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America has invaded 70 countries since its 4th of July Independence Day in 1776. CDI: The Center for Defense Information, The Defense Monitor, "The World At War: January 1, 1998". While the new U.S. president is viewed with doubt and apprehension in many countries, America’s overall image benefits from a substantial reservoir of goodwill. [1]. In total, there are 255,065 US military personnel deployed Worldwide. The list does not include the 1801-1805 US Marine Barbary War operations against Barbary pirates based in Morocco , Algeria , Tunisia and Libya , and also ignores massive US subversion of virtually all countries in the world. When social distancing ends, millions of employer-employee relationships will have been destroyed, slowing down the recovery. In 2011, the U.S. intervened in the First Libyan Civil War by providing air support to rebel forces. For years, I have been working in Africa, a continent which was entirely subjugated by the U.K., France, Germany, Belgium and other European expansionist nations. [30], In 1952, the CIA launched Operation PBFortune and, in 1954, Operation PBSuccess to depose the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution. The 4th of July is Independence Day for the United States of America and commemorates the 4 July 1776 Declaration of Independence for America, the key passage of which is “ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Clinton deployed U.S. peacekeepers to Bosnia in late 1995, to uphold the subsequent Dayton Agreement. Benjamin Elisha Sawe August 1 2017 in World Facts. In the time period between December 7, 1941 to September 2, 1945, more than 400,000 Americans were killed in the conflict. The U.S. was a key participant in many battles, including the Battle of Midway, the Normandy landings, and the Battle of the Bulge. 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A new study led by … Cohen, William (April 7, 1999). P 828. harvnb error: no target: CITEREFMiller2000 (. In war-ravaged Colombia, the U.S. used large amounts of aid and provided counterinsurgency training to enhance stability and reduce violence, in what has been called "the most successful nation-building exercise by the United States in this century".[88]. Elan Raja and Alison Thompson are among homeowners who have been embroiled in a feud with Bolton Council over the last five years after being told their houses would have to be torn down. Adding to the bases inside U.S. territory, the total land area occupied by US military bases domestically within the US and internationally is of the order of 2,202,735 hectares, which makes the Pentagon one of the largest landowners worldwide (Gelman, J., 2007).” [7]. [21][22] After Joseph Stalin instituted the Berlin Blockade,[23] the United States, Britain, France, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and several other countries began the massive "Berlin airlift", supplying West Berlin with up to 4,700 tons of daily necessities. Polya, Melbourne, 2007: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ ); see also his contributions “Australian complicity in Iraq mass mortality” in “Lies, Deep Fries & Statistics” (edited by Robyn Williams, ABC Books, Sydney, 2007: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s1445960.htm ) and “Ongoing Palestinian Genocide” in “The Plight of the Palestinians (edited by William Cook, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2010: http://mwcnews.net/focus/analysis/4047-the-plight-of-the-palestinians.html ). Early 21st century. Beginning around 2012, under the aegis of operation Timber Sycamore and other clandestine activities, CIA operatives and U.S. special operations troops trained and armed nearly 10,000 Syrian rebel fighters[90] at a cost of $1 billion a year until it was phased out in 2017.[91][92][93][94]. The CIA was involved in the failed 1996 coup attempt against Saddam Hussein.[84]. Initial airstrikes involved fighters, bombers, and launching Tomahawk cruise missiles. Most of the 6.7 million Syrians who are currently refugees remain in the Middle East. President Harry Truman was unable to depose the North Korean government due to Chinese intervention, but the goal of containment on the Korean Peninsula was achieved. However the US has subcontracted a huge amount of violence to nuclear terrorist, democracy-by-genocide, racist Zionist-run Apartheid Israel for which the related data is as follows: Apartheid Israel [0.095m/6.685m =1.4%] - Egypt* [19.818m/74.878m = 26.5%], Jordan* [0.630m/5.750m = 11.0%], Lebanon [0.535m/3.761m = 14.2%], Occupied Palestinian Territories* [0.677m/3.815m = 17.7%], Syria* [2.198m/18.650m = 11.8%], total = 23.858m/106.854 = 22.3% i.e. in Iran", "Billy Briggs on the atrocities of Guatemala's civil war", "ASSASSINATION PLANNING AND THE PLOTS A. CONGO", https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/winter99-00/art7.html, Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (1975), "UNITA Uniao Nacional para a Independecia Total de Angola", "US Intelligence and the Polish Crisis 1980-1981. After he resisted, the project shifted towards deposing him and Farouk was subsequently overthrown in a military coup in 1952. Not included in this total count of 195 countries are: Taiwan - the United Nations considers it represented by the People's Republic of China The Cook Islands