"You think America is so innocent?" ~ President Donald Trump (on the question of assassinations)

FINALLY. [Another long post which deserves the utmost perusal]. We are a short-sighted nation but shorter memories......

Finally....finally....finally. The truth "slips" out and American politicians, aghast, are losing their collective minds.

It has never been done before. A sitting American finally acknowledging the well-known fact that America as culpable in extra-judicial killings of innocent people as any other nation in the world. In fact, as we all have been decrying for years, the U.S. probably leads the world in this infamous category.

It should be an interesting four years.

President Donald Trump once again demonstrated that he is not a politician. Whether you hate or love the man, agree with his policies or not, you have to admit he does speak his mind. Whether the reason for the gaffe was because he was trying to be careful not to criticize Putin, or whether he was protecting his business interests in Russia, I know, without a shadow of doubt, that this was a statement that came genuinely from his heart of hearts.

As we speak, American politicians are literally losing their minds at the President's comments, scrambling to resurrect the false narratives they have fostered on the American people for decades. The comments and panicked rhetoric coming form both the left and right of the political spectrum in response to the President's remarks, show not only that we are willing to go any lengths to hide the truth, but reveal how ironic and twisted that they refuse to open their eyes and see that, no matter what Russia has ever done, it pales in comparison with the destruction the U.S. has bombed the world with (pun intended), over the past century. The fact that we couch our war mentality in limp justifications only accentuate the horror.

Speaking on today's Sunday news show "ThisWeek with George Stephanopoulos", Senator Klobuchar said:

(Comments in asterisk-parenthesis are mine)

Klobuchar: "What I would say here is you cannot compare any leaders in our country to what Vladimir Putin has done. This is a man and a regime that has taken down a passenger plane in Ukraine, killing hundreds of people. (Me: *While the U.S. has nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing millions of innocent civilians*)

This is a regime that has been known to poison human rights activists, including a recent incident, where someone is laying in a coma in a hospital...(Me: *The U.S. has assassinated dozens of world leaders in the last century*). This is a regime that, we believe, 17 intelligence agencies in our own country have said,- has tried to influence our own election. (Me: *Really? That's what qualifies as 'evil' in our society today? Remember the Wagergate Break-in in 1972?President Nixon sent in a team of burglars to wiretap Democratic offices at Watergate. The team members had extensive C.I.A. histories, including James McCord, E. Howard Hunt and five of the Cuban burglars. They worked for the Committee to Reelect the President (CREEP), which did dirty work like disrupting Democratic campaigns and laundering Nixon’s illegal campaign contributions. CREEP’s activities were funded and organized by another C.I.A. front, the Mullen Company. President Nixon fired C.I.A. Director Richard Helms for failing to help cover up the Watergate scandal, and in 1974 Pulitzer prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh published a story about Operation CHAOS, the domestic surveillance and infiltration of anti-war and civil rights groups in the U.S. The story sparked national outrage.*)

I don’t think there's any comparison. And I really do resent that he would say something like that.". End of Klobuchar's weird excuse-laden rant.

Republican Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska also chimed in:

Sasse: "There's no moral equivalency there. When has a Democratic political activist been poisoned by the GOP or vice versa? (*Me: Every damn day*). We are not the same as Putin. I don't understand what the president's position is on Russia, but I can tell you what my position is on Russia. You know, I'll be honest, I don't know what the president is trying to do with statements like he allegedly has on O'Reilly, on the Super Bowl tonight. So I've only seen little clips of it. There may be a broader context (*Me: Yeah, that's what you always say...the video didn't show the entire picture*).

Truth affirms freedom of speech. Putin is no friend of reli -- freedom of speech. Putin is an enemy of freedom of religion. The U.S. celebrates freedom of religion. Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U.S. celebrates free press. Putin is an enemy of political dissent. The U.S. celebrates political dissent and the right for people to argue free from violence about places or ideas that are in conflict.

