diff --git a/crash_course_socialism.md b/crash_course_socialism.md
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@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ For example, a Copper mine owner neither physically mines the copper, and (livin
 
 A 1983 report by England national income and expenditures found that on average, **26 minutes of every hour worked** (or 43% of labor value added) by English workers across a wide range of industries went to various exploiting or unproductive groups, with workers receiving only *57% of their pre-tax productive output as wages*<sup>[1](http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdf)</sup>. In other words, at least **40% of the work you do every day is stolen by Capitalists.** 
 
-Capitalists use the surplus to [push out competitors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-competitive_practices) and gain market share, leading to the destruction of most small businesses, with [just a few companies](http://imgur.com/a/xgnEp) controlling our food, media, energy, transportation, and finances.
+Capitalists use the surplus to [push out competitors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-competitive_practices) and gain market share, leading to the destruction of most small businesses, with [just a few companies](http://imgur.com/a/xgnEp) controlling our food, media, [news](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6U2Un5kEdI), energy, transportation, and finances.
 
 In the table below, both capital and surplus value are controlled by a company's owners, who usually appoint a board of directors. This owning class (called Capitalists, or the [Bourgeoisie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeoisie)) make up a **tiny minority** of the population.
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diff --git a/socialism_faq.md b/socialism_faq.md
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@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@
 * [What contributions did Stalin make to Marxism-Leninism?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/1ejidu/what_contributions_did_stalin_make_to/)
 * [Opinions on Defense of Stalin and Mao](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/11yp4f/opinions_on_defense_of_stalin_and_mao/)
 * [Stalin's Purges](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/qergf/stalins_purges/)
-* [Was Stalin anti-Semitic? What about the doctors plot?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/b2xtna/was_stalin_antisemitic/)
+* [Was Stalin anti-Semitic? What about the doctors plot?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/b2xtna/was_stalin_antisemitic/) [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/grc3u1/antisemitism_in_the_ussr/fry3f52/)
 * [What are some legitimate criticisms of Stalin?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/10chdq/what_are_some_legitimate_criticisms_of_stalin/)
 * [I need clarification on myths/truths of the USSR/Soviet Union.](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2dzicb/i_need_clarification_on_mythstruths_of_the/)
 * [I'm fascinated by the idea of communism...](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/21s0dw/im_fascinated_by_the_idea_of_communism/)
@@ -496,7 +496,9 @@
   * [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/)
+  * [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)
+* [China surpasses the US as of 2015 as the world's largest global trading partner.](https://twitter.com/Anonylyzer13/status/1221033018355113984)
 * [China 9 years ahead of schedule on meeting its Paris agreement climate change goals. ](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2211366-china-is-on-track-to-meet-its-climate-change-goals-nine-years-early/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=news)
 * [China meets ultra-low power plant emissions in advance of 2020 goal.](https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/dsdam3/china_meets_ultralow_emissions_in_advance_of_the/)
 
@@ -512,6 +514,7 @@
 - [China forgives over $78M in Cameroon debt](https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/04/china/cameroon-china-debt-relief-intl/index.html).
 - [China writes off $36m Mozambican debt](https://furtherafrica.com/2017/10/26/china-writes-off-36m-mozambican-debt/).
 - [China writes off substantial amount of Angola debt.](https://www.angop.ao/angola/en_us/noticias/politica/2017/5/23/China-agrees-partial-write-off-Angola-debt,73246665-509c-48a2-ae40-415d3fb65b00.html)
+- [After some of Guangdong landlords evicted a group of Africans, the CPC arrested them, apologized to the African Union, paid for hotels for the migrants, and created additional laws and empowered the police to arrest racist actors.](https://twitter.com/qiaocollective/status/1268236184855216128?s=20)
 - [Nato's new enemy: the CPC.](https://www.rt.com/news/473935-pompeo-nato-china-communist/)
 - [The western media's China hysteria.](https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/04/20/msm-china-hysteria-gets-way-crazier-and-dumber/)
 
@@ -525,13 +528,15 @@
 - [The US has admitted that it’s funding the protests](https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-now-admits-funding-occupy-central-hong-kong/5405680). [Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor and HKCTU, along with 68 other Hong Kong “democratic right” organizations earn hundreds of thousands every year from State Department funded NGOs.](https://twitter.com/redniangzijun/status/1137901349750939648)
 - [American government officials caught ON CAMERA colluding with HK protest leaders.](https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/cndqwh/hk_protest_leaders_caught_meeting_with_us_chief/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app)
 - [American Government NGOs fuel Hong Kong Protests](https://www.mintpressnews.com/hong-kong-protests/259202/).
