Guides tagged dystopia
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Wars With Manufactured Incidents 10 Srebrenica intelligence Dutch peacekeepers reports about impending massacre ignored by UN command
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On July 6, 1995—five days before the Srebrenica massacre—Dutch peacekeepers in the UN-protected enclave sent a classified cable to their superiors in…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 09 Kuwaiti incubator babies 1990 false testimony by Kuwaiti ambassadors daughter helped justify Gulf Wa
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On October 10, 1990, a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl named Nayirah al-Ṣabaḥ testified before the U.S. Congressional Human Rights Caucus that she had witne…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 08 Racak massacre 1999 disputed incident used to justify NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
THE RACAK MASSACRE: THE DOCUMENTED GAP BETWEEN WAR AND JUSTIFICATION THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On January 15, 1999, the bodies of 45 ethnic Albanians were found in the village…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 07 Operation Northwoods 1962 US Joint Chiefs proposed staging Cuban attacks on Americans to justify inv
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In March 1962, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff formally proposed a plan to stage or allow terrorist attacks on American soil—including hijacking civil…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 06 Lavon Affair 1954 Israeli intelligence operation planted bombs in American and British targets in Eg
THE LAVON AFFAIR: THE BOMBS THAT WEREN’T EGYPT’S THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On July 2, 1954, a bomb detonated in the U.S. Information Agency library in Alexandria, Egypt—one of…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 05 Mukden incident 1931 Japanese Army staged explosion on Japanese-owned railway to justify invasion of
THE MUKDEN INCIDENT: THE EXPLOSION THAT WASN’T THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On the night of September 18, 1931, Japanese soldiers of the Kwantung Army detonated a small explosive…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 04 Gleiwitz incident 1939 Germany staged attack on its own radio station to justify invasion of Poland
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On the night of August 31, 1939, SS officer Alfred Naujocks led a team of German operatives into the Gleiwitz radio station in Upper Silesia. They br…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 03 Remember the Maine 1898 USS Maine explosion in Havana harbor caused by accident used to start Spanis
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET The U.S. Navy’s 1898 court of inquiry into the USS Maine explosion in Havana harbor concluded that a mine had caused the blast—but the report’s own d…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 02 Iraq WMDs 2003 935 false statements by Bush administration officials in two years after 911
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET Between September 2001 and September 2003, the Bush administration made 935 false statements about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and its …
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 01 Gulf of Tonkin 1964 second attack on USS Maddox almost certainly never happened NSA documents confir
THE GULF OF TONKIN, 1964: THE ATTACK THAT WASN’T THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On October 30, 2005, the U.S. National Security Agency declassified a 1965 internal study concluding…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 30 Flint water crisis EPA knew about lead contamination for 18 months did not warn residents
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On June 24, 2015—18 months after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) first confirmed dangerous lead levels in Flint, Michigan’s drinking w…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 29 Patriot Act Section 215 bulk collection of phone records of every American ruled illegal in 2020
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET For seven years, the U.S. government collected the phone records of every American—call times, durations, and numbers dialed—under a single, classifi…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 28 FISA Court secret court approved mass surveillance warrants almost never denied a request
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET Between 1979 and 2023, the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) approved 41,654 government surveillance requests and denied just 12 in…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 27 Pentagon Papers government knew Vietnam War was unwinnable from 1967 continued for 8 more years
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In October 1966, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara commissioned a classified study—later known as the Pentagon Papers—that concluded the Vietnam War …
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 26 Iran-Contra Reagan administration sold weapons to Iran funded Nicaraguan Contras lied to Congress
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On October 5, 1986, a U.S. cargo plane carrying 70 military-grade AK-47 rifles, 100,000 rounds of ammunition, and other weapons was shot down over Ni…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 25 Crack cocaine epidemic Gary Webb documented CIA connection to crack supply chain career destroyed di
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1996, the San Jose Mercury News published a series by investigative journalist Gary Webb revealing that the CIA had knowledge of—and in some cases…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 24 CHAOS program CIA compiled files on 7200 American citizens and 1000 domestic organizations
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET Between 1967 and 1973, the CIA’s CHAOS program compiled files on 7,200 American citizens and 1,000 domestic organizations—without warrants, without s…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 23 NSA PRISM program mass surveillance of American citizens communications Snowden revealed in 2013
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On June 5, 2013, The Guardian published a top-secret court order revealing that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) had, for seven years, compell…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 22 Operation Garden Plot domestic military contingency plan for civilian population control active sinc
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1972, the U.S. Army’s Civil Disturbance Orientation Guide explicitly listed "dissident elements" to be monitored under Operation Garden Plot, incl…
US Government Against Its Own Citizens 21 COINTELPRO against AIM American Indian Movement leaders surveilled infiltrated several died in suspi
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On June 26, 1975, two FBI agents and one American Indian Movement (AIM) member were killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Sout…