Things to Learn

United States Abuses:

• Al-Shifa Pharmaceutical Facility: A medical facility which the US bombed to distract from Clinton’s impeachment, falsely claiming the Facility was producing VX Gas. 

• Blue Sky Memo: The plan that the CIA has if they don’t have any restrictions.

• CIA Black Sites: The CIA’s maintenance of secret prisons around the world that they refused to acknowledge for half a decade.

  • Enhanced interrogation techniques: The use of torture tactics against alleged terrorists by the CIA, without concrete proof of them committing any crimes, and destroyed evidence of the torture. 

  • Guantanamo Bay: The prison which the Government uses to this day in order to hold and torture prisoners.

  • Salt Pit: A prison in Afghanistan where potentially multiple prisoners died while being held without charge. 

• CIA fake vaccination campaign in Pakistan: The CIA’s illegal blood drawing program in Pakistan to find Bin Laden, which would later foster a culture of vaccine skepticism that brought polio back to Pakistan. 

• COINTELPRO: A decades-long harassment and surveillance campaign against Liberal or Left-wing organizations and figures by the FBI, which included the slaughter of numerous leaders of the Black Panther party.

  • Jean Seberg: A French New Wave actress whose life was ruined by an FBI smear campaign, eventually resulting in her suicide.

  • Viola Liuzzo: A Civil Rights activist who was smeared by the FBI after being murdered by members of the KKK.

• Cubana de Aviación Flight 455: The bombing of a flight by CIA associates which killed 73 civilians. 

• Gary Webb: Journalist murdered by the CIA for exposing their crack sales in inner cities, which led to the 1990s crack epidemic. 

• Genocide of the Native Americans: The time we stole the land of Native Americans and killed hundreds of thousands of Native Americans, destroying their culture, kidnapping and indoctrinating their children, raping their women, and then spending centuries demonizing them and denying the atrocities. 

• Huston Plan: A plan ordered by Nixon which voided the Constitution for 5 days, in an attempt to spy on Nixon’s enemies. 

• Internment of German Americans during WW1 and WW2: The time we interned German Americans during WW2 and refused for decades and decades to compensate the victims of these crimes.

• IRS targeting controversy: All the times that the IRS has been weaponized to go after political opponents. 

• List of lynchings: List of racist killings, typically of minorities throughout the history of the United States. 

• MKULTRA: The CIA’s experiments regarding drugging and brainwashing.

• MS St. Louis: A boatload of Jews escaping the Holocaust that the US decided to turn away. 

• NSA warrantless surveillance: The use of extensive illegal surveillance by the NSA. 

• Occupy Movement: The time the FBI cracked down and imprisoned the leaders of a Progressive movement against corporate abuse without due cause or danger to the public.

• Peonage: The United States practice in the postbellum south of effectively re-enslaving freedmen. 

• Victims of Law Enforcement or intelligence agencies

  • Abu Omar: An Egyptian living in Italy who was illegally surveilled and kidnapped by the CIA.

  • Abu Zubaydah: A Palestinian citizen held for two decades without charge on suspicions of terrorism.

  • Gul Rahman: An Afghan man who was killed by the CIA during a torture session.

  • Ibragim Todashev: A man murdered by an FBI agent during an interrogation regarding the Boston Marathon bombings. 

  • James Chasse: A schizophrenic man who died in police custody, absent of the mental healthcare that he deserved.

  • Khalid El-Masri: A Lebanese German who was kidnapped by Macedonian police during a vacation to Macedonia and tortured by the CIA. 

  • Kalief Browder: A young black man accused of stealing and held for three years without trial, eventually killing himself. 

  • Leonard Peltier: Leader of the AIM movement who was framed for the shooting of two FBI agents, using coerced testimonies that were later widely withdrawn.

  • Maher Arar: An engineer who the US and Canadian governments worked to deport to Syria, where he was tortured for alleged terrorist ties.

  • West Memphis Three: A trio of three men arrested and convicted on dubious evidence and allegations of a satanic ritual killing during the height of the satanic panic. 

• US Intelligence Involvement with WW2 War criminals:

  • Operation Paperclip: The recruiting of Nazi scientists to NASA during the space race.

  • Operation Bloodstone: The recruiting of Nazis for intelligence work in the USSR and Latin America. 

• Ruby Ridge: Federal law enforcement’s invasion of private property and murder of the property owner over a mistake they made, stemming from a corrupt sting operation.

• United States involvement in regime change

  • Afghanistan: The time we rejected a Taliban deal to give up Bin Laden in favor of two decades of war in Afghanistan.

    • Afghanistan, again: The time we funded the Mujahedeen that would take over Afghanistan and perpetrate the 9/11 attacks.

    • Maywand District murders: The time American soldiers thrill-killed 3 Afghani civilians. 

