Americans of all political stripes and ideologies are today celebrating unconfirmed reports of the death of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea leader Kim Jong Un. His death, they claim, is a cause for celebration because he was “cruel to his own people.” Never mind for a moment the 2.2 million people languishing in U.S. prison camps subject to manual unpaid labor and solitary confinement recognized by psychologists as a form of torture, or the fact that the only news most Americans read about North Korea is from pro-war media outlets like CNN. Most of the people celebrating the reports of death were completely silent in 2015 when their own country bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital, killing and maiming dozens of innocent civilians, or when the U.S. invasion of Iraq was estimated to have killed some 2.4 million people. Instead these same people choose to focus on the fact that the DPRK is not a paradise for all those who dwell in it. One wonders, how would the United States have fared if it had been subjected to 60+ years of the most brutal economic sanctions, the elimination of 30% of its population and the destruction of its entire infrastructure in one of the bloodiest wars in human history? When a U.S. President dies, the corporate media fawns over them and looks back at their legacies through a rose-colored lens, all the while the trail of bodies left in their wake are completely ignored. Since World War II, the United States has been directly responsible for the deaths of at least 28-30 million people. Every single U.S. President is a war criminal responsible for more death and destruction than Kim Jong Un or any other leader of the DPRK. Americans should take a long hard look in the mirror before being so judgmental about the DPRK’s legacy.
The U.S. has either bombed, invaded or attempted to topple other nations at least 75 times since the end of World War II. Below is list that was compiled from Mumia Abu Jamal and Stephen Vittoria’s Murder Incorporated Book One: Dreaming of Empire as well as an article previously published on Huffington Post in 2011.
Nations subjected to U.S. military or CIA interference from 1945 on:
- China – 1945-1946
- Albania – 1949-1953
- Korea – 1950-1953
- East Germany – 1950s
- Iran – 1953
- Guatemala – 1954
- China – 1950-1953
- Italy – 1950s
- Costa Rica – mid-1950s
- Syria – 1956-1957
- Egypt – 1957
- Indonesia – 1958
- British Guiana – 1953-1964
- Cuba – 1959-present
- Guatemala – 1960
- Iraq – 1963
- Vietnam – 1945-1973
- Cambodia – 1955-1970
- Laos – 1958-1960
- Ecuador – 1960-1963
- Congo – 1960
- Guatemala – 1964
- France – 1965
- Guatemala – 1967-1969
- Brazil – 1962-1964
- Dominican Republic – 1963-1966
- Bolivia – 1964
- Peru – 1965
- Indonesia – 1965
- Laos – 1964-1973
- Ghana – 1966
- Chile – 1964-1973
- Greece – 1967
- Costa Rica – 1970-1971
- Bolivia – 1971
- Australia – 1973-1975
- Angola – 1975
- Zaire – 1975
- Portugal – 1974-1976
- Jamaica – 1976-1980
- Seychelles – 1979-1981
- Angola – 1980s
- Chad – 1981-1982
- Lebanon – 1982-1984
- Grenada – 1983-1984
- South Yemen – 1982-1984
- Suriname – 1982-1984
- Libya – 1986
- El Salvador – 1981-1992
- Nicaragua – 1981-1990
- Fiji – 1987
- Libya – 1989
- Afghanistan – 1980s
- Panama – 1989-1990
- Bulgaria – 1990
- Iraq – 1991
- Albania – 1991
- Kuwait – 1991
- Somalia – 1992-1994
- Bosnia – 1995
- Iran – 1998
- Sudan – 1998
- Afghanistan – 1998
- Yugoslavia/ Serbia – 1999-2000
- Ecuador – 2000
- Afghanistan – 2001-present
- Venezuela – 2002
- Iraq – 2003-2011
- Haiti – 2004
- Somalia – 2007-present
- Honduras – 2009
- Libya – 2011
- Syria – 2012-present
- Iraq – 2014-present
- Ukraine – 2014
- Yemen – 2015-present
- Venezuela – 2018
- Bolivia – 2019
- Guyana – 2020
- Ethiopia – 2021
United States Hypocrisy 
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History lesson … “Every single U.S. President is a war criminal responsible for more death and destruction than Kim Jong Un or any other leader of the DPRK. Amerikkkans should take a long hard look in the mirror before being so judgmental about the DPRK’s legacy.””
Thank you for sharing this Dr. Rex.
Most welcome!! 🙏🏽
And the list will continue to expand until peace is more profitable than war….and that is a hard road to travel….but one that needs to be attempted. chuq
Yes, and unfortunately it will expand regardless of which of these two imperialist candidates wins the election.
Have you seen the American Party For Labor….http://americanpartyoflabor.org/
I have not. Is this a new party?
It seems to be trying to get itself together….chuq
There are quite a few new parties.
Yep…this one may be a challenge to CPUSA…..being a hard Leftist I cannot see the reason to embrace Dems like CPUSA has done…..chuq
Party of Socialism and Liberation is a great party and is out there on the streets each day which I love.
They are doing a good job….Socialist Equality Party is also gaining…a more local party is the Socialist Alternative…..but I am watching the APL…..chuq
Caleb have you seen this group? https://frso.org/ chuq
I have heard of it actually but I’m not that familiar with it.
I try to keep in touch with all the socialist organizations…..I was a member of the revolutionary socialist movement back in the 80s. I will pass on anything I see if you would like chuq
Hello Caleb G.,
I concur with chuq. What an “impressive” and alarming list of “Nations subjected to U.S. military or CIA interference from 1945 on”!
Moreover, I really wonder how much worse things may become in 2020 and the coming years, even though the viral pandemic has put many warfares and conflcits on hold. The resulting post-truth world and win-at-all-costs mentality have been highly problematic, egregious and insidious indeed.
I recently came across some of the writings of Donald Monaco, who is a political analyst in Brooklyn, New York, writing from an anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist perspective. His recent book is entitled “The Politics of Terrorism”. Extracted as follows, I have found the last few paragraphs of his article published at
https://www.globalresearch.ca/impeachment-imperial-presidency/5702279 to be very sobering indeed.
Lastly, but not the least, happy May to both of you very soon!
I appreciate you writing that here and thank you for taking the time to read. I happen to think the pandemic will make things worse. With the US GDP shrinking at a rapid rate it will become even more belligerent and will seek to create war with China. I feel that the corporate media is currently laying the groundwork for this.
THanx chuq
Ugh.
It’s true that Americans seem to be oblivious of the damage our country has done in our name using our tax dollars to countries around the world, and are as shocked as innocents when they are faced with it. The postcolonial critic Gayatri Spivak calls this sanctioned ignorance” and it is not innocent.
Yes. Some of it is willful ignorance. I was disgusted to see so many people on Facebook celebrating the fake death of Kim Jong Un because “he was cruel to his own people”, as if the USA is so innocent and isn’t cruel to, not only it’s own people, but people all across the globe.
Agreed. To add to that, I think we can simultaneously hold in our minds the fact that from what we can learn the man is a dictator who oppresses the people of North Korea. Just as Saddam Hussain did have a nasty secret police who tortured dissidents but that didn’t justify the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq.
It’s also important that a lot of the information we are fed about the country is simply not accurate or exaggerated. How many times have we been told that such and such person was killed only for them to be seen alive months later? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/13/why-do-north-korean-defector-testimonies-so-often-fall-apart
That goes without saying. But still, you’re surely not saying that he’s a benevolent ruler?
I don’t know enough about the guy tbh. I only know what I hear in Western media. There’s really not much to go by. I can speak on the evils of the United States since it’s the devil I know.