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When the USA is not actively removing governments itdisapproves of, it is normally very busy interfering in other
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nations' affairs. The interference may be financial,military, overt (out in the open) or covert (under-cover,secret).

Whenever the event, there are two reasons to be

considered.

Reason 1: The reason given by the USA, its mediaand its friends around the world. Reasons likeCommunism, Terrorism, Human Rights, Freedom,Liberation, Weapons of Mass Destruction, etc.

Reason 2: The actual reason. This is usuallyhidden from the general public and has to belooked for in quotes by under-reported officials orsubsequent events on the ground. Real reasons aremany but usually include Business Interests,Access to Resources, Markets, Military Bases,Strategic Value, or Political Support.

The given reasons have evolved as the politics of theworld has changed. Where it was once Communism thenFundamentalism, it is now Weapons or Terrorism.

All of this assumes that the USA has the unilateral right todictate to other countries how they should run theirpolitical, religious, economic and cultural affairs. This is an

assumption that is never challenged in the Western media.

The USA frequently interferes in nations' elections. At thesame time it is against the law to interfere in USAelections. The USA often insists on countries havingUnited Nations inspections for weapons programs while


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denying access for its own extensive chemical, nuclearand biological armoury. The USA will use the internationallegal system when it suits but ignore its resolutions if theygo against the USA. This behaviour is reported around theworld leading to much anger and resentment at the USA.Little of this gets reported to the USA public however.

The USA has, by far, bombed more countries than anyother nation. Sometimes the United Nations approves. Ifit does not, the USA will bomb anyway. Many countriesare subject to unilateral economic sanctions by the USA.Cuba is a good example. The USA will not only impose

sanctions but often cajoles and bullies other countries tofollow it. Again, the United Nations is used if possible,and ignored if not.

Much of the world feels like there is one law for the USAand its friends, another law for everyone else.

Year Country Action ReasonGiven ActualReason

1947 France

ElectionFinance;EconomicCoersion

Communism

Wanted pro-USAgovernmentand Frenchrecolonisation

of Vietnam.

1947 Italy

ElectionFinance;EconomicCoersion

Communism

Wanted pro-USA and pro-businessgovernment.
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1947 GreeceMilitaryBacking

Communism

Wanted pro-USAgovernmentand militarybases.

1947 PhilippinesElectionFinance

None Military bases

1948 PeruMilitaryBacking

NoneControl ofgovernment.

1948 Vietnam MilitaryBacking

Communism

Support forFrench

recolonisationFear ofindependentVietnam.

1948 NicaraguaMilitaryBacking

None

Pro-USAgovernmentand access to

plantations.

1949 ChinaArms Sales;Bombing

Communism

Access to apro-USA andpro-businessgovernment.

1950 Colombia Food Aid HumanitarianDestruction oan agricultura

rival.1950 Korea Killing Civilians None Unknown.

1950 Puerto Rico Military Action NoneTo crushindependencemovement.
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Finance businessinterests.

1958 JapanElection

Finance

None

To keep pro-USA

governmentsin power.

1959 Haiti Military Action None

To crushrebellionagainst pro-USAgovernment.

1959 Nepal Covert Action NoneTo help pro-USAgovernmentwin power.

1960 Congo Assassination None

Wanted toremovepopular and

nationalistleader; accesto minerals.

1960 Cuba Trade Embargo Communism

Country usingits resourcesfor its ownpeople.

1960 Iraq Destabilisation NoneLeader foundand supportsOPEC.

SecretCountry usingits resources
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Invasion for its ownpeople.

1961DominicanRepublic

Assassination None Unknown.

1962 Vietnam Military Action CommunismCountrywanted unityandindependence

1962 CubaEconomicSabotage

None

Country usingits resourcesfor its own

people.

1962 BrazilElectionFinance

NoneWanted pro-businessgovernment.


PoliticalCoersion

None Unknown.

1963 IraqAssassination;Intelligence

Communism

Previous

governmentagainst USAoil interests;removal ofdissidents.

