MILITARY

contents of this page:
military
the "kill-insanity" complex
allies
imperialism

“an autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.”
-arnold toynbee – historian

"kill one person and it’s called murder.
kill tens of thousands and it’s called foreign policy."

very first
if there's one thing for sure in life it's that

win or lose,

war is profitable.

 from the cover of an origanal 1934 copy of "the story of little orphan annie" by harold gray.
with 150 illustrations you can color!!
annie's benefactor was a rich cat named "daddy warbucks,"
which was pretty amazing social awareness in a kids' comic way back when.
courtesy of lucy, who was little then.

race

here is a link that also appears in the section "police," where unthinking violence is emphasized. here, pay attention to the closing paragraphs, "where did mark essex come from?"

to continue with this amazingly absurd tale,
click:
hormone idiocy.

the pathetic weak ones
can a nation go to war and not have this effect the souls of those innocents at home most removed from battle? how many children lose their parents? how many children see the news and wonder how to justify religion with war? how many people become severely depressed knowing a whole nation is geared toward war, or that their leaders are lying to its citizens? do you think everyone in a war is just doing their duty? do you think that those who enjoy killing are a rare exception? do you think that when they come back that they settle down to a 9-5 job and wife and kids? you’re dreaming. there are thousands produced in every “action”, and they’re out there enjoying what they’ve always enjoyed. wolves among the soft civvies, the pathetic weak ones.

 
right. by amnesty international. in the reading list.

torture

for a look at how easily duty can turn into inhumanity,

here is a small collection of pictures from abu ghraib prison in iraq and a
few critical statements by soldiers from the "nation" article "the other war."
click:
BIG SMILES

warning: this is strong stuff, and maybe not for kids.

it is very important to compare the large and small pie charts.

the govenment version includes the social security program, which is supported not by taxes but by withheld wages. it is totally separate.

and don't forget the BLACK BUDGET - the hidden budget that covers all those projects the military just has to have in order to save your country from...what? most likely we're talking about billions of dollars annually.

all war - besides being insane - is fought over resources. 

the first government of hawaii was the Dole Corporation.
do you think they worked hard to encourage democracy? or maybe were just satisfied with slavery.

it is official u.s.a. military policy to not count civilian casualties.
in a nation supposedly based on democracy, isn't this suppression of information the height of absurdity? since the iraq war (or was it before?) it is illegal for any media to cover the funerals of military personnel. this goes way, way beyond suppression of information. it is outright censorship, which supposedly the constitution does not allow.

ever better what?
for a time line of weapons development, from rocks to a dead planet,

what we do when we're not killing
THE MILITARY IS THE GREATEST CAUSE OF VENEREAL DISEASE AND ABUSE OF SERIOUS, LIFE DESTROYING DRUGS IN AMERICA. even military personel are unaware that, even prior to viet nam, europe supplied american bases with an unending supply of HEROIN.well known among "grunts" but not acknowledged to the public is that many officers, including a large proportion of drill instructors are RAGING ALCOHOLICS with no social skills who can't keep a marriage together. 

THE SUICIDE RATE IN MILITARY PRISONS IS INCREDIBLE. 
people from all walks of life who crack under the harsh sadism of
some officers are punished for this by subjecting them to worse conditions and treatment.

LESS THAN HUMAN - LESS THAN A CITIZEN - LESS THAN TRASH
anyone, anyone, even vaguely associated withe the military knows that once you sign your name you give up almost all civil rights

they know how deeply and pervasively the idea of hierarchy is not just taught, but ingrained.

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NO PRIDE PRIDE
the unofficial motto of the marines is:
              "no better friend, no worse enemy",
but even kids know that the real motto is:
               "we'll take any body that's warm".
only someone really dumb would need such a blatantly macho image. the other forces would be too embarrassed to use its like.
marines are the front line troops - cannon fodder. that's nothing to brag about.