There is no moral equivalency between the United States of America, the greatest freedom living nation in the history of the world and the murderous thugs that are in Putin's defense of his cronyism. Russia is a great danger to a lot of its neighbors and Putin has, as one of his core objectives, fracturing NATO, which is one of the greatest military alliances in the history of the world. Putin is a mess. He's committed all sorts of murderous thuggery. And I am opposed to the way Putin conducts himself in world affairs and I hope that the president also wants to show moral leadership about this issue.". End of Sasse's rambling justification rant.

Here are my thoughts....bear with me. You'll see why those justifications above by two U.S. Senators are bull-crap.

The C.I.A. has long had a policy of assassinating individuals for a mixture of reasons. Formerly, these attacks were in secret....covert, but increasingly, the U.S. government has become open about assassinating anyone whom it pleases in the name of "regime change", or "the war on terror". The official narrative, however, avoids the word assassination, preferring instead the euphemism "targeted killing". Attacks are being made on individuals or leaders of quite small groups who are post-hoc designated "terrorists". Since 2011 there have been killings of nuclear technicians in Iran. Drones are proving increasingly effective at killing targets, and are even being programmed to make autonomous decisions about whom to kill.

In 1953, in Iran, the C.I.A. overthrew the democratically elected Mohammed Mossadegh in a military coup, after he threatened to nationalize British oil, replacing him with a dictator, the Shah of Iran, whose secret police, SAVAK, was as brutal as the Gestapo. In 1979, the CIA failed to predict the fall of the Shah, and the rise of Muslim fundamentalists who were furious at the C.I.A.’s backing of SAVAK, the Shah’s bloodthirsty secret police. In revenge, the Muslims took 52 Americans hostage in the U.S. embassy in Tehran.

In 1954 in Guatemala, the C.I.A. overthrew the democratically elected Jacob Arbenz in a military coup. Arbenz had threatened to nationalize the Rockefeller-owned United Fruit Company, in which C.I.A. Director Allen Dulles owned stock. Arbenz was replaced with a series of right-wing dictators whose bloodthirsty policies killed over 100,000 Guatemalans in the following 40 years.

In 1956 in Hungary, Radio Free Europe incited Hungary to revolt by broadcasting Khruschev’s Secret Speech, in which he denounced Stalin. It also hinted that American aid would help the Hungarians fight. This aid failed to materialize as Hungarians launch a doomed armed revolt, which only invited a major Soviet invasion. The conflict kills 7,000 Soviets and 30,000 Hungarians.

In September 1960, Iraqi Prime Minister, Abd al-Karim Qasim demanded that the Anglo American-owned Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) share 20% of the ownership and 55% of the profits with the Iraqi government. Then, in response to the IPC's rejection of this proposal, challenging the stranglehold Western oil companies had on marketing Arab oil, Qasim issued Public Law 80, which would have taken away 99.5% of the IPC's ownership and established an Iraqi national oil company to oversee the export of Iraqi oil. British and U.S. officials and multinationals demanded that the Kennedy administration place pressure on the Qasim regime. The Government of Iraq, under Qasim, along with five petroleum-exporting nations met at a conference held 10–14 September 1960 in Baghdad, thereby creating OPEC. A secret plan for a U.S.-Turkish invasion of Iraq was drafted by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff shortly after the 1958 coup. By 1960, the U.S. was funding Kurdish guerrillas in Iraq who were fighting for some autonomy.

In 1962, he created a national oil company to exploit the Iraq’s oil. Qasim was overthrown by the C.I.A.-orchestrated Ba'athist coup of February 8, 1963. Qasim was given a short trial and he was shot soon after. Later, footage of his execution was broadcast to prove he was dead. Between 1,500 and 5,000 Iraqis were killed in the fighting during 8-10 February 1963, and in the house-to-house hunt for "communists" that immediately followed.

In 1957 Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser, was assassinated.

