07.08.08
The Ugly American Machine: VOTB
Elected politicians representing citizens of the U.S. have allowed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to create our Ugly American image. Rationales disguised with scary presentations allowed the CIA to run amuck plotting coups and assassinations all over the globe. While the ignorant American citizen ponders our negative image in the world, politicians continue with underhanded monopolizations of third world peoples. Politicians fuel the Ugly American Machine part of which is the CIA.
Since World War II the CIA has failed to provide credible intelligence. Glaring examples are Cuba (early 60s), Tonkin Gulf Lie, Vietnam (middle 60s) and Iraq (early 2000s). During that same period, the CIA has plotted over forty (40) assassinations of foreign leaders and over 50 international interventions (coups) in sovereign foreign countries. These are itemized and listed below. The examples were taken from the well-documented book Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II by William Blum
Coups
1. China – 1945 to 1960s: Was Mao Tse-tung just paranoid?
2. Italy – 1947-1948: Free elections, Hollywood style
3. Greece – 1947 to early 1950s: From cradle of democracy to client state
4. The Philippines – 1940s and 1950s: America’s oldest colony
5. Korea – 1945-1953: Was it all that it appeared to be?
6. Albania – 1949-1953: The proper English spy
7. Eastern Europe – 1948-1956: Operation Splinter Factor
8. Germany – 1950s: Everything from juvenile delinquency to terrorism
9. Iran – 1953: Making it safe for the King of Kings
10. Guatemala – 1953-1954: While the world watched
11. Costa Rica – Mid-1950s: Trying to topple an ally – Part 1
12. Syria – 1956-1957: Purchasing a new government
13. Middle East – 1957-1958: The Eisenhower Doctrine claims another backyard for America
14. Indonesia – 1957-1958: War and pornography
15. Western Europe – 1950s and 1960s: Fronts within fronts within fronts
16. British Guiana – 1953-1964: The CIA’s international labor mafia
17. Soviet Union – Late 1940s to 1960s: From spy planes to book publishing
18. Italy – 1950s to 1970s: Supporting the Cardinal’s orphans and techno-fascism
19. Vietnam – 1950-1973: The Hearts and Minds Circus
20. Cambodia – 1955-1973: Prince Sihanouk walks the high-wire of neutralism
21. Laos – 1957-1973: L’Armée Clandestine
22. Haiti – 1959-1963: The Marines land, again
23. Guatemala – 1960: One good coup deserves another
24. France/Algeria – 1960s: L’état, c’est la CIA
25. Ecuador – 1960-1963: A text book of dirty tricks
26. The Congo – 1960-1964: The assassination of Patrice Lumumba
27. Brazil – 1961-1964: Introducing the marvelous new world of death squads
28. Peru – 1960-1965: Fort Bragg moves to the jungle
29. Dominican Republic – 1960-1966: Saving democracy from communism by getting rid of democracy
30. Cuba – 1959 to 1980s: The unforgivable revolution
31. Indonesia – 1965: Liquidating President Sukarno … and 500,000 others East Timor – 1975: And 200,000 more
32. Ghana – 1966: Kwame Nkrumah steps out of line
33. Uruguay – 1964-1970: Torture — as American as apple pie
34. Chile – 1964-1973: A hammer and sickle stamped on your child’s forehead
35. Greece – 1964-1974: “Fuck your Parliament and your Constitution,” said the President of the United States
36. Bolivia – 1964-1975: Tracking down Che Guevara in the land of coup d’etat
37. Guatemala – 1962 to 1980s: A less publicized “final solution”
38. Costa Rica – 1970-1971: Trying to topple an ally — Part 2
39. Iraq – 1972-1975: Covert action should not be confused with missionary work
40. Australia – 1973-1975: Another free election bites the dust
41. Angola – 1975 to 1980s: The Great Powers Poker Game
42. Zaire – 1975-1978: Mobutu and the CIA, a marriage made in heaven
43. Jamaica – 1976-1980: Kissinger’s ultimatum
44. Seychelles – 1979-1981: Yet another area of great strategic importance
45. Grenada – 1979-1984: Lying — one of the few growth industries in Washington
46. Morocco – 1983: A video nasty
47. Suriname – 1982-1984: Once again, the Cuban bogeyman
48. Libya – 1981-1989: Ronald Reagan meets his match
49. Nicaragua – 1981-1990: Destabilization in slow motion
50. Panama – 1969-1991: Double-crossing our drug supplier
51. Bulgaria 1990/Albania 1991: Teaching communists what democracy is all about
52. Iraq – 1990-1991: Desert holocaust
53. Afghanistan – 1979-1992: America’s Jihad
54. El Salvador – 1980-1994: Human rights, Washington style
55. Haiti – 1986-1994: Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?
Assassinations Plotted
1949 – Kim Koo, Korean opposition leader
1950s – CIA/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
1950s – Chou En-lai, Prime minister of China, several attempts on his life
1950s, 1962 – Sukarno, President of Indonesia
1951 – Kim Il Sung, Premier of North Korea
1953 – Mohammed Mossadegh, Prime Minister of Iran
1950s (mid) – Claro M. Recto, Philippines opposition leader
1955 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India
1957 – Gamal Abdul Nasser, President of Egypt
1959, 1963, 1969 – Norodom Sihanouk, leader of Cambodia
1960 – Brig. Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem, leader of Iraq
1950s-70s – José Figueres, President of Costa Rica, two attempts on his life
1961 – Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, leader of Haiti
1961 – Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Congo (Zaire)
1961 – Gen. Rafael Trujillo, leader of Dominican Republic
1963 – Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam
1960s-70s – Fidel Castro, President of Cuba, many attempts on his life
1960s – Raúl Castro, high official in government of Cuba
