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.

Wasting Money on Ineffective Programs or Legislation
Corruption in US Border Patrol Agency
Trump Administration Paid Firm Nearly $14 Million For Just 2 New Recruits
Americans Have Spent Enough Money On A Broken Plane To Buy Every Homeless Person A Mansion
Deceptive Pentagon Math Tries to Obscure $100 Million+ Price Tag for F-35s
(Related to the War on Drugs) Man kept in a San Diego Drug Enforcement Administration holding cell, forgotten for four days without food or water (Alternate Source)
Mismanagement, Disproportionate Arrests in War on Drugs
Policing for Profit: The Drug War’s Hidden Economic Agenda
Science and the End of Marijuana Prohibition
Reforming The Criminal Justice System for the 21st Century
The DEA: Four Decades of Impeding And Rejecting Science
Feds Raid 11 Medical Marijuana Clinics
Santa Cruz officials fume over medical pot club bust / DEA arrests founders, confiscates plants
The FED, despite being created to stop recessions, failed to prevent or adequately rebound from the Great Depression (Scholarly Article)
The Federal Reserve’s Framers Would Be Shocked
The Great Contraction, 1929-1933 by Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz
The Mystery of Banking by Murray Rothbard
A lonely voice against the Fed now leads a chorus
Monetary Central Planning and the State
The Fed and the Crisis: A Reply to Ben Bernanke
Did the Fed Cause the Housing Bubble?
How the Fed helped cause the housing bubble and financial crisis
The Case Against the FED by Murray Rothbard
Did a Group Financed by Exxon Prompt IRS to Audit Greenpeace?
IRS Has Long History of Political Dirty Tricks
Congress Says DHS Oversaw $15 Billion in Failed Contracts
Who’s running dozens of top-secret unpatched databases? The Dept of Homeland Security
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is the Worst Landlord
Leader of H.U.D. Assesses It Harshly
Introduction to the Israel Lobby
Israel Has Reached Childhood’s End — It’s Time to End U.S. Aid to Israel (Alternate)
The Complete Unexpurgated AIPAC Tape
The dark roots of AIPAC, ‘America’s Pro-Israel Lobby’
David or Goliath? The Israel Lobby and Its Critics
The Best Congress AIPAC Can Buy
US tiptoes between terror, Castro’s policies
Trump Trade War Triggering $1.9 Billion Plunge In Farm Exports: USDA
PRO-ISRAEL LOBBY CAUGHT ON TAPE BOASTING THAT ITS MONEY INFLUENCES WASHINGTON
FEMA paid for at least 203 funerals not related to 2004 hurricanes
FEMA gave $21 million in Miami-Dade, where storms were ‘like a severe thunderstorm‘

Wasteful Military Adventurism
President Obama Secretly Approved Transfer of Bunker-Buster Bombs to Israel
On America’s Role as an Unbiased Broker Between Israel and Palestine
How the US lost billions over nine years in Iraq
When presidents lie to make a war
The Gulf Of Tonkin Incident: The Lie That Sparked The Vietnam War
The Iraq War and WMDs: An intelligence failure or White House spin?
Lie by Lie: A Timeline of How We Got Into Iraq
16 Years Later, How the Press That Sold the Iraq War Got Away With It
LIE AFTER LIE: WHAT COLIN POWELL KNEW ABOUT IRAQ 15 YEARS AGO AND WHAT HE TOLD THE U.N.
Over $8B of the Money You Spent Rebuilding Iraq Was Wasted Outright
WASTE, FRAUD AND ABUSE COMMONPLACE IN IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION EFFORT
Most Veterans Say America’s Wars Are a Waste. No One’s Listening to Them.
