Seth Harp chronicles how Special Forces atrocities fuel a cycle of crime and violence that starts overseas and makes it way back home — especially in and around the secretive Fort Bragg military base.
Thank you for a thorough examination of the role that American special forces have played and is still playing in creating turmoil in other countries for the benefit of the United States.
It would appear that the paucity of intelligence in target selection is a deep concern with the author. In my view, even if these special forces operatives have identified the correct “target” and have killed the correct person as intended, the killing of that person is unlawful and immoral. My reasoning is based on the universal right of a people to defend themselves against an invading force, the United States. No amount of mendacity and sophistry can justify the US invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan for instance or the CIA orchestrated regime changes in so many countries. To be clear, the people of the “non-conforming” countries are killed in their tens of thousands so that the people of the USA could feel safe and secure and of course, to protect US interests, the catchall phrase for US imperialism. In this context, I cannot imagine that special forces operatives, drunk on hubris and drugs, would care one iota whether they are murdering their intended target or effectuating “collateral damage”. If the president of that country then elevates one such callous murderer, that has been excoriated by his own, to hero status, then humanity is in serious trouble, the genocide in Palestine not withstanding.
Ah, you mention Palestine... In the following quote:
"To be clear, the people of the 'non-conforming' countries are killed in their tens of thousands so that the people of the USA could feel safe and secure and of course, to protect US interests, the catchall phrase for US imperialism. In this context, I cannot imagine that special forces operatives, drunk on hubris and drugs, would care one iota whether they are murdering their intended target or effectuating 'collateral damage.'”
Thank you for your contributions. I would like to think that the greater part of humanity still values law and order. It is because of our innate sense of right and wrong that we still care enough to condemn the actions of our governments and the elites. I am sure that we share the same values however different our backgrounds. Keep on caring!
I suspect everyone knows at some level who America is, and what she has been doing in other countries since the end of WWII.........however, I don't think most of us have the imagination to visualize how she does it.
This interview is long, and chilling. It bears a resemblance to what has been happening in Gaza though........and in Gaza the darkness is out of the closet. In order to control other countries, in order to resource them, or save them from communism, or make sure they don't set up societies that threaten America with different ways of doing things.........a country has to create armed men.....and somehow convince them that wholesale slaughter is heroic.
Drugs help....in several ways. They fund the killing machine, they keep the killers in an 'altered state of unconsciousness, and they create supply chains that also disable any opposition on the home front.
That America's current fascist manufactured a drug crisis coming from Canada......and partially got away with it, is testament to how efficiently the American Empire makes victims of us all. We can see for ourselves the soul death that has gripped Israel, but I fear a similar spiritual cancer has been growing in America for as long as I've been alive.
America creates monsters, right out of the hero comics, they get their training abroad, and then come home to play the same games, God help the people who live there, around Fort Bragg.
So bottom line, murder is an integral part of US foreign policy... Leader of the free world. Beacon of democracy. I think Eisenhower used the OSS as a template for clandestine, covert warfare used in place of the expense of a large military that interestingly, ironically, he warned about in his "military-industrial complex" speech. In other words, still carry out the warfare against our "enemies," e.g., Latin Americans seeking to exercise sovereignty over their own destiny, only doing it on the cheap. Of course this led to the CIA, and all the psychopaths emanating therefrom to the present-day national security state.
As Derrick Jenson claimed years ago in his A COUNTRY OF MAKE BELIEVE....America has been fascist for a very long time. It's just that if you primarily export the bully boys in the service of American corporations waiting in the wings to 'resource' the country being disciplined..............so American's benefit indirectly........
And the death squads your evil School of the Americas trained don't exist for Americans.....until years later when these 'heros' of the 'free market' return home and vote for, find work in, what passes for a government in your great empire now.
The good thing about Trump and his crew of 'deplorables' is Americans are getting a pretty quick lesson in how fascism works. What those Hero comics were all about in actual fact. Most of us in what remains of the 'free world' aren't surprised that America supports Israel.....unconditionally.
Thank you again, Mr. Hedges, for laying bare the truly evil forces which command our empire. The degree to which we have succumbed to madness is stunning. And, literally, thank you for your service, Mr. Harp. God help us all.
On the evening of the day this appeared in inboxes it was announced that "Trump approves CIA operations in Venezuela". Right on schedule. My first reaction was, "what makes us think the CIA hasn't been operating there already?
To its credit, AlJazeera's announcement includes a lists of a few of America's crimes in Latin America. See
Everyone should read this article........the lives lost in Latin America because Americans were dumb enough to believe that any government committed to actually helping its people had to be 'communist'..........are a larger number than most Americans can comprehend.
