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Endless Holocausts

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  • Author: [[David Michael Smith]]
  • ASIN: B09X2HMW8G
  • Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09X2HMW8G
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By the 1890s, U.S. businesses were shipping steel, iron, oil, and agricultural machinery to foreign markets, and the export of capital had begun. — location: 85 ^ref-7137

Altogether, I estimate that the U.S. Empire is responsible or shares responsibility for close to 300 million deaths. — location: 162 ^ref-34425

sum, the Indigenous Peoples Holocaust in what is now the United States may be estimated to have taken more than thirteen million lives, and it continues today. — location: 1129 ^ref-55543

Like the Indigenous Peoples Holocaust in the present-day United States, the African American Holocaust continues today. — location: 2091 ^ref-32269

The war against the Philippines, the intervention in the Mexican Revolution, and the invasion of Soviet Russia implicated Washington in approximately 12 million deaths. — location: 3783 ^ref-48940

Altogether, the U.S. Empire was responsible or shared responsibility for approximately 127 million deaths between 1775 and 1945. — location: 3787 ^ref-65223

Altogether, the U.S. Empire was responsible or shared responsibility for approximately 29 million deaths during the first thirty-five years of Pax Americana. — location: 4772 ^ref-32945

By 1980, the U.S. Empire was exploiting the resources, markets, and labor of much of the planet. The empire had acquired more than fifty client states, established several hundred military bases in other countries, and deployed hundreds of thousands of soldiers, Marines, sailors, and air force personnel in scores of nations. — location: 4784 ^ref-10478

Altogether, the empire was responsible or shared responsibility for the deaths of more than 25 million people during the past forty years of Pax Americana. — location: 5914 ^ref-26491

contrast, law enforcement officers and vigilantes killed between two and three thousand Mexican Americans in South Texas in 1915–16 after a small armed rebellion had led to the deaths of about fifty white people. — location: 6044 ^ref-60935

The new wave of mass incarceration that began in the mid-1970s increased the U.S. prisoner population from about 300,000 to more than two million. — location: 6177 ^ref-45432

Well over 2.6 million people have died by their own hands since 1900.144 — location: 6251 ^ref-54093

about 34 million people—reported that a family member or friend died in the past five years due to being unable to afford treatment for a condition. — location: 6540 ^ref-36777

sum, it may be that these holocausts at home and abroad have taken the lives of more than 74 million people. — location: 6683 ^ref-54427