The title says it all. Similar to the earlier entry where I cataloged various instances of Police Brutality, here’s a collection of the US Government’s major crimes, abdications of duty and harmful policies towards the citizens of this and other countries. This project will serve as a companion piece to the earlier Declaration of Grievances Against the United States Government, as proof such a rebuke is valid.
I admit that my efforts here amounted to a somewhat less than fully comprehensive list; the scale of US atrocities is so large that no one person could compile all of them. I also acknowledge that the grouping and classification of the materials can absolutely be improved upon for ease of browsing. Please keep in mind that this is still a rough draft, and for this first step in the process, my focus was to collect as many sources as possible. That alone was a herculean task, as was tediously copying every article’s title and URL to make clickable links. My thinking is, either I could have held off on posting this collection until it was absolutely 100% perfect and orderly, which would probably take the better part of 6 months to a year. In that scenario, either the endeavor becomes an albatross around my neck, preventing me from enjoying any other projects because I feel I have to complete it ASAP, or I continuously put it off to focus on articles that are more enjoyable to work on, and thus the process takes much longer. At least by publishing my work as I go, the ongoing project, flawed though it might be in the meantime, might at least provide readers with a good idea of the scope and severity of our nation’s troubles.
This will be an ongoing project as I find more information to share, and if you have any stories you know I missed, feel free to share them in the comments or via email. Part one will constitute failures to ensure the well-being of the American people, infrastructure and land. Part two will be comprised of corruption/incompetent waste in various agencies, legislation, crony capitalism and foreign adventurism. Part three shall explore the fundamental breakdown of civility, constitutional norms and wrongdoing from unelected agencies. The notations underneath each embedded flag, including the cover images, link to articles dealing with historical discrimination against racial minorities.
There will be a redundancy of information in many articles included with this series. This is to safeguard against articles getting taken down or skepticism levied against any particular source.
Dereliction of Duty to the Poor and Middle Class
Americans Have Lost Faith In Their Ability To Move From Poverty To Riches
The government shutdown spotlights a bigger issue: 78% of US workers live paycheck to paycheck
Older Job Applicants Not Protected By Age Bias Law, Says U.S. Appeals Court
Fox News Hosts Are Horrified to Learn Their Own Polls Show People Want to Tax the Rich
Public-school salaries fall short of average in nearly every state
40% of Americans can’t cover a $400 emergency expense
The richest 1% own 50% of stocks held by American households
The 3 Richest Americans Hold More Wealth Than Bottom 50% Of The Country, Study Finds
Taxing the rich is very popular; it’s Republicans who have the radical position
Seven reasons to worry about the American middle class
Almost half of U.S. heart disease patients struggle with medical bills
A minimum-wage worker needs 2.5 full-time jobs to afford a one-bedroom apartment in most of the US
The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities
America’s 1% hasn’t had this much wealth since just before the Great Depression
U.S. Is a Rich Country With Symptoms of a Developing Nation
The Golden Age of Rich People Not Paying Their Taxes
A record 7 million Americans are 3 months behind on their car payments, a red flag for the economy
If it weren’t for the estate tax, the majority of the superwealthy’s money would never be taxed
2 millionaire senators introduce plan to make sure Congress is only for the rich
Study Shows Richest 0.00025% Owns More Wealth Than Bottom 150 Million Americans
Denver is so expensive that teachers have to get creative to make ends meet
Billionaires haven’t earned all they have
Government shutdown exposes a harsh truth: Most Americans are unprepared for the next recession
40% of Americans only one missed paycheck away from poverty
Forget philanthropy. The super-rich should be paying proper taxes
Unemployment is low only because ‘involuntary’ part-time work is high
