Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The Pentagon has finally admitted to the long-obvious fact that it killed ten Afghan civilians, including seven children, in an airstrike in Kabul last month. In an article with the obscenely propagandistic title "Pentagon acknowledges Aug. 29 drone strike in Afghanistan was a tragic mistake that killed 10 civilians," the New York Times pats itself on the back for its investigative journalism showing that the so-called "ISIS-K facilitator" targeted in the strike was in fact an innocent aid worker named Zemari Ahmadi:
A traitor to torture -- Scheer Intelligence -- Five years after his ABC interview about CIA’s use of torture, narcissist St. Obama ordered his persecution -- to protect his legacy
Host Robert Scheer hears from Kiriakou the inside story of how the torture program started as part of a cynical power struggle between the CIA and FBI, why torture does not save lives or secure better intelligence, and how, while the program was started under Republican President George W. Bush, it was a top appointee of President Obama (Obama’s favorite, John Brennan, himself a key architect of the torture program, who chose to prosecute him five years after his interviews with ABC which should have made him a national hero instead of a disgraced felon.
And --- a major MYSTERY --- 170++ dead Afghans and 13 US soldiers...
Just HOW a suicide bomber, in densely packed crowd, can kill 183 people?
PS: It turns out that US SOLDIERS ended up killing many by recklessly firing into the crowd of civilians after the bomb went off and they started panicking. Who knows how many they killed this way included in the official toll. Absolutely unconscionable.
There will be a MAJOR effort by corporate media and Pentagon/arms industry to suppress this national shame
Questions With New Reports That US Forces Gunned Down Civilians After Kabul Blast - by Caitlin Johnstone - Caitlin’s Newsletter (substack.com)
"Indeed, the Pentagon only admitted to the unjust slaughter of civilians in this one particular instance because the mass media did actual investigative journalism on this one particular airstrike."
The only reason the MSM did any investigation was because they wanted to punish the Biden Adminstration for leaving Afghanistan.
Otherwise, we were free to murder to our hearts' content on the most laughable pretexts, and the NYT never so much as raising a peep.
And add to this "Move along nothing to see here" narrative from our 'rulers' but, thankfully not escaping Caitlin's wrath above! We have John Durham finally, bringing a Grand Jury indictment that is pretty telling, but may just be using Sussmann as a Dangle (to hide bigger fish/ploys/Deep State actors). The Conspiracy Theories keep coning true though! Great read. Here's the link to the Indictment if you want to see it Caitlin. Good stuff. https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21063441/sussmann.pdf
I consider some of what is happening a positive development. Still, one must ponder why:
1. Investigative journalism has gone by the wayside.
2. Apologies long overdue are only coming out now.
3. Daniel Hale, along with Craig Murray and Julian Assange currently reside in prison.
4. Importantly, why there has been no accountability for mistakes made - for a long effing time now - my whole LIFE! I mean for heaven's sake, how are you going to get better unless there are consequences after you make a mistake. I paid for my mistakes so why doesn't anybody in the military or the gubment have to pay? Seems to me like a military and gubment done lost all discipline and is heading towards 100% decadency. Seem to me.
5. Oh, yeah, Most Importantly, using this latest event as a prime example, along with the other innocent lives, the lives of 7 children coming to meet an adult they respect bringing water home got mercilessly killed by the killers. I don't know about you all, but children our innocent and my military just killed 7 of them and nobody is being held accountable. That tells me all I need to know and I've known it for a long time. So sick of it....sick of it. It is sickening. Pathetic.
When murdering human beings becomes a career move, something is seriously wrong, yet this is the reality for the military, the media (inasmuch as they support it), our politicians, and for members of what is laughingly called the defense industry. Often these career paths are intrinsically intertwined.
A public tribunal in the form of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission is long overdue, although I would favor long prison sentences; psychopaths should be removed from the general population instead of making policy.
This is the ONLY website taking up this point! Spot on! We are SO bein played....SO bein played. All of a sudden Fox news is a bleeding heart for civilians! Heck, in reality FOX could care less about its' own base dying from covid, openly mocks the big metropolitan cities of its alleged home country. A pox on the hyprocrites! A pox on the hypocrites!
There is a deeper problem lurking here, though. In all of the US' prior dirty wars, from Korea to Iraq, it was understood that any real investigative journalism would have hurt the US' position. Why? It was assumed--correctly, as Vietnam demonstrated--that if the American populace became aware of what 'their' gov't was doing abroad, they would have rebelled. That is precisely why the gov't went to such lengths to cover up any attempts to reveal the truth about its (c)overt operations around the world.
But now, this assumption no longer holds. The US public is broadly quite informed, or at least possesses the requisite Internet literacy to inform themselves, of the atrocities of the US war machine in the past and in the present. But it doesn't seem to matter. No amount of reporting can seem to enrage or embarrass the American public into rebelling against the US gov't. Investigative journalism has died precisely because the subject it was designed to inspire has grown apathetic. Things are so bad that, indeed, the Pentagon can freely admit of its own misdeeds without ever needing to fear a domestic uprising. THAT is the real problem, because without a viable movement for revolution in this country, there is no force that could ever redeem the decades of bloodshed wreaked upon the Afghan people.
Just to beat the point to death - found on internet:
"In 2015 (during the Obama administration) whistle blower Daniel Hale gave the Intercept secret Army documents showing during one five-month period, more than 90 percent of those killed by US airstrikes were not the intended targets. The Intercept published them in its ‘Drone Papers’. I could find no evidence that the NYT deemed this fact news worthy at the time. Hale was just recently sentenced to 45 months in jail under the Espionage act.
Suddenly the MSM and Army seemed shocked, shocked, that such “tragic accidents” could happen. What changed?"
A traitor to torture -- Scheer Intelligence -- Five years after his ABC interview about CIA’s use of torture, narcissist St. Obama ordered his persecution -- to protect his legacy
Host Robert Scheer hears from Kiriakou the inside story of how the torture program started as part of a cynical power struggle between the CIA and FBI, why torture does not save lives or secure better intelligence, and how, while the program