Wars, drug wars, black sites, and dictators on demand

America’s wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Pakistan cost .

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American Holy Wars on brown people worldwide. Covering up lies is complicity in murder.


 * Share links: Wars - Wars on demand - CIA. See also: Brutality and the Drug War. And: Race, ethnicity, and drug war.

    

The axis of evil Reagan-Bush wars, and fabricated wars, on demand. Including drug wars, and torture. Special discount for wars on brown people. A good movie: Syriana. See also: Reagan's war on cannabis. And: The U.S. drug war, Republicans lead. And: Race, ethnicity, and drug war.

Thailand also killed thousands of drug users during this period. See Thailand section farther down.
 * Prosecutors Reviewing Request to Issue Arrest Warrant for Trump’s New CIA Director. . By Colin Kalmbacher. March 13, 2018. From the article:

Iraq War
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 * The trillions of dollars lost and millions of families broken.
 * At Least Trump Got One Thing Right. There Were No WMDs in Iraq. By Brian Glyn Williams. Huffington Post. April 5, 2016.
 * Remembering the Hoax That Helped Launch the U.S. Invasion, and Later Disintegration, of Iraq. By Knut Royce. Huffington Post. See Niger uranium forgeries. It's all about the yellowcake uranium.
 * Donald Trump Accuses George W. Bush Of Lying To Invade Iraq. 13 Feb 2016. Huffington Post.
 * Lies by Bush and Cheney in the runup to the Iraq War .
 * Wikipedia: Rationale for the Iraq War. And: Downing Street memo. And: Niger uranium forgeries. And: Iraqi aluminum tubes. And: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441.
 * Jeb Bush Confronted By College Student: 'Your Brother Created ISIS'. May 13, 2015.
 * The CIA Just Declassified the Document That Supposedly Justified the Iraq Invasion. . March 19, 2015.
 * Charts: Bush Lowballed us on Iraq by $6 Trillion. By Tasneem Raja. March 19, 2013. Mother Jones.
 * “Seven countries in five years”. By Joe Conason. October 12, 2007. Salon.com
 * Lie by Lie: A Timeline of How We Got Into Iraq. September/October 2006 issue of Mother Jones. By Jonathan Stein and Tim Dickinson. "Mushroom clouds, duct tape, Judy Miller, Curveball. Recalling how Americans were sold a bogus case for invasion."
 * America's gulag. By Stephen Grey. 17 May 2004. New Statesman. America's system of worldwide extraordinary rendition and torture.
 * Flashback: Rep. Bernie Sanders Opposes Iraq War. October 9, 2002, then-Rep. Bernie Sanders made this statement on the floor of the House of Representatives.

Costs of War project update
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 * Estimating The Costs Of War, Then And Now. By Tom Engelhardt. Nov. 21, 2017. Huffington Post. From the article (emphasis added):

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 * United States Budgetary Costs of Post-9/11 Wars Through FY 2018: A Summary of the $5.6 Trillion in Costs for the US Wars in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Post-9/11 Veterans Care and Homeland Security. By Neta C. Crawford, Boston University. November 2017. Costs of War project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. From the report (emphasis added):

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 * U.S. Spent $5.6 Trillion on Wars in Middle East and Asia: Study.

Various articles use the above total cost to come up with the number of $23,000 per taxpayer. It would be more accurate to say per adult U.S. resident. $5.6 trillion divided by $23,000 equals 243.5 million people. See: Demography of the United States: "There were about 125.9 million adult women in the United States in 2014. The number of men was 119.4 million." That totals 245.3, close enough for government purposes. :)

Reagan's War on Cannabis
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 * Reagan's war on cannabis is where the U.S. incarceration nation began.

Reaganism: Cannabis war, trickle-down economics, code-word racism, hate radio, mass incarceration.
 * Number of marijuana prisoners in the USA: 40,000+. All drug offenses: 501,000+


 * The Insane World of Vintage Anti-Marijuana PSAs. By Rae Alexandra. December 4, 2017. KQED.

Republican-led big spending on drug war.

''' [http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Cost Trillion-dollar Cost of Republican-led U.S. drug war. ]  And: Its racist application.'''.



Plan Mexico. Mérida Initiative death squads
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 Plan Mexico, (and before):
 * Missing Mexicans’ Case Shines Light on Military’s Role in Drug War. April 30, 2018. New York Times.
 * When the War on Drugs in Mexico Comes Back Home to the U.S. - In These Times. By Rebecca Gordon. March 23, 2015. "The Pentagon and CIA are also involved in Mexico in significant ways." Read the article.
 * U.S. role at a crossroads in Mexico’s intelligence war on the cartels. April 27, 2013. Washington Post. By Dana Priest. "Back then, the Mexican intelligence service, CISEN, 'was basically run by the CIA,' according to one former CISEN official. Although that has changed with time, the unusually close relationship between Mexican presidents and CIA chiefs has not."
 * Mexico Is Trying To Win Its War On Drugs By Using More Torture. Sept 4, 2014 in Mint Press News.
 * Torture in Mexico is 'Out of Control' According to Amnesty International. Sept 9, 2014 in Vice magazine.