EVERYWHERE AND ENDLESS
a study done in a scholarly fashion - by which we mean disciplined - showed that throughout history few people saw war in their lifetime, but failed to define the nature or scale of warfare. war depletes a population severely and destroys both an economy and culture, both effects lasting for generations. 
an equally scholarly study revealed that every ten years somewhere on the planet genocide takes places. together they balance out to show a fairly grim picture. this is on top of the fact that most people are still exhausted farmers. did stalin's purge of millions qualify as war, or simply life under endless brutal dictators everywhere? did anyone count the world wide depression that followed both world wars?

EMOTIONS HARDENED BY NECESSITY OR JUST PLAIN MADNESS?
during the vietnam war racist dehumanization was openly encouraged. "GOOKS" are not people, and you can't tell the good from the bad anyway, "they" all look alike so just kill them all.
trophies of body parts were allowed, ears and penises decorating helmets and uniforms. one renegade high ranking officer with his own fiefdom in the jungle when ordered to return to base sent back a hundred ears and in his memoirs, written in a "changed identity safe house", provided by the government, said only, "i wanted them to know i was being effective."
ONLY AN IDIOT WOULD THINK THAT THIS WAS NOT ENCOURAGED BY OFFICIAL, IF INFORMAL, POLICY.
                                         THIS IS WHAT BEING A "REAL MAN" IS ALL ABOUT. 

AND THOSE "REAL MEN" THINK YOU OR ANYONE WHO DISAGREES IS A WIMPY LITTLE...  well, that list is endless and not very polite. this is the same tradition that produced WHITE RACE RIOTS IN TWENTY SIX CITIES AFTER WORLD WAR TWO, with men in uniform prominant.

MORE REAL MEN
recently a covert film was uncovered of an initiation cerimony in the CANADIAN MILITARY, people who were to play a role as "peace keepers" in the middle east, in which prospects had nails driven into them.

                 THESE PEOPLE ARE REALLY DUMB.

VIETNAM and RACE
 while white kids were getting college deferments, many afro-american soldiers report laughing platoon leaders ordering young kids from the ghetto to "take the point" - a term meaning to go ahead of a main detachment to deliberately draw enemy fire. 
                                                                   in other words,
                                                              a death sentence. 
the draft or simple recruitment is in reality a "poverty draft," a term that is becoming commonly accepted.

HONEST ! ! WOULD WE LIE TO YOU ?
aren't these uniforms great? and think of all the extra benefits! you can get an education ! you can learn skills that will get you a job after you get out. you will be serving your country and fighting for peace world wide. you'll travel and see fantastic new places. the food is much better than it used to be.

dumb kids
recently one bag stuffer at a grocery store, barely in to high school, was overheard to say that a recruiter had told him pay scales "go up to 20,000 dollars a year." during the vietnam war one kid who was looking forward to a medical career was told, and believed, that army medics had a great survival rate. everyone, except dumb kids, knows that as soon as the enemy hears, "medic, help" on the battle field all fire converges on that spot.

is the military an exciting, honorable life? recruiters lie, that's their job.

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      "why should i go kill vietnamese? no vietnamese ever called me "nigger."

 - mahomed ali, that absolute rarity, an intelligent and really funny
   heavyweight boxing world champion, after converting to islam.

credibility itself is subservient to the holy concept of rank. 
during viet nam jet mechanics aboard aircraft carriers were continually pressured to falsify work records in order to make impressive quotas, thereby enhancing the carreer of the department head, and endangering pilots' lives.  one mechanic who complained "through normal channels"  had his carreer ruined, was forced to leave the service and was officially threatened with a court martial for 
                                                    "persistently defaming an officer's character." 

it's all a SHOW, and you're expendable
in vietnam, in a blatant sickness of  inefficiency/cost cutting/indifference, veteran soldiers in transport helicopters would sit on their helmets, because the chopper floors were not armored. anyone who didn’t would slump over in silence from ground fire. thirty five years later in iraq, with no nuclear arms race and no “cold war” to drain funds, the majority of vehicles are not adequately armored, and many soldiers feel compelled to buy their own person armor. and donald rumsfeld, the heartless secretary of defense, says, 
                          “ we go to war with the army we have.” 
if you know a messed up viet vet you might want to ask his opinion on this, or maybe better not.
                  your children are cannon fodder for the rich.   