1963 El Salvador Advisors CommunismRemoval ofanti-USA

dissidents.

1964NorthVietnam

Bombing NoneRemoval ofindependentgovernment.

Suppression
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1964SouthVietnam

TortureTraining

Communismofindependencemovements.

1964 Panama Military Action Law andOrder

Suppression

of movementdemandingreturn ofcanal.

1965 Vietnam Military Action CommunismTo keep thecountry fromuniting.


Intervention Communism

To keepelected leadefromreturning topower.

1965 Indonesia Intelligence Communism

Removal ofdissidents.

Helping a probusinessregime.

1965 LaosDestabilisation;Bombing

CommunismDenial ofsupport forVietnam.

1965 Thailand Military Aid None

Support for

pro-USAgovernment;militarybases.

Support for
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1965 Peru Military Aid None pro-USAgovernment.

1966 VietnamVillageClearing;

Bombing

CommunismPoliticalcontrol of the

country.

1966 Laos Bombing NoneDenial ofsupport forVietnam.

1966CentralAfrica

Finance NoneAccess touranium.

1966 BoliviaElectionFinance None

Access to

minerals andoil.

1967 Vietnam Military Action CommunismPoliticalcontrol of thecountry.

1967 Cuba Assassination NoneRemoval ofpopular

leader.

1968 VietnamVillageClearing;Bombing

CommunismPoliticalcontrol ofcountry.

1969 CambodiaSecretBombing

NoneDenial ofsupport forVietnam.

1969 Vietnam Military Action CommunismPoliticalcontrol ofcountry.

1970NorthVietnam

Bombing NoneControl ofcountry.
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1970 UruguayTortureTraining

None

To keepoppositionfrom takingpower.

1970 Oman MilitaryAssistance None Unknown.

1971 Laos Invasion NoneControl ofcountry.

1971 Vietnam Military Action NoneControl ofcountry.

1972

North

Vietnam

Blockade;

Bombing None

Control of

country.

1972 Nicaragua TroopsBusinessinterests

Support forbusiness andpro-USAgovernment.

1972 AustraliaElection

FinanceNone

Did not likeLabour Partyforeign policy

1972 Iraq Aid to Kurds Humanitarian

To destabiliseIraq as it hada quarrel withUSA ally,Iran.

1973 Cambodia Bombing None Control ofcountry.

1974 Vietnam Trade Embargo Communism

TheVietnamesewere winningagainst the
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USA.

1974 Zaire Military Aid NoneControl ofresources.

1974 PortugalElectionFinance

None

Did not want

socialistgovernmentto takepower.

1975 VietnamEconomicAttack

Communism

To stopcountrydeveloping as

a model forthe region.

1975 East TimorSupport ofInvasion

None

Did not wanta newindependentstate; oil.

1975 IraqChange ofSupport None

Kurdish rebel

no longer ofuse.

1975 MoroccoSupport ofInvasion

None

Moroccogrants use ofmilitary basein return.

1976 Indonesia Military Aid None

Support for

pro-USAgovernment.

1976 Philippines Military Aid NoneSupport forpro-USAgovernment.
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1977 Pakistan Military Aid None

Support forunelected proUSAgovernment.

1977 EgyptEconomicCoersion

NoneTo removeEgypt fromthe anti-Israecamp.

1977 Zaire Military Aid NoneSupport forpro-USAgovernment.

1977 Indonesia Military Aid NoneSupport forpro-USAgovernment.

1978 GuatemalaMilitary Aid;Economic Aid

None

Support forunelected proUSAgovernment.

1979 IranHabouringDictator

None

Newgovernmentwants controof itsresources,especially oil.

1979 CentralAfrica Economic Aid None

Support for

pro-businessgovernment.

1979 Afghanistan Military Aid Repel USSR

To repel USSand breaktheir
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economy.

1979 CambodiaAid to KhmerRouge

None

To please newally China; toantagonise

Vietnam.

