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#It's article on left-wing conspiracy theorist John Pilger uncritically regurgitates his claim that the US and UK armed and aided the Khmer Rouge, without ever mentioning the "very substantial" libel damages he had to pay in England for promulgating the fantasy.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pilger#Vietnam</ref>

#It's article on left-wing conspiracy theorist John Pilger uncritically regurgitates his claim that the US and UK armed and aided the Khmer Rouge, without ever mentioning the "very substantial" libel damages he had to pay in England for promulgating the fantasy.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pilger#Vietnam</ref>

#Its article on "Covert US Regime Change" explicitly denied that any human rights violations had ever been committed by the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua at all--until August 18,2010.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Covert_United_States_foreign_regime_change_actions&diff=379631015&oldid=379603484</ref>  On September 3, most of the changes were censored on the grounds that they were "irrelevant" "allegations".<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Covert_United_States_foreign_regime_change_actions&action=history</ref>  Wikipedia has endorsed the results of the rigged 1984 election, as well.  Its article on the election repeats conspiracy theories from discredited genocide deniers like Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman in support of the ridiculous claim.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_general_election,_1984</ref>

#Its article on "Covert US Regime Change" explicitly denied that any human rights violations had ever been committed by the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua at all--until August 18,2010.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Covert_United_States_foreign_regime_change_actions&diff=379631015&oldid=379603484</ref>  On September 3, most of the changes were censored on the grounds that they were "irrelevant" "allegations".<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Covert_United_States_foreign_regime_change_actions&action=history</ref>  Wikipedia has endorsed the results of the rigged 1984 election, as well.  Its article on the election repeats conspiracy theories from discredited genocide deniers like Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman in support of the ridiculous claim.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_general_election,_1984</ref>

#In the nineties, the "Progressive South Asia Exchange Net," claiming to cite an article in Le Nouvel Observateur, asserted that U.S. policy in Afghanistan during the seventies was part of a larger strategy of aiming "to induce a Soviet military intervention" in that country by arming the mujahideen prior to the Soviet invasion.<ref>http://www.proxsa.org/resources/9-11/Brzezinski-980115-interview.htm</ref> Declassified government documents have proven this allegation was a lie:  Two declassified documents signed by Carter shortly before the invasion do authorize the provision "unilaterally or through third countries as appropriate support to the Afghan insurgents either in the form of cash or non-military supplies" and the "worldwide" distribution of "non-attributable propaganda" to "expose" the leftist Afghan government as "despotic and subservient to the Soviet Union" and to "publicize the efforts of the Afghan insurgents to regain their country's sovereignty," but the records also show that the provision of arms to the rebels did not begin until 1980.<ref>http://www.activistmagazine.com/images/stories/government/carter_79-1581.jpg</ref><ref>http://www.activistmagazine.com/images/stories/government/carter_79-1579.jpg</ref>  Unbelievably, Wikipedia has repeatedly and profusely endorsed this baseless assertion over and over again in every article it has on the Soviet war in Afghanistan (except its main article on Afghanistan, which a mainstream audience might read).  Its article on National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski stated as a ''fact'' that he oversaw "the arming of the mujahedeen in Afghanistan to fight against the Soviet-allied Afghan government to increase the probability of Soviet invasion and later entanglement in a Vietnam-style war" as recently as May 24, 2010.  Attempts to edit this claim on "Covert US Regime Change" were censored, though not removed entirely, on September 3, 2010.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Covert_United_States_foreign_regime_change_actions&diff=382589083&oldid=382588359</ref>  Things got so bad that Wikipedia's article on Brzezinski claimed that he was a "Luciferian eugenicist" and a "supervillain, faux-sorcerer" and "vampire" on June 23, 2010.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zbigniew_Brzezinski&diff=369643368&oldid=369642935</ref>  In reality, Leonid Brezhnev publicly stated that the Soviet offensive was the culmination of a change in the "global correlation of forces" resulting from US defeat in the Vietnam War<ref>http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2007/0823iraq_rodman.aspx</ref>, an NSC working group on Afghanistan wrote several reports on the deteriorating situation in 1979--but President Carter ignored them until the Soviet intervention destroyed his illusions<ref>Zbigniew Brzezinski, Power and Principle (1981)</ref>, Pakistan had actually been pressuring the United States for arms to aid the rebels for years but the Carter administration refused to provide them in the hope of finding a diplomatic solution<ref>Bob Gates, Out of the Shadows</ref>, the State Department went to extraordinary lengths to deter the Soviet invasion and "would never have undertaken a program to encourage it"<ref>http://www.thenation.com/article/blowback-prequel</ref>, Brzezinski recounted that he repeatedly advanced proposals on how to maintain Afghanistan's "independence" and deter a Soviet invasion but was frustrated by the State Department's opposition as well as its publicly aired claim that he sought to "revive" the Cold War, and Jimmy Carter's Vice-President [[Walter Mondale]] declared: "I cannot understand -- it just baffles me -- why the Soviets these last few years have behaved as they have.  Maybe we have made some mistakes with them. Why did they have to build up all these arms? Why did they have to go into Afghanistan? Why can't they relax just a little bit about Eastern Europe? Why do they try every door to see if it is locked?"<ref>http://www.csmonitor.com/1981/0310/031029.html</ref>. The interview cited to justify claims to the contrary was an utter fabrication.<ref>http://www.activistmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1110&Itemid=143</ref>