A BLINDING  HISTORICAL - RELATIVELY RECENT - EXAMPLE

the u.s.a. suffered when in the mideast arrogant u.s.a. soldiers were first killed by suicide bombers in beruit, but there was nothing but an
                                                      open gate 
between the base and a part of the world that had been at war for millennia. no one thought this was poor military tactics so no officers were prosecuted for the hundreds of deaths. 

FALLING FROM THE SKY
repeatedly since before the first iraq war, often because of incidents in the u.s.a., the ENTIRE helicopter or fixed wing fleet has been grounded. THESE PEOPLE CAN’T EVEN KEEP THEIR PLANES IN THE AIR. HUNDREDS HAVE DIED, NEVER HAVING SEEN ENEMY ACTION, and the military continues to receive fantastic funding with no accountability.       many of these mishaps are laid to novice pilots in high tech aircraft, but that only begs the question of why the whole fleet is grounded and  why so many are killed. 

A HISTORY OF DISPISING CIVILIANS
during WWII the american navy quietly slipped out of port in burma and abandons all civilians including a great percentage of women, leaving them to the japanese. no accounting is ever sought.

 during the war, starving vietnamese women displaced by war 

 put crossed razor blades in their vaginas because they were,                

 “tired of being raped by g.i.s for a nickel.”

600 old people and children
at My Lai in vietnam were brutally butchered and raped. no one was ever prosecuted and the soldiers became "unfairly harassed" heroes, even going on public speaking tours and becoming the subject of popular songs!!! a string of g.i. testimony said “they were just the ones that got caught.” 

for an partial article of a viet vet's memories click here:

contests to see "how far they could throw the bound bodies out of the airplane."

as the website says, even though this was a public conference,
"almost nothing was reported to the american public."
click:
http://www.wintersoldierfilm.com/
there is a button for a trailer.

do you think all of that is behind us now, as the (yuck) "neo-cons" would like you to believe? do you believe all the propaganda photos of g.i.s handing out soccer balls and teddy bears to smiling iraqi children? think twice. here's a funny one in arabic culture, a raised palm held outward means, "come here," not, "stop," as it does in western culture. so when the american saviors tell someone to stop and the person keeps coming, they risk being shot to pieces as a "suspected" suicide bomber. you!! come here!! you don't look like you're from boisie "we were told, from the very begining, that if a person was dressed like an arab, they were suspicious and we should arrest and interrogate them." for a recent article from "the nation" based on interviews with 50 iraqi war vets, click: haji = gook = sand nigger

                         BELOW IS ALMOST THE ONLY GRAPHIC USED TWICE ON THE SITE.

the t-shirt says, “WOMEN ARE PROPERTY.”     this is the attitude, and not just of “a few bad apples”

                      YET

EVEN MORE INTELLIGENT IN RUSSIA
in russia the most common reason, unofficially, given for becoming an artist is “i didn’t want to be raped and killed in the army”. people outside of the former soviet union remain totally oblivious to the fantastic rate of mysterious deaths within the armed forces. people wait in endless lines for nonexistent food. during the kursk submarine disaster, people were lied to by a matter of days about the date of explosion, the escape craft was welded to the submarine, oxygen regeneration kits were explosive if they touched water, and high officials at first refused to disclose hatch details that were necessary to an international rescue. the deaths occurred in only three hundred feet of water. at a public meeting the distraught mother of a deceased sailor was forcibly sedated. and the captain of a nuclear submarine is paid the same as a bus driver. see the articles in the page on "russia". 

the theaters of america’s so patriotic wars are littered with HALF-BREED CHILDREN who end up homeless and rejected by the people they live among.

in the words of the comedian bill hicks (see the reading list):

                         “ARNCHALL
                  JUSTABUNCHA    
        HIRED   
      KILLERS?”
         haven't we had enough of "glory, honor and tradition?"

       only the stupid and the sociopath want to wear a uniform.

