Operation Condor: right wing dictators in South America repressing leftists with the support of Americans and possibly the French
Gladio: Post WWII Allied Forces and then NATO intelligence operations to delegitimize and destabilize leftist groups in Eastern Europe from end of WWII through the 1990s
Ranch Hand: US led effort to destroy the foliage and agricultural land in Vietnam to deprive the Viet Cong of food and places to stage attacks
PBSuccess: CIA led coup d’état in Guatemala at the request of the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita)
Gladio targeted all of Europe, not just the East. Remember that the Communist parties were strong in the west too, especially in Italy and France.
Hell, they were part of the government under De Gaulle as members of the coalition.
Thx. I def recommend reading some articles that get into the depravity of some of these. Outside of the at least half a million people killed in the above operations, the coups, tortures, dissappearances, and entire communities wiped out is staggering.
Some more short blurbs on these :
Starting in the 1970s, a CIA-backed coalition of right wing governments in Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil, began Operation Condor, a campaign of political repression and state terror involving intelligence operations and assassination of opponents, with the stated aim of “eliminating Marxist subversion.” Victims included dissidents and leftists, union and peasant leaders, priests and nuns, students and teachers, intellectuals and suspected guerillas. An estimated 30,000 to 80,000 leftists or sympathizers were killed. 1
From the 1950s-90s, the CIA and NATO ran a series of clandestine networks, headquartered in Rome, Italy called Operation Gladio. Its purpose was supplying aid (primarily money and weaponry) to right wing paramilitaries to attack left-wing movements, and carry out assassinations and bombings, as well as funnel money to centrist political parties. It had operations in Belgium, Finland, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Turkey, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Austria. In Italy, the group had 600+ members, and carried out car bombings during Italy’s years of lead. In Germany, it included former Nazi SS members—Staff Sgt. Heinrich Hoffman, Lt. Col. Hans Rues, and Lt. Col. Walter Kopp. CIA weapons caches are still being discovered in all the countries above.
From the 1940s - 60s, the CIA provided an average of $5 million annually in covert aid towards financially supporting centrist Italian governments and using the awarding of contracts to weaken the Italian Communist Party’s hold on labor unions. It was also involved in bombings and assassinations as a part of Operation Gladio.
Between 1963 and 1973, The US dropped ~388,000 tons of napalm bombs in vietnam, compared to 32,357 tons used over three years in the Korean War, and 16,500 tons dropped on Japan in 1945. US also sprayed over 5 million acres with herbicide, in Operation Ranch Hand, in a 10 year campaign to deprive the vietnamese of food and vegetation cover. 1,2
In 1967, the CIA helped South Vietnamese agents identify and then murder alleged Viet Cong leaders operating in villages, in the Phoenix Program. By 1972, Phoenix operatives had executed between 26,000 and 41,000 suspected NLF operatives, informants and supporters.1
In 1965, The CIA overthrew the democratically elected Indonesian leader Sukarno with a military coup. The CIA had been trying to eliminate Sukarno since 1957, using everything from attempted assassination to sexual intrigue, for nothing more than his declaring neutrality in the Cold War. His successor, General Suharto, aided by the CIA, massacred between 500,000 to 1 million civilians accused of being communist, in the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-66. The US continued to support Suharto throughout the 70s, supplying weapons and planes.
“Radio Free X” news outlets are generally all US State Department propaganda designed to discredit and de-legitimize their geopolitical adversaries, famously the USSR and PRC, but also Cuba, etc. It’s all very real.
Yes, these guys are just giving you the quick overview. The enemy is colonialism, which has transformed into the neocolonial financial system. This includes all the core countries like USA, Israel, Western Europe, Japan, Canada, South Korea, and Australia: together they control the world’s banks, international legal bodies, high-tech manufacturing, as well as the academic and journalistic training and distribution systems.
So the problem is actually much deeper than a few bad sources. The most valuable fields of study have been twisted by capitalism or basically just destroyed. Just take a look at how they’ve been dealing with climate change. Just because dealing with negative externalities on a business or society level is unprofitable or political suicide, we’ve been treating it like it can’t be mitigated by constraints on manufacturing, and new solutions can’t be invented. The Guardian has been posting the same stupid crap about spraying sulfur into the atmosphere for decades, and until recently they pretended investing in green energy + vehicles + industry could never be made profitable.
Do other countries not condemn us ultimately for this stuff? Like Russia invaded another nation and the whole world ‘sanctioned’ them economically, why has no one sanctioned US for these mass injustices?
Some countries do call out the US Empire for what it is. Palestine, the former USSR, the PRC, Cuba, DPRK, South Africa, Iran, the Russian Federation, all countries the US Empire thoroughly demonizes and propagandizes against as much as it can.
The good news is that the Empire is crumbling, so hopefully we can overthrow it and replace it with a Socialist system.
countries? not really, wed get sanctioned to hell and back and we mostly are not strong enough (like china, russia) to withstand it without collapsing. we can’t do that just yet.
people though? yeah a lot of us are really mad at the empire. its nicer to be blissfully ignorant.
The US has held hegemonic dominance over at least the western world economicly, culturally, and militarily for the past few decades. It’s really hard to go against that so a lot of countries got on board. Some got really rich because of it.
