FYI - The “Deep State” and the Unspoken Crimes of the U.S. Empire, Operation Gladio

Following is but a partial list of the crimes of the U.S. empire (with the routine complicity of many Western European governments) over the decades since the end of WWII. It is important to briefly review them as the intersection of these orchestrated criminal actions casts light on the lack of legitimacy of Western governments and institutions:

Operation Condor , the Phoenix program and ongoing material aid and military training support for dictators, torture and death squads in numerous non-Western nations,

The extensive history of CIA and Western involvement in global narcotics trafficking including importation of drugs into the United States

US government criminalization of drug use by the poor in conjunction with CIA importation to create the apartheid-like prison-industrial system

Covert and overt U.S. foreign policy operations involving the destabilization, overthrow and/or assassination of many dozens of foreign leaders of former colonies with assistance from Western European intelligence and/or military

U.S. corporate financial support for the Nazi regime before and during WWII (trading with the enemy), followed by post-war recruitment and incorporation of Nazi war criminals by the CIA and other U.S. government agencies

The failed plot to overthrow FDR by U.S. oligarchs prior to WWII

CIA & FBI programs to undermine and destroy progressive social and political change within the U.S. such as COINTELPRO, MKUltra, Operation Mockingbird and Operation Chaos

Creation of the Mujahideen and continued logistical support, training and arming of related evolving jihadist forces (i.e. al-Qaeda, ISIS, al-Nusra), used by the West in ongoing efforts to destabilize secular nations in the Middle East

The instalment of former Nazis, Nazi collaborators and fascists into governing and institutional positions of power across Western Europe following WWII

The continuing failure to abide by the stipulations of a single legal treaty entered into with Native American tribal nations

Many decades of maintaining an institutionally based apartheid system restricting access by African Americans to housing, voting, job opportunities and access to basic public services such as equal education

Many dozens of U.S. led/or sponsored outright military invasions of sovereign nations in violation of both domestic and international law

The U.S. manipulation and rigging of ostensibly democratic election processes in Europe and throughout Latin America since WWII

The publicly state justification of the use of sanctions to bring about the deaths of half a million Iraqi children framed as an acceptable policy decision

The routine outright police murders of unarmed minority American civilians and the mentally ill

The utilization of both NATO and the United Nations to sanction, destabilize and/or militarily intervene in nations that remain independent of Western control

Ongoing Western looting of the natural resources of Africa, Latin America and the Middle East facilitated by the IMF, World Bank and related Western financial and military institutional structures

The proposed murder of U.S. citizens in the Northwoods document, and the actual murder of European citizens under NATO/CIA run Operation Gladio

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