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Discussion: Worst country in the world?
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Originally posted by (Cole)
US CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY & GLOBAL TERRORISM
US Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction
The indiscriminate use of bombs by the US, usually outside a declared war
situation, for wanton destruction, for no military objectives, whose
targets and victims are civilian populations, or what we now call
"collateral damage."
- Japan (1945)
- China (1945-46)
- Korea & China (1950-53)
- Guatemala (1954, 1960, 1967-69)
- Indonesia (1958)
- Cuba (1959-61)
- Congo (1964)
- Peru (1965)
- Laos (1964-70)
- Vietnam (1961-1973)
- Cambodia (1969-70)
- Grenada (1983)
- Lebanon (1983-84)
- Libya (1986)
- El Salvador (1980s)
- Nicaragua (1980s)
- Iran (1987)
- Panama (1989)
- Iraq (1991-2000)
- Kuwait (1991)
- Somalia (1993)
- Bosnia (1994-95)
- Sudan (1998)
- Afghanistan (1998)
- Pakistan (1998)
- Yugoslavia (1999)
- Bulgaria (1999)
- Macedonia (1999)
US Use of Chemical & Biological Weapons
The US has refused to sign Conventions against the development and use of
chemical and biological weapons, and has either used or tested (without
informing the civilian populations) these weapons in the following
locations abroad:
- Bahamas (late 1940s-mid-1950s)
- Canada (1953)
- China and Korea (1950-53)
- Korea (1967-69)
- Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia (1961-1970)
- Panama (1940s-1990s)
- Cuba (1962, 69, 70, 71, 81, 96)
And the US has tested such weapons on US civilian populations, without
their knowledge, in the following locations:
- Watertown, NY and US Virgin Islands (1950)
- SF Bay Area (1950, 1957-67)
- Minneapolis (1953)
- St. Louis (1953)
- Washington, DC Area (1953, 1967)
- Florida (1955)
- Savannah GA/Avon Park, FL (1956-58)
- New York City (1956, 1966)
- Chicago (1960)
And the US has encouraged the use of such weapons, and provided the
technology to develop such weapons in various nations abroad, including:
US Political and Military Interventions since 1945
The US has launched a series of military and political interventions since
1945, often to install puppet regimes, or alternatively to engage in
political actions such as smear campaigns, sponsoring or targeting
opposition political groups (depending on how they served US interests),
undermining political parties, sabotage and terror campaigns, and so forth.
It has done so in nations such as:
- China (1945-51)
- South Africa (1960s-1980s)
- France (1947)
- Bolivia (1964-75)
- Marshall Islands (1946-58)
- Australia (1972-75)
- Italy (1947-1975)
- Iraq (1972-75)
- Greece (1947-49)
- Portugal (1974-76)
- Philippines (1945-53)
- East Timor (1975-99)
- Korea (1945-53)
- Ecuador (1975)
- Albania (1949-53)
- Argentina (1976)
- Eastern Europe (1948-56)
- Pakistan (1977)
- Germany (1950s)
- Angola (1975-1980s)
- Iran (1953)
- Jamaica (1976)
- Guatemala (1953-1990s)
- Honduras (1980s)
- Costa Rica (mid-1950s, 1970-71)
- Nicaragua (1980s)
- Middle East (1956-58)
- Philippines (1970s-90s)
- Indonesia (1957-58)
- Seychelles (1979-81)
- Haiti (1959)
- South Yemen (1979-84)
- Western Europe (1950s-1960s)
- South Korea (1980)
- Guyana (1953-64)
- Chad (1981-82)
- Iraq (1958-63)
- Grenada (1979-83)
- Vietnam (1945-53)
- Suriname (1982-84)
- Cambodia (1955-73)
- Libya (1981-89)
- Laos (1957-73)
- Fiji (1987)
- Thailand (1965-73)
- Panama (1989)
- Ecuador (1960-63)
- Afghanistan (1979-92)
- Congo (1960-65, 1977-78)
- El Salvador (1980-92)
- Algeria (1960s)
- Haiti (1987-94)
- Brazil (1961-64)
- Bulgaria (1990-91)
- Peru (1965)
- Albania (1991-92)
- Dominican Republic (1963-65)
- Somalia (1993)
- Cuba (1959-present)
- Iraq (1990s)
- Indonesia (1965)
- Peru (1990-present)
- Ghana (1966)
- Mexico (1990-present)
- Uruguay (1969-72)
- Colombia (1990-present)
- Chile (1964-73)
- Yugoslavia (1995-99)
- Greece (1967-74)
US Perversions of Foreign Elections
The US has specifically intervened to rig or distort the outcome of foreign
elections, and sometimes engineered sham “demonstration” elections to ward
