To all US-allies - this is what you support
It’s time for all conservatives and liberals and professed, fake leftists to apologize for supporting right wing, US-supported tyrannies, and United States itself.
Most environmentalists are not sufficiently antiwar, and most antiwar people are not sufficiently environmentalists. Both should apologize for that, and get on with both.
Most radicals have not seen the connection between war, the preparation for war and pollution before. It’s quite evident once you start doing basic research of the issue. The US Army, for instance is by far the world’s biggest polluter.
This is a somewhat detailed, but still woefully incomplete record of ongoing US-crimes, interventions, false flag operations, propaganda, lies, deception and war crimes since 1945. The United states has invaded 132 countries since the start of the Monroe-doctrine in 1823 and has been at war for most of its existence.
Each following paragraph is worth its own articles, an entire truckload of them. All of it is extremely well documented, including through the release of Freedom of Information documents (FOIA) in the US and UK.
In Iran in 1953, British MI6 and US CIA orchestrated a coup against the government of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. The deposed Mosaddegh government and the parliament had set out to nationalize Iranian oil industry.
In Guatemala in 1954 CIA instigated a coup to protect the interests of United Fruit Company and United States in general against what they perceived as a communist government.
In the sixties the US government sent more and more American soldiers to South Vietnam to fight the North Vietnamese government and Vietcong, a guerilla insurgency in South Vietnam. The number of American soldiers grew under President Kennedy from a few «advisors» in 1959 to 23000 soldiers in 1964. The number grew dramatically under President Johnson and President Nixon. The Gulf of Tonkin false flag operation in august 1964 made the US Congress pass a resolution giving President Johnson broad authority to increase US military presence in Vietnam.
To call the United States warfare in Vietnam one long row of war crimes is being kind. The US military carpet-bombed Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, including 20 million gallons of Agent Orange. They slaughtered countless numbers of civilians, bathing the countries in Agent Orange. 400 000 Vietnamese deaths are attributed to Agent Orange alone. In the village of My Lai, a group of soldiers raped women and slaughtered men, women and children, and even animals wholesale. My Lai was not an atypical event.
Documents declassified in 2017 proved what everyone had known for decades: United States government and CIA supported the forces behind the mass killings in Indonesia in 1965-66, providing extensive lists of communists to the Indonesian army and training of death squads. They and the UK government wanted to «liquidate» President Sukarno. They were complicit in the killings from the start. The new president, Suharto engaged in yet another terror regime.
In Chile on 9/11 1973 CIA instigated a bloody coup against President Salvador Allende and his government. Anyone perceived as enemies of the new government was rounded up at football stadiums and elsewhere and tortured and executed. The new president, general Augusto Pinochet and his government continued the brutal oppression and terror regime for many years to come.
Saddam Hussein became the darling of the US Reagan administration after the Iranian revolution in 1979. The administration gave him strong support during the Iraq-Iran war, with a flow of money, credits, arms, chemicals and technology. The United States continued its eager support of oppressive regimes. Iraq invaded Iran in 1980, and had considerable initial progress. The war, however ended in a stalemate and ended for lack of steam in the late eighties.
Hussein, convinced he had American support invaded Kuwait in 1990. The United States, making use of its massive propaganda machine, in a classic example of modern atrocity propaganda, invented several stories to justify its involvement, among them Iraqi soldiers removing babies from incubators. The fake claim was made by Nayirah al-Sabah, the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. The latter didn’t become known until 1992, after the war had ended.
Hussein stayed in power during the nineties, shadow fencing with the UN-regime designed to keep him from developing weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).
In 2003, the United States invaded Iraq for the second time after a long period of accusations following 9/11 in New York City and Washington DC. In another massive propaganda move, the US «coalition of the willing» claimed that Iraq had those WMDs. Tony Blair, the UK prime minister, citing what later became known as the «dodgy dossier» claimed that Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons were deployable within 45 minutes. The US Secretary of State Colin Powell held up a model vial of Anthrax while doing his presentation in United Nations. He admitted before his death that it was all lies, and that it was one of the lowest points of his life.
No WMDs were ever found in Iraq.
President Bush admitted several times that they didn’t exist. Many of his supporters and followers kept claiming that they did. UN weapons inspector Hans Blix declared in 2003 that they had not found any such weapons.
Madeleine Albright, the first US female secretary of state was asked in 1996 about the Iraq sanctions killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children if it was worth it. She replied that it was.
Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes asked her, "We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?" and Albright replied, "We think the price is worth it”.
Depleted uranium used in American bombs have left Iraq a radioactive wasteland with major birth effects, increased numbers of cancer, renal diseases and reproductive health problems recorded all over the country.
In 2011 US/NATO decided to end the rule of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and bombed the country to smithereens. The pretext was a «civil war» pretty much created by US/NATO through a well-known pattern. After Gaddafi’s death, the country devolved into a place where disarray and slavery ruled. Under Muammar Gaddafi’s leadership Libya was one of the most enlightened countries in Africa, with extensive literacy and social programs in place. France and Norway, among others feared he would nationalize oil companies. Oil played a part yet again.
United States and CIA began its operations in Syria as early as in the nineties. FOIA documents describe how to destabilize the country by encouraging social unrest, a well-known US/CIA method. «Rebels» that wouldn’t have existed without US/NATO involvement started fighting in earnest in 2011. They were immediately and openly supported by US/NATO. Ground NATO-troops were deployed as well. Hilary Benn held a flaming speech in the UK parliament in support of bombing in December 2015. It was given a swell of support in the parliament. The bombing of Syrian cities commenced only days later, making even more refugees flee the country.
Syria has become a divided country. The north around Aleppo, one of several cities in ruins, is basically occupied by the United States and various support groups. If Russia had not intervened, US/NATO would have succeeded in destroying another country completely. Hillary Clinton spoke out against the Russian involvement during the US presidential election campaign in 2016, calling for a no-fly zone and possible use of nuclear arms.
Saudi Arabia and nine countries from West Asia and Africa invaded Yemen in March 2015. The invasion and subsequent massive war crimes have never quite reached public attention in western countries. Establishment western media has only reported it in general terms. United States and other NATO countries have given Saudi Arabia massive tactical support. The United Kingdom keeps selling weapons to the aggressors. Norway sells «military material». Yemen has been called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Photos of children without meat on their bones keep emerging, without impressing western politicians.
US/NATO stirred the pot in Ukraine for decades before instigating the coup in 2014, placing a Nazi-regime at the helm. That regime has bombed the country’s eastern parts since, killing at least 3393 civilians, according to UN. It has also banned Russian as a public language. US/NATO is to blame for the Ukrainian war.
The United States has supported the apartheid-regime of Israel extensively for decades, politically and with money and munitions.