-- [Joshua Wong, one of the leaders of the protests, travels to US, seeking US intervention. Meets with Marco Rubio, and other senators to garner support. Senators Rubio and Tom Cotton sponsored legislation that would punish Hong Kong or mainland officials who suppressed basic freedoms in the city.](https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2046914/chinese-government-rebukes-us-over-comments-hong-kong)
+- [Joshua Wong, one of the leaders of the protests, travels to US, seeking US intervention. Meets with Marco Rubio, Pelosi, and other senators to garner support. Senators Rubio and Tom Cotton sponsored legislation that would punish Hong Kong or mainland officials who suppressed basic freedoms in the city.](https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2046914/chinese-government-rebukes-us-over-comments-hong-kong) Joshua Wong [wishes neoconservative Marco Rubio a happy birthday.](https://twitter.com/ajitxsingh/status/1266197538152968192?s=20)
 - [Hong Kong Billionaire publisher / media mogul Jimmy Lai, a large donor for the HK protests,  meets with Pence, Pompeo, to discuss US intervention.](https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3017868/beijing-foreign-office-slams-hong-kong-tycoon-jimmy-lai-and), [2](http://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news.php?id=131200&sid=4)
+- [After BLM protests erupt in the US following the murder of George Floyd, Jimmy Lai, one of the leaders of the anti-china protests, distances himself from BLM, stating: "The riots in the US are nothing like the riots in HK... they are destroying everything american, everything HKers are fighting to obtain."](https://twitter.com/ajitxsingh/status/1267835131039035406?s=20)
 - [An overview by isgoodrum.](https://mobile.twitter.com/isgoodrum/status/1139979689735278592?s=21&utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app) 
 - [The protestors are beating up anyone from China (lots of anti-china racism from hkers)](https://mobile.twitter.com/carlzha/status/1169272640642535424?s=21&utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app) [2](https://mobile.twitter.com/SCMPHongKong/status/1173201595619610624?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) [3](https://twitter.com/ajitxsingh/status/1264479391351963649?s=20)
 - [“Something else you won't see in imperialist msm: Hong Kongers organizing to show their support for extradition amendment. "Hong Kongers can't be at ease if fugitives are in the large"](https://mobile.twitter.com/redniangzijun/status/1139177913859891202).
 - [“Over 900,000 real name signatures in "Protecting justice & supporting extradition" petition. Reasons listed: HK criminal committed murder in TW; HK current extradition law has flaws & needs amendment asap; HK shouldn't be fugitive heaven, extradition amendment has many safeguards”](https://mobile.twitter.com/redniangzijun/status/1139177921631965189).
 - [Hong Kong - British vs Chinese Perspective.](https://www.reddit.com/r/FULLCOMMUNISM/comments/dg0zpn/imagine_being_china_for_a_moment_and_having_to/)
+- [How the US seeded a color revolution in Hong Kong.](https://medium.com/@italian4hk/agents-of-chaos-how-the-u-s-seeded-a-colour-revolution-in-hong-kong-2b5050b5ba0f)
 
