Pillagers of the world, they have exhausted the land by their indiscriminate plunder […] The only people on Earth to whose covetousness both riches and poverty are equally tempting. To robbery, butchering, and rapine, they give the lying name of government; they create desolation and call it peace.– Tacitus, 85 A.D.
The world is being led by a nation where more than one-quarter of the people have genuine mental problems.– First in the World in the Deranged: Insanity in America by John Chuckman, 03 June 2004.
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The American Empire.Imperial Perspectives (Index) by Jim Miles, 2005.Bringing 'democracy' to the world.US Military Worldwide from the Department of Defense, 30 September 2003. “US military personnel are stationed in at least 140 countries outside the US.”North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).The Bush Dynasty.The Neocons.Christian Fundamentalists. Déjà Vu Belgrade 1999 (NATO bombing) and New York 2001 (terrorist attack) in photos.
(657K, please be patient!)The algebra of infinite justice by Arundhati Roy,29 September 2001. “As the US prepares to wage a new kind of war, Arundhati Roy challenges the instinct for vengeance.”An interview with Henry Kissinger by Claudia Dreifus, 29 August 2001.A world plundered by greed and double standards from the Sunday Herald, 30 June 2002.Global Dissent by S. A. Abidi, 16 March 2003. “Americans are the most powerful nation today. They can conquer any other country of the world. They produce and consume excessive surpluses of food and luxuries, and deplete and pollute the earth in the process, and no one can stop them.”The Great Unraveling of U.S. Global Power from The Black Commentator, 24 April 2003. “Centuries of lording it over slaves, butchering Indians, and pushing aside Mexicans have ill-prepared white America to live in civilized company, much less to act as maestro for the globe.”An Economic Perspective On The War by Geoffrey Heard, 23 March 2003. “It's not about oil or Iraq. It's about the US and Europe going head-to-head on world economic dominance.”Rogues Have No Right To Self-Defense by Edward S. Herman, 18 August 2003. “The view that U.S. targets have no right to defend themselves from a U.S. threat or actual attack goes back a long way.”Madeleine Albright, ethically challenged by William Blum.Who are the most enduring terrorists? by John Pilger, 21 August 1998.Guide to differences between Terrorists and the U.S. Government by Daniel Solnit, 09 October 2001.Varieties of barbarism: from Fallujah to “free trade” in Latin America by Toni Solo, 21 April 2004.Editorial: A failure of leadership at the highest levels from the Army Times, 17 May 2004. “ArmyTimes.com is the site a Soldier can depend upon.”Reaction to Iraq civilian casualty photos and a Peace Plan by John Mackesy, 21 May 2004.Dying to See Their Kids by Kathy Kelly, 10 June 2004. “Kathy Kelly, three-time nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize and co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness, is serving a three-month sentence at Pekin Federal Prison for crossing the line at the  School of the Americas/WHISC in Ft. Benning, Georgia.”The Censorship of Al Jazeera by John Mackesy, 09 August 2004.Fool Me Twice… Shame On Me! by Jack Dalton, 22 September 2004.Will There Be A War Against The World After November 2? by John Pilger, 27 October 2004.From Haiti to Iraq and Beyond from The Black Commentator, 10 February 2005.Jailed for fighting terror by Olga Salanueva, 07 December 2005. “The hypocrisy of the US war on terrorism is revealed by its treatment of my husband.”America's Endless Race Wars and Massacres by Glen Ford and Peter Gamble, 08 June 2006. “Massacre is an acquired taste. The United States is arguably the only country on the planet whose national personality and self-image is rooted in centuries of unremitting expansion through race war punctuated by massacre.”How to lose the ‘war on terror’ by Mark Perry and Alastair Crooke, 08 June 2006.Bush's Army: a Few Good Degenerates: Rape, Lies and Murder by Paul Craig Roberts, 04 July 2006. “Americans who get their propaganda from Fox "News" or are told what to think by right-wing talk radio hosts are outraged at news reports that U.S. troops planned and carried out the rape and murder of a young Iraqi woman. They are not outraged that the troops committed the deed; they are outraged that the media reported it.”The last Mughal and a clash of civilisations by William Dalrymple, 16 October 2006. “East and west face each other across a divide that some call a religious war. Suicide jihadis take what they see as defensive action and innocent people are killed. But this is 1857. William Dalrymple on lessons from the Raj for the neo-cons.”Routine and systematic torture is at the heart of America's war on terror by George Monbiot, 12 December 2006.Delhi, 1857: a bloody warning to today's imperial occupiers by William Dalrymple, 10 May 2007. “A century and a half after the Indian mutiny, echoes of the arrogance and lies that sparked insurgency could not be clearer.”