Billions Spent and a Million Dead: The Iran-Iraq War Was An Enormous Waste Of Everything
Report: More Than $30 Billion Wasted in Iraq, Afghanistan Wars
The Pentagon’s Bottomless Money Pit
It’s Time to Stop Our Wasteful Military Spending
The Disturbing Ways We Waste Money Our Military Budget
Overspending on the Pentagon Won’t Make Us Safer
The 10 Most Blatantly Wasteful Defense Items In The Recent $1.8 Trillion Spending Bill
Waste, Greed, and Fraud: The Business that Makes the World’s Greatest Army
Pentagon buries evidence of $125 billion in bureaucratic waste
Why Opposing the Israel Lobby Is No Longer Political Suicide
Netanyahu Has Been Rewarded for Blatantly Disrespecting the U.S. and the United Nations
Netanyahu’s speech wasn’t just bad politics – it was unconstitutional
How Netanyahu’s speech to Congress has jeopardised US-Israel relations
Israel: Second F-35 deal is in the cards
Where Is U.S. Foreign Policy Headed?
Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower
The American Warfare State: The Domestic Politics of Military Spending
Putting Terrorism in Context: Lessons from the Global Terrorism Database
The Central Intelligence Agency: Security Under Scrutiny
Bombing of Cuban Jetliner 30 Years Later
Smokescreen: The US, NATO and the Illegitimate Use of Force
The Central Intelligence Agency: Security Under Scrutiny
Colombian Paramilitaries and the United States: “Unraveling the Pepes Tangled Web”
Colombian Armed Forces Directive No. 200-05/91
the Colombian military had embarked on a new relationship with the U.S. military, eager to confront the communist threat to the south (Continuation)
Guerrillas, Bandits, and Independent Republics: US Counter-insurgency Efforts in Colombia 1959-1965
Supreme Court denies cert in el-Masri rendition case
PETITION ALLEGING VIOLATIONS OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF KHALED EL-MASRI BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Renditions: Constraints Imposed by Laws on Torture
US turned blind eye to torture
Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower
The Dark Shadow of Agent Orange
Vietnam’s horrific legacy: The children of Agent Orange
The Sword & The Dollar: Imperialism, Revolution & the Arms Race
The Senate Committee’s Report on the C.I.A.’s Use of Torture
Red Cross Report on Guantanamo
Medical Ethics Lapses Cited in Interrogations
Experiments in Torture: Medical Group Accuses CIA of Carrying Out Illegal Human Experimentation
Medics performed ‘interrogation research’
Cries From the Past: Torture’s Ugly Echoes
Exploiting Veterans for Profit
Killing of Americans Deepens Debate Over Use of Drone Strikes
ACLU & CCR LAWSUIT: AMERICAN BOY KILLED BY U.S. DRONE STRIKE
Obama’s Weak Defense of His Record on Drone Killings
The U.S. keeps killing Americans in drone strikes, mostly by accident
Obama Killed a 16-Year-Old American in Yemen. Trump Just Killed His 8-Year-Old Sister.
White House Says ‘No American Citizen Will Ever Be Targeted’ After 8-Year-Old Girl Dies in Yemen

Crony Capitalism (# EpsteinDidntKillHimself)
Paradise Papers: Secrets of the Global Elite
What are the Paradise Papers and what do they tell us?
Paradise papers: a special investigation
Paradise Papers: Everything you need to know about the leak
Paradise Papers Shine Light on Where the Elite Keep Their Money
The Panama Papers: Exposing the Rogue Offshore Finance Industry
What are the Panama Papers? A guide to history’s biggest data leak
Panama Papers Q&A: What is the scandal about?
