What's the "keeping it real" history that Americans are taught the whitewashed version in school?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_production_in_Afghanistan
I'm sure there were other things/resources to extract/control there, but this is the one I know and remembered off the top of my head.
It's also a good place to do a real life test of (actual) weapons of mass destruction. A showroom of violence for potential buyers across the world.
wrote last edited by [email protected]There's some lapis lazuli I guess, but it's mostly a subsistence, agrarian-type economy. You'd be hard-pressed to show the US profiting from the opium; they actually destroyed quite a lot of the crops they could get their hands on. Just because of the amount of area it covers there's geological deposits of other things, but it's undeveloped.
It's an exceptionally poor, sparsely populated tract of dry steppe that's famous for baiting in and devastating empires. The US invaded to get Bin Laden, and then stayed because a critical mass of their elite genuinely wanted to fix it before going.
It’s also a good place to do a real life test of (actual) weapons of mass destruction. A showroom of violence for potential buyers across the world.
That's true of anywhere you want to blow up, so by that measure your goalpost is literally anything happening.
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Obviously we don't learn about unions at all. But the one that strikes me the most is the omission of the Battle of Blair Mountain, where the US government sent the army after the coal miners.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_MountainThe Wilmington 1989 coup: After the Civil War, Wilmington North Carolina had a mostly black government. That didn't sit right with the whites, so they staged and successfully completed a Coup & overthrew the government. Only officially successful Coup to occur in the USA.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/when-white-supremacists-overthrew-government/9/11 - The much lesser known 9/11 occurs in Chili in on 9/11/1973. During a US sponsored coup, the revolutionaries smash an airplane into the capitol building. My not-so-conspiracy theory is there's a reason the US event happened on 9/11 as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d'étatUnion power!
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I'm not from there but I'll say that The US doesn't intervene overseas in order "to spread democracy" or "to protect the world from the evils of communism" but to protect its economic interests, to increase the profits of capitalists through industries such as weapons and oil, and to make sure that no socialism occurs that threatens the stranglehold of capitalism.
Some books to check:
- Major General Smedley D. Butler - War Is A Racket
- Tim Weiner - Legacy Of Ashes: The History Of The CIA
- William Blum - Killing Hope: US Military And CIA Interventions Since World War II
- Noam Chomsky - What Uncle Sam Really Wants
To quote a popular bumper sticker:
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I did not find out about the Tuskegee Syphilis Study until adulthood. Its the biggest thing I can think of.
I was in college when I found out about Tuskegee, as well as Operation Northwoods, Project MK Ultra, and the cover-up of Unit 731.
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The "War of Northern Agression" started by Confederates shooting at an American fort.
I mean, such things can be false flags. It wouldn't make sense, the Confederates were much weaker strategically and knew it.
