1. Name the ONLY country in the world to have used atomic bombs in warfare, dropping them on civilian populations of another country.

a. Russia

b. China

c. Iran

d. USA

2. In March 2022, Russia launched its illegal and murderous invasion of Ukraine. In response, the U.S. has used the people of Ukraine as cannon fodder in its rivalry with Russia. One of the following statements is false.

a. NATO, the anti-Russian military alliance led by the U.S., has brought many Eastern European and Baltic countries bordering or close to Russia into the alliance over the last 30 years.

b. U.S. government officials have openly stated that their goal in supporting Ukraine is to weaken Russia and even bring down Putin.

c. Russia has military alliances with Mexico and Canada, right on the northern and southern borders of the U.S.

d. The U.S. has refused to renounce use of nuclear weapons if the conflict escalates to direct war with Russia.

3. Recently, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, charging him with war crimes. Biden said, “He’s clearly committed war crimes... I think it’s justified.” Which one of the following statements is true?

a. America does not have a history of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

b. America has been a proud signatory to the ICC since the Court was established in 2002.

c. America has turned over generals and presidents for trial who have ordered and presided over such crimes as the murder of over two million Vietnamese, the invasion and occupation of Iraq based on lies, illegal detentions at the Guantánamo military prison, and systematic torture as carried out at Abu Ghraib military prison in Iraq.

d. The U.S. is not even a signatory to the ICC, and has opposed the ICC precisely because it could subject U.S. presidents, officials, and generals to war crimes investigations and trials. [War crimes constitute an extensive enumeration of crimes committed against civilians and prisoners of war during wartime.]

4. The U.S. Congress held hearings about TikTok as a national security risk—claiming that user data could be going into the hands of the Chinese government. One of the following statements is false, which is it?

a. The Congressional hearings provided mounds of evidence that TikTok is in fact sharing U.S. user data with the Chinese government.

b. In 2022, the ACLU released documents revealing that U.S. government agencies had purchased private user location data to aid its brutal immigration and deportation policies.

c. Democrats and Republicans joined together in an ugly display of xenophobic, anti-Chinese hysteria and the proposed ban on TikTok is part of the intensifying great-power rivalry between the U.S. and China.

d. In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) had a vast surveillance operation involving direct access to the private information of users of Google, Facebook, Apple, and other systems of U.S. Internet giants. Facing a lifetime in prison for his whistle-blowing, Snowden fled the U.S.

5. Bonus question: answer yes or no.

This is the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. In fact, the list of countries against which the U.S. has carried out illegal interventions, invasions or occupations includes Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Honduras, Panama, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Indonesia, Laos, Korea, Cambodia and Vietnam. “Yes” or “No”: The world would be far better off if we made a revolution in the U.S to put an end to U.S. capitalism-imperialism.