Politicians have caused a pay ‘collapse’ for the bottom 90 percent of workers, researchers say
Ross: ‘I don’t quite understand’ why federal workers need food banks during shutdown
The Shrinking Middle Class: By the Numbers
McCarthy: Yeah, We Tried to Kill Protections for Preexisting Conditions
Senator Sanders asks why drug, once free, now costs $375k
Why record job growth in America hides a troubling reality
Dereliction of Duty to Civil Liberties
Trump admin cuts off Planned Parenthood from federal family planning funding
Brett Kavanaugh Is Already Done Pretending He Respects Abortion Rights
U.S. Placed Immigrant Children With Traffickers, Report Says
Federal Agencies Lost Track of Nearly 1,500 Migrant Children Placed With Sponsors
Trump Moves to Deport Vietnam War Refugees
The Chemist’s War (Poisoning Alcohol During Prohibition)
The Secret Operation To Bring Nazi Scientists America
US Navy tested mustard gas on its own sailors
Cold War Research Study Exposed Cincinnati to radiation
Radiation Project Head Defends Experiments on Cancer Patients
Plutonium Files: How the U.S. Secretly Fed Radioactivity to Thousands of Americans
The Human Plutonium Injection Experiments
Operation Fast and Furious Fast Facts
Operation ‘Fast and Furious’ investigation
Full Coverage: ATF’s Fast and Furious scandal
Eric Holder slammed for ‘Fast and Furious’ obstruction
“My daughter is not the same”: Families separated at the border are seeking millions in damages
Trump Admin Says It’s Too Hard To Reunite Thousands Of Separated Families: Court Filing
ICE Force-Feeds Detainees Who Are on Hunger Strike
Leaked Memo Reveals Trump Administration’s “Immoral” Plan to “Traumatize” Migrant Children
Deported parents may lose kids to adoption, investigation finds
7-year-old migrant girl taken into Border Patrol custody dies of dehydration, exhaustion
Previously secret torture memo released
Anti-Torture Protesters Arrested In Droves Outside White House
62 Arrested at White House Protest
The Strange Career of Leo Stanley: Remaking Manhood and Medicine at San Quentin State Penitentiary, 1913–1951 (Alternate Source)
The ‘Father of Modern Gynecology’ Performed Shocking Experiments on Slaves (Alternate Source)
Human Radiation Experiment Records
US Human Experiments Uncovered
Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War
About the USPHS Syphilis Study
US says sorry for ‘outrageous and abhorrent’ Guatemalan syphilis tests
US sorry over deliberate sex infections in Guatemala
U.S. apologizes for newly revealed syphilis experiments done in Guatemala
How the U.S. Government Exposed Thousands of Americans to Lethal Bacteria to Test Biological Warfare
Johns Hopkins Univ. Faces $1 Billion Lawsuit Over STD Study
13 Instances Of Unethical Human Experimentation Performed In The United States
Remembering an Infamous New York Institution
The Hepatitis Experiments at the Willowbrook State School
Were Tuskegee & Willowbrook ‘Studies in Nature’?
Willowbrook Hepatitis Experiments
1952–1964: Chester M. Southam, MD, injected live cancer cells into 14 patients and healthy convicts
Many Scientific Experts Condemn Ethics of Cancer Injection
1962: Dr. Chester Southam injected live cancer cells into 22 elderly patients
Did the CIA’s LSD mind control programme MKUltra cause a top scientist’s death?
Six decades later, sons seek answers on death of Detrick scientist
The horrifying letter in which a scientist “confessed” to murder
The Complicated Relationship Between Puerto Rico And U.S. Mainland
HEALTH: Puerto Ricans Outraged Over Secret Medical Experiments
“Porto Ricochet”: Joking about Germs, Cancer, and Race Extermination in the 1930s
Scientist Frank Olson was drugged with LSD and ‘murdered by CIA’
The true story behind a CIA scientist’s mysterious death
A Virus’s Debut in a Doctor’s Syringe
Experimentation on Human Beings
Attack Of The Killer Mosquitoes
The Role of Insects as Biological Weapons
Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War
Toxicologic Assessment of the Army’s Zinc Cadmium Sulfide Dispersion Tests
UNITED STATES ARMY BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES FORT DETRICK
U.S. Army tested biological weapons in Okinawa
Reasonable Investigation for Service Members, and Estimated Civilian Personnel Potentially Exposed
US Biological Warfare Programs
Researchers tested pot, LSD on Army volunteers
Edgewood Arsenal Chemical Agent Exposure Studies 1955 – 1975
VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA v. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Assessing Health Outcomes Among Veterans of Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense)
