Basic stats for US imperialism

a reference guide for activists.

Basic Statistics for United States Imperialism

Contents:

1—list of interventions for “regime change”
2—list of air warfare campaigns
3—list of client states
4—list of states held by debt-leverage imperialism
5—list of foreign base hosts
6—list of murder toll
7—list of unsavory rightists supported
8—list of perverted international bodies
9—list of interventions for opposing liberation
10—list of interventions pre-1941 
11—list of covert operations
12—list of front organizations
13—list of low intensity conflicts
14—list of proxy wars
15—list of foreign policy doctrines
16—list of propaganda campaigns

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Why I refused to return to fight in Afghanistan's brutal occupation | Joe Glenton



At the same time as the Taliban attacks there has been a rise in atrocities. We have recently seen British soldiers convicted for raping children, as well as the stabbing by a squaddie of a 10-year-old Afghan boy. A multinational operation in all respects, the US has done its share; kill teams, SS flag-waving, photographing bodies, urinating on corpses and the Panjwai massacre carried out, according to the witnesses, by 15 to 20 US troops. When young men are shaped for war and sent to fight there are consequences – even in “just” wars. The training involves two-way dehumanisation – both of our soldiers and of the enemy – as Giles Fraser highlighted lately. These acts are coming thick and fast at the end of a long, dehumanising, failed war. Conscientious objection was a hard road for me, but while I was in military prison I received 200 letters a day, which helped. As did the support of my fellow soldiers.


 The Taliban clearly has broad support from Afghan people. Conscientious objection is a right and obligation in a failed war.

No insurgency can survive without broad support from the local population. The insurgent relies upon the people for intelligence, support, safety and more. The fact that insurgents now control great swaths of the country virtually unchallenged tells us the people have been lost, partially due to the occupiers’ bumbling efforts. The argument that Afghans are rejecting the Taliban falls flat.

US Soldiers Find Themselves Being Terrorists in Afghanistan [worth a watch]

As the US continues to step up war efforts in Afghanistan, the number of American soldiers refusing deployment to war zones is also increasing. Author and Independent Journalist Dahr Jamail tells RT that U.S. soldiers in combat zones find themselves being terrorist.

“Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.” - Albert Einstein
letssharestories: This is they way they are trained to kill no heart no feelings there is no humanity left any more they are animals and this inhuman call us terrorist huh  revolutionwatch: How war make man’s heart to stone. Real world example! danceswithfaeriesunderthemoon: This makes me feel sick. taqwaacore: One of my friends brother said something similiar to this. My friends said he needed to get some of his “aggressions off”. He said he wouldn’t care who he shot, civillian or not. This guy is openly racist & he doesn’t care about it. Immigrants must leave “his country”. Why do they send racists to foreign countries? Why? Such people are sent to Afghanistan (mostly). I have seen thousands of similar posts from soldiers over the past years. And when they do kill civilians, they didn’t mean it, it was accident, they were mentally ill. Do they even know the ” towel” they call it, is Afghanistan’s traditional men attire?. Everyone wears that, all the civilians.
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letssharestories:

This is they way they are trained to kill no heart no feelings there is no humanity left any more they are animals and this inhuman call us terrorist huh 

revolutionwatch:

How war make man’s heart to stone. Real world example!

danceswithfaeriesunderthemoon:

This makes me feel sick.

taqwaacore:

One of my friends brother said something similiar to this. My friends said he needed to get some of his “aggressions off”. He said he wouldn’t care who he shot, civillian or not. This guy is openly racist & he doesn’t care about it. Immigrants must leave “his country”.

Why do they send racists to foreign countries? Why?

Such people are sent to Afghanistan (mostly). I have seen thousands of similar posts from soldiers over the past years. And when they do kill civilians, they didn’t mean it, it was accident, they were mentally ill. Do they even know the ” towel” they call it, is Afghanistan’s traditional men attire?. Everyone wears that, all the civilians.

CNN: “No US Access to Sites of Afghan Killings”, But Did US Ask for Access?

Late last night, MadDog repeated a speculation he has raised several times regarding how Bales could have been undetected when he left the outpost twice on the night of the killings:

Given the 3 points above, I’ll again wonder as I’ve done here before whether Bales himself was an individual assigned to provide the very security that he’s purported to have breached.

