https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/25c276d6-44d9-4af8-9ff1-d4654551d5a8 As uncomfortable as it may be to find flaws in your home country, wherever that may be, it's an important part of being an informed citizen. While it's good to call the US out on individual failures, it's becoming increasingly important to help people understand that the US as a whole is the problem. In this episode, we'll take a brief stroll through the bloody history of the US empire and answer that age old question...are we the baddies? Are We The Baddies? – Second Thought SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTS New video every other Friday! Check out my new channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JTChapman Citations and Further Reading: General info on US crimes and the problems of capitalism: Washington Bullets - Vijay Prashad Rogue State - William Blum Killing Hope - William Blum Endless Holocausts - Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire - David Michael Smith The Jakarta Method - Vincent Bevins School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas - Lesley Gill The Triumph of Evil - Austin Murphy Spooks - Jim Hougan The Capital Order: How Economists Created Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism - Clara E. Mattei The Counterrevolution of 1776 - Gerald Horne Genocide of the Native Americans, Slavery: An Indigenous People's History of the United States - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz American Holocaust - David Stannard Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation - John Ehle Hitler's American Model - James Whitman Genocide in the Philippines: https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1138&context=historical-perspectives https://webhispania.info/the-forgotten-genocide-the-philippine-american-war-and-us-atrocities/ A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902 - David J. Silbey Genocide in Korea: Blowback Season 3 - https://open.spotify.com/episode/78BdsG6eicVXJ5cQBRs2Md https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/against-genocide/wipe-out-all-life-postwar-liberalism-and-mass-killing-in-korea https://www.liberationnews.org/psl-editorial-occupation-continues-70-years-after-the-pentagons-forgotten-genocide-in-korea/ https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/30/world/gi-s-tell-of-a-us-massacre-in-korean-war.html https://www.thenation.com/article/world/korean-war-armistice-70th-anniversary/ War crimes during the Vietnam War: Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam - Nick Nurse https://www.ucpress.edu/blog/35354/the-violent-legacies-of-the-u-s-war-in-vietnam/ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-23427726 https://www.marxists.org/subject/china/peking-review/1966/PR1966-04c.htm War crimes during the "War on Terror" Blowback Season 1 - https://open.spotify.com/show/2pibBnPuHqKr07hxEMZE41 https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/03/iraq-20-years-since-the-us-led-coalition-invaded-iraq-impunity-reigns-supreme/#:~:text=Between%202003%20and%202011%2C%20Amnesty,cruel%2C%20inhuman%20or%20degrading%20treatment. https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/03/19/twenty-years-iraq-bears-scars-us-led-invasion https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/lib-docs/HRBodies/UPR/Documents/session9/US/AIJ_TheAssociationofIraqiJurists.pdf https://truthout.org/articles/for-20-years-team-bush-has-escaped-prosecution-for-war-crimes-in-iraq/ https://www.ecchr.eu/en/publication/the-iraq-invasion-is-a-crime/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/04/04/472964974/it-was-torture-an-abu-ghraib-interrogator-acknowledges-horrible-mistakes https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2017/10/1/abu-ghraib-the-legacy-of-torture-in-the-war-on-terror Chain of Command - Seymour Hersh The Ballad of Abu Ghraib - Philip Gourevitch, Errol Morris Blowback Season 4 - https://open.spotify.com/episode/3PIyNOhaBeAfwa3rWKmvtP Cuba and Latin America: Blowback Season 2 - https://blowback.show/Season-2 Open Veins of Latin America - Eduardo Galeano Cuba and its Neighbors - Arnold August https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/world/americas/chile-coup-50-anniversary.html Chile 1973: The Other 9/11 - David Francois Palestine: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe https://decolonizepalestine.com Gaza Fights for Freedom - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnZSaKYmP2s Shell Shocked - Mohammed Omer Apartheid Israel - Sean Jacobs, Jon Soske On Palestine - Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe Freedom is a Constant Struggle - Angela Davis Follow and Support Second Thought! 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