INTERFERENCE, COUPS AND ACTS OF WAR AGAINST SOVEREIGN NATIONS
Just as an example, here is a chronological list of just a few of the belligerent and mostly illegal acts of aggression and interference that the USA has perpetrated since World War Two, along with the President who was in office at the time.
1949 - SYRIA - (President Harry Truman - Democrat)
The USA backed the military coup that deposed the elected government of Syria. Colonel Al-Zaim became dictator and his government was immediately recognised by the USA. The CIA assisted in the suppression of political opposition.
1950 - KOREA - (President Harry Truman - Democrat)
The USA battled North Korea without any declaration of war and called it a police action. This was primarily due to US President Truman's belief in the Domino Theory, that if Korea fell to communism, then other nations in the region would also succumb.
1953 - IRAN - (President Dwight Eisenhower - Republican)
Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran took power in a coup planned and supported by the USA and UK secret services (Operation Ajax). He toppled the popular democracy of Mohammed Mossadegh, who had stated that the mineral wealth of the country should benefit its citizens. This did not please the Western oil companies. The Iranian parliament had nationalised UK oil concessions that were reaping 88% of the profits from the country's oil industry. Iran had offered the UK 25% of the profits. The UK responded by imposing a blockade on Iran and freezing Iranian assets. After the coup, oil concessions were given to USA and UK companies and Anglo-Iranian Oil was renamed British Petroleum.
1954 - GUATEMALA - (President Dwight Eisenhower - Republican)
The USA organised a military coup in Guatemala to remove the popular and reforming president, Juan José Arévalo. The country had been democratic since 1944 and Arévalo had permitted free expression, legalised unions and diverse political parties. The USA declared that the reason for the coup was to stop a takeover by the USSR, but the real reason was economic. American companies, especially United Fruit, would benefit from cheap labour, lax safety laws and a helpful government.
1955 - VIETNAM - (President Dwight Eisenhower - Republican)
The USA was unhappy about the communist government in the north, so it firstly embarked on training the South Vietnam military, then got fully involved in a large scale civil war, bombing all of Vietnam and surrounding countries until eventually it was beaten and driven out in 1975.
1958 - LAOS - (President Dwight Eisenhower - Republican)
The USA CIA and State Department engineered a coup to topple the freely elected government of Prince Souvanna Phouma. US backed Rightist forces took over the government.
1961 - CUBA - (President John F Kennedy - Democrat)
After the fascist US backed dictator Fulgencio Batista was deposed by Fidel Castro, the USA, unhappy about his new communist government, funded and backed an illegal invasion (Bay of Pigs) that failed. The USA maintains sanctions against Cuba to this day.
1963 - IRAQ - (President John F Kennedy - Democrat)
Leader of Iraq, Abdul Karim Kassem, was overthrown in a coup and summarily executed. The USA gave the new regime (the Ba'ath Party, soon to be headed by Saddam Hussein) the names of thousands of communists who were then killed. Kassem had helped found the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in an attempt to curtail Western control of Arab oil. He had planned to nationalise the Iraq Petroleum Company, in which the USA had an interest. Iraq had also disapproved when Kuwait had been given independence by the UK with a pro-west emir and oil concessions to Western companies. A few days before the coup, the French newspaper Le Monde had reported that Kassem had been warned by the USA government to change his country's economic policies or face sanctions. Declassified British government papers indicated that the coup was backed by the USA and UK. The new government promised not to nationalise American oil interests and renounced its claim to Kuwait.
1963 - HONDURAS - (President John F Kennedy - Democrat)
The president eventually resigned after accepting bribes from an American company. The USA took control of the country and gained access to its raw materials by giving huge amounts of aid to the military.
1963 - GUATEMALA - (President John F Kennedy - Democrat)
The USA CIA engineered the overthrow of General Miguel Ydigoras. He had been planning to step down in 1964 and hold elections. The USA feared that the previously elected president Juan José Arévalo, who was overthrown by the CIA in 1954, would regain power.
1965 - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - (President Lyndon Johnson - Democrat)
The democratically elected government was removed by a US backed military coup. Juan Bosch had become the first democratically elected president of the country since 1924. His program included land reform, affordable housing, avoidance of exploitative foreign investment, civil liberties and nationalisation. After the coup, USA marines were sent in to look after American business interests and support the new puppet regime.
1965 - ZAIRE - (President Lyndon Johnson - Democrat)
The new US backed ruler Mobutu Sese Seko allowed USA companies access to the country's cobalt, copper, and diamonds. Mobutu amassed a personal fortune of over $5,000 million. Every foreign company setting up in the country has to pay a "tribute" to the president.
