Progressive Memes and Essays

by Donald A. Smith, PhD

Scorecard of U.S. Lies about wars and proxy wars

War Number killed Lied? Notes
Vietnam 3 to 4 million Gulf of Tonkin incident, The Pentagon Papers
Indonesia 1 million The Jakarta Method
Dirty wars in
Latin America
100s of thousands Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua,Panama, Venezuela
CIA meddling and brutal U.S. sanctions continue to this day.
No wonder there's a migration crisis at the southern border.
Kosovo/Serbia 100s of thousands We were told it was a noble intervention.
The U.S. allied with terrorists, the KLA.
Key US Ally Indicted for Organ Trade Murder Scheme
Afghanistan 100s of thousands The Afghanistan Papers revealed repeated lies.
Syria over half a million The U.S. armed al Qaeda, working w/ Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey.
Syria fiasco and Casualities of the Syrian civil war
Libya thousands Libya was prosperous. U.S. bombing turned it into a basket case.
Libya: The Forgotten Victims
Iraq 1.5 to 3.5 million No WMDs, no connection to 9/11.
How many millions have been killed in America's Post-9/11 Wars?
Ukraine100s of thousands The U.S. exploited divisions between pro-Western and pro-Russian regions of Ukraine and launched a regime change operation; Chas W. Freeman (former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and lifetime director of the Atlantic Council) says the U.S. engineered the 2014 coup. The U.S. armed far-right groups that had been condemned by Congress and the mainstream media. (Likewise, the CIA allied with Muslim extremists groups to attack pro-Russian governments in Afghanistan, Serbia, Libya, and Syria.)

Senior U.S. diplomats and two Secretaries of Defense warned that aggressive NATO expansion into Ukraine would result in a war.

The RAND Corporation recommended arming Ukraine as the best way to weaken Russia and predicted it would cause a war.

The CIA was deeply involved (see this and this) and tried to hide its tracks. The New Yorker reported that the CIA and NSA engaged in a broad effort "around the time of the invasion, to close off many sources related to Russia/Ukraine matters."

Jack Matlock (former U.S. Ambassador to the USSR under Ronald Reagan) said in a 2024 interview: "Why don't we understand that trying to remove Ukraine from Russian influence and put military bases there would be, in their case, absolutely unacceptable and worthy of defense?" Matlock said the U.S. backed the 2014 coup, and "Obviously, to any Russian leader, not just Vladimir Putin, that would have been an absolutely impossible, hostile act, which they had to react to. And in particular, they were not going to lose their naval base in Crimea." Finally, Matlock said the Ukrainians are "dominated in their thinking by neo-Nazis -- we tend to ignore that, or when Putin points it out, we say he's lying. He's not lying."

Would the U.S. allow Russia to overthrow the government of Canada, install the new Prime Minister, ban the official use of English, build up its military, and ally with and arm anti-American militias?

Harpers: Why are we in Ukraine?
How the U.S. Provoked Russia in Ukraine


Senior U.S. diplomats, Secretaries of Defense, academics, and journalists say the U.S. provoked Russia in Ukraine
Designs for Memorial for Victims of US Militarism
Dennis Kucinich: the US engineered a coup to drag Ukraine into a conflict
Seattle panel discussion on preventing war with China

Four Increasingly Cynical Views about the War in Ukraine

AI Images
Letter to Democrats: Rein in the U.S. War Machine
Seduction to the Truth
The American people demand an end to endless wars and endless lies
Ukraine resolution
Resolution on the Urgency of Transitioning to an Economy Based on Peace, passed by the Washington State Democratic Central Committee on Jan 28, 2024
Eisenhower Warning
Costs of War
The Zephyrians save the earth