Between 1957-1973 in Laos, the C.I.A. carried out approximately one coup per year trying to nullify Laos’ democratic elections. The problem was the Pathet Lao, a leftist group with enough popular support to be a member of any coalition government. In the late 50s, the C.I.A. even created an "Armee Clandestine" of Asian mercenaries to attack the Pathet Lao. After the CIA’s army suffered numerous defeats, the U.S. started bombing, dropping more bombs on Laos than all the U.S. bombs dropped in World War II. A quarter of all Laotians eventually became refugees, many living in caves. It has been estimated that over 285 million cluster bombs were dropped by the U.S. government on Laos.

In 1959, 1963, and 1969, several attempts were made on the life of Cambodian leader Norodom Sihanouk, in an attempt at regime change. In 1970, the C.I.A. finally overthrew Prince Sahounek, who was highly popular among Cambodians for keeping them out of the Vietnam War. He was replaced by C.I.A. puppet Lon Nol, who immediately threw Cambodian troops into battle. This unpopular move strengthened once minor opposition parties like the Khmer Rouge, which achieved power in 1975 and massacred millions of its own people. U.S. Congress voted to cut off CIA funds for its secret war in Cambodia which only made them go further underground and start "outsourcing" the killing to groups like Blackwater.

In June 1960, Patrice Lumumba became the Congo's first prime minister after independence from Belgium. He called for the nation's economic liberation and was branded a communist. Eleven days later, the mineral rich Katanga province, owned by Belgium and prominent Eisenhower administration officials, seceedes. Lumumba was dismissed in September at the instigation of the United States, and in January, 1961 assassinated at the express request of Dwight Eisenhower. Several years of civil conflict and chaos end in the C.I.A. backed deposing of President Joseph Kasavubu and the 1965 accession to power of the C.I.A.-linked Mobutu Sese Seko. Mobutu ruled and robbed the country for more than 30 years in a "kleptocracy" while the Zairian people lived in abject poverty, and U.S. oligarchs reaped trillions of dollars in profits.

In 1961 Dominican Republican General Rafael Trujillo, was assassinated Rafael Trujillo, a dictator Washington had supported since 1930 had business interests so large (about 60 percent of the economy) that they have begun competing with American business interests.

In 1963 South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem was killed in a successful attempt to replace one puppet leader with another. From 1954-1958, C.I.A. officer Edward Lansdale spent four years trying to overthrow the communist government of North Vietnam, using all the usual dirty tricks. The C.I.A. also attempted to legitimize a tyrannical puppet regime in South Vietnam, headed by Ngo Dinh Diem. These efforts failed to win the hearts and minds of the South Vietnamese because the Diem government was opposed to true democracy, land reform and poverty reduction measures. The C.I.A.’s continuing failure resulted in escalating American intervention, culminating in the Vietnam War. In "Operation Pheonix", the C.I.A. helped South Vietnamese agents identify and then murder alleged Viet Cong leaders operating in South Vietnamese villages. According to a 1971 congressional report, this operation killed about 20,000 "Viet Cong."

In 1965 the democratically elected government of Indonesian President Sukarno was overthrown by the C.I.A. with a military coup. The C.I.A. had been trying to eliminate Sukarno since 1957, using everything from attempted assassination to sexual intrigue, for nothing more than his declaring neutrality in the Cold War. His successor, General Suharto, eventually massacred between 500,000 to 1 million civilians accused of being "communist." on behalf of the U.S. The C.I.A. supplied the names of countless "suspects" for elimination

In 1966, we saw the "Ramparts Affair". The radical magazine Ramparts began a series of unprecedented anti-CIA articles. Among their scoops: the C.I.A. paid the University of Michigan $25 million dollars to hire "professors" to train South Vietnamese students in covert police methods. MIT and other universities also received similar payments. Ramparts also revealed that the National Students’ Association was a C.I.A. front. Students were sometimes recruited through blackmail and bribery, including draft deferments..

