" />It's government propaganda to get people upset enough about this young boy so when Hillary puts up to 70,000 US troops into Syria, the American people will be behind her.
Yes this poor boy went through hell and his brother died from his injuries, but the gwot has gone on for over 15 years and many other children have been killed by all sides, yet we don't see their pictures on the news.
Saudi Arabia has been targeting civilian areas in Yemen and 15 or more were recently killed, yet where were the photos of those kids and their homes, schools or the hospital that SA has targeted?
We also don't see Obama's 'collateral damage' from his drones either.
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“Every bomb now has a greater impact,” reported U.S. air war commander Lieutenant General Charles Brown Jr. Yes, after 15 years of American air war across the Greater Middle East, it seems that, from Pakistan to Syria, the Obama administration has finally found the winning formula. If, as Schmitt’s piece indicated, you want confirmation of that, who better to turn to than the very people who have gotten the formula right? Having no access to similar in-the-know figures capable of throwing light on the subject of Washington's ongoing conflicts, TomDispatch instead turned to outsider Andrew Bacevich, author most recently of a groundbreaking book, America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History, to assess the recent spate of upbeat news from America’s war zones. We sent him directly into that infamous Vietnam-era tunnel of darkness to see what might be glimpsed so many decades later when it comes to the American way of war, and here’s his report. Tom
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that were reported to have taking babies out of their incubators and left them on the floor to die. Which turned out to be a propaganda campaign, that was handled by a PR firm. (Hill & Knowlton)
"Nayirah al-Ṣabaḥ (Arabic: نيره الصباح), called "Nurse Nayirah" in the media, was a fifteen-year-old Kuwaiti girl, who alleged that she had witnessed the murder of infant children by Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait, in verbal testimony to the U.S. Congress, in the run up to the 1991 Gulf War. Her testimony, which was regarded as credible at the time, has since come to be regarded as wartime propaganda. The public relations firm Hill & Knowlton, which was in the employ of Citizens for a Free Kuwait, had arranged the testimony. Nayirah's testimony was widely publicized. Hill & Knowlton, which had filmed the hearing, sent out a video news release to Medialink, a firm which served about 700 television stations in the United States. That night, portions of the testimony aired on ABC's Nightline and NBC Nightly News reaching an estimated audience between 35 and 53 million Americans. Seven senators cited Nayirah's testimony in their speeches backing the use of force. President George Bush repeated the story at least ten times in the following weeks."
RT: Images and videos of the 'Aleppo boy', as he is being called, have made the rounds on social media, generating all sorts of emotions and responses from viewers. What is your take on the images, which really portray the horrors of war?
Lew Rockwell: Well, this sort of thing, of course, is always used as war propaganda. How many children has the United States killed in its wars that nobody except the families, or those who don’t like these wars, cry a tear over? I remember when Madeleine Albright, the [former] Secretary of State when she was asked about a UN report that US sanctions on Iraq had caused 400,000 children to die and she said, “We think it’s worth it.” A very cold-blooded conniver and murderer, Madeleine Albright... So when you look at that child it’s enough reason not to have war. But this is all intended to cause more war, to cause more deaths of the people supporting [Syrian President Bashar] Assad and to just split up Syria and make sure it’s much more easily controlled and support the terrorists who are Al-Nusrah and the so-called ‘moderate rebels’ who are all Al-Qaeda types. That’s who the US wants to bring to power, and we have to remember what they have threatened – although you won’t read this in the US press – they’ve threatened to ethnically cleanse Syria of all the Christians, of all the Shia, of all the Alewites, which is the small sect that many of the people in the government belong to.
These are very nasty people and showing this child reminds me of the huge propaganda over that poor little child that was drowned in Turkey on the way to Europe... and that was supposed to justify destroying the indigenous peoples of Europe with millions and millions and millions of welfare refugees. So it’s important to look behind these things. When the government wants you to cry over something – a very murderous government – you have to look beyond that and think ‘what are they trying to do, what addition killing are they trying to justify’?
Too bad people won't understand how they are being manipulated by our government.
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Describing as "truth" an op-ed from the propaganda organ RT, featuring Lew Rockwell sobbing about "destroying the indigenous peoples of Europe with millions and millions and millions of welfare refugees."
be a victim of the Russians? I did not know this I just thought he was a child who was a victim of this mad war that won't stop. What is wrong with people why do they kill humans, children, trees, critters and all these living holy living things for nothing. It is for nothing and it's an unbearable, a wanton waste of life. Life is not cheap it's so precious and non of these fuckers who have the power to do this know what it is worth. And what about us? Ordinary people who sit back and allow this and cheer it on?
I don't care about Putin, Hillary, The Hairball or the Brit who fucked a dead pig head. I care nothing for any of these stone killers. I care about the pig, the child, the people and living things who are subjected to this indescribable, once unthinkable, darkness for nothing. It's a world gone mad and there seems to be nothing anyone is willing to do to stop this. nough is Enough and yet Bernie was into having the Saudis take on their fair share of the killing ground. It's madness regardless of who is using this child for propoganda.
