Thursday 21 September 2017

The Savagery Of The American Empire.


         I don’t believe that the most of the general public grasp the full extent of American imperialism and the scale of its savage barbarity, or they would rise up with fury and revulsion and tear it apart. Ever since its independence from British imperialism, America has steadily built its own empire. Always with ruthlessness and no regard for civilian populations. Today it is the most powerful imperial power on the planet, and it will defend and expand this position with unimaginable weaponry, used with savage brutality, against civilian populations. In its imperial logic, to rid itself of an annoying leader, it is acceptable and probably necessary to destroy a country, slaughter its population and obliterate its infrastructure. It will then call the result a victory and a success, once it has replaced the annoying leader with a more subservient puppet. 
        A small list of the countries that have felt the wrath of the American empire since 1980 is a lesson in geography:
Iran (1980, 1987-1988),
Libya (1981, 1986, 1989, 2011),
Lebanon (1983),
Kuwait (1991),
Iraq (1991-2011, 2014-),
Somalia (1992-1993, 2007-),
Bosnia (1995),
Saudi Arabia (1991, 1996),
Afghanistan (1998, 2001-),
Sudan (1998),
Kosovo (1999),
Yemen (2000, 2002-),
Pakistan (2004-)
Syria, ongoing.
        Not only does the American empire spend more of its taxpayers money on weaponry than any other country on earth, with, by far, the largest military budget of any nation, it also has more of its troops on foreign soil that any other nation. All this to defend its power over its empire.
         For a more detailed look at the savagery and vicious enforcement of its power over its empire it is worth reading Zoltan Grossman’s A BRIEFING ON THE HISTORY OF U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTIONS.
         Since the September 11 attacks on the United States, most people in the world agree that the perpetrators need to be brought to justice, without killing many thousands of civilians in the process. But unfortunately, the U.S. military has always accepted massive civilian deaths as part of the cost of war. The military is now poised to kill thousands of foreign civilians, in order to prove that killing U.S. civilians is wrong.
      The media has told us repeatedly that some Middle Easterners hate the U.S. only because of our "freedom" and "prosperity." Missing from this explanation is the historical context of the U.S. role in the Middle East, and for that matter in the rest of the world. This basic primer is an attempt to brief readers who have not closely followed the history of U.S. foreign or military affairs, and are perhaps unaware of the background of U.S. military interventions abroad, but are concerned about the direction of our country toward a new war in the name of "freedom" and "protecting civilians."
       The United States military has been intervening in other countries for a long time. In 1898, it seized the Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico from Spain, and in 1917-18 became embroiled in World War I in Europe. In the first half of the 20th century it repeatedly sent Marines to "protectorates" such as Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. All these interventions directly served corporate interests, and many resulted in massive losses of civilians, rebels, and soldiers. Many of the uses of U.S. combat forces are documented in A History of U.S. Military Interventions since 1890: http://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz/interventions.html
Well worth reading the full and well detailed article HERE:
The list and briefing are also available as a powerpoint presentation.
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3 comments:

  1. In América
    1775-1776: Canadá y Atlántico
    1798-1800: Mar Caribe y Atlántico
    1831: Argentina
    1846-1848: México
    1852-1853: Argentina
    1853: Nicaragua
    1854: Nicaragua
    1855: Uruguay
    1858: Uruguay
    1859: Paraguay
    1868: Uruguay
    1891: Chile
    1894: Nicaragua
    1898-1902: Cuba, Puerto Rico y Pacífico
    1914: México
    1915: Haití
    1916: República Dominicana
    1917: México
    1926: Nicaragua
    1960: Guatemala
    1964: Panamá
    1965: República Dominicana
    1967-1969: Guatemala
    1983: Granada
    1989: Panamá
    1994: Haití
    2004: Haití

    In other continents

    1801-1805: North Africa
    1815: North Africa
    1853-1854: Japon
    1859: China
    1860: Angola
    1893: Hawái
    1900: China
    1945-1946: China
    1950-1953: Korea War
    1958: Indonesia
    1959-1975: Guerra de Vietnam
    1983: Líbano
    1986: Libia
    1990-1991: Gulf War
    1993-1994: Somalia
    1995: Bosnia y Herzegovina
    1998: Sudán
    1998: Afganistán
    1999: Yugoslavia
    2001: Afganistán
    2002: Filipinas
    2003-2011: Guerra de Irak
    2007: Somalia
    2011: Libia
    2011-2012: Yemen, Pakistán, Somalia
    2014: Irak y Siria

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  2. Has our planet ever seen a more brutal, savage and far reaching empire?

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  3. https://youtu.be/_faH-BvjdXE

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