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

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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.

Iraq War
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 * Lies by Bush and Cheney in the runup to the Iraq War .
 * Wikipedia: Iraq War. Downing Street memo. Niger uranium forgeries. Iraqi aluminum tubes.
 * 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.
 * 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.

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+

Plan Mexico
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 Plan Mexico, (and before):
 * 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.

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:
 * Gulf War 2 a Bush Disaster? So was Gulf War 1. By Barry Lando. May 28, 2015. Huffington Post. "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."

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."

Vietnam War
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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."

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 Iranian coup d'état
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 1953 Iranian coup d'état:
 * CIA finally admits it masterminded Iran’s 1953 coup. August 20, 2013. RT USA.

George Carlin on U.S. wars
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 George Carlin:

Youtube: George Carlin: "We Like War!" 1992. "This country's only 200 years old and we've already had 10 major wars".

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