About Project 112 and Project SHAD
Exposure through Project 112 or Project SHAD
UNITED STATES ET AL. v. STANLEY
Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans
SUMMARY OF MAJOR EVENTS and PROBLEMS United States Army Chemical Corps
The prisoner as model organism: malaria research at Stateville Penitentiary
They were cheap and available: prisoners as research subjects in twentieth century America
Biological Agents Tested on NYC Subway
1966: Bacillus Globigii released into New York subway tunnels
LONG-TERM HEALTH EFFECTS OF PARTICIPATION IN PROJECT SHAD (SHIPBOARD HAZARD AND DEFENSE)
Clouds of Secrecy: The Army’s Germ Warfare Tests Over Populated Areas
JUDGE’S DECISION EXPECTED SOON IN CALIFORNIA GERM WARFRE CASE
The Biology of Doom: America’s Secret Germ Warfare Project
How the U.S. Government Tested Biological Warfare on America
Of Microbes and Mock Attacks: Years Ago, The Military Sprayed Germs on U.S. Cities
A Dark Chapter In Medical History
PROJECT SUNSHINE AND THE SLIPPERY SLOPE
In 1950’s, U.S. Collected Human Tissue to Monitor Atomic Tests
Stillborn Babies Used In ’50s Radiation Test
Nasal Radium Irradiation of Children Has Health Fallout
The Plutonium Files: America’s Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War
The Human Plutonium Injection Experiments
USE OF VOLUNTEERS IN CHEMICAL AGENT RESEARCH (1975)
The volunteers who didn’t–Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans
Cold War Nonconsensual Experiments: The Threat of Neuroweapons and the Danger it will happen again
The Plutonium Files: America’s Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War
World Wakes Up to Horrific Scientific History
SKULDUGGERY USED TO COLLECT HUMAN TISSUE FOR FALLOUT TESTS
Independent Review Group on Retention of Organs at Post-mortem: Report on Strontium-90 Research
A journalist chronicles America’s secret medical experiments.
the Human Radiation Experiments
The Human Plutonium Injection Experiments
300 former prisoners filed a civil suit for carrying out experiments on them between 1961 and 1974
Acres of Skin—Human experiments At Holmesburg Prison
DIOXIN TESTS CONDUCTED IN 60’S ON 70 PHILADELPHIA INMATES, NOW UNKNOWN
I Swear by Apollo: Dr. Ewen Cameron and the CIA-brainwashing Experiments
Robert G. Heath, 84, Researcher Into the Causes of Schizophrenia
Robert Heath Louisiana State Penitentiary Experiments (Additional Source)
The 1970s “gay-cure” experiments written out of scientific history
Dr. Robert G. Heath: a controversial figure in the history of deep brain stimulation
Here’s a List of the Most Horrifying U.S. Government Experiments
Unethical human experimentation in the United States
US scientists ‘knew Guatemala syphilis tests unethical’
Dark past of deep-brain stimulation
PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS USED IN CAL EFFORT TO CONTROL BEHAVIOR
Albert Kligman’s Agent Orange Experiments
Subjected to Medical Experimentation
Nazi-Style Medical Experimentation w/ Child Subjects in the US
NYC’s forgotten cancer scandal
Experimental Blood Substitutes Unsafe, Study Finds
Cheaper than Chimpanzees: Expanding the Use of Prisoners in Medical Experiments
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
The Deadly Corruption of Clinical Trials
Panel Finds Wide Debate in 40’s On the Ethics of Radiation Tests
Operation Crossroads: Fact Sheet
Experimentation Programs by the Dept of Defense
Florida Dengue Fever Outbreak Leads Back to CIA and Army Experiments
In the Name of Science: A History of Secret Programs, Medical Research, and Human Experimentation
U.S. to slash payouts from 9/11 victims fund
Is Religious Freedom for Christians Only?
The Dark History of Forced Sterilization of Latina Women
35% of Puerto Rican Women Sterilized
The Role of Sterilization in Controlling Puerto Rican Fertility
The Horrific Sand Creek Massacre Will Be Forgotten No More
Dereliction of Duty to Infrastructure/Sustainability
Millions of Americans Flood Into Mexico for Health Care — the Human Caravan You Haven’t Heard About
Puerto Rico Gov: Trump refuses meeting over hurricane relief
Postal Service feared Trump’s rhetoric could cost it billions in Amazon business, documents reveal
No Park Rangers or Food Inspections – But Government Reopens for Oil and Gas
Trump tried to illegally withhold disaster relief money from Puerto Rico
Millennials’ pay still stunted by the 2008 financial crash
Competition Is Ruining Childhood. The Kids Should Fight Back.