Leftist governments across the region have been destroyed by the CIA. And what exactly is the threat to Americans??
1. American corporations won't be able to steal resources on the cheap from people far poorer than most Americans.
2. Poor Americans might get the idea that free health and education might be nice to have in America....a living wage might be a temptation to go commie as well.
STUPID LIARS AND CORPORATE THIEVES: In short, FREE MARKET CAPITALISM.
America spends more on WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION...than any other country. It's almost the only thing America manufactures any more. The planet is dying of American largesse........but from the sounds of this Chris Hedges interview, ITS BEEN GOOD FOR BUSINESS....especially the drug business.
Turns out, another failed war brought those advantages to Uncle Sam....Afghanistan you dummies......not Canada.
This has long been an open secret. Nobody cares, just as nobody in the Third Reich cared that the SS were an armed gang jacked up on pervitin (amphetamines), so long as that gang could be used on the enemies of the Reich.
The stupidest part of it being that it was the armed gangs that were the real enemies....their victims too often the very people who might have saved the country from militarism, war and eventual defeat.
The brutality of a gestapo...ICE....might be hard to resist....but cheering them on is usually the role of the ultimate big losers.
Rumble has now COMPLETELY ELIMINATED both Ian Carroll’s podcasts – a NEW and MAJOR step in silencing top opponents of Trump’s Israel First policy
Incredible evolution of Charlie Kirk (starts at 8.20 minute)
From a rabid genocide-denial Christian Zionist, that is a non-Christian a la Mike Huckabee -- to basic human decency and a true Christian – Rumble “cancelled” !!
Ian Carroll - The Truth About Israel's Genocide in Gaza – Oct 14, 2025
Can we come over and watch The Hedge Knight 2026 Drama Series George RR Martin's prequel to Game of Thrones 1998 Novel?
He has good descriptions of food. Tuf Voyaging, Dying of the Light, Song for Lya, Fevre Dream, Songs of Stars and Shadows, The Light of Distant Stars, The Hugo Award Losers Club Party?
Thank you for a thorough examination of the role that American special forces have played and is still playing in creating turmoil in other countries for the benefit of the United States.
It would appear that the paucity of intelligence in target selection is a deep concern with the author. In my view, even if these special forces operatives have identified the correct “target” and have killed the correct person as intended, the killing of that person is unlawful and immoral. My reasoning is based on the universal right of a people to defend themselves against an invading force, the United States. No amount of mendacity and sophistry can justify the US invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan for instance or the CIA orchestrated regime changes in so many countries. To be clear, the people of the “non-conforming” countries are killed in their tens of thousands so that the people of the USA could feel safe and secure and of course, to protect US interests, the catchall phrase for US imperialism. In this context, I cannot imagine that special forces operatives, drunk on hubris and drugs, would care one iota whether they are murdering their intended target or effectuating “collateral damage”. If the president of that country then elevates one such callous murderer, that has been excoriated by his own, to hero status, then humanity is in serious trouble, the genocide in Palestine not withstanding.
Ah, you mention Palestine... In the following quote:
"To be clear, the people of the 'non-conforming' countries are killed in their tens of thousands so that the people of the USA could feel safe and secure and of course, to protect US interests, the catchall phrase for US imperialism. In this context, I cannot imagine that special forces operatives, drunk on hubris and drugs, would care one iota whether they are murdering their intended target or effectuating 'collateral damage.'”
just substitute in "Israel" for "USA" or "US."
Thank you for your contributions. I would like to think that the greater part of humanity still values law and order. It is because of our innate sense of right and wrong that we still care enough to condemn the actions of our governments and the elites. I am sure that we share the same values however different our backgrounds. Keep on caring!
Of course the killings are unlawful. Law is meaningless. Enforcement is all that matters.
I suspect everyone knows at some level who America is, and what she has been doing in other countries since the end of WWII.........however, I don't think most of us have the imagination to visualize how she does it.
This interview is long, and chilling. It bears a resemblance to what has been happening in Gaza though........and in Gaza the darkness is out of the closet. In order to control other countries, in order to resource them, or save them from communism, or make sure they don't set up societies that threaten America with different ways of doing things.........a country has to create armed men.....and somehow convince them that wholesale slaughter is heroic.
Drugs help....in several ways. They fund the killing machine, they keep the killers in an 'altered state of unconsciousness, and they create supply chains that also disable any opposition on the home front.
That America's current fascist manufactured a drug crisis coming from Canada......and partially got away with it, is testament to how efficiently the American Empire makes victims of us all. We can see for ourselves the soul death that has gripped Israel, but I fear a similar spiritual cancer has been growing in America for as long as I've been alive.
