Cited Book: Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower

From 1945 to the end of the century, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements struggling against intolerable regimes. In the process, the US caused the end-of-life for several million people and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair.

The CIA like to joke that their assassinations are suicides involuntarily administered, to be carried out by the Agency’s Health Alteration Committee.

The U.S. government not only routinely practices torture, it trains torturers all over the world. The ;School of the Americas; in Ft. Benning, Georgia, for instance, is devoted to the training of torturers from all over Latin America.