Posts Tagged ‘El Salvador’
Elliot Abrahms Laughs Off War Crimes
Posted: February 16, 2019 in -Tags: Central America, El Salvador, Elliot Abrahms, Guatemala, Jimmy Dore, massacres, Nicaragua, war crimes
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The Bushes’ ‘Death Squads’
Posted: December 7, 2018 in -Tags: Central America, CIA, death squads, El Salvador, genocide, George H.W. Bush, george w. bush, Guatemala, mass murder, US
The insurgencies in El Salvador and Guatemala were crushed through the slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians. In Guatemala, about 200,000 people perished, including what a truth commission later termed a genocide against Mayan Indians in the Guatemalan highlands. In El Salvador, about 70,000 died including massacres of whole villages
The Bushes’ ‘Death Squads’
RS: Some of Bush’s “Dirty Secrets”
Posted: December 4, 2018 in -Tags: arms, Central America, cocaine, Contras, drugs, El Salvador, Felix Rodriguez, George HW Bush, illegal war, Nicaragua, Office fo Vice President, Oliver North, smuggling, weapons
US Death Squads in Iraq: James Steele
Posted: June 18, 2016 in -Tags: atrocities, death squads, El Salvador, free film, Iraq, James Steele, murder, sectrarian gangs, torture, US empire, vietnam, war crimes
Documentary:
James Steele: America’s mystery man in Iraq – video
A 15-month investigation by the Guardian and BBC Arabic reveals how retired US colonel James Steele, a veteran of American proxy wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, played a key role in training and overseeing US-funded special police commandos who ran a network of torture centres in Iraq. Another special forces veteran, Colonel James Coffman, worked with Steele and reported directly to General David Petraeus, who had been sent into Iraq to organise the Iraqi security services
Crimes Against Humanity in Iraq
Posted: March 7, 2013 in -Tags: accountability, atrocities, casualties, Cele Castillo, civil war, civilians, Col. James Steele, counts, criminals, David Petraeus, death squads, deaths, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, El Salvador, geneva conventions, Guardian, human rights, impunity, injustice, Iraq, justice, law, lawlessness, mass murder, massacres, monsters, murder, Salvador Option, Shia, torure, vietnam
The Guardian today posted an investigation and a documentary film on the architects of the “Salvador Option” and the death squads of Iraq. Col. James Steele and Gen. David Petraus, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Chency, the names are expected but for Steele. The documentary highlights Steele’s atrocities from Vietnam through Central America on his way to Baghdad.
From El Salvador to Iraq: Washington’s man behind brutal police squads
Numerous witnesses are on the record. I have one complaint, however, and that is a bogus civilian casualty count mentioned near the beginning of the film. A total of 130,000 Iraqis is stated as some kind of fact with no discussion or examination. This is likely the US military’s own body count; ironically from an invading force that bragged “we don’t do body counts” (Gen. Tommy Franks).
Iraq War Casualties
Lancet survey
601,027 violent deaths out of 654,965 excess deaths
Opinion Research Business survey
1,033,000 deaths as a result of the conflict
The History of America’s Death Squads
Posted: January 6, 2013 in -Tags: Army, assassinations, atrocities, brigades, Central America, CIA, civilians, conquest, covert, death squads, El Salvador, foreign policy, history, imperialism, Iraq, mass murder, murder, Salvador Option, Special Forces, Syria, targeted, terrorism, torture, US, war, war crimes
Today’s history lesson.
What I’ve Learned About US Foreign Policy(Film Website)
Professor Michel Chossudovsky has a new article entitled, Death Squads in Iraq and Syria. The Historical Roots of US-NATO’s Covert War on Syria. Some of these previous “death squads” can be seen in the above documentary. This is essential modern history that every American should already know like the back of his/her hand, and yet is nowhere to be found in US high school history classes. …And that, my friends, is exactly what’s wrong with America.