"but, surely mr. ward, as a responsible, adult citizen, you...  oh, forget it!"

now to mention some things that are even more disturbing, most telling facts.
at the point in history where world opinion condemns land mines, a movement which is gaining legal power through treaties, because after a conflict they remain to destroy and maim civilians of all ages and walks of life, what does the u.s.a. do but invents cluster bombs, which are delivered by both aircraft and missiles. unlike land mines they are purely ant-personnel weapons, very small and innocent looking - hence attractive to children, with each shell containing hundreds of little bombs. in vietnam people are still killed and children maimed for life by land mines from thirty years ago, yet now after the american intervention in the balkins the people we "saved" will be in unknown danger for, 

bet you didn't know this. they don't want you to.
experiments on civilian populations were carried out, ostensibly to study the effects of bio-weapons. germs were sprayed in mass transit stations and ejected from airplanes over whole cities. experiments were done on uninformed soldiers with L.S.D. and other highly disorienting chemicals. after all, when you enter the military you sign away most of your civil rights. at least one person freaked out and jumped from an office window. this is just one of many documented cases that occured in both the u.s.a. and england.

extremely loud low frequency sound
is being studied for its ability to cause overwhelming nausea and vertigo. the proposal for this study specifically stated it was to be used not in war but
                                   to control riots.

this has all been documented and revealed in the press, but again, treated with a "soft sell" by the government.

blatant disregard
it is not just that public lands are polluted. the members of the armed forces are subjected to incredible amounts of hazardous materials and are subject to testing, without notification, of any substance or technique. depleted uranium shells on impact produce a great deal of dust which lands on your body and settles into your lungs. tons of dust is being produced in iraq, poisoning both soldiers and civilians.

MONEY DOWN THE DRAIN
the military, in the form of training and SAC, the stategic air command, just to keep planes CONSTANTLY in the air in the name of  "PREPAREDNESS", on fuel alone spends

                          FOUR BILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR.

NUTS TO education, social programs and medicine. (thank you, "readers' digest" - SURELY A SUBVERSIVE PUBLICATION.)

   "this is the entrance to the stockade at fort dix, transhipment point to vietnam. people who refused to go where kept 
   here. because of my press pass i was allowed in. this picture appeared all over the world and soon after, the sign was 
   removed. i think they were embarrassed." 
                                                                                                    from "SHOTS"
                                                                                                    by david fenton, former photographer for S.D.S.
                                                                                                    he now runs a large ad componany devoted to 
                                                                                                    progressive, anti-war and feminist causes.
                                                                                                    see the reading list.                                                                                                                DRIVEN TO MADNESS AND SUICIDE                                                               
let's conclude with a word about military prisons. this may happen and it might not, it depends on the circumstances of imprisonment. in an institution like the military that is based on killing and making people capable of killing and where you sign over most civil rights on joining, military prisons are the sole province  and fertile ground of sadism., nothing less, and have an incredible suicide rate.

                                                                            we need a better image

  this is what you call mindless arrogance.

does it mean:
butchery is the only honest profession?
shakespeare was just a little f****t ?
that a new born babe isn't a gift from god?
a young person's first love is not a wonderful crises?
that the elderly aren't an amazing fund of experience and wisdom?
that religion and culture are just idle pastimes?
to work for equality is just liberal hogwash?
that all the strivings great and small of humanity 
down through the ages are just trash?

“guernica” is a painting by pablo picasso, which he was already working on at the time of the nazi german bombing of guernica, spain, by twenty-four bombers, on april 26, 1937 during the spanish civil war. it was estimated that between 250 and 1,600 were killed in the air raid and many more were injured.

this is a painting from the time of napolian's "glorious" wars of empire.
this is what you call
A BUNCH OF DAMN FOOLS.


the picture is from a german web site.

vietnam war memorial

the us government did not initiate or build the monument. april 27, 1979 the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Inc. was incorporated to raise funds, mostly the work of a single individual. 8.4 million dollars were raised by private donations. it is managed by the National Parks Service. a design competition was held, the winner being Maya Ying Lin, of chinese heritage, and she was not named at or invited to the dedication ceremony - those dam slant eyes are all alike. it is incredibly beautiful, but contains none of the traditional elements of patriotism, consisting of two polished black granite walls with the names of the deceased engraved on it. the type of granite was chosen for its high reflectivity, which therefore blends images of the past and present. it is totally apolitical, and while many with public platforms have said it is ugly, the majority of vets who visit there say it is “sufficient to have a place to remember lost friends.”

for the full article
click:
thanks for nothing

by thomas carlyle, 1833

here's a bunch of ARTICLES.