#In the nineties, the "Progressive South Asia Exchange Net," claiming to cite an article in Le Nouvel Observateur, asserted that U.S. policy in Afghanistan during the seventies was part of a larger strategy of aiming "to induce a Soviet military intervention" in that country by arming the mujahideen prior to the Soviet invasion.<ref>http://www.proxsa.org/resources/9-11/Brzezinski-980115-interview.htm</ref> Declassified government documents have proven this allegation was a lie:  Two declassified documents signed by Carter shortly before the invasion do authorize the provision "unilaterally or through third countries as appropriate support to the Afghan insurgents either in the form of cash or non-military supplies" and the "worldwide" distribution of "non-attributable propaganda" to "expose" the leftist Afghan government as "despotic and subservient to the Soviet Union" and to "publicize the efforts of the Afghan insurgents to regain their country's sovereignty," but the records also show that the provision of arms to the rebels did not begin until 1980.<ref>http://www.activistmagazine.com/images/stories/government/carter_79-1581.jpg</ref><ref>http://www.activistmagazine.com/images/stories/government/carter_79-1579.jpg</ref>  Unbelievably, Wikipedia has repeatedly and profusely endorsed this baseless assertion over and over again in every article it has on the Soviet war in Afghanistan (except its main article on Afghanistan, which a mainstream audience might read).  Its article on National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski stated as a ''fact'' that he oversaw "the arming of the mujahedeen in Afghanistan to fight against the Soviet-allied Afghan government to increase the probability of Soviet invasion and later entanglement in a Vietnam-style war" as recently as May 24, 2010.  Attempts to edit this claim on "Covert US Regime Change" were censored, though not removed entirely, on September 3, 2010.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Covert_United_States_foreign_regime_change_actions&diff=382589083&oldid=382588359</ref>  Things got so bad that Wikipedia's article on Brzezinski claimed that he was a "Luciferian eugenicist" and a "supervillain, faux-sorcerer" and "vampire" on June 23, 2010.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zbigniew_Brzezinski&diff=369643368&oldid=369642935</ref>  In reality, Leonid Brezhnev publicly stated that the Soviet offensive was the culmination of a change in the "global correlation of forces" resulting from US defeat in the Vietnam War,<ref>http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2007/0823iraq_rodman.aspx</ref> an NSC working group on Afghanistan wrote several reports on the deteriorating situation in 1979--but President Carter ignored them until the Soviet intervention destroyed his illusions,<ref>Zbigniew Brzezinski, Power and Principle (1981)</ref> Pakistan had actually been pressuring the United States for arms to aid the rebels for years but the Carter administration refused to provide them in the hope of finding a diplomatic solution,<ref>Bob Gates, Out of the Shadows</ref> the State Department went to extraordinary lengths to deter the Soviet invasion and "would never have undertaken a program to encourage it,"<ref>http://www.thenation.com/article/blowback-prequel</ref> Brzezinski recounted that he repeatedly advanced proposals on how to maintain Afghanistan's "independence" and deter a Soviet invasion but was frustrated by the State Department's opposition as well as its publicly aired claim that he sought to "revive" the Cold War, and Jimmy Carter's Vice-President [[Walter Mondale]] declared: "I cannot understand -- it just baffles me -- why the Soviets these last few years have behaved as they have.  Maybe we have made some mistakes with them. Why did they have to build up all these arms? Why did they have to go into Afghanistan? Why can't they relax just a little bit about Eastern Europe? Why do they try every door to see if it is locked?".<ref>http://www.csmonitor.com/1981/0310/031029.html</ref>  The interview cited to justify claims to the contrary was an utter fabrication.<ref>http://www.activistmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1110&Itemid=143</ref>