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 THE UNITED NATIONS – SERVING AMERICA'S INTERESTS (!?) from the official site
of the US Mission to the U.N. The page has since been removed. A copy is available at the Internet Archive. Just the Facts:
A civilian's guide to U.S. defense and security assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean. from the Center for International Policy (CIP). What Uncle Sam really wants by Noam Chomsky, 1993.School of the Americas watch. The SOA (now renamed to WHISC) is the US training camp for terrorists.Hidden In Plain Sight “is a feature-length documentary that looks at the nature of US policy in Latin America through the prism of the School of the Americas (renamed, in January of 2001, the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation), the controversial military school that trains Latin American soldiers in the USA.” Arms Trade: US Outsells All Others Combined from the Center for International Policy (CIP). International Action Center - “Information, Activism, and Resistance to U.S. Militarism, War, and Corporate Greed, Linking with Struggles Against Racism and Oppression within the United States.”Third World Traveler “puts up articles and book excerpts that offer an alternative view to the corporate media about the state of democracy in America, and about the impact of the policies of the United States' government, transnational corporations, and the corporate media, on democracy, free speech, human rights, and war and peace, in the Third World, and in the United States.” Are we itching for war or just really stupid? by Chuck Sigars, 24 January 2003. 83% of Americans do not know that there were no Iraqis among the 9/11 hijackers! Who are we arming now? – “The war in Iraq marked the seventh consecutive time that American troops have been sent into combat against a regime the US had previously backed.”A Political Obituary: Powell, D.O.A. by Paul de Rooij, 10 May 2004. Declassified Files Confirm US Collaboration With Nazis by Martin A. Lee, 07 May 2001. An interview with Abe Osheroff: On the Joys and Risks of Living in the Empire by Robert Jensen.
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The United States supported and in many cases engendered every right wing military dictatorship in the world after the end of the Second World War. I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador, and, of course, Chile. […] The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them.– Harold Pinter
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US War Crimes and Crimes Against HumanityUS Torture Worldwide. “Extraordinary rendition is a procedure practiced by the government of the United States (and possibly aided by other countries) whereby criminal suspects are sent to countries in which torture is routinely used in interrogation.”Casualties in the Third World.
Loss of life caused by American invasions or by US-backed and funded regimes since 1960.Basic Statistics for United States Imperialism by Cecil, 24 November 2002.Why do they hate US? A list of countries that have good reasons to hate the US. “From 1945 to the end of the century, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 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.” America: Rogue State. “If you believed that the NATO (read US) bombing of Yugoslavia for 78 days and nights in 1999 was a "humanitarian" act, Rogue State hopefully can serve as a wake-up call to both your intellect and your conscience. It is a mini-encyclopedia of the numerous un-humanitarian acts perpetrated by the United States since the end of the Second World War.”A Timeline of the Events in America: Rogue State.Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II by William Blum, 1995.The CIAs Greatest Hits by Mark Zepezauer, September 1994.“In order to survive, nations need strong intelligence services. But the idea that the CIA is primarily an intelligence-gathering operation is itself one of the agency's greatest propaganda triumphs. Despite its name, the Central Intelligence Agency's main purpose is, and has always been, carrying out covert operations involving economic warfare, rigged elections, assassinations and even genocide.”Days of Infamy – Events you won't find in any history book.US Involvement in Torture.“ Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman or child is likely to be displaced, tortured, killed or "disappeared", at the hands of governments or armed political groups. More often than not, the United States shares the blame.” – Amnesty International, in its annual report on U.S. military aid and human rights.Global Rogue State by Edward S. Herman, February 1998.The Evil Empire and The New World Order by P. Makara.Stop the Insanity Here by Robert Jensen, 12 September 2001. “For more than five decades throughout the Third World, the United States has deliberately targeted civilians or engaged in violence so indiscriminate that there is no other way to understand it except as terrorism.”State Terrorism and September 11, 1973 and 2001 by Roger Burbach, 08 September 2003.Globalise Justice and banish Terrorism by S. A. Abidi, 29 February 2004.No More Tears: An Open Letter to the American Public by Omar Barghouti, 21 May 2004. “Is there anyone left in Europe, not to mention the Arab world, who still believes your government's policy gives a damn about moral principles or international law? Hasn't it become abundantly clear that your country is increasingly being viewed by the rest of the world, especially the southern part of it, as a lawless, immoral, bullying and murderous empire?”Pots and Black kettles: Powell utters the G-word by Paul de Rooij, 10 September 2004.Myth and Denial in the War on Terrorism by William Blum, 17 August 2003.An Open Letter to Most Americans – You've Lost Your Alibi! by Omar Barghouti, 25 September 2004.'Nobody is talking' by James Meek, 18 February 2005. “The evidence of two new books demonstrates that 9/11 created the will for new, harsher interrogation techniques of foreign suspects by the US and led to the abuses in Guantánamo, Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond. In a special report, James Meek reveals that it is the British who refined these methods, and who have provided the precedent for legalised torture.”The true purpose of torture by Naomi Klein, 14 May 2005. “Guantánamo is there to terrorise – both inmates and the wider world.”The Anti-Empire Report: Portrait of Schizo Americanus by William Blum, 18 October 2005. “Residing comfortably in Americans is a deeply held belief that no matter what the United States does abroad, no matter what horror may result, no matter how bad it may look, the government of the United States means well.”The Torture-Go-Round by Lila Rajiva, 05 December 2005. “The CIA's Rendition Flights to Secret Prisons.”Explaining Arab anger from the BBC, 20 September 2001.Imperial Racism by Glen Ford and Peter Gamble, 06 July 2006. “Racism, the ideology that came into full flower as a justification for European conquest of most of the planet, is now headquartered in the United States – with an annex in Israel. Tel Aviv is a very active annex.”
