De kans op een ander Hiroshima is na 75 jaar groter dan ooit

John Pilger, journalist, schrijver en filmmaker heeft een artikel geschreven op Information Clearing House over de illegale aanval met een atoombom op 6 augustus 1945 van de VS op de Japanse stad Hiroshima, waarvan hij stelt dat deze weer kan gebeuren als we de VS niet weten te stoppen.... Let wel: nu met kernwapens vele malen sterker dan de atoombommen die destijds werden gebruikt op Hiroshima en Nagasaki..... Bij de VS atoomaanval op Hiroshima werden in 1 seconde 80.000 mensen vermoord, intussen zijn er naar schatting 250.000 mensen overleden aan die vreselijke misdaad tegen de menselijkheid...... Pilger wijst in zijn schrijven op China als toekomstig doel voor een eventuele kernaanval van de VS....... 

Een in steen 'gegroefde' schaduw van één van de slachtoffers in Hiroshima......

Pilger verhaalt over zijn bezoeken aan Hiroshima en plekken waar na WOII bovengrondse kernproeven werden gehouden. Voorts wijst hij op alle leugens van de VS die werden en worden verteld om de eerste en tot u nu toe enige aanvallen met een atoombom te bagatelliseren en deze aanvallen te rechtvaardigen.....

De schaduw is alles wat nog over is van deze kinderen die tijdens de atoomaaanval op Hiroshima werden verpulverd......

De pers was in 1945 en de eerste jaren daarna niet vrij om te melden wat zich had voltrokken in Hiroshima (en een paar dagen later in Nagasaki). Zo haalt Pilger de Australische journalist Wilfred Burchett aan die op 5 september 1945 in de Londense krant Daily Express meldde dat hij bij de ziekenhuizen, voor Hiroshima slachtoffers, mensen zag die geen zichtbare verwondingen hadden, maar stierven als vliegen aan wat hij de 'atomic plague' ('atoomplaag') noemde..... Burchett wilde met zijn relaas de wereld waarschuwen voor het gebruik van de atoombom.... Voor zijn schrijven werd Burchetts accreditatie ingenomen (toestemming om te mogen berichten uit Japan) en werd hij te schande gemaakt waarbij zijn naam werd besmeurd, zijn getuigenis over de waarheid werd hem nooit vergeven.....

Hiroshima 6 augustus 1945........

Op 13 september 1945 meldde de New York Times op haar voorpagina dat er geen radioactieve besmetting was de meten in de ruïnes van Hiroshima.... Generaal Farrell ontkende categorisch dat er sprake is van blijvende gevaarlijke radioactieve straling door het gebruik van de atoombom, aldus 'journalist' Willam H. Lawrence......Uiteraard een leugen van enorme proporties......

Al 75 jaar lang wordt aan andere leugen in de lucht gehouden, de leugen dat de aanvallen op Hiroshima en Nagasaki nodig waren om een eind aan WOII en aan het sterven van VS militairen te maken, terwijl er meer dan voldoende bewijs voorhanden is waaruit blijkt dat Japan zich al veel eerder wilde overgeven en dat zelfs met zware consequenties voor het Japanse bewind........ 

Op Radio1 en BNR amper aandacht voor de atoomaanval op Hiroshima, dit in tegenstelling tot bijvoorbeeld de Duitse radio nieuwszenders, al liet men op WDR5 vanmorgen nog eens de leugen horen dat de atoomaanvallen op Hiroshima en Nagasaki nodig waren om een eind aan de oorlog te maken

Henry Stimpson, destijds minister van oorlog liet de toenmalige president Truman zelfs weten dat de luchtmacht van de VS haar vernietigende werk zo grondig had gedaan dat hij bang was dat er zelfs geen steden over waren om de atoombom op uit te proberen....... Truman liet een dag na de aanval op Hiroshima weten dat het experiment was gelukt, hoeveel bewijs wil je verder nog voor de totaal afwezige reden om atoombommen af te werpen op Hiroshima en Nagasaki...???

Atoomproef op Marshall Eilanden juli 1946

Dat uitproberen van atoombommen ging zover dat de VS op 1 maart 1954 op het Bikini atol de eerste waterstofbom (H-bom) liet ontploffen, echter waar de bevolking van dit atol werd gevacueerd, werd een latere test met zo'n bom op het atol Rongelap uitgevoerd zonder de bevolking te evacueren (terwijl men wist dat deze mensen het slachtoffer zouden worden van deze proef, o.a. door de windrichting), de gevolgen waren dan ook vreselijk: doodgeboren baby's en baby's met vreselijke misvormingen, als een paar voorbeelden van de gevolgen van deze proef...... Voorts overleden grote aantallen mensen aan diverse kankers als gevolg van deze test en nog steeds hebben overlevenden te maken met de gevolgen van deze enorme 'dierproef op mensen....' 

De wetenschappers en medici die de bevolking onderzochten na de proef met een H-bom, noemden deze mensen 'meegaande wilden', terwijl die wetenschappers en medici dondersgoed wisten dat deze mensen ('wilden') werden gebruikt als proefdioeren om te zien wat de effecten zijn op de gezondheid van mensen die te maken zouden krijgen met de fallout, als gevolg van een kernoorlog......

 Een paar van de slachtoffers van deze kernproeven:

Pilger gebruikte e.e.a. in zijn film 'The Comin War with China', waarvoor hij het Bikini atol bezocht waar zogezegd de eerste H-bom werd uitgeprobeerd en nog steeds is de radioactieve straling daar veel te hoog…....

Pilger wijst in zijn artikel nog eens op de wil van de VS het kernwapen te gebruiken. De Koude Oorlog strateeg Herman Kahn schreef het boek 'Thinking about the unthinkable', een boek over een te winnen thermonucleaire oorlog. De RAND Corporation, een instituut dat de oorlogen heeft gepland die de VS sinds Vietnam heeft gevoerd, bracht een studie uit met de titel 'War with China: Thinking Through the Unthinkable', een studie in opdracht van het Pentagon...... Vergeet daarnaast niet de uiterst achterlijke vraag van Trump toen hij net aan het bewind was: 'we hebben kernwapens, waarom gebruiken we ze niet?' 

Al moet ik toegeven dat het wat betreft oorlogszucht en de inzet van kernwapens bij de Democraten niet veel beter is gesteld, gezien de hiervoor aangehaalde uitspraak van Obama dat ook hij het kernwapen niet langer ziet als een vergeldings- of afschrikkingswapen, maar als een wapen dat hij desnoods als eerste in zou zetten...... En ja, ook Obama is niet alleen de eerste president die de volle 2 termijnen in oorlogen was verwikkeld, maar hij begon ook nog eens 2 illegale oorlogen, die tegen Libië en Syrië, bovendien zijn hij en zijn minister van buitenlandse zaken destijds, Hillary Clinton, direct verantwoordelijk voor de oorlog in Oost-Oekraïne....... (Hillary Clinton organiseerde en betaalde de coup tegen de democratisch gekozen president Janoekovitsj, dit kostte de VS 4 miljard dollar!! De megalomane psychopaat Clinton wilde overigens de Stille Oceaan hernoemen en had daar de American Sea voor in gedachten, zo blijkt uit het artikel van Pilger....)  

