War Crimes & Military Atrocities
Drone Warfare Ethics: Killing by Remote Control
The U.S. has killed American citizens by drone without trial including a 16-year-old boy. The legal memos authorizing it remain partially classified. No charges filed.
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Independent history writing about the parts of the American record that get skipped. Every claim here is sourced — check the citations and argue with them.
War Crimes & Military Atrocities
POW Camps on American Soil
The U.S. held 425000 Axis prisoners in 700 camps during WWII — treating them better than Black American soldiers who guarded them. The racial contradiction was built-in.
War Crimes & Military Atrocities
The Nuclear Decision: Hiroshima Nagasaki and the Question That Never Ends
The atomic bombs killed up to 226000 civilians in two cities. Whether the decision was justified or a war crime is a debate historians have not resolved — and this article doesn't pretend otherwise.
War Crimes & Military Atrocities
Firebombing Debates: When America Burned Cities on Purpose
Operation Meetinghouse killed more people in one night than the Hiroshima bomb. General LeMay said he expected to be tried as a war criminal if the U.S. had lost.
War Crimes & Military Atrocities
Japanese Internment: When America Imprisoned Its Own Citizens
Executive Order 9066 sent 120000 Japanese Americans to internment camps in 1942. Two-thirds were U.S. citizens. The Supreme Court upheld it. It took 46 years for an apology.
War Crimes & Military Atrocities
American War Crimes: When the Good Guys Aren't
From the Philippine War to Abu Ghraib: the documented pattern of U.S. forces killing civilians and the accountability that always stopped at the lowest rank.
War Crimes & Military Atrocities
Abu Ghraib: The Photos That Showed What America Was Doing
The Abu Ghraib photos in 2004 documented systematic torture authorized from the top. Eleven soldiers were convicted. No officer above staff sergeant was charged.
War Crimes & Military Atrocities
No Gun Ri: The Korean War Massacre America Tried to Forget
U.S. soldiers killed up to 300 South Korean civilians at No Gun Ri in 1950. The Army denied it for 50 years then expressed regret — no charges filed.
War Crimes & Military Atrocities
Philippine-American War Atrocities: The Colonial War Nobody Talks About
The Philippine-American War killed up to 600000 Filipinos through combat and deliberate reconcentration policies. The general responsible was admonished and pensioned.
War Crimes & Military Atrocities
The My Lai Massacre: When American Soldiers Slaughtered a Village
American soldiers killed 347-504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians at My Lai in 1968. One soldier was convicted. The officers who built the system walked free.
Disasters With Dark Causes
Disasters With Dark Causes in American History
American disasters where the real cause was a human decision — from the Johnstown Flood in 1889 to the Flint water crisis in 2014 — collected in two series covering nine events and 3800 deaths.
Disasters With Dark Causes
Infrastructure Failures: The Cost of Cutting Corners
Three American infrastructure failures — the Hyatt Regency collapse the I-35W bridge and the Flint water crisis — share the same pattern: errors that oversight should have caught and accountability that never reached the decision-makers.