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October 10 is the anniversary of The Bombing of Kabul in 2001. A mere three days after the war began, the US had apparently run out of targets, so they began bombing the capital, as is their tradition. And as per usual, this was their largest airstrike to that point. Civilian targets are more fun apparently.

The attacks would of course continue over the following days/weeks. Hundreds of civilians were killed. Hospitals lost electricity. The Taliban offered to surrender bin Laden for trial in a third party country if the US regime stopped the bombing and provided proof of his guilt. Of course they wouldn't.

This was also the day that the US air force started ordering the usage of cluster bombs on Afghanistan. Between then and March of the following year, they would proceed to drop 1,228 of them. Causing plenty of indiscriminate deaths.

October 9 is the anniversary of Che Guevara's Execution in 1967. Having successfully won Cuba's independence from the USA, he was seeking to accomplish the same in Bolivia, in the hopes that the US wouldn't care so much about Bolivia. Unfortunately, the US was still shaken by the loss of Cuba, and took great interest in his whereabouts.

After a series of tactical and strategic errors, combined with some plain old bad luck, the CIA was alerted to his presence in Bolivia. Bolivia at the time was ruled by the brutal CIA backed dictator René Barrientos, immediately asked the US for support. They sent a special forces detachment to train the Bolivian Army, and drastically increased their own operations in Bolivia. Barrientos got to work killing miners in San Juan and Catavi.

More tactical errors and bad luck ensued. Che lost important paperwork to the CIA and lost several key personnel, including one captured alive, who talked. Che in his diary wrote:

the most important tasks are to escape and look for more propitious zones and to reestablish contacts, despite the fact that the whole apparatus is badly disjointed in La Paz, where they have also given us hard blows.

The writing was clearly on the wall. On October 8th, the Bolivian army finally caught up to him, and he was captured in the fighting. On the 9th, CIA operative Felix Rodriguez summarily executed him.

Barrientos ruled Bolivia for another year and a half, until he was finally killed in a helicopter crash. The USA still meddles in Bolivia's politics to this day

October 8 is the anniversary of The Days of Rage in 1969. During this event, about 800 youths banded together to attempt to force a stop to the Vietnam War via direct action. The illegal war was becoming increasingly unpopular as bodybags and the truth started to return from Vietnam.

Incensed that 2000 people were dying every day, and the US regime was not willing to listen to peaceful protests, they arranged a rally in Chicago, ready to fight the police. A few members of the members of The Chicago 8 also showed up to offer support.

The rally failed to attract the attention that they had hoped. About 800 people showed up on the first day. They rioted, and the militarized police tear gassed, shot at, and beat them. The uprising fizzled over the next two days. One protestor was left dead, and dozens injured. The police suffered no serious injuries.

The authoritarian regime continued to ignore the will of its people for another 6 years. Millions more would die. Peaceful protests continued to have little effect.

October 7 is the anniversary of The Invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. This was a long bloody war that would last for a generation. Consent for the war was manufactured the month before, arising out of the worst airplane related terrorist attack since the bombing of Cubana Flight 455.

Today is also the day that Obama apologised for a vicious attack on a hospital in 2015, two days before. It was a hollow gesture. Just two years later, the rules of engagement would be relaxed. The US secretary of defence said this:

You see some of the results of releasing our military from, for example, a proximity requirement — how close was the enemy to the Afghan or the U.S.-advised special forces... no longer the case, for example. So these kind of restrictions that did not allow us to employ the airpower fully have been removed, yes.

We did see the results. As would be expected, it made life even worse for the Afghan people. But it was thankfully just a case of the US getting as much murder in as they could before they would leave the country four years later.

The war has killed hundreds of thousands. 92% of the population are left hungry. Unexploded bombs litter the countryside. Two thirds of the population suffer mental health problems. The US has stolen their central bank reserve. The US failed every stated objective of their war. The list of US war crimes is long. The list of prosecutions is short.

October 6 is the anniversary of The Bombing of Cubana Flight 455 in 1976. Killing all 73 people on board, it was the most deadly terrorist attack on an airplane in the Americas until 2001, and it was performed by an agent of the CIA.