off accusations of government repression in allied nations in the US sphere
of influence. These sham elections have often installed or maintained in
power repressive dictators who have victimized their populations. Such
practices have occurred in nations such as:
- Philippines (1950s)
- Italy (1948-1970s)
- Lebanon (1950s)
- Indonesia (1955)
- Vietnam (1955)
- Guyana (1953-64)
- Japan (1958-1970s)
- Nepal (1959)
- Laos (1960)
- Brazil (1962)
- Dominican Republic (1962)
- Guatemala (1963)
- Bolivia (1966)
- Chile (1964-70)
- Portugal (1974-75)
- Australia (1974-75)
- Jamaica (1976)
- El Salvador (1984)
- Panama (1984, 89)
- Nicaragua (1984, 90)
- Haiti (1987, 88)
- Bulgaria (1990-91)
- Albania (1991-92)
- Russia (1996)
- Mongolia (1996)
- Bosnia (1998)
US Versus World at the United Nations
The US has repeatedly acted to undermine peace and human rights initiatives
at the United Nations, routinely voting against hundreds of UN resolutions
and treaties. The US easily has the worst record of any nation on not
supporting UN treaties. In almost all of its hundreds of “no” votes, the US
was the “sole” nation to vote no (among the 100-130 nations that usually
vote), and among only 1 or 2 other nations voting no the rest of the time.
Here’s a representative sample of US votes from 1978-1987:
US Is the Sole “No” Vote on Resolutions or Treaties
- For aid to underdeveloped nations
- For the promotion of developing nation exports
- For UN promotion of human rights
- For protecting developing nations in trade agreements
- For New International Economic Order for underdeveloped nations
- For development as a human right
- Versus multinational corporate operations in South Africa
- For cooperative models in developing nations
- For right of nations to economic system of their choice
- Versus chemical and biological weapons (at least 3 times)
- Versus Namibian apartheid
- For economic/standard of living rights as human rights
- Versus apartheid South African aggression vs. neighboring states (2 times)
- Versus foreign investments in apartheid South Africa
- For world charter to protect ecology
- For anti-apartheid convention
- For anti-apartheid convention in international sports
- For nuclear test ban treaty (at least 2 times)
- For prevention of arms race in outer space
- For UNESCO-sponsored new world information order (at least 2 times)
- For international law to protect economic rights
- For Transport & Communications Decade in Africa
- Versus manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction
- Versus naval arms race
- For Independent Commission on Disarmament & Security Issues
- For UN response mechanism for natural disasters
- For the Right to Food
- For Report of Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- For UN study on military development
- For Commemoration of 25th anniversary of Independence for Colonial Countries
- For Industrial Development Decade in Africa
- For interdependence of economic and political rights
- For improved UN response to human rights abuses
- For protection of rights of migrant workers
- For protection against products harmful to health and the environment
- For a Convention on the Rights of the Child
- For training journalists in the developing world
- For international cooperation on third world debt
- For a UN Conference on Trade & Development
US Is 1 of Only 2 “No” Votes on Resolutions or Treaties
- For Palestinian living conditions/rights (at least 8 times)
- Versus foreign intervention into other nations
- For a UN Conference on Women
- Versus nuclear test explosions (at least 2 times)
- For the non-use of nuclear weapons vs. non-nuclear states
- For a Middle East nuclear free zone
- Versus Israeli nuclear weapons (at least 2 times)
- For a new world international economic order
- For a trade union conference on sanctions vs. South Africa
- For the Law of the Sea Treaty
- For economic assistance to Palestinians
- For UN measures against fascist activities and groups
- For international cooperation on money/finance/debt/trade/development
- For a Zone of Peace in the South Atlantic
- For compliance with Intl Court of Justice decision for Nicaragua vs. US.