In 1967 in Greece, a CIA-backed military coup overthrew the government two days before the elections. The favorite to win was George Papandreous, the liberal candidate. During the next six years, the "reign of the colonels", backed by the C.I.A. ushered in the widespread use of torture and murder against political opponents. When a Greek ambassador objected to President Johnson about U.S. plans for Cypress, Johnson told him: "Fuck your parliament and your constitution."

In 1967 a CIA-organized military operation ended in the capture and execution by the Bolivian Army of Che Guevara, revolutionary leader.. 

In 1968, C.I.A. "Operation Chaos" illegally started spying on American citizens, beginning in 1959, and boosted dramatically by President Johnson. C.I.A. agents went undercover as student radicals to spy on and disrupt campus organizations protesting the Vietnam War. They were searching for Russian instigators, which they never find....sound familiar? CHAOS eventually spied on 7,000 individuals and 1,000 organizations.

U.S. military personnel raping an Iraqi teenager

U.S. military personnel raping an Iraqi teenager

In 1969, in Uruguay, the notorious C.I.A. torturer Dan Mitrione arrived in Uruguay, a country torn with political strife. Whereas right-wing forces previously used torture only as a last resort, Mitrione convinced them to use it as a routine, widespread practice. "The precise pain, in the precise place, in the precise amount, for the desired effect," was his motto....sound familiar? The torture techniques he taught to the death squads rivalled the Nazis’. He eventually became so feared that revolutionaries kidnapped and murdered him a year later.

In 1971 in Bolivia, after half a decade of C.I.A.-inspired political turmoil, a C.I.A.-backed military coup overthrew the leftist President Juan Torres. In the next two years, dictator Hugo Banzer had over 2,000 political opponents arrested without trial, then tortured, raped and executed.

In 1975, in Australia, the CIA helped topple the democratically elected, left-leaning government of Prime Minister Edward Whitlam. The C.I.A. did this by giving an ultimatum to its Governor-General, John Kerr. Kerr, a longtime C.I.A. collaborator, exercised his constitutional right to dissolve the Whitlam government. The Governor-General is a largely ceremonial position appointed by the Queen; the Prime Minister is democratically elected. The use of this archaic and never-used law stunned the nation.

Also in 1975, in Angola, eager to demonstrate American military resolve after its defeat in Vietnam, Henry Kissinger launched a C.I.A.-backed war in Angola. Contrary to Kissinger’s assertions, Angola was a country of little strategic importance and not seriously threatened by communism. The C.I.A. backed the brutal leader of UNITAS, Jonas Savimbi. This polarized Angolan politics and drove his opponents into the arms of Cuba and the Soviet Union for survival. Congress cut off funds in 1976, but the C.I.A. was able to run the war off the books until 1984, when funding was legalized again. This entirely pointless war which the U.S. eventually lost in shame, having to give up their support of Apartheid South Africa and Namibia, killed over 300,000 Angolans.

In 1979:

The Soviets invade Afghanistan. The C.I.A. immediately began supplying arms to any faction willing to fight the occupying Soviets. Such indiscriminate arming meant that when the Soviets left Afghanistan, civil war erupted. Also, fanatical Muslim extremists now possessed state-of-the-art weaponry. One of these is Sheik Abdel Rahman, who will become involved in the World Trade Center bombing in New York. Enter the rise of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Quaeda.

