OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #128, MAY 31, 2023.

 

 OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #128, MAY 31,  2023.
Ben Norton.  Millions killed in US post-9/l1 wars.
Common Dreams.  US Supplied Weapons to Most Authoritarian Nations.
James Douglass.  JFK Murdered by

 

ATROCIOUS US POST-9/11 WARS

Ben Norton. “U.S. post-9/11 wars caused 4.5 million deaths, displaced 38-60 million people, study shows.”   Editor.  Mronline.org (5-23-23). 

Wars the U.S. waged in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan following September 11, 2001 caused at least 4.5 million deaths and displaced 38 to 60 million people, with 7.6 million children starving today, according to studies by Brown University.

 (Posted May 22, 2023).   Originally published: Geopolitical Economy Report  on May 18, 2023 (more by Geopolitical Economy Report)  | 

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The wars the United States waged and fueled in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan following September 11, 2001 caused at least 4.5 million deaths, according to a report by Brown University.

Nearly a million of the people who lost their lives died in fighting, whereas some 3.6 to 3.7 million were indirect deaths, due to health and economic problems caused by the wars, such as diseases, malnutrition, and destruction of infrastructure.      These were the conclusions of a study conducted by the Cost of Wars project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.   The report also analyzed the effects of wars in Libya and Somalia, which were sponsored by Washington.

The scholars estimated that, in the countries studied, there are still today 7.6 million children under age 5 who are suffering from acute malnutrition, meaning they are “not getting enough food, literally wasting to skin and bones, putting these children at greater risk of death”.

In Afghanistan and Yemen, this includes nearly 50% of children; and, in Somalia, close to 60%.  MORE
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“US Sold Weapons to Roughly 60% of World's Authoritarian Nations in 2022: Analysis.”  Common Dreams. May 13, 2023.

 "These findings fly in the face of Biden's preferred framing of  international politics as a 'battle between democracies and autocracies,'" says the author of a new report.

 

JFK Murdered by Advocates of War

Eisenhower’s Farewell Address, JFK’s American University Address, the Test Ban Treaty, the Military Industrial Complex, National Security State, CIA, the Unspeakable, Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK and Krhushchev for peace, assassination of JFK, and understanding the Second Cold War.

James Douglass.  JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters.  Simon and Schuster, 2008, pp. 137 and 382.

“The political context of Kennedy’s assassination was described best” by President Eisenhower in his Farewell Address, Jan. 17, 1961.  “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence. . .by the military industrial complex.  The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”  “In the summer of 1963, the leaders of the military-industrial complex could see storm clouds on their horizon.  After JFK’s American University address and his quick signing of the Test Ban Treaty with Khrushchev, corporate power holders saw the distinct prospect in the not distant future of a settlement in the Cold War. . . .Both Kennedy and Khrushchev were prepared to shift their war of conflicting ideologies to more peaceful fronts. . . .In that direction of U.S.-Soviet disarmament lay the diminished power of a corporate military system that for years had controlled the United States government.  In his turn toward peace, Kennedy was beginning to undermine the dominant power structure that Eisenhower had finally identified and warned against so strongly as he left the White House.”(137).

The articles establishing the CIA in 1947 included the doctrine of “plausible deniability.”   In the name of national security, the CIA was authorized to commit unspeakable crimes “with no genuine accountability.”  The label “unspeakable” originated with Thomas Merton, Douglass’ mentor, defined as “an abyss of lies and deception.”

     “We encounter the void of the unspeakable at the heart of our national security state’s murder of President Kennedy.  And that is where the hope begins” (and Douglass’ radical originality is again demonstrated).   “In the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK had to confront the unspeakable in the form of total nuclear war” as advocated by “his generals,” and he “rejected their pressures for war.  Even worse, the president reached out to the enemy for help,” an appeal accepted by Nikita Khrushchev, and the enemies “joined hands against those on both sides pressuring them to attack.”   Kennedy was assassinated 13 months later, Khrushchev was overthrown a year later.  Peace instead of nuclear annihilation, and “today we are still living and struggling for peace.”  (382).   --  Dick