diff --git a/capitalism_doesnt_work.md b/capitalism_doesnt_work.md index 9f5cbea..3f78fc7 100644 --- a/capitalism_doesnt_work.md +++ b/capitalism_doesnt_work.md @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Lets unpack the idea that "Capitalism works". In the US, the most developed Capi - Rising Housing prices from real estate speculation have skyrocketed to the point that an epidemic of [hidden homeless](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/los-angeles-hidden-homeless-priced-out-cbsn-originals/) has arisen: families who live in their cars, or on the street, but who still work. In most US cities, such as LA, it's illegal to sleep in your car overnight. 1/3rd of all renters pay half their income towards landlords. Even mid-size cities like Boise Idaho are experiencing a [surge of homelessness as of 2019](https://www.kivitv.com/news/state-of-208/affordable-housing-crisis-leading-to-rise-in-first-time-homelessness-in-boise). - [80% of US workers live paycheck to paycheck](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/29/us-economy-workers-paycheck-robert-reich), 40% cannot cover a [$400 emergency.](http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/federal-reserve-more-than-4-out-of-10-americans-do-not-even-have-enough-money-to-cover-an-unexpected-400-expense) - [The bottom half of US citizens have a combined negative net worth.](https://www.timesunion.com/technology/businessinsider/article/One-brutal-sentence-captures-what-a-disaster-13882763.php) [Average US household carries ~$140k in debt. Median household income only $60k](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2017/11/18/a-foolish-take-heres-how-much-debt-the-average-us-household-owes/107651700/). -- [40% of millenials live with their parents.](http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/goodbye-american-dream-the-average-u-s-household-is-137063-in-debt-and-38-4-of-millennials-live-with-their-parents) Younger generations, with dwindling opportunities, feeling disposable and unwanted under late capitalism, suffer from a [burnout epidemic](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/millennials-burnout-generation-debt-work). Many have [stopped pursuing romantic relationships](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex), and [having children.](https://www.curbed.com/2019/7/19/20700379/raising-kids-cities-family-friendly) [Deaths of despair have skyrocketed, especially among those who never went to college.](https://archive.is/XSvWD) [2](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/hikikomori-japan), +- [52% of young adults live with their parents, for the first time since the great depression.](https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/04/a-majority-of-young-adults-in-the-u-s-live-with-their-parents-for-the-first-time-since-the-great-depression/), [1](http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/goodbye-american-dream-the-average-u-s-household-is-137063-in-debt-and-38-4-of-millennials-live-with-their-parents) Younger generations, with dwindling opportunities, feeling disposable and unwanted under late capitalism, suffer from a [burnout epidemic](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/millennials-burnout-generation-debt-work). Many have [stopped pursuing romantic relationships](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex), and [having children.](https://www.curbed.com/2019/7/19/20700379/raising-kids-cities-family-friendly) [Deaths of despair have skyrocketed, especially among those who never went to college.](https://archive.is/XSvWD) [2](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/hikikomori-japan), - [~ 1/4th of US workers are trapped in the gig economy as of 2019.](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/02/gig-economy-us-trump-uber-california-robert-reich) - [70% of US citizens say they are struggling financially.](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/70-americans-are-struggling-financially/) In the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic, [Unemployment claims went to 6.6M in one week, compared to ~700k at the peak of the great depression. Food banks are running out of food in places like New York and Pittsburgh, and hospitals are short on ventilators needed to keep people alive.](https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1246607221846310917?s=20) [Lines