and Niue , both states in free association with New Zealand which are members of several UN specialized agencies and have been recognized "full treaty-making capacity", but are neither member states nor non-member observer states. China, Russia and other countries have begun administering vaccines before detailed Phase 3 trial data has been made public. Apartheid Israeli aggression has been associated in 1950-2005 with 24 million avoidable deaths in the countries  it has violently  occupied, a carnage similar to that caused by the German Nazis in Russia duringWW2. In June 2014, the U.S. re-intervened into Iraq and began airstrikes against ISIL there in response to prior gains by the terrorist group that threatened U.S. assets and Iraqi government forces. [74] In 1983, after an internal power struggle ended with the deposition and murder of revolutionary Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, the U.S. invaded Grenada in Operation Urgent Fury and held free elections. When social distancing ends, millions of employer-employee relationships will have been destroyed, slowing down the recovery. In March 2015, Obama declared that he had authorized U.S. forces to provide logistical and intelligence support to the Saudis in their military intervention in Yemen, establishing a "Joint Planning Cell" with Saudi Arabia. The result has been roughly 50 to 60 gun deaths a year in England and Wales, which have a population of 56 million. In 1975 it was revealed by the Church Committee that the United States had covertly intervened in Chile from as early as 1962, and that from 1963 to 1973, covert involvement was "extensive and continuous". [80] In 1995, Clinton ordered U.S. and NATO aircraft to attack Bosnian Serb targets to halt attacks on UN safe zones and to pressure them into a peace accord. Countries that have tried socialism While the Soviet Union might be the most prominent example, there are plenty of other countries that have toyed with the idea of socialism. "[97], A timeline of the use of force by the United States in pursuit of foreign policy goals, harvnb error: no target: CITEREFGaddis2005 (. According to Gelman, who examined 2005 official Pentagon data, the US is thought to own a total of 737 bases in foreign lands. [62] In 1970, at the request of President Richard Nixon, the CIA planned a "constitutional coup" to prevent the election of Marxist leader Salvador Allende in Chile, while secretly encouraging Chilean generals to act against him. [89] Muammar Gaddafi was ultimately overthrown and killed. The war in Vietnam cost 58,000 US soldiers, mostly draftees, about 300,000 wounded. Thus in the period 1950-2005 there have been 82 million avoidable deaths from deprivation (avoidable mortality, excess deaths, excess mortality , deaths that did not have to happen) associated with countries  occupied by the US in the post-1945 era. Suppliers like Global Clothing Industries, for example, solely send and ship used clothing, shoes and other items overseas. Lincoln never literally said “America will never be destroyed from the outside. Furthermore, citizens of the less wealthy nations move to the US, Canada, and Mexico, where they get well-paying jobs. A tank sits in front of a mosque that has been destroyed by civil war in Syria. More countries have opted to take the strictest measures possible to contain it. Leary, William M. "CIA Air Operations in Laos, 1955-1974." Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (G.M. GCI exports to 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North and South America. The US, India and Brazil have … US has engaged in conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Libya and now Syria. But as the outbreak has spread around the world, it has become more difficult to manage. "Declaration on the Breakdown of Chile's Democracy," Resolution of the Chamber of Deputies, Chile, August 22, 1973. The 19th century saw the United States transition from an isolationist, post-colonial regional power to a Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific power. 96-7. Where millions died during the ‘hunt’, where millions died in ‘transit centers’, and then, on the open seas. On the other hand, w Martin Gilbert, “Jewish History Atlas”. The United States has been involved in numerous foreign interventions throughout its history. First was the Sudanese Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory, suspected of assisting Osama Bin Laden in making chemical weapons. Unless the forces of family and faith rally soon, we will lose our constitutional republic. [86][87] In 2003, the U.S. and a multi-national coalition invaded Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein. In response to the 1998 al-Qaeda bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa that killed a dozen Americans and hundreds of Africans, Clinton ordered cruise missile strikes on targets in Afghanistan and Sudan. 14 million tons of bombs and shells were dropped, which is equivalent to 700 atomic bombs of the Hiroshima type and three times the tonnage of bombs and shells of the Second World War. Africa from where millions of men, women and children were brought in chains to the “New World”, as slaves. More than 29 million in the U.S. have been sick with COVID-19 since January 2020, and more than 500,000 have died from the virus. Reports have estimated that at least 1,200 people have been … [43] By the time Kennedy took office, the United Kingdom was ready to decolonize British Guiana and did not fear Jagan's political leanings, yet chose to cooperate in the plot for the sake of good relations with the United States. He also referred to Kim as “Rocket Man” and said the rogue nation’s leader was on “a suicide mission for himself and for his regime.”