1966 - GHANA - (President Lyndon Johnson - Democrat)
Kwame Nkrumah attempted to lessen his country's dependence of the West. He strengthened military and economic ties to Eastern Europe, the USSR and China. He was removed from power in a coup backed by the USA CIA. According to a declassified CIA internal memo dated 25 February 1966, the CIA and Ghana's military leaders had been plotting the coup for over a year.
1970 - CAMBODIA - (President Richard Nixon - Republican)
USA and South Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia. King Sihanouk was deposed in a USA-backed coup by Lol Nol.
1970 - BOLIVIA - (President Richard Nixon - Republican)
With direct support from the USA, a military coup led by US-trained officer and Gulf Oil beneficiary, Hugo Banzer, deposed the government. During the coup, Banzer's forces had a breakdown in radio communications and USA Air Force radio was placed at their disposal. Previous president Juan Jose Torres had nationalised Gulf Oil properties and tin mines owned by US companies.
1973 - CHILE - (President Richard Nixon - Republican)
The USA was unhappy about the legally elected socialist government of Salvador Allende, so the CIA arranged for him to be deposed. A US backed fascist dictatorship led by Augusto Pinochet was installed, that was responsible for killing many tens of thousands of innocent Chileans.
1980 - LIBERIA - (President Jimmy Carter - Democrat)
The US-backed Samuel Doe took power in a bloody coup. All opposition parties were barred from future elections. Doe and his family became very rich from bribery and corruption. Revenues from petrol and hotel taxes went directly into the Doe's bank account. His fellow tribespeople, who only comprised 4% of the population were elevated into a ruling elite who oppressed the rest of the population. According the Chicago Tribune newspaper, on 22 August 1990 a US official admitted that "Our strategic interests are more important than democracy". The USA gave the new regime military and economic aid. US companies Firestone and BF Goodrich prospered under the new regime.
1983 - GRENADA - (President Ronald Reagan - Republican)
The USA was unhappy about the installation by popular revolution of socialist leader Maurice Bishop. On the fabricated pretext that US citizens were in danger, the USA invaded and deposed his government.
1985 - NICARAGUA - (President Ronald Reagan - Republican)
The USA was opposed to the legally elected Socialist government of Daniel Ortega so the USA secretly funded a guerrilla army with money made from illegal weapons sales to Iran, to try and overthrow his government. This became notorious as the Iran-Contra Affair. The USA also illegally mined the harbour of the capital city Managua to disrupt shipping.
1986 - LIBYA - (President Ronald Reagan - Republican)
Without offering any hard evidence whatsoever, the USA claimed that Libya was masterminding global terrorism and illegally bombed Tripoli, killing the daughter of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and other innocent civilians.
1987 - FIJI - (President Ronald Reagan - Republican)
Timoci Bavadra defeated the pro-US Prime Minister Ratu Sir Kamese Mara after free elections. The new government supported a nuclear-free South Pacific, which was welcomed by the regional populace, but opposed by the USA. The USA wanted its nuclear powered ships to use the country's ports. One month after his victory, Bavadra was overthrown by the pro-nuclear General Sitiveni Rabuka, with the help of the USA. The coup was greeted by a Pentagon source in the USA, who told the Australian newspaper, the Sydney Morning Herald: "We're kinda delighted. All of a sudden our ships couldn't go to Fiji, and now all of a sudden they can". In 1972 when a previous Fijian government had attempted to bar nuclear ships, USA ambassador William Bodde stated that: "A nuclear free zone would be unacceptable to the USA, given our strategic needs. The USA must do everything possible to counter this movement".
1989 - PANAMA - (President Ronald Reagan - Republican)
The USA claimed that Panamanian head of state Manuel Noriega was allowing drug shipments to transit Panama enroute to the USA, so against established international law, the USA illegally invaded Panama, kidnapped Noriega and illegally took him to USA where he was jailed.
1990 - IRAQ - (President George HW Bush - Republican)
The USA masterminded the bombing and invasion of Iraq after Iraq invaded Kuwait although Kuwait was not a US ally and was previously Iraqi territory. Evidence has emerged that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was secretly given the green light by the US ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, to annex Kuwait. Once the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait was underway, the USA suddenly reversed its policy, thus creating a pretext for Iraq to be invaded.
1993 - IRAQ - (President Bill Clinton - Democrat)
The USA claimed that Iraq was plotting to kill the then US President and bombed Baghdad, however no proof has ever been given that such a plot existed.