1979 VietnamEconomicBlockade

Communism

To stopcountrydeveloping asa model forthe region.

1979 Yemen Military Aid NoneTo please ally

Saudi Arabia.

1980 El Salvador Military Aid Communism

Stopopposition topro-USAgovernment.

1980 Honduras Troops Communism

Protectresources and

create anti-Nicaraguabases.

1980 Iraq Military Aid Islamic Iran

Wanted todestabilisenew anti-USAgovernment

of Iran.

1980 Cambodia Military Aid None

To destabiliseVietnamesebackedgovernment
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and to pleasenew ally,China.

1980 Italy Terrorism None

To discredit

socialistelectioncandidatesand toheighten fearof the USSR.

1980 South Korea

Military Aid;

PoliticalSupport

None

Suppress

opposition topro-USAgovernment.

1981 TanzaniaEconomicCoersion

Communism

Wanted thecountry tochange itseconomy to

suit USAcompanies.

1981 El Salvador Military Aid Communism

Stopopposition topro-USAgovernment.

1981 Libya Provocation Terrorism

To destabilise

an anti-Westgovernment.

Economic

To stop theindependentdevelopment
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-Coersion of Vietnam,

Laos andCambodia.

1982 Lebanon Troops Humanitarian

To help Israe

removePalestinians.

1982 Guatemala Military Aid None

To suppressopposition topro-USAgovernment.

1982 South Africa Financial Aid Terrorism

To help South

Africadestabilise thregion.

1982 Afghanistan Military Aid Communism

To replaceUSSR backedgovernmentby the USA

backedgovernment.

1982 Iraq Military Aid Islamic Iran

To supportIraq's waragainst theanti-USAgovernment

of Iran.

1983 LebanonTroops;Bombing

PeaceKeeping

To ensurepro-USAfactions wonthe civil war.
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1983 NicaraguaBlockade;Arming Rebels

Communism

To replacegovernmentwith pro-USAregime.

1983 ZimbabweEconomicCoersion

NoneGovernmenthad tooindependentforeign policy

1984 MozambiqueEconomicCoersion

Communism

To stopsupport fordemocracy in

South Africa.

1985 Lebanon Car Bomb Assassination

To removeanti-Israeland anti-USAdissidents.

1985New

Zealand

Economic

Coersion

None

Countrybacked

nuclear freePacific.

1985 ChadMilitary Aid;Financial Aid

None

Support fornon-electedpro-USAregime.

1985 Honduras Military Aid;Training

Communism

To destabilise

electedgovernmentof Nicaragua.

1986 Nicaragua Military Aid CommunismTo destabiliseelected
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government.

1986 Libya Bombing TerrorismTo destabilisethe country.

1987 Iran Provocation TerrorismTo destabilise

the country.

1988 Iran Provocation TerrorismTo destabilisethe country.

1988 Iraq Military Aid Islamic IranSupport forIraq in its waagainst Iran.

1988 Colombia Military Aid Drugs

Support for

pro-USAgovernment.

1988 El Salvador Military Aid CommunismSupport forpro-USAgovernment.

1988 Turkey Military Aid NoneSupport forpro-USAgovernment.

1989 El Salvador Military Aid CommunismSupport forpro-USAgovernment.

1989 PanamaInvasion;Diplomatic

Violation

Drugs

To ensurecontrol over

the PanamaCanal.

1989 Cambodia Military Aid None

To destabiliseVietnamesebackedgovernment
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and to pleaseChina.

1989 Libya Provocation Terrorism

To destabilisethe country

because it isanti-USA andpro-Palestinian.

1990 NicaraguaElectionFinance

Communism

To ensurethat a pro-USA

governmentwas elected.

1990 El SalvadorMilitaryTraining

CommunismSupport of thpro-USAgovernment.

1990 Guatemala Military Aid CommunismSupport forthe pro-USA

government.

1990 BulgariaElectionFinance

Communism

Did not wanta socialistgovernment ipower.

1990 GermanyDocumentTheft

None Unknown.