outside an NY soup kitchen, May 2020.](https://twitter.com/ajitxsingh/status/1257120222323961857?s=20) Americans turn to [shoplifting food as 1 in 8 are food insecure as of late 2020.](https://www.seattletimes.com/business/stealing-to-survive-more-americans-are-shoplifting-food-as-aid-runs-out-in-the-pandemic/) - [8 men control as much wealth as half the worlds population.](https://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/meet-the-8-men-who-control-half-the-worlds-wealth.html). Anyone wanna take a guess at how this game of monopoly ends? diff --git a/socialism_faq.md b/socialism_faq.md index c7a25f7..40120a8 100644 --- a/socialism_faq.md +++ b/socialism_faq.md @@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ * [What is Stalinism?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/15g4xo/what_is_stalinism/) * [Looking for reference to types of communism.](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1fcc6o/looking_for_reference_to_types_of_communism/) * [What was Engels Contribution to Marxism?](https://necessityandfreedom.wordpress.com/2017/04/16/without-engels-there-would-be-no-marxism/) +* [Was Marx anti-semitic? ( On the Jewish Question )](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/exfvbe/for_anyone_who_are_confused_by_marx_is/) * [Were the nazis socialist? What about national socialism, the national socialist movement (NSM), and the national front?](https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/09/05/were-nazis-socialists/), [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/Socialism_101/comments/79kvin/what_is_the_difference_between_socialists_here/), [3](https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/cblf1y/to_commit_a_hate_crime/ethf3t8/), [4](https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/wiki/index#wiki_the_nazis_were_socialists.2C_communists_or_leftists) * [What is Fascism?](http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/) * [Did Karl Marx use "socialism" and "communism" interchangeably?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2msa39/did_karl_marx_use_socialism_and_communism/) @@ -193,6 +194,8 @@ - [Red Phoenix - Pacifism - How to do the enemy's job for them](https://theredphoenixapl.org/2011/08/11/pacifism-how-to-do-the-enemys-job-for-them/). [Youtube Audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxrO7p-6w_k&list=PL0-IkmzWbjoZ5IIhnzFBOImzySh827FyK) - [Halim Alrah - Why liberal democracies are a sham. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYodY6o172A) - [What about social democracy / democratic socialism / the Nordic model? Isn't Sweden socialist?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd03a8Pm1hs ) +- [Rainer shea - How social democrats help usher in fascism in Germany, and in the US today. ](https://rainershea612.medium.com/social-democrats-helped-usher-in-fascism-in-germany-theyre-doing-it-again-in-america-f84f71846e91) +- [Scandinavia's covert role in western imperialism](https://www.telesurenglish.net/analysis/Scandinavias-Covert-Role-in-Western-Imperialism-20170320-0022.html) - [Why can't you acheive socialism through voting in our current democracies?](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/a9tgff/lsc_insulted_some_democrats/ecmjyjs/) - [Paul Cockshott - On Socialism and Democracy.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHN0foV4Ntk) [2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98lvNhNfse4&t=1518s) [3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjKYVQd4r9E) - [Comrade Hakim - Why electoralism always fails.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXbaZXQAbuU) @@ -483,6 +486,7 @@ * [Where should I start with Mao?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1dmxcl/where_should_i_start_with_mao/) * [Debastardising Mao.](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1ecf32/debastardising_mao/) * [Deng on why Mao's legacy must be upheld.](http://cpcchina.chinadaily.com.cn/fastfacts/2010-10/18/content_11425373.htm) +* [Deng Xiaoping - a visionary marxist-leninist.](https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1353776771573948418?s=20) * [What about Tibet? (95% of the population were slaves or feudal serfs before China invaded in 1959)](http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html) [audiobook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjoZjKom_Qj0jcDReaMb_r52z) * [Tibet, China, and the Violent reaction of a wealthy elite.](https://historicly.substack.com/p/tibet-china-and-the-violent-reaction) * [Mao's liberation of Tibet](https://stalinsmoustache.org/2018/09/19/maos-liberation-of-tibet/) @@ -502,6 +506,7 @@ * [Taimur Rahman - How China beat the Coronavirus.