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TimeSnowDemos

(476 posts)
5. Sadly
Fri May 18, 2018, 08:31 AM
May 2018

The US is a source of a LOT of it. And a lot of that falls on voters who are ignorant of the facts.

Ask most Americans about US involvement in e.g. Guatemala and they'll have no idea... sure MOST Americans didn't even know CENTCOM was in Qatar... despite it costing them $1Billion to build... can't afford healthcare for kids though...

One retired CIA station chief wrote a book after he retired and he said that based on publicly available documents the CIA was responsible for the deaths of 6 MILLION people, mostly civilians, in South America, between the 50s and the 80s.

That's 6,000,000.

In Europe his book was fact checked and well reviewed; in the US he was destroyed publicly and his book was - as a result - only ever published once.

US citizens, more than the citizens on the vast majority of countries, have to be responsible for teaching themselves the history of their own country. Which is a damn shame, but the alternative is just endless war.

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