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style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s
been a long time but worth remembering, if you can, that
when the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade
Center collapsed on September 11, 2001, the whole world
watched in horror. The events of that day were repeated on
television over and over and over again, to the point where
they became afterimages lodged in people’s minds.</em></span></p>
<p
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style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; user-select: text !important;">As
a result, although the buildings were not brought down by the
impact of planes (no plane hit Building 7) but by explosives
planted in the buildings (see<span> </span><a
href="https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/Sep11PentagonsBMovie/118Witnesses-WTC-082106.pdf"
style="color: rgb(143, 171, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">this</a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a
href="https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/Sep11PentagonsBMovie/EyewitnessExplosionsInTwinTowers.pdf"
style="color: rgb(143, 171, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">this</a>,
among extensive evidence), most people thought otherwise, just
as they thought that the subsequent linked anthrax attacks
were directed by<span> </span><strong
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bin Laden</strong><span> </span>when they were eventually
proven to have originated<span> </span><a
href="https://www.amazon.com/2001-Anthrax-Deception-Domestic-Conspiracy/dp/0986073121"
style="color: rgb(143, 171, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">from
a U.S. military lab</a><span> </span>(thus an inside job),
and, as a result of a massive Bush administration/corporate
media propaganda campaign, most Americans supported the
invasion of Afghanistan, the subsequent invasion of Iraq, and
decades of endless wars that continue to this day, bringing us
to the edge of nuclear war with Iran and Russia.</span></p>
<p
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is impossible to understand the United States’ full-fledged
support today for Israel’s genocide in the Middle East without
understanding this history. Israel’s genocide is the United
States’ genocide; they cannot be separated.</span></p>
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is a U.S. Navy photo / Public Domain</span></p>
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href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/USS_Liberty1.jpg"
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<p
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these wars involve the machinations of the neo-conservative
clique that in 1997 formed the Project for the New American
Century that ran<span> </span><strong
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W. Bush’s</strong><span> </span>administration and whose
protégées have come to exert great control of the foreign
policies of Democratic and Republican administrations since.
It is not that they lacked power before this, as a study of
American foreign policy as far back as the<strong
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Johnson</strong><span> </span>administration and its
non-response to<span> </span><a
href="https://consortiumnews.com/2015/07/04/still-waiting-for-uss-libertys-truth/"
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1967 attack on the U.S. Liberty confirms</a>.</span></p>
<p
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style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; user-select: text !important;">Contrary
to the widespread claims that Israel runs U.S. Middle East
foreign policy, I think it is important to emphasize that the
reverse is true.</span></p>
<p
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is convenient to claim the tail wags the dog, but it is false.</span></p>
<p
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style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; user-select: text !important;">Israel’s
war crimes are U.S. war crimes. If the U.S. wanted to stop
Israel’s genocide and expansion of war throughout the region,
it could do so immediately, for Israel is totally reliant on
U.S. support for its existence – as they like to say, “It’s
existential.”</span></p>
<p
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the news to the contrary is propaganda. It is a sly game of
responsibility ping-pong: shift the blame, keep the audience
guessing as they hit their little hollow ball back and forth.</span></p>
<p
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of the Middle East’s oil supplies and travel routes has been
key to American foreign policy for a very long time. Such
geo-political control is linked to the United States’ endless
war on Russia and the control of natural resources throughout
the vast region (a look at a map is requisite), stretching
from the Middle East to southwest Asia up through the Black
and Caspian Seas through Ukraine into Russia.</span></p>
<p
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both cases, the attacks of September 11, 2001 and Israel’s
genocide of Palestinians whose ultimate target is Iran
(America’s key enemy in the region as far back as the<span> </span><strong
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1953 coup d’état against Iran’s democratically elected Prime
Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh</strong>), savage wars of
extermination have been promoted through decades of carefully
orchestrated propaganda. In the former case, through the
mainstream corporate media’s magic of repetitive cinematic
images, and in the latter, through their absence. To be shown
photos of many thousands of dead and mutilated Palestinian
children does not serve the U.S./Zionist’s interests.