. The 19th century formed the roots of United States interventionism, which at the time was largely driven by economic opportunities in the Pacific and Spanish-held Latin America along with the Monroe Doctrine, which saw the U.S. seek a policy to resist European colonialism in the Western hemisphere. Tell everyone you can. The underlying land surface is of the order of 30 million acres. U.S. troops have remained in South Korea to deter further conflict, as the war has not officially ended. Also, to stop the ethnic cleansing and genocide[82][83] of Albanians by nationalist Serbians in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's province of Kosovo, Clinton authorized the use of U.S. Armed Forces in a NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999, named Operation Allied Force. [5]. "The Next Steps: The Marshall Plan, NATO, and NSC-68." All of these things have been done by the cultural and political left over the last 50 years. Nash, Gary B. When words fail one can say it in pictures - for images of Gideon Polya's huge paintings for the Planet, Peace, Mother and Child see: http://sites.google.com/site/artforpeaceplanetmotherchild/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/gideonpolya/ . The United States Navy launched Operation Praying Mantis in retaliation for the Iranian mining of the Persian Gulf during the war and the subsequent damage to an American warship. [79] During the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, two U.S. helicopters were shot down by rocket-propelled grenade attacks to their tail rotors, trapping soldiers behind enemy lines. [8]. In 1949, during the Truman administration, a coup d'état overthrew an elected parliamentary government in Syria, which had delayed approving an oil pipeline requested by U.S. international business interests in that region. [61] North Vietnam violated the Paris Peace Accords after the US withdrew, and all of Indochina had fallen to communist governments by late 1975. In January 2015, President Obama launched drone strikes in Afghanistan. Martin Gilbert, “Atlas of the Holocaust”. One example is the counterespionage operations following the discovery of the Farewell Dossier which some argue contributed to the fall of the Soviet regime. Through trade unions with other North American countries, most economies in the region have benefited from increased exports and moderately priced imports. Home. [53] The CIA organized Hmong tribes to fight against the Pathet Lao, and used Air America to "drop 46 million pounds of foodstuffs....transport tens of thousands of troops, conduct a highly successful photoreconnaissance program, and engage in numerous clandestine missions using night-vision glasses and state-of-the-art electronic equipment. The asterisk (*) indicates a major occupation by more than one country in the post-WW2 era (thus, for example,  the UK and the US have been major occupiers of Afghanistan , Iraq and Korea , leaving aside the many other minor participants in these conflicts). The main sources of information on these military installations (e.g. of U.S. policy claimed that Mossadegh had ended democracy through a rigged referendum. The conquest, occupation and/or otherwise supervision of these various regions of the World is supported by an integrated network of military bases and installations which covers the entire Planet (Continents, Oceans and Outer Space). against demonstrators, miners etc), and includes small-scale bombing and military intervention operations, military evacuations of Americans and specific instances of explicit threats of use of nuclear weapons. [4]. Heather Saul @heatheranne9 . A Saudi-led bombing of a funeral hall … Editorial credit: Christiaan Triebert / Shutterstock.com. [26][27] The U.S. spent billions to rebuild Europe and aid global development through programs such as the Marshall Plan. June 27, 2008. Dr Zoltan Grossman, “From Wounded Knee to Libya : a century of U.S. military interventions”,  ” http://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz/interventions.html . You might have noticed that it's pretty hard to find any cash printed much earlier than the 1990s in circulation. The United States also gave economic support to a large number of countries and movements who were opposed to the Axis powers. We will not consider the entire history of the United States, but take only the 20th and 21st centuries. If America goes down, where do we run for freedom? About 17 percent of the Amazonian rainforest has been destroyed over the past 50 years, and losses recently have been on the rise. The following map and chart show the number of COVID-19 vaccination doses administered per 100 people within a given population. Since 1950 the UN has provided detailed demographic data that have permitted calculation of such avoidable deaths, year by year, for every country in the world. In Guatemala, the U.S. supported successive regimes in genocidal wars on its indigenous Mayan majority.To top it off, climate change, which