#Wikipedia's Brzezinski article contains numerous other fabrications.  Here's another actual quote (from the current version):  "In 1981 Brzezinski revealed that he encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. This was part of a wider policy of forcing the Vietnamese out of Cambodia by funding anti-Vietnamese guerrilla groups that the U.S. helped create.[42] Between 1979 and 1981, the World Food Program, which was under US influence, provided nearly $12 million in food aid to Thailand. Much of this aid made its way to the Khmer Rouge.[43] In January 1980 the US started funding Pol Pot while he was in exile. The extent of this support was $85 million from 1980 to 1986.[44] Brzezinski's support of the Khmer Rouge was a continuation of the friendly relations the US had with the Khmer Rouge during the presidency of Gerald Ford. Kissinger had already asked Thailand's foreign minister in 1975 to tell the Khmer Rouge that the US would be friends with them.[45] Brzezinski himself however denied that his administration helped China fund Pol Pot in a letter he sent to the New York Times in 1998.[46]"<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Brzezinski#Cambodia</ref>  The problem?  Their source is an article titled "How Thatcher Gave Pol Pot A Hand" by the afore-mentioned John Pilger, who had to pay libel damages for asserting the truth of its thesis.

#Wikipedia's Brzezinski article contains numerous other fabrications.  Here's another actual quote (from the current version):  "In 1981 Brzezinski revealed that he encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. This was part of a wider policy of forcing the Vietnamese out of Cambodia by funding anti-Vietnamese guerrilla groups that the U.S. helped create.[42] Between 1979 and 1981, the World Food Program, which was under US influence, provided nearly $12 million in food aid to Thailand. Much of this aid made its way to the Khmer Rouge.[43] In January 1980 the US started funding Pol Pot while he was in exile. The extent of this support was $85 million from 1980 to 1986.[44] Brzezinski's support of the Khmer Rouge was a continuation of the friendly relations the US had with the Khmer Rouge during the presidency of Gerald Ford. Kissinger had already asked Thailand's foreign minister in 1975 to tell the Khmer Rouge that the US would be friends with them.[45] Brzezinski himself however denied that his administration helped China fund Pol Pot in a letter he sent to the New York Times in 1998.[46]"<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Brzezinski#Cambodia</ref>  The problem?  Their source is an article titled "How Thatcher Gave Pol Pot A Hand" by the afore-mentioned John Pilger, who had to pay libel damages for asserting the truth of its thesis.

#Until June 10, 2010, Wikipedia's "Soviet War in Afghanistan" article explicitly stated that the US was the aggressor in the war and that it "induced" the Soviet military intervention.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan&diff=367239161&oldid=367194601</ref>

#Until June 10, 2010, Wikipedia's "Soviet War in Afghanistan" article explicitly stated that the US was the aggressor in the war and that it "induced" the Soviet military intervention.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan&diff=367239161&oldid=367194601</ref>