and East Europeans were supposed to be present there. ibid. ch 30: Cuba 1959 to 1980s: The Unforgivable Revolution
These actions were not always carried out on the direct order of the CIA or with its foreknowledge, but the Agency could hardly plead ‘rogue elephant’. It had created an operations headquarters in Miami that was truly a state within a city — over, above, and outside the laws of the United States, not to mention international law, with a staff of several hundred Americans directing many more Cuban agents in just such types of actions, with a budget in excess of $50 million a year, and an arrangement with the local press to keep operations in Florida secret except when the CIA wanted something publicized. ibid.
Title 18 of the US Code declares it to be a crime to launch a ‘military or naval expedition or enterprise’ from the United States against a country with which the United States is not (officially) at war. ibid.
The commando raids were combined with a total US trade and credit embargo, which continues to this day, and which genuinely hurt the Cuban economy and chipped away at the society’s standard of living. ibid.
Moreover, pressure was brought to bear upon other countries to conform to the embargo, and goods destined for Cuba were sabotaged: machinery damaged, chemicals added to lubricating fluids to cause rapid wear on diesel engines, a manufacturer in West Germany paid to produce ball-bearings off-center, another to do the same with balanced wheel gears – ‘You’re talking about big money,’ said a CIA officer involved in the sabotage efforts, ‘when you ask a manufacturer to go along with you on that kind of project because he has to reset his whole mold. And he is probably going to worry about the effect on future business. You might have to pay him several hundred thousand dollars or more.’ ibid.
What undoubtedly was an even more sensitive venture was the use of chemical and biological weapons against Cuba by the United States … The full extent of American chemical and biological warfare against Cuba will never be known. Over the years, the Castro government has in fact blamed the United States for a number of other plagues which afflicted various animals and crops. And in 1977 newly released CIA documents disclosed that the Agency ‘maintained a clandestine anti-crop warfare research program targeted during the 1960s at a number of countries …’ ibid.
Cuba had become what Washington had always feared from the Third World — a good example. Parallel to the military and economic belligerence, the United States has long maintained a relentless propaganda offensive against Cuba. A number of examples of this occurring in other countries can be found in other chapters of this book. In addition to its vast overseas journalistic empire, the CIA has maintained anti-Castro news-article factories in the United States for decades. ibid.
5th September 2016: ‘Barack Obama became the first ever sitting president in US history to visit Laos. And he went there to pledge US support.’ Secret Wars Uncovered s1e6: Laos, Dr James Rogers, History 2020
‘Over 9 years, from 1964 to 1973, the United States dropped more than 2,000,000 tons of bombs here in Laos. More than we dropped on Germany and Japan combined in World War II.’ ibid. Barack Obama
‘The fact that the war extended into Laos in such a cruel way had a massive attack on civilians.’ ibid. Michael Clarke, military specialist
For decades there had been rumours of America’s actions in Laos. Amidst fighting a bloody and public war in Vietnam, stories emerged of a brutal bombing campaign, unprecedented in size and scale, but kept entirely secret. ibid.
Laos descended into a bitter civil war. Soldiers on both sides were trained by the CIA. It’s a secret war buried deep in the jungle. ibid.
So how did America secretly carpet-bombing a small south-east Asian nation that few had heard of? ibid.
Faced with a communist uprising, his [Kennedy] predecessor President Eisenhower had sanctioned the deployment of cover military trainers to wage a clandestine war. ibid.
The Soviet Union and China were also sending supplies to different groups in the Laos civil war. ibid.
President Kennedy sanctioned a secret bombing campaign in Laos: Operation Millpond. ibid.
CIA officers took steps to cover up their activities. ibid.
The Nixon White House were determined to keep it under wraps. ibid.
The CIA were implicated in this growing drugs trade. ibid.
The war in Laos turned the CIA into the world’s leading covert para-military organisation. ibid.
1932 El Salvador: an army of peasants and indigenous people rise up against the ruling classes: they want a socialist society. El Salvador’s president, Maximiliano Martinez, suppresses this rebellion … In six days they [army] kill tens of thousands of people. Secret Wars Uncovered s1e7: Cold War in Central America
By 1977 El Salvador has seen right-wing governments replaced by military juntas. ibid.
1982: Left-wing rebels fight against the ruling military junta. ibid.
US special forces started operating in Mali for the first time. Secret Wars Uncovered s1e8: Mali, History 2020
The United States also saw a threat growing in the country from a new socialist political powerhouse: he [Allende] was a doctor, he loved fine wine and expensive suits … Under orders from the White House, the CIA and National Security Council drew up a twin track plan … Track Two of the military plan was a military takeover. Secret Wars Uncovered s1e9: Coups D’etat, History 2020
America would support the forces in doing what ever they needed to do to tighten their grip over the country. ibid.
The charge of genocide when applied to the United States has been unacceptable for a very long time. But the evidence leaves no other choice today. Exterminate All the Brutes I: The Disturbing Confidence of Ignorance, Sky Documentaries 2021
The history of America is being written in a world where few little boys want to be Indians. In 1492 neither Europe as we know it nor Whiteness as we now experience it existed as such. Exterminate All the Brutes II: Who the Fuck is Columbus
The great majority of these people did not die in battle; most died of disease, hunger, and inhuman labour conditions because their social organisation had been wrecked by the white conquerors. ibid.
Methods of genocide: massacre, sterilization, mutilation, destruction of cultural symbols, deportation, starvation, forceful conversion, separation of families, slavery. ibid.
The United States, a capitalist imperialist state. And having more arms allows more expansion. More expansion means more wars. For which you then need more arms. A profitable chicken and egg would ensue in a totally incestuous relationship between military industry and governments. Exterminate All the Brutes s1e3: Killing at a Distance or … How I Thoroughly Enjoyed the Outing *****
The symbol of all evil: it is something odd, hidden deep behind two words: Hiroshima, Nagasaki. It was said that it was a war against fascism. It was said it was to prevent further American death, but hundreds of thousands died, the accounting is irrefutable. In a chess game, the objective is to checkmate the opponent’s king. All of the pieces then become collateral. Their respective value depends on the strategic value you assign to them ...