Nestlé Pays Only $200 to Take 130 Million Gallons of Michigan’s Water
GOP rejects bill to give back pay to federal contractors, wants to repeal estate tax instead
This Infographic Shows How Only 10 Companies Own All The World’s Food Brands
Why a Full-Blown Banking Crisis Is Inevitable
Gap between rich and poor growing, fueling global anger
The top 26 billionaires own $1.4 trillion — as much as 3.8 billion other people
The Trump Tax Cut: Even Worse Than You’ve Heard
World’s wealthiest ‘deserve heavy taxes’ if they fail to make capitalism more inclusive
Having a ‘good’ job in America no longer makes you financially secure
Amazon Will Pay a Whopping $0 in Federal Taxes on $11.2 Billion Profits
One year after the tax cuts, the market is worse and the economy is a mixed bag
Rich People Broke America and Never Paid the Price
Gig economy could be dragging down wages for everyone — even those with regular employment
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Major Study Finds the US is an Oligarchy
FCC accused of colluding with Big Cable to game 5G legal challenge
Mitch McConnell BUSTED Helping Donors Get Contracts From His Wife
FCC Says Gutting ISP Oversight Was Great For Broadband
Former Trump Officials Are Supposed to Avoid Lobbying. Except 33 Haven’t.
Why Amazon is a ‘bully’ and Facebook and Google are ‘the enemies of independent thought’
Last-Minute Push to Restore Net Neutrality Stymied by Democrats Flush With Telecom Cash
Billionaires Flooded Republicans’ Coffers Just Before the Tax Cuts Passed
Terabytes of Enron data have quietly gone missing from the Department of Energy
House Democrats Who Haven’t Supported Net Neutrality Yet Have All Taken Money from Telecoms
Trump Tax Cuts Are (Probably) About to Become a Political Disaster
Capitalism is Dangerous for Your Mental Health
It was the Democrats’ embrace of neoliberalism that won it for Trump
It’s Official: The Trump Tax Cuts Didn’t Pay for Themselves in Year One
11 Million Taxpayers Losing $323 Billion In Deductions In Trump Tax Hit
The Government’s Elite and Regulatory Capture
Affirmative Action Lands in the Air Traffic Control Tower
2 Paths of Bayer Drug in 80’s: Riskier One Steered Overseas
Ousted F.D.A. Chief Charges ‘Pressure’ From Drug Industry
Panel: FDA needs more power, funds
Preemie outrage: Cost of drug that prevents premature birth to rise from $10 to $1500
The Case Against The Drug Industry’s R&D “Scare Card”
Some raising red flag over use of gas to keep meat in the pink
Why is the CEO of Merck leading the sex-abuse investigation at Penn State?
NEW BIPARTISAN DEAL ALLOWS DRUG COMPANIES TO REAP HUGE BENEFITS
American Red Cross Dogged by Allegations of Discrimination
Facebook labelled ‘digital gangsters’ by report on fake news
Fox News tells Americans to stop complaining about their shrunken tax refunds
Nearly all the GOP candidates bow down to Grover Norquist
The Pledge: Grover Norquist’s hold on the GOP
Republican Party Asks Candidates to Sign Loyalty Pledge
President ‘ordered murder’ of Congo leader
Opening the Secret Files on Lumumba’s Murder
Net neutrality: ‘Dead people’ signing FCC consultation
FCC Chair Ajit Pai Admits Millions of Russian and Fake Comments Distorted Net Neutrality Repeal
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Mocks Net Neutrality Advocates With Cringeworthy Video
Watch FCC’s Ajit Pai dress up as Santa and wield a lightsaber to mock net neutrality rules
The FCC’s Ajit Pai now openly mocking net neutrality protesters with his dumb new video
We need a new trust-busting movement in America
Trust Busting the Tech Giants?
Disney acquiring Fox means big, scary things for film and TV
EVERY COMPANY DISNEY OWNS: A MAP OF DISNEY’S WORLDWIDE ASSETS
AT&T and Time Warner Merger Case: What You Need to Know
U.S. Loses Appeal Seeking to Block AT&T-Time Warner Merger
THE COURT’S DECISION TO LET AT&T AND TIME WARNER MERGE IS RIDICULOUSLY BAD
Nestle takes water from California forest
The fight to stop Nestlé from taking America’s water to sell in plastic bottles
Nestlé is still taking national forest water for its Arrowhead label, with feds’ help
Nestlé Offered Permit To Continue Taking Water From California Watershed
How Nestlé Gets Away With Pumping California’s Water for Next to Nothing
Among 41 countries, only U.S. lacks paid parental leave
Maternity leave: US policy is worst on list of the world’s richest countries
Countries Around The World Beat The U.S. On Paid Parental Leave
The world’s richest countries guarantee mothers more than a year of paid maternity leave. The U.S. guarantees them nothing.

