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The Nazi-like siege of Gaza is by design intended to strangle the inhabitants of Gaza. It cuts off food and medicine. It destroys sewage facilities and contaminates potable water. It severs access to vital construction materials with which to repair destroyed homes, sustain power, electricity and the means of survival.
There appears to be something about launching bombs or missiles from afar onto cities and people that appeals to American military and political leaders. In part it has to do with a conscious desire to not risk American lives in ground combat. And in part, perhaps not entirely conscious, it has to do with not wishing to look upon the gory remains of the victims, allowing American GIs and TV viewers at home to cling to their warm fuzzy feelings about themselves, their government, and their marvelous “family values”.
Over the past two dozen years, the massive damage that the U.S. has inflicted on Iraq’s population, infrastructure and environment includes the residue from American “deplete uranium” weapons that can cause cancer and other illnesses, writes John LaForge.
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Obama refers to fighting “terrorism” yet his policies have encouraged and promoted terrorism. Washington armed the Islamist terrorists who overthrew the secular Gaddafi government and plunged that country into chaos. Obama backs the Islamist terrorists invading and attempting to overthrow the secular regime Syria. He provides 1.5 billion dollars in military aid to an Egyptian military dictatorship terrorizing its democratic, civilian political opposition, assassinating and imprisoning thousands of dissidents.
In short, to be a successful corporate journalist with high public visibility, two of the most important attributes are to direct one's scepticism in the required direction - towards state 'enemies' - and to overlook or play down Western crimes. But perhaps the most important asset is the ability to believe sincerely in the essential ideological framework that drives Western government policies and public pronouncements: that 'we' are committed to making the world a better place.
Hypocrisy of the paranoid
Paul Balles
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. –Andre Gide
Hypocritical behaviour:
(MANAMA, Bahrain ) - Carry fire in one hand and water in the other. To be duplicitous, to engage in double-dealing; to be two-faced, to speak with forked tongue.
By Denis Halliday | Global Research | September 13, 2013
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has categorically refused in defiance of its own mandate to share evidence uncovered in Iraq that US military use of Depleted Uranium and other weapons have not only killed many civilians, but continue to result in the birth of deformed babies.
On November 24, 1961 the journal Science published an article that reported a study of Baby Teeth in the St Louis area. The project focused on Strontium 90 which can replace calcium in bones. The women of the world were outraged at the levels of Strontium 90 because their hips are close to unborn children in their wombs. Children absorb radiation more rapidly than do adults because they are growing. That is why Baby Teeth studies can motivate change.
