The crimes of the USA (Dec. 5. 2009)

Indonesia Greece Uruguay Brazil Paraguay Haiti Turkey the Philippines Guatemala El Salvador Chile

USA is responsible for killings, manipulation, corruption and evil all over the world, while trying to promote "american interests" in a criminal way. The Nobel Prize winner in literature Harold Pinter gave a speech in 2005 that made us remember ... "Hundreds of thousands of deaths took place throughout these countries ... and they are attributable to American foreign policy. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis." From the Nobel Lecture by Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008), read it all here The video of Harold Pinter holding his Nobel Lecture in 2005

Nicaragua
This poor country had one flaw: They made it work. They got an educational system for all children. They got health care for everybody. They had successful cooperatives. They shared the land. All this made them doomed: Communism shall not succeed. Nowhere. Ever. That is why Nicaragua had to be destroyed, and USA used all the dirty tricks in the book executing the destruction. There was a similar success-story in Mosambique. Mosambique was destroyed by South Africa, probably on influence from USA.

Israel and the palestinians
It is no secret that Israel could not have executed its mercyless war against the palestinians without solid support from the USA. And it it no secret that the Israel-lobby in Washington is very powerful especially among republicans. The result of this support is a conflict where UN and Geneva conventions are ignored in a way that can only be described as crime against humanity.

The Vietnam war: 5 millions dead
Many of us are not aware of the number of dead this war did cause. On August 2. 1964 the warship USS Maddox claimed it was attacked by three North Vietnamese patrol torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin. This was the official reason for USA to get into a war that lasted until 1975, but it was not the truth. Today we know that the incident never happened. USA went into the Vietnam war without legitime reason, based on conspiracies and lies, in a way that will qualify for an international tribunal of war. By comparison, in the Nurnberg Process, one of the biggest crimes the Hitler regime was accused for was to invade Poland without reason.

The war in Afghanistan: pipeline and drugs
The war in Afghanistan was planned long before september 11. 2001, and USA probably went into Afghanistan for two reasons only: to secure the planned pipeline from the oilfields in the Caspian Sea to the Indian Ocean, and to get the hands on the drug traffic, a traffic almost completely stopped by the Taliban in 2000. Today the pipeline is under completion to be opened in 2014, and Afghanistan has become the worlds leading producer of opium, supplying USA and Europe with heroin. For 8 years USA have used ex. CIA agent Osama Bin Laden from Saudi Arabia, from a rich family very close to republican presidents, as the reason for this war.

The invation of Iraq: a crime against humanity
Today we know for sure: The invation in Iraq was illegitime, based on lies. USA had no valid reason to invade Iraq, Dick Cheney only wanted to get his hands on Iraqs oil. This war is also qualifying for accusations of crimes against humanity in an international court. Britain is now investigating this aspect of its own participation in the Iraq war. The outcome of the British commission will not help any of the 1,5 million people killed in this war.

The inhuman prisons
We know about Guantanamo, about torture and abuse and ignorance of human rights, about ignorance of international conventions. There are other prisons on secret locations we do not know about, also keeping people outside the law, with no charge, no justice, no sentence, no rights.

Will there be change ?
This week, president Barack Obama is coming to Norway to receive the Nobel Peace Price. For what? For giving a hope of change. The world today is so bad and the evil so present everywhere that a hope of change alone qualifies to the Peace Price. But will he succeed? Will he manage to implement change? Can he make USA turn around? Time will show, but there is probably little reason to optimism. The actions above are indications of a sivilisation - the worlds biggest democracy USA, Norways main ally - not beeing sivilized any more. That should make you feel very uncomfortable.

You just can't cure cancer with a price.