the United States has done the most of any nation to cause (and perhaps the least to forestall or mitigate), has made subsistence agriculture increasingly difficult to sustain in many parts of Central America. Brand new military bases have been built since September 11, 2001 in seven countries. [25] In May 1949, Stalin backed down and lifted the blockade. [35] As part of the Eisenhower Doctrine, the U.S. also deployed troops to Lebanon in Operation Blue Bat. By R.J. Eskow December 9, 2015 2:00PM (UTC) (Wikipedia)- … Real income growth in the U.S. has slowed. [29] In 1953, under U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, the CIA helped Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran remove the democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. Data is also given for the US: US [8.455m/300.038m = 2.8%],  Afghanistan* [16.609m/25.971m = 64.0%], Cambodia* [5.852m/14.825m = 39.5%], Dominican Republic [0.806m/8.998m = 9.0%], Federated States of Micronesia [0.016m/0.111m = 14.4%], Greece* [0.027m/10.978m = 0.2%], Grenada* [0.018m/0.121m = 14.9%], Guam [0.005m/0.168m = 3.0%], Haiti* [4.089m/8.549m = 47.9%], Iraq* [5.283m/26.555m = 19.9%], Korea* [7.958m/71.058m = 11.2%], Laos* [2.653m/5.918m = 44.8%], Panama [0.172m/3.235m = 5.3%], Philippines [9.080m/82.809m = 11.0%], Puerto Rico [0.039m/3.915m = 1.0%], Somalia* [5.568m/10.742m = 51.8%], US Virgin Islands [0.003m/0.113m = 2.4%], Vietnam* [24.015m/83.585m = 28.7%], total = 82.193m/357.651m = 23.0%. [39] After a period of instability, U.S. troops invaded the Dominican Republic in Operation Power Pack (April 1965) to prevent a Communist takeover. Rudd's pro-war, pro-Zionist and slavishly pro-American successor PM Julia Gillard rapidly moved to allow the US to station 2,500 child-killing Marines in Darwin with suggestions of bases for US nuclear–armed warships, US drones and US warplanes. There have been two dominant schools of thought in the United States about foreign policy, namely interventionism and isolationism which either encourage or discourage foreign intervention, both military, diplomatic, and economic, respectively. [66] After the Iranian Revolution, the United States sought rapprochement with the Afghan government—a prospect that the USSR found unacceptable due to the weakening Soviet leverage over the regime. South America is one of the most biodiverse continents on earth. A cowardly Australian Labor Party (aka the Australian Lackey Party)  quickly realized that the only way top get back into office was to adopt a craven “All the way with the USA” position and leading Labor figures became intimate with the Americans. As of 2021, Afghanistan continues to host U.S. and NATO counter-terror and counterinsurgency operations under the aegis of Operation Resolute Support and Operation Freedom's Sentinel, while the Iraq War officially ended on December 18, 2011. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability”, now available for free perusal on the web: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com.au/  . var idcomments_post_id; Except for the Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust of over 1.3 billion avoidable deaths since 1950 and 18 million avoidable deaths per year, the above analysis does not take into account US subversion of virtually every country on earth. Six weeks later, on May 16, Za'im approved the pipeline. Austria. Even so, there were 289 deaths and 501 injuries from the 797 incidents during the year. [51] North Vietnam sent 10,000 troops to attack the south in 1964, and this figure increased to 100,000 in 1965. [67] The Soviets invaded Afghanistan on December 24, 1979 to depose Hafizullah Amin, and subsequently installed a puppet regime. Supporters[who?] [1], The founding of Liberia was privately sponsored by American groups, primarily the American Colonization Society, but the country enjoyed the support and unofficial cooperation of the United States government.[2]. Americans make up for roughly 5% of the world's population, but we consume much more than that. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, now available for free perusal on the web: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/body-count-global-avoidable-mortality_05.html . Guatemala subsequently plunged into a civil war that cost thousands of lives and ended all democratic expression for decades.[31][32][33]. How does your country feature  in the history of the genocidally racist American Empire? The coup installed the military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas, the first in a series of U.S.-backed dictators who ruled Guatemala. The exporters who have the most to lose will likely put up a fight. About 6.2 million Syrians are still displace… The second world war saw approximately 17,500 civilians killed in London, while in Germany 42,600 died in just one week during the bombing … The World’s Most War-Torn Countries Afghanistan . September 23, 2014 This article is more than … Areas of forest that have been cleared become drier and more susceptible to burning—a vicious cycle that will be more difficult to disrupt as more rainforest is destroyed. See how many COVID-19 vaccines your state received, and how many people have been given one so far. [10]. In practice, the United States frequently either did not push for repayment or "sold" the goods for a nominal price, such as 10% of their value. In 2010 extremely popular Labor PM Kevin Rudd raised the ire of the Americans by suggesting destruction of US- protected  Afghan opium crops that were destroyed by the Taliban in 2000-2001 but restored by the US to 93% of world market share by 2007 and which have killed over 1 million people world-wide since 2001  (including 200,000 Americans, 50,000 Iranians, 18,000 British, 10,000 Canadians, 8,000 Germans and 4,000 Australians) [8]. As part of this doctrine, the CIA also supported the UNITA movement in Angola,[68] the Solidarity movement in Poland,[69] the Contra revolt in Nicaragua, and the Khmer People's National Liberation Front in Cambodia. 