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The New War Against Terror by Noam Chomsky, 18 October 2001. Transcribed from audio recorded at The Technology & Culture Forum at MIT. The audio is also available in RealAudio format.Why Do They Hate Us. “ [After 9/11] many Americans were shocked and saying on TV "Why do they hate us?". This site sets out to answer that question for Americans and other groups who have not always made themselves popular around the world.”The United States of America: Why do they hate us so much? from Wombat Master Kennington.
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See The Bush Dynasty, The Neocons and Christian Fundamentalism.
Depleted Uranium, Agent Orange, Cluster Bombs, White Phosphorus, etc. See also Iraq/Falluja.
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Introduction to Depleted Uranium from CADU (Campaign Against Depleted Uranium).10 Questions on Agent Orange from Collectif Agent Orange.Drop Today, Kill Tomorrow: Cluster Munitions as Inhumane and Indiscriminate Weapons from the Mennonite Central Committee, June 1999.Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions of the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons.Death By Slow Burn: How America Nukes Its Own Troops by Amy Worthington, 16 April 2003. “What 'Support Our Troops' Really Means.”Afghans' uranium levels spark alert by Alex Kirby, 22 May 2003. “A small sample of Afghan civilians have shown "astonishing" levels of uranium in their urine, an independent scientist says.”Depleted Uranium from the Iraqi News Agency. A report on the effects of DU.US forces' use of depleted uranium weapons is 'illegal' by Neil Mackay, 30 March 2003.Spectre orange by Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy, 29 March 2003. “Nearly 30 years after the Vietnam war, a chemical weapon used by US troops is still exacting a hideous toll on each new generation.”Ministry of Defence ‘lied’ over depleted uranium by Neil Mackay and Amy Wilson, 29 February 2004.Landmines from the Sky by Steeleyes, 13 March 2004.Silent Genocide by Robert C. Koehler, 25 March 2004. “'After the Americans destroyed our village and killed many of us, we also lost our houses and have nothing to eat. However, we would have endured these miseries and even accepted them, if the Americans had not sentenced us all to death.'”The US used chemical weapons in Iraq - and then lied about it by George Monbiot, 15 November 2005. “Saddam, facing a possible death sentence, is accused of mass murder, torture, false imprisonment and the use of chemical weapons. He is certainly guilty on all counts. So, it now seems, are those who overthrew him.”Vietnamese Reparations ‘Tour’: For Me, A Night of Sadness, Anger and Partial Redemption by Jack Dalton, 11 December 2005. “Today I know this: what Agent Orange is doing to the Vietnamese people concerns me a lot more than what it has and is doing to me personally.”Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets by Leuren Moret, 18 August 2004. “Just 467 U.S. personnel were wounded in the three-week Persian Gulf War in 1990-1991. Out of 580,400 soldiers who served in Gulf War I, 11,000 are dead, and by 2000 there were 325,000 on permanent medical disability. This astounding number of disabled vets means that a decade later, 56 percent of those soldiers who served now have medical problems.”