Thailand's summary executions, drug-war death squads, black sites
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 * Prosecutors Reviewing Request to Issue Arrest Warrant for Trump’s New CIA Director. . By Colin Kalmbacher. March 13, 2018. From the article:

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 * In began a campaign of disappearances, summary executions, and extra-judicial killings of suspected drug users that killed thousands of people. Gains from Thailand’s bloody war on drugs proved fleeting. By Marvin Bionat. July 09, 2016. Inquirer.net (the official website of the Philippine Daily Inquirer.).
 * Wikipedia pages with sections on history of drug war death squads:
 *  Premiership of Thaksin Shinawatra. Section on anti-drug policies.
 *  Thaksin Shinawatra. See section on The War on Drugs.

1/3 of adult Americans have been arrested
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 * Study: 1 in 3 Americans Arrested By Age 23. By Maia Szalavitz. Dec. 19, 2011. Time magazine. "About one-third of people are cuffed for something more serious than a traffic violation before their early 20s."
 * Just Facts: As Many Americans Have Criminal Records As College Diplomas. By Matthew Friedman. November 17, 2015. Brennan Center for Justice.

Chicago's black sites and torture
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 * Google search: CIA's Phoenix Program in Vietnam.
 * A Chronicle of Woe: US Policing Culture From Iraq and Vietnam to Jon Burge's Chicago. April 27, 2015. Truthout.
 * Cop accused of brutally torturing black suspects costs Chicago $5.5 million. April 15, 2015. Washington Post. "In its 2005 profile of Burge, the Chicago Reader suggests Burge may have honed his torture techniques on suspected Vietcong soldiers and sympathizers. Multiple members of Burge’s Ninth Military Police Company told the newspaper that they had either witnessed or heard of interrogations using a 'field phone' similar to the black box Burge would later be accused of using. In what they called 'the Bell telephone hour,' soldiers would shock prisoners in an attempt to obtain information."
 * On May 6, 2015 Chicago City Council voted to become the first in the nation to create a reparations fund for victims of police torture. At Chicago's various "black sites" over decades. Drug war POWs involved too. "Burge and his 'midnight crew' of detectives on the city's South Side used electric shock, beatings, suffocation and even Russian roulette to coerce confessions out of suspects. The city has already paid more than $100 million in judgments and legal settlements to some victims."
 * Google News searches: Chicago torture. And: Homan Square. Do a general web search too.
 * Gitmo Torturer Practiced as Chicago Cop. Feb. 18, 2015..
 * Inside Chicago's legacy of police abuse: violence 'as routine as traffic lights' . March 3, 2015. The Guardian.
 * Homan Square . The Guardian. "Guardian investigation details allegations of abuse inside a secretive facility operated by the Chicago police department."
 * Homan Square: politicians push DoJ to investigate 'CIA or Gestapo tactics' at secret police site. March 19, 2015. The Guardian.
 * How Chicago police used marijuana to disappear young people at Homan Square. March 11, 2015. The Guardian.
 * The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site' | US news . Feb. 24, 2015. The Guardian.

Gulf War I
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 Gulf War I.

"Incredibly, even as some American officials were adamant that the U.S. had no commitments to Kuwait, other senior Americans were reassuring top Kuwaitis that the U.S. was totally in their corner, and urged them not to buckle to the Iraqi leader's demands. One of those was General Norman Schwartzkopf, then American commander for the Gulf region, who personally told Kuwaiti officials that the U.S. had their back. The director of the CIA was also encouraging Kuwaiti them to keep the economic strangle hold on Saddam. ... To convince the Saudis of that threat, then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney flew to Riyadh. He took with him satellite photographs that supposedly showed Iraqi armored forces massed in offensive positions, ready to strike the Saudis. ... After the invasion, a number of news organizations obtained commercial satellite photographs of Iraqi forces in Kuwait and had them examined by skilled photo analysts, veterans of the U.S. intelligence community. They found no signs of the supposed massive Iraqi troop build up anywhere near the Saudi border; nor for that matter anywhere in Kuwait."
 * Gulf War 2 a Bush Disaster? So was Gulf War 1. By Barry Lando. May 28, 2015. Huffington Post:

Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990. On October 10, 1990, a young Kuwaiti girl known only as "Nayirah" appeared in front of a congressional committee and testified that she witnessed the mass murdering of infants, when Iraqi soldiers had snatched them out of hospital incubators and threw them on the floor to die. Her testimony became a lead item in newspapers, radio and TV all over the US. The story was eventually exposed as a fabrication in December 1992, in a CBC-TV program called To Sell a War. Nayirah was revealed to be the daughter of Kuwait's ambassador to the United States, and actually hadn't seen the "atrocities" she described take place; the PR firm Hill & Knowlton, which had been hired by the Kuwaiti government to encourage American intervention in the war, had heavily promoted her testimony.
 * Nayirah (testimony):



Virus attacks by CIA at home and abroad
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 * Florida Dengue Fever Outbreak Leads Back to CIA and Army Experiments. By Zoe Martell and HP Albarelli Jr. Truthout. July 21, 2010.
 *  Project ARTICHOKE.
 *  Project MKNAOMI.

Canada's CIA brainwashing experiments
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 * The toxic legacy of Canada's CIA brainwashing experiments: 'They strip you of your soul'. By Ashifa Kassa. 3 May 2018. The Guardian.
 *  Project MKUltra.

President Carter threatened over UFOs
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President Carter was threatened in the Oval Office with not finishing his first term because of his probes into government UFO info. Free audio interview online:
 * Bizarre States #138: Unacknowledged with Dr. Steven Greer | Nerdist. Posted May 18, 2017. Threat info at 30 minutes 15 seconds in. Steven M. Greer. Youtube: Sirius Disclosure. A documentary about the life of Dr. Stephen Greer: Unacknowledged (2017 documentary). On Netflix. May be the best documentary ever on aliens, UFOs, etc.. And: Steven Greer did that press conference in 2001:  "On Wednesday, May 9th, 2001, over twenty military, intelligence, government, corporate and scientific witnesses came forward at the National Press Club in Washington, DC to establish the reality of UFOs or extraterrestrial vehicles, extraterrestrial life forms, and resulting advanced energy and propulsion technologies."

Deaths surrounding advanced research
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 * The Mystery of the Marconi Deaths. By Nick Redfern. Mysterious Universe. More info. "Dozens of scientists and technicians – all working on highly-classified programs, and all linked to one, particular company – dead under highly controversial and unusual circumstances. It’s a controversy that ran from the early 1980s to 1991 and remains unresolved to this very day."

"Britain’s murderous Special Branch operatives":
 * Phoned Up ‘n’ Shut Up.


 * Marconi Deaths. Reddit.
 * The Marconi Murders.

Bay of Pigs
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 Bay of Pigs Invasion:
 * http://www.wanttoknow.info/a-cia-maker-policy-or-tool
 * C.I.A.: Maker of Policy, or Tool? April 25, 1966. New York Times.  "President Kennedy, as the enormity of the Bay of Pigs disaster came home to him, said to one of the highest officials of his administration that he wanted 'to splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds'. ... In the 19 years that the CIA has been in existence, 150 resolutions for tighter congressional control have been introduced - and put aside."

Presidents have too much power
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Bring back democracy: ''' Remove Presidential veto power.  And:  Senate 60% rule. '''

4 conservative coups d'etats in the US
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2000. Gore won popular vote
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2016. Clinton won popular vote
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1968. Robert Kennedy assassination
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Another one of RFK's children believes there was a 2nd gunman: "Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland".

RFK Jr. did an interview with the Washington Post in May 2018:
 * Who killed Bobby Kennedy? His son RFK Jr. doesn’t believe it was Sirhan Sirhan. By Tom Jackman. May 26, 2018. Washington Post.
 * Did L.A. police and prosecutors bungle the Bobby Kennedy assassination probe? By Tom Jackman. June 5, 2018. Washington Post.
 * Bobby Kennedy’s son suspects 2nd gunman killed father. May 26, 2018. The Portland Press Herald.
 * RFK's children believe there was a second assassin with Sirhan Sirhan. By IrishCentral Staff. June 02, 2018. IrishCentral.

Hoover-era FBI altered witness testimony of hearing 2 gunmen and 12 to 14 shots. And: Los Angeles police department destroyed much evidence.

RFK and JFK had been in the military (JFK in combat). Both killed in coups d'etats. Both opposed any great US involvement in Vietnam. Both were anti-racism icons. Hoover's FBI and President Johnson soon knew about and covered up the fact of more gunmen in both cases. They were after-the-fact accessories to murder.

RFK would have easily defeated Republican Richard Nixon in the 1968 election. RFK was a more popular candidate than Democrat Hubert Humphrey. So Nixon would have been twice defeated by a Kennedy (in 1960 and 1968). The Vietnam War would have been ended. The war industries would have lost a lot of profits.

1963. John F Kennedy assassination
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Oswald may have been involved, but certainly not alone.