2013–2014 saw the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terror organization in the Middle East. [49] U.S.–Guyanese relations cooled in the Nixon administration. But many of the fences around the parks have been destroyed by squatters, and amid starvation, poachers have begun hunting even rare wildlife. In the time period between December 7, 1941 to September 2, 1945, more than 400,000 Americans were killed in the conflict. The United States has been dismantling statues since its very foundation. [24] U.S. Air Force pilot Gail Halvorsen created "Operation Vittles", which supplied candy to German children. All this pertains to the workings of  an extensive Empire, the exact dimensions of which are not always easy to ascertain. [7] President William Howard Taft viewed Dollar diplomacy as a way for American corporations to benefit while assisting in the national security goal of preventing European powers from filling any possible financial or power vacuum.[8]. However since the US forced Japan into WW2 [6] , Australia has shifted its allegiance from the UK to the US and has become the American  Lackey Country. One American consumes as much energy as: 2 Japanese. How Obama came to bomb seven countries in six years . This has forced countries like the U.S., Iran, Syria, and other countries to aid the Iraqi Government to resist the growth and spread of ISIS militants. The factory supplied garments to numerous companies, including Wal-Mart and Primark. Voices America has no idea how many innocent people it's killing in the Middle East. Soros, a multi-billionaire, has economically destroyed 15 countries, but his goal is America and we're on our way! A major component of war- or hegemony-related deaths is represented by avoidable deaths from violently-imposed deprivation. [citation needed] Allende was accused of supporting armed groups, torturing detainees, conducting illegal arrests, and muzzling the press. Currently 18 million people die avoidably each year in the Developing World on Spaceship Earth with the US in charge of the flight deck. He has published “Body Count. The fire season in 2019 was one of the worst on record, with 76,000 fires burning simultaneously across the Amazon. In 1998, the U.S. became involved in major paramilitary efforts in Colombia (Plan Colombia) to eliminate drug trafficking. Disgusted by the collapse of detente, President Jimmy Carter began covertly arming Afghan mujahideen in a program called Operation Cyclone. The FTSE, Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nikkei all saw huge falls as the number of Covid-19 cases grew in the first months of the crisis. Tax avoidance in developed countries has been a big news story in many places, yet the poorer countries get it much worse—it’s estimated that they lost $5.86 trillion from 2001 to 2010. [7]. In other cases, some countries have gradually learned to produce the same products and services that previously only the U.S. and a few other countries could produce. The following is a list of countries invaded by the US forces  (naval, military and ultimately air forces) since its inception in order of major incidents. The United States also gave economic support to a large number of countries and movements who were opposed to the Axis powers. America has invaded 70 countries since its 4th of July Independence Day in 1776. Ambassador. Directed against the Barbary States of North Africa, the Barbary Wars were fought to end piracy against American-flagged ships in the Mediterranean Sea, similar to the Quasi-War with post-monarchical France. In 1990-91, the U.S. intervened in Kuwait after a series of failed diplomatic negotiations, and led a coalition to repel invading Iraqi forces led by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, in what became known as the Gulf War. World Facts. Senior Editor . The CIA also considered assassinating Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba with poisoned toothpaste (although this plan was aborted). On 24 June 2010 PM Kevin Rudd was removed by a US -approved, foreign mining company-backed, pro-Zionist-led Coup. [96], A 2016 study published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution (published by the University of Maryland) analyzing U.S. military interventions in the period 1981–2005 found that the U.S. "is likely to engage in military campaigns for humanitarian reasons that focus on human rights protection rather than for its own security interests such as democracy promotion or terrorism reduction. 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A camp for internally displaced people in northwest Syria offers a bleak and cold existence for 5-year-old Samer (name changed to protect identity).