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White Phosphorus from eMedicine. White Phosphorus from the National Safety Council.Is The Pentagon Giving Our Soldiers Cancer? by Hillary Johnson, 02 October 2003. Depleted Uranium Education ProjectEverything about Depleted Uranium from the UCC Cork Palestine Solidarity Campaign.Depleted Uranium weapons in 2001-2002: Occupational, public and environmental health issues. Depleted Uranium: The Pentagon Betrayal Of GIs And Iraqis by Sara Flounders and John Catalinotto, 02 February 2004. U.S. Soldiers Contaminated With Depleted Uranium Speak Out from Democracy Now!, 5 April 2004.Campaign Against Depleted Uranium. A Shockwave movie about Depleted Uranium in low resolution [945K] or high resolution [1343K]. Vietnam's war against Agent Orange by Tom Fawthrop, 14 June 2004. “Between 1962 and 1970, millions of gallons of Agent Orange were sprayed across parts of Vietnam. Professor Nhan, the former president of the Vietnamese Red Cross, denounced the action as "a massive violation of human rights of the civilian population, and a weapon of mass destruction". ” Cluster Bombs: War Crimes of the Bush Administration by Paul Rockwell, 26 January 2004.Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre: a documentary on the US Use of Napalm-Like White Phosphorus Bombs, 08 November 2005. “Today marks the one-year anniversary of the U.S. assault on the Sunni city of Fallujah when U.S. and Iraqi military forced out the town's residents, bombed hospitals and buildings, attacked whole neighborhoods, and denied entry to relief workers.”Depleted Uranium Dust - Public Health Disaster for the People of Iraq and Afghanistan by Douglas Westerman, 01 May 2006. Article contains graphic photos of damage caused to human beings by DU. Agent Orange 'caused gene damage' from the BBC, 28 July 2006.
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United KingdomThe UK has been included here in the US Foreign Policy section since its foreign policy is decided in Washington, D.C.
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The British Empire “Britain's empire was built on vast ethnic cleansing, enslavement, enforced racial hierarchy, land theft and merciless exploitation. As the Cambridge historian Richard Drayton puts it: "We hear a lot about the rule of law, incorruptible government and economic progress – the reality was tyranny, oppression, poverty and the unnecessary deaths of countless millions of human beings."”The Israel Lobby in the UKSharon's cellmate by Daphna Baram, 10 March 2005. “If my prime minister is a war criminal, so is Tony Blair.”Paying the Price: How the arms trade impacts on children around the world from CAAT (Campaign Against Arms Trade).Blair is unfit to be Prime Minister by John Pilger, 03 August 2005.An appeal to hypocrisy by Bob Woffinden, 05 August 2005. “The British are on shaky ground asking the Bulgarian courts immediately to rectify a blatant injustice.”Racism is the terrorists' greatest recruitment tool by Naomi Klein, 13 August 2005. “The problem in Britain is not too much multiculturalism but too little.”The Quiet Death Of Freedom by John Pilger, 09 January 2006. “The rights of ordinary people to speak out against an unjust war and atrocities unleashed in their name are being crushed. Fascism is at the door. Who else, asks John Pilger, will fight it?”Axis of Child Abusers by Lila Rajiva, 13 February 2006. “British Troops Beat Up Barefoot Iraqi Teens.”Islamophobia at Downing Street: Tony Blair's Bipolarity by Michael Carmichael, 24 March 2006.Blair and his Extremist-Moderates by Yamin Zakaria, 03 September 2006.Evil Ideology: Capitalism or Islam? : Answering 'Mufti' Blair by Yamin Zakaria, 23 July 2005.Oceans Apart by John Harris, 01 December 2006. “Tony Blair has been mocked for his belief in the 'special relationship' – and now a US State Department official has come out and dismissed it as a myth. So what future is there for the transatlantic friendship? John Harris investigates”There has to be equality by Ismail Patel, 05 December 2006. “If Britons can join the Israeli army, those who fight for Palestine can't be treated as terrorists.”A modern-day slavery is flourishing in Britain, and we just avert our eyes by Madeleine Bunting, 18 December 2006. “We are dehumanising half a million irregular migrants – an army of cheap labour on which our lifestyles depend.”27 July 1880. A date Mr Blair should look up by Robert Fisk, 25 February 2007.
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An interview with former Labour MP Tony Benn on how Britain Secretly Helped Israel Build Its Nuclear Arsenal by Amy Goodman, 10 March 2006. “An extended conversation with Tony Benn, one of Britain's most distinguished politicians and the longest serving MP in the history of the Labour party. Benn discusses the new revelations the British government helped Israel build the atom bomb. Benn also speaks about U.S. and U.K. relations, extraordinary rendition, Guantanamo Bay, torture, religion, and the state of the media.”  An MP3 sound file is also available.
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