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  1. >1898 - 1903, US Government gets Panama to secede from Colombia so that they can build a canal that the Colombians wouldn't allow. 120,000 dead.
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_Panama_from_Colombia
  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Days%27_War
  4. >1898 - 1902, US intelligence services use an accident aboard the USS Maine as an excuse to annex Cuba, Guam, and The Phillippines from Spain. 19,000 dead.
  5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War
  6. >1916 - 1924, US Government objects to the Dominican Republic's new Secretary of War. They force him to step down by threatening to level the city of Santo Domingo with naval artillery (which would kill tens of thousands of civilians). US Navy runs the Dominican Republic as a puppet state for 8 years.
  7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_the_Dominican_Republic_(1916%E2%80%9324)
  8. >1912 - 1933, US Government operates Nicaragua as a puppet state and invades several times to suppress guerrillas that wanted independence. Eventually give up because it was too expensive. At least 1,500 dead - possibly far more.
  9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_Nicaragua
  10. >1915 - 1934, political instability in Haiti threatened the profits of an American sugar company, so the US invaded it and operated the country as a puppet state for 19 years.
  11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_Haiti
  12. >1903 - 1925, US invades Honduras 7 times to protect the profits of the United Fruit Company and Standard Fruit Company. Hundreds of thousands killed.
  13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Honduras
  14. FDR rose to power and dramatically scaled back the interventions. Then when he started directly threatening the large corporations, they tried to recruit Smedley Butler (pic related) to lead a fascist dictatorship in the US that would overthrow our representative democracy.
  15. Butler was a veteran of the US interventions in The Phillippines, Nicaragua, The Dominican Republic, and Haiti, and he despised the corporate use of military force that he'd enabled, so he refused.
  16. NOBODY WENT TO JAIL FOR THIS.
  17. >1945, US Government intervenes in the formation of an independent Korean government - splits the country in half between the socialist North and the South which was run as a US military puppet state. US invades in 1950 when the military dictatorship begins to fail, and wages a three year proxy war against the USSR. Result is a stalemate and a military dictatorship under Syngman Rhee in the South. 2,500,000 killed in the war, 14,500 killed by Rhee's government after the ceasefire.
  18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Military_Government_in_Korea
  19. >1947, US backs monarchy in Greek civil war, with the CIA providing arms and ammunition for right-wing partisans. Extra CIA-provided "white box" 6.5x52mm Carcano ammunition eventually ended up in military surplus stores in the US, and was used to assassinate John F Kennedy. 158,000 dead.
  20. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Civil_War
  21. >1949, CIA helps rebels overthrow the Syrian government so that US oil companies could build a pipeline. Syria turns into a shithole of civil war and authoritarianism.
  22. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1949_Syrian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
  23. >1953, CIA overthrows the Mosaddegh government in Iran because they nationalized the oil industry. Iran turns into a shithole of civil war and authoritarianism.
  24. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
  25. >1954, CIA overthrows the socialist government of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala. A series of fascist dicatatorships followed, which killed hundreds of thousands.
  26. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
  27. >1959, Fidel Castro rises to power in Cuba. CIA recruits Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and install a fascist dictatorship. They fail. US then attempts to kill Castro 638 times and fails on each attempt. They ultimately embargo the whole country and plunge its economy into a deep, generational depression.
  28. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_attempts_on_Fidel_Castro
  29. >1960, CIA assassinates Patrice Lamumba, the first democratically elected leader of the Democratic Republic of Congo because he's a socialist. This triggers decades of civil war.
  30. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Lumumba#United_States_involvement
  31. >1963, CIA plots with South Vietnamese rebels to assassinate the leader of South Vietnam because he wanted to negotiate with the socialist North rather than starting a war. Predictably, the CIA-approved replacement started a war. Nearly 5 million dead.
  32. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_South_Vietnamese_coup
  33. >1964, CIA props up a military coup in Bolivia in order to privatize that country's state-owned tin mines. Hundreds of thousands dead in the resulting civil wars.
  34. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Bolivian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
  35. >1964, US government helps overthrow the Labour Party government in Brazil.
  36. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Brazilian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
  37. >1966, the CIA overthrows a socialist government in Ghana. Triggers civil war.
  38. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Liberation_Council#1966_coup
  39. >1967, CIA funds a right-wing military junta to oust the Greek king. Seven years of large scale civil rights abuses followed until the Junta collapsed.
  40. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_military_junta_of_1967%E2%80%9374#American_influence_in_Greece
  41. And we're still not even to the invention of the fucking color TV yet.
  42. >1970, President Nixon decides to remove Salvador Allende from power in Chile BEFORE HE EVEN TOOK OFFICE. Allende committed suicide after CIA-funded rebels surrounded the Presidential palace. He was replaced by Augusto Pinochet, a brutal right wing dictator. 40,000+ dead.
  43. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_intervention_in_Chile#1973_coup
  44. >1979 - 1989, Afghan government requests USSR's military assistance dealing with Islamist rebels. CIA funds and trains these Islamists as a way to embarrass the Soviets. Islamists take power after Soviet retreat and brutally repress the people until 2001.
  45. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
  46. >1982, CIA provides weapons, training, cash, and intelligence capability for Hissene Habre following his rise to power in Chad, in the hopes that he would counteract the ambition of neighboring Libya's left wing government. Habre commits countless atrocities against his political opponents. CIA knowingly aids and abets these actions. 40,000 dead.
  47. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiss%C3%A8ne_Habr%C3%A9#Support_of_the_U.S._and_France
  48. >1992, US has no more need for an independent, Socialist Yugoslavia because the USSR has collapsed. CIA funds ethnic fighters from each of Yugoslavia's constituent ethnic groups and directly incites ethnic cleansing campaigns. 140,000 dead.
  49. http://iacenter.org/bosnia/ciarole.htm
  50. >1996, CIA fails in an attempt to incite a coup against Saddam Hussein.
  51. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Iraq#Iraq_1996
  52. >2001, Afghan Islamist militants trained by the CIA turn against the US and strike targets on American soil with suicide airplane hijackings. World Trade Center destroyed, Pentagon damaged. US invades Afghanistan. 450,000+ dead.
  53. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_in_the_war_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)
  54. >2003, CIA lies to American people by insisting that Saddam Hussein has nuclear weapons and the ability to strike US soil with them. US invades. 250,000+ killed.
  55. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
  56. >2004, US kidnaps Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and forces his resignation. Country was on track to economic development under Aristide, became a clusterfuck afterwards.
  57. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Haitian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat#U.S._involvement
  58. >2010, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton intervenes in Haiti's Presidential Election. Country becomes an even worse clusterfuck.
  59. http://cepr.net/blogs/haiti-relief-and-reconstruction-watch/clinton-e-mails-point-to-us-intervention-in-2010-haiti-elections
  60. Those are the ones where the US's involvement are common knowledge to historians. There are probably more, especially recently, that we don't know about. These things tend to only be revealed decades after the fact, but there is precisely zero reason to believe that we've stopped.
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