Imperialism
Under
Uncle Sam's Thumb - The History Of
Washington's Occupations -
by Ashley Smith - Socialist Worker - April 26, 2003 - The U.S.
government established itself as an imperial power
at the turn of the 20th century with the Spanish-American War--when it
grabbed colonies in the Caribbean and Pacific. The U.S.
"liberated" the Philippines from Spain by killing close to 1
million Filipinos in order to seize the country as a beachhead for U.S.
ambitions in Asia.
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The
West has been Liberating the Middle East for Centuries - Will
we never learn?
- by
Robert Fisk; UK Independent; March 07, 2003 - ON 8 MARCH 1917,
Lieutenant- general Stanley Maude issued a "Proclamation to the
People of the Wilayat of Baghdad". Maude's Anglo-Indian Army of the
Tigres had just invaded and occupied Iraq - after storming up the country
from Basra - to "free" its people from their dictators.
"Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or
enemies, but as liberators," the British announced.
America's
destiny is to police the world
- By Max Boot - Financial
Times - February 17 2003 - The intransigence of France, China and
Russia last week makes it unlikely that the United Nations Security
Council will pass another resolution authorising a war in Iraq. But even
if it did, everyone realises this would be only a fig leaf for US-led
action. If the US does not step forward, nothing will happen - not even
weapons inspections. In other words, America is once again forced to
play Globocop.
From
Dresden To Baghdad:
58 Years Of "shock And Awe" -
Mickey
Z - Zmag - February 08, 2003 - "If war is forced upon us, we will fight in a just
cause and by just means sparing, in every way we can, the innocent."
--George W. Bush, in his State of the Union Address, January 28, 2003
"U.S. Is a Leading Terrorist State"
- Noam Chomsky, video interview with Mark Thomas (transcript), Undercurrents,
30 December 2002. First of all I think we ought to be very cautious about
using the phrase 'War on Terror'. There can't be a War on Terror. It's a
logical impossibility. The US is one of the leading terrorist states in the
world. The guys who are in charge right now were all condemned for terrorism
by the World Court.
America's
shameful Mideast history - By Wadi Muhaisen,
Denver Rocky Mountain News
22 November 2002 - [The
US has] a long and shameful history of meddling in the internal affairs of
Middle Eastern countries and this latest chapter will only add to the
resentment directed toward the US. Unfortunately, few of us are even aware
of our government's history in the Middle East, but it is a history worth
reviewing.
Iraq:
Foreign Policy Malpractice - San Francisco
Chronicle October 20, 2002 - By Jonathan V. Marshall* Regime change—the
phrase sounds so cool and antiseptic. But before Congress bought President
Bush's prescription for curing the world’s ills, it should have reviewed
some medical history on the disastrous side-effects of this quack remedy.
How the CIA
put the Baath in power - Out of the Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam
Hussein - Andrew and Patrick Cockburn - Verso, 2000 - The Baath first came to power
in 1963, in a coup organised by the CIA They overthrew the regime run
by Abd al-Karim Qassim, a nationalist army officer. The coup, and the reasons why
the CIA supported it, are described by journalists Andrew and Patrick
Cockburn as follows:
Defining Terrorism
American
State Terrorism - A good update web site dealing
with American state terrorism and interventions all over the world.
Chronology
of American State Terrorism - American military
interventions, overthrowing of regimes, supporting massacres and
dictatorships- by country.
School
of the Americas Watch - The US Army School of
Americas (SOA), based in Fort Benning, Georgia, trains Latin American
soldiers in combat, counter-insurgency, and counter-narcotics.
Graduates of the SOA are responsible for some of the worst human rights
abuses in Latin America.
The
Dirty History of the CIA
The
Secret Wars of the CIA:
Part
I
The
Secret Wars of the CIA: Part
II - The Inner
workings of the National Security Counciland the CIA's Covert Actions
in ANGOLA, CENTRAL AMERICA and VIETNAM - by
John Stockwell - a lecture given in
October, 1987
A
CENTURY OF U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTIONS:
FromWounded
Knee to Afghanistan Compiled by Zoltan Grossman
(revised 09/20/01) - U.S. military
spending ($343 billion in the year 2000) is 69 percent greater than that of
the next five highest nations combined. Russia, which has the second largest
military budget, spends less than one-sixth what the United States does.
Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Cuba, Sudan, Iran, and Syria spend $14.4 billion
combined; Iran accounts for 52 percent of this total.
Covert
Action in Chile 1963-1973
The
British Rule in India: London, Friday, June 10, 1853 by Karl Marx.
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