1991 IraqInvasion;UN Violation;Sanctions

Free Kuwait

To ensurethat Iraqbecame lesspowerful.

1991 Philippines Disinformation None Military bases
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1992 Somalia Invasion Humanitarian

To ensurethat a pro-Westgovernmenttook control.

1992 Colombia Military Aid DrugsTo removeanti-USAelements.

1992 AlbaniaElectionFinance

Communism

Did not wanta socialistgovernment i

power.

1992 Angola Military Aid Communism

Wantedaccess to oilanddiamonds.

1993 Iraq Bombing UN Violations

To ensurethat Iraq doe

not flood theoil market,lowering theprice.

1993 Cuba Trade Embargo Communism

Country usingits resourcesfor its own

people.

1994 HaitiTroops;DocumentTheft

Democracy

To ensurethat a pro-westgovernment i
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elected.

1994 Jordan Financial Aid Humanitarian

To obtainagreementwith Israel's

view thatPalestinianrefugees donot have aright ofreturn.

1994 Colombia Military Aid DrugTrafficking

To suppress

opposition topro-USAgovernment.

1995 Turkey Military Aid None

To keep apro-USAgovernmenthappy while i

attacks Kurds

1995 IraqSanctions;Bombing

UN Violations

To ensurethat Iraq doenot flood theoil market,lowering theprice.

1995 Mexico Military AidDrugTrafficking

To crushopposition toUSA businessinterests.

Country using
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1995 Iran Sanctions Terrorism

for its ownpeople.

1996 Iraq Sanctions;Bombing UN Violations

To keep thecountry weak

and todestabilise thgovernment.

1996 Mongolia

Election

Finance Communism

To help electa pro-USAgovernmentthat would

allowelectronicmonitoring ofChina.

1997 Rwanda Military Aid NoneSupport forpro-Westgovernment.

1997 Iraq Sanctions UN Violations

To replace thgovernmentwith one thatis more pro-West.

1998 Afghanistan Bombing Terrorism

To destroyterror campsbuilt by theUSA to fightthe USSR andnowsuspected of
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being usedagainst theUSA.

1998 Iraq Sanctions;Bombing

UN Violations

To replace th

governmentwith one thatis more pro-West.

1998 Sudan Bombing Terrorism Unknown.

1998 Turkey Military Aid None

Support forpro-USA

NATOcountry.

1998 Guatemala Military Aid None

Suppressionof oppositionto pro-USAgovernment.

1998 South Korea Food Aid Humanitarian

To make the

countrydependent onUSA producefood.

1999 Yugoslavia Bombing HumanitarianEuropeanbusinessinterests.

1999 Iraq Bombing UN ViolationsTo destabiliseindependentArab regime.

Suppressionof opposition
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to pro-USAgovernment.

2000 Israel

Military Aid;Economic Aid;

PoliticalSupport

Terrorism

Support for astrongly pro-

West countryin the MiddleEast.

2000 Kyrgyzstan Financial Aid Humanitarian

To gaininfluence in orich CentralAsia.

2001 Colombia Military AidDrugTrafficking

To protectUSA oilcompaniesfromdissidents.

2001 China Provocation Communism

To obtainsecrets and

intimidateindependentcountry.

2001 Israel

Military Aid;Economic Aid;PoliticalSupport

Terrorism

Support for astrongly pro-West countryin the Middle

East.

2001 IraqSanctions;Bombing

UN Violations

To replace thgovernmentwith one thatis more pro-
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West.

2001 AfghanistanBombing;Invasion

Terrorism

To replace thgovernmentwith one that

is more pro-West.

2002 AfghanistanBombing;Invasion

Terrorism

To gaininfluence andcontrol overoil rich CentraAsia.

2002 Angola Intelligence TerrorismTo removetheir nolonger needeformer client

2003 Iraq Invasion

Banned

Weapons

To gaincontrol of oilrich country

and impose agovernmentfriendly to thUSA.