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN8bKQOyw_Q) * [What about the suicide nets at Foxconn?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/dnafal/question_suicide_nets/) * [Is china persecuting gay people?](https://twitter.com/isgoodrum/status/1366919923390324737) +* [Deng Xiaoping - on the question of national minorities and Han chauvinism](https://redsails.org/the-question-of-minority-nationalities-in-the-southwest/) ### Is China State Capitalist? @@ -545,6 +550,7 @@ * [Trade union laws of the PRC.](https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/ELECTRONIC/30352/118793/F1165849917/CHN30352%202.pdf) * [The west views China as one big sweatshop, but the actual working hours aren't much more than anywhere else. The average for a migrant worker (most vulnerable to exploitation as they are traveling from the countryside) is 8.8 hours, little under an hour more than a typical working day. Labor strikes are rarely suppressed, and usually get the support of the PRC.](https://www.forbes.com/sites/mitchfree/2013/07/11/held-hostage-entrepreneurs-uneasy-over-chinese-govt-inaction/#2431f5463de4) * [The workplace safety standards of China are better than in the capitalist countries of the West like in Australia who have an higher rate of work related death despite having a GDP per capita 3-5 times higher.](http://www.trotskyistplatform.com/workplace-safety-now-better-in-china-than-in-australia/) +* [/u/cheezicle - My experience as a factory worker in a Chinese "sweatshop"](https://archive.is/B6ZBi) * [70% of Chinese millenials own their own home, and 91% as of 2021 plan to buy their own home within the next 5 years.](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-39512599) * [In a typical example of proletarian police accountability, the CPC sentences a police officer to death for killing a pregnant woman in a restaurant in southern China.](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26230765) * [The US is losing to China: “Washington is actually far more corrupt than Beijing. If you want to get something done in Washington, you do what you do in Jakarta: just slip some money to the right people.”](https://www.forbes.com/sites/eamonnfingleton/2014/11/12/obama-in-china-taking-candy-from-a-baby/#27d9d3c1231e) @@ -605,7 +611,7 @@ ### What's going on with the Uyghurs? -- [What's going on with the Uyghurs / Xinjiang province?](https://worldaffairs.blog/2019/07/05/xinjiang-and-uyghurs-what-youre-not-being-told/) +- [What's going on with the Uyghurs / Xinjiang province?](https://archive.is/DqRCn) - [XinJiang: Facts vs Fiction.](https://medium.com/@leohezhao/xinjiang-facts-vs-fiction-bdc2aa403c91) - [A Pakistani Diplomat given full access to “re-education camps” and this is what she found](https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/422970-pakistani-diplomat-narrates-visit-to-chinas-xinjiang). - Despite claims of "erasing Uyghur culture", [they stated](https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/422970-pakistani-diplomat-narrates-visit-to-chinas-xinjiang): "I did not find any instance of forced labor or cultural and religious repression. The imams we met at the mosques and the students and teachers at the Xinjiang Islamic Institute told us that they enjoy freedom in practicing Islam and that the Chinese government extends support for maintenance of mosques all over Xinjiang. [...]The most visible sign of protection of Uyghur culture by the government is the government-run bilingual kindergarten schools where children learn Putonghua as well as Uyghur language and culture from a very young age." @@ -617,6 +623,8 @@ - [Redsails - The Xinjiang atrocity propaganda blitz](https://redsails.org/the-xinjiang-atrocity-propaganda-blitz/) - [RodericDay - A thread about the key sources for Uyghur Genocide (Especially Adrian Zenz).](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1287411708374454273.html) - [BayArea415 - american debunks major western propaganda on Uyghurs and Xinjiang](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yURIS7S9zg) +- [The Xinjiang "Genocide" - an excerpt from the Genocide panel.