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ALLIES

ireland
almost no one realizes that the u.s.a. has nuclear missiles in northern ireland, a province torn by a literal civil war, and according to the oldest political customs, favors are granted to those who help to preserve the status quo. these troubles are always labeled religious, yet is it religion alone that brings crushing unemployment, violence that empties the streets and warps generations of young minds and brings the boot of the english army down on a populace with no official military of its own? there is no other place like it within western europe.

    here's a horrible  PHOTO.

  "on the verge of extinction" - just like the american indians.

left. everyone knows what happened after that early warning. right. but don't tell anyone anything.
isn't that just peechy? china becomes a giant among trader nations and drags third world tyranny into the 21st century.

china
china now has “most favored nation” trading status. a nation where there is no legal system and prisoners are used as forced labor – there exist pictures of naked men in tanning vats. where explicit party policy is that concern for human rights is part of “decadent imperialism.” when moslems destroy ancient buddhist statues there’s an outcry, yet when a chinese dam destroys the most famous valley in the world, that goes to the heart of their culture in painting and poetry, this is progress. under their colonization of tibet a woman was arrested, taken from her children and put under heavy labor for having known the dalai lama. she accidentally steps on an arm band with a revolutionary slogan and is sentenced to seven years hard labor. the truth about tiananmen: to this day american media employ the stock expression “hundreds, possibly more...” were killed. tiananmen is a vast open plaza that can hold many thousands of people. the exits were blocked and tanks and machine guns were used to kill everyone, then huge black curtains were put up and ALL THE BODIES WERE BURNED to conceal the evidence. hospitals were told they would be prosecuted for aiding the wounded. anyone part of this system is more than a little sick. yet, when foreign students from africa tried to date chinese girls there were riots, and even students tend to look down on tibetans as uncivilized. so much for the oppressed masses yearning for freedom.

THE MOST AMAZING THING. left.  wounded. middle.  peace, dude!! - NOT a student. right. written in blood. photos are from "tiananmen square" by simme and nixon.

tiananman square, 1989.
it was not just happening in beijing. large protests occurred around the country, including in large cities. in beijing literally MILLIONS took to the streets, defying martial law, to aid students and obstruct police. food and medical supplies were brought by car or just by hand. people leaned out of buildings to cheer. there was an amazing TOTAL absence of violence, or even negative or divisive behavior in the completely spontaneous event. truth be told, they behaved better than western protesters. even the official paper, believing in propaganda of change, wholly supported the protesters. local troops refused to attack peaceful citizens. the aged and pampered elite treated the protesters as little children with saccharine lies and insults.  when troops were brought in from distant provinces, many protesters were allowed to leave the square. then the killing began, which included the citizens of beijing. afterward the disappearances began.

they sang “silent night," and also this little ditty about the state newspaper.

people’s daily, people’s daily
            peoples daily - to the tune of frere jaqques, "with giggles."
really strange, really strange
always printing lies, always printing lies
really strange really strange

citizens described,
"THINGS
with red eyes
that had whips with metal stars at the tips."

REMEMBER THESE THINGS
the old russian regime was brutal in the name of expediency.
in CHINA the idea that is promulgated is that human beings HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO VALUE.
remember  these facts when you read an article in a glossy magazine about progress in china, or one in the wall street journal about how “most favored trading status” for china is good for AMERICAN BUSINESS, which of course is good for the people.