Luis Posada and fellow terrorist Orlando Bosch planned the attack. Luis Posada had a very long history with the CIA. An anti-Castro terrorist seemed like a good fit for them. They helped him set up a terrorist training camp in the 60s. He was involved with the Bay of Pigs invasion. He provided the CIA with assistance and intelligence all the way through the 80s.

In his free time, he would dabble in drug running, terrorism, and assassinations. The CIA would sometimes wave their finger at him, but mostly look the other way and cover up his crimes. Especially when the violence was towards Cuban officials. As such, they didn't do much when they heard that he was going to bomb a Cuban plane a few days before the attack.

After the attack, they did their best to cover up any association with the man. But two men by the names of Freddy Lugo and Hernan Lozano carried out the attack. They were quickly caught. They confessed, and gave up the names of the CIA stooge and his cohort, as well as their connection to the CIA. All four stood trial in Venezuela.

Lugo and Lozano served long prison sentences. Bosch got off on a technicality. Posada escaped from prison, and after a few more years of doing work in South America for the CIA, found his way back to the US. He was caught crossing the border illegaly in Texas. But unlike most, he was released and allowed to move to Florida. The US refused to extradite him to Cuba or Venezuela, because "he faced the threat of torture".

Both Bosch and Posada died of old age living free in Miami. Even after the US' much touted "War on Terror", terrorism is perfectly acceptable to the corrupt regime, so long as it's against citizens of "enemy" countries.

October 5th is the anniversary of the day that Chief Joseph Surrenders in 1877. Chief Joseph was a great chief of the Nez Perce tribe, who famously attempted to flee to Canada.

Originally from what is now Oregon, he was told by the US regime that he needed to move to a reservation in Idaho to make room for white settlers. He and his band of course refused. But eventually, the US grew impatient and forced him from his land at gunpoint. Knowing that a war would not be winnable, he went to Idaho to rejoin the rest of his tribe. The peace didn't last anyway. After the white people murdered an Indian, fighting openly broke out.

It was decided that the best way of protecting the tribe would be to leave the country, and seek safe harbour with one of the Canadian tribes. Still opposing the war, Chief Joseph was to lead the refugees, while other chiefs fought the battles. Chief Joseph's hopes for some sort of peace were ultimately dashed however, when the US military managed to catch up with them. The military attacked the refugee camp, killing 80 people, most of whom were women and children. However, Chief Joseph was able to save their horses from slaughter, allowing the survivors to continue their flight.

Going through land deemed impassable by the American death squads, they evaded capture and made it to Montana. But a mere 100km from the Canadian border, their struggle was put to an end. Starving, freezing, and surrounded by US troops, Chief Joseph had no choice but to surrender. In his famous speech, he had this to say:

"It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are — perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me my chiefs. I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever"

The US promised to return him to the reservation in Idaho. But ultimately they decided that upon seeing the state of their comrades, the remaining Nez Perce would be very upset. He and his followers were bounced along multiple reserves. Eventually landing in a small reserve in Washington, he lived the remainder of his life there. True to his word, he never went to war again. He never stopped begging the US regime to allow him to return home. They decided to allow him to make his case to the white settlers. He died in Washington. The physician who attended to him at his death said that he died of a broken heart.

October 4 is the anniversary of The Fort Wilson Riot in 1779. What actually happened on this day is confused and muddled through the lenses of history and propaganda. But I really wanted to talk about it today, as it was an important event in the history of class war in the USA.

What is clear is that there was a very large class divide in Philadelphia, a mere 3 years after the revolution. The political situation was divided. There were some who thought that any white man over the age of 21 who paid taxes should be able to vote. There were those who felt that only white male property owners should be able to vote. Inflation was growing out of control. James Wilson was an oligarch who had very recently managed to successfully defend the right of Philadelphia loyalists to own private property.

This was a tinderbox. It should come as no surprise that hungry people faced with political disenfranchisement would want to take it out on the ones deemed responsible. And with patriotic fervour running high, Wilson's successful defence of the loyalists was the catalyst for the riot.

