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Originally Posted by jaydee
Iraq eh? I am leaving this conversation for it will not go anywhere good.  |
Ok, don't like that one. Fair enough.
Union Carbide in India then? That link there is Union Carbide's take on it. Here's more recent events
link, and
link. Basically Union Carbide, now owned by Dow Corning, had an industrial accident due to cutting costs on safety measures and swamped a whole city of >1M people in pesticide gasses, killing tens of thousands, injuring hundreds of thousands, and then after paying $470M (~$900 per victim), walked away without cleaning any of it up. 20 years on and the area is still heavily polluted and toxic.
CIA setting up of opium poppy fields in Afghanistan to pay for paramilitary operations against the Russians, only to then use that as one of the "victory objectives" when destroying them in the recent Afghanistan war.
link.
Exploitation of labour (resources)? Here's a more even-handed view than most =>
http://www.aworldconnected.org/article.php/525.html which makes a valiant attempt to equate what is one step away from slave labour to US companies as a "good thing for the development of a nation".
The list of similar offences goes on and on and on. Seems to me that the average USA citizen is quite blithefully unaware of what damage gets done in the name of the USA in the process of "bringing wealth and prosperity and democracy" to the rest of the world.