1998 - AFGHANISTAN - (President Bill Clinton - Democrat)
The USA bombed the residence of suspected US embassy bombing mastermind Osama Bin Laden, killing innocent people. The USA was not then at war with Afghanistan.
1998 - SUDAN - (President Bill Clinton - Democrat)
The USA claimed that Sudan was operating a chemical weapons factory and bombed it without warning. The USA was not at war with Sudan and this was nothing more than an illegal act of aggression. It was subsequently proven that this factory was nothing more than a pharmaceuticals manufacturing plant.
1998 - IRAQ - With the UK, the USA imposed an illegal no-fly zone on Iraq without UN sanction. This action was not part of the cease-fire agreement between Iraq and the UN and under international law, it was an illegal act of continuing aggression by the USA.
1999 - YUGOSLAVIA - (President Bill Clinton - Democrat)
This was a totally illegal act of aggression against a sovereign nation. US interests or citizens were not at risk and war was not declared. NATO is a defence alliance and has no mandate to wage war unless member countries are attacked. US missiles and bombs killed many innocent civilians including those the USA claimed to want to protect.
2001 - AFGHANISTAN - (President George W Bush - Republican)
On 11 September 2001, four hijacked airliners were used to attack the World Trade Centre in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington DC. This attack was blamed on Al Qaeda and its leader Osama Bin Laden, however copious evidence has emerged to literally prove beyond doubt that this attack was an American false flag operation to create such an atrocity, that the American people and the rest of the world would not raise any objections to the USA retaliating in any way. So after fruitless demands by the Americans to the Afghan government for Bin Laden's handover, the USA attacked and invaded Afghanistan. Evidence has also emerged that the main reason for this was the refusal of the Afghan government to allow the US oil company Unocal to build oil pipelines from Turkmenistan to Pakistan and reap hundreds of billions of dollars. To achieve this, the Americans had to get rid of the Afghan government and install a puppet regime, but lacked any sort of credible pretext, so they created one in the form of 9/11 and the deaths of 3000 people and used it to invade Afghanistan.
2003 - IRAQ - (President George W Bush - Republican)
This invasion was a totally illegal act of aggression against a sovereign nation. The USA was not in any danger from the regime of Saddam Hussein, however against opposition from a majority of members of the UN Security Council and no evidence of weapons of mass destruction to justify military action, the USA invaded Iraq and deposed the government, killing thousands of Iraqis in the process. It is estimated that over half a million Iraqis have perished since the Americans invaded and occupied this nation.
2007 - IRAN - (President George W Bush - Republican)
The US Congress agreed to a request from former President George W Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran. $400 million was allocated to destabilise the country's religious leadership. The covert activities involve support of the minority Ahwazi Arab and Baluchi groups and other dissident organisations. US Special Operations Forces have been conducting cross-border operations from southern Iraq with Presidential authorisation for years. These illegal invasions have included kidnapping members of Al Quds, the commando arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and taking them to Iraq for interrogation. Through the CIA, the USA has also been funding the proscribed terrorist organisation Jundullah to attack Iran from its base in Pakistan. These activities are all highly illegal acts of war.
2011 - LIBYA - (President Barack Obama - Democrat)
In February 2011 there was a popular uprising against the regime of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Eventually by March, the rebels found themselves outgunned by Libyan military forces using aircraft, so on 17 March, a number of nations on the UN Security Council voted to impose a no-fly zone. It was obvious that this UNSC vote was pushed by the USA, which engaged in the attack on Libya on 19 March alongside France and Britain. The Americans fired 110 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Libya on the first day and US, British and French aircraft engaged in attacks on Libyan government assets. Gaddafi was eventually captured and immediately killed by the rebels.
US AGGRESSION KILLED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
It is a matter of fact that John Stockwell, ex-CIA Station Chief, also worked for the director of the CIA under George Bush (Senior) testified before the Congress that during the Cold War era, over 6 million people have died in the CIA covert wars. The world has decried the fact that 6 million Jews died at the hands of the Nazis in World War Two, but the grim fact that the Americans were responsible for the same number of deaths because of the CIA has been completely whitewashed. This alone proves that the USA is the biggest rogue terrorist nation in the world.
Apart from US covert political interference, there is a comprehensive list of US military aggression called US Military Interventions on the Downloads page that clearly shows that the USA is by far the greatest transgressor in the world when it comes to mostly illegal interference in the affairs of other nations.
