Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours, ultimate authority rests with the people. We empower the government with our votes, finance it with our taxes, bolster it with our silent acquiescence. If we are passive in the face of America’s official actions overseas, we in effect endorse them. Mark Hertzgaard
NAFTA was merely the first draft of an economic constitution for North America. Robert A Pastor, Foreign Affairs magazine January/February 2004
International agreements like NAFTA, GATT and APEC were just stepping stones in the formation of the NAU. The North American Union was officially born at Baylor University in Waco Texas on 23rd March 2005. The leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada told the press that they were only meeting to discuss trade. It soon leaked that a secret meeting had been held ... The three governments have refused to release the secret agreement to the people. Alex Jones, Endgame, 2007
To craft a modern feudal society the globalists are implementing a standardised North American ID card to track, trace and control their serfs as they travel throughout the three regions of the NAU. ibid.
The Bush administration’s open-borders policy, and its decision to ignore the enforcement of this country’s immigration laws, is part of a broader agenda. President Bush signed a formal agreement that will end the United States as we know it, and he took the step without approval from either the US Congress or the people of the United States. CNN Live with Lou Dobbs, North American Union? 2005
The Security & Prosperity Partnership will deliver neither security nor prosperity. For the simple reason that it is not so far been democratic – most of the discussions have been taking place behind closed doors. John Urquhart, Council of Canadians, interview CNN
The road to North American Union is not a new development. Probably it kicked into high gear in about 1965 with the creation of the Council of the Americas. Richard Syrett, host The Conspiracy Show AM740
The United States has no tradition of subordinating itself to international treaty-based law, and it has no interest in a world order in which military force becomes operational only as a last resort. Peter Gowan
I am astonished each time I come to the US by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It’s quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the US. Eduardo Galeano
The US is a signatory to nine multilateral treaties that it has either blatantly violated or gradually subverted. The Bush Administration is now outright rejecting a number of those treaties, and in doing so, places global security in jeopardy, as other nations feel entitled to do the same. The rejected treaties include: The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), the Treaty Banning Antipersonnel Mines, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a protocol to create a compliance regime for the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM). The US is also not complying with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the Chemical Weapons Commission (CWC), the BWC, and the UN framework Convention on Climate Change. Project Censored, 2005
Dangerous missions. Covert operations. And deadly assassinations. Ordered by the president of the United States. America’s Book of Secrets s2e7: Presidential Cover-Ups, History 2014
Presidential Documents Executive Order 13491 of January 22, 2009 Ensuring Lawful Interrogations ... ‘to promote the safe, lawful, and humane treatment of individuals in United States’ custody and of United States’ personnel who are detained in armed conflicts.’ ibid. Obama
Arms for hostages ... Why was the Reagan administration so willing to sell arms to a country so openly hostile to America? ibid.
Nicaragua: Reagan believed strongly that the Contras deserved American funding and support. Any such funding had been banned by Congress. ibid.
In the end several high ranking members of the Reagan administration were either indicted, convicted, or had their careers for ever tarnished by the affair and the cover-up ... directed by George H W Bush. ibid.
Obama, 2011: A drone strike in Yemen in 2011. A strike that targeted and killed an America citizen. ibid.
Have presidential cover-ups become so sophisticated that the general public will never really know what goes on behind the doors of the Oval Office? ibid.
3America was heading for a new confrontation with its allies yesterday after it emerged that the Bush Administration will refuse to accept an arms control deal to enforce a ban on biological weapons. The Times, 2001
The reason why France and Germany are so reviled is that the governments are taking the position of the overwhelming majority of the population. And that’s considered a crime. Noam Chomsky, University of Colorado 5th April 2003
From the time that Suharto took power in October 1965 to May 1998 this gentleman was ‘our kind of guy’ as the Clinton administration called him while he was massacring and torturing. Noam Chomsky, lecture MIT 22nd February 1999, ‘Foundations of World Order’
Over the years there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the US was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s that was wearing pretty thin. Noam Chomsky
In February 2004 the two traditional torturers of Haiti – France and the United States – combined to back a military coup and send President Aristide off to Africa. The US denies him permission to return to the entire region. Noam Chomsky
I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience. Noam Chomsky
The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because of actions going back hundreds of years. If we could ever get to the stage where somebody could say, ‘We’re sorry we did it,’ that would be nice. But if that just assuages guilt, it’s just another crime. To become minimally civilized, we would have to say, ‘We carried out and benefited from vicious crimes. A large part of the wealth of France comes from the crimes we committed against Haiti, and the United States gained as well. Therefore we are going to pay reparations to the Haitian people.’ Then you will see the beginnings of civilization. Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
If it’s wrong when they do it, it’s wrong when we do it. Noam Chomsky
The highly ramified Pentagon system has been the major instrument for achieving these goals at home and abroad, always on the pretext of defense against the Soviet menace. Noam Chomsky, Deterring Democracy introduction
We can, then, identify a period from World War II, continuing into the 1970s, in which the US dominated much of the world, confronting a rival superpower of considerably more limited reach. We may adopt conventional usage and refer to this as the Cold War era, as long as we are careful not to carry along, without reflection, the ideological baggage devised to shape understanding in the interests of domestic power. ibid.
The United States remains the only power with the will and the capacity to exercise force on a global scale – even more freely than before, with the fading of the Soviet deterrent. But the US no longer enjoys the preponderance of economic power that had enabled it to maintain an aggressive and interventionalist military posture since World War II. Military power not backed by a comparable economic base has its limits as a means of coercion and domination. It may well lead to adventurism, a tendency to lead with one’s strength, possibly with catastrophic consequences. ibid.
Military spending nearly quadrupled shortly after, on the pretext that the invasion of South Korea was the first step in the Kremlin conquest of the world – despite the lack of compelling evidence, then or now, for Russian initiative in this phase of the complex struggle over the fate of Korea. ibid.
Relevant data are presented in such a way as to obscure direct comparisons and selected to exaggerate the enemy’s strength, the standard pattern throughout the Cold War era. ibid.
For the United States the Cold War has been a history of subversion, aggression and state terrorism. ibid. pp20-21
One early example was in 1952, when the Kremlin put forth a proposal for reunification and neutralization of Germany, with no conditions on economic policies and with guarantees for ‘the rights of man and basic freedoms, including freedom of speech, press, religious persuasion, political conviction and assembly’ ... The US and its allies objected. ibid. p24
In the mid-1970s Soviet military spending began to level off, as later conceded, while the US lead in strategic bombs and warheads widened through the decade. President Carter proposed a substantial increase in military spending and a cutback on social programs. ibid. p26