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH-0l_zToN4) +- [TheCanadaFiles - Subcommittee report declaring “Uighur Genocide” dominated by researchers and groups funded by CIA cut-out, National Endowment for Democracy.](https://www.thecanadafiles.com/articles/subcommittee-report-declaring-uighur-genocide-dominated-by-researchers-and-groups-funded-by-cia-cut-out-national-endowment-for-democracy) - [US fuels terrorism in China.](https://journal-neo.org/2018/10/24/us-fueling-terrorism-in-china/) - [Wiki on the Turkestan Islamic Party (has a full list of terrorist attacks committed by east turkestan separatists)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkistan_Islamic_Party) - [About the TiP (Turkestan Islamic Party)](https://journal-neo.org/2018/10/05/china-s-uyghur-problem-the-unmentioned-part/) @@ -625,6 +633,7 @@ - [US Col Lawrence Wilkerson admits to USA involvement in fomenting civil unrest in Xinjiang China using Uighurs.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Cvx0R8iDo) - [No, the UN did not report China has ‘massive internment camps’ for Uighur Muslims](https://thegrayzone.com/2018/08/23/un-did-not-report-china-internment-camps-uighur-muslims/). - [What about Democracy now and the Intercept's claims about the Uyghur camps?](https://medium.com/@rainershea612/liberal-anti-chinese-propaganda-helped-create-the-far-right-campaign-to-blame-china-for-covid-19-7253dca6f429) +- [The better cotton initiative, a global advocacy group for cotton laborers, found that no forced labor was taking place in Xinjiang.](https://www.dimsumdaily.hk/better-cotton-initiative-bci-in-shanghai-reiterates-no-forced-labour-found-in-xinjiang/) - [Religious freedoms in China explained](https://twitter.com/isgoodrum/status/1004884261051092993?s=21). - [Thousands of Muslims from the Uyghur province make Hajj Pilgrimage yearly.](https://www.app.com.pk/over-11000-chinese-muslims-from-xinjiang-proceed-to-saudi-arabia-for-hajj/) [11k Chinese Muslims travel from Xinjiang on free chartered flights to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj, in 2019](https://www.arabnews.com/node/1535241/pakistan). - [EU rejects China offer of Xinjiang tour](https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3003217/eu-rejects-chinas-offer-xinjiang-tour-says-its-open-one-later). @@ -640,6 +649,7 @@ - [Zenz makes a claim that 500,000 tibetans (1 out of every 3 working age Tibetans) are in forced labor camps.](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/ixmy9p/china_has_somehow_put_16_of_the_entire_tibetan/) - [Breaking down the BBC's visit to XinJiang.](https://medium.com/@sunfeiyang/breaking-down-the-bbcs-visit-to-hotan-xinjiang-e284934a7aab) - [A rebuttal of a Guardian article by Gulbahar Haitiwaji](https://twitter.com/moghilemear13/status/1351397520358957058) [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/kwew3n/contradictions_in_the_new_uighur_story_by/) +- [A short, shareable version on why this isn't a genocide - cynthiakao](https://www.tiktok.com/@cynthiakao/video/6945108711006309638) - [More sources debunking this here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XiHrkJ_zudQZP1hBIBCgJKKAfAILxEG0cmQGrNH8pIU/mobilebasic). ### What about the Falun Gong? @@ -899,6 +909,7 @@ - [She's a social democrat, not a socialist, fronting for the Democratic party](https://blackagendareport.com/open-letter-socialists-who-might-be-fronting-democratic-party). - [AOC asks all supporters to vote for democrats, including Andrew Cuomo.](https://youtu.be/iaLpyJI0ltg?t=647) - [Danny Haiphong from BlackAgendaReport - On the Obama-ification of "the squad".](https://popularresistance.org/the-obama-fication-of-the-squad-strengthens-the-right-at-the-expense-of-the-left/) + - [Richard Medhurst - On the squad as a branding exercise, and AOC's support for US bombings and prison camps.](https://twitter.com/richimedhurst/status/1376005285140123648?s=20) - [Calls for budget cuts for DHS, due to their child detention camps and family separations, then goes back on it by voting to fully fund them along with other democrats.](https://i.redd.it/bfiudbz8qm921.jpg) - [She votes to keep the US in NATO, who's been responsible for countless atrocities in Europe and the Middle East.](http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll044.xml) - [AOC says she will vote for Biden in the 2020 election, saying, "I think it’s