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https://www.globalresearch.ca/shock-awe-state-mind-millions-deaths-not-made-americans-safer/5742821

“Shock and Awe” Is a State of Mind: Millions of Deaths Have Not Made Americans Safer

That the United States likes to use expressions like “shock and awe” or “maximum pressure” would rather suggest that there is a psychopath working in the White House basement whose full-time job is to come up with pithy one-liners to somehow euphemize government bad behavior. The expressions hardly mean anything in and of themselves apart from “tough talk” but they do serve as an alternative to having to admit in plain language to the killing of millions of people since the Global War on Terror began in 2001. “Millions?” one might skeptically ask. Yes, millions if one includes all those killed directly or indirectly as a result of the wars. Direct victims of the violence number at least 157,000 in Afghanistan, 182,000 in Iraq, 400,000 in Syria and 25,000 in Libya. And if you want to go back a few years three million Vietnamese died in 1964-1975 while 2.5 million civilians were killed in Korea. And even in the “Good War” World War 2 there were unnecessary incidents to include the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that killed 105,000, the firebombing of Tokyo adding another 97,000, and the firebombing of Hamburg and Dresden that together killed 45,000.

An estimated ten million more civilians have been displaced from their homes since 2001, creating refugee crises in both Europe and the Americas, while trillions of dollars have also been wasted or “misplaced” by the geniuses at the Pentagon and in Congress. And some might reasonably argue that the violence taking place all around the world has also been internalized in the U.S., with mass murders surfacing in the news media every few days. Some argue that the United States has nearly always been at war since its founding, which would be true, but it is also correct to note that the nature of America’s lethal engagement with the rest of the world has changed in the past twenty years. Old wars were fought to expand territory and trade or to acquire colonies for the same purpose, meaning they were intended to increase one’s power and wealth. Since 9/11, however, the wars are being fought seemingly without any real identifiable objective while also inflicting significant losses in relative wealth and power on the United States.

The fundamental problem is that the United States is being led by a political and financial elite that has completely bought into a radical view that Americans have a “manifest destiny” to create an international order that is both plausibly democratic and rules-based that would as the theory goes benefit everyone. This is, of course, nonsense as the United States itself is becoming increasingly totalitarian while it also nurtures in its bosom anti-democratic states like Saudi Arabia and Israel.

The elite that might be blamed for many of the missteps of the past twenty years includes both liberals and conservatives, all of whom for one reason or another embrace America’s mission. There is, for example, little to differentiate the world views of Donald Trump appointees Mike Pompeo and John Bolton from those of the current foreign policy incumbent Tony Blinken, as all three men believe that the use of force is the completely acceptable ultimate response to recalcitrant nations and leaders.

Blinken shares the very same trait visible in Pompeo and Bolton, that they actually radiate a sense of moral superiority while implementing policies that result in the pointless deaths of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands and even millions of innocents. They occupy the bully pulpit as they sanctimoniously call for action regarding their “noble cause” of making the rest of the world both look like America while also deferring to Washington for direction and guidance.

Tony Blinken is not surprisingly a protégé of Bill Clinton’s former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who famously cackled that “it was worth it” when asked about the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children due to U.S. enforced sanctions on food and medicine. Somehow it seems that whenever one turns over a rock in the Democratic Party up pops someone connected with the Clintons. Blinken recently produced and tweeted out a bizarre video that attempts to explain the real “humanity” behind the current Syrian policy, which he helped to define and initiate working closely with Joe Biden while serving under President Barack Obama. It is a sanctions-plus military intervention construct that has, inevitably, resulted in the deaths and the displacements into Europe and the Middle East. The policy was from the beginning clearly intended to bring about “regime change” in Damascus even though the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad in no way threatened the United States.

Blinken tweeted: “When I think of the suffering of the Syrian people, including Syrian children, I think of my own two children. How could we not take action to help them? Our common humanity demands it. Shame on us if we don’t. We have to find a way to do something to take action to help people.” Blinken fails to mention that the blood of the Syrian children is largely on his hands, particularly as the U.S. and Israel effectively turned loose and otherwise supported the terrorist and separatist groups that killed so many Syrian civilians while also destroying entire towns, religious centers and many irreplaceable relics of the country’s history.