U.S. Student Debt in ‘Serious Delinquency’ Tops $166 Billion
The student loan crisis is really an underemployment catastrophe
Young People Are Doomed by Student Loans, Not the National Debt
Millennials’ pay ‘scarred’ by the 2008 banking crisis
The infrastructural humiliation of America
The CBO Expects the National Debt Expense to Overtake Military Spending
Study: Illicit opioid deaths to rise by 147 percent by 2025
Palm oil politics: corporate effects on health
Corporations Don’t Have to Maximize Profits
Brain researchers warn that lack of sleep is a public-health crisis
Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work?
Michael Moore’s tough words for liberals: ‘You weren’t paying attention to your fellow Americans’
Team Bernie: Hillary ‘F*cking Ignored’ Us in Swing States
Taken for a Ride – The U.S. History of the Assault on Public Transport in the Last Century
America desperately needs fiber internet, and the tech giants won’t save us
Fed Chairman Powell says he is ‘very worried’ about growing amount of US debt
Poll: Americans want Congress to reduce student debt, improve K-12 funding
Poll: 68 percent of Americans support a national health plan
Opioid overdose deaths triple among US teens and young children
‘Dropout’ rate for academic scientists has risen sharply in past 50 years, IU study finds
Millennials Didn’t Kill the Economy. The Economy Killed Millennials.
GOP plan aims to take student loan payments from paychecks
How High-Interest Loans to Desperate People Built a $90 Billion Industry
AMERICANS ARE LONELY—AND IT’S AFFECTING OUR HEALTH
Capitalism May Be The Real Thing, But It Might Need To Evolve
House Republicans Would Let Employers Demand Workers’ Genetic Test Results
Pepsi Plans to Project a Giant Ad in the Night Sky Using Cubesats
In an age of robots, schools are teaching our children to be redundant
Rise in referrals to social services causing trauma to families, expert says
How capitalism destroyed your family – and why it doesn’t matter
THE GROWING CONUNDRUM FACING CENTRAL BANKERS
FEMA has yet to authorize full disaster help for Puerto Rico
Why FEMA Fakes it With the Press
FEMA gives away $85 million of supplies for Katrina victims
FEMA To Melt Ice Stored Since Katrina
THE SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF NEW DRUG APPROVAL
The Political Economy Of FDA Drug Review: Processing, Politics, And Lessons For Policy
FDA Probes Link Between Food Dyes, Kids’ Behavior
The Truth About Yellow Dye No. 5
Food Doesn’t Have to Wear Makeup
CSPI Says Food Dyes Pose Rainbow of Risks
FDA Incapable of Protecting U.S., Scientist Alleges
Vioxx Caused 88,000 to 140,000 Cases of Serious Heart Disease
FDA Scientist Says He Faces Retaliation
Testimony of David J. Graham regarding Vioxx, MD, MPH, November 18, 2004
The Interview: DAVID GRAHAM, FDA – WHISTLEBLOWER; Drug tsar who took on the system
Approval times for new drugs: does the source of funding for FDA staff matter?
FDA Scientists Ask Obama to Restructure Drug Agency
FDA on Medical Marijuana: Science or Politics?
FDA Statement on Antibiotics Overuse in Livestock Lacks Meat
Microsoft says discovers hacking targeting democratic institutions in Europe
Farm bankruptcies surpass Great Recession levels in upper Midwest
Universal healthcare could save America trillions: what’s holding us back?
U.S. budget deficit spikes 42% in first three months of fiscal year
Why are millennials burned out? Capitalism.
Citing $750 Million Tax Break for Amazon While Students Suffer, Teachers Walk Out in Virginia
Virginia students learn in trailers while state offers Amazon huge tax breaks
Unpaid federal workers owe more than $400 million in mortgage and rent payments this month
McConnell blocks bill to reopen most of government
Government workers are sharing their #shutdownstories on social media. They’re grim.
$3.5 Trillion on Healthcare Each Year and We’re Still Uninsured, Underinsured, and Unhappy
How the VA Fueled the National Opioid Crisis and Is Killing Thousands of Veterans
Measles is back because states give parents too many ways to avoid vaccines
Record Numbers of Americans Want to Leave the U.S.
Trump denied a trans woman asylum & deported her. She was killed when she returned.
