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[American Values @Americas_Crimes]

On this day in 1988, the US Navy committed a major act of terror by shooting down an Iranian airliner, killing 290 civilians (including 66 children). The US attempted to cover-up its responsibility for the atrocity & has never apologized. Many of the bodies were never found.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Photo of drowned Salvadoran father and daughter highlights harrowing tales of migrants' journey to the US https://t.co/a7hz4MlBv8

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Joe Biden on antiracism and the "far left":

“I have some friends on the far left, and they can justify to me the murder of a white deaf mute for a nickel by five colored guys. They say the black men had been oppressed and so on."

https://t.co/IwXD6v14Jc

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

Photo of drowned father and daughter highlights migrants' perils https://t.co/WSgnz6ZHTa

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

71 years ago, 750,000 Palestinians were forcefully displaced from their homes:

[American Values @Americas_Crimes]

On this day in 1954, the U.S. overthrew Guatemala’s democratically elected president Jacobo Árbenz and installed a brutal military dictatorship to protect profits of the United Fruit Company (now known as Chiquita).

[ACLU @ACLU]

Girls who are trans are girls. PERIOD.

[American Values @Americas_Crimes]

On 14 May 1999, NATO conducted multiple air strikes a column of Albanian refugees near Koriša, killing at least 87 were killed and wounding 60—mostly women and children.

[American Values @Americas_Crimes]

During the bombing campaign, NATO committed many explicit war crimes. Here is a list of some of the most infamous of these crimes:

On April 12, 1999, a NATO jet conducted a "double tap" strike on a passenger train at Grdelica gorge, killing 60 civilians.

[American Values @Americas_Crimes]

This week in 1999, NATO began bombing Yugoslavia, dropping 23,000 bombs & killing over 1,000 civilians. The 78 day campaign deliberately targeted civilian infrastructure like power plants, factories, hospitals & TV/radio stations, sending the country's development back decades.

[American Values @Americas_Crimes]

This week in 1942, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which began the mass eviction, forfeiture of property & incarceration of 120,000 Japanese-Americans from the West Coast (most of them US citizens) into concentration camps.

[ACLU @ACLU]

We MUST abolish the death penalty nationwide.

[American Values @Americas_Crimes]

The US dropped 84,200 tons of bombs on Iraq. Despite lots of talk about “smart bombs”, some 90% of the weapons used were unguided “dumb bombs” with an accuracy of 25%. The US also used 286,000kg of depleted uranium, poisoning vast areas of the country.

[American Values @Americas_Crimes]

The US dropped cluster bombs on civilian evacuation routes like the highway between Baghdad and Amman & bombed civilian vehicles on highway from Kuwait. US jets dove low and repeatedly fired machine gun rounds/rockets at 1000s of civilian vehicles including buses.

[American Values @Americas_Crimes]

This week in 1991, the US ground war against Iraq began in the Persian Gulf War. The US committed 100s of war crimes, including bombing civilian buildings, vehicles & infrastructure. The US used cluster bombs, depleted uranium & napalm & over 100,000 died as a result of the war.

[ACLU @ACLU]

🗣 We don't want to live in a country that criminalizes sex work.

[rob delaney @robdelaney]

It should be safe, legal (& local) for women to get abortions & my taxes should pay for it.🐏🦚🏌🏼‍♂️