User blog:Serbian-Balkan Mapper/American War Crimes

  

 ​American War Crimes 

​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)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Cuba (1959-61)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Congo (1964)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Peru (1965)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Laos (1964-70)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Vietnam (1961-1973)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Cambodia (1969-70)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Grenada (1983)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Lebanon (1983-84)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Libya (1986)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">El Salvador (1980s)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Nicaragua (1980s)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Iran (1987)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Panama (1989)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Iraq (1991-2000)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Kuwait (1991)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Somalia (1993)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Bosnia (1994-95)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Sudan (1998)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Afghanistan (1998)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Pakistan (1998)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Yugoslavia (1999)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Bulgaria (1999)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Macedonia (1999)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">US Use of Chemical & Biological Weapons 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">The US has refused to sign Conventions against the development and use of  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">chemical and biological weapons, and has either used or tested (without  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">informing the civilian populations) these weapons in the following  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">locations abroad:

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Bahamas (late 1940s-mid-1950s) 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Canada (1953)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">China and Korea (1950-53)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Korea (1967-69)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia (1961-1970)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Panama (1940s-1990s)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Cuba (1962, 69, 70, 71, 81, 96)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">And the US has tested such weapons on US civilian populations, without  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">their knowledge, in the following locations:

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Watertown, NY and US Virgin Islands (1950) 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">SF Bay Area (1950, 1957-67) 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Minneapolis (1953) 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">St. Louis (1953) 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Washington, DC Area (1953, 1967) 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Florida (1955) 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Savannah GA/Avon Park, FL (1956-58) 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">New York City (1956, 1966) 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Chicago (1960)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">And the US has encouraged the use of such weapons, and provided the  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">technology to develop such weapons in various nations abroad, including:

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Egypt 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">South Africa 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Iraq

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">US Political and Military Interventions since 1945 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">The US has launched a series of military and political interventions since  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">1945, often to install puppet regimes, or alternatively to engage in  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">political actions such as smear campaigns, sponsoring or targeting  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">opposition political groups (depending on how they served US interests),  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">'''undermining political parties, sabotage and terror campaigns, and so forth. '''

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">It has done so in nations such as

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">China (1945-51)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">South Africa (1960s-1980s)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">France (1947)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Bolivia (1964-75)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Marshall Islands (1946-58)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Australia (1972-75)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Italy (1947-1975)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Iraq (1972-75)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Greece (1947-49)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Portugal (1974-76)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Philippines (1945-53)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">East Timor (1975-99)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Korea (1945-53)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Ecuador (1975)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Albania (1949-53)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Argentina (1976)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Eastern Europe (1948-56)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Pakistan (1977)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Germany (1950s)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Angola (1975-1980s)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Iran (1953)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Jamaica (1976)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Guatemala (1953-1990s)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Honduras (1980s)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Costa Rica (mid-1950s, 1970-71)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Nicaragua (1980s)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Middle East (1956-58)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Philippines (1970s-90s)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Indonesia (1957-58)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Seychelles (1979-81)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Haiti (1959)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">South Yemen (1979-84)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Western Europe (1950s-1960s)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">South Korea (1980)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Guyana (1953-64)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Chad (1981-82)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Iraq (1958-63)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Grenada (1979-83)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Vietnam (1945-53)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Suriname (1982-84)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Cambodia (1955-73)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Libya (1981-89)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Laos (1957-73)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Fiji (1987)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Thailand (1965-73)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Panama (1989)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Ecuador (1960-63)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Afghanistan (1979-92)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Congo (1960-65, 1977-78)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">El Salvador (1980-92)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Algeria (1960s)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Haiti (1987-94)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Brazil (1961-64)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Bulgaria (1990-91)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Peru (1965)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Albania (1991-92)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Dominican Republic (1963-65)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Somalia (1993)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Cuba (1959-present)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Iraq (1990s)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Indonesia (1965)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Peru (1990-present)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Ghana (1966)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Mexico (1990-present)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Uruguay (1969-72)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Colombia (1990-present)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Chile (1964-73)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Yugoslavia (1995-99)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Greece (1967-74)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">US Perversions of Foreign Elections 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">The US has specifically intervened to rig or distort the outcome of foreign  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">elections, and sometimes engineered sham "demonstration" elections to ward  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">off accusations of government repression in allied nations in the US sphere  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">'''of influence. These sham elections have often installed or maintained in  '''

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">'''power repressive dictators who have victimized their populations. Such  '''

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">practices have occurred in nations such as:

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Philippines (1950s)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Italy (1948-1970s)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Lebanon (1950s)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Indonesia (1955)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Vietnam (1955)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Guyana (1953-64)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Japan (1958-1970s)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Nepal (1959)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Laos (1960)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Brazil (1962)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Dominican Republic (1962)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Guatemala (1963)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Bolivia (1966)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Chile (1964-70)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Portugal (1974-75)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Australia (1974-75)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Jamaica (1976)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">El Salvador (1984)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Panama (1984, 89)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Nicaragua (1984, 90)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Haiti (1987, 88)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Bulgaria (1990-91)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Albania (1991-92)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Russia (1996)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Mongolia (1996)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Bosnia (1998)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">US Versus World at the United Nations 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">The US has repeatedly acted to undermine peace and human rights initiatives  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">at the United Nations, routinely voting against hundreds of UN resolutions  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">'''and treaties. The US easily has the worst record of any nation on not '''

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">'''supporting UN treaties. In almost all of its hundreds of "no" votes, the US  '''

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">was the "sole" nation to vote no (among the 100-130 nations that usually  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">vote), and among only 1 or 2 other nations voting no the rest of the time.  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Here's a representative sample of US votes from 1978-1987:

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<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">US Is the Sole "No" Vote on Resolutions or Treaties 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For aid to underdeveloped nations 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For the promotion of developing nation exports 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For UN promotion of human rights 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For protecting developing nations in trade agreements 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For New International Economic Order for underdeveloped nations 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For development as a human right 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Versus multinational corporate operations in South Africa 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For cooperative models in developing nations 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For right of nations to economic system of their choice 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Versus chemical and biological weapons (at least 3 times) 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Versus Namibian apartheid 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For economic/standard of living rights as human rights 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Versus apartheid South African aggression vs. neighboring states (2 times) 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Versus foreign investments in apartheid South Africa 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For world charter to protect ecology 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For anti-apartheid convention 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For anti-apartheid convention in international sports 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For nuclear test ban treaty (at least 2 times) 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For prevention of arms race in outer space 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For UNESCO-sponsored new world information order (at least 2 times) 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For international law to protect economic rights 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For Transport & Communications Decade in Africa 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Versus manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Versus naval arms race 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For Independent Commission on Disarmament & Security Issues 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For UN response mechanism for natural disasters 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For the Right to Food 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For Report of Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For UN study on military development 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For Commemoration of 25th anniversary of Independence for Colonial Countries 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For Industrial Development Decade in Africa 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For interdependence of economic and political rights 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For improved UN response to human rights abuses 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For protection of rights of migrant workers 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For protection against products harmful to health and the environment 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For a Convention on the Rights of the Child 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For training journalists in the developing world 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For international cooperation on third world debt 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For a UN Conference on Trade & Development

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<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">US Is 1 of Only 2 "No" Votes on Resolutions or Treaties 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For Palestinian living conditions/rights (at least 8 times) 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Versus foreign intervention into other nations 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For a UN Conference on Women 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Versus nuclear test explosions (at least 2 times) 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For the non-use of nuclear weapons vs. non-nuclear states 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For a Middle East nuclear free zone 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Versus Israeli nuclear weapons (at least 2 times) 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For a new world international economic order 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For a trade union conference on sanctions vs. South Africa 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For the Law of the Sea Treaty 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For economic assistance to Palestinians 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For UN measures against fascist activities and groups 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For international cooperation on money/finance/debt/trade/development 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For a Zone of Peace in the South Atlantic 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">'''For compliance with Intl Court of Justice decision for Nicaragua vs. US. '''

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">**For a conference and measures to prevent international terrorism  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">(including its underlying causes) 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For ending the trade embargo vs. Nicaragua

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">US Is 1 of Only 3 "No" Votes on Resolutions and Treaties 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Versus Israeli human rights abuses (at least 6 times) 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Versus South African apartheid (at least 4 times) 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Versus return of refugees to Israel 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For ending nuclear arms race (at least 2 times) 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For an embargo on apartheid South Africa 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For South African liberation from apartheid (at least 3 times) 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For the independence of colonial nations 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For the UN Decade for Women 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Versus harmful foreign economic practices in colonial territories 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For a Middle East Peace Conference 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">For ending the embargo of Cuba (at least 10 times)

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">In addition, the US has: 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Repeatedly withheld its dues from the UN 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Twice left UNESCO because of its human rights initiatives 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Twice left the International Labor Organization for its workers rights  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">initiatives 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Refused to renew the Antiballistic Missile Treaty 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Refused to sign the Kyoto Treaty on global warming 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Refused to back the World Health Organization's ban on infant formula abuses 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Refused to sign the Anti-Biological Weapons Convention 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Refused to sign the Convention against the use of land mines 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Refused to participate in the UN Conference Against Racism in Durban 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Been one of the last nations in the world to sign the UN Covenant on  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Political & 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Civil Rights (30 years after its creation) 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Refused to sign the UN Covenant on Economic & Social Rights 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Opposed the emerging new UN Covenant on the Rights to Peace, Development &  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Environmental Protection