  • Albania: The time we tried to overthrow Hoxha’s regime in the aftermath of WW2 

  • Angola: The time we helped South Africa start a civil war in Angola to stop Communism

  • Argentina: The time we helped the Argentinian Junta kill tens of thousands of their own citizens during the Dirty War.

  • Brazil: The time we overthrew the Government in favor of a right-wing junta that would kill thousands over the next few decades.

  • Burma: The time we funded an insurgency against Communist China using Burma as a shield.

  • Cambodia: The time we supported the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia that killed ¼ of the population. 

• Cambodia, again: The time we bombed the hell out of Cambodia without telling anyone, killing nearly 150,000 civilians

• Caribbean: The time we intervened in the Cuban and Filipino revolutions to colonize the countries

• Chad: The time we propped up a serial rapist who killed tens of thousands of people in order to create a bulwark against Gaddafi

• Chile: The time we overthrew Allende's democratically elected Government and installed Pinochet.

• Congo: The time we assassinated Patrice Lumumba and split the Congo into three warring states to secure our own selfish interests.

• Costa Rica: The time we supported a right-wing self-coup in Costa Rica which led to a Civil War.

• Cuba: The time the CIA invaded Cuba, tried to assassinate Castro, and committed continuous terrorism in an attempt to topple Castro's regime in Cuba.

  • • • • Cuba, again: The time we helped separate families using unsubstantiated rumors to get parents to send their children to the United States.

• Cyprus: The time we supported the coup that led to the invasion and decades-long occupation of Northern Cyprus by Turkey.  

• Dominican Republic: The time we intervened in a civil war to stop Communist forces, in the process helping lay the groundwork for the Balaguer regime.

• Greece: The time we helped crush an uprising by the people of Greece in response to the killers of peaceful protesters.

• Grenada: The time we invaded Grenada to distract from the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, in the process killing dozens of civilians and bombing a hospital. [S]

• Guatemala: The time Chiquita convinced the US government to overthrow the democratically elected Government of Guatemala to boost their productivity, setting in motion the Guatemalan Civil War.

  • Guatemalan Genocide: The time the United States supported the genocide of the Mayan people of Guatemala.

• Hawaii: The time we overthrew the monarchy of Hawaii in order to take over the islands. 

• Haiti: The time we helped overthrow Haiti and then reversed the coup to look heroic. 

  • Haiti, again: The time we helped overthrow Haiti, AGAIN.

• Honduras: The time we overthrew the Government of Honduras. 

• Indonesia: The time we helped Indonesia kill over a million people to prevent the rise of Communism.

  • East Timor: The time we helped Indonesia invade and commit genocide against the East Timorese.

  • West New Guinea: The time we helped engineer the Indonesian takeover of Western New Guinea that has now killed over half a million people. 

• Iran: The time America and the UK overthrew the Government of Iran due to their nationalization of oil, which set in motion the chain of events that led to the Iranian Revolution, Iran-Iraq War, the formation of the Axis of Resistance, and the frequent massacres in Iran of protestors.

• Iraq: The time we helped prop up Saddam Hussein’s regime, then several decades later used lies about WMDs to invade the country, kill a million people, and pave the way f0r the rise of ISIS, triggering another war in the country. 

  • Nayirah Testimony: The time we used a false testimony to invade Iraq, leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians in Iraq. 

  • Operation Desert Fox: The time we bombed Iraq during the no-fly zone campaigns which killed thousands of civilians, all to distract from Clinton's impeachment.

  • Nisour Square massacre: The time Blackrock contractors killed over a dozen Iraqi civilians for sport. 

  • Prison Abuse: The literal dozens of times mass abuse at prison camps occurred in post-invasion Iraq.

• Italy: The time we rigged elections in Italy and also helped fuel the violence during the Years of lead.

• Japan: The time American soldiers committed mass rape against Japanese women while occupying the islands.

  • • • • 1995 Okinawa rape incident: The time three American servicemen raped an Okinawan pre-teen and the US tried to protect them when Japanese police went after them.

        • Murder of Yoshie Sato: The murder of a Japanese woman by a US soldier who had been accosting her.

        • Girard incident: The time a US soldier killed a woman for his own amusement. 

        • 1945 Katsuyama killing incident: The time three US servicemen terrorized a village in Japan every week by stealing and raping their woman, before they were finally killed for their crimes.

        • Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident: The time US soldier attempted to rape a bartender in Japan.

        • Yumiko-chan incident: The time a 5-year-old girl was raped and murdered by a US soldier in Japan. 

• Kurdistan: The time we helped fund the Anfal Campaign which killed nearly 200,000 Kurds during the Iran-Iraq War.

• Latin America: The time we subjugated Central American and the Caribbean in support of the United Fruit Company and other corporations for decades, occupying countries 

  • Latin America, again: The time we supported a continent-wide terror operation in partnership with over a dozen military juntas. 