 ### What about China spying on its own people?
 
@@ -855,6 +860,9 @@
 - https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1251644551367925760
 - https://twitter.com/historic_ly/status/1258861634812067841?s=20
 - [Biden's segregationist anti-busing views](https://twitter.com/MartianMarxist/status/1260067123591700483?s=20)
+- [Biden - We need more arrests, triple the police, prosecuters, judges, and prison cells.](https://twitter.com/areltah/status/1266428868547747848?s=20)
+- [Biden - Lock em' up.](https://twitter.com/BethLynch2020/status/1266810765362843650?s=20)
+- [Biden on George Floyd protesters - "Shoot em in the leg instead of the heart."](https://twitter.com/jaboukie/status/1267565376885448706?s=20)
 
 ### Greta Thunberg
 
@@ -999,9 +1007,9 @@
 - [How is socialism progressing in Bolivia?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cg2t3j/masterpost_on_the_achievements_of_socialism_in/)
 - [Anti-imperialism of Evo Morales - A fight for Bolivia's resources.](https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/11/12/after-morales-ousted-coup-lithium-question-looms-large-bolivia)
 - [How does the US and British strategy of Balkanization work?](https://youtu.be/niZsLfxNwvI?t=807)
-- Caleb Maupin - [1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i29kWYXlwhw), [2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmQtvk5elYc), [3](https://www.reddit.com/r/BeardTube/comments/fkwaso/the_successes_of_socialism_in_vietnam/fkwb68a/)
+- Caleb Maupin - [1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i29kWYXlwhw), [2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmQtvk5elYc), [3](https://www.reddit.com/r/BeardTube/comments/fkwaso/the_successes_of_socialism_in_vietnam/fkwb68a/), [4](https://i.imgur.com/kbeSu33.jpg)
 - Prysner - [1](https://twitter.com/Duophile/status/1256563958141591556?s=20)
 - [Omar](https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/ilhan-omar-backs-israel-lobby-campaign-against-iran) [2](https://twitter.com/hansalexrazo/status/1258473006419959808?s=20), [3](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ilhan-omar-says-her-political-role-model-is-inspirationally-bold-margaret-thatcher)
 - [Bordiga](https://libcom.org/forums/history/bordiga-leninist-who-put-his-hopes-axis-27122017)
 - MTC: https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/fgdjpc/does_going_against_western_propaganda_ever_make/fk47f81/ , https://i.imgur.com/gBzROhU.png
-- CPUSA [1](https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/bidens-crisis-presidency-and-potential-for-transformative-change/), [2](https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/biden-and-sanders-establish-task-force-to-unite-party-on-progressive-agenda/)
+- CPUSA [1](https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/bidens-crisis-presidency-and-potential-for-transformative-change/), [2](https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/biden-and-sanders-establish-task-force-to-unite-party-on-progressive-agenda/), [3](https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/a-clear-shot-shows-diversity-on-police-forces-a-good-thing/)
diff --git a/us_atrocities.md b/us_atrocities.md
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@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Notes :
 - In September 2019, the [US killed at least 30 pine nut farmers, and injured 40 others via a drone attack](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/afghanistan-dozens-civilians-killed-drone-attack-190919072728303.html) in the nangarhar province in Afghanistan. Malik Rahat Gul, a tribal elder in Wazir Tangi, said the air raid happened at a time when tired workers, mainly daily wage earners, had gathered near their tent after harvesting pine nuts in a field nearby. "The workers had lit a bonfire and were sitting together when a drone targeted them". This marks the 18th year of war in Afghanistan. 
 - In early 2018, US Navy Seal [Eddie Gallagher stabbed a defenseless teenage captive to death in Iraq](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Gallagher_\(Navy_SEAL\)). According to two SEAL witnesses, Gallagher said over the radio "he's mine" and walked up to the medic and prisoner, and without saying a word, killed the prisoner by stabbing him repeatedly with his hunting knife. Gallagher and his commanding officer, Lieutenant Jake Portier, then posed for photographs of them standing over the body with some other nearby SEALs. Gallagher then text messaged a friend in California a picture himself holding the dead captive's head by the hair with the explanation "Good story behind this, got him with my hunting knife.” After he was imprisoned, [Gallagher's other crimes came to light](http://archive.is/9b2fR): fellow soldiers said they witnessed Gallagher shooting and killing an unarmed old man in a white robe, as well as a young girl walking with other girls. Gallagher boasted that he averaged three kills a day over 80 days, including four women. In video interviews with investigators, multiple SEALs described how he would go on solo “gun runs,” emptying loads of heavy machine gun fire into neighborhoods with no apparent targets. “I think he just wants to kill anybody he can,” Corey Scott, a medic from the platoon, told Navy investigators. After his case went public, it became a conservative rallying cry: A website soliciting donations for his defense raised > $375k, and a prominent veterans’ apparel maker sold “Free Eddie” T-shirts. Spurred on by his family, 40 Republican members of Congress signed a letter in March calling for the Navy to free him, and soon after, US President Trump had him released from prison to house arrest. In July, 2019, he was acquitted of all charges. Gallagher was one of three military personnel accused or convicted of war crimes on whose behalf Trump had intervened to pardon or promote. Trump told a rally audience days after his intervention, "I stuck up for three great warriors against the deep state." [Gallagher has now started a chain of companies selling clothing and nutritional supplements.](http://archive.is/hgUQC)