We moeten van alle kernwapens af, om te beginnen met de kernwapens die liggen opgeslagen op luchtmachtbasis Volkel, kernwapens waarover Nederland zelfs geen zeggenschap heeft, maar waarvoor ons land wel als één van de eerste doelen zal dienen als de VS zo gek zou zijn om China dan wel Rusland aan te vallen met kernwapens...... Ex-president van de VS Obama (tevens winnaar van de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede.....), de huidige president Trump, ex-premier van Groot-Brittannië May en de huidige premier Johnson, hebben zich het recht toegeëigend als eerste het kernwapen te gebruiken, dus niet langer als vergeldingswapen, of als wapen ter afschrikking van 'buitenlandse agressie.....' (wie zijn er internationaal vooral agressief?? Juist, het westen onder aanvoering van de VS!!) Daarmee is het gebruik van het kernwapen dichterbij dan ooit tevoren..... Men heeft zelfs tactische kernwapens ontwikkeld die gebruikt kunnen worden op het slagveld (beter: slachtveld..), echter elk gebruik van een kernwapen zal leiden tot gebruik van meer en zwaardere kernwapens en daarmee zal het voortbestaan van de mens op het spel komen te staan...

Hoe is het mogelijk dat onze opvolgende regeringen met de partijen CDA, VVD, PvdA, D66 en ChristenUnie (en heel even de PVV), akkoord zijn gegaan met de opslag van kernwapens waar het geen zeggenschap over heeft.... Regeringen die het gebruik van deze massavernietigingswapens overlaten aan een staat die na het eind van WOII (maar inclusief de aanvallen op Hiroshima en Nagasaki) bekend staat als de grootste oorlogsmisdadiger, die na die oorlog de ene na de andere illegale oorlog is begonnen, waarbij tot nu toe ruim meer dan 22,5 miljoen mensen werden vermoord..... (en dat niet zelden met de hulp van andere NAVO-lidstaten als Nederland......) Sterker nog: een paar van die regeringen zijn verantwoordelijk voor de keus van de JSF, puur en alleen omdat die nepstraaljagers de opgeslagen kernwapens van Volkel kunnen vervoeren en afwerpen....... En dan te bedenken dat de VS het enige land is dat ooit atoombommen heeft gebruikt tegen een burgerbevolking, aanvallen die we vandaag en op 9 augustus herdenken als enorme oorlogsmisdaden en verschrikkelijke misdaden tegen de menselijkheid (9 augustus 1945: de atoomaanval op Nagasaki)......

Alle kernwapens moeten als de donder weg uit Nederland!! De hoogste tijd dat ook Rutte 3 (NB met 2 christelijke partijen!!) kiest voor de mensheid en niet voor een niet te winnen kernoorlog!!

Voor het volgende artikel heb je aan het eind de mogelijkheid te klikken voor een 'Dutch vertaling', dat neemt wel enige tijd in beslag (denk aan tientallen seconden, niet minuten):

Another Hiroshima is Coming… Unless We Stop It Now

By John Pilger

July 04, 2020 "Information Clearing House" - When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open.

At a quarter past eight on the morning of August 6, 1945, she and her silhouette were burned into the granite.

I stared at the shadow for an hour or more, then I walked down to the river where the survivors still lived in shanties.

I met a man called Yukio, whose chest was etched with the pattern of the shirt he was wearing when the atomic bomb was dropped.

He described a huge flash over the city, “a bluish light, something like an electrical short”, after which wind blew like a tornado and black rain fell. “I was thrown on the ground and noticed only the stalks of my flowers were left. Everything was still and quiet, and when I got up, there were people naked, not saying anything. Some of them had no skin or hair. I was certain I was dead.”

Nine years later, I returned to look for him and he was dead from leukaemia.
“No radioactivity in Hiroshima ruin” said The New York Times front page on 13 September, 1945, a classic of planted disinformation. “General Farrell,” reported William H. Lawrence, “denied categorically that [the atomic bomb] produced a dangerous, lingering radioactivity.”

Only one reporter, Wilfred Burchett, an Australian, had braved the perilous journey to Hiroshima in the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing, in defiance of the Allied occupation authorities, which controlled the “press pack”.

“I write this as a warning to the world,” reported Burchett in the London Daily Express  of September 5,1945. Sitting in the rubble with his Baby Hermes typewriter, he described hospital wards filled with people with no visible injuries who were dying from what he called “an atomic plague”.

For this, his press accreditation was withdrawn, he was pilloried and smeared. His witness to the truth was never forgiven.

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was an act of premeditated mass murder that unleashed a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of America’s war propaganda in the 21st century, casting a new enemy, and target – China.
During the 75 years since Hiroshima, the most enduring lie is that the atomic bomb was dropped to end the war in the Pacific and to save lives.

“Even without the atomic bombing attacks,” concluded the United States Strategic Bombing Survey of 1946, “air supremacy over Japan could have exerted sufficient pressure to bring about unconditional surrender and obviate the need for invasion. “Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts, and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey’s opinion that … Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war [against Japan] and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.”

The National Archives in Washington contains documented Japanese peace overtures as early as 1943. None was pursued. A cable sent on May 5, 1945 by the German ambassador in Tokyo and intercepted by the US made clear the Japanese were desperate to sue for peace, including “capitulation even if the terms were hard”. Nothing was done.

The US Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, told President Truman he was “fearful” that the US Air Force would have Japan so “bombed out” that the new weapon would not be able “to show its strength”. Stimson later admitted that “no effort was made, and none was seriously considered, to achieve surrender merely in order not to have to use the [atomic] bomb”.

Stimson’s foreign policy colleagues — looking ahead to the post-war era they were then shaping “in our image”, as Cold War planner George Kennan famously put it — made clear they were eager “to browbeat the Russians with the [atomic] bomb held rather ostentatiously on our hip”. General Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project that made the atomic bomb, testified: “There was never any illusion on my part that Russia was our enemy, and that the project was conducted on that basis.”

The day after Hiroshima was obliterated, President Harry Truman voiced his satisfaction with the “overwhelming success” of “the experiment”.

The “experiment” continued long after the war was over. Between 1946 and 1958, the United States exploded 67 nuclear bombs in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific: the equivalent of more than one Hiroshima every day for 12 years.

The human and environmental consequences were catastrophic. During the filming of my documentary, The Coming War on China, I chartered a small aircraft and flew to Bikini Atoll in the Marshalls. It was here that the United States exploded the world’s first Hydrogen Bomb. It remains poisoned earth. My shoes registered “unsafe” on my Geiger counter. Palm trees stood in unworldly formations. There were no birds.

I trekked through the jungle to the concrete bunker where, at 6.45 on the morning of March 1, 1954, the button was pushed. The sun, which had risen, rose again and vaporised an entire island in the lagoon, leaving a vast black hole, which from the air is a menacing spectacle: a deathly void in a place of beauty.

The radioactive fall-out spread quickly and “unexpectedly”. The official history claims “the wind changed suddenly”. It was the first of many lies, as declassified documents and the victims’ testimony reveal.

Gene Curbow, a meteorologist assigned to monitor the test site, said, “They knew where the radioactive fall-out was going to go. Even on the day of the shot, they still had an opportunity to evacuate people, but [people] were not evacuated; I was not evacuated… 
The United States needed some guinea pigs to study what the effects of radiation would do.”

Like Hiroshima, the secret of the Marshall Islands was a calculated experiment on the lives of large numbers of people. This was Project 4.1, which began as a scientific study of mice and became an experiment on “human beings exposed to the radiation of a nuclear weapon”.

The Marshall Islanders I met in 2015 — like the survivors of Hiroshima I interviewed in the 1960s and 70s — suffered from a range of cancers, commonly thyroid cancer; thousands had already died. Miscarriages and stillbirths were common; those babies who lived were often deformed horribly.

Unlike Bikini, nearby Rongelap atoll had not been evacuated during the H-Bomb test. Directly downwind of Bikini, Rongelap’s skies darkened and it rained what first appeared to be snowflakes.  Food and water were contaminated; and the population fell victim to cancers. That is still true today.