America creates monsters, right out of the hero comics, they get their training abroad, and then come home to play the same games, God help the people who live there, around Fort Bragg.
Special Forces??? Indeed.
So bottom line, murder is an integral part of US foreign policy... Leader of the free world. Beacon of democracy. I think Eisenhower used the OSS as a template for clandestine, covert warfare used in place of the expense of a large military that interestingly, ironically, he warned about in his "military-industrial complex" speech. In other words, still carry out the warfare against our "enemies," e.g., Latin Americans seeking to exercise sovereignty over their own destiny, only doing it on the cheap. Of course this led to the CIA, and all the psychopaths emanating therefrom to the present-day national security state.
As Derrick Jenson claimed years ago in his A COUNTRY OF MAKE BELIEVE....America has been fascist for a very long time. It's just that if you primarily export the bully boys in the service of American corporations waiting in the wings to 'resource' the country being disciplined..............so American's benefit indirectly........
And the death squads your evil School of the Americas trained don't exist for Americans.....until years later when these 'heros' of the 'free market' return home and vote for, find work in, what passes for a government in your great empire now.
The good thing about Trump and his crew of 'deplorables' is Americans are getting a pretty quick lesson in how fascism works. What those Hero comics were all about in actual fact. Most of us in what remains of the 'free world' aren't surprised that America supports Israel.....unconditionally.
Thank you again, Mr. Hedges, for laying bare the truly evil forces which command our empire. The degree to which we have succumbed to madness is stunning. And, literally, thank you for your service, Mr. Harp. God help us all.
On the evening of the day this appeared in inboxes it was announced that "Trump approves CIA operations in Venezuela". Right on schedule. My first reaction was, "what makes us think the CIA hasn't been operating there already?
To its credit, AlJazeera's announcement includes a lists of a few of America's crimes in Latin America. See
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/16/trump-approves-cia-operations-in-venezuela-what-we-know-and-whats-next?UTM_Source=pnsOS&UTM_Medium=push&UTM_Campaign=standard
Everyone should read this article........the lives lost in Latin America because Americans were dumb enough to believe that any government committed to actually helping its people had to be 'communist'..........are a larger number than most Americans can comprehend.
Leftist governments across the region have been destroyed by the CIA. And what exactly is the threat to Americans??
1. American corporations won't be able to steal resources on the cheap from people far poorer than most Americans.
2. Poor Americans might get the idea that free health and education might be nice to have in America....a living wage might be a temptation to go commie as well.
STUPID LIARS AND CORPORATE THIEVES: In short, FREE MARKET CAPITALISM.
America spends more on WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION...than any other country. It's almost the only thing America manufactures any more. The planet is dying of American largesse........but from the sounds of this Chris Hedges interview, ITS BEEN GOOD FOR BUSINESS....especially the drug business.
Turns out, another failed war brought those advantages to Uncle Sam....Afghanistan you dummies......not Canada.
This has long been an open secret. Nobody cares, just as nobody in the Third Reich cared that the SS were an armed gang jacked up on pervitin (amphetamines), so long as that gang could be used on the enemies of the Reich.
The stupidest part of it being that it was the armed gangs that were the real enemies....their victims too often the very people who might have saved the country from militarism, war and eventual defeat.
The brutality of a gestapo...ICE....might be hard to resist....but cheering them on is usually the role of the ultimate big losers.
FYI -- Importanr:
Rumble has now COMPLETELY ELIMINATED both Ian Carroll’s podcasts – a NEW and MAJOR step in silencing top opponents of Trump’s Israel First policy
Incredible evolution of Charlie Kirk (starts at 8.20 minute)
From a rabid genocide-denial Christian Zionist, that is a non-Christian a la Mike Huckabee -- to basic human decency and a true Christian – Rumble “cancelled” !!
Ian Carroll - The Truth About Israel's Genocide in Gaza – Oct 14, 2025
https://rumble.com/v70bdjs-ian-carroll-the-truth-about-israels-genocide-in-gaza.html?e9s=src_v1_clr%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a
Ian Carroll - The Truth About Israel's Genocide in Gaza – Liberty Vault
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0usJI2r59Y
Can we come over and watch The Hedge Knight 2026 Drama Series George RR Martin's prequel to Game of Thrones 1998 Novel?
He has good descriptions of food. Tuf Voyaging, Dying of the Light, Song for Lya, Fevre Dream, Songs of Stars and Shadows, The Light of Distant Stars, The Hugo Award Losers Club Party?