 - On April 14, 2018, the US, UK, and France [launched 100 more missiles](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/14/syria-air-strikes-us-uk-and-france-launch-attack-on-assad-regime) at 3 different targets in Syria, again claiming that the Syrian government used chemical attacks against its own citizens in douma as justification.  On 10 April, the Syrian government again invited the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to send a team to investigate the sites of the alleged attacks. Trump, Macron, and May have all issued statements saying that this is not an intervention in the Syrian civil war. [1](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/14/syria-air-strikes-us-uk-and-france-launch-attack-on-assad-regime). In a [leaked email](https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1198423637805666305) in Nov, 2019, [an OPCW whistleblower stated that the US fabricated the evidence](https://thegrayzone.com/2020/01/02/opcw-leaks-expose-criminal-syria-cover-up-and-us-media-is-silent/), and used it justify the air-strike. [2](https://wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/document/Internal-OPCW-E-Mail/Internal-OPCW-E-Mail.pdf)
-- Starting in June 2017, photos and videos from Syrian civilians in Raqqa showed that the US-backed coalition in Syria was illegally using [white phosphorus](https://www.opendemocracy.net/north-africa-west-asia/josepha-ivanka-wessels/white-phosphorus-over-raqqa) in civilian areas. White phosphorus can burn human flesh down to the bone, and wounds can reignite up to days later. “No matter how white phosphorus is used, it poses a high risk of horrific and long-lasting harm in crowded cities like Raqqa and Mosul and any other areas with concentrations of civilians,” said [Steve Goose](https://www.hrw.org/about/people/stephen-goose), arms director at Human Rights Watch. One attack on an internet cafe killed at least 20 civilians, while other deaths are still being confirmed. One of those civilians killed was in the process of sending a report to Humans Rights Watch, when the cafe was struck. The US killed 273 syrian civilians in April, slightly more than the number killed by ISIS. A US attack in July killed another 50 civilians. In August, the US killed another 60+ civilians. [1](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/world/middleeast/raqqa-syria-white-phosphorus.html),[2](https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/06/14/iraq/syria-danger-us-white-phosphorus),[3](https://www.opendemocracy.net/north-africa-west-asia/josepha-ivanka-wessels/white-phosphorus-over-raqqa)
+- Starting in June 2017, photos and videos from Syrian civilians in Raqqa showed that the US-backed coalition in Syria was illegally using [white phosphorus](https://www.opendemocracy.net/north-africa-west-asia/josepha-ivanka-wessels/white-phosphorus-over-raqqa) in civilian areas. White phosphorus can burn human flesh down to the bone, and wounds can reignite up to days later. “No matter how white phosphorus is used, it poses a high risk of horrific and long-lasting harm in crowded cities like Raqqa and Mosul and any other areas with concentrations of civilians,” said [Steve Goose](https://www.hrw.org/about/people/stephen-goose), arms director at Human Rights Watch. One attack on an internet cafe killed at least 20 civilians, while other deaths are still being confirmed. One of those civilians killed was in the process of sending a report to Humans Rights Watch, when the cafe was struck. The US killed 273 syrian civilians in April, slightly more than the number killed by ISIS. A US attack in July killed another 50 civilians. In August, the US killed another 60+ civilians. On May 17th, 2020, [the US firebombed over 200 acres of wheat fields in Syria, leaving many food insecure.](https://www.ibtimes.sg/trump-ordered-us-forces-burn-hectares-wheat-field-syria-amid-covid-19-pandemicrussia-media-45482) [1](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/world/middleeast/raqqa-syria-white-phosphorus.html),[2](https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/06/14/iraq/syria-danger-us-white-phosphorus),[3](https://www.opendemocracy.net/north-africa-west-asia/josepha-ivanka-wessels/white-phosphorus-over-raqqa)
 - On April 4th, 2017, following the [Khan Shaykhun chemical attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Shaykhun_chemical_attack), Trump ordered an airstrike of 59 tomahawk cruise missiles (worth $70 million) fired at the Shayrat air base in Syria (one that Trump claims is the source of the chemical attack) in the [2017 Shayrat Missile Strike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Shayrat_missile_strike). This is the first attack by the US directly targeting [Ba'athist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Socialist_Ba%27ath_Party_%E2%80%93_Syria_Region) [Syrian government](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_government) forces, who are closely allied with Russia. Russian Prime Minister [Dimitry Medvedev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitry_Medvedev) said the attack brought the U.S. "within an inch" of clashing with the Russian military, and could've sparked a nuclear war. The attack was praised by US politicians on both sides of the aisle, as well >30 countries. Over 700 children have been killed US coalition airstrikes in Iraq and Syria since August 2014. The US conducted another airstrike against Syria on June 7th, 2017.[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Shayrat_missile_strike)