I met Nerje Joseph, who showed me a photograph of herself as a child on Rongelap. She had terrible facial burns and much of her was hair missing. “We were bathing at the well on the day the bomb exploded,” she said. “White dust started falling from the sky. I reached to catch the powder. We used it as soap to wash our hair. A few days later, my hair started falling out.”

Lemoyo Abon said, “Some of us were in agony. Others had diarrhoea. We were terrified. We thought it must be the end of the world.”

US official archive film I included in my film refers to the islanders as “amenable savages”. In the wake of the explosion, a US Atomic Energy Agency official is seen boasting that Rongelap “is by far the most contaminated place on earth”, adding, “it will be interesting to get a measure of human uptake when people live in a contaminated environment.”

American scientists, including medical doctors, built distinguished careers studying the “human uptake’. There they are in flickering film, in their white coats, attentive with their clipboards. When an islander died in his teens, his family received a sympathy card from the scientist who studied him.

I have reported from five nuclear “ground zeros” throughout the world — in Japan, the Marshall Islands, Nevada, Polynesia and Maralinga in Australia. Even more than my experience as a war correspondent, this has taught me about the ruthlessness and immorality of great power: that is, imperial power, whose cynicism is the true enemy of humanity.

This struck me forcibly when I filmed at Taranaki Ground Zero at Maralinga in the Australian desert. In a dish-like crater was an obelisk on which was inscribed: “A British atomic weapon was test exploded here on 9 October 1957”. On the rim of the crater was this sign:

WARNING: RADIATION HAZARD 

Radiation levels for a few hundred metres
around this point may be above those considered
safe for permanent occupation.

For as far as the eye could see, and beyond, the ground was irradiated. Raw plutonium lay about, scattered like talcum powder: plutonium is so dangerous to humans that a third of a milligram gives a 50 per cent chance of cancer.

The only people who might have seen the sign were Indigenous Australians, for whom there was no warning. According to an official account, if they were lucky “they were shooed off like rabbits”.

Today, an unprecedented campaign of propaganda is shooing us all off like rabbits. We are not meant to question the daily torrent of anti-Chinese rhetoric, which is rapidly overtaking the torrent of anti-Russia rhetoric. Anything Chinese is bad, anathema, a threat: Wuhan …. Huawei. How confusing it is when “our” most reviled leader says so.

The current phase of this campaign began not with Trump but with Barack Obama, who in 2011 flew to Australia to declare the greatest build-up of US naval forces in the Asia-Pacific region since World War Two. Suddenly, China was a “threat”. This was nonsense, of course. What was threatened was America’s unchallenged psychopathic view of itself as the richest, the most successful, the most “indispensable” nation.

What was never in dispute was its prowess as a bully — with more than 30 members of the United Nations suffering American sanctions of some kind and a trail of the blood running through defenceless countries bombed, their governments overthrown, their  elections interfered with, their resources plundered.

Obama’s declaration became known as the “pivot to Asia”. One of its principal advocates was his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who, as WikiLeaks revealed, wanted to rename the Pacific Ocean “the American Sea”.

Whereas Clinton never concealed her warmongering, Obama was a maestro of marketing.”I state clearly and with conviction,” said the new president in 2009, “that America’s commitment is to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.”

Obama increased spending on nuclear warheads faster than any president since the end of the Cold War. A “usable” nuclear weapon was developed. Known as the B61 Model 12, it means, according to General James Cartwright, former vice-chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that “going smaller [makes its use] more thinkable”.

The target is China. Today, more than 400 American military bases almost encircle China with missiles, bombers, warships and nuclear weapons. From Australia north through the Pacific to South-East Asia, Japan and Korea and across Eurasia to Afghanistan and India, the bases form, as one US strategist told me, “the perfect noose”.

A study by the RAND Corporation – which, since Vietnam, has planned America’s wars – is 
entitled War with China: Thinking Through the Unthinkable. Commissioned by the US Army, the authors evoke the infamous catch cry of its chief Cold War strategist, Herman Kahn – “thinking the unthinkable”. Kahn’s book, On Thermonuclear War, elaborated a plan for a “winnable” nuclear war.

Kahn’s apocalyptic view is shared by Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, an evangelical fanatic who believes in the “rapture of the End”. He is perhaps the most dangerous man alive. “I was CIA director,” he boasted, “We lied, we cheated, we stole. It was like we had entire training courses.”  Pompeo’s obsession is China.

The endgame of Pompeo’s extremism is rarely if ever discussed in the Anglo-American media, where the myths and fabrications about China are standard fare, as were the lies about Iraq. A virulent racism is the sub-text of this propaganda. Classified “yellow” even though they were white, the Chinese are the only ethnic group to have been banned by an “exclusion act” from entering the United States, because they were Chinese. Popular culture declared them sinister, untrustworthy, “sneaky”, depraved, diseased, immoral.

An Australian magazine, The Bulletin, was devoted to promoting fear of the “yellow peril” as if all of Asia was about to fall down on the whites-only colony by the force of gravity.

As the historian Martin Powers writes, acknowledging China’s  modernism, its secular morality and “contributions to liberal thought threatened European face, so it became necessary to suppress China’s role in the Enlightenment debate …. For centuries, China’s threat to the myth of Western superiority has made it an easy target for race-baiting.”

In the Sydney Morning Herald, tireless China-basher Peter Hartcher described those who spread Chinese influence in Australia as “rats, flies, mosquitoes and sparrows”. Hartcher, who favourably quotes the American demagogue Steve Bannon, likes to interpret the “dreams” of the current Chinese elite, to which he is apparently privy. These are inspired by yearnings for the “Mandate of Heaven” of 2,000 years ago. Ad nausea.

To combat this “mandate”, the Australian government of Scott Morrison has committed one of the most secure countries on earth, whose major trading partner is China, to hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of American missiles that can be fired at China.

The trickledown is already evident. In a country historically scarred by violent racism towards Asians, Australians of Chinese descent have formed a vigilante group to protect delivery riders. Phone videos show a delivery rider punched in the face and a Chinese couple racially abused in a supermarket. Between April and June, there were almost 400 racist attacks on Asian-Australians.  

“We are not your enemy,” a high-ranking strategist in China told me, “but if you [in the West] decide we are, we must prepare without delay.” China’s arsenal is small compared with America’s, but it is growing fast, especially the development of maritime missiles designed to destroy fleets of ships.

“For the first time,” wrote Gregory Kulacki of the Union of Concerned Scientists, “China is discussing putting its nuclear missiles on high alert so that they can be launched quickly on warning of an attack… This would be a significant and dangerous change in Chinese policy…”

In Washington, I met Amitai Etzioni, distinguished professor of international affairs at George Washington University, who wrote that a “blinding attack on China” was planned, “with strikes that could be mistakenly perceived [by the Chinese] as pre-emptive attempts to take out its nuclear weapons, thus cornering them into a terrible use-it-or-lose-it dilemma [that would] lead to nuclear war.”

In 2019, the US staged its biggest single military exercise since the Cold War, much of it in high secrecy. An armada of ships and long-range bombers rehearsed an “Air-Sea Battle Concept for China” – ASB – blocking sea lanes in the Straits of Malacca and cutting off China’s access to oil, gas and other raw materials from the Middle East and Africa.

It is fear of such a blockade that has seen China develop its Belt and Road Initiative along the old Silk Road to Europe and urgently build strategic airstrips on disputed reefs and islets in the Spratly Islands.

In Shanghai, I met Lijia Zhang, a Beijing journalist and novelist, typical of a new class of outspoken mavericks. Her best-selling book has the ironic title Socialism Is Great! Having grown up in the chaotic, brutal Cultural Revolution, she has travelled and lived in the US and Europe. “Many Americans imagine,” she said, “that Chinese people live a miserable, repressed life with no freedom whatsoever. The [idea of] the yellow peril has never left them… They have no idea there are some 500 million people being lifted out of poverty, and some would say it’s 600 million.”

