WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA…Some of their dirty games, yet they point fingers at other countries.

1. The U.S. keeps a huge stockpile of nuclear weapons while urging other nations not to have them.

2. American decisions to go to war in Iraq were motivated at least partially by oil interests; for example, British newspaper The Independent reported that the "Bush administration is heavily involved in writing Iraq's oil law" which would "allow Western oil companies contracts to pump oil out of Iraq up to 30 years, and the profits would be tax-free.

3. The U.S. has been criticized for making statements supporting peace and respecting national sovereignty while carrying out military actions such as in Grenada, fomenting a civil war in Colombia to break off Panama, and Iraq.

4. The U.S. has been criticized for advocating free trade while protecting local industries with import tariffs on foreign goods such as lumber] and agricultural products.

5. The U.S. has also been criticized for advocating concern for human rights while refusing to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The U.S. has publicly stated that it is opposed to torture, but has been criticized for condoning it in the School of the Americas.

6. The U.S. has advocated a respect for national sovereignty but has supported internal guerrilla movements and paramilitary organizations, such as the Contras in Nicaragua. They have also supported the unilateral independence of Kosovo while also condemning other countries for unilateral independence, citing territorial integrity (Abkhazia, Crimea).

7. The U.S. has been criticized for voicing concern about narcotics production in countries such as Bolivia and Venezuela but does not follow through on cutting certain bilateral aid programs.

8. The U.S. has been criticized for not maintaining a consistent policy; it has been accused of denouncing alleged rights violations in China while supporting alleged human rights abuses by Israel.

9. The U.S. is advocating that Iran and North Korea should not develop nuclear weapons, while the U.S., the only country to have used nuclear weapons in warfare, maintains a nuclear arsenal of 5,113 warheads. However, this double standard is legitimated by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), to which Iran is a party.

10. The U.S. has been criticized for supporting dictatorships with economic assistance and military hardware. Particular dictatorships have included Musharraf of Pakistan, the Shah of Iran, Museveni of Uganda, warlords in Somalia, Fulgencio Batista of Cuba, Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam, Park Chung-hee of South Korea, Generalissimo Franco of Spain, António de Oliveira Salazar and Marcelo Caetano of Portugal, Melez Zenawi of Ethiopia, Augusto Pinochet in Chile, Alfredo Stroessner of Paraguay, Carlos Castillo Armas and Efraín Ríos Montt of Guatemala, Jorge Rafael Videla of Argentina,] Suharto of Indonesia, Georgios Papadopoulos of Greece, and Hissène Habré of Chad.


11. The United States was criticized for manipulating the internal affairs of foreign nations, including Ukraine,] Guatemala, Chile, Cuba, Colombia, various countries in Africa including Uganda.

12. One study indicated that the country most often intervening in foreign elections is the United States with 81 interventions from 1946 to 2000.