Terrorism from USA: Misery US Americans Have Done to the World
Agent Orange
A disfigured arm of a Vietnamese boy disabled by Agent Orange strokes another victim in a Ho Chi Minh City hospital, February 25, 2005. On Monday, a New York court will begin hearing a lawsuit brought by more than 100 Vietnamese seeking compensation and a clean-up of contaminated areas from more than 30 firms, among them Dow Chemical Co and Monsanto Co, the largest makers of Agent Orange. Agent Orange, named after the colour of its containers, is blamed for nightmarish birth defects in Vietnam where babies appeared with two heads or without eyes or arms. REUTERS/Adrees Latif (Fri Feb 25,12:43 AM ET)
Wikipedia on Agent Orange. Quote:
Agent Orange is the code name for one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971. Vietnam estimates 400,000 people were killed or maimed, and 500,000 children born with birth defects.[1]
Much more photos of Agent Orange deformities at: Source flickr.com
My Lai Massacre
[My Lai massacre] ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre ), quote:
The My Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass murder of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968, by United States Army soldiers of “Charlie” Company of 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the Americal Division. Most of the victims were women, children (including babies), and elderly people. Many were raped, beaten, and tortured, and some of the bodies were later found to be mutilated.[2] While 26 US soldiers were initially charged with criminal offenses for their actions at Mỹ Lai, only Second Lieutenant William Calley, a platoon leader in Charlie Company, was convicted. Found guilty of killing 22 villagers, he was originally given a life sentence, but only served three and a half years under house arrest.
My Pleasure of Your Pain
More photos and other sites:
- Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse reports
- The Abu Ghraib files By Joan Walsh. At
http://www.salon.com/news/abu_ghraib/2006/03/14/introduction/index.html - Iraq: Torture not isolated -- independent investigations vital By Amnesty International (Index Number: Mde 14/017/2004). At
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE140172004 - SBS DATELINE Abu Ghraib Report By Mark Pesce. At
http://www.webearth.org/sbs.html http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/iraqis_tortured/
See also: A Love of Torture.
a Bird of Prey
The Hawking WASP is not just a 21st century phenomenon:
- It is the nation that committed the greatest genocide in history, by far.
- the first and only nation ever used weapons of mass destruction.
- the greatest slave importer and user in human history.
- the one who possesses the greatest Weapons of Mass Destructions today, chemical, biological, nuclear, by far.
- Its military spending equals to the combined military spending of the rest of the world.
“The destruction of the Indians of the Americas was, far and away, the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world.” -- David Stannard , American Holocaust. (1992)
See also Wikipedia on The White Man's Burden.
Killing Hope
Discovered 2 books by William Blum (born 1933).
Wikipedia info: Killing Hope. Quote:
Noam Chomsky called it “Far and away the best book on the topic.”[1] Former CIA officer John Stockwell called it “The single most useful summary of CIA history.” [2]
Website:
http://www.killinghope.org/
Wikipedia info: Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower. Quote:
It was mentioned in a speech attributed to Osama bin Laden broadcast on January 19, 2006. Bin Laden stated: “If Bush carries on with his lies and oppression, it would be useful for you to read the book The Rogue State.” Sales subsequently soared.
Noam Chomsky on Death of Osama Bin Laden
Regarding the death of Osama Bin Laden, Chomsky stated: “We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. Uncontroversially, his crimes vastly exceed bin Laden's, and he is not a ‘suspect’ but uncontroversially the ‘decider’ who gave the orders to commit the ‘supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole’ (quoting the Nuremberg Tribunal) for which Nazi criminals were hanged: the hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees, destruction of much of the country, [and] the bitter sectarian conflict that has now spread to the rest of the region.”[86]
[from Wikipedia]