Modern China’s epic achievements, its defeat of mass poverty, and the pride and contentment of its people (measured forensically by American pollsters such as Pew) are wilfully unknown or misunderstood in the West. This alone is a commentary on the lamentable state of Western journalism and the abandonment of honest reporting.
China’s repressive dark side and what we like to call its “authoritarianism” are the facade we are allowed to see almost exclusively. It is as if we are fed unending tales of the evil super-villain Dr. Fu Manchu. And it is time we asked why: before it is too late to stop the next Hiroshima.

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The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Information Clearing House.

See also

Atomic Bombing at 75: Truman’s ‘Human Sacrifice’ to Subdue Moscow

In case you missed it: Hiroshima Cover-up: How the War Department's Timesman Won a Pulitzer

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Zie ook:
'Hiroshima en Nagasaki 74 jaar later: tijd om eindelijk de bom te bannen en de VS agressie tegen Rusland te onderzoeken'

'Hiroshima, monument van VS agressie'

'Bijna 70 atoomtesten later: straling op Marshalleilanden hoger dan in Tsjernobyl' 

Voor meer VS terreur:
'VS vermoordde meer dan 20 miljoen mensen sinds het einde van WOII........' Tot het jaar 2000, deze eeuw zijn er intussen meer dan 2,5 miljoen moorden aan toe te voegen, moorden begaan door de VS en de NAVO (waar deze terreurorganisatie onder militair opperbevel stond en staat van de VS...)....

'VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen..........'

'List of wars involving the United States'

'CIA 70 jaar: 70 jaar moorden, martelen, coups plegen, nazi's beschermen, media manipulatie enz. enz.........'

Voor meer berichten over Hiroshima en Nagasaki, klik op het betreffende label, direct onder dit bericht.

PS: hoorde vanmiddag op WDR dat Japan de grootste hoeveelheid plutonium ter wereld bezit en dat in een land dat overal onderhevig is aan aardbevingen........

Hiroshima en Nagasaki 74 jaar later: tijd om eindelijk de bom te bannen en de VS agressie tegen Rusland te onderzoeken

Vandaag is het 74 jaar geleden dat een atoombom van de VS volkomen zinloos een eind aan het leven maakte van 80.000 inwoners van Nagasaki, dit nadat de VS deze vreselijke oorlogsmisdaad en misdaad tegen de menselijkheid 3 dagen eerder beging tegen de Japanse stad Hiroshima*, daarbij kwamen 146.000 mensen op een vreselijke manier om het leven, hoofdzakelijk burgers dus kinderen, vrouwen, gehandicapten, ouden van dagen en mannen, mannen die werkzaam waren in ziekenhuizen, scholen, lokale overheid en in het bedrijfsleven.....

De schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel van CounterPunch is Alice Slater. Zij wijst i.v.m de herdenkingen dezer dagen van de atoomaanvallen op Hiroshima en Nagasaki, op de ernstig verslechterende relatie van de VS met Rusland, al helemaal wat betreft kernwapens, waar de VS en de NAVO categorisch weigeren in te gaan op een uitnodiging van Rusland om de raketten te inspecteren, de raketten waarvan de VS zegt dat ze het INF-verdrag schenden, iets dat Rusland met klem ontkent.......

Het is dan ook duidelijk dat de VS zelf af wil van het verdrag, dat ze overigens zelf hebben geschonden met het zogenaamde raketschild tegen Iraanse raketten, een scherm gestationeerd in Polen en Roemenië, dus bijna aan de voordeur van Rusland...... De raketten van dit schild kunnen in een mum van tijd worden voorzien van meerdere kernkoppen, waarmee ze onder het INF-verdrag vallen en een stad als Moskou in korte tijd kunnen platleggen.......

De Trump administratie denkt werkelijk een nucleaire oorlog te kunnen winnen, dat moet Trump eens duidelijk uitleggen aan zijn achterban, benieuwd of ze dan nog zo enthousiast zijn als ze erachter komen dat zij zullen worden opgeofferd in geval van een kernoorlog..........

Trump vroeg zich een paar jaar geleden af waarom de VS kernraketten heeft en deze niet gebruikt...... (de psychopathisch moordende rotschoft)

Lees het bericht van Slater, waarin zij nog dieper op deze materie ingaat, waaruit duidelijk wordt dat de VS nooit van zins is geweest om haar atoomkracht werkelijk terug te schalen en zegt het voort. Het is de hoogste tijd dat we met z'n allen weer de straat opgaan en eisen dat de VS kernbommen worden verwijderd uit (Noord-) West-Europa en het voormalig Oostblok..... Als het tot een kernoorlog komt tussen agressor VS en Rusland, zal dit gebied in Europa worden weggevaagd....... Zie wat dat betekent door je te verdiepen in wat de atoombommen in Hiroshima en Nagasaki hebben betekend voor de bewoners van die steden, waar nog steeds mensen lijden aan de gevolgen daarvan, al is dat de generatie die na de bom werd geboren, als ik me niet vergis is de laatste overlevende een paar jaar terug overleden....

AUGUST 8, 2019

Hiroshima Unlearned: Time to Tell the Truth About US Relations with Russia and Finally Ban the Bomb

by ALICE SLATER

Photograph Source: U.S. Navy Public Affairs Resources Website – Public Domain

August 6th and 9th mark 74 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where only one nuclear bomb dropped on each city caused the deaths of up to 146,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 people in Nagasaki. Now, with the US decision to walk away from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force (INF) negotiated with the Soviet Union, we are once again staring into the abyss of one of the most perilous nuclear challenges since the height of the Cold War.

With its careful verification and inspections, the INF Treaty eliminated a whole class of missiles that threatened peace and stability in Europe. Now the US is leaving the treaty on the grounds that Moscow is developing and deploying a missile with a range prohibited by the treaty. Russia denies the charges and accuses the US of violating the treaty.  The US rejected repeated Russian requests to work out the differences in order to preserve the Treaty.

The US withdrawal should be seen in the context of the historical provocations visited upon the Soviet Union and now Russia by the United States and the nations under the US nuclear “umbrella” in NATO and the Pacific. The US has been driving the nuclear arms race with Russia from the dawn of the nuclear age:

— In 1946 Truman rejected  Stalin’s offer to turn the bomb over to the newly formed UN under international supervision, after which the Russians made their own bomb;

–Reagan rejected Gorbachev’s offer to give up Star Wars as a condition for both countries to eliminate all their nuclear weapons when the wall came down and Gorbachev released all of Eastern Europe from Soviet occupation, miraculously, without a shot;

— The US pushed NATO right up to Russia’s borders, despite promises when the wall fell that NATO would not expand it one inch eastward of a unified Germany;

–Clinton bombed Kosovo, bypassing Russia’s veto in the UN Security Council and violating the UN treaty we signed never to commit a war of aggression against another nation unless under imminent threat of attack;

–Clinton refused Putin’s offer to each cut our massive nuclear arsenals to 1000 bombs each and call all the others to the table to negotiate for their elimination, provided we stopped developing missile sites in Romania;

–Bush walked out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and put the new missile base in Romania with another to open shortly under Trump in Poland, right in Russia’s backyard;

–Bush and Obama blocked any discussion in 2008 and 2014 on Russian and Chinese proposals for a space weapons ban in the consensus-bound Committee for Disarmament in Geneva;

–Obama’s rejected Putin’s offer to negotiate a treaty to ban cyber war;

–Trump now walked out of the INF Treaty;

–From Clinton through Trump, the US never ratified the 1992 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty as Russia has, and has performed more than 20 underground sub-critical tests on the Western Shoshone’s sanctified land at the Nevada test site.  Since plutonium is blown up with chemicals that don’t cause a chain reaction, the US claims these tests don’t violate the treaty;

–Obama, and now Trump, pledged over one trillion dollars for the next 30 years for two new nuclear bomb factories in Oak Ridge and Kansas City, as well as new submarines, missiles, airplanes, and warheads!