 - On March 21st, 2017, A US airstrike [killed at least 30 Syrian civilians](https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/middle-east/at-least-30-dead-after-air-strike-hits-syrian-school-1.3020369) in an airstrike on a school in the Raqqa province. The week before, 49 people were killed when US warplanes fired on a target in in the [2017 al-Jinah airstrike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_al-Jinah_airstrike), a village in western [Aleppo](https://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?tag_location=Aleppo&article=true) province. US officials said the attack had hit a building where al-Qaeda operatives were meeting, but residents said the warplanes had struck a mosque where hundreds of people had gathered for a weekly religious meeting. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_al-Jinah_airstrike)
 - On March 17th, 2017, A US airstrike killed ~112 civilians in Mosul, Iraq. In response, US Defense Secretary James Mattis said, "There is no military force in the world that is proven more sensitive to civilian casualties." [1](http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/27/middleeast/mosul-civilian-deaths/)
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ Notes :
 - In 1954, the CIA overthrows the democratically elected Guatemalen [Jacobo Árbenz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobo_%C3%81rbenz) in a [military coup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat) in [operation PBSucess](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_PBSuccess). Arbenz threatened to nationalize the Rockefeller-owned United Fruit Company, in which CIA Director Allen Dulles also owns stock. Arbenz is replaced with a series of US-backed right-wing dictators whose bloodthirsty policies will kill over 100,000 Guatemalans in the next 40 years, until 1996. The coup has been described as the definitive deathblow to democracy in Guatemala.[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat)
 - In 1953, A 2011 release of British intelligence files revealed that [US and British MI5 forces overthrew the government of Cheddi Jagan](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/26/mi5-files-coup-british-guiana), the elected leader of British Guyana. They showed how British spies kept up intense scrutiny on Cheddi Jagan and his wife Janet, who together founded the People's Progressive party (PPP) to campaign for workers' rights and independence from British rule for the sugar-producing colony in northern South America. Churchill and the US feared that the Jagans were communists, although MI5 found no foreign ties. Churchill dispatched a warship, HMS Superb, and brought hundreds of troops by air and sea to secure key sites. An outraged Cheddi Jagan appealed by telegram to Britain's opposition Labour party for help. Leader Clement Attlee replied curtly: "Regret impossible to intervene."
 - In 1941, the US used its contacts in the Panama National Guard, which the U.S. had earlier trained, to have the government of Panama overthrown in a bloodless coup. The U.S. had requested that the government of Panama allow it to build over 130 new military installations inside and outside of the [Panama Canal Zone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal_Zone), and the government of Panama refused this request at the price suggested by the U.S.
-- In [Smedley Butler's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler#The_Banana_Wars) (A former US general and medal of honor recipient) 1935 pamphlet, [War is a Racket](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket), he recounted his experience as being an agent of American Imperialism: “I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler#The_Banana_Wars)
+- In [Smedley Butler's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler#The_Banana_Wars) (A former US general and medal of honor recipient) 1935 pamphlet, [War is a Racket](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket), he recounted his experience as being an agent of American Imperialism: “I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler#The_Banana_Wars)
 - In 1928, the Columbian army killed ~800-3000 striking workers in Cienaga, Columbia, after the US threatened to invade with [U.S. Marine Corps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps) troops if the Colombian government did not act to protect the [United Fruit Company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company)'s interests, in the [Banana Massacre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_massacre). The banana plantation workers were demanding written contracts, eight-hour work days, six-day work weeks and the elimination of food coupons. The troops set up their machine guns on the roofs of the low buildings at the corners of the main square, closed off the access streets, and after a five-minute warning opened fire into a dense Sunday crowd of workers and their wives and children who had gathered, after Sunday Mass, to wait for an anticipated address from the governor. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_massacre)
 - From 1916-24, the [US occupied the Dominican Republic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_the_Dominican_Republic_(1916%E2%80%9324)), with repeated actions in 1903, 1904, and 1914. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_the_Dominican_Republic_(1916%E2%80%9324))
 - From 1915–34, [Haiti was occupied by the US](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_Haiti), which led to the creation of a new Haitian constitution in 1917 that instituted changes that included an end to the prior ban on land ownership by non-Haitians. Including the First and Second [Caco Wars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caco_Wars).[[13\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change#cite_note-13) At least 15,000 Haitians were killed. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_Haiti)
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 - The origins of US police lie in the [slave-catching patrols](https://medium.com/s/story/slavery-and-the-origins-of-the-american-police-state-ec318f5ff05b) of the 1700s.