In Nicaragua, Anastasios Samoza II, the C.I.A.-backed dictator, fell, and the Marxist Sandinistas took over government. They were initially popular because of their commitment to land and anti-poverty reform. Samoza had a murderous and hated personal army called the National Guard. Remnants of the Guard became the Contras, who fight a C.I.A.-backed guerilla war against the Sandinista government throughout the 1980s. In 1981 the C.I.A. began selling arms to Iran at high prices, using the profits to arm the Contras fighting the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. President Reagan vowed that the Sandinistas will be "pressured" until "they say ‘Uncle.’" The C.I.A.’s Freedom Fighter’s Manual disbursed to the Contras included instruction on economic sabotage, propaganda, extortion, bribery, blackmail, interrogation, torture, murder and political assassination. The C.I.A. also used millions of dollars from obtaining cocaine in South America, and selling in predominantly Black neighborhoods in the U.S. to fund the Contras. Nicaragua shot down a C-123 transport plane carrying military supplies to the Contras. The lone survivor, Eugene Hasenfus, turned out to be a C.I.A. employee, as were the two dead pilots. The airplane belonged to Southern Air Transport, a C.I.A. front. The incident made a mockery of President Reagan’s claims that the C.I.A. was not illegally arming the Contras. Although the details have long been known, the Iran/Contra scandal finally captured the media’s attention in 1986. Congress held hearings, and several key figures (like Oliver North) lied under oath to protect the intelligence community. C.I.A. Director William Casey died of brain cancer before Congress could question him, and all reforms enacted by Congress after the scandal were purely cosmetic.

In 1979, the Archbishop of San Salvador, Oscar Romero, plead with President Carter, "Christian to Christian", to stop aiding the military government slaughtering his people. Carter refused. Shortly afterwards, right-wing leader Roberto D’Aubuisson had Romero shot through the heart while saying Mass. The country soon dissolved into civil war, with the peasants in the hills fighting against the military government. The C.I.A. and U.S. Armed Forces supplied the government with overwhelming military and intelligence superiority and C.I.A.-trained death squads roamed the countryside, committing atrocities like that of El Mazote in 1982, where they massacred between 700 and 1000 men, women and children. By 1992, some 63,000 Salvadorans would lay dead.

In 1983, General Ahmed Dlimi, Commander of the Moroccan Army's
southern forces was killed. From William Blum's book, "Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War 2":

"The government of Morocco, in January 1983, had the sad duty to announce the "grievous death" in a car accident of General Ahmed Dlimi, a confidant of King Hassan for more than 20 years and commander of the Moroccan Army's southern forces. When the 'Le Monde' correspondent had the temerity to suggest that Dlimi's death was perhaps not an accident, he was summarily expelled from the country. [1]

Then, in March, Ahmed Rami, a Moroccan political scientist living in exile in Sweden, stated unequivocally that Dlimi had been murdered by Hassan and his security men and that the C.I.A. was deeply implicated. [2]

"Unknown to us, however," said Rami, "the C.I.A. was investigating
him [Dlimi]. When the C.I.A. handed over a dossier to King Hassan
in January [1983] it contained videofilm of General Dlimi and I
meeting in Stockholm last December. That was enough for Dlimi
to be eliminated." [4]

At eleven o' clock on the night of 23 January 1983, says Ahmed Rami, Dlimi was called to the palace in Marrakesh. There, ten security men escorted him to an underground interrogation room. At one a.m., "two American officers" arrived with the king and went into the interrogation room for several hours. Dlimi was tortured, and, at five a.m., he was shot. His body was later placed in his car which was exploded in a suburb of the city. No one, not even his family
was allowed to see the body. [9]

In 2003 we know what happened to President Saddam Hussein and his two sons.

Exiled Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier was blown up in Washington DC, part of Operation Condor with at least tacit U.S. support.

In 1970 in Chile, there was an unsuccesful U.S. supported coup "Project FUBELT". Eventually, in 1973, the C.I.A. overthrew and assassinated Chilean President Salvador Allende, Latin America’s first democratically elected socialist leader. The problems began when Allende nationalized American-owned firms in Chile. ITT offered the C.I.A. $1 million for a coup (which was reportedly refused). The C.I.A. then replaced Allende with General Augusto Pinochet, who proceeded to torture and murder thousands of his own countrymen in a crackdown on labor leaders and the political left.