2007 SomaliaBombing;Support ofInvasion

TerrorismTo install apro-USAgovernment.

This is satirised by the Tom Lehrer song, Send TheMarines.
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obscure the facts and mold opinion.

World Trade

How world trade really works and an explanation of tariffs,subsidies, debt and aid. How economic pressure is usedfor political purposes.

Quotes

Amnesty International, 1996 from "Human Rights andUSA Security Assistance":

"Throughout the world, on any given day, a man,woman or child is likely to be displaced, tortured,killed or 'disappeared', at the hands of governmentsor armed political groups. More often than not, theUnited States shares the blame."

Madeleine Albright, former USA Secretary of State to

the United Nations:

"[The USA will] behave, with others, multilaterallywhen we can and unilaterally as we must."

Thomas Friedman from "What the World Needs Now" inthe New York Times (USA) and Illustrated by an American

Flag on a fist:

"For globalism to work, America can't be afraid toact like the almighty superpower that it is....Thehidden hand of the market will never work withouta hidden fist...McDonald's cannot flourish without
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McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. Andthe hidden fist that keeps the world safe for SiliconValley's technologies is called the United StatesArmy, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps."

USA Defence Secretary William Cohen in remarks toreporters prior to his speech at Microsoft Corporation inSeattle as reported by Associated Press:

"[T]he prosperity that companies like Microsoft nowenjoy could not occur without having the strongmilitary that we have. ... conflicts in faraway lands

such as Bosnia, Korea and Iraq have a direct effecton the U.S. economy. The billions it costs to keep100,000 American troops in South Korea and Japan,for example, makes Asia more stable--and thusbetter markets for U.S. goods. The military's successin holding Iraq in check ensures a continued flow ofoil from the Persian Gulf."

George Kennan, Cold War Planner for the USA in 1948:

"We have 50% of the world's wealth, but only 6.3%of its population. In this situation, our real job inthe coming period is to devise a pattern ofrelationships which permit us to maintain thisposition of disparity. To do so, we have to dispense

with all sentimentality...we should cease thinkingabout human rights, the raising of living standardsand democratisation."

Arundhati ROY, Indian writer:


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"Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.Terrorism has no country. It's transnational, asglobal an enterprise as Coke or Pepsi or Nike. At thefirst sign of trouble, terrorists can pull up stakesand move their 'factories' from country to country insearch of a better deal. Just like the multi-nationals."

New Republic, USA magazine:

"Operation Enduring Freedom is not a humanitarianintervention. If we leave behind a country in chaos

that can no longer serve as a base of operationsagainst us, then we will have accomplished anecessary objective [and should] lose the obsessionwith nation-building".

Abdul Haq, Afghan envoy executed by the Taliban inAfghanistan:

"[The USA] is trying to show its muscle, score avictory and scare everyone in the world. They don'tcare about the suffering of the Afghans or howmany people we will lose. And we don't like that.Because Afghans are now being made to suffer forthese Arab fanatics, but we all know who broughtthese Arabs to Afghanistan in the 1980s, armed

them and gave them a base. It was the Americansand the CIA. And the Americans who did this all gotmedals and good careers, while all these yearsAfghans suffered from these Arabs and their allies.Now, when America is attacked, instead of


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punishing the Americans who did this, it punishesthe Afghans."

RAWA, Revolutionary Association of the Women ofAfghanistan:

"[The] Taliban should be overthrown by the uprisingof Afghan nation. Again, due to the treason offundamentalist hangmen, our people have beencaught in the claws of the monster of a vast warand destruction. America, by forming aninternational coalition against Osama and his

Taliban collaborators and in retaliation for the 11thSeptember [2001] terrorist attacks, has launched avast aggression on our country. Despite the claim ofthe USA that only military and terrorist bases of theTaliban and Al Qieda will be struck and that itsactions would be accurately targeted andproportionate, we have witnessed for the past seven

days leaves no doubt that this invasion will shed theblood of numerous women, men, children, youngand old of our country."

