Timeline of US Crimes

1890s - American Indian Wars, "Manifest Destiny"

1920(?)-1970s(?) - US intervention in Chile

1929-1940s - Great Depression

1930s - Military Industrial Complex 1, Military Industrial Complex 2, Military Industrial Complex 3

1932-1972 - Tuskegee syphilis experiment

1933 - Business plot

1940s - How U.S. Economic Warfare Provoked Japan's Attack on Pearl Harbor

1945-1967 - Vietnam War, Operation Ranch Hand, Daniel Ellsberg about Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

1946-1948 - Guatemala syphilis experiment

1950s-1970s - Operation Mockingbird - CIA campaign to influence media

1950s-1973 - Project MK Ultra, other unethical human experiments in the US

1953 - Iranian coup d'état

1956-1971 - COINTELPRO

1958 - Project A119

1962 - Operation Northwoods

1970 - Watergate scandal

1970s - secret wars of the CIA

1970s-ongoing(?) - CIA drug-trafficking

1973 - Prison Industrial Complex, prison industry

1979-1989 - Operation Cyclone

1985-1987 - Iran-Contra affair

1990 - Nayrah testimony

1991-1999 - US involvement in the Yugoslav Wars, Michael Parenti on imperialism, wars, crisis, politics and bailouts

2000s - US war plan against 7 countries 1, US war plan against 7 countries 2

since 2001, ongoing - Covert Drone Wars

2006 - Operation Olympic Games

since 2007 - PRISM - World surveillance program, more news and articles on the subject

"Presidential assassinations of US citizens"

Vault 7 - CIA Spying program

Everyone forgets bombing north korea into oblivion (that's why they want payback)

Don't forget we sided with the allies in WW1 because we were bigger trading partners with UK and France than Germany.

What about stealing land from mexico? We had a war over that.

I haven't forgotten them, but I simply don't know enough about these particular events. The lies and deception involved in the Vietnam War were revealed by the Pentagon Papers, as far as I know there isn't anything comparable about the Korean War out there. One thing's for sure though, the motives were pretty much the same, it was just another war "against communism", which says it all. "Lets kill people, because the have competing political and economic systems!"
This whole "war against communism" is a pretty interesting subject by itself. Stephen Zarlenga talks about this in his book aswell. According to him the whole "capitalism vs communism"-debate is for the most part just a distraction from the real issues and their actual goals. It's a little bit more complex than that. Wars are about resources (oil, metals, etc.), territory, political and economic influence (f.ex. american companies getting access to their markets -> being able to exploit them), control over the financial and monetary system (control over regional banks and capital -> debt + control over currency values and the money supply as a whole), strategic areas for military bases and espionage, etc.

Wow thats a lot to take in but I almost 100 percent agree with what you said. I don't know shit about pentagon papers so I can't really agree with that.

Some more fun facts

Truman decided to nuke Japan because he thought the US might have to invade ALL the mainland islands. OR he could have just been preparing for another war with the soviets and trying to scare them. Either way as someone with a degree in history I've contemplated a lot on the decision and have decided a few things:

1. The US didn't give a shit is they killed a billion asians as long as they saved american military lives.
2. This is the best argument for hiroshima.
3. Second nuclear bomb was completely unecessary japan was still trying to figure out what the fuck happened in the first nuke when they get bombed again.
4. The invasion of the other Japanese Islands would make Okinawa look like a picnic, Okinawans are a minority ethnic group, most Japanese on the other islands are inhabited by the Yamoto people who are much more loyal to Japan.
5. This would lead to a HUGE casualty body count for the american military and a total clusterfuck of japanese militia/civilian deaths.
6. The best argument against using the bomb is that Japan would have surrended without an invasion because the Soviets (after defeating hitler) turned their attention to Japan just before the nuclear bombing and CRUSHED the Japanese army http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_...n_of_Manchuria (which was almost entirely in mainland Asia) to the point where they might have surrendered anyways.

Either way Truman did the WRONG thing in nuking Japan as quickly as he did. he should have looked for alternatives but he probably wanted Japan to surrender to the US so we could get a bigger slice of asia to ally with us in the cold war.