CHINA NOW EXPORTS MORE THAN 1/3 OF THE GOODS CONSUMED BY MODERN NATIONS.

laogai   =  gulag 

massive prisons – slave labor – public executions by a quota system – organ harvesting
it was more the tone of voice that convinced him that it was common. 
an american visitor was told
after a seeming mild encounter with the police,
"that if a chinese had spoken as he had,
they would have been beating you by now
and using an electric cattle prod
against the face and genitals and feet,
their arms twisted behind their back
until the circulation stopped."

public executions – a quota system
public executions are attended by thousands, and are regularly held before major holidays, and compete for attention with popular entertainments and sporting events. larger group executions are held in sports stadiums.
they were stopped in 1984 because of international publicity, but were resumed in 1989 after the tienanmen square uprising.
it is known that in 2,300 municipalities there are 30 executions per month. multiply that times twelve.
there have been incidents demonstrating that there is a quota system, where towns that do not maintain their quota suffer repercussions.
the next of kin are not necessarily notified of an execution, but if they are then they must pay for the bullet that killed their relative.

sixteen crimes are punishable by death.
nine are listed as counter-revolutionary.
a person can receive a death sentence for a single piece of graffiti.
a person can be sent to prison for life for being drawn into a public fight, for instance, for coming to a person’s rescue.

organ harvesting
organizations which have documented the following this information,
which include eye witness reports and interviews with expatriate doctors:

human rights watch, amnesty international, the media in japan and hong kong, the associated press, the lancet (international medical journal), transplantation review, the united nations, the british government, the canadian broadcasting company.

organ transplants from executed prisoners are now a BOOMING BUSINESS in china. it is part of documented policy to keep this secret from both foreigners and the chinese people themselves, who have an extremely strong tradition of burial and an abhorrence of both organ donation and cremation.
harvested organs are primarily for the elite or wealthy foreigners, who pay triple the standard price.

          possibly
              20,000,000 killed
                    and          
         100,000 women as sex slaves
no one knows the exact numbers because no one cares.

japan
these present day allies attacked china and were famous for butchering whole cities and PUBLICLY TORTURING CHILDREN, and during WWII rivaled the nazis in horrific medical experiments and had thousands of captured women as sex slaves for the troops - see "the rape of nanjing" in the reading list. the last they steadfastly refuse to make a public apology for. there is a STRONG movement in japan TO REMOVE ALL THIS FROM THEIR HISTORY BOOKS. even before this, high school students were taught that World War II was a "natural disaster" with no causes. there was a total ban on chemical birth control in japan, until their medical reviewers passed viagra as safe in a mere few months - the women of the country had something to say about that.  historical legal and social barriers remain for foreigners. the language itself inculcates an extreme classism. recently in a department store dolls were sold of thick lipped, grass skirted africans. this was defended by a high government official as a depiction of  “agricultural races” and they were only removed after international pressure. in japan the police get over a NINETY FIVE PERCENT confession rate, something unheard of in the most brutal dictatorships, such as stalinist russia. anyone can be held for three weeks without seeing a lawyer, and after being charged it is illegal to be seen by a reporter. the MEDIA are totally out of control, presenting  pure fiction as fact, RUINING PEOPLES LIVES WITH IMPUNITY, this made possible by the almost total lack of libel laws. litagation is unacceptable in a society based on conformism, and there are almost no lawyers. large media are diectly responsible for perpetrating incredible racist and imperialist attitudes that would be unacceptable, if only for appearances, in a total dictatorship. this is partly a remnant of the post world war II "cold war", when the u.s.a. totally controled the japanese media and completely disallowed criticism of the u.s.a. or EVEN THE AWARENESS THAT CENCORSHIP WAS TAKING PLACE. a nominal democracy, all scholars agree that all laws are made, not by politicians, but an intrenched unelected buracracy. in a nation where the economy is almost wholly based on industry, "pork," or funding through favors or connections, is the overwelming, irrational norm - over 60 percent of the coast of the country has been cemented over, road projects wind of into nowhere and stop, urban sprawl leaves no traditional architecture or neighborhoods.  japan is 1/20th the size of the u.s.a. yet spends 3-4 times its budget on "public works".

there is no accountability, local or international, in a culture whose very foundation is literally, bizarre as it may seem to outsiders, "propriety over reality" - there are a different grammer and vocabulary for the seldom spoken truth and the highly preferred collective conformity. this is the concept of "face", common throughout the world, taken to literally insane lengths.