Alienating Our Allies Abroad
Trump rebuked by Macron over Syria troop withdrawal: ‘An ally should be dependable’
Border Patrol shooting of Mexican teen draws condemnation
San Diego judge poised to approve $1 million settlement in border death case
US Border Patrol shooting (new video) threatens Mexico drug war cooperation
Mexico urges US probe of border deaths
Bolivia’s Morales insists no return for US drug agency
Putting the UN Veto in Perspective
Once Upon a Time, America Supported Palestinians
President Donald J. Trump’s Proclamation on Jerusalem as the Capital of the State of Israel
Effect of AIPAC Lobby on America’s Foreign Policy towards the Islamic Republic of Iran
Why the US has the most pro-Israel foreign policy in the world
Ten reasons why AIPAC is so dangerous
What Ilhan Omar Said About AIPAC Was Right
Saudi airstrikes in Yemen violate laws of war, rights group says
Castles Made of Sand: A Century of Anglo-American Espionage and Intervention in the Middle East
Obama’s intelligence pick linked to Saudi Arabia
SAUDI ARABIA CONTINUES HIRING SPREE OF LOBBYISTS, RETAINS FORMER WASHINGTON POST REPORTER
AS TRUMP TRAVELS TO SAUDI ARABIA, THE KINGDOM’S D.C. LOBBYING SURGE IS PAYING OFF
Two Senior AIPAC Employees Ousted
Defense Analyst Guilty in Israeli Espionage Case
Why was the Trump administration so eager to give nuclear technology to the reckless Saudi regime?
European court rejects Polish appeal in CIA jail case
Court Censures Poland Over C.I.A. Renditions
Reagan’s Pro-Contra Propaganda Machine
Castro Foe Puts U.S. in an Awkward Spot
The Bush dynasty and the Cuban criminals
Orlando Bosch: CIA-backed Cuban exile implicated in numerous anti-Castro terrorist operations
Terrorists ‘helped by CIA’ to stop rise of left in Italy
The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability
Three jailed for 1969 Milan bomb
US ‘supported anti-left terror in Italy’
1969: Deadly bomb blasts in Italy
The Declassified Record of Ambassador Otto Juan Reich
The Oliver North File: His Diaries, E-Mail, and Memos on the Kerry Report, Contras and Drugs
The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations
A BOMBER’S TALE: Decades of Intrigue; Life in the Shadows, Trying to Bring Down Castro
Orlando Bosch: CIA-backed Cuban exile implicated in numerous anti-Castro terrorist operations
Mexico requests ‘full investigation’ after US tear-gas incident
Third migrant dies in Border Patrol custody in as many months
Iran slams ‘hypocrisy’ of US-Saudi nuclear plans
Two-Thirds of Americans Oppose Trump’s Withdrawal From Nuclear Pact
Ex-NATO commander: Allies wondering if Trump was blackmailed to pull troops out of Syria
UN calls for Guantánamo Bay to close
In Moscow, U.S. Hushes Walls That Have Ears
Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations
Zakaria: New American Foreign Policy
Turning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace
Mexico border wall: US states sue over emergency declaration
Top general on details of Trump’s withdrawal plans: “I have no idea”
CIA documents acknowledge its role in Iran’s 1953 coup
How The CIA Overthrew Iran’s Democracy In 4 Days
64 Years Later, CIA Finally Releases Details of Iranian Coup
CIA admits role in 1953 Iranian coup
Panama invasion: The US operation that ousted Noriega
How Our 1989 Invasion of Panama Explains the Current US Foreign Policy Mess
The truth behind US’ Operation Just Cause in Panama

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