60 Minutes CBS (5/12/1996): Interviewer Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: "We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?" [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he elite of Wall Street’s speculative investment banking must see profit and power for capital accumulation in reestablishing its former control over Yemen, perhaps the poorest nation in the world. Yemen is a nation with a strong cultural heritage and proud Islamic integrity. Perhaps if it was less so, many thousands of lives of children of Yemen would not have been taken and continue to be taken by USA through the bombing of its lackey Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The resiliency of the Yemeni under attack is fierce. The USA has been fueling, arming and target selecting for the Saudi airstrikes for three years. In November 2017, Save the Children reported that 130 children were dying every day, with 50,000 children already believed to have died in 2017. The U.N. officials said more than 20 million people, including 11 million children, are in need of urgent assistance, with 7 million totally dependent on food assistance. The U.N. has called it the “worst humanitarian crisis in the world.” (- As yours truly reports this story of yet another bloody US ‘foreign policy,’ a 2008 TV video clip of Rev. Jeremiah Wright auto interjects here, “God bless America? No, no, God damn America for her crimes against humanity!”) - crimes then, and not ‘foreign policy.’ In November of 2017, the United Nations urged the Saudi-led coalition to allow the U.N. humanitarian flights to Aden and Sanaa to resume, and to reopen the blockaded ports of Hodeida and Salif for food and medical deliveries. UN officials said, A recent air strike that targeted a school bus and killed forty children finally brought some solemn criminal mainstream media coverage, but no one familiar with US history would expect mercy or justice from Americans, because murdering children by the millions for money and power is a recognized American way of life. The bomb is very similar to the one that wreaked devastation in an attack on a funeral hall in Yemen in October 2016 in which 155 people were killed and hundreds more wounded. In March of that year, a strike on a Yemeni market -- this time reportedly by a US-supplied precision-guided MK 84 bomb -- killed 97 people.” To bad the Texans working for Lockheed Martin could not have known where this bomb was destined to explode. If they had known, they might have been able to personalize the bomb by writing on the side of the bomb, next to where the manufacturer’s brand name, Lockheed Martin, is stamped, the names of the kids that would be vaporized or blown to pieces, e.g. ‘to Ali and Mohammad and Mehmet and Aabidah (means 'worshipper' in Arabic) and Azhar (flower) and Dannia (beautiful)’ and the names of the other thirty-four darling little Yemeni children. USA! USA! The American Way! The killing of millions of children must all be urgently talked about everywhere. When it becomes a topic of conversation inside and outside the home all over the world, something will be done, not before. First put a stop to it. Afterward justice. Postscript The question might equally be asked regarding each dead Korean child or each Laotian, Vietnamese, Cambodian child, of each child who was killed in its own various Latin American or African country, and since 9/11, each Pakistani, Afghani, Iraqi, Somali, Libyan, South Sudanese, and Yemeni, child, all so precious and lovely while they were alive during the time allotted to them by destiny and the military necessities of Americans. Below are seven multiple answers to the question — how many Americans does it take to collaterally slaughter1 a child during an undeclared American war on some of each child’s countrymen? Syria! Through America’s elite speculative investors’ CIA control, not only over the US government, but through critical power and influence, so many other nations’ governments, over the last eight years tens of thousands of terrorist recruits of the Saudi Arabia based Wahhabi sect Islamic State have entered Syria through Turkey and Jordan, continually armed to the teeth and provided with brand new Toyota trucks indirectly or directly by the US. At the same time CIA fed criminal Western media successfully sees to its viewers listeners and readers preposterously believing that the US military was fighting this terrorist army (while seeing to it being armed with anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons to better fight the Syria Army). A quarter of a million Syrian children have lost their lives in this US created ‘civil war.’ No mercy possible from racist capitalist colonial neocolonial capitalist USA imperialism. The same Islamic State and sundry other terrorist armies were created to conquer Shiites in Iraq and elsewhere because powerful Shiite Iran, with all its oil and independence, is a designated enemy of Israel and must be destroyed as Iraq and Libya were. Seven years ago your author had published Syria: CIA, M16, French, Mossad, Saudi Involvement Unreported In Imperialist Media Countercurrents, 6/27/2011 Published this year: No Uprising Gaddafi Loved by Libyans Confessed Italian PM Berlusconi As Italian NATO Planes Bombed OpEdNews, 2/14/2018 Published in 2011,: There Was No Libyan Peaceful Protest, Just Murderous Gangs and CNN Nic Robertson countercurrents.org Kerala, India 6/16/2011 https://countercurrents.org/janson160611.htm Madeleine Albright, a former Head of the New York Stock Exchange, must think that she knows the value of half a million dead Iraqi children. Afghanistan! An in depth study and day by day chronicle of events unreported from the beginning of and earlier CIA-fed Western media coverup: Carter Had CIA Armed Fundamentalist Terrorists War Against Afghan Women's Liberation & Education OpEdNews, 12/22/2010. A CIA covert cruel attack on the people of Afghanistan as a pawn in the Cold War gave birth to US backed civil war, 8 yrs of Soviet military intervention, 11 yrs of terrorist war lord devastation; 5 yrs of Taliban restoration of peace, 10 yrs of US invasion/occupation war. Who can stop the gunning down of Taliban as if they, and not David Rockefeller's wealthy America, had 9/11 guilt for creating al-Qaida? Jimmy Carter could! Somalia! The nearly twenty years of US NATO UN war against what was a popular conservative Islamic Courts government that has surly taken more than a million children’s lives from military action and starvation are chronicled in Merciless US NATO UN Genocide in Somalia Brought Nairobi Shopping Mall Blowback!Opednews, 10/14/2013 South Sudan! Since 2014 the CIA is assumed to be funding a rebellion that has taken tens of thousands of lives of children. See: April 5, 2017, Thomas Mountain, CounterPunch, South Sudan “Rebels” and the CIA: Show Me the Money! The reader will surly remember the greatest Holocaust in proportion amount taking of children’s lives in Korea, Congo, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Central America and then the Middle East, all excused and forgotten in CIA-fed Western media. The US began this horrendous journey in Korea. At least a million beloved Korean babies and children were killed when Koreans put their country back together again after the United States had cut it in half and installed a murderous dictator, whose secret police and special forces massacred 100,000 Korean communists, socialists unionists, members of the Korean government the US Army overthrew and anyone who fought against the division of Korea. Before the northern Korean government's military forces easily liberated the south in one month with little opposition and some good deal of welcoming. In response, to the North Korean invasion (of what had been the southern part of their own country), " bombed and napalmed cities, towns and villages across the North. The bombing was long, leisurely and merciless, even by the assessment of America's own leaders. "Over a period of three years or so, we killed off -- what -- 20 percent of the population," said Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay, bombed everything that moved in North Korea, every brick standing on top of another." After running low on urban targets, U.S. bombers destroyed hydroelectric and irrigation dams in the later stages of the war, flooding farmland and destroying crops. Although the ferocity of the bombing was criticized as racist and unjustified elsewhere in the world, it was never a big story back home. All the US invasions and bombings to bring about regime change since 1945, when the UN adopted the Nuremberg Principles of International Law into the UN Charter, were illegal, and some day, after the UN is reorganized under democratic principles, the USA and its partners will face mega massive lawsuits over the taking of many millions of children’s lives, the maiming of other millions and destroying the childhood of even more millions orphaned. Humanity must not to look for mercy or justice from within the USA or Europe. It is money that has long come to take up all space in the hearts of those espousing Western civilization. And here below is an example of Western ‘democratic’ values currently still ongoing: $2,000 for a Dead Afghan Child $100,000 for Any American Who Died Killing it www.uruknet.info/?p=555946/30/2009 Uruknet After the airstrike which the Afghan government claimed killed well over a hundred ordinary country folk, came the report that the families of those killed, and subsequent Afghani dead falling in harms way of the US military, can apply to receive up to $2,000 compensation. This is the price the great United States of American puts on an Afghan or Pakistan human being, while awarding $100,000 to families of Americans who die while fighting and killing wherever. Does not the entire population of the world accept Western domination to the point of allowing the mass murder of children by Americans and American led coalitions without calling for implementation of international law? Why does no one speak up? All delegates to the UN General Assembly Debate of 2015, heralded the 60th Anniversary of the United Nations, but no delegate even mentioned that 2015 was the same 60th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Principles of International Law being adopted into the UN Charter. Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark states that by Article Six of the US Constitution, The Nuremberg Principles of International Law are part of the law of the land, yet even nations under various forms of attack from the United States government never quote the Nuremberg Principles or the Convention on Genocide. Things to ponder While our media prostitutes, many Hollywood celebs, and politicians and opinion shapers make so much noise about the still to be demonstrated damage done by the Russkies to our nonexistent democracy, this is what the sanctimonious US government has done overseas just since the close of World War 2. And this is what we know about. Many other misdeeds are yet to be revealed or documented. Parting shot—a word from the editors In his zeal to prove to his antagonists in the War Party that he is as bloodthirsty as their champion, Hillary Clinton, and more manly than Barack Obama, Trump seems to have gone “play-crazy” -- acting like an unpredictable maniac in order to terrorize the Russians into forcing some kind of dramatic concessions from their Syrian allies, or risk Armageddon.However, the “play-crazy” gambit can only work when the leader is, in real life, a disciplined and intelligent actor, who knows precisely what actual boundaries must not be crossed. That ain’t Donald Trump -- a pitifully shallow and ill-disciplined man, emotionally handicapped by obscene privilege and cognitively crippled by white American chauvinism. By pushing Trump into a corner and demanding that he display his most bellicose self, or be ceaselessly mocked as a “puppet” and minion of Russia, a lesser power, the War Party and its media and clandestine services have created a perfect storm of mayhem that may consume us all.— Glen Ford, Editor in Chief, Black Agenda Report
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price–we think the price is worth it."
2. It takes two Americans — one on the ground to call in the coordinates for a strike, the other in the air, or half a world away sitting in a facility somewhere in the U.S. Mid-Wests, to fix the cross hairs on the area where the child is.
Capitalism's Warplanes: CIA & al Qaeda Destroy Socialist Libya's 53rd Highest Living Standard OpEdNews, 4/21/2011
As many as 576,000 Iraqi children may have died since the end of the Persian Gulf war because of economic sanctions imposed by the Security Council, according to two scientists who surveyed the country for the Food and Agriculture Organization.
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Things to ponder While our media prostitutes, many Hollywood celebs, and politicians and opinion shapers make so much noise about the still to be demonstrated damage done by the Russkies to our nonexistent democracy, this is what the sanctimonious US government has done overseas just since the close of World War 2. And this is what we know about. Many other misdeeds are yet to be revealed or documented. Parting shot—a word from the editors In his zeal to prove to his antagonists in the War Party that he is as bloodthirsty as their champion, Hillary Clinton, and more manly than Barack Obama, Trump seems to have gone “play-crazy” -- acting like an unpredictable maniac in order to terrorize the Russians into forcing some kind of dramatic concessions from their Syrian allies, or risk Armageddon.However, the “play-crazy” gambit can only work when the leader is, in real life, a disciplined and intelligent actor, who knows precisely what actual boundaries must not be crossed. That ain’t Donald Trump -- a pitifully shallow and ill-disciplined man, emotionally handicapped by obscene privilege and cognitively crippled by white American chauvinism. By pushing Trump into a corner and demanding that he display his most bellicose self, or be ceaselessly mocked as a “puppet” and minion of Russia, a lesser power, the War Party and its media and clandestine services have created a perfect storm of mayhem that may consume us all.— Glen Ford, Editor in Chief, Black Agenda Report
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I don’t know how to explain this entirely, but I don’t agree with a narrative that is “Caucasian” vs everyone else. As if the power elite really care about poor, pale-skinned people. It makes it seem the author hasn’t experienced being poor, working poor, in the US. When I look at US aggression, I consider Russia, Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Serbia, Greece… You know, if the Arctic were populated, it would be by a pale people. And if the Arctic had the resources Africa and the ME does, it would be a target. If it were Socialist, and not home to “elites”,… Read more »