There were many leaders on whose lives unsuccessful assassination attempts were linked to the agency. In his "Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II", Bill Blum has a long and interesting list starting in 1949 with Kim Koo, Korean opposition leader, going on to efforts to kill Sukarno, President of Indonesia,Kim Il Sung, Premier of North Korea, Mohammed Mossadegh, Claro M. Recto (the Philippines opposition leader), Jawaharlal Nehru, Gamal Abdul Nasser, Norodom Sihanouk, Chinese Prime minister Chou En-lai, Costa Rican President José Figueres, Francisco Caamaño, Dominican Republic opposition leader, Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, Gen. Rafael Trujillo, Charles de Gaulle, Salvador Allende, Michael Manley, Ayatollah Khomeini, the nine comandantes of the Sandinista National Directorate, Mohamed Farah Aideed, prominent clan leader of Somalia, Slobodan Milosevic, as well as Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1955.

Over 600 attempts were made on Cuban President Fidel Castro's life

In the 1950s, there was a C.I.A./Neo-Nazi hit list of more than 200 political figures in West Germany to be "put out of the way" in the event of a Soviet invasion

In 1976 there was an attempt on the life of Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley. According to Gary Webb's book, "The Dark Alliance", Norman Descoteaux, the C.I.A. station chief in Jamaica began a destabilization program of the Manley government in late 70s. Part of that plan was assassinations, money for the Jamaican Labour Party, labor unrest, bribery and shipping weapons to Manley's opponents, like Lester "Jim Brown" Coke. The "Dark Alliance" story was first published in the San Jose Mercury News, and later ridiculed by the country's largest newspapers and Gary Webb was hung out to dry by his own paper, and purportedly committed suicide (even though there were two billet holes in the side of his head). Author, Daurius Figueira writes in his book, "Cocaine And Heroin Trafficking In The Caribbean": "In fact, it meant that illicit drug runners linked to the JLP were integrated into a C.I.A.-linked illicit drugs guns and criminal trafficking pipeline." Former C.I.A. agent and arch-critics of the Agency, Philip Agee, said "the C.I.A. was using the JLP as its instrument in the campaign against the Michael Manley government, I'd say most of the violence was coming from the JLP, and behind them was the C.I.A. in terms of getting weapons in and getting money in."

In 1984, a C.I.A. operative, and dual Nicaraguan citizen, William Joseph Luther was arrested in Nicaragua on charges of being a C.I.A. agent, and trying to obtain Barricada press credentials in order to take part in a plot to kill Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann.

In 1985 the C.I.A. tried to kill the Lebanese Shiite leader Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah by setting off a car bomb outside his mosque. He survived, though 80 others were blown to pieces.

In Washington, a C.I.A. spokesman, Dale Peterson, said: ''We don't assassinate people. The C.I.A., following the President's executive order, does not engage in assassination. It also is C.I.A. policy not to confirm or deny allegation of association with the agency, but if this individual actually was assigned to kill somebody, we can flatly state he was not doing it at the behest of the C.I.A.'' 

The agency is not the only organization responsible for the deaths of millions worldwide. The overall conclusion reached is that the United States military most likely has been responsible, since WWII for the deaths of between 20 and 30 million people in wars and conflicts scattered over the world......20 million people!!!!! 

Wow!

Still think Russia is the great evil?

To the families and friends of these victims, who had to make decisions about other things such as finding lost loved ones, whether to become refugees, and how to survive, it makes little difference whether the causes were U.S. military action, proxy military forces, the provision of U.S. military supplies or advisors, or other ways, such as economic pressures applied by our nation. 

It was President Lyndon Johnson who famously said shortly after he took office in 1963, “We had been operating a damned Murder Inc. in the Caribbean.” We are a short-sighted nation but shorter memories. There needs to be an end to this madness. 

Madness like.........

Hiroshima

Nagasaki

The Native-American Holocaust

Palestine

The Gulf War.

Congo

The Fall of the USSR and the Doctrine of Manifest Destiny

Iraq 2.0

Libya

The list is almost literally endless.......

I told you this will be an interesting four years. 