- **For a conference and measures to prevent international terrorism
- (including its underlying causes)
- For ending the trade embargo vs. Nicaragua
US Is 1 of Only 3 “No” Votes on Resolutions and Treaties
- Versus Israeli human rights abuses (at least 6 times)
- Versus South African apartheid (at least 4 times)
- Versus return of refugees to Israel
- For ending nuclear arms race (at least 2 times)
- For an embargo on apartheid South Africa
- For South African liberation from apartheid (at least 3 times)
- For the independence of colonial nations
- For the UN Decade for Women
- Versus harmful foreign economic practices in colonial territories
- For a Middle East Peace Conference
- For ending the embargo of Cuba (at least 10 times)
In addition, the US has:
- Repeatedly withheld its dues from the UN
- Twice left UNESCO because of its human rights initiatives
- Twice left the International Labor Organization for its workers rights
- initiatives
- Refused to renew the Antiballistic Missile Treaty
- Refused to sign the Kyoto Treaty on global warming
- Refused to back the World Health Organization’s ban on infant formula abuses
- Refused to sign the Anti-Biological Weapons Convention
- Refused to sign the Convention against the use of land mines
- Refused to participate in the UN Conference Against Racism in Durban
- Been one of the last nations in the world to sign the UN Covenant on Political & Civil Rights (30 years after its creation)
- Refused to sign the UN Covenant on Economic & Social Rights
- Opposed the emerging new UN Covenant on the Rights to Peace, Development & Environmental Protection
Sampling of Deaths From US Military Interventions & Propping Up Corrupt Dictators (using the most conservative estimates)
Nicaragua
30,000 dead
Brazil
100,000 dead
Korea
4 million dead
Guatemala
200,000 dead
Honduras
20,000 dead
El Salvador
63,000 dead
Argentina
40,000 dead
Bolivia
10,000 dead
Uruguay
10,000 dead
Ecuador
10,000 dead
Peru
10,000 dead
Iraq
1.3 million dead
Iran
30,000 dead
Sudan
8-10,000 dead
Colombia
50,000 dead
Panama
5,000 dead
Japan
140,000 dead
Afghanistan
10,000 dead
Somalia
5000 dead
Philippines
150,000 dead
Haiti
100,000 dead
Dominican Republic
10,000 dead
Libya
500 dead
Macedonia
1000 dead
South Africa
10,000 dead
Pakistan
10,000 dead
Palestine
40,000 dead
Indonesia
1 million dead
East Timor
1/3-1/2 of total population
Greece
10,000 dead
Laos
600,000 dead
Cambodia
1 million dead
Angola
300,000 dead
Grenada
500 dead
Congo
2 million dead
Egypt
10,000 dead
Vietnam
1.5 million dead
Chile
50,000 dead
Other Lethal US Interventions
CIA Terror Training Manuals
Development and distribution of training manuals for foreign military
personnel or foreign nationals, including instructions on assassination,
subversion, sabotage, population control, torture, repression,
psychological torture, death squads, etc.
Specific Torture Campaigns
Creation and launching of direct US campaigns to support torture as an
instrument of terror and social control for governments in Greece, Iran,
Vietnam, Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Panama
Supporting and Harboring Terrorists
The promotion, protection, arming or equipping of terrorists such as:
. Klaus Barbie and other German Nazis, and Italian and Japanese fascists,
after WW II
. Manual Noriega (Panama), Saddam Hussein (Iraq), Rafael Trujillo
(Dominican Republic), Osama bin Laden (Afghanistan), and others whose
terrorism has come back to haunt us
. Running the Higher War College (Brazil) and first School of the Americas
(Panama), which gave US training to repressors, death squad members, and
torturers (the second School of the Americas is still running at Ft.