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Originally Posted by SHAOLINMONK

I don't know shit about pentagon papers

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Here's a summary of the most important facts:

Thirty-six analysts—half of them active-duty military officers, the rest academics and civilian federal employees—worked on the study. The analysts largely used existing files in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and conducted no interviews or consultations with the armed forces, with the White House, or with other federal agencies, in order to keep the study secret from others, including National Security Advisor Walt W. Rostow.

Although President Lyndon B. Johnson stated that the aim of the Vietnam War was to secure an "independent, non-Communist South Vietnam", a January 1965 memorandum by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara stated that an underlying justification was "not to help a friend, but to contain China".

In order to encircle the Chinese, the United States aimed to establish "three fronts" as part of a "long-run effort to contain China":

There were three fronts to a long-run effort to contain China (realizing that the USSR “contains” China on the north and northwest):

(a) the Japan–Korea front;

(b) the India–Pakistan front; and

(c) the Southeast Asia front.

However, McNamara admitted that the containment of China would ultimately sacrifice a significant amount of America's time, money and lives.


1950: The United States provided large-scale military equipment to the French in its fight against the Communist Viet Minh
1954: The United States began to engage in "acts of sabotage and terror warfare" in the defense of South Vietnam against Communist North Vietnam
1955: The United States encouraged and directly assisted South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm's rise to power
1963: The United States encouraged and directly assisted the overthrow of the South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm
August 2, 1964: Following the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the United States manipulated public opinion in its preparation for open warfare against a Communist takeover of South Vietnam

[Comment: Isn't it funny? 1955 they put the South Vietnamese president into power and 8 years later they helped killing him. More or less the same was done in Iraq with Sadam Hussein and Gadaffi in Lybia. The US put those people into power and later they kill them. Pretty much the same was done with Afghanistan too. First they "helped" the mujahideen against the Soviet Union in the Soviet-Afghan war and several years later they have a war against these past partners.]

The Papers revealed that the U.S. had expanded its war with the bombing of Cambodia and Laos, coastal raids on North Vietnam, and Marine Corps attacks, none of which had been reported by media in the US. The most damaging revelations in the papers revealed that four administrations (Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson), had misled the public regarding their intentions. For example, the Eisenhower administration actively worked against the Geneva Accords. The John F. Kennedy administration knew of plans to overthrow South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem before his death in a November 1963 coup. President Johnson had decided to expand the war while promising "we seek no wider war" during his 1964 presidential campaign, including plans to bomb North Vietnam well before the 1964 Election. President Johnson had been outspoken against doing so during the election and claimed that his opponent Barry Goldwater was the one that wanted to bomb North Vietnam.

In another example, a memo from the Defense Department under the Johnson Administration listed the reasons for American persistence:

70% – To avoid a humiliating U.S. defeat.
20% – To keep [South Vietnam] (and the adjacent) territory from Chinese hands.
10% – To permit the people [of South Vietnam] to enjoy a better, freer way of life.
ALSO – To emerge from the crisis without unacceptable taint from methods used.
NOT – To help a friend

oh the "pentagon papers" made it sound all mysterious.

I thought most of it was common knowledge

the original false flag of the "usa" was the notion that there was any actual public clamor for revising the articles of confederation in the first place.

thus instead of the revised articles being brought to congress for ratification as was prescribed,

a farcical delegation of states ostensibly declared the old gov null and void

=the root of why George Washington wasnt the first president over here, but he was the first president of the new federal usurper.

the FBI quietly investigated white supremacist infiltration of law enforcement

You guys are all crazy!! :)

We are :D, but we have to be a little bit. It's better to be a little crazy, but also kind-hearted and caring than straight psychopaths and sadists like our enemies.

Anyway, when you think I'm crazy :P, check the following list out. I found this online and I'm glad somebody else has done the research too (even more it seems), but I haven't searched for the sources and confirmation yet. Due to the shere amount of information it will take a very long time:

Part 1

US Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction


The indiscriminate use of bombs by the US, usually outside a declared war
situation, for wanton destruction, for no military objectives, whose
targets and victims are civilian populations, or what we now call
"collateral damage."