What has Russia had to say about these US affronts to international security and negotiated treaties? Putin at his State of the Nation address in March 2018 said:

"I will speak about the newest systems of Russian strategic weapons that we are creating in response to the unilateral withdrawal of the United States of America from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and  the practical deployment of their missile defence systems both in the US and beyond their national borders.

I would like to make a short journey into the recent past. Back in 2000, the US announced its withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Russia was categorically against this. We saw the Soviet-US ABM Treaty signed in 1972 as the cornerstone of the international security system. Under this treaty, the parties had the right to deploy ballistic missile defence systems only in one of its regions. Russia deployed these systems around Moscow, and the US around its Grand Forks land-based ICBM base. Together with the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the ABM treaty not only created an atmosphere of trust but also prevented either party from recklessly using nuclear weapons, which would have endangered humankind, because the limited number of ballistic missile defence systems made the potential aggressor vulnerable to a response strike.

We did our best to dissuade the Americans from withdrawing from the treaty.

All in vain. The US pulled out of the treaty in 2002. Even after that we tried to develop constructive dialogue with the Americans. We proposed working together in this area to ease concerns and maintain the atmosphere of trust. At one point, I thought that a compromise was possible, but this was not to be. All our proposals, absolutely all of them, were rejected. And then we said that we would have to improve our modern strike systems to protect our security". 

Despite promises made in the 1970 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) that the five nuclear weapons states–US, UK, Russia, France, China–would eliminate their nuclear weapons while all the other nations of the world promised not to get them (except for India, Pakistan, and Israel, which also acquired nuclear weapons), there are still nearly 14,000 nuclear bombs on the planet. All but 1,000 of them are in the US and Russia, while the seven other countries, including North Korea, have about 1000 bombs between them.  If the US and Russia can’t settle their differences and honor their promise in the NPT to eliminate their nuclear weapons, the whole world will continue to live under what President Kennedy described as a nuclear Sword of Damocles, threatened with unimaginable catastrophic humanitarian suffering and destruction.

To prevent a nuclear catastrophe, in 2017, 122 nations adopted a new Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). It calls for a ban on nuclear weapons just as the world had banned chemical and biological weapons.  The ban treaty provides a pathway for nuclear weapons states to join and dismantle their arsenals under strict and effective verification. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which received the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts, is working for the treaty to enter into force by enrolling 50 nations to ratify the treaty.  As of today, 70 nations have signed the treaty and 24 have ratified it, although none of them are nuclear weapons states or the US alliance states under the nuclear umbrella.

With this new opportunity to finally ban the bomb and end the nuclear terror,  let us tell the truth about what happened between the US and Russia that brought us to this perilous moment and put the responsibility where it belongs to open up a path for true peace and reconciliation so that never again will anyone on our  planet ever be threatened with the terrible consequences of nuclear war.

Here are some actions you can take to ban the bomb:

+ Support the ICAN Cities Appeal to take a stand in favor of the ban treaty

+ Ask your member of Congress to sign the ICAN Parliamentary Pledge

+ Ask the US Presidential Candidates to pledge support for the Ban Treaty and cut Pentagon spending

+ Support the Don’t Bank on the Bomb Campaign for nuclear divestment   

+ Support the Code Pink Divest From the War Machine Campaign 

+ Distribute Warheads To Windmills, How to Pay for the Green New Deal, a new study addressing the need to prevent the two greatest dangers facing our planet: nuclear annihilation and climate destruction.

+ Sign the World Beyond War pledge and add your name to this critical new campaign to make the end of war on our planet an idea whose time has come! www.worldbeyondwar.org

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More articles by:ALICE SLATER

Alice Slater is a founder of Abolition 2000, which works for a treaty to ban nuclear weapons.

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* Zie: 'Hiroshima, monument van VS agressie'

Zie ook:
'VS zet nucleaire raketten in met 'minilading', de weg naar een kernoorlog' (en zie de links in dat bericht)

Klik voor meer berichten over de aanvallen op Hiroshima en Nagasaki, op één van deze labels, met de naam van deze steden, die je direct onder dit bericht terug kan vinden.

Mijn excuus voor de vormgeving, krijg e.e.a. niet op orde.

Waarom de burgers van de VS de illegale oorlogen steunen

Big Brother, ofwel deepstate, inclusief media en politiek, zorgt ervoor dat de burgers in de VS nog het meest begaan zijn met de invasies van de VS elders, illegale invasies, het begin van de illegale oorlogen die de VS voert tegen landen waar het niets, maar dan ook helemaal niets te zoeken heeft.

De enorme berg leugens die de VS al heeft gebruikt om haar grootschalige terreur te legitimeren, wordt er als het ware door de reguliere massamedia ingestampt bij de bevolking..... Het gaat intussen al zover dat er een 'feitenchecker'* is ingesteld, te weten Politifact, dat is een platform waar veel VS burgers 'hun licht opsteken' over het gaande nieuws. Wat die burgers niet weten is dat die 'feitenchecker' in feite is geïnstalleerd om de leugens in de reguliere media, van meer gewicht te voorzien, zodat iedereen die leugens gelooft en blijft geloven......

Voor alle leugens over de illegale VS oorlogen die de reguliere media brachten over Afghanistan, Irak, Libië en Syrië, heeft bij mijn weten niet één mediaorgaan een rectificatie gemaakt, alsof het de normaalste zaak is te blijven liegen en dat over oorlogen waarin alleen deze eeuw al 2,5 miljoen mensen werden vermoord...... Het is dan ook niet vreemd dat miljoenen in de VS en de EU nog steeds geloven dat Saddam Hoessein massavernietigingswapens had, terwijl dat aantoonbaar niet zo was..... 

Het smerige is dat met een beetje 'geluk' deze leugens in de geschiedenisboeken worden opgenomen, waar al een fiks aantal leugens is te vinden (neem bijvoorbeeld nogmaals de leugens over de aanvallen van de VS en haar oorlogshond de NAVO op Afghanistan, Irak, Libië en Syrië....)

Eric Zuesse heeft een artikel over o.a. het voorgaande geplaatst op Strategic Culture Foundation, waarin hij uitgebreid op deze zaak ingaat. De VS als politieagent van de wereld, i.p.v. de werkelijkheid waarin de VS de grootste terreurentiteit op onze kleine aarde is en waar deze vereniging van terreurstaten sinds WOII al meer dan 22,5 miljoen mensen heeft vermoord.........

Voorts wijst Zuesse op de VN, een orgaan dat VS president Roosevelt (overigens ook een oorlogsmisdadiger) graag installeerde, waar hij dit orgaan zag als een toekomstige onafhankelijke wereldmacht en niet een door een staat als de VS geleid orgaan, dat overal waar het haar uitkomt een oorlog begint en waar een niet volgzame houding t.o.v. de VS al voldoende is, om als land in de gevarenzone te komen.........

Niet voor niets ook dat Zuesse Oekraïne aanhaalt en de enorme leugens die daarover al zijn geventileerd, waar het zeker is dat de VS ingreep met een door de CIA georganiseerde opstand (op initiatief van Hillary Clinton, destijds minister van BuZa in de VS), die moest eindigen in de coup tegen de democratisch gekozen regering Janoekovytsj, alleen omdat deze regering vriendschappelijke banden had met Rusland........ (de kosten voor deze operaties in Oekraïne hebben de VS belastingbetalers maar liefst 4 miljard dollar gekost.....) Voorts kon daarmee de gaslevering van Rusland aan West-Europa worden getorpedeerd, zodat dit deel van Europa haar gas in de VS zou gaan kopen........ 

