A little test

about
international politics
 Which country
conducted
the most nuclear tests?

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 USA

The United States has conducted more tests than the

rest of the world together, and was the first and only
country to use a nuclear weapon in wartime. The U.S.
has signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, but it
has not yet been ratified by the Senate.

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 From 1945 until 1998,
there have been 2,056 nuclear tests
conducted worldwide.
1'030 tests have been conducted by the USA.

[source]

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Which president of the USA since 1945
would classify as a war criminal
based on the Nuremberg laws?

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 All presidents

In the Tokyo trials following WWII, a Japanese

General, Yamashita, was hanged on the grounds
that his troops had committed atrocities. All
presidents were complicit in some atrocities.

Further, according to the Nuremberg trials, a war of

aggression constitutes a war crime. Most presidents
since 1945 had their war of aggression.

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 War crimes of US presidents
Truman Dropping of Atom bomb
Eisenhower Guatemala, Iran, Lebanon
Kennedy Cuba (Bay of Pigs), Vietnam
Johnson Indochina, Dominican Republic
Nixon Cambodia, Laos
Ford East Timor (military aid to Indonesia)
Carter East Timor (military aid to Indonesia)
Reagan Nicaragua, Lebanon (support for Israel)
Bush Panama Invasion
Clinton Kosovo, Iraq
Bush II Iraq, (and plenty more)

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 Which country
blocked the most UN resolutions
with veto?

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 USSR

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council

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 However,
the majority of Russian/Soviet vetoes were in the
first ten years of the Council's existence.

After 1960, the US is far in lead with vetoes,

mostly in favor of Israel.

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What is COINTELPRO?

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 COINTELPRO is an acronym for Counter Intelligence
Program run by the FBI from 1956 and 1971, aimed at
investigating and disrupting dissident political
organizations within the US.
COINTELPRO included infiltration, psychological warfare,
harassment trough the legal system and extralegal
violence up to extrajudical killing. The FBI conspired with
local police departments to raid homes or accuse targets
of crimes they did not commit. Several people were killed
during such operations, most notably Black Panther Party
Chairman Fred Hampton on December 4, 1969.

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 The "Church Committee", in its final report, wrote:
“Many of the techniques used would be intolerable in a
democratic society even if all of the targets had been
involved in violent activity, but COINTELPRO went far
beyond that...”

COINTELPRO was officially terminated in April 1971,

but suspicions persist that the program's tactics
continued informally.
[source:wiki]

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 In 1962, the Soviet Union tried to station nuclear
missiles in Cuba. When Kennedy exclaimed "It's just as
if we suddenly began to put a major number of MRBMs
[medium-range ballistic missiles] in Turkey. Now that'd
be goddamn dangerous, I would think."
What was the response of his security adviser,
McGeorge Bundy?

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 "Well we did, Mister President."

The US had stationed nuclear Jupiter missiles

already a year ago in Turkey, that could strike
major Russian population centers.
Cuba, as Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara
stated “was justified in fearing an attack”. The
stationing of missiles in Cuba was “threatening to shift
the world's balance of terror to be a little less extreme in
Washington's favor.”
HoF, 392
HEG, p.

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 Which country ever
has been convicted
by the International Court of Justice
for supporting terrorism?

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 USA

for supporting the contras

against
the socialist Government in Nicaragua

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 The International Court of Justice (The Hague) ruled
that the US was in violation of international law for
'unlawful use of force' in Nicaragua, through its
actions and those of its Contra proxy army. The US
refused to recognize the Court's jurisdiction and never
paid any compensation.
[source]

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 Thousands of innocent Latin American civilians were killed by the
proxy army of the CIA, the Contras that waged its war from bases
inside Honduras against Nicaragua. The US-backed atrocities and
terror were condemned by the International Court of Justice in The
Hague as "unlawful use of force". The pretext was that "Nicaragua
is preparing to invade the US". Nicaragua has not attacked or
threatened to attack the US at any time. Ambassador Negroponte,
who is currently the US proconsul in Iraq, oversaw the expansion of
US training camp and military base on Honduran territory, where
US-trained Contras terrorists, and where the military secretly
detained, tortured and executed Honduran suspected dissidents.
[source]

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 In 1986,
the UN Security Council called on all states
to observe international law.

Which state rejected the proposition?

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 USA

“Following the US rejection of the World Court orders,

Nicaragua - still eschewing violent retaliation or threat of
terror - took its case to the Security Council, which endorsed
the court's judgment and called on all states to observe
international law. The US vetoed the resolution. Nicaragua
then approached the General Assembly, which passed a
similar resolution with only the US, Israel, and El Salvador
opposed;”
HEG, p. 102

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 During the 1980s,
Turkey was involved
in numerous human rights violations
against its Kurdish population.
The US (Reagen/Bush) were turning a blind eye.

What happened when Clinton took office?

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US weapon sales increased drastically,
atrocities reached new heights.

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“In that single year [1997] the flow of US arms to Turkey
exceeded the combined total of US military aid to Turkey
for the entire Cold War period prior to the onset of its
counterinsurgency campaign against its miserably
repressed Kurdish population.[...] As atrocities escalated,
Turkey became the leading recipient of US arms
worldwide, Israel and Egypt aside, with 80% supply
coming from Washington.”
HEG, p. 52

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 After months of atrocities in the Kosovo,
US (NATO) decided to bomb Serbia.
How do the atrocities committed in the Kosovo
by Serbian troops before the NATO attack compare
to actions of the Turkish army
against the Kurdish population?

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Atrocities in Turkey in the 1990s
far surpass
those in the Kosovo before NATO
attack.