incredibly important we support the Democratic nominee in November".](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/494275-ocasio-cortez-says-she-will-vote-for-biden-in-november) @@ -911,7 +922,8 @@ - [AOC selling "law and order" and "family values" and not being "weak on crime" as socialist values. ](https://i.imgur.com/VRKjkXV.jpg) - [Defends the NYPD during the George Floyd protests, since there are women, black, latino and asian american cops.](https://i.imgur.com/FT8GMTf.png) - [AOC wants abolish ICE, only to replace it with a resurrected INS, yet another agency whose goal was breaking up families. ](https://i.imgur.com/ficPkrO.jpg) - - [As of 2020, replaces some of her more radical staff with political professionals, breaks with Sanders, calling his strategy too "conflict based", wants to start working more with establishment Dems.](https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/30/new-aoc-divides-the-left-150767) + - [Attacks critics of Biden as being "privileged" and "wanting to reinvent themselves", when she herself used to work for startup incubators. ](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1375760351027986432.html) + - [Says that "Left wing opponents of Biden are doing a disservice to the cause of justice. ](https://i.postimg.cc/BQz9Sgsw/aoc-biden-critics.jpg) - [In December 2020, after a proposal by comic Jimmy Dore, for house democrats to refuse support for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, unless she agrees to bring a Medicare for all bill to the house, to bring relief for US citizens who lost healthcare during the pandemic. AOC and the rest of the "squad" refused, and backed Pelosi, citing concerns that the bill would not win anyway. Dore retorted that 9 / 10 democratic voters, and even a majority of republican voters support medicare for all.](https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/jimmy-dore-calls-on-democrats-to-withhold-support-for-nancy-pelosi-unless-she-brings-single-payer-medicare-for-all-to-a-vote/) - [AOC pays homage to "Tibetan Uprising Day"](https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1370755518122373121?s=20), a CIA-sponsored campaign to restore the brutal Tibetan theocracy and re-institute slavery. - [Voted for Trump's 2020 War budget, allocating $738 Billion to military spending (a 3% increase over the previous year).](http://www.idcommunism.com/2019/07/ocasio-cortez-aoc-votes-in-favor-of-trumps-war-budget.html) @@ -1186,6 +1198,8 @@ Much credit to [David Kinder's current affairs article, the rise of the Ruth Bad - Calls people ["Mentally ill crybabies"](https://i.imgur.com/T0RnOCC.jpg), "Woke-Scolds", and "Simps". - ["US geopolitical power is important to me personally, because I'm not ready to lose that to China"](https://twitter.com/AlMuntherO_O/status/1260679840698634242?s=20). *got removed* - [Is against decolonization.](https://twitter.com/trikstr_/status/1280053214117793792) "We're not going to fkn leave America, white people are staying... we're not gonna give something back to native Americans... the best way forward is to integrate our communities". Vaush responds to a native person talking about indigenous movements and rights by saying: ["I'll listen to the scientists."](https://twitter.com/guajirx/status/1280314035217588224?s=21) +- [Vaush talks down to a Korean person, saying that he hates Korean people, and doesn't know anything about them.](https://twitter.com/aboIishamerica/status/1376891876222107653?s=20) +- [Vaush calls Korea, "a festering shithole", and says the North Koreans "got dabbed on", referring to the 4-5 Million deaths the US inflicted.](https://twitter.com/NatalieRevolts/status/1377327842313265154?s=20) - [Says: "If you identify as LGBT, then you must consider North Korea your enemy", citing wapo, the geneva US mission, and CIA NK org. Ignores the DPRK's pro-lgbt stances.](https://i.redd.it/nvgx1vz4z3b51.png) [2](https://web.archive.org/web/20050806002431/http://www.korea-dpr.com/faq.htm#20) - He's in no leftist orgs, plays video games all day, and takes home [$1.5k / month from his subscribers by holding "debates" where he just rants at people.](https://www.patreon.com/vaush) - ["Marxism isn't a rejection of liberalism, it's about making it better." ](https://twitter.com/commiefr0g/status/1290343782450434049) diff --git a/us_atrocities.md b/us_atrocities.md index ae29487..20e6433 100644 --- a/us_atrocities.md +++ b/us_atrocities.md @@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ Notes : - In late 2019, [CIA agent Anne Sacoolas hit and killed a British teenage pedestrian named Harry Dunn with her car](https://thegrayzone.com/2020/02/18/assange-us-extradite-cia-killed-british-teen/#more-20969), while she was driving on the wrong side of the road, near the RAF Croughton base in the UK where she and her husband (both CIA agents) worked. After the Foreign and Commonwealth office rejected Anne Sacoolas request for diplomatic immunity, Anne fled the UK on a US Air Force plane. Both the US and UK governments lied to the Dunn family, saying that she was a US diplomat, and hid the fact that she had fled for months. In October, the Dunn family visited the White House and met with Donald Trump. According to Seiger, Trump tried to buy off the couple, promising them that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was “standing by ready to write a check.” Trump reportedly blindsided the Dunns, telling them that Sacoolas was in the other room waiting to meet with them. The couple refused the offer, demanding her extradition. Sacoolas's lawyers have stated, “Anne will not return voluntarily to the United Kingdom to face a potential jail sentence for what was a terrible but unintentional accident.” As of February 2020, the extradition request is at an impasse, while at the same time the UK is complying with Julian Assange's extradition to the US. RAF Croughton base houses agents from the NSA and CIA, and is famous for being exposed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for forwarding information from German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone to the CIA. On march 2021, the [US admitted that sacoolas was a CIA agent.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36C3gmE3fWY) - In 2003, the CIA kidnapped Italian milanese Imam Abu Omar, took him to Egypt, then tortured, including rape, genital electro-shock, and resulted in him becoming deaf in one ear, in the [Imam Rapito Affair.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam_Rapito_affair) On 23 December 2005, a judge issued a European arrest warrant against 22 CIA agents, but the US hasn't responded. +- In 2002, GW Bush signed into law the ["Hague invasion act"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members'_Protection_Act), IE the American Service-Members' Protection Act, which gives the US: "all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court". - From March to June of 1999, After Serbs refused to acquiesce in the break-up of their republic, the US and NATO began [bombing Yugoslavia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia) killing ~500 civilians, leaving thousands homeless, destroying bridges, industrial plants, public buildings, private businesses, as well as barracks and military installations. [1](https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/18/breaking-yugoslavia-how-the-us-used-nato-as-its-battering-ram/), [2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia) - In February, 1998, A US marine core plane flying wrecklessly below regulations, cut a cable supporting aerial cable cars at a ski resort near Cavalese, Italy, killing 20 people, in the [Cavalese Cable Car Disaster.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_\(1998\)) The pilots destroyed the plane's tape, and were found not guilty. Italian prosecutors were outraged that the US refused to forgoe the NATO treaty that gives all jurisduction to US military courts. By February 1999, the victims' families had received USD $65,000 per victim as immediate help by the Italian government, which was reimbursed by the U.S. government. In May 1999, the U.S. Congress rejected a bill that would have set up a $40 million compensation fund for the victims. In December 1999, the Italian legislature approved a monetary compensation plan for the families ($1.9 million per victim). NATO treaties obligated the U.S. government to pay 75% of this compensation, which it did. - In 1995, the US conducted a campaign of airstrikes called [Operation Deliberate Force](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Deliberate_Force), as part of an intervention in the [Bosnian civil war](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_War). [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Deliberate_Force)