US Independence Day – Occupied Iraqis, Afghans, Palestinians, Haitians, Somalis, Syrians under US...

On the 4th of July America is celebrating Independence Day – but when will Occupied Haiti, Occupied Somalia, Occupied Palestine, Occupied Syria, Occupied Iraq , Occupied Diego Garcia and Occupied Afghanistan get their Independence from the genocidal US and its genocidal allies?

On the 4th of July America is celebrating Independence Day, the day marking the Independence of the 13 states of the United States America from Great Britain a country having the same language, same culture, same general philosophy and the same religion. Indeed the cultural similarities between the USA and the UK today are so great that they are the closest of allies. Contrast that with the English-speaking, Christian Anglo enslavement of Arabic-speaking Muslim countries today.

What few realize is the American Independence meant carte blanche for American settlers to move West and exterminate the remaining Indigenous Indians of North America. Before Independence, Britain had prevented such Westward expansion because of its alliance with American Indians against the French (see Chapter 4 of my book “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” : http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ and http://mwcnews.net/Gideon-Polya ).

Human evolution has only taken us so far – we are evidently genetically hardwired for altruism in our family and extended family but altruism falls off sharply the further we get away from kin. A consequence of this is that foreign rulers have grossly inadequate concern for their conquered indigenous subjects.

This lack of altruism is reflected in a precise parameter called excess death (aka avoidable mortality, avoidable death, or excess mortality i.e. deaths that should not have happened) and which is defined as the difference between the actual deaths in a country and the deaths expected for a peaceful, decently governed country with the same demographics.

Using data from the UN Population Division it is possible to estimate excess deaths for every county in the world since 1950 (for detailed documentation see my book “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” : http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ and http://mwcnews.net/Gideon-Polya ). The same source of demographic data provides information on infant mortality and other important statistics.

The summary data provided below is of 1950-2005 excess deaths/ 2005 population (both in millions, m) and expressed as a percentage (%); this ratio is given for every country for which the US has been a major Occupier post-1945. The asterisk (*) below indicates a major occupation by more than one country in the post-WW2 era (thus both the UK and the US are both major current Occupiers of Afghanistan and Iraq, leaving aside the many other minor participants in these occupations). I also provide the relevant data for the US itself and the total for US-occupied countries in the post-war era.

1950-2005 excess deaths/ 2005 population (both in millions, m, and expressed as a percentage, %) for the US [8.455m/300.038m = 2.8%] , Afghanistan* [16.609m/25.971m = 64.0%], Cambodia* [5.852m/14.825m = 39.5%], Dominican Republic [0.806m/8.998m = 9.0%], Federated States of Micronesia [0.016m/0.111m = 14.4%], Greece* [0.027m/10.978m = 0.2%], Grenada* [0.018m/0.121m = 14.9%], Guam [0.005m/0.168m = 3.0%], Haiti* [4.089m/8.549m = 47.9%], Iraq* [5.283m/26.555m = 19.9%], Korea* [7.958m/71.058m = 11.2%], Laos* [2.653m/5.918m = 44.8%], Panama [0.172m/3.235m = 5.3%], Philippines [9.080m/82.809m = 11.0%], Puerto Rico [0.039m/3.915m = 1.0%], Somalia* [5.568m/10.742m = 51.8%], US Virgin Islands [0.003m/0.113m = 2.4%], Vietnam* [24.015m/83.585m = 28.7%], total = 82.193m/357.651m = 23.0%.

You can see that US imperialism comes at a very high price – 82 million excess deaths in subject countries in the period 1950-2005.

You can see how vital it is for human survival in these countries that the US and its surrogate terrorist accomplices (Ethiopia, Apartheid Israel, Apartheid Australia , the UK and NATO) depart from Occupied Haiti, Occupied Somalia, Occupied Palestine, Occupied Syria, Occupied Iraq , Occupied Diego Garcia and Occupied Afghanistan.

The US-imposed Palestinian Genocide, Iraqi Genocide and Afghan Genocide are associated (so far) with the following catastrophe: post-invasion non-violent excess deaths 0.3 million, 1.0 million and 3 million, respectively; post-invasion violent excess deaths 10,000, 1.3 million and up to 4 million, respectively; post-invasion non-violent and violent excess deaths 0.3 million, 2.3 million and 3-7 million, respectively; post-invasion under-5 infant deaths 0.2 million, 0.6 million and 2.3 million, respectively; refugees totalling 7 million, 5-6 million and 3-4 million, respectively, with a further 2.5 million Pashtun refugees generated under Obama from the NW Province of Pakistan in the last 6 months alone.

Yet the killing continues. The “annual death rate” is 7.0% for Occupied Afghan under-5 year old infants as compared to 2.9% for inmates of the Nazi German Buchenwald Concentration Camp and 10.1% for Australian prisoners of war of the Japanese in World War 2 (for which crime Japanese generals were tried and hanged). .

The fundamental reason for this carnage is simple – the World Health Organization (WHO; see: http://www.who.int/countries/en/ ) informs that the “total annual per capita medical expenditure” permitted by the US Alliance Occupiers in Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan is currently $124 and $29, respectively, as compared to $6,714 in Occupier US. The US Alliance countries are grossly violating the Geneva Convention which demands that an Occupier must supply life-sustaining food and medical supplies “to the fullest extent of the means available to it” (see Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War: http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/92.htm ).

An even more shocking testament is the answer to the anti-war chant “Hey, hey, USA, how many kids did you kill today?” – the answer for the US under Obama in 2009 is ONE THOUSAND (1,000) (see: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?ar... ).

On the 4th of July America is celebrating Independence Day – but when will Occupied Haiti, Occupied Somalia, Occupied Palestine, Occupied Syria, Occupied Iraq , Occupied Diego Garcia and Occupied Afghanistan get their Independence from the murderous, racist, genocidal, war criminal US and its compliantly genocidal allies?