Sources:

1. "The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence" by Victor Marchetti and John Marks, a whistle-blowing history of C.I.A. crimes and abuses. Marchetti spent 14 years in the C.I.A., eventually becoming an executive assistant to the Deputy Director of Intelligence. Marks spent five years as an intelligence official in the State Department.

2. "Inside the Company" by Philip Agee, a diary of his life inside the C.I.A. Agee worked in covert operations in Latin America during the 60s, and details the crimes in which he took part.

3. William Blum's book, "Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War 2":

4. “U.S. corporations and Iraqi oil,” Workers World, Oct. 31, 2002. <www.workers.org/ww/2002/ iraqoil1031.php>

5. Chronology of American State Terrorism: http://www.intellnet.org/…/american…/ChronologyofTerror.html

6. Mark Zepezauer, The CIA’S Greatest Hits (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1994), p.76

7. Lance Selfa, U.S. Imperialism, A Century of Slaughter, International Socialist Review Issue 7, Spring 1999 (as appears in Third world Traveler www. thirdworldtraveler.com/American_Em…/Century_Imperialism.html)

8. David Model, President Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and the Bombing of Cambodia excerpted from the book Lying for Empire How to Commit War Crimes With A Straight Face, Common Courage Press, 2005, paperhttp://thirdworldtraveler.com/American_Empire/Nixon_Cambodia_LFE.html.

9. Virtual Truth Commissiion http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/ .

10. William D. Hartung and Bridget Moix, Deadly Legacy; U.S. Arms to Africa and the Congo War, Arms Trade Resource Center, January , 2000www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/congo.htm

11. Roland B. Simbulan The CIA in Manila – Covert Operations and the CIA’s Hidden Hisotry in the Philippines Equipo Nizkor Information – Derechos, derechos.org/nizkor/filipinas/doc/cia.

 

Assassinations of African leaders by the West......

Do you know that many African leaders, pre-, and post- independence leaders have been assassinated by their former colonial rulers or their agents. Primarily The United States, France, Belgium have been the perpetrators of most foreign assassinations in Africa.

1. - A dedicated Marxist, President Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of #Congo, and friend to Che Guevara, was shot January 16, 2001, by a child soldier from his bodyguard, Rashidi Muzele, who was killed as he attempted to flee the scene at Kabila's Palais de Marbre residence. According to the documentary film "Murder in Kinshasa", made by Marlène Rabaud and Arnaud Zajtman, a Lebanese diamond dealer allegedly organized the logistics of the assassination.

2. - Opposition leader of #Cameroon, Felix Moumie, poisoned in 1960.

3. - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of newly independent #Congo
shot by firing squad, at the behest of the American C.I.A., his body hacked and dipped in acid in 1961. Associates Maurice Mpolo, and Joseph Okito, were also killed.

4. - Sylvanus Olympio, leader of #Togo was killed in 1963.

5. - Prince Louis Rwagasore, Prime Minister of #Burundi, was assassinated on October 13, 1961, while taking his dinner at the Hotel club du lac Tanganyika in Bujumbura, Burundi by a Greek national named Jean (Ioannis) Kageorgis, allegedly in the pay of the pro-Belgian Christian Democratic Party (PDC). He had founded a series of African cooperatives to encourage economic independence, but these were quickly banned by Belgian colonial powers in 1958, who had pitched the main ethnic groups against one another, especially between Tutsi and Hutu following the "divide et impera" (divide and conquer) practice.

6. - Mehdi Ben Barka, leader of the #Moroccan opposition movement was kidnapped in France in 1965 and his body never found.

7. - Eduardo Mondlane, leader of #Mozambique's Frelimo, fighting for independence from the Portuguese, died from a parcel bomb in 1969.

8. - Kwame Nkrumah of #Ghana, was ousted in a western-backed coup in 1966. Later died of skin Cancer in 1972.