So, the poor and the downtrodden rose up against their capitalist masters. They marched on Wilson's house, and a pretty good skirmish resulted. Reports indicate that even a cannon was used on the house. But in the end the cavalry showed up and dispersed the crowd, arresting those they could. The wealthy fled the city.

In sharp contrast to people of colour, the protestors on this day were issued pardons. However, they were framed as the villains in this scenario, and ultimately the events cost them their political power. It was seen as a "casual overflowing of liberty", thus providing justification for centralising political power once again amongst the oligarchs.

October 3 is the anniversary of The Hanging of Captain Jack in 1873. Captain Jack, whose real name was Kintpuash was a chief of the Modoc tribe, which lived in what is today Oregon. He led a reasonably successful resistance to the imperialist American invaders, and has the distinction of being the only chief executed for war crimes by the absurdly hypocritical regime.

Like all tribes, the US regime had relocated the Modoc people onto a reservation. Like many (including myself), he found life on the reservation to be unpalatable, and he and a number of men left the reserve and lived amongst white people in his former lands. Although well liked, some of the white settlers desired his land and pushed the government for his removal.

For the crime of returning home, the military was called to move him back to the reserve. Fighting broke out. After the initial skirmish and another battle that saw high losses for the imperialists, they sent in a peace commission. Knowing that a peaceful end wasn't really in the cards, they were put to death. This included a reverend and a US army general. The highest ranking officer to ever be killed by an Indian.

The US regime responded with overwhelming force, and Captain Jack's defences finally broke, and his men scattered. Eventually captured, the US regime, without a hint of irony, put him on trial for murder, in violation of the laws of war. Needless to say, it was not a fair trial, and several Modocs were executed.

His men were forced to relocate to Oklahoma. In 1954, the US regime took back the reservation and the treaty rights of the Modoc who did not leave the reserve. Although their treaty rights were regained in 1986, their reservation was never returned.

October 2 is the anniversary of the signing of The Treaty of Old Crossing in 1863. This day saw the Ojibwe people sell off all their land to the USA for a pittance.

White people in Minnesota were becoming increasingly upset at the presence of native people. The recent Dakota War, which I wrote about earlier, had put the fear into them. So at the request of the white settlers, the government stepped in to remove the Ojibwe people as well.

The negotiator they selected was Alexender Ramsey, the former governor of Minnesota during the Dakota war. During his time in office, he had oversaw the rounding up of Dakota into concentration camps, their mass executions, and he personally established a bounty on the scalp of every Dakota after the war.

So Ramsey came to the meeting with a gatling gun and negotiated with the local tribes for days at gunpoint. He presented the deal as payment of $20,000 to the tribes in order to secure safe passage through their lands. The tribes didn't see much point in refusing the deal, as they would take what they wanted anyway, and they would still get to keep their land.

Of course, once the treaty went to Washington, it was rewritten as a sale of the land. The US regime found other people to sign it, some of them not actually even native. The tribes were surprised to discover that their homes were now alloted for white people, and they were forced out of the state. Bishop Whipple, who acted as unpaid council for the tribes said it was "from beginning to end a fraud". He was powerless to stop it. The US considered the land rightfully theirs.

Today, Minnesota has a native population of less than 1%. The US courts have admitted that the land was stolen, but only agreed to pay a paltry $54m. The Red Lake Historical Society has this whitewashing to say about today's events:

Thus the Red Lake and Pembina bands of the Chippewa Indians ceded to the United States of America that most wonderful and fertile land that became known as the "bread and butter basket" of the nation, making it possible for thousands of families to acquire homes.

October 1 is the anniversary of [The Dedication of Mt. Rushmore] in 1925. Construction of the faces of the four war criminals started a few days later by the KKK affiliate Gutzon Borglum.

The mountain its constructed on was known to the Lakota as Six Grandfathers Mountain. It was the most sacred mountain in the sacred Black Hills, lying right in the middle. I've mentioned the Lakota previously in The Grattan Fight, and The Sell or Starve Act, which detailed how the Lakota lost possession of the Black Hills after the US found gold. They tore up the treaty and forcibly relocated the Lakota.