George Bush, USA president during the bombing of Iraq:

"What we say goes."

Cardinal Paulo Evarista Arns of Sao Paulo (Brazil) afterthe USA bombing of Iraq:

"[In the Arab countries] the rich sided with the USAgovernment while the millions of poor condemnedthis military aggression. [Throughout the Third


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World] there is hatred and fear: When will theydecide to invade us and on what pretext?"

Noam Chomsky, USA writer:

"Overwhelming dominance is necessary for well-known technical reasons. Even Ballistic MissileDefense requires nullification of the anti satelliteweapons of a potential adversary. The USA musttherefore achieve 'full spectrum dominance',ensuring that even this much simpler technologywill not be available. An iron fist is needed for other

reasons. USA military planners share theassessment of the intelligence community andoutside experts that what is misleadingly called'globalization' will lead to a widening dividebetween the 'haves' and the 'have nots' - contraryto doctrine, but in accord with reality. And it will benecessary to control unruly elements: by inspiring

fear, or perhaps by actual use of highly destructivekilling machines launched from space, probablynuclear powered and on hair trigger alert withautomated control systems, thus increasing thelikelihood of what in the trade are called 'normalaccidents': the unpredictable errors to which allcomplex systems are subject."

Der Spiegal, news magazine from Germany (1September 1997):

"Never before in modern history has a countrydominated the earth so totally as the United States


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does today... America is now the Schwarzenegger ofinternational politics: showing off muscles,obtrusive, intimidating... The Americans, in theabsence of limits put to them by anybody oranything, act as if they own a kind of blank chequein their 'McWorld'".

Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa after the USAhad tried to stop him from visiting Libya in 1997 (quotedin the Washington Post):

"How can they have the arrogance to dictate to us

where we should go or which countries should beour friends? Gadhafi is my friend. He supported uswhen we were alone and when those who tried toprevent my visit here today were our enemies. Theyhave no morals. We cannot accept that a stateassumes the role of the world's policeman."

Rupert Cornwall, writing in the UK newspaper, TheIndependent about the treatment of Afghan prisoners bythe USA:

"[The USA] believes it is conducting a righteous warto rid the world of a deadly enemy that will stop atnothing to achieve its fiendish ends. Europe,through, increasingly sees an arrogant superpower

on the loose - one that after a brief, tacticalflirtation with cooperation in the early stages of thewar is back to its old unilaterist ways, safe in theknowledge that its power is unchallengeable.Donald Rumsfeld the [USA] Defence Secretary,


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makes clear that America will do this its way,whether the world likes it or not."

A Study of Assassination, a CIA document written in1954 and released in 1997:

"For secret assassinations... the contrived accidentis the most effective technique. When successfullyexecuted, it causes little excitement and is onlycasually investigated. The most effective accident...is a fall of 75 feet [23m] or more onto a hardsurface. Elevator shafts, stair wells, unscreened

windows and bridges will serve... The act may beexecuted by sudden, vigorous grabbing of theankles, tipping the subject over the edge. If theassassin immediately sets up an outcry, playing the'horified witness', no alibi or surreptitiouswithdrawal is necessary."

"Drugs can be very effective. If the assassin istrained as a doctor or nurse and the subject is undermedical care, this is an easy and sure method. Anoverdose of morphine administered as a sedativewill cause death without disturbance and is difficultto detect. The size of the dose will depend uponwhether the subject has been using narcoticsregularly. If not, two grains will suffice. If thesubject drinks heavily, morphine or a similarnarcotic can be injected at the passing out stage,and the cause of death will often be held to be acutealcoholism."


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"Edge weapons: any legally obtained edge devicemay be successfully employed. A certain minimumof anatomical knowledge is needed for reliability.Puncture wounds of the body cavity may not bereliable unless the heart is reached. The heart isprotected by the rib cage and is not always easy tolocate. Absolute reliability is obtained by severingthe spinal chord in the cervical region. This can bedone with the point of a knife or a light blow of anaxe or hatchet. Another reliable method is thesevering of both jugular and cartoid vessels on bothsides of the windpipe."

