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The Black Book of American Crimes: Volume I: International - 1970-2020
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20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political ScienceSocial Movements
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Seventy-two cases. Six continents. Fifty years. Every claim tiered to its evidence.
This is not a polemic, and it does not need to be one. The record speaks for itself - declassified CIA cables, Church Committee testimony, Department of Energy reports to Congress, European Court of Human Rights judgments, truth commission findings - and this book's only job is to lay that record out, case by case, with the evidentiary weight of each claim marked plainly rather than buried in a paragraph of confident prose.
Every entry in The Black Book of American Crimes, Volume I carries an inline confidence marker: CONFIRMED by the government's own record, ESTABLISHED by convergent independent evidence, or ALLEGED where the record itself is genuinely contested. This is not a hedge - it's a discipline the book applies to itself as rigorously as to its subject, splitting single countries into separate claims of different strength rather than flattening a complicated record into one verdict.
Some of what's inside:
- The Marshall Islands, where sixty-seven nuclear tests between 1946 and 1958 - including the largest device the US has ever detonated - left island populations evacuated two days too late, understudied under a program whose true start date is still disputed, and returned to contaminated homes the government's own data said weren't yet safe
- Chile, 1970-73, traced through the Church Committee's own cable review: a presidential order to prevent an election result by all possible means, and a general's assassination financed with CIA-supplied weapons
- The Gladio network - Italy's secret Cold War stay-behind army, its confirmed existence held at the book's highest evidentiary tier, its full operational scope held at a lower one, exactly where the record itself draws that line
- The European rendition cases - Poland, Romania, Lithuania - established not by leaks or allegations but by the European Court of Human Rights' own landmark rulings against the host governments
- Cases spanning Latin America, Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Europe - military action taken without congressional authorization, covert operations run without a host government's consent, economic coercion outside any declared state of war
Each entry closes with a Documented Toll - a casualty figure tiered like any other claim in the book, distinguishing the toll of a broader conflict from the narrower toll of the specific US-linked action within it. Where no reliable figure exists, the book says so, rather than inventing one to fill the space.
Readers who want the record without the rhetoric - sourced, tiered, and willing to say plainly where the evidence runs out - will find Volume I built for exactly that.
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