Vandaar ook dat de achterlijke boerenlul Hoekstra, VS ambassadeur in Nederland en kopstukken in de VS (waaronder Trump) een grote bek hebben tegen de EU over het door laten gaan van Nord Stream 2 (NS2), waarmee Russisch gas via een pijpleiding door de Oostzee richting Duitsland zal worden vervoerd...... Er gaan zelfs stemmen op in de VS om de EU en dan m.n. Duitsland daarvoor te straffen.......

Pete Hoekstra, VS ambassadeur in Nederland, met zijn typische 'intelligente blik'

Dan dien ik nog op te merken, dat de titel de lading niet dekt,, immers ook wij worden dagelijks voorgelogen en dat over dezelfde grootschalige westerse terreur in gebieden als het Midden-Oosten, dit o.l.v. de VS, terreur die door de reguliere media, ook in ons land, wordt voorgesteld alsof we daar liefdewerk doen.......

Zuesse merkt verder op dat het militair-industrieel complex oorlogen nodig heeft (oké, een open deur), ofwel de VS heeft vijanden nodig zodat de winsten van de wapenindustrie, inclusief die voor rollend, varend en vliegend oorlogstuig, kunnen blijven groeien....... Uiteraard is het dan nodig dat het volk achter deze illegale oorlogen van de VS staat en daar ligt 'een mooie taak' voor de 'onafhankelijke' reguliere massamedia, die hun werk uitermate grondig doen: het hersenspoelen van de VS burgers en hen opzetten tegen de 'vijanden' van de VS, die zogenaamd een gevaar vormen voor de staatsveiligheid van de VS........ (of men stelt gewoon dat een bepaald land zoals eerder Irak [en Noord-Korea] de wil en de middelen heeft om de VS direct aan te vallen; te belachelijk voor woorden, zoals je begrijpt)

Lees het artikel van Zuesse en geeft het door, tijd dat men ontwaakt uit de consucoma en de hersenspoelstand van de reguliere media!

How Big Brother Grips Americans’ Minds to Support Invasions

ERIC ZUESSE | 08.12.2018 | WORLD / AMERICAS

On November 29th, Gallup headlined “Democrats Lead Surge in Belief U.S. Should Be World Leader” and reported that “Three-fourths (75%) of Americans today think the United States has ‘a special responsibility to be the leading nation in world affairs,’ up from 66% in 2010. The surge is driven by Democrats, whose belief in this idea has increased from 61% eight years ago to 81% now.” This finding comes even after the lie-based and catastrophic U.S. invasions of Iraq in 2003, and of Libya in 2011 (and of so many others, such as Afghanistan, where the U.S. and Sauds created the Taliban in 1979). Americans — now even increasingly — want ‘their’ (which is actually America's billionaires’) Government to be virtually the world’s government, policing the world. They want this nation’s Government to be determining what international laws will be enforced around the world, and to be enforcing them. Most Americans don’t want the United Nations to have power over the U.S. (its billionaires’) Government, but instead want the U.S. Government (its billionaires) to have power over the United Nations (which didn’t authorize any of those evil, lie-based, U.S. invasions). 

Not only would doing this bankrupt all constructive domestic functions (health, education, infrastructure, etc.) of the U.S. federal Government, but it would also increase the global carnage, as if the U.S. Government hasn’t already been doing enough of that, for decades now.

The leadership for this supremacist craving comes straight from America’s top, not from the masses that are being sampled by the Gallup organization, who only reflect it — they are duped by their leaders. Here is how U.S. President Barack Obama (a Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2009, for nothing at all but his ‘kindly’ but insincere verbiage when he had been a candidate) stated this widespread delusional American belief in American global moral supremacy, when addressing the graduating class at West Point Military Academy, on 28 May 2014: 

The United States is and remains the one indispensable nation. [Every other nation is therefore ‘dispensable’; we therefore now have “Amerika, Amerika über alles, über alles in der Welt”.] That has been true for the century passed and it will be true for the century to come. … America must always lead on the world stage.

This had certainly not been the objective of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt when he set up the U.N. just before his death in 1945; he instead wanted the U.N. to evolve into a democratic government of the world, with elected representatives of each and every one of the world’s governments — to evolve into becoming the global international republic — regardless of whether or not the U.S. Government approves or disapproves of another nation’s government. The idea on which the U.N. was founded was not to involve the U.S. Government in the internal affairs of other nations, not to be the judge jury and executioner of other governments that it doesn’t like, nor to dictate what other nations should or should not do within the given nation’s boundaries. FDR intended that there instead be democratically represented, at the U.N., each and every nation, and each and every people within that global government, where each of these national governments is (hopefully but not necessarily) a democracy. FDR was just as opposed to dictatorship internationally, as he was opposed to dictatorship nationally, and he recognized that inevitably some governments will disapprove of other governments, but he was deeply committed to the view that a need exists for laws and law-enforcement between nations, on an international level, and not only within the individual nations, and that each nation is sacrosanct on its own internal laws. He respected national sovereignty, and opposed international empire. (This was his basic disagreement with Winston Churchill, then, and with American leaders such as Obama and Trump now.) Unlike President Obama (and evidently unlike the vast majority of today’s Americans) FDR didn’t want this international government to be an American function, but instead an entirely separate international governmental function, in which there is no international dictatorship whatsoever — not American, and not by any other country. He knew that this is the only stable basis for international peace, and for avoiding a world-annihilating World War III. 

Barack Obama rejected FDR’s vision, and advocated for the United States as being (and even as if it already had been for a century) virtually the government over the entire world, which “must always lead on the world stage.” Adolf Hitler had had that very same international vision for his own country, Germany, “the Thousand-Year Reich,” but he lost World War II; and, then, when FDR died, Hitler’s vision increasingly took over iHoen America, so that ideologically, FDR actually lost WW II, when Harry S. Truman took over the White House and increasingly thereafter, until today, when the U.S. commits more invasions of foreign countries than do all other nations in the world combined. Americans (apparently, as shown in this and other polls) like this, and want more of it. Nobody else does. For example, nobody (except the U.S. and Saudi and Israeli aristocracies and their supporters worldwide, which are very few people) supports the U.S. regime’s reinstitution of sanctions against Iran, which the U.S. regime is imposing as the global dictator. America’s economic sanctions are like spitting into the face of FDR, who had opposed such imperialistic fascism in the more overtly military form when Hitler’s regime was imposing it. It’s also spitting at the U.N.

This latest Gallup finding displays an increase, but nothing that’s at all anomalous as compared to the decades-long reality of imperialistic U.S. culture. For decades now, Gallup’s polling has shown that the most respected of all institutions by the American people is the nation’s military — more than the church, more than the Presidency, more than the U.S. Supreme Court, more than the press, more than the schools, more than anything. America is invasion-nation. This is true even after the 2003 invasion of Iraq on the basis of blatant lies, which destroyed Iraq — a nation that had never invaded nor even threatened to invade the United States. The American people are, resolutely, bloodthirsty for conquest, even after having been fooled into that evil invasion, and subsequent decades-long military occupation in Iraq, and after subsequent conquests or attempted conquests, in Libya, Syria, Yemen, and elsewhere — all destroying nations that had never invaded nor even threatened America. Why? How did this mass-insanity, of evil, come to be?