• Libya: The time the United States overthrew Gaddafi because he attempted to create a Pan-African currency that would have saved the continent from western corporatism, destabilizing the country and starting a conflict that has killed hundreds of thousands. 

  • • • • Libya, again: The time we bombed Gaddafi's home, killing 15 civilians in the process, as revenge for a bombing he was never even remotely involved in. 

        • Libya, for a third time: The time the CIA and MI6 helped support Gaddafi’s racist, authoritarian regime by sending terrorism suspects there to be tortured. 

• Mexico: The time America invaded Mexico, raided farms and murdered civilians, and took nearly half the country's land.

  • • • • Mexico, again: The time we helped support the Porfiriato dictatorship, which would eventually lead to the Mexican Revolution that killed over a million people...all because we wanted to protect capital.

        • Mexican Dirty War: The time the US provided arms for the Mexican government to massacre leftists and protesters, such as during the Tlatelolco massacre.

• Nicaragua: The time we funded the civilian-slaughtering Contras in Nicaragua to fight the Sandinistas, who were actively modernizing the country at the time, and possibly contributed to drug trafficking in the country. 

• Panama: The time we invaded Panama and wrecked their infrastructure and development to get their dictator who went rogue against us.

  • Panama Crisis: The time we helped crush a rebellion in Panama against Colombia. 

• Philippines: The time we wreaked havoc on the Philippines, employing massacres and concentration camps to subjugate the population. 

  • • • • Killing of Jennifer Laude: The time a Marine murdered a trans woman for her gender identity and then tried to use the trans panic defense in court. 

• Rwanda: The time the United States deliberately ignored the Genocide that occurred in Rwanda. 

• Samoa: The time we fueled a civil war in an attempt to gain influence over Samoa. 

• Somalia: The time we invaded Somalia and got tens of thousands of civilians killed in the process.

• South Africa: The time we supported and facilitated apartheid in South Africa, hoping to use South Africa as a proxy in the Cold War.

• South Korea: The time we propped up Syngman Rhee as the President and helped him murder hundreds of thousands of civilians.

  • • • • Murder of Yun Geum-i: A South Korean sex worker murdered by a US serviceman.

        • United States military and prostitution in South Korea: The vast prostitution and human trafficking that soldiers in the post-WW2 occupation force partook in. 

• Syria: The time we helped overthrow the Syrian Government, TWICE, and laid the foundation for the regime that started the 2011 Civil War.

• Venezuela: The time we terrorized Venezuela, bombing fisher boats, kidnapping the president, and forcing the country to open up to oil companies.

• Vietnam: The time we entered Vietnam, killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, massacred villages for sport, and drafted millions of young men, many of whom were intellectually or physically disabled (McNamara’s morons) to fight this war that the Government knew was unwinnable.

  • Gulf of Tonkin incident: The staged incident which the Government used to get us into the Vietnam War. 

• Vault 7: A leak of classified CIA documents revealing the extent of their wiretapping and illegal surveillance operations on US civilians. 

• War on Drugs: The effects of the War on Drugs which have destroyed the black community with incarceration, the decline of legitimate opportunities, an explosion in single parent families, the rise of the prison-industrial complex, and made racist, violent law enforcement action on a nationwide scale the norm for decades after Reagan. 

• Wrongful Convictions in the United States: The thousands of wrongful convictions that have occurred in the United States and been enforced for decades by the Government before they concede or let the wrongfully convicted die in prison. 

Israeli Abuses:

• Apollo Affair: The time Israel took enough uranium from a company to make over 200 nuclear warheads.

  • Samson Option: Israel’s strategy to start a nuclear war in case they are strategically defeated and/or occupied.

  • Chemical Weapons program: Israel’s holding and use of chemical and biological weapons, including white phosphorus. 

  • Nuclear Weapons program: Israel’s holding of potentially hundreds of nuclear warheads, while denying their existence and refusing to sign security treaties on nukes.

    • Mordecai Vanunu: The man who revealed Israel’s nuclear weapons program to the world, who was kidnapped and convicted in a secret trial by the Mossad. 

• Birth control for Ethiopians: The time Israel gave Ethiopian Jews birth control without their consent to control their population. 

• Guatemalan Genocide: The time Israel funded the killings of the Mayan people in Guatemala during the Civil War.

  • Military Support to Dictatorships: The times Israel funded dictatorships that massacred their own people. 

• Lavon Affair: The time Israel tried to bomb Egypt and blame it on Arabs.

• Lebanon Occupation: The time Israel invaded and occupied Lebanon for nearly 20 years, leading to tens of thousands of civilian deaths and the rise of Hezbollah.

  • Lebanon Pager Explosions: The time Israel detonated hundreds of pagers across Lebanon, killing or injuring thousands of civilians.

  • Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners: The time Israel propped up a xenophobic terrorist organization in Lebanon.

• List of Massacres in Palestine: An incomplete list of all the atrocities that Zionists have carried out in their pursuit of the Israeli dream. 

  • Operation Cast Thy Bread: The use of biological warfare by Zionists against Palestinian villages and wells.  

• Netanyahu's Holocaust revisionism: The time Netanyahu tried to claim Palestinians convinced the Nazis to perpetrate the Holocaust.

  • Arab and Muslim rescue efforts during the Holocaust: The time Muslims saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, a fact that Zionists and their supporters ignore and continue to ignore after betraying the same people who saved them from the Axis. 

• Proxies Against Iran: The times Israel has set up false flag operations against Iran or murdered nuclear scientists.

• Rachel Corrie: A Pro-Palestinian activist who was bulldozed during a raid on a West Bank village, and later had her memory insulted by the IDF by making pancakes of her. 

Corporate Abuses: 

• Bacon’s Rebellion: The time that the rich and powerful, in an attempt to curtail revolts against them, effectively invented the modern concept of racism in an attempt to divide and conquer. 

• Business collaboration with Nazi Germany: The time businesses and banks sold out the world and collaborated with Nazi Germany.

• Business Plot: The 1933 attempt by Wall Street to overthrow FDR and replace him with a fascist military dictator.

• Colombia Conflict: The decades-long conflict in Colombia that has been funded by US corporations and the United States Government.

• Economic development, political-economic system, and the physical quality of life: A paper from the Reagan Administration, citing sources from the World Bank, at the time controlled by a Republican Congressman, comparing the living standards of Capitalist and Socialist countries. 

• Great Recession: The time Bankers, in an attempt to rip working families off, created a massive housing bubble that burst and nearly collapsed the whole economy, before they were bailed out by western Governments for gambling and losing.

• Panama Papers: A series of leaks exposing mass tax evasion and offshoring by companies. 

  • Daphne Caruana Galizia: Journalist murdered for helping to break the Panama Papers.

• Pandora Papers: Another series of leaks exposing effectively the same thing as the Panama papers, although now including mass abuses by leaders.

  • Subprime Mortgage Crisis: The time US investors crashed the global economy, destroyed the economies of nations like Greece, accelerated authoritarianism across the world, and permanently damaged the working class of America over greed, while getting bailed out in response.

• Slavery in the 21st century: The fact that all over the world, global corporations perpetrate the enslavement of over 50 million people without any consequences.

• The Death Toll of Capitalism: The fact that every year, tens of millions are killed by starvation, water shortages, and other atrocities of poverty, atrocities that Capitalism allows to happen every single day and even benefits from.

• Ugly laws: Laws employed in the United States to crack down on the poor and homeless by prohibiting, "Unsightly" people from appearing in public.

Revolutionaries murdered by the Right-Wing or Capitalists:

• Abdel Khaliq Mahjub: Opponent of the pro-US Nimeiry regime who was executed for his opposition.  

• Amilcar Cabral: One of the leaders of the African revolution against Portugal, who was likely murdered by Portuguese agents.

• Chris Hani: One of the foremost members of the anti-apartheid movement who was murdered by an assassin who claims the Conservative, pro-apartheid party of South Africa put him up to it.

• Dedan Kimathi: One of the leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising, who was executed by British colonial forces.

• Eduardo Mondlane: The founder of FRELIMO who helped fight for the independence of Mozambique and was murdered with a packaged bomb in retaliation.

• Felix-Roland Moumie: One of the leaders of Cameroon’s independence movement who was murdered by a French agent. 

• Herbert Chitepo: The leader of ZANU who was assassinated by an SAS officer.

• Jorge Eliecer Gaitan: The head of the Liberals in Colombia who was murdered right before the 1948 election, allegedly by US-backed forces, which would kick off La Violencia and the Colombia Conflict.

• Maximiliano Gomez: A revolutionary against the Dominican Republic’s tyranny under Rafael Trujillo and Joaquin Balaguer who was poisoned by the Government.

• Mehdi Ben Barka: A leading opponent of French imperialism in Morocco, disappeared and likely murdered by French forces. 

• Oscar Romero: Effectively the patron saint of the Americas who was murdered for speaking out against the violence of the Guatemalan Civil War.

• Ruben Um Nyobe: A trade union leader in Cameroon who was slaughtered by French forces. 

• Thomas Sankara: The leader of Burkina Faso who helped modernize the country and was murdered by western-backed forces in a coup. 

• Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III: Key figure and leader of the Mau Movement for Samoan independence, murdered by New Zealand colonial police. 

• Yasser Arafat: The man who led Palestine from the 1970s to the 1990s, who was cut off from medical services as he was dying.