The CNN article confirms that very fact:

The official said Bales, 38, was meant to have been on duty guarding the base that night, and would have had full body armour and weaponry as standard.

A point that I raised in an early post on this incident was that we would be able to tell how serious the US is in determining whether Bales truly acted alone or if other soldiers were present and fired weapons during the killings would be to observe how fully the US carries out forensic examinations of the crime scenes:

Although the bodies appear to have been buried already, we will know just how serious the US is about establishing the number of shooters involved in the attack if they actually visit the homes invaded to recover shell casings and bullets. Even rudimentary forensic evaluation should be able to establish conclusively how many weapons were fired. Slightly more advanced forensics can determine whether all the weapons involved were in the possession of the soldier who has turned himself in.

Remarkably, over two and a half weeks after the attack, we now learn that the US has not yet had “access” to the crime scenes:

U.S. military officials have yet to gain access to the sites in which 17 Afghans were killed in Kandahar, an obstacle that could impede efforts to prosecute the American soldier accused of the multiple homicides.

U.S. personnel had not been able to collect DNA from the sites or access the areas, although DNA collected by Afghan investigators may have been received, an official said.

However, DNA has been found in blood on the clothing of the suspect, Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales.

“We do not have access to the crime scene,” said the U.S. official, who has knowledge of the investigation but did not want to be identified discussing an ongoing inquiry.

With so much time having passed, it seems to me that the question of access now becomes moot. It seems virtually impossible that Afghan officials have sealed off the crime scenes and limited access there only to their own investigators, so any evidence gathered at this point is rendered virtually meaningless.

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Inside The Kandahar Massacre; Grieving Survivors Describe Afghan Mass Murder

(please watch and share)

SBS “Dateline” received unprecedented access to the survivors and investigation of the Kandahar village massacre by US forces.
Grieving survivors describe Afghan massacre; US military war crimes & Genocide against Pashtuns in Afghanistan
Reporter Yalda Hakim of Australia’s SBS network has become the first western journalist to visit the villages where a U.S. soldier allegedly killed 17 people.
In a remarkable report she talks with some of the survivors and some Afghan guards on duty at the military camp from where Staff Sergeant Robert Bales left on his killing spree.

I don't have respect for a soldier who doesn't think for themselves.

  • US Soldier: You're welcome for the freedom.
  • Me: Wait, so killing unorganized militants who the US originally supported in a far off country is giving me my freedom?

The War in Afghanistan

Please spare few minutes to watch this video and get informed.
“A video about what is happening in Afghanistan, I know it’s sad, but sadly it’s what’s happening…”

“Everything is backwards nowadays: War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” George Orwell

“Political speech is designed to make lies honorable and murder respectful.” George Orwell

Very sad, the fact that we Afghans are unable to get justice from our murderers. They are protected, their murders covered up and absurdly justified by the US government. Any crimes committed by the US soldiers are ignored and covered up or even if they convict them, the sentence given are few years, that also eligible for parole half way and they walk out free. while those fighting to defend their country their homes and their families are labeled terrorists and are either killed instantly or locked up for years. For Afghans, The US and NATO are invading Afghanistan. If it was the other way around and the Afghans were the ones invading the US even the Americans would have us killed its called self defense its called protecting our selves and defending our lands. Go back to your country if you don’t want to be killed, but us? we have no choice we are already in our country, being murdered by these invading forces. So don’t say what about the US soldiers that die in Afghanistan. All those who kill or involved in killing innocent people & children deserve to die.You will see, At first few times the Afghans accepted apologies when civilians were killed, but then when it got too much and more children were being killed, the afghans protested and no more apologies were accepted and sooner or later a time will come when the afghans will realize that even the demonstrations and protests wont do anything, it wont bring them justice, as we witnessed recently, The kandahar massacre & how nothing was done about it. So they will start to take justice into their own hands. Instead of the Taliban only, every afghan will carry a gun and shoot any US or NATO soldiers at sight, because they will be fed up with the system, fed up with no justice fed up with losing families and children.
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Very sad, the fact that we Afghans are unable to get justice from our murderers. They are protected, their murders covered up and absurdly justified by the US government. Any crimes committed by the US soldiers are ignored and covered up or even if they convict them, the sentence given are few years, that also eligible for parole half way and they walk out free. while those fighting to defend their country their homes and their families are labeled terrorists and are either killed instantly or locked up for years. For Afghans, The US and NATO are invading Afghanistan. If it was the other way around and the Afghans were the ones invading the US even the Americans would have us killed its called self defense its called protecting our selves and defending our lands. Go back to your country if you don’t want to be killed, but us? we have no choice we are already in our country, being murdered by these invading forces. So don’t say what about the US soldiers that die in Afghanistan. All those who kill or involved in killing innocent people & children deserve to die.