How is this aggressive nationalism even possible, in America’s ‘democracy’? It’s actually no democracy at all, and the public are being constantly fooled to think that it is a democracy, and this deception is essential in order for the public to tolerate this Government, and to tolerate the media that lie for it. This widespread deceit requires constant cooperation of the ‘news’-media — and these are the same ‘news’-media that hid from the public, in 2002, that the U.S. Government was outright lying about “WMD in Iraq.”

The public simply do not learn. That’s a tragic fact. Largely, this fact results from reality being hidden by the ‘news’-media; but, even now, long after the fake ‘news’ in 2002, about the U.S. regime’s having possessed secret and conclusive evidence of “Saddam’s WMD,” the published ‘history’ about that invasion still does not acknowledge the public’s having been lied-to at that time, by its Government, and by the ‘news’-media. So, the public live, and culturally swim, in an ongoing river of lies, both as its being ‘news’, and subsequently as its having been ‘history’. This is why the public do not learn: they are being constantly deceived. And they (as Gallup’s polls prove) tolerate being constantly deceived. The public do not rebel against it. They don’t reject either the politicians, or the ‘news’-media. They don’t demand that the American public control the American Government and that America’s billionaires lose that control — especially over the ‘news’-media.

Honesty is no longer an operative American value, if it ever was. That’s how, and why, Big Brother (the operation by the international-corporate billionaires) grips Americans’ minds to support foreign Invasions. Americans support liars, and it all comes from the top; it’s directed from the top. It is bipartisan, from both Democratic Party billionaires and Republican Party billionaires. National politicians will lose their seats if they disobey.

A good example, of this Big-Brother operation, is America’s Politifact, the online site which is at America’s crossover where ‘news’ and ‘history’ meet one-another. It’s controlled by billionaires such as the one who founded Craigslist. Millions of Americans go to Politifact in order to determine what is true and what is false that is being widely published about current events. The present writer sometimes links to their articles, where I have independently verified that there are no misrepresentations in an article. But, like the ‘news’-media that it judges, Politifact is also a propaganda-agency for the (U.S.-Saud-Israeli) Deep State, and so it deceives on the most critically important international matters. An example of this occurred right after the U.S. regime had overthrown in February 2014 in a bloody coup the democratically elected Government of Ukraine, and replaced it by a rabidly anti-Russian racist fascist or nazi Government on Russia’s doorstep, a regime that was selected by the rabidly anti-Russian (but lying that it wasn’t) Obama regime. This Politifact article was dated 31 March 2014, right after over 90% of Crimeans had just voted in a referendum, to rejoin Russia, and to depart from Ukraine, which the Soviet dictator had transferred them to, separating them from Russia, in 1954. (None of that history of the matter was even mentioned by Politifact.) The Politifact article was titled “Viral meme says United States has 'invaded' 22 countries in the past 20 years”, and it was designed to deceive readers into believing that “Russia’s recent annexation of Crimea” reflected the real instance of “invasion” that Americans should be outraged against — to deflect away from America’s recent history as being the world’s actual invasion-nation. This propaganda-article said nothing at all about either Crimea or Ukraine except in its opening line: “A Facebook meme argues that Americans are pretty two-faced when it comes to Russia’s recent annexation of Crimea.” It then proceeded to document that the exact number of American invasions during the prior 20 years wasn’t 22, and so Politifact declared the allegation “false” (as if the exact number were really the entire issue or even the main one, and as if America’s scandalous recent history of invasions were not).

So, it’s on account of such drowning-in-propaganda, that the U.S. public not only respect what U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower derogatorily called the “military-industrial complex,” but respect it above even the U.S. Presidency itself, and above all other U.S. institutions (as Gallup’s constant polling demonstrates to be the case).

Here’s the reality: The same group of no more than a thousand super-wealthy Americans control both the United States Government and the weapons-manufacturing firms (such as Lockheed Martin), which are the only corporations whose only customers are the U.S. Government and its chosen allied governments. So, these few people actually control the U.S. Government’s foreign relations, and foreign policies. They create and control their own markets. This is the most politically active group of America’s super-rich, because they own America’s international corporations and because their business as owners of the military ones is military policy and also diplomatic policy, including the conjoining of both of those at the CIA and NSA, including the many coups that they (via their Government) engineer. They also control all of the nation’s major news-media, which report international affairs in such a manner as to determine which foreign governments will be perceived by the mass of Americans to constitute the nation’s ‘enemies’ and therefore to be suitable targets for the U.S. military and CIA to invade and conquer or otherwise “regime-change” — such as have been the lands of North Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran, North Korea, Yemen, Venezuela, etc., at various times. The weapons-manufacturers won’t have any markets, at all, if there are no ‘enemy’ nations that are deemed by the public to be suitable targets for their weapons. ‘Enemy' nations, and not only ‘allies’ (or ‘allied’ nations), are necessary, in order for the military business to produce the most profits. Overwhelmingly, if not totally, the chosen ‘enemies’ are nations that have never invaded nor even threatened to invade the United States; and, so, in order to keep this Government-funded business (the war-profiteering and associated international natural-resources extractions businesses) growing and thriving, what’s essential is continuing control over the nation’s ‘news’-media. As Walter Lippmann wrote in 1921, “the manufacture of consent” is an essential part of this entire operation. It happens via the media. Even Germany’s Nazis needed to do that. Any modern capitalist dictatorship (otherwise called “fascism”) does. The U.S. regime, being a capitalist dictatorship, certainly does. Physically, Hitler lost, but his ideology won, he won even as nazism (racist fascism) instead of merely as fascism, and this racism is shown because the U.S. regime is rabidly racist anti-Russian (not merely anti-communist), and has been so for at least a century. (Maybe it’s what Obama actually had secretly in mind when he said “That has been true for the century passed and it will be true for the century to come.” And Trump is no less a liar than Obama, and he continues this aim of ultimately conquering Russia.) They say they’re only against Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin, but Putin shows in all polls of Russians, even in non-Russian polls, to be far more favorably viewed by Russians than either Barack Obama or Donald Trump are viewed by Americans. This is why regime-change-in-Russia is increasingly becoming dominated by U.S. economic sanctions and military, and less dominated by CIA and other coup-organizers. The actual dictatorship is in America, and it requires participation by its ‘news’-media. Demonizing ‘the enemy’ is therefore crucial. It is crucial preparation for any invasion.

The United States Government spends at least as much money on its military as do all of the other governments in the world combined. Its ‘news’-media (that is to say, the media that are owned by, and that are advertised in by, the corporations that are controlled by, the same small group of billionaires — America’s billionaires — who fund the political campaigns of both the Democratic Party’s and the Republican Party’s nominees for the U.S. Congress and the Presidency) may be partisan for one or the other of the nation’s two political Parties, but they all are unitedly partisan for the international corporations, such as Lockheed Martin, that America’s billionaires control, and that sell only to the U.S. Government and to the foreign governments that are allied with the U.S. Government. They also are partisan for the U.S.-based oil and gas and mining international corporations, which need to extract at the lowest costs possible, no matter how much the given extractee-nation’s public might suffer from the deal. “Three-fourths (75%) of Americans today think the United States has ‘a special responsibility to be the leading nation in world affairs,’” and the actual beneficiaries of this mass-insanity are the owners of those U.S.-based international corporations, the military and extraction giants.