So Blinken is really a good guy, thinking about his own kids while mourning the deaths of so many Syrian boys and girls? No. If he really wanted to help those children, he would have announced that U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Syria immediately. He would have lifted sanctions on the country so that it can begin serious reconstruction, together with restoring access to food and needed medicines. He did nothing of the sort and clearly is fully on board with the agenda set over the past ten years by the neocons and their Israeli masters plus the “democracy promotion” at all costs wing in his own party.

And the real problem is that Syria is not alone. Blinken and his cohorts are also encouraging Ukraine’s irredentism which is close to bringing on a war with Russia while also poking China over Taiwan. And then there is also Venezuela which appears to need a regime change and the perennial problem with Iran. And Afghanistan? Blinken should realize that all the deaths of the children that so concern him could be avoided if he and those pulling his strings would adopt a more modest agenda and stay at home. We have enough problems in the United States, but then again, the hubris which has created a pointless foreign policy would likely be channeled to drive still more of the destructive impulses that are turning the country into a collective of hostile enclaves.

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https://stephenlendman.org/2021/04/us-censorship-rears-its-ugly-head-again/

US Censorship Rears its Ugly Head — Again

Supported by establishment media, US dark forces keep pushing the envelope for silencing what conflicts with the fabricated official narrative.

Last February, press agent for powerful interests NYT called for establishing a US Ministry of Truth headed by a “reality czar.”

Perhaps it had itself in mind for the job. It’s been featuring fake news mass deception since the 19th century.

All the news it claims fit to print isn’t fit to read in its daily propaganda editions — truth and full disclosure on major issues consistently suppressed.

The same goes for all establishment media, serving as collective press agents for wealth, power and privilege.

War on dissent in the US rages. Increasingly equating it to domestic terrorism is part of a diabolical plot to silence what’s most important for everyone to know.

Free and open societies in the US and West are on the chopping block for elimination.

Totalitarian rule enforced by police state harshness is the new abnormal, things heading toward full-blown tyranny if the current trend continues.

All rights are threatened by eroding speech, media and academic freedoms.

The Center for Constitutional Rights  earlier said: 

“The growing threat to the right to dissent has been demonstrated in the US government’s efforts to silence speech, and criminalize and target peaceful movements,” adding: 

“These efforts are becoming more aggressive, emboldened further by the Supreme Court’s increasingly conservative decisions, for instance regarding material support in the form of humanitarian aid to so-called terrorist organizations.”

Activism and dissent are increasingly threatened in the US and West – for freely expressing views dark forces want suppressed. 

Because of what I and others like me do, being shut down or falsely accused of domestic terrorism and abused like Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, and other truth-telling whistleblowers looms as a threat in no longer free and open Western societies.

Southfront.org calls itself “a public analytical umbrella organization created and maintained by a team of experts and volunteers…” 

It focuses on truth and full disclosure “on issues of international relations, armed conflicts and crises.”

It “provides military operations analysis, military posture of major world powers, and other important data influencing the growth of tensions between countries and nations.”

It “dig(s) out (hard) truth(s) dark forces and their press agent media suppress.

According to State Department fake news, Southfront is a “pillar” of Russian anti-US disinformation (sic).

On Thursday, the Biden regime’s Treasury Department reinvented Southfront, saying:

It’s an online disinformation site (sic) registered in Russia that receives taskings from the FSB (sic).” 

“It attempts to appeal to military enthusiasts, veterans, and conspiracy theorists, all while going to great lengths to hide its connections to Russian intelligence (sic).” 

“In the aftermath of the 2020 US presidential election, SouthFront sought to promote perceptions of voter fraud by publishing content alleging that such activity took place during the 2020 US presidential election cycle (sic).”

Left unexplained by Treasury was that brazen fraud handed the nation’s highest office to loser Biden over winner Trump.

Southfront is an independent truth-telling group unconnected to any governments.

Claiming otherwise is an intimidating tactic aimed at demonizing and silencing vital information and analysis that deviates from official narrative fake news.

No matter what US and allied dark forces do to try silencing truth and full disclosure, they’ll always be independent groups and individuals involved in explaining what everyone has a right to know.

Operating pro bono, I’m proud to be an independent writer involved in truth-telling on cutting edge domestic and geopolitical issues.

Fighting the good fight for peace, equity and justice, according to the rule of law, is what my activism is all about.

I stand forthrightly with Southfront and others reporting accurately about what everyone has a right to know.

I deplore dark forces in the US, West, and elsewhere — responsible for the highest of high crimes in pursuit of their diabolical interests.

As long as my health and energy hold out, I’ll continue at what I know is the right thing to do.