Japan (1945)
China (1945-46)
Korea & China (1950-53)
Guatemala (1954, 1960, 1967-69)
Indonesia (1958)
Cuba (1959-61)
Congo (1964)
Peru (1965)
Laos (1964-70)
Vietnam (1961-1973)
Cambodia (1969-70)
Grenada (1983)
Lebanon (1983-84)
Libya (1986)
El Salvador (1980s)
Nicaragua (1980s)
Iran (1987)
Panama (1989)
Iraq (1991-2000)
Kuwait (1991)
Somalia (1993)
Bosnia (1994-95)
Sudan (1998)
Afghanistan (1998)
Pakistan (1998)
Yugoslavia (1999)
Bulgaria (1999)
Macedonia (1999)

US Use of Chemical & Biological Weapons
The US has refused to sign Conventions against the development and use of
chemical and biological weapons, and has either used or tested (without
informing the civilian populations) these weapons in the following
locations abroad:

Bahamas (late 1940s-mid-1950s)
Canada (1953)
China and Korea (1950-53)
Korea (1967-69)
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia (1961-1970)
Panama (1940s-1990s)
Cuba (1962, 69, 70, 71, 81, 96)

And the US has tested such weapons on US civilian populations, without
their knowledge, in the following locations:

Watertown, NY and US Virgin Islands (1950)
SF Bay Area (1950, 1957-67)
Minneapolis (1953)
St. Louis (1953)
Washington, DC Area (1953, 1967)
Florida (1955)
Savannah GA/Avon Park, FL (1956-58)
New York City (1956, 1966)
Chicago (1960)

And the US has encouraged the use of such weapons, and provided the
technology to develop such weapons in various nations abroad, including:

Egypt
South Africa
Iraq

US Political and Military Interventions since 1945
The US has launched a series of military and political interventions since
1945, often to install puppet regimes, or alternatively to engage in
political actions such as smear campaigns, sponsoring or targeting
opposition political groups (depending on how they served US interests),
undermining political parties, sabotage and terror campaigns, and so forth.
It has done so in nations such as

China (1945-51)
South Africa (1960s-1980s)

France (1947)
Bolivia (1964-75)

Marshall Islands (1946-58)
Australia (1972-75)

Italy (1947-1975)
Iraq (1972-75)

Greece (1947-49)
Portugal (1974-76)

Philippines (1945-53)
East Timor (1975-99)

Korea (1945-53)
Ecuador (1975)

Albania (1949-53)
Argentina (1976)

Eastern Europe (1948-56)
Pakistan (1977)

Germany (1950s)
Angola (1975-1980s)

Iran (1953)
Jamaica (1976)

Guatemala (1953-1990s)
Honduras (1980s)

Costa Rica (mid-1950s, 1970-71)
Nicaragua (1980s)

Middle East (1956-58)
Philippines (1970s-90s)

Indonesia (1957-58)
Seychelles (1979-81)

Haiti (1959)
South Yemen (1979-84)

Western Europe (1950s-1960s)
South Korea (1980)

Guyana (1953-64)
Chad (1981-82)

Iraq (1958-63)
Grenada (1979-83)

Vietnam (1945-53)
Suriname (1982-84)

Cambodia (1955-73)
Libya (1981-89)

Laos (1957-73)
Fiji (1987)

Thailand (1965-73)
Panama (1989)

Ecuador (1960-63)
Afghanistan (1979-92)

Congo (1960-65, 1977-78)
El Salvador (1980-92)

Algeria (1960s)
Haiti (1987-94)

Brazil (1961-64)
Bulgaria (1990-91)

Peru (1965)
Albania (1991-92)

Dominican Republic (1963-65)
Somalia (1993)

Cuba (1959-present)
Iraq (1990s)

Indonesia (1965)
Peru (1990-present)

Ghana (1966)
Mexico (1990-present)

Uruguay (1969-72)
Colombia (1990-present)

Chile (1964-73)
Yugoslavia (1995-99)

Greece (1967-74)


US Perversions of Foreign Elections
The US has specifically intervened to rig or distort the outcome of foreign
elections, and sometimes engineered sham "demonstration" elections to ward
off accusations of government repression in allied nations in the US sphere
of influence. These sham elections have often installed or maintained in
power repressive dictators who have victimized their populations. Such
practices have occurred in nations such as:

Philippines (1950s)
Italy (1948-1970s)
Lebanon (1950s)
Indonesia (1955)
Vietnam (1955)
Guyana (1953-64)
Japan (1958-1970s)
Nepal (1959)
Laos (1960)
Brazil (1962)
Dominican Republic (1962)
Guatemala (1963)
Bolivia (1966)
Chile (1964-70)
Portugal (1974-75)
Australia (1974-75)
Jamaica (1976)
El Salvador (1984)
Panama (1984, 89)
Nicaragua (1984, 90)
Haiti (1987, 88)
Bulgaria (1990-91)
Albania (1991-92)
Russia (1996)
Mongolia (1996)
Bosnia (1998)

US Versus World at the United Nations
The US has repeatedly acted to undermine peace and human rights initiatives
at the United Nations, routinely voting against hundreds of UN resolutions
and treaties. The US easily has the worst record of any nation on not
supporting UN treaties. In almost all of its hundreds of "no" votes, the US
was the "sole" nation to vote no (among the 100-130 nations that usually
vote), and among only 1 or 2 other nations voting no the rest of the time.
Here's a representative sample of US votes from 1978-1987:

US Is the Sole "No" Vote on Resolutions or Treaties
For aid to underdeveloped nations
For the promotion of developing nation exports
For UN promotion of human rights
For protecting developing nations in trade agreements
For New International Economic Order for underdeveloped nations
For development as a human right
Versus multinational corporate operations in South Africa
For cooperative models in developing nations
For right of nations to economic system of their choice
Versus chemical and biological weapons (at least 3 times)
Versus Namibian apartheid
For economic/standard of living rights as human rights
Versus apartheid South African aggression vs. neighboring states (2 times)
Versus foreign investments in apartheid South Africa
For world charter to protect ecology
For anti-apartheid convention
For anti-apartheid convention in international sports
For nuclear test ban treaty (at least 2 times)
For prevention of arms race in outer space
For UNESCO-sponsored new world information order (at least 2 times)
For international law to protect economic rights
For Transport & Communications Decade in Africa
Versus manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction
Versus naval arms race
For Independent Commission on Disarmament & Security Issues
For UN response mechanism for natural disasters
For the Right to Food
For Report of Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination
For UN study on military development
For Commemoration of 25th anniversary of Independence for Colonial Countries
For Industrial Development Decade in Africa
For interdependence of economic and political rights
For improved UN response to human rights abuses
For protection of rights of migrant workers
For protection against products harmful to health and the environment
For a Convention on the Rights of the Child
For training journalists in the developing world
For international cooperation on third world debt
For a UN Conference on Trade & Development

US Is 1 of Only 2 "No" Votes on Resolutions or Treaties
For Palestinian living conditions/rights (at least 8 times)
Versus foreign intervention into other nations
For a UN Conference on Women
Versus nuclear test explosions (at least 2 times)
For the non-use of nuclear weapons vs. non-nuclear states
For a Middle East nuclear free zone
Versus Israeli nuclear weapons (at least 2 times)
For a new world international economic order
For a trade union conference on sanctions vs. South Africa
For the Law of the Sea Treaty
For economic assistance to Palestinians
For UN measures against fascist activities and groups
For international cooperation on money/finance/debt/trade/development
For a Zone of Peace in the South Atlantic
For compliance with Intl Court of Justice decision for Nicaragua vs. US.
**For a conference and measures to prevent international terrorism
(including its underlying causes)
For ending the trade embargo vs. Nicaragua

US Is 1 of Only 3 "No" Votes on Resolutions and Treaties
Versus Israeli human rights abuses (at least 6 times)
Versus South African apartheid (at least 4 times)
Versus return of refugees to Israel
For ending nuclear arms race (at least 2 times)
For an embargo on apartheid South Africa
For South African liberation from apartheid (at least 3 times)
For the independence of colonial nations
For the UN Decade for Women
Versus harmful foreign economic practices in colonial territories
For a Middle East Peace Conference
For ending the embargo of Cuba (at least 10 times)

Part 2:

In addition, the US has:
Repeatedly withheld its dues from the UN
Twice left UNESCO because of its human rights initiatives
Twice left the International Labor Organization for its workers rights
initiatives
Refused to renew the Antiballistic Missile Treaty
Refused to sign the Kyoto Treaty on global warming
Refused to back the World Health Organization's ban on infant formula abuses
Refused to sign the Anti-Biological Weapons Convention
Refused to sign the Convention against the use of land mines
Refused to participate in the UN Conference Against Racism in Durban
Been one of the last nations in the world to sign the UN Covenant on
Political &
Civil Rights (30 years after its creation)
Refused to sign the UN Covenant on Economic & Social Rights
Opposed the emerging new UN Covenant on the Rights to Peace, Development &
Environmental Protection

