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E ndless US wars rage in multiple theaters, Trump continuing Bush/Cheney/Obama aggression against sovereign independent countries posing no threat to America or any other country. Civilians are harmed most in all wars. America and Israel consider them legitimate targets, massacring them mercilessly, accountability not forthcoming.
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STEPHEN LENDMAN
E ndless US wars rage in multiple theaters, Trump continuing Bush/Cheney/Obama aggression against sovereign independent countries posing no threat to America or any other country. Civilians are harmed most in all wars. America and Israel consider them legitimate targets, massacring them mercilessly, accountability not forthcoming.
The Pentagon admitted to killing 220 civilians in Iraq and Syria since bombings began in 2014 – a flagrant insult to many thousands indiscriminately massacred by US warplanes in both countries. A CENTCOM statement lied, saying “(a)lthough the Coalition takes extraordinary efforts to strike military targets in a manner that minimizes the risk of civilian casualties, in some incidents casualties are unavoidable.”
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Advancing America’s imperium alone matters, mass slaughter and destruction considered a small price to pay. Pentagon investigations of US war crimes when conducted are routinely whitewashed. Imperial powers never say they’re sorry. Last year, Amnesty International spuriously claimed only around 300 civilians were killed by US airstrikes in Syria. Thousands were massacred, countless numbers injured, many maimed for life, Iraqi civilians harmed the same way. The Airwars monitoring group way undercounted casualties from US-led coalition terror-bombing, claiming at least 2,463.
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Colin Powell once notoriously said “(w)e don’t do body counts.” He lied. The Pentagon estimates numbers killed, conceals accurate accounts, reveals what it wants the public to know – truth and full disclosure a nonstarter. Last month, a Military Times investigation revealed the Pentagon “failed to publicly disclose potentially thousands of lethal airstrikes conducted over several years in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.”
Concealing what’s going on “calls into question the accuracy of other Defense Department disclosures documenting everything from costs to casualty counts,” it said.
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Since the 1990s Balkan wars, culminating with the 1999 rape of Yugoslavia, to US aggression in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, complicit with Kiev against Donbass, partnered with Israeli wars on Palestine, millions of civilians perished from wars, related violence, preventable and treatable diseases, starvation and overall deprivation. Coverup and denial conceal the horrors of US imperial aggression – continuing seamlessly under Trump, America’s latest warrior president.
The NYT Dismisses a Potential Obamagate Scandal
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Throughout Obama’s tenure, The Times supported his criminality and other abuses of power – his imperial aggression in multiple theaters, subservience to Wall Street and other corporate favorites, crushing neoliberal harshness harming America’s most vulnerable, and police state ruthlessness. He let Big Brother spy on everyone legally and illegally at home and abroad – recording our phone and electronic communications with or without judicially authorized warrants. Is it out of the question to think he did nothing to interfere with Trump’s campaign, including monitoring his communications? One-sidedly supporting Hillary, he wanted him defeated by fair or foul means.
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The Times supported her throughout the campaign, operating as her virtual press agent, turning journalism into advocacy, inventing reasons to bash Trump viciously, not letting facts interfere with its all-out effort to defeat him. Vilifying him continues, a March 5 editorial, saying “(j)ust contemplate the recklessness – the sheer indifference to truth and the moral authority of the American presidency – revealed here: one president baselessly charging criminality by another, all in a childish Twitter rampage.”
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Fact: Trump’s accusation is serious, a major abuse of power if proved true. He surely believes it or wouldn’t have gone on a Twitter tirade claiming it.
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Fact: Irresponsible Times bluster continues its campaign to delegitimize him, shockingly wanting a sitting president ousted from office, likely seeking revenge for Hillary’s defeat.
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Investigations ongoing for months relating to potential unlawful Trump ties to Russia and its banks found nothing so far – a disgraceful witch-hunt to smear him for the wrong reasons, not the right ones. Conflating Trump’s accusation to nonexistent Russian US election hacking, Times editors claimed “Congress has no credible option but to convene a bipartisan select committee to investigate all questions related to Russian interference in the elections” – even though US intelligence community claims are baseless, no evidence proving them. None exists.
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Times editors outrageously urged senior Trump administration officials to reject their boss and resign, saying:
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They should stop “lending their names and exposing their reputations to a president with so little regard for democratic institutions, and for the truth” – a despicable statement by a broadsheet contemptuous of truth-telling, a propaganda mouthpiece for wealth, power and privilege.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
STEPHEN LENDMAN lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III." ( http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html ) Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
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