As originally pitched, the mountain was to feature known figures of the west, such as Lewis and Clark, and the Lakota chief Red Cloud. This would have still been unacceptable, but instead, it became a monument to Manifest Destiny and the very people who stole the land in the first place.

The Lakota are still demanding its return to this day. Even the corrupt US courts have ruled that the land was stolen, but only offered monetary compensation. The Lakota have been offered $1.3 billion, but are still no closer to reclaiming their land. American leaders have this to say on the matter:

Do you know it’s my dream to have my face on Mount Rushmore?

September 30 is the anniversary of The Elaine Massacre in 1919. This day marks the beginning of a series of events that would lead to the lynching of hundreds of black men.

It started with a union meeting of black sharecroppers, who hoped to get a fairer price for their cotton. Black farmers got substantially lower amounts for their goods than white farmers. White people were very concerned about this, especially given the recent communist rebellion in the Soviet Union. A car arrived outside during the meeting, and a gunfight ensued with the unions guards. One of the new arrivals, a white railroad policeman, was killed.

When news of this reached the local leaders, they declared it to be an insurrection, and gathered together a posse of hundreds of white men. Additional white men from nearby areas also joined in to fight the black "uprising". The governor requested the aid of the military.

So, the mob freely roamed the countryside killing every black person they encountered for the next day. The military arrived the following day, and joined the violence. But eventually they stopped, and started arresting black people instead. They arrested 285 people and held them and tortured them until their white employers could collect them. The governor praised the actions of the posse and the military. The media claimed that "Vicious blacks" were planning an uprising due to socialist agitators.

A dozen black men were convicted in show trials and sentenced to the electric chair. This scared 65 others to bargain for very long prison terms instead of a trial. The NAACP stepped in, and began litigating for the men. Eventually, they had success in saving their lives and reducing sentences for many of the men.

No white man was ever charged, and the narrative that the black men were evil socialists planning a revolution persisted for the next 80 years, and the black perspective of the events were completely ignored.

Hundreds dead, the media gloating, and the victims put on trial. What could be more American?

September 29 is the anniversary of The Meeker Incident in 1879. In this incident, an Indian Agent and his men were killed by the Ute people. The US then used this incident as an excuse to remove all the Ute people from their ancestral land in Colorado.

The problem arose because of the US policy of annihalating native culture and replacing their traditional style of life with one that matched their own. The Indian agent that they sent was a man named Nathan Meeker, a zealous Christian farmer, who took up the task eagerly. He set up shop on Ute land, and quickly began attempting to convert the tribe to Christianity and to teach them how to farm.

The Utes tolerated him for the most part, and even threw him a bone by half-heartedly doing some farming and listening to his preaching. But Meeker insisted upon total compliance, even going so far as to withhold supplies guaranteed by their treaty. The Ute people petitioned the US regime to please take him back, but to no avail.

Things eventually reached their boiling point when one of Meeker's attempted to plow a field that was used for feeding the tribe's horses. They drove him off with gunfire. Meeker called in the military, and on September 29, the ninth cavalry arrived. The battle was lost fairly quickly, with a loss of 23 Ute warriors, and 17 US soldiers.

When word got back to the village near Meeker's outpost, the Ute decided rid themselves of the hated man forever. They killed him and his men, set fire to his outpost, and kept his family as hostage, which they put to good use by using them to negotiate an end to the violence.

The media reported it as an unprovoked massacre of white people, and the racist governor used it as further evidence that "The Utes must go". The US unilaterally tore up their treaty, and forced the Utes away from their homelands into Utah, where they were given a significantly smaller reservation on worse land.

September 28 is the anniversary of The Opelousas Massacre in 1868. Like most massacres in the US, the violence was caused mostly by racism, but also the desire to suppress their political opponents.

