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Very, very few Americans understand the facts. by Futurepower(R) · 2003-10-30 03:54 · Score: 5, Insightful · on U.S. Continues Biological Warfare Research

By some measures, the U.S. government is the most violent that has ever existed in the world.

The writer of this is an American who is very concerned about his government's participation in violence. In his opinion, a person doesn't really love his or her country unless he or she is willing to look at and understand areas where the country needs improvement. The same principle applies elsewhere. A man doesn't really love his wife if he turns his back when she is having serious, difficult-to-understand problems. And, a person doesn't really love himself or herself unless he or she tries to understand and resolve his or her own inner conflict.

Strictly speaking, it is the U.S. government that is responsible for the violence, not the people of the United States. Very, very few Americans understand the facts presented here. There are many Americans who support violence, and who angrily reject these facts, but even those probably would not want their money being spent on violence if they fully understood the financial and social impact on their lives.

The U.S. government has directly killed about 3,000,000 people since the beginning of the Vietnam war. Most of those, an estimated more than 2,000,000, were in Vietnam, a very poor country that did not threaten the United States.

Historians say that the number of people indirectly killed by the U.S. government is at least another 3,000,000, for a total of 6,000,000. For example, U.S. bombing of Cambodia left that country destabilized, and the forces of violence controlled Cambodia for years after the U.S. bombing.

The U.S. government has bombed 24 countries in the 58 years since the Second World War. The list below includes only countries bombed, not countries in which the U.S. government was responsible for other violence. The list includes only violence since the Second World War, not the extensive violence before the war. Most U.S. citizens are surprised and skeptical when they see the list, so a few links have been provided to supporting information. For more information, try the Google search engine or see the links below.

Afghanistan, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003
Bosnia, 1994, 1995
Cambodia, 1969-70
China, 1945-46
Congo (now Zaire), 1964
Cuba, 1959-1961 ("Bay of Pigs" invasion)
El Salvador, 1980s
Grenada, 1983
Guatemala, 1954, 1960, 1967-69
Indonesia, 1958
Iran, 1987
Iraq, 1991-2000, 2003 (The U.S. government used radioactive bombs in the first war against Iraq. See United States War Crimes Against Iraq for what appears to be an accurate history.)
Korea and China, 1950-53 (Korean War)
Kuwait, 1991
Laos, 1964-73
Lebanon, 1983, 1984 (both Lebanese and Syrian targets)
Libya, 1986
Nicaragua, 1980s
Panama, 1989. The U.S. government called it "Operation Just Cause". The link is to a U.S. military web site.
Peru, 1965
Somalia, 1993
Sudan 1998. There are doubts

Information that supports my earlier comment: by Futurepower(R) · 2003-07-27 06:39 · Score: 1 · on The Beast of Brussels

Information that supports my earlier comment:

Judging from their comments, most people who post to Slashdot have very little understanding of the activities of the U.S. government. There have been many, many abuses concerning the collection of information. To prevent some of these abuses, the U.S. Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in 1978, and has since modified the law seven times. "The purpose of FISA was to create a wall between criminal investigations and intelligence gathering that would decrease the numerous abuses by the government's intelligence and law enforcement agencies during the 1950s, 60s and 70s."

The U.S. government has killed about 3,000,000 people since the beginning of the Vietnam war. The U.S. government has bombed 24 countries in the 58 years since the Second World War. The list below includes only countries bombed, not countries in which the U.S. government was responsible for other violence. The list includes only violence since the Second World War, not the extensive violence before the war. Most U.S. citizens are surprised and skeptical when they see the list, so a few links have been provided to supporting information. For more information, try the Google search engine or see the links below.

Afghanistan, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003
Bosnia, 1994, 1995
Cambodia, 1969-70
China, 1945-46
Congo (now Zaire), 1964
Cuba, 1959-1961 ("Bay of Pigs" invasion)
El Salvador, 1980s
Grenada, 1983
Guatemala, 1954, 1960, 1967-69
Indonesia, 1958
Iran, 1987
Iraq, 1991-2000, 2003 (The U.S. government used radioactive bombs in the first war against Iraq. See United States War Crimes Against Iraq for what appears to be an accurate history.)
Korea and China, 1950-53 (Korean War)
Kuwait, 1991
Laos, 1964-73
Lebanon, 1983, 1984 (both Lebanese and Syrian targets)
Libya, 1986
Nicaragua, 1980s
Panama, 1989. The U.S. government called it "Operation Just Cause". The link is to a U.S. military web site.
Peru, 1965
Somalia, 1993
Sudan 1998. There are doubts that the pharmaceutical plant that was bombed was making weapons.
Vietnam, 1961-73 (An estimated 2,000,000 Vietnamese were killed.)
Yugoslavia, 1999