9. - Amilcar Cabral, leader of the west African liberation movement against Portugal of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, (Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde or PAIGC) in #GuineaBissau and #CapeVerde, was assassinated in 1973.

10. Thomas Sankara- #BurkinaFaso President was assassinated on October 15, 1987, in a coup d'état organised by his former colleague Blaise Compaoré. "Deterioration in relations with former colonial power France" was one of the reasons given. Compaoré immediately reversed the nationalizations, overturned nearly all of Sankara's policies, rejoined the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to bring in "desperately needed" funds to restore the “shattered” economy, and his dictatorship remained in power for 27 years, until it was overthrown by popular protests in 2014.

11. - Pierre Ngendandumwe, Prime Minister of #Burundi, was assassinated on January 15, 1965, by a Rwandan Tutsi refugee who is believed to have been employed at the American embassy in Burundi. The resulting escalating of conflict between the Hutu and the Tutsi only favored the economic interests of America and Belgium. Belgium had given most opportunities to Tutsis, limiting Hutus to training for the Catholic priesthood.

12. - Ali Soilih, President of the #ComorraIslands, was a socialist revolutionary and political figure. As a result of Soilih's confrontational policies, France, the former colonial power in the islands, terminated all aid and technical assistance programs to Comoros. On May 29, 1978, Soilih was shot and killed; according to the government, he had attempted to escape from house arrest. Other sources say it was at the request of France.

13. - Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, President of #Libya was murdered by American-Backed, Zionist-owned, Libyan insurgents on Oct. 20, 2011, as an example of what happens to political leaders who defy international Jewish bankers. Gaddafi refused to do the bidding of the Rothschild-centered global banking cartel in 5 areas:

He propagated the African Union use a common currency that wasn't the American dollar, the Central Bank Of Libya was not Rothschild-owned, Libya was in possession of 150 Tons of gold which was looted by American forces, the famous Libyan oil Industry was looted by American companies such as Halliburton, which claimed to have "misplaced" $40 Billion during this, and Iraq invasions....and finally America and Israel coveted Libya’s ‘blue gold’ (water), some 500 miles of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System that lies beneath Libya’s surface.

The Nubian Aquifer is the only fresh water source that remains in North Africa and thus is the focus of what has become known as “Water Wars.” Two French water firms, the largest in the world, Veolia and Suez SA,” says Al-Islam, want to own the Nubian Aquifer, since they will make countless billions in profit from food grown from the water. Both Veolia and Suez SA, like all multinational corporations, are funded by Jewish finance capital. 

14. - Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane, served as the founding President of the #Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO, and was assassinated on February 03, 1969. Both the Portuguese intelligence or the Portuguese secret police PIDE/DGS and elements of FRELIMO, have been accused by different historians of this assassination. Former PIDE Agent Oscar Cardoso claims that PIDE Agente Casimiro Monteiro planted the bomb that killed Eduardo Mondlane.

15. - Herbert Wiltshire Pfumaindini Chitepo, leader of ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union) of #Zimbabwe, was assassinated on March 18, 1975. Although his murderer remains unidentified, the Rhodesian author Peter Stiff says that a former British SAS soldier, Hugh Hind was responsible.

How many more assassinations still to come.....?

Too many of our leaders have been killed by the West... 

What is the future of Africa? When shall Africa be free......?

Free of the clutches of greedy, immoral, vampires in the West

Will the rivers of blood of our fallen heroes be in vain.....?

When will imperialism die? When will neo-colonialism stop.....?

When shall we Africans successfully combat American greed....?

How many American, French, British, Belgium, or any other leaders in the West have ever been assassinated by an African, or even slightly implicated in their deaths? None. Never. It is not what we do or who we are. We are not animals with no control, like Westerners......there is no desire to compare the sizes of our penises too yours. We already know the answer to that. We are the alpha, and are powerful beyond measure.

In the final analysis, we should seriously consider what we shall tell our children, for the true revolution is the evolution of consciousness....

黒人浪人