I think of it this way. When your ready about Roman history, you usually see a map that shows the reach of their empire, but not really the boundaries of what you’d consider the core of the empire. Those maps show the extent of their political and military reach.
So just imagine how history books will show the American Empire. The US has hundreds of military bases, everywhere. Its a global empire. It’d be impressive if it weren’t so awful. I mean, can you imagine what life would be like if you lived in a country that has a resource the US wants? It must be a nightmare.
Operation Condor: The Brazilian military overthrew president João Goulart in 1964.
a bunch of it was because of his intent to do land reform. we remain the world’s farm to this day while most of our people starve. groceries are super expensive in one of the the biggest agrarian countries on the planet. of course they quite literally tortured and killed lefitsts to the point the movement died and we turned into a reactionary country.
maybe in 40 years they will release the files on how they helped bolsonaro into power. it will remain in the realm of speculation until then. we are just lucky he was really incompetent.
Gladio targeted all of Europe, not just the East. Remember that the Communist parties were strong in the west too, especially in Italy and France. Hell, they were part of the government under De Gaulle as members of the coalition.
The cia under dulles had a few plots to assassinate De Gaulle. And yet still somehow the French didn’t care and aligned with the US anyway.
Thx. I def recommend reading some articles that get into the depravity of some of these. Outside of the at least half a million people killed in the above operations, the coups, tortures, dissappearances, and entire communities wiped out is staggering.
Some more short blurbs on these :
Shhhh they still don’t know radio free Asia is a CIA project.
Is this real or some kind of joke? I’m just now learning about all of this and am almost traumatized honestly.
Real.
All of the “radio free X” are CIA outlets.
“Radio Free X” news outlets are generally all US State Department propaganda designed to discredit and de-legitimize their geopolitical adversaries, famously the USSR and PRC, but also Cuba, etc. It’s all very real.
All but Radio Free America.
Excellent bit.
Yes, these guys are just giving you the quick overview. The enemy is colonialism, which has transformed into the neocolonial financial system. This includes all the core countries like USA, Israel, Western Europe, Japan, Canada, South Korea, and Australia: together they control the world’s banks, international legal bodies, high-tech manufacturing, as well as the academic and journalistic training and distribution systems.
So the problem is actually much deeper than a few bad sources. The most valuable fields of study have been twisted by capitalism or basically just destroyed. Just take a look at how they’ve been dealing with climate change. Just because dealing with negative externalities on a business or society level is unprofitable or political suicide, we’ve been treating it like it can’t be mitigated by constraints on manufacturing, and new solutions can’t be invented. The Guardian has been posting the same stupid crap about spraying sulfur into the atmosphere for decades, and until recently they pretended investing in green energy + vehicles + industry could never be made profitable.
No joke. Same goes for Radio Free Europe and Voice of America, among others. They’re US state propaganda outlets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_Global_Media
I try to point people toward developing real media literacy.
Oh dude the CIA has their fingers in soooooooooo much shit in the era between WWII and… now? It’s all published on their web site.
Do other countries not condemn us ultimately for this stuff? Like Russia invaded another nation and the whole world ‘sanctioned’ them economically, why has no one sanctioned US for these mass injustices?
You see, the countries that have stood up against the US are the ones that suffer the sanctions because the US dominates the world financial system.
None of us can stand up to its military power. It is the class bully.
The US has hundreds more millitary bases around the world than any other country. It dominates the world financially via Imperialism, it intentionally underdevelops countries in the global south in order to have them reliant on US food exports so the US gets cheap imports.
Some countries do call out the US Empire for what it is. Palestine, the former USSR, the PRC, Cuba, DPRK, South Africa, Iran, the Russian Federation, all countries the US Empire thoroughly demonizes and propagandizes against as much as it can.
The good news is that the Empire is crumbling, so hopefully we can overthrow it and replace it with a Socialist system.
countries? not really, wed get sanctioned to hell and back and we mostly are not strong enough (like china, russia) to withstand it without collapsing. we can’t do that just yet.
people though? yeah a lot of us are really mad at the empire. its nicer to be blissfully ignorant.
The US has held hegemonic dominance over at least the western world economicly, culturally, and militarily for the past few decades. It’s really hard to go against that so a lot of countries got on board. Some got really rich because of it.
I think of it this way. When your ready about Roman history, you usually see a map that shows the reach of their empire, but not really the boundaries of what you’d consider the core of the empire. Those maps show the extent of their political and military reach.
So just imagine how history books will show the American Empire. The US has hundreds of military bases, everywhere. Its a global empire. It’d be impressive if it weren’t so awful. I mean, can you imagine what life would be like if you lived in a country that has a resource the US wants? It must be a nightmare.
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a bunch of it was because of his intent to do land reform. we remain the world’s farm to this day while most of our people starve. groceries are super expensive in one of the the biggest agrarian countries on the planet. of course they quite literally tortured and killed lefitsts to the point the movement died and we turned into a reactionary country.
maybe in 40 years they will release the files on how they helped bolsonaro into power. it will remain in the realm of speculation until then. we are just lucky he was really incompetent.