Counterintelligence Interrogation, a CIA documentwritten in 1963 for the war in Vietnam:

"The effectiveness of most of the non-coercivetechniques depends on their unsettling effect. Theinterrogation situation is in itself disturbing to most

people encountering it for the first time. The aim isto enhance this effect... [and to create] a traumaticor sub-traumatic experience which explodes, as itwere, the world that is familiar to the subject aswell as his image of himself in the world. usually hisown clothes are taken away because familiarclothing reinforces identity and thus the capacity ofresistance. The following are the principal coercivetechniques of interrogation: arrest, detention,deprivation of sensory stimuli through solitaryconfinement or similar methods, threats and fear,debility, pain, heightened suggestibility andhypnoses, narcosis and induced regression."


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Dick Gregory:

"What we're doing in Vietnam is using the blackman to kill the yellow man so that the white mancan keep the land he took from the red man".

George Keenan, USA historian:

"It is not Russian military power that is threateningus, it is Russian political power".

Marine Corps Gazette, USA military magazine (May

1900):

"The underdeveloped world's growingdissatisfaction over the gap between rich and poornations will create a fertile breeding ground forinsurgencies. These insurgencies have the potentialto jeopardize regional stability and our access tovital economic and military resources."

Patrick Leahy, USA Senator:

"Foreign aid must do much more to strengthenAmerican economic competitiveness abroad. [Aid] isnot some international charity or welfare program.Properly designed, it can be an investment in new

trading partners, growing export markets, and morejobs in our export industries here at home."

Dimitri Simes, senior associate of the CarnegieEndowment for International Peace writing in the USAnewspaper, New York Times (27 December 1988):


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"The apparent decline of the Soviet threat... makesmilitary power more useful as a United Statesforeign policy instrument... against those whocontemplate challenging important American

interests."

Jiri Valenta, economic writer:

"[USA] national security interests in the Caribbean[and elsewhere in the hemisphere] have rested onpowerful economic investments."

Robert Tucker, author of The purpose of American Powerin USA government publication, Foreign Policy (Winter1980/1):

"[The USA should be prepared to use force to barthreats] from developments indigenous to the Gulf[that might endanger] our rights of access [or our]

economic well-being and the integrity of [thenation's] basic institutions."

Robert Pastor, director of Latin American and CaribbeanAffiars on the USA National Security Council:

"The [USA] did not want to control Nicaragua or theother nations in the region, but it also did not wantto allow development to get out of control. Itwanted Nicaragua to act independently, EXCEPTwhen doing so would affect [USA] interestsadversely."


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Gioconda Belli, Nicaraguan writer and former member ofthe Sandinista government:

"The reality, of course, is the American foreignpolicy is run like a corporation. It is totally self

interested - Americans only for themselves. Eventhe use of the word 'American' is unfair. Are we notAmericans too?"

Tariq Ali, UK writer:

"There are 189 member states of the UN. There is,

according to USA Defense Department figures, aUSA military presence in 120 countries today."

Noam Chomsky, USA writer:

"Cluster bombs are much more dangerous thanmines. They are vicious anti-personnel weaponsthat send out flechettes that tear people to shreds.

They just sit there and if a child picks one up, or afarmer hits one with a hoe, it explodes."

"In Afghanistan nobody is going to clear thesethings. So in addition to the mines, there will becluster bombs unexploded and very little ability tobring in food or blankets or to provide shelter. Many

people will disappear and no one will even knowwhat happened to them. No one is going to do acareful census of Afghanistan to find out what theeffects were of the bombing and of the threat ofbombing."


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"The same is happening in many places. Theestimates are that in northern Laos there areprobably thousands of deaths a year, 30 years afterthe bombing. In Laos the Pentagon would not evenprovide instructions on how to defuse them to avolunteer British de-mining group that was workingthere. In Kosovo as well, the USA refused to removecluster bombs."

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