In the summer of 1868, black people in Louisiana had used their newly won power to vote by voting for anti-slavery politicians. In response, the white men began forming vigilante groups that would roam the countryside and harass or lynch black people. The newspapers openly warned people to not vote for Republican candidates.

One newspaper reporter (Emerson Bentley) dared to write the truth about what had been happening in Louisiana. That was enough to kick off a whole new wave of murder. Bentley was beaten and left for dead. The other reporter at his newspaper was lynched and had is body put on display. Anyone with black skin faced summary execution. The newspapers gloated.

In the end, over 200 people lay dead at the hands of the white Americans. Most of them black, some of them sympathisers. Not a single vote was registered for the Republican party, as it had been made clear that doing so would incur the death penalty. No hearings or trials were ever held. American democracy was working as intended. Voter suppression continues to this day in Louisiana.

September 27 is the anniversary of the day that Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was first published in 1962. The book was a scathing report on the damage that pesticides were causing to the environment and collusion between the chemical oligarchs and government officials.

For four years, she had gathered research and data, and had each chapter peer reviewed by scientific experts. It carefully detailed how DDT would slowly work its way through the food chain, poisoning the entire chain. The book gets its title from a fictitious town where we did nothing about DDT, poisoning all the animals. No more birds, no more children.

The chemical companies attacked her accreditation, increased government lobbying, and attempted to reframe the book as calling for an outright ban on pesticides. Monsanto even went so far as to produce a parody booklet that described a desolate world without pesticides.

The government reacted immediately with all sorts of character assassination. The Secretary of Agriculture said that she was "Probably a communist", and wondered why "a spinster was so concerned with genetics.". They even released a propaganda film about fire ants in an attempt to market pesticides.

There was just one problem here. She was right. As much as the oligarchs and their official cronies conspired to discredit her, the evidence was plainly obvious for all to see. The book took off, and popular support forced the US regime to start the Environment Protection Agency, which would place limits on capitalist destruction. DDT was banned in the US. Bird populations began to recover.

However, the corrupt regime still tries to discredit her to this day. Even going so far as to compare her to Hitler.

September 26 is the anniversary of the day Reagan Vetoes the Anti-Apartheid Act in 1985. Apartheid was a system of segregation in South Africa that was roughly equivalent to the US' Jim Crow Laws. The Jim Crow laws were ultimately repealed due to massive protests by the black community.

In the wake of this, a black politician by the name of Ron Dellums attempted to take the struggle outside of the US' borders, and free the people of South Africa, who suffered under the same conditions as the black people of the US. He introduced the first draft of the bill in 1972.

Of course, this didn't go over very well with the white politicians. The US was very friendly with South Africa, and it really didn't help matters that the man leading the resistance to apartheid was Nelson Mandela. Not only was he black, but the US (rightfully) believed him to be a communist. Racism will always be tolerated or encouraged in the US, but communism will never be. As a result, the US had a vested interest in propping up South Africa.

It took 13 years, but Dellums finally got the bill to sanction South Africa to pass through congress in 1985 due to increased public visibility and outcry. Reagan vetoed it immediately. Mostly because of anti-communist sentiments; he didn't really care about apartheid.

In the end, congress overruled his veto, and the sanctions went into place. Reagan's regime didn't enforce the sanctions. In 1989, they made motions that they were actually going to enforce the sanctions. The Soviet Union broke up shortly after. Having no need to prop up South Africa anymore, they actually followed through on their word. With the loss of their biggest supporter, the South African regime collapsed shortly after. Once again proving how much the US regime cares about human rights.

September 25 is the anniversary of the end of the Atlanta Race Massacre of 1906. For days now, mobs of white Americans were roaming the streets of Atlanta, burning black homes and businesses, and lynching whoever they could catch.

The problem was that black people had started to receive some of the same rights as white people. They were voting, some of them were even starting to have enough money to live comfortably. This bred resentment in the white populace. In the leadup to the elections that year, the "free press" had been pushing the narrative that black people were dangerous criminals. Eventually they printed the claim that 4 black men assaulted a white woman. Despite no evidence ever being found of the veracity of this claim, it was enough to convince the white populace that the black residents needed to be exterminated.