 * Yes, the CIA director was part of the JFK assassination cover up. By Philip Shenon. 7 Oct 2015. Politico. "Half a century after JFK’s death, in a once-secret report written in 2013 by the CIA’s top in-house historian and quietly declassified last fall, the spy agency acknowledges what others were convinced of long ago: that McCone and other senior CIA officials were 'complicit' in keeping 'incendiary' information from the Warren Commission."
 * CIA 'covered up JFK assassination' as secret report 'reveals spy boss withheld "incendiary" information'. 8 Oct 2015. Daily Mirror.
 * Inside the plot to kill JFK: The secret story of the CIA and what really happened in Dallas. 22 Nov 2015. Salon. By David Talbot, the founder of Salon. CIA and Mafia hit men. JFK. How many more confessions do we need? CIA starts wars. Killed foreign leaders.
 * Why CIA’s Richard Helms Lied About Oswald: Part 1. And Part 2. December 23 and 27, 2015. By Peter Dale Scott.
 * JMWAVE.
 * Robert F. Kennedy: In a 2013 interview with CBS journalist Charlie Rose, son Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated that his father was "fairly convinced" that others besides Oswald were involved in his brother's assassination and that he privately believed the Commission's report was a "shoddy piece of craftsmanship"..
 * When Allen Ginsberg met the head of the CIA – and offered him a wager. June 21, 2018 article by Simon Willmetts. CIA complicity in the opium trade in the Vietnam era.
 * Barry Seal. That whole CIA, mafia, and drugs thing goes way back. And RFK signed his family's death sentences when he went outside the law at times to shake that tree too hard. It's all organized crime, especially the biggest gangs of all, those in government. There are no winners, just trends, hits, and truces.
 * Barry Seal.
 * American Made - Official Trailer. Some of it is based on Barry Seal. On HBO Now as of June 9, 2018.

Killing them allowed for more war
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Both RFK and JFK opposed any great US involvement in Vietnam. Both were anti-racism icons.



Vietnam War
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 * The Vietnam War (2017 series). On Netflix: . Written by Geoffrey C. Ward and directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. An amazing series that cost $30 million. First episode explores and interweaves the long history of the French, Japanese, British, and American occupations. The series shows first-hand testimonies and video about the ruthless dictatorships and pseudo-democracies the US propped up in South Vietnam.

CIA's war of deception and brutality
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 Vietnam War:
 * C.I.A.: Maker of Policy, or Tool? April 25, 1966. New York Times. "Senator Eugene J. McCarthy, Democrat of Minnesota, has charged that the agency 'is making foreign policy and in so doing is assuming the roles of President and Congress'." See CIA attacks on North Vietnam that preceded the Gulf of Tonkin incident and the war-enabling Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
 * Forbidden Book: Douglas Valentine’s “The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam”. "Never has such an in-depth look at a major CIA operation been written. ... The Phoenix Program itself was created by the CIA as a way to coordinate numerous counterinsurgency programs during the Vietnam war, using methods of blanket surveillance, kidnapping and extrajudicial detention, interrogation and torture, and the paramilitarization of the police. The goal, beyond gathering of intelligence, was to eliminate — via murder, mass use of informants, and terror."

Treason. Nixon and Kissinger sabotaged 1968 pre-election truce
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 * George Will Confirms Nixon's Vietnam Treason. August 12, 2014. By Bob Fitrakis, Harvey Wasserman. Common Dreams. From the article ( emphasis  added):


 *  Kent State shootings:

1964. Brazilian military government
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 Brazilian military government:
 * "The CIA performed psyops against Goulart, performed character assassination, pumped money into opposition groups, and enlisted the help of the Agency for International Development and the AFL-CIO. The 1964 Brazilian coup d'état exiled Goulart and the military dictatorship of Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco took over."


 * The U.S. Spent Decades Teaching Torture Techniques To Brazil. Dec. 10, 2014. BuzzFeed. A Pentagon manual from the 1980s revealed in 1996 showed that the American instructors "recommended interrogation techniques like torture, execution, blackmail and arresting the relatives of those being questioned."

1953 Iran. Overthrow of democracy
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 * It’s time to release the real history of the 1953 Iran coup. By Malcom Byrne. 15 Oct 2016. Politico.
 * CIA finally admits it masterminded Iran’s 1953 coup. August 20, 2013. RT USA.
 * 1953 Iranian coup d'état.

1973 Chile. Overthrow of democracy
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 * 1973 Chilean coup d'état.
 * Theodore Shackley.

The Bourne Identity. The Real Story
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 * The Bourne Identity. The Real Story. 2009 on History channel in the United Kingdom, and 2010 on the Smithsonian Channel in the US. "See how covert CIA agents, as portrayed in the Bourne Trilogy, operate outside of Hollywood...and often outside the law." See more info. See video on Youtube.

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