Benning GA)
. Providing asylum for Cuban, Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Haitian, Chilean,
Argentinian, Iranian, South Vietnamese and other terrorists, dictators, and
torturers
Assassinating World Leaders
Using assassination as a tool of foreign policy, wherein the CIA has
initiated assassination attempts against at least 40 foreign heads of state
(some several times) in the last 50 years, a number of which have been
successful, such as: Patrice Lumumba (Congo), Rafael Trujillo (Dominican
Republic), Ngo Dihn Diem (Vietnam) Salvador Allende (Chile)
Arms Trade & US Military Presence
. The US is the world’s largest seller of weapons abroad, arming
dictators, militaries, and terrorists that repress or victimize their
populations, and fueling scores of violent conflicts around the globe
. The US is the world’s largest provider of live land mines which, even in
peacetime, kill or injure at least several people around the world each day
. The US has military bases in at least 50 nations around the world, which
have led to frequent victimization of local populations.
. The US military has been bombing one Middle Eastern or Muslim nation or
another almost continuously since 1983, including Lebanon, Libya, Syria,
Iran, the Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iraq (almost daily bombings since 1991)
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seems like this only goes through from ~1945 to the the end of the '90s; think of all the US military interventions, bombing campaigns, and international political disruption it initiated before and has initiated since then. this list doesn't include domestic state violence either, like slavery or Native American genocide. death toll numbers are difficult to pin down (for a number of reasons, but often because of US obfuscation or propaganda). i'd say this still gives a pretty good sampling of the atrocities committed by largest terrorist state in world history --
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wooo this tea
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Romania
Their food is .
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The fact that Venezuela and Russia were named before countries like Somalia, Niger, Haiti and Eritrea really shows how American propaganda works. Both countries are ****ed up, but not even close to worst in the world
OT: The countries I named
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Member Since: 8/29/2009
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USA:
- it has the worst impact in the world. It even spied on its partners. Angela Merkel had to buy a new phone, scream at the US embassor in Berlin, expel US officials from German territory etc. All the GP in Germany wanted was Barack to say "I'm sorry*, but he refused. Instead he order economic espionage to be increased in Germany and France (and the EU as an entitiy). Then the American public voted for Donald Trump who advertised his campaign by saying: Let's give the Balkan Countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) to Russia and let's impose an economoy war on Europe with the espionage info we obtained over the past 2 years and destroy the economy further with TTIP which basically states: "F'ck European laws and democracy, if we (America) want to enslave people and destroy the environment and produce poisonous toys for toddlers, we can do it and nobody can stop us, not even a government.".
Hence, the United States is the worst country in the world (for Europe).
Then there are many more and more severe arguments to support the claim that the USA are the worst terror nation in the world when we look at the Middle East Countries and Northern Africa.. But then we also have to get the United Kingdom into the boat bc they share 50% of the blame there.
But again, I hope Donald destroys the american economy and environment, because I want to see Americans with breathing masks in the inner cities because of smog and i want to see your rivers drying out etc.. because you all Americans give a rats ass about the environment, you celebrate dying polar bears and children in Africa and you enjoy acid rain cause it's so nice and cool.
+ the fact that 99% of all american cannot name all of the US' neighbouring countries speaks for their intellect and hence them voting for a moron.
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USA, Romania,Russia, all the arabian countries
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Quote:
Originally posted by stevyy
USA:
. Then the American public voted for Donald Trump who advertised his campaign by saying: Let's give the Balkan Countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) to Russia
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girl these are not even close to the Balkan..Lithuania doesn't even have a slavic language...
Balkan Countries - Croatia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania, Turkey and Greece
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The USA lashes
I mean, they have their shady history, but most of its population lives in comfort.
Now, the worst country to live in is NK.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Cyanide
I love that u decided to just never leave 2007
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Congo, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Russia
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Omg
OT: Thailand
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Succesico has it's problems, but let's not get too carried away with it.
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