AI-created Music about War and Politics

We're Spending 2 Trillion Dollars on Weapons That Must Never Be Used
We Can't Compete with China, So Let's Provoke a War (a bluegrass song)
America the Battleful
The Unholy Land
Thomas Merton's Prayer for Peace (a choral work)
A Rock Opera about U.S. Militarism: Part One
Oh Beautiful for Endless Wars (version one)
O Beautiful for Endless Wars (version two)
U.S. Diplomats rap about aggressive NATO expansion and how it provoked the war in Ukraine (Part One)
U.S. Diplomats rap about aggressive NATO expansion and how it provoked the war in Ukraine (Part Two)
Academics, Journalists, and NATO head report on U.S. provocations in Ukraine
President Eisenhower's warnings about militarism, set to folk music
President Eisenhower's warnings about the Military-Industrial Complex (epic chorus)
Requiem for Victims of U.S. Wars
Love Song by the U.S. Military Gospel Chorus
No More Stupid Wars
Windy City Protests -- from Vietnam in '68 to Gaza in '24,
Bending over for Uncle Sam, a song for Europe
A Prayer for Gaza
The Endless War Blues
The Endless War Blues (longer version)
They Kill, They Lie (Rap Rock)
Machinery of Death (a death metal song about U.S. militarism)
Beyond Evil: a choral rendition of a quote by Noam Chomsky
Antiwar anthem: No More Blood for their Endless War
Country Love Song about Donald Trump
Blessings and Curses Come Unbidden
Money Screams
The Lesser of Two Evil Blues
America is Addicted to War (bluegrass)
War is a Racket (the Smedley Butler song)

Spiritual and Fun AI-created Music

Blessings and Curses Come Unbidden
My Perfect Partner
When Prince Charming Meets Princess Repulsive
Uncle Sam is Gay (a country music song)
Goodbye Song
The Downer Song
Wouldn't It Be Great?
You Gotta Train Your Main (Motown, Not Safe for Work)
Leonoard Peltier -- Listen to Me!
Love is Like a Loaded Gun
A Red Red Rose -- with lyrics by Robert Burns
A Wound that Will Not Heal

AI Images

Images about war and militarism

The Military-Industrial Complex has Congress in its Pocket
Joe Biden is Running the World
Julian Assange Exposes Wrongdoing
Provoked!
Mourning the Death of American Democracy
AIPAC has Congress in its Pocket
Proselytizing-Peace
Doomsday Clock
The Budget Cake
NATO 75!
NATO Meat Grinder
Beautiful Peace Activists
The War Economy
Exclusive Photos of House Armed Services Committee
EU as a lapdog submitting to U.S. hegemony
The Twelve Stations of the Cross of Julian Assange
Ukraine images
Generalissimos Trump, Biden, Putin, Xi
The New York Times Never saw a U.S. War it didn't Support (at first)
Snake MIC
Revolving Door
How to Provoke a War (CIA)
Wars
Military Maw

Images about stuff

Helper Fantasy of a Middle-Aged Guy
Democrats Riding the Kamala Wave
Prosecutor Kamala Harris is Stopping the Teflon Don
Be Touched by Art
Man Scorecard
Kamala Harris Cabinet
Trump as a Snake
Trump Arriving in Hell
Mein Trump
Fun Shower Curtains
Mushroom People
Donald Trump TED Talk
Imperial Hypocrisy
Trump on Climate Change
Drug Cartels in Mexico and the U.S.
All the News That Fits What the CIA Wants Us to Print
Donald Trump: The Scream
Something Ds and Rs can agree on
Pope Francis becomes a Hare Krishna devotee
Trump as President in Prison
Tree Women
Bad choices for president
The Self-Destruction of the United States
Joe Biden is trying hard to help Donald Trump get elected
Ukraine Teach-in
Hiding and Revealing the Truth
I Have a Dream of Peace
American Blockbuster Film: Endless Wars
Stop Lying about Wars
Feeding the War Machine
War Jeopardy!
Bases
Exorcise Bikes
Museum
Trump
GOP
MAGA Cult
Eisenhower Project
Visualizing Washington State Legislators
Adam Smith's Town Hall Disrupted by Pro-Palestinian Protesters
Clitorises are Bitches and the Battle of the Sexes

How can people be so stupid and gullible as to believe U.S. government claims about the current war?
The depths of the CIA's dirty tricks are unfathomable; in Ukraine they tried hard to hide their tracks.
And now the U.S. is actively preparing for war with China.



Senior U.S. Diplomats, Journalists, Academics, and Secretaries of Defense say: the US provoked Russia in Ukraine

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