There are many sources for this information. For example, see this PBS web page: PBS: A Chronology of U.S. Military Interventions (PBS is the Public Broadcasting System in the U.S.) Also see From Wounded Knee to Afghanistan: A Century of U.S. Military Interventions [zmag.org] and The government of the United States is a consistent opponent of international law. [prairie-fire.org]

I put some links and explanation together about wh

In hidden ways, the U.S. government is violent. by Futurepower(R) · 2003-05-21 01:42 · Score: 2, Interesting · on Pentagon Soft-Pedals Total Information Awareness

It's painful to me, but I have had to accept that the U.S. government is corrupt in some ways. United States government agencies, such as the NSA, CIA, and FBI, have become global police that operate mostly in secret, without control or oversight by the people, and mostly without any kind of effective external control. United States citizens are allowed to know about these agencies only what the U.S. government wants them to know. (NSA is National Security Agency. CIA is Central Intelligence Agency. FBI is Federal Bureau of Investigation. These are official U.S. government web sites.)

Hidden elements of the U.S. government have become the most violent force the world has ever known, with a long history of acting in a violent manner and supporting violent dictatorships: The U.S. government has bombed 24 countries in the 58 years since the Second World War. The list below includes only countries bombed, not countries in which the U.S. government was responsible for other violence. The list includes only violence since the Second World War, not the extensive violence before the war. Most U.S. citizens are surprised and skeptical when they see the list, so a few links have been provided to supporting information. For more information, try the Google search engine or see the links below.

Afghanistan, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003
Bosnia, 1994, 1995
Cambodia, 1969-70
China, 1945-46
Congo (now Zaire), 1964
Cuba, 1959-1961 ("Bay of Pigs" invasion)
El Salvador, 1980s
Grenada, 1983
Guatemala, 1954, 1960, 1967-69
Indonesia, 1958
Iran, 1987
Iraq, 1991-2000, 2003 (The U.S. government used radioactive bombs in the first war against Iraq. See United States War Crimes Against Iraq for what appears to be an accurate history.)
Korea and China, 1950-53 (Korean War)
Kuwait, 1991
Laos, 1964-73
Lebanon, 1983, 1984 (both Lebanese and Syrian targets)
Libya, 1986
Nicaragua, 1980s
Panama, 1989. The U.S. government called it "Operation Just Cause". The link is to a U.S. military web site.
Peru, 1965
Somalia, 1993
Sudan 1998. There are doubts that the pharmaceutical plant that was bombed was making weapons.
Vietnam, 1961-73 (An estimated 2,000,000 Vietnamese were killed.)
Yugoslavia, 1999

There are many sources for this information. For example, see this PBS web page: PBS: A Chronology of U.S. Military Interventions (PBS is the Public Broadcasting System in the U.S.) Also see From Wounded Knee to Afghanistan: A Century of U.S. Military Interventions [zmag.org] and The government of the United States is a consistent opponent of international law. [

The corruption is worse than you think: by Futurepower(R) · 2003-04-28 22:54 · Score: 2, Informative · on On The Collapse of Complex Societies

The pipeline through Afghanistan has already been started:
http://www.paknews.com/flash.php?id=8&date1=2003-0 2-23

Last Sunday the CBS show "60 Minutes" discussed the conflict of interest. I'm not the only one who thinks there is conflict of interest. 50 years ago, President Eisenhower warned about the "Military-Industrial Complex".

See Halliburton Makes a Killing on Iraq War
(Brown and Root is a subsidiary of Halliburton)
http://www.utne.com/webwatch/2003_39/news/10427-1. html
"The Bush-Cheney team has turned the United States into a family business", says Harvey Wasserman, author of The Last Energy War.

But is it him? by Ravenscall · 2003-03-11 02:21 · Score: 5, Informative · on Echelon Used to Capture Terrorist

Considering This and This, He may already be dead.

I find the entire thing suspect personally.

That's one thing India and Pakistan agree on.. by heytal · 2002-10-08 21:38 · Score: 5, Informative · on Indian Government Goes For Free Software

Pakistan too says that it will use Linux. An article at paknews.com talks about that. This is inspite of the fact that Microsoft is offering a 90% discount to the pakistan Government.

( .hj by Anonymous Coward · 2002-07-31 18:56 · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Matchbox -- a Small Footprint Window Manager

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