Propaganda’s methods must be flexible. Show, conceal.</span></p>
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families walk through destroyed neighbourhoods in Gaza City on
24 November 2023 as the temporary truce between Hamas and the
Israeli army takes effect (MEE/Mohammed al-Hajjar)</span></p>
<p
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<p
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September 11<sup
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and the current genocide, each in its own way, have been
justified and paid for with similar but different credit cards
without spending limits, the so-called wars on terror waged on
the visual credit card of planes hitting buildings preceded
and followed by endless pictures of Osama bin Laden, and the
genocide of Palestinians on the holocaust credit card minus
images of slaughtered Palestinians or any awareness of the
terrorist history of the Zionist’s century-long racial
nationalist settler movement of “ethnically cleansing”
Palestinians from their land.</span></p>
<p
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know this, one has to read books, but they have been replaced
by cell phones, functional illiteracy being the norm, even for
college graduates who are treated to four years of<span> </span><a
href="https://www.greanvillepost.com/2024/10/05/how-wokeness-kills-class-politics-and-empowers-empire-w-christian-parenti-the-chris-hedges-report/"
style="color: rgb(143, 171, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">wokeness
education</a><span> </span>and anti-intellectualism that
reduces their thinking to mush and graduates them with
sciolistic minds at best. I am being kind.</span></p>
<p
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eradication of historical knowledge and the devaluation of the
written word are key to ignorance of both issues. Digital
media and cell phones are the new books, all few hundred words
on an issue conveying information that conveys ignorance. Guy
DeBord put it succinctly: “That which the spectacle ceases to
speak of for three days no longer exists.” Amnesia is the
norm.</span></p>
<p
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which I might add: that which the mass media spectacle
continues to speak of or show images of for many days exists,
even if it doesn’t. It exists in the minds of virtual people
for whom images and headlines create reality. The electronic
media is not only addictive but hypnotically effective,
producing cyber people divorced from the material world. News
and information have become a form of terrorism used to
implode all mental defenses, similar to the floors at the
World Trade Center that went down boom, boom, boom.</span></p>
<p
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war crimes of US/Israel are readily available for viewing
outside the coverage of the corporate mainstream media. Most
of the world views them, but these are the unreal people, the
ones who don’t count as human beings. These war crimes are
massive, ruthless, and committed proudly and without an ounce
of shame. To face this fact is not acceptable.</span></p>
<p
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who pretend ignorance of them are guilty of bad faith.</span></p>
<p
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href="https://infobrics.org/post/41814"
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<p
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href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/trump-harris-us-elections.jpeg"
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<p
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who support either Harris or Trump are guilty of bad faith
twice over, acting as if either one does not support genocide
or that genocide is a minor matter in the larger scheme of
things.</span></p>
<p
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“the lesser of two evils” is therefore an act of radical evil
hiding behind the mask of civic duty.</span></p>
<p
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it is commonplace only confirms these words from the English
playwright Harold Pinter’s extraordinary<span> </span><a
href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2005/pinter/lecture/"
style="color: rgb(143, 171, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">Nobel
Address in 2005</a>:</span></p>
<p
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United States supported and in many cases engendered every
right wing military dictatorship in the world after the end of
the Second World War. I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay,
Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala,
El</span></p>
<p
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and, of course, Chile. The horror the United States inflicted
upon Chile in 1973 can never be purged and can never be
forgiven.</span></p>
<p
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style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; user-select: text !important;">Hundreds
of thousands of deaths took place throughout these countries.
Did they take place? And are they in all cases attributable to
US foreign policy? The answer is yes they did take place and
they are attributable to American foreign policy. But you
wouldn’t know it.</span></p>
<p
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style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; user-select: text !important;">It
never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was
happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t matter. It was of no
interest. The crimes of the United States have been
systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few
people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to
America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of
power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal
good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of
hypnosis.</span></p>
<p
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style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; user-select: text !important;">Little
has changed since 2005, except that these crimes have
increased along with the propaganda denying them, together
with vastly increased censorship – Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya,
Syria, Russia via Ukraine, etc. – all targets of U.S. bombs,
just like Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, etc. Now the U.S. has brought
the world to the brink of nuclear war and the voting public is
all worked up over choosing between candidates supporting
genocide and the massively expanded Israel attack on
neighboring countries. It is a frightening spectacle of moral
indifference and stupidity as we await the Israel/U.S. bombing
of Iran and Iran’s response.</span></p>
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I ask myself and I ask you: Is there a connection between the
voting public’s support for these war criminals and attention
deficit disorder, amnesia, and dementia?</span></p>
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is this embrace of the demonic twins’ – US/Israel – foreign
policy a sign of something far worse? A death wish?</span></p>
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