Anthony Cordesman, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, headlined on 15 August 2016, “U.S. Wars in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen: What Are The Endstates?” and he said, “Once again, the United States does not seem to be learning from its past. The real test of victory is never tactical success or even ending a war on favorable military terms, it is what comes next.” But he ignored the main reason why these invasions had occurred. America’s weapons-manufacturers won’t have any markets, at all, if there are no ‘enemy’ nations that are deemed by the American public to be suitable targets for their weapons. Cordesman is there calculating success and failure on the basis of the myths (such as that the U.S. Government cares about those “Endstates”), not of the realities (that it craves targets). The realities focus upon the desires of the owners and executives of the weapons-manufacturers and the extraction-firms, for ongoing and increased profits and executive bonuses, and not on the needs of America’s soldiers nor on the national security of the American people. Least of all, do they focus upon the needs — such as the welfare, freedom, or democracy — of the Iraqi people, or of the Syrian people, or of the Libyan people, or of the Yemenite people. It’s all just lies, PR. Those invasions served their actual main functions when they were occurring. “The Endstates” there are almost irrelevant to those real purposes, the purposes for which the invasions were, and are, actually being done.

Here’s an ideal example of this mass mind-control: On 19 November 2017, Josh Rogin at the Washington Post headlined “The U.S. must prepare for Iran’s next move in Syria” and reported that:

A task force of senior former U.S. diplomatic and military officials has come up with suggestions for how Trump could prevent Iran from taking over what’s left of liberated Syria and fulfill his own promise to contain Iranian influence in the region.

“Most urgently... the United States must impose real obstacles to Tehran’s pursuit of total victory by the Assad regime in Syria,” the report by the Jewish Institute for National Security of America states. “Time is of the essence.”

The underlying presumption there was that the U.S. regime has legitimate authorization to be occupying the parts of Syria it has invaded and now occupies, and that Iran does not. But the reality is that the U.S. regime is occupying Syria instead of assisting Syria’s Government to defeat the U.S.-Saud-Israeli invasion to overthrow and replace Syria’s Government, by stooges who will be selected by the Saud family who own Saudi Arabia, and the reality is that Iran’s forces there are invitees who are instead assisting Syria’s Government against the Saudi-Israeli-American invasion. In other words: this WP article is basically all lies. Furthermore, the Jewish Institute for National Security of America is a front-organization for the fascist regime that rules Israel, and the WP hid that fact, too, so its cited ‘expert’ was a mere PR agency for Israel’s aristocracy. So, this is Deep-State propaganda, parading as ‘news’. 

Americans actually pay their private good money to subscribe to (subsidize) such bad public ‘news’papers as that. The billionaire who happens to own that particular ‘news’paper (the WP), Jeff Bezos, had founded and leads Amazon, which receives almost all of its profits from Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud-computing division, which supplies the U.S. ‘Defense’ Department, CIA, and NSA. For example, “without AWS and Prime, Amazon lost $2 billion in the 1st quarter of FY18. … These losses come from Amazon’s retail business. About 60% of Amazon’s revenue comes from retail and that’s where Amazon is losing money.” Amazon is profitable because of what it sells mainly to the Government, but also to other large U.S. international corporations, and they all want to conquer Syria. None opposes that evil goal. Although Bezos doesn’t like the Sauds, he has actually been (at least until the Khashoggi matter) one of their main U.S. media champions for the Sauds to take over Syria. It’s all just a fool-the-public game. It works, it succeeds, and that’s what Gallup’s polls are demonstrating. The public never learns. It’s a fact, which has been proven in many different ways.

This reality extends also to other nations, allies of the U.S. aristocracy, and not only to the U.S. regime itself. For example, on 27 November 2018, a whistleblowing former UK Ambassador, Craig Murray, who is a personal friend of Julian Assange, headlined“Assange Never Met Manafort. Luke Harding and the Guardian Publish Still More Blatant MI6 Lies”, and he proved that Britain’s Guardian had lied with total, and totally undocumented (and probably even totally non-credible), fabrications, alleging that Julian Assange of WikiLeaks had secretly met (in 2013, 2015, and 2016) with Paul Manafort of the Trump campaign. The UK, of course, is a vassal-nation of the U.S. aristocracy, and the Guardian is run by Democratic Party propagandists (paid indirectly by Democratic Party and conservative Tony-Blair-wing Labour Party billionaires) and therefore fabricates in order to assist those Parties’ efforts to impeach Trump and to dislodge Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party’s leadership. However, each of America’s two political parties (like the UK’s aristocracy itself) represents America’s aristocracy, which, like Britain’s aristocracy, is united in its determination to eliminate Assange — they are as determined to do that to him, just as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman al-Saud was determined to eliminate Jamal Khashoggi. ‘Democracy’? This? It is Big Brother.

Only if the population boycott lying individuals and organizations, is democracy even possible to exist in a nation. Democracy can’t possibly exist more than truth does. In political matters, deceit is always treachery; and its practitioners, whenever the evidence for it is overwhelming and irrefutable, should experience whatever the standard penalty is for treachery. Only in a land such as that, can democracy possibly exist. Elsewhere, it simply can’t. The only basis for democracy, is truth. Deceit is for dictators, not for democrats. And deceit reigns, in the U.S. and in its allied countries. Is this really tolerable? Americans, at least, tolerate it.

When Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the far-right Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal editorialized against Obama on 10 October 2009, by saying that “What this suggests to us — and to the Norwegians — is the end of what has been called ‘American exceptionalism’.” Little did anyone then know that after winning re-election upon the basis of such war-mongering lies from Obama, as that “America remains the one indispensable nation”, Obama in February 2014 would go so far as to perpetrate a bloody coup overthrowing the democratically elected Government of one “dispensable” nation, Ukraine; and, then, on 28 May of 2014, Obama would be telling America’s future generals, that “The United States is and remains the one indispensable nation” and that Obama would, in that speech, explicitly malign Ukraine’s neighbor Russia. He did it, in this speech, which implicitly called all nations except the U.S. “dispensable.” He had carefully planned and orchestrated Americans’ hostility toward Russia. His successor, Trump, lied saying that he wanted to reverse Obama’s policies on this, and Trump promptly, once becoming elected, increased and expanded those policies. Whatever a deceitfully war-mongering country like this might be, it’s certainly no democracy. Because democracy cannot be built upon a ceaseless string of lies.

Tags: Big Brother 

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* Ik wist niet, dit artikel schrijvend, dat er een organisatie bestaat met de naam 'Feitenchecker', waar men kan vinden of (nieuws-) berichten echt zijn of zijn opgemaakt met 'fake news' (nepnieuws)....... Je snapt het al, een organisatie die vooral de leugens van de reguliere media als waarheid bestempelt en terecht commentaar op die leugens als 'fake' neerzet..... Hier het adres: De Feitenchecker (@DeFeitenchecker) Twitter.

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'BBC: Rusland 'misbruikt humor' om Russiagate te ontkrachten..... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!'

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'Russiagate sprookje ondermijnt VS democratie en de midterm verkiezingen'

'Britse en VS manipulaties van verkiezingen en stimulatie van conflicten middels psychologische oorlogsvoering' (voor VS manipulaties van verkiezingen elders, liggen er 'metersdikke' dossiers, o.a. in te zien op WikiLeaks)

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''Russische manipulaties uitgevoerd' door later vermoord staflid Clintons campagneteam Seth Rich......... AIVD en MIVD moeten hiervan weten!!'

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'WikiLeaks: Seth Rich Leaked Clinton Emails, Not Russia'

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'CIA chef Pompeo waarschuwt voor complot van WikiLeaks om de VS op alle mogelijke manieren neer te halen....... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!'

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'Campagne Clinton, smeriger dan gedacht............' (met daarin daarin opgenomen de volgende twee artikelen: 'Donna Brazile Bombshell: ‘Proof’ Hillary ‘Rigged’ Primary Against Bernie' en 'Democrats in Denial After Donna Brazile Says Primary Was Rigged for Hillary')

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'Alarm Code Geel: Lara Rense (NOS) voedt Rusland-haat'

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'The Attack on ‘Fake News’ Is Really an Attack on Alternative Media'

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