Diego Garcia: Forced removal of a population for a U.S. military base
Stealing a Nation (2004)
Documentary about the joint U.S.-British effort which forcibly and secretively expelled the Chagossian population from Diego Garcia and neighboring islands to make way for a U.S. military base.
"...it was, from the beginning, a US plan. The US identified Diego Garcia as the site for a military base beginning in the late 1950s and approached the British to gain access to the islands and to remove the Chagossians. And with the help of a $14 million secret payment that we made to the British government, we secured their agreement to give us access to the island and then to forcibly remove all the Chagossians..." -- David Vine. "Forcibly Exiled Nearly 40 Years Ago, Diego Garcia Natives Fight to Return to Island Home Now Used as Key US Military Outpost." Democracy Now, 2009-10-09.
Diego Garcia: Launchpad for invasions
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"The Diego Garcia military base was established there after Britain—which ‘owns’ Chagos—forcibly removed its inhabitants between 1968 and 1973. Diego Garcia is one of America’s ‘most important and secretive’ military bases, and has been central to launching invasions in Iraq and Afghanistan and flying missions across Asia, including over the South China Sea." -- Asoka Bandarage. "U.S. Military Presence and Popular Resistance in Sri Lanka." CovertAction Magazine, 2019-08-12.
See also:
- USA’s Military Empire: A Visual Database - An interactive map of US military bases around the world.
- Hyper-Imperialism: A Dangerous Decadent New Stage - Article by The Tricontinental which discusses the 902 known US military bases and 145 known UK military bases.
"Stop NATO"?
If you have spent time looking at people's collections of 88x31 web buttons, you may have come across this "STOP NATO" button.
This page presents some information about why a button like this would exist, including some relatively recent articles on the topic as well as some archived web pages and graphics from the 90s and 2000s relating to campaigns/slogans such as "STOP NATO" and "Put NATO on trial", many of which are related to the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. The revelations about Operation Gladio had also occurred earlier in the 1990s, revealing the involvement of various western institutions (including NATO) in organizing and supporting right-wing false flag terror attacks throughout Europe, orchestrated to promote crackdowns against the left. Other materials on this page relate to the recruitment of Nazi generals, admirals, propagandists etc. into NATO, including major positions of leadership.
Interview with former CIA case officer John Stockwell
"We didn't know of one single atrocity committed by the Cubans. It was pure, raw, false propaganda to create an illusion of communists, you know eating babies for breakfast and the sort. Totally false propaganda."
"CIA officers are not in danger [...] they're not fearful and they're not playing cover games. They're having lunch with the police chief."
Enough is Enough: Open Letter of Resignation to the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
"To me resignation is a priceless liberation, for with it I have taken the first big step to that place where I may hope to wash my hands of what in my mind's eye is the blood of millions of poor and starving peoples. [...] the blood is so much, you know, it runs in rivers. It dries up too; it cakes all over me; sometimes I feel that there is not enough soap in the whole world to cleanse me from the things that I did do in your name and in the names of your predecessors, and under your official seal."
See also: Selected quotes from Enough is Enough
"...unlike the colonial power of yesteryear, we can fine-tune our intervention so that we take away today only those rights and constitutional guarantees that it is necessary to take away in order to achieve our immediate ends (which of course may change from time to time). In other words, we undermine constitutional rights gradually, and in a non-visible sort of way."
What are sanctions? Who is sanctioned?
"Sanctions kill by destroying economies, causing hyperinflation and unemployment so people cannot afford basic necessities."
Links
- USA’s Military Empire: A Visual Database
- 제국의 제재 | Sanctions of Empire
- The Electronic Intifada
- Exposing Imperial Japan