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Sampling of Deaths >From US Military Interventions & Propping Up Corrupt  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Dictators (using the most conservative estimates) 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Nicaragua

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">30,000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Brazil

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">100,000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Korea

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">4 million dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Guatemala

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">200,000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Honduras

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">20,000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">El Salvador

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">63,000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Argentina

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">40,000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Bolivia

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">10,000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Uruguay

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">10,000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Ecuador

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">10,000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Peru

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">10,000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Iraq

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">1.3 million dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Iran

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">30,000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Sudan

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">8-10,000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Colombia

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">50,000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Panama

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">5,000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Japan

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">140,000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Afghanistan

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">10,000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Somalia

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">5000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Philippines

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">150,000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Haiti

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">100,000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Dominican Republic

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">10,000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Libya

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">500 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Macedonia

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">1000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">South Africa

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">10,000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Pakistan

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">10,000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Palestine

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">40,000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Indonesia

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">1 million dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">East Timor

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">1/3-1/2 of total population

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Greece

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">10,000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Laos

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">600,000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Cambodia

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">1 million dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Angola

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">300,000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Grenada

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">500 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Congo

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">2 million dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Egypt

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">10,000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Vietnam

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">1.5 million dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Chile

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">50,000 dead

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;"> 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Other Lethal US Interventions 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">CIA Terror Training Manuals 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Development and distribution of training manuals for foreign military  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">personnel or foreign nationals, including instructions on assassination,  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">subversion, sabotage, population control, torture, repression,  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">psychological torture, death squads, etc.

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<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Specific Torture Campaigns 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Creation and launching of direct US campaigns to support torture as an  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">instrument of terror and social control for governments in Greece, Iran,  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Vietnam, Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Panama

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<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Supporting and Harboring Terrorists 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">The promotion, protection, arming or equiping of terrorists such as:

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<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">'''. Klaus Barbie and other German Nazis, and Italian and Japanese fascists,  '''

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">after WW II

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<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">'''. Manual Noriega (Panama), Saddam Hussein (Iraq), Rafael Trujillo  '''

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">(Dominican Republic), Osama bin Laden (Afghanistan), and others whose 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">terrorism has come back to haunt us

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<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">'''. Running the Higher War College (Brazil) and first School of the Americas  '''

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">(Panama), which gave US training to repressors, death squad members, and  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">torturers (the second School of the Americas is still running at Ft.  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Benning GA)

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<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">'''. Providing asylum for Cuban, Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Haitian, Chilean,  '''

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Argentinian, Iranian, South Vietnamese and other terrorists, dictators, and  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">torturers

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<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Assassinating World Leaders 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Using assassination as a tool of foreign policy, wherein the CIA has  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">initiated assassination attempts against at least 40 foreign heads of state  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">(some several times) in the last 50 years, a number of which have been  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">successful, such as: Patrice Lumumba (Congo), Rafael Trujillo (Dominican  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Republic), Ngo Dihn Diem (Vietnam) Salvador Allende (Chile)

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<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Arms Trade & US Military Presence 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">'''. The US is the world's largest seller of weapons abroad, arming  '''

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">dictators, militaries, and terrorists that repress or victimize their 

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">populations, and fueling scores of violent conflicts around the globe

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<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">'''. The US is the world's largest provider of live land mines which, even in  '''

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">peacetime, kill or injure at least several people around the world each day

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<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">'''. The US has military bases in at least 50 nations around the world, which  '''

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">have led to frequent victimization of local populations.

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">'''. The US military has been bombing one Middle Eastern or Muslim nation or  '''

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">another almost continuously since 1983, including Lebanon, Libya, Syria,  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">Iran, the Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iraq (almost daily bombings since 1991)

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<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">This, then, is a sampling of American foreign policies over the last 50  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">'''years. The FBI uses the following definition for Terrorism: "The unlawful  '''

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">use of force or violence committed by a group or individual, who has some  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">connection to a foreign power or whose activities transcend national  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">boundaries, against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">government, the civilian population or any segment thereof, in furtherance  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">of political or social objectives." This sounds like the terrorism we just  

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">'''experienced. It also sounds a lot like the US policies and actions since  '''

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;text-align:center;">1945 that I've just described.