 - The Obama era was one of the greatest decreases in working class and [black wealth](https://jacobinmag.com/2017/12/obama-foreclosure-crisis-wealth-inequality) in history: home equity decreased by ~$17k between 2007 and 2016. His housing policies led to millions losing their homes. While Wall street banks recieved $29 Trillion in bailouts, $75 Billion in relief was set aside for housing foreclosures and mortgage assistance. Instead of being paid to families, this was paid to mortgage servicers, and the services found ways to pocket the money and continue foreclosures: by the end of the program, less than 20% of the funds were used, and most had dropped out of the program due to foreclosures. The Obama administration refused to prosecute the fraud, or any of those responsible for the 2008 financial crisis.
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-- On May 25, 2020, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pinned George Floyd with his knee on Floyd's neck [for over 7 minutes](https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/05/26/george-floyd-man-dies-after-being-arrested-by-minneapolis-police-fbi-called-to-investigate/), killing him in a manner reminiscient of Eric Garner. Bystander Darnella Frazier [filmed the encounter](https://www.facebook.com/darnellareallprettymarie/posts/1425401580994277). During that time, Floyd moaned, sobbed, "Oh Mama, oh Mama," begged, "Please, please, I can't breathe, I can't breathe" at least 11 times. Other distressed witnesses joined in with "Bro, you've got him down, at least let him breathe, man," and, "He's not even resisting arrest ... he's human, bro." One of the cops responds, "This is why you don't do drugs, kids." After about four minutes, Floyd lost consciousness. Though a witness charged, "You just really killed that man, bro," Chavin kept his knee on Floyd's unmoving neck for another four minutes.
+- On May 25, 2020, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pinned George Floyd with his knee on Floyd's neck [for over 7 minutes](https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/05/26/george-floyd-man-dies-after-being-arrested-by-minneapolis-police-fbi-called-to-investigate/), killing him in a manner reminiscient of Eric Garner. Bystander Darnella Frazier [filmed the encounter](https://www.facebook.com/darnellareallprettymarie/posts/1425401580994277). During that time, Floyd moaned, sobbed, "Oh Mama, oh Mama," begged, "Please, please, I can't breathe, I can't breathe" at least 11 times. Other distressed witnesses joined in with "Bro, you've got him down, at least let him breathe, man," and, "He's not even resisting arrest ... he's human, bro." One of the cops responds, "This is why you don't do drugs, kids." After about four minutes, Floyd lost consciousness. Though a witness charged, "You just really killed that man, bro," Chavin kept his knee on Floyd's unmoving neck for another four minutes. Afterwards, protests erupted in dozens of US cities, [with over 50 cases of police brutality. ](https://nitter.net/i/status/1266751520055459847) Many police posed for US Media-friendly photo ops with protesters, then [immediately tear gassed, shot pepper balls, and cleared them from the area.](https://twitter.com/karaokecomputer/status/1267393445603115008?s=20) Over 11k people have been arrested, and several killed, including a 13 year old.
 - During the 2020 coravirus pandemic, it was found that a law that empowered police to arrest those for not social distancing, lead to [80% of those arrested being black and latino](https://www.bakersfield.com/ap/national/nyc-politicians-outraged-after-nypd-reveals-80-of-social-distancing-arrests-have-been-minorities/article_d7c6ff24-d527-50ca-9a52-643957422b32.html).
 - On October 12th, 2019, yet another police officer went into a home, and [shot and killed the inhabitant, 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson, in Fort Worth, TX.](https://www.fox4news.com/news/woman-fatally-shot-inside-her-home-by-fort-worth-officer) It began with a neighbor who called 911, after seeing a house with the door open - “When I made that non-emergency call, I didn’t say it was a burglary. I didn’t say it was people fighting. I didn’t say anything to make them have a gun. All they needed to do is ring the doorbell,” neighbor James Smith said. The officer has been placed on paid leave.
 - On June 12th, 2019, [US marshalls shot and killed 20 year old Brandon Webber](https://dailymemphian.com/section/metro/article/5619/Chaos-erupts-following-officer-involved-shooting-in-Frayser-area), as he was getting into his vehicle outside his home. The police have alternately claimed that he rammed them with his car, and that he was carrying a weapon, but aren't releasing details or dashcams. The killing provoked a [strong protest from the community](https://apnews.com/c290fd44dace4fe7b836110de77c1894), police used tear gas to disperse the crowd, and arrested three people. 36 cops were injured from flying rocks and bricks thrown by protestors. Mayor Strickland stated: "Let me be clear, the aggression shown towards our officers and deputies (Wednesday night) was unwarranted." Memphis police have a history of killings of young black men, including Darrius Stewart, an unarmed 19 year old shot and killed in 2015.