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Turkey: “By 1997 the campaign had driven millions of people
from the devastated countryside, with tens of thousands killed
and every imaginable form of barbaric torture, ranking high
among the crimes of the grisly 1990s.”
HEG, p. 52

Kosovo: “ ...estimates that Serbs had killed 500 Albanians

before the NATO bombing, implying that 1'500 had been killed
by the KLA.”
HEG, p. 56

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How did the NATO bombing of Serbia
affect
the atrocities in the Kosovo?

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 The atrocities
increased massively

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Not only did the atrocities committed by Serbs increase
massively, they had been "entirely predictable":
«[...] it had been "fully anticipated" and was "not in any way" a
concern for the political leadership. [… NATO commander
Wesley Clark] reports that on March 6 he had informed
Secretary of State Madleine Albright that if NATO proceeded to
bomb Serbia, "almost certainly" the Serbs would "attack the
civilian population" and NATO would be able to do nothing to
prevent that reaction on the ground.»
HEG, p. 57

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 Before Gulf War II,
after strong public opposition (90% plus),
Turkey's parliament in a democratic move
refused to allow US troops in their country.

How did the US react?

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 US condemned the disobedience
strongly!

«The ground war has been hampered because “Turkey

did not accept its role as host of the northern front
forces, again for political reasons. Its government was
too weak in the face of antiwar feeling.»
HEG, p. 136

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«[...]Pentagon Planner Paul Wolfowitz […] condemned the
military, who “did not play the strong leadership role
that we would have expected” but betrayed weakness in
permitting the government to honor near-unanimous
public opinion. Turkey, he argued, had therefore to step
up and say, “We made a mistake.... Let's figure out how
we can be as helpful as possible to the Americans”».
HEG, p. 136

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In 1977, Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty at
Camp David for which Carter later received
the Nobel peace prize.

How outstanding was this event

in Middle Eastern history?

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“The entire process was, in reality, a
diplomatic catastrophe.”

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Sadat had “offered Israel a full peace treaty in return for
Israeli withdrawal from Egyptian territory” in 1971
already, but “[t]he US-Israeli rejection of diplomacy led
to a terrible war, great suffering, and a superpower
confrontation that could have gotten out of hand. But
one of the prerogatives of power is the ability to write
history with confidence that there will be little challenge
The disaster therefore enters history as a grand triumph
of the US-run «peace process»”.
HEG, p. 167,166

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 US is known
for promoting democracy
everywhere in the world.
What are the core principles of US democracy
when reviewing the last 50 years of US efforts?

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 Democracy US-style means «[...]“economic policies
that [...] enable American business to operate as
freely as possible and often as monopolistically as
possible,” with the aim of creating “ an integrated,
United States-dominated capitalist world
economy.”»
HEG, p. 69

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In other words, US “democracy” means:

(1) ac c e s s to c h e a p l a b o r,
(2) a c c e s s to r e s o u r c e s ,
(3) t r a d e b a r r i e r s r e m ov e d

for US and US products.

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 If a price was given
for the most extreme terrorist atrocity,
who would get
the first three prizes in the year 1985?

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 1. CIA, Beirut
2. Shimon Peres, Tunis
3. Shimon Peres, “Iron Fist”

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«(1) the car bomb outside a mosque in Beirut that killed 80 people
(mostly women and girls) and wounded 250 others, timed to explode
as people were leaving and traced back to the CIA and British
intelligence; (2) Shimon Peres's bombing of Tunis, killing 75 people,
Palestinians and Tunisians, expedited by the US and praised by
Secretary of State Shultz, then unanimously condemned by the UN
Security Council as an “act of armed aggression” (US abstaining);
and (3) Peres's “Iron Fist” operations directed against what the Israeli
high command called “terrorist villages” in occupied Lebanon,
reaching new depths of “calculated brutality and arbitrary murder”
in the words of a Western diplomat familiar with the area, amply
supported by direct coverage, total casualties unknown in accord with
the usual conventions.»
HEG p. 194
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When the US attacked Afghanistan in 2001,
did they have hard proof
that those responsible for 9-11
were really there?

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 Nope

The “investigators [just] believe that the idea of the

September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and
Pentagon came from al Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan”.
Even in 2006 the FBI had no hard evidence to link
Osama Bin Laden with 9-11.
HEG, p. 200

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 When comparing terrorist activities
of CIA-trained and CIA-backed proxy-armies
(like the contras in Nicaragua or in Cuba)
to suicide bombers in Iraq or Israel,
what is the main difference?

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 We or them*
The most basic principle in assessing a terrorist act,
is “we or them”. In the latter case, it is terrorism
(and well-reported in the media), in the former,
it will be paraphrased as “preventive action”, “justified
act of self-defense”, “humanitarian intervention” or
– if any of these is too absurd to apply -
“error”.
However, probably it is simply not reported at all.

* 'we' meaning US and US allies

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 What small simple step
could the US do
to reduce
the threat of terror and terror itself
massively?

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STOP PARTICIPATING IN IT!

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 sources
HEG Noam Chomsky; Hegemony or Survival; America's
quest for global dominance; Allen & Unwin
Hof House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise
of American Power, by James Carroll

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 More on US war crimes ...

Chomsky info:
Chomsky info - If the Nuremberg Laws were Applied...
counterpunch.org:
A Chronology of US War Crimes & Torture, 1975-2005
The public record:
The Fifty Top U.S. War Criminals Who Need To Be Prosecuted

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 more on UN vetoes ...
Wiki:
United Nations Security Council

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs:

An Updated List of Vetoes Cast by the United States to Shield Israel from ...

The Jewish virtual library:

U.S. Vetoes of UN Resolutions Critical of Israel

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 more ...
Nicaragua vs. US:
Wiki: Nicarauga vs. United States
1985 Beirut car bombing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Beirut_car_bombing
1985 attack on Tunis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wooden_Leg
Bin Laden & 9-11:
Project Censored: #16 No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11

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