Myth of the 20th Century: Unfriendly Fire – a History of False Flags

According to the BBC, “a false flag is a political or military action carried out with the intention of blaming an opponent for it. Nations have often done this by staging a real or simulated attack on their own side and saying the enemy did it, as a pretext for going to war. The term was first used in the 16th Century to describe how pirates flew the flag of a friendly nation to deceive merchant ships into allowing them to draw near.” Tonight we review some of the more disturbing examples of this phenomenon perpetrated by the US government not against a foreign entity, but rather against its own citizens, whom they are ostensibly sworn to protect.