like sardines is not a metaphore
this is a country where one normal form of employment is as a subway "pusher." whereas in other countries there is an attempt to reduce overcrowding, in japan the daily commuters are literally packed harder and harder into the subways by uniformed subway employees.

for a detailed, totally bizarre article on how the japanese ABANDON their depressed children,

      here is a link to the original ARTICLE. 
some people here are so fanatic they 

the hassidim, according to the bible the keepers of the temple, 

most people don’t know that judaism is rife with splintered fanatic cults that despise each other. the destruction of non-jewish homes has reached one hundred a month, and now  a massive wall separates workers from their jobs and farmers from their field.

south africa
in support of the national security state and individual greed, there is the major economic value of south africa, replete with many minerals the u.s.a. can get no where else, which must be kept from turning to the russians. so nothing is ever done about the last bastion of slavery in the world, where farmers would go to market advertising how many blacks were buried in their fields, crying out “get your seven nigger potatoes here.” s.a. is the proven rape capital of the world – families don’t send their daughters to public schools because they will be raped THERE and the government does nothing.

similar to israel the  new government of south africa has not freed itself from hate, and though black has continued the harsh treatment of it's citizens, with forced  evictions in poverty stricken neighborhoods, a high police presence, and totally double dealing politicians out for themselves. south africa refuses to acknowledge AIDS as anything but a "gay" problem, even questioning its existence, and consequently has the highest incidence of any african nationtions  

one in four people.

pakistan
in exchange for help against the afghanis, BILLIONS of dollars are given to pakistan – a country where a woman must produce five witnesses that she resisted rape or SHE goes to jail.

mexico
under the new NAFTA trade agreement companies are free to move to mexico, a country were there are ABSOLUTELY NO EFFECTIVE LABOR RIGHTS OR POLLUTION CONTROLS, the government is controlled by drug cartels, and it is common practice of law enforcement to “disappear” and TORTURE people. for the crime of wearing an army shirt one tourist heard his guide "scream all night." a common folk saying is 

in one town in mexico 250 women have disappeared in ten years. when the government was asked for help, they replied that, “they shouldn’t complain, it's worse elsewhere.” ALL the national police are of one racial profile. the police have open street battles with each other to control the drug trade, and force tourist to withdraw money from ATMs. in mexican prisons you are not provided with food. in the capital city the pollution is so bad that people go to work holding scarves over their faces, and in most places you can get dysentery, SOMETIMES  LIFE THREATENING, just from a shower or salad. the north of the country is almost entirely run by bandits.  the government will not educate it’s poor in basic hygiene and they walk through animal feces that contain worms that enter the skin, sometimes killing them. car insurance is impossibly expensive because no one will stop after an accident.  between the protests in chiapas and against the depredations of the i.m.f./word bank 

                  one hundred elementary school teachers have been killed.

 
from "national geographic."

   "1,300"
in 2007, the latest court ruling relating to NFTA, mexican semi-trailer trucks must be let into the united states. these jerks have no inspections and people. in the latest news from mexico, such a trucker regularly killLOST HIS BRAKES IN THE MIDDLE OF A TOWN. and this ruling is going to help stop illegals or drugs?

england
authors of the last great empire, characterized by brutal racism. they subjugated india then forced farmers to grow specific crops. when these crops were no longer needed they let the farmers starve. gandhi’s first act of civil disobedience was to gather salt, a basic necessity, which had been made illegal. as a young nation they slaughtered the irish and harried the remainder until they were

sweden
long idolized as the epitome of mannerly well organized capitalism, a european truism labels them “more german than the germans.” during the viet nam war  black g.i.s and draft resisters found conditions so intolerable that they would return to the u.s.a. even when facing court martial and prison. even olive skinned south americans find it impossible to enter restaurants.