You will see, At first few times the Afghans accepted apologies when civilians were killed, but then when it got too much and more children were being killed, the afghans protested and no more apologies were accepted and sooner or later a time will come when the afghans will realize that even the demonstrations and protests wont do anything, it wont bring them justice, as we witnessed recently, The kandahar massacre & how nothing was done about it. So they will start to take justice into their own hands. Instead of the Taliban only, every afghan will carry a gun and shoot any US or NATO soldiers at sight, because they will be fed up with the system, fed up with no justice fed up with losing families and children.

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Truth, lies and Afghanistan

I spent last year in Afghanistan, visiting and talking with U.S. troops and their Afghan partners. My duties with the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force took me into every significant area where our soldiers engage the enemy. Over the course of 12 months, I covered more than 9,000 miles and talked, traveled and patrolled with troops in Kandahar, Kunar, Ghazni, Khost, Paktika, Kunduz, Balkh, Nangarhar and other provinces.

What I saw bore no resemblance to rosy official statements by U.S. military leaders about conditions on the ground.

Entering this deployment, I was sincerely hoping to learn that the claims were true: that conditions in Afghanistan were improving, that the local government and military were progressing toward self-sufficiency. I did not need to witness dramatic improvements to be reassured, but merely hoped to see evidence of positive trends, to see companies or battalions produce even minimal but sustainable progress.

Instead, I witnessed the absence of success on virtually every level.

Watch this video! The untold story of 9/11, The Taliban and the Afghan war to help you understand whats going on. watch and share

“There can never be “Peace” and “Democracy” in Afghanistan, Why? Because “Peace” and “Democracy” will expose and cut off Corporate America’s opium and heroin trade source, so what was the pay off for US and British War on Afghanistan?”

“With no solid proof on who is responsible for 9/11 G.Bush attacked the poverty stricken war ravaged country of Afghanistan only 4 weeks after 9/11. The US and British dropped 12 thousand bombs on thousands of buildings and homes pounding them into dust and rubble and killing 8 thousand Afghan people, 20 thousand more people died from war related cause, starvation and disease. No body made the big budget TV production out of the massacre.”

“The US and British War on Afghanistan left behind millions of starving people and thousands of women homeless and penny-less”


US is destroying Afghanistan’s gene pool water and food chain with depleted uranium.

Depleted uranium is radioactive and extremely destructive to humans - with a half-life of 4.5 billion years. In other words, it takes 4.5 billion years for one kilogram of depleted uranium to reduce to a half a kilogram - the US has forever contaminated the Middle East.
The United States’ use of radioactive munitions in Afghanistan has destroyed the people’s health and mutilated the genetic future of the country, Press TV reports.


Dr. Mohammad Daud Miraki, the author of Afghanistan After Democracy: The Untold Story Through Photographic Images, told Press TV’s Kabul correspondent on Monday that the US has committed horrific crimes against the people of Afghanistan.

He said the US used depleted uranium in the country and Afghan babies were being born with severe deformities.

Exposure to depleted uranium causes genetic damage, birth defects, cancer, diabetes, immune system damage, and other serious health problems.

Miraki has described this as genocide in his book, which provides an insight into the grimness of life under the US occupation.

He says that he has seen people die without any physical signs of injuries to their bodies in Afghanistan. “And then there were bizarre scenes of birds melting on trees,” he adds.

In his book, birth defects are depicted with graphic images. He said he was overwhelmed by the number of these cases.

Miraki noted that the US used a massive amount of depleted uranium weapons in late 2001.

He went on to say that US forces are still using these weapons in the country.

Miraki’s book also says that it was a lie that the war was launched to introduce democracy in Afghanistan and accuses the US of betraying the Afghan people under the pretext of democracy and reconstruction.