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We Came, We Destroyed, We Forgot An updated summary of the charming record of US foreign policy The Anti-Empire Report by William Blum; July 29, 2011

The US, in all likelihood, will initiate World War III to rebuild its flagging Empire, quite possibly by extreme provocation to North Korea or Pakistan. Since the end of the Second World War, the United States of America has … 1.Attempted to overthrow more than 50 governments, most of which were democratically-elected.[1] 2.Attempted to suppress a populist or nationalist movement in 20 countries.[2] 3.Grossly interfered in democratic elections in at least 30 countries.[3] 4.Dropped bombs on the people of more than 30 countries.[4] 5.Attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders.[5] In total: Since 1945, the United States has carried out one or more of the above actions, on one or more occasions, in the following 69 countries (more than one-third of the countries of the world):

•Afghanistan •Albania •Algeria •Angola •Australia •Bolivia •Bosnia •Brazil •British Guiana •Bulgaria •Cambodia •Chad •Chile •China •Colombia •Congo (Zaire) •Costa Rica •Cuba •Dominican Republic •East Timor •Ecuador •Egypt •El Salvador •Fiji •France •Germany (both) •Ghana •Greece •Grenada •Guatemala •Honduras •India •Indonesia •Iran •Iraq •Italy •Jamaica •Japan •Kuwait •Laos •Lebanon •Libya •Mongolia •Morocco •Nepal •Nicaragua •North Korea •Pakistan •Palestine •Panama •Peru •Philippines •Portugal •Russia •Seychelles •Slovakia •Somalia •South Africa •Soviet Union •Sudan •Suriname •Syria •Thailand •Uruguay •Venezuela •Vietnam (both) •Yemen (both) •Yugoslavia

Notes 1.Killing Hope, Essay 6 2. Killing Hope, Suppression 3. See chapter 18 of Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower – add Palestine, 2006 to the list 4. Killing Hope, Super Rogue 5. Killing hope, Assassinations William Blum left the State Department in 1967, abandoning his aspiration of becoming a Foreign Service Officer, because of his opposition to what the United States was doing in Vietnam. He then became one of the founders and editors of the Washington Free Press. Mr. Blum has been a freelance journalist in the United States, Europe, and South America and was one of the recipients of Project Censored’s awards for “exemplary journalism” in 1999. He is the author of numerous books, including: Freeing the World to Death: essays on the American Empire Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower. Mr. Blum writes a free monthly newsletter, the Anti-Empire Report, to which you may subscribe by contacting him at bblum6@aol.com.