IMPERIALISM, MANIPULATION AND SUPPORT OF HORRORS 
as background, can anyone be unaware that the european nations were colonial powers right up to the

mid 20th century?

in vietnam the u.s.a. only took over france’s role. the facts bellow can only be explained by massive indifference.

the u.s.a. has engaged in assassination, military support of dictators, economic pressure, influence of elections, drug running, support/suppression of insurgents/unions at a whim, massive economic exploitation - including the products of slavery and sweat shops, outright conquest...  you name it. 

this is a very short list of things that can easily be enumerated.

 
both above are from "gandhi: a biography in pictures" by ruhue

  f
rom "the happy isles of oceana" by paul theroux

in cuba
there was a revolution costing thousands of lives and a democracy was about to be established. the u.s.a. sent in armed forces and replaced the government with american agricultural interests, TOTALLY excluding the people who had fought and died.    

YET CASTRO IS DEPICTED IN THE U.S.A. AS A HEARTLESS DICTATOR.

the first government of hawaii was the Dole Corporation.
          “we must take hawaii in the interest of the white race.”                  
                –roosevelt, president to be, as undersecretary of the navy. 

in japan
after WWII because of repressive economic measures by the u.s.a. the black market was a major part of the economy – today their mafias ARE the government. the japanese people accept corporate/political thefts of millions of dollars, as openly reported in their news papers, as normal, and now their economy is in shambles. they bought rockefeller center in new york city and every american quaked, then had to sell it back.

the u.s.a. ousted noriega in panama 
in order to preserve it’s interests, but forgets that it naively gave many millions of dollars to him in bribes that he just walked off with. this was all money from the american people. after the invasion whole neighborhoods were destroyed AND there was no reconstruction for the “liberated” people.

                             g
the cia trained and armed osama bin laden
                            and 
the u.s.a. gave aid to the iraq military throughout the 80s
below,companies that were involved in arming iraq previous to 1991. also, approximately 50 foreign subsidiaries were brokered in the u.s.a.

   key: A – nuclear, Ch – chemical, B – biological, R – rockets

 
in the phillipines,
while the u.s.a. had military bases on the island, marcos plundered the nation and  massive daily rape squads rounded up women, with anyone resisting being shot.

no one from u.s.a. ever objected. 

in indonesia
a relatively small place, under suharto for twenty years your taxes have supported a brutal regime that crushed the people back to an agrarian serfdom, where several hundred thousand “communists” were killed.

in nicaragua
a congressional team finds a common tactic of “our” paramilitary friends is 
to slit open a pregnant women, rip out the baby and replace it with her husbands head. 

in guatemala
during a thirty five year civil war, a u.s.a. backed dictatorship has killed or “disappeared”

nothing has changed and the death squads still exist.

after a revolution in iran
that threatened to nationalize the oil industry, the c.i.a. reinstated the shah, whose most common political tactic was
                    firebombing movie theaters. 
now why aren't these people grateful? we're just trying to help.

the u.s.a., through the c.i.a., supported afghanistan

in 1914, the u.s.a. almost went to war with mexico
to protect its oil interest against revolutionaries, then called "bandits", but instead just supported the vicious government.

haiti and santo dominingo, 
in 1914 military rule was imposed in bothallegedly to prevent its becoming a german military base. after refusing to sign away their independance marines were sent to  to establish "law and order." forced labor, i.e., slavery  was used to "modernize" the island and at least 3,000 died during the first years of occupation. "the nation" ran a series of articles that caused a change in policy.

guatamala
in june 7 1954 the c.i.a. overthrows the newly elected government.

chile
on 9/11/ 1975 the c.i.a. plans and assists in a coup, and

president nixon  had ordered a blockade and sanctions, while the c.i.a. disrupted elections and promoted divisive labor strikes. unofficial 2.7 million dollars of tax money were funneled through the c.i.a. and much more was received from corporate donors. all of this was intended to empower the extreme right. the final effect? on dec. 10, Human Rights Day, seven prominent dissidents, including three members of the Chilean Human Rights Commission are arrested and turned over to a military court.

the little duck is asking, "tell us what they're thinking, rocky."
to repeat, this is one of the richest people in the country, who bought his vice presidency,
and also as governor of new york ordered the attack on the attica prisoners rioting againt severe abuse,
in which all of the guards injured were struck by "friendly fire."

the cartoon reflects the severe rioting acrross the continent during his "friendship tour."

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