1965 – Francisco Caamaño, Dominican Republic opposition leader
1965-6 – Charles de Gaulle, President of France
1967 – Che Guevara, Cuban leader
1970 – Salvador Allende, President of Chile
1970 – Gen. Rene Schneider, Commander-in-Chief of Army, Chile
1970s, 1981 – General Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama
1972 – General Manuel Noriega, Chief of Panama Intelligence
1975 – Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire
1976 – Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica
1980-1986 – Muammar Qaddafi, leader of Libya, several plots and attempts upon his life
1982 – Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of Iran
1983 – Gen. Ahmed Dlimi, Moroccan Army commander
1983 – Miguel d’Escoto, Foreign Minister of Nicaragua
1984 – The nine comandantes of the Sandinista National Directorate
1985 – Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanese Shiite leader (80 people killed in the attempt)
1991 – Saddam Hussein, leader of Iraq
1993 – Mohamed Farah Aideed, prominent clan leader of Somalia
1998, 2001-2 – Osama bin Laden, leading Islamic militant
1999 – Slobodan Milosevic, President of Yugoslavia
2002 – Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Afghan Islamic leader and warlord
2003 – Saddam Hussein and his two sons
During eight (8) years of the Eisenhower administration 170 CIA covert operations were authorized. During the three (3) years of the Kennedy administration (Camelot remember?) 163 CIA covert operations were authorized. These and many more facts are detailed by Tim Weiner in his book Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA.
Politicians haven’t controlled the “Ugly American Machine”. When you vote for an incumbent politician, you are condoning an out of control machine, the CIA, obsessed with control and power. The “Ugly American Machine” has been spying on American citizens, too! But that’s another story.
The U.S. has a history of international “tit for tat” politics. Can you blame other countries for disliking Americans? An example was the U.S. bombing of Iraq, June 26, 1993. The bombing was retaliation for an alleged Iraqi plot to assassinate former president George Bush. The bombing “was essential,” said President Clinton, “to send a message to those who engage in state-sponsored terrorism … and to affirm the expectation of civilized behavior among nations.” Mr. BJ was taking the high road, all along acting as the commander and chief of the lying, murdering and Machiavellian-like CIA.
VOTB: Vote Out The Bums: every incumbent, every election. Or you can continue to earn the title of “Ugly American”
Charmed said,
July 8, 2008 at 2:28 pm
I do think it is unfortunate that the American government gives the US a bad rap, but you do have to agree that we live in the best country in the world. Sometimes I am just thankful we have running water and the oppertunities to work in this country. Many countries don’t have these simple oppertunities and their governments are much more corrupt. Don’t forget to be patriotic and thankful for our country. I do agree with you that we need to band together and VOTB or we will soon be socialized and miss out on luxury benifits in the US like healthcare.
Administrator said,
July 8, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Charmed
Good one. Thanks for reading it.
Feel like I have to be VERY negative to get peoples’ attention. You’re right for now. America is the land of opportunity. But for how long? Do you feel comfortable driving anywhere, anytime with today’s gas prices?
Besides I don’t like being manipulative by anyone, especially elected people claiming to be honest, when they are corrupt and do things behind the backs of American people in secret. Read the two books (there are more out there like these) mentioned in this post. You’re eyes will be opened like never before!
SNAFU said,
July 11, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Just read the “blog”. Seems to me, based on some previous contact, and studies in these areas, that we [the US intelligence services] did a damn good job in ridding the world of some very nasy people. Too bad people think we can “talk” these vermin out of their crazy ideas and convince them to be peaceful, caring, and “god loving” folks.
When the US congress forbid the CIA, and other “black operations” from involvement in the “removal” of foreign threats to world peace……..and the lives of folks in their own country……there was a significant increase in terror, civil wars, human rights violations, mass murder, and economic problems.
Want to return to the past? Pull in our information gathering folks from around the world, be nice to world scumbags, believe everything they say, but don’t check on what they do, and then sit back, sing cum bay yah, and kiss your ass goodbye. Because they will soon be at your front door ready to kick your ass and take all your freedoms away. Better to eliminate them where they live by backing folks who have ideas and goals similar to our own.
I think, on balance, the “real politik” has worked, and the lists you cite speak for themselves.
Administrator said,
July 11, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Part of me agrees with you. But, I have a problem with the sneaky politicians and their power trips. If the stubborn and dumb didn’t elect them, I wouldn’t be tagged with the ugly American label.
The widening gap between the haves (politicians/ruling class/corp.America) and the have nots (voters) makes for a feudalist society! Arrogant, self-serving politicians think that they are the all-powerful, ruling class and that makes me sick!