"Contractors hired by the Foreign Office but overseen by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) produce videos, photos, military reports, radio broadcasts, print products and social media posts branded with the logos of fighting groups, and effectively run a press office for opposition fighters.
The media activist who snapped the now-iconic photo of a 5-year-old boy who'd just been pulled from under rubble in Aleppo in Syria, has been accused of having links to terrorists in the region.
Let's not forget Obama's red line on the use of chemical weapons, which turned out to be it was the rebels, that is the so called moderate rebels, that are the ones that actually launched the chemical attack, not Syrian troops.
[video:https://youtu.be/dkamZg68jpk]
What pisses me off so much, is none of this had to happen, it was all completely and utterly avoidable, but, in our drive to dominate the world, we, that is the US, is illegally launching wars via proxies (ie terrorists (cough, ahem moderate rebels) and mercenary armies) , all over the planet.
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I wish they'd stop using this image to push FOR war.
But then, this time it was "The Russians!"
We're always silent when we bomb a hospital, and there never seem to be swarms of photographers looking for the next iconic image at those sites.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
That is exactly what is happening, dmw
" />It's government propaganda to get people upset enough about this young boy so when Hillary puts up to 70,000 US troops into Syria, the American people will be behind her.
Yes this poor boy went through hell and his brother died from his injuries, but the gwot has gone on for over 15 years and many other children have been killed by all sides, yet we don't see their pictures on the news.
Saudi Arabia has been targeting civilian areas in Yemen and 15 or more were recently killed, yet where were the photos of those kids and their homes, schools or the hospital that SA has targeted?
We also don't see Obama's 'collateral damage' from his drones either.
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yep
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176147/tomgram%3A_andrew_bacevich,_america's_sinkhole_wars/
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Last I heard, the Russians will be bombing with U.S.?
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
speaks for itself
If you don't know what you want, you deserve what you get.
You do know this is propaganda
Or they found a spotless modern ambulance in the middle of a war zone.
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2016/08/the-wounded-boy-in-orange-seat-anot...
Great actor, that kid!
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Russians today, US yesterday. Who gives a fck, it's just a kid.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/19/fighting-rages-aleppo-desp...
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
how
so very Kool. They are going to try not killing people as a "pilot project."
The truth is out there!
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Kind of like the Iraqi soldiers
that were reported to have taking babies out of their incubators and left them on the floor to die. Which turned out to be a propaganda campaign, that was handled by a PR firm. (Hill & Knowlton)
From the Tubes:
Of course Toxic Sludge is Good for You! (The documentary)
[video:https://youtu.be/UxdD_XIkNbo]
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Child actors can be, shall we say......
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Unfortunately, too many people are already buying
Into the propaganda about Russia being responsible for what happened to this child.
Remember the Goerring's quote?
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Other websites are reporting the truth about what the goal of
posting this child's picture.
Too bad people won't understand how they are being manipulated by our government.
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amusing
Describing as "truth" an op-ed from the propaganda organ RT, featuring Lew Rockwell sobbing about "destroying the indigenous peoples of Europe with millions and millions and millions of welfare refugees."
So this child is supposed to
be a victim of the Russians? I did not know this I just thought he was a child who was a victim of this mad war that won't stop. What is wrong with people why do they kill humans, children, trees, critters and all these living holy living things for nothing. It is for nothing and it's an unbearable, a wanton waste of life. Life is not cheap it's so precious and non of these fuckers who have the power to do this know what it is worth. And what about us? Ordinary people who sit back and allow this and cheer it on?
I don't care about Putin, Hillary, The Hairball or the Brit who fucked a dead pig head. I care nothing for any of these stone killers. I care about the pig, the child, the people and living things who are subjected to this indescribable, once unthinkable, darkness for nothing. It's a world gone mad and there seems to be nothing anyone is willing to do to stop this. nough is Enough and yet Bernie was into having the Saudis take on their fair share of the killing ground. It's madness regardless of who is using this child for propoganda.
The Brits are using propaganda for their "fighters"
You KNOW the US is too:
"Contractors hired by the Foreign Office but overseen by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) produce videos, photos, military reports, radio broadcasts, print products and social media posts branded with the logos of fighting groups, and effectively run a press office for opposition fighters.
Materials are circulated in the Arabic broadcast media and posted online with no indication of British government involvement."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/03/how-britain-funds-the-prop...
Well, now there is this...
[video:https://youtu.be/bnKsSBPOpM4]
According to RT,
Let's not forget Obama's red line on the use of chemical weapons, which turned out to be it was the rebels, that is the so called moderate rebels, that are the ones that actually launched the chemical attack, not Syrian troops.
[video:https://youtu.be/dkamZg68jpk]
What pisses me off so much, is none of this had to happen, it was all completely and utterly avoidable, but, in our drive to dominate the world, we, that is the US, is illegally launching wars via proxies (ie terrorists (cough, ahem moderate rebels) and mercenary armies) , all over the planet.
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