Trump held government workers hostage for a month — and walked away with nothing
RESEARCH SUGGESTS TRUMP’S ELECTION HAS BEEN DETRIMENTAL TO MANY AMERICANS’ MENTAL HEALTH
Attacking the Black–White Opportunity Gap That Comes from Residential Segregation
Racial profiling has destroyed public trust in police. Cops are exploiting our weak laws against it.
Two-thirds of black Americans don’t trust the police to treat them equally. Most white Americans do.
An Unjust Burden: The Disparate Treatment of Black Americans in the Criminal Justice System
US budget deficit soars to $3tn record
Paul Ryan Leaves Behind Big Budget Deficits and Ballooning Debt
Republicans’ hypocrisy on the US deficit is stunning, even in Washington
We Have Crossed the Line Debt Hawks Warned Us About for Decades
The U.S. budget deficit is rising amid COVID-19, but public concern about it is falling
U.S. deficit triples in 2020 to highest percentage of GDP since WWII
Five years on, the Flint water crisis is nowhere near over
Flint Water Crisis: Everything You Need to Know
Lead-Laced Water In Flint: A Step-By-Step Look At The Makings Of A Crisis
The new McCarthyism: Bachmann claims Muslims are “infiltrating” government
A New McCarthyism Finds Champion in Trump
Trumpism Is the New McCarthyism
The McCarthyism of Donald Trump
Bachmann, West and the Rebirth of McCarthyism
Everything you need to know about the Fairness Doctrine in one post
How the Repeal of the Fairness Doctrine Gave Us Donald Trump
THE UNITED STATES HAS NOT RATIFIED THE UN CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
Why won’t the U.S. ratify the U.N.’s child rights treaty?
There’s Only One Country That Hasn’t Ratified the Convention on Children’s Rights: US
Deported parents may lose kids to adoption, investigation finds
Christian Non-Profit Faces Scrutiny Over Government Foster Care Contract for Separated Children
Top House Democrat challenges Betsy DeVos on migrant children’s education rights
Report: Missing Migrant Children Being Funneled Through Christian Adoption Agency
DeVos-Linked Adoption Agency Exposed Highly Sensitive Children’s Medical Data
America’s Education Problem and Why the Government is to Blame
How America Is Breaking Public Education
America’s schools are being left behind, but it doesn’t have to be this way.
U.S. prison population dwarfs that of other nations
Yes, U.S. locks people up at a higher rate than any other country
United States Still Has Highest Incarceration Rate in the World
The State of Homelessness in America
America’s Infrastructure Scores a D+
Reimagining infrastructure in the United States: How to build better
US infrastructure falling apart
U.S. infrastructure needs exceed $2 trillion, American Society of Civil Engineers says
Report Finds More Than 47,000 ‘Structurally Deficient’ Bridges In The U.S.
230,000 U.S. Bridges Need Repair, New Analysis of Federal Data Finds
Why America’s roads are so much more dangerous than Europe’s
Dereliction of Duty to the Environment
Environment in multiple crises – report
Plummeting insect numbers ‘threaten collapse of nature’
Scientists say Ocasio-Cortez’s dire climate warning is spot on
Humanity ‘Sleepwalking Towards the Edge of a Cliff’: 60% of Earth’s Wildlife Wiped Out Since 1970
Most Diverse Butterfly Center in the U.S. to be Bulldozed for Trump’s Border Wall
The Climate Apocalypse Is Now, and It’s Happening to You
Trump’s repeal of light bulb standards will increase pollution, cost billions
first climate change-caused mammal extinction
Poisoning America: The Devil we Know
The American West at Risk: Science, Myths, and Politics of Land Abuse and Recovery
Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism
Coexisting on Earth Homo sapiens Quagmire
Panama hopes U.S. will clean up chemical weapons it left on island
Why does the US have chemical weapons in Panama?
Serratia has dark history in region / Army test in 1950 may have changed microbial ecology
FDR’s New Deal faced similar backlash as Green New Deal, historian says
Historic Hurricane Harvey’s Recap
Texas Hurricane Harvey (DR-4332-TX)
A look at four storms from one brutal hurricane season
the Carbon Freeze 
Glad to see you finished this monumental project. I don’t have time to look at many of the sites now. But this should prove to be a value to researchers. Good Job Cassandra.
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