Sampling of Deaths >From US Military Interventions & Propping Up Corrupt
Dictators (using the most conservative estimates)
Nicaragua
30,000 dead

Brazil
100,000 dead

Korea
4 million dead

Guatemala
200,000 dead

Honduras
20,000 dead

El Salvador
63,000 dead

Argentina
40,000 dead

Bolivia
10,000 dead

Uruguay
10,000 dead

Ecuador
10,000 dead

Peru
10,000 dead

Iraq
1.3 million dead

Iran
30,000 dead

Sudan
8-10,000 dead

Colombia
50,000 dead

Panama
5,000 dead

Japan
140,000 dead

Afghanistan
10,000 dead

Somalia
5000 dead

Philippines
150,000 dead

Haiti
100,000 dead

Dominican Republic
10,000 dead

Libya
500 dead

Macedonia
1000 dead

South Africa
10,000 dead

Pakistan
10,000 dead

Palestine
40,000 dead

Indonesia
1 million dead

East Timor
1/3-1/2 of total population

Greece
10,000 dead

Laos
600,000 dead

Cambodia
1 million dead

Angola
300,000 dead

Grenada
500 dead

Congo
2 million dead

Egypt
10,000 dead

Vietnam
1.5 million dead

Chile
50,000 dead


Other Lethal US Interventions
CIA Terror Training Manuals
Development and distribution of training manuals for foreign military
personnel or foreign nationals, including instructions on assassination,
subversion, sabotage, population control, torture, repression,
psychological torture, death squads, etc.

Specific Torture Campaigns
Creation and launching of direct US campaigns to support torture as an
instrument of terror and social control for governments in Greece, Iran,
Vietnam, Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Panama

Supporting and Harboring Terrorists
The promotion, protection, arming or equiping of terrorists such as:

. Klaus Barbie and other German Nazis, and Italian and Japanese fascists,
after WW II

. Manual Noriega (Panama), Saddam Hussein (Iraq), Rafael Trujillo
(Dominican Republic), Osama bin Laden (Afghanistan), and others whose
terrorism has come back to haunt us

. Running the Higher War College (Brazil) and first School of the Americas
(Panama), which gave US training to repressors, death squad members, and
torturers (the second School of the Americas is still running at Ft.
Benning GA)

. Providing asylum for Cuban, Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Haitian, Chilean,
Argentinian, Iranian, South Vietnamese and other terrorists, dictators, and
torturers

Assassinating World Leaders
Using assassination as a tool of foreign policy, wherein the CIA has
initiated assassination attempts against at least 40 foreign heads of state
(some several times) in the last 50 years, a number of which have been
successful, such as: Patrice Lumumba (Congo), Rafael Trujillo (Dominican
Republic), Ngo Dihn Diem (Vietnam) Salvador Allende (Chile)

Arms Trade & US Military Presence
. The US is the world's largest seller of weapons abroad, arming
dictators, militaries, and terrorists that repress or victimize their
populations, and fueling scores of violent conflicts around the globe

. The US is the world's largest provider of live land mines which, even in
peacetime, kill or injure at least several people around the world each day

. The US has military bases in at least 50 nations around the world, which
have led to frequent victimization of local populations.

. The US military has been bombing one Middle Eastern or Muslim nation or
another almost continuously since 1983, including Lebanon, Libya, Syria,
Iran, the Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iraq (almost daily bombings since 1991)

This, then, is a sampling of American foreign policies over the last 50
years. The FBI uses the following definition for Terrorism: "The unlawful
use of force or violence committed by a group or individual, who has some
connection to a foreign power or whose activities transcend national
boundaries, against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a
government, the civilian population or any segment thereof, in furtherance
of political or social objectives." This sounds like the terrorism we just
experienced. It also sounds a lot like the US policies and actions since
1945 that I've just described.

"the US has..."

can be clarified to

"the trustees of the receiverships of the bankruptcies of the united states"

and note that the emergency powers claimed by the bankruptcies of 1871 and 1933 are till in effect today

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1glTX3c8ttY

I thought "freedom of speech" and "freedom of the press" are supported in the west. I guess not for everyone.