At least 5000 white men participated in the massacre, but it's thought that the number was over 10,000. They killed every black man, woman, and child that they could get their hands on. They burnt down a not-insignificant portion of the city, and killed at least 25 people. It's commonly thought that the number is over 100, but both sides sought to hide the true number afterward. Black people feared reprisal, and white people feared that people might think they went too far.

Eventually, the damage started to affect white owned businesses and the military had to be called in to stop the mob and arrest the black people who had set up a defensive line.

The immediate aftermath of this saw the black people blamed for the massacre. But eventually the blame also included the newspapers and they were given a slap on the wrist. The murders went unpunished. The governor elected that year saw through his campaign promises and made it harder for black people to vote. The days of terror were swept under the rug and quickly forgotten about. It wasn't until 100 years later that the city of Atlanta even recognised it ever happened at all.

September 24 is the anniversary of The Chicago 8 Trial of 1968. This was a conspiracy trial asserting that these seven men were responsible for inciting violence at an anti-war protest the month before. Of course, they were all leftists.

What actually happened during the protest was that thousands of police showed up and started teargassing and beating the protesters. The police later said in their defence that the protesters should not have broken curfew or resisted arrest. The protesters remained largely peaceful even in the face of this, and there was only one protester killed, although hundreds of more faced injuries.

Despite the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence labelling it as a police riot, and the Attorney General requesting an investigation into the police, eight protesters were chosen to be scapegoated instead. Despite the conspiracy charges, one of them had never even met the others. So the US selected the most biased judge they could find, and began the trial.

The defendents weren't having any of it, and sought to show the world in court, what a mockery the US legal system was. The trail ended with 159 charges of contempt of court for both the defendants and their council, but the jury acquitted them of the conspiracy charges.

All of the contempt charges were later dropped in an appeals court when it was found that the judge was not impartial, and the FBI had attempted to tamper with the jury. They'd succeeded in showing the world that the conspiracy wasn't their doing. It was the US government.

September 23 is the anniversary of The McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950. It gave the totalitarian government overwhelming power to oppress its political opponents. Specifically designed to allow the government to crack down on the communist party, it authorised the government to spy on its own citizens and detain them without cause. (Amusingly enough, it also made it a felony to make steps to making a totalitarian government. The congressmen involved saw no jail time). This was too much even for the mass murderer Harry Truman, who was president at the time. He had this to say about the bill:

It would put the Government of the United States in the thought control business

It would give Government officials vast powers to harass all of our citizens in the exercise of their right of free speech.

Congress passed it anyway. It was later amended due to protests from the ethnic Japanese survivors of the WW2 concentration camps in the US, to have the bit about rounding up communists and putting them in concentration camps. Having been through that quite recently, they didn't want a repeat. It took 21 years to win that argument. The rest of the law was repealed in 1993 after the fall of the Soviet Union.

This whole law illustrates that justice in the USA is neither blind nor fair. Whilst accusing their enemies of arbitrarily locking up political opponents and silencing opposition, they are passing laws that explicitly allow them to do just that. Only being repealed because of loud outcry from the people who they'd previously done it to.

This day also saw Emitt Till's murderers go free in 1955. (mentioned briefly on the day of the murder) Further demonstrating that the US's vaunted human rights are only for some humans.

"We wouldn't have taken so long if we hadn't stopped to drink pop."

You're only free if you're a white coloniser.

September 22 is the anniversary of The Massacre of Fort Fauntleroy in 1861. US soldiers responded to an accusation of cheating in a horse race with bullets and artillery.

According to their treaty rights, the Navajo were at the fort to collect their monthly food rations. The event became a bit of a celebration, and games and gambling were common. The main event was a horse race between the Navajo and the soldiers. Many bets were placed, and the race began.

It quickly became clear that something was wrong with the Navajo horse, and investigation revealed that the horse's bridle had been cut. The soldiers refused a rematch or to return the wagers. The Navajo started protesting outside the fort. The soldiers began shooting, and didn't stop.

One of the soldiers later said:

“I saw a soldier murdering two little children and a woman. I hallooed immediately for him to stop. He looked up but did not obey my order. I ran as quick as I could, but could not get there soon enough to prevent him from killing the two innocent children and wounding severely the squaw.”

They murdered dozens of men, women, and children, and wounded many more. The soldiers had a brief hearing, where the military grew very concerned that the soldiers were gambling with government property. But decided not to prosecute.

September 21 is the anniversary of the passing of The Lodge–Fish Resolution in 1922, which endorsed carving up Palestine in order to create the state of Israel. Although the state of Israel wouldn't be created for a couple more decades, the seeds were sown.

After the end of the first World War, the Ottoman Empire was carved up, creating the modern map of the middle east. Palestine remained under British rule, and they made The Balfour Declaration, which promised "A Jewish National Home in Palestine". The Lodge-Fish Resolution announced official US support of the plan.

The following decades would see a massive influx of Jewish settlers in Palestine. Eventually, this would result in the forced relocation of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, and the creation of Israel.

Of course we all know what happened next. Israel and the Arab world have known nothing but conflict ever since. The US continues propping up the state of Israel to this day, amid a forever war of people fighting to reclaim their homes. As you would expect of a nation that coined the term "Manifest Destiny".

September 20 is the anniversary of the day of The Jena 6 Protests in 2007. Nearly 20,000 people marched on Jena, Louisiana in protest of excessive charges against 6 black kids who had beaten up a racist white kid.

The quasi-segregated school had recently seen an incident where a black student had sat under a tree that was ordinarily used by white students. The next day, three nooses were hung from the tree. The students responsible were merely given a suspension, as the superintendent said:

"Adolescents play pranks. I don't think it was a threat against anybody".

After a series of other racist events, the Jena 6 gave one of the ringleaders a concussion and a pretty good beating. He was able to attend the school dance later in the day however.

In response, the kids were charged with a number of very serious charges, up to and including an attempted murder charge that would carry a 50 year sentence without possibility of parole. With an all-white jury. In comparison, some white students had burnt down part of the school the week before (which may have been racially motivated), and received 10 year prison sentences.

On today's date, thousands of people marched to Jena and demanded justice. After another year and a half of court shennanigans which even saw a judge removed, retrials and appeals, the charges were eventually reduced to simple battery for 5 of them. The 6th was Mychal Bell, who got 18 months in a juvenile hall. He later attempted suicide.

September 19 is the anniversary of the height of The Ellenton Massacre in 1876. Trouble had started a few days earlier. A white woman reported being attacked by two black men. A white mob was formed shortly after, and had been growing for days. By the 19th, fueled further by anger over black voting rights, the mob had grown to over 500 white men.

They marauded through black communities for days, until the military showed up on the 19th to put a stop to it. As many as a hundred black people laid dead, and one white man. The fact that we don't know the exact numbers of black deaths speaks volumes about the incident.

As is customary in the United States, no white man saw prison time.

September 18th is the anniversary of The Haiti Intervention in 1994. In the words of the US state department:

Unburdened by the Cold War international framework that structured U.S. foreign policy for nearly fifty years, the Clinton administration sought to outline new objectives for U.S. foreign policy, including novel uses for military power.

What this meant of course is that they were now free to invade countries to get what they wanted. In this case, they wanted to select new leadership for Haiti. The previous president had been deposed in a coup (which may well have had CIA Involvement). The new military leader also ran afoul of the US regime, and they were openly planning a full scale invasion of Haiti to remove him. One day before the invasion was set to begin, General Cédras capitulated peacfully. Over 300 Haitians were still killed by the occupying marines.

This is echoed on September 18th of 2014. On that day, the new President Poroshenko was met with applause. He came to the US to request funding to put down resistance to his successful coup in Ukraine. The US was more than happy to provide $46m to well known Neo Nazi Militia fighters.

It should be noted that the CIA was established on (you guessed it), September 18, 1947. Not even a year later, it was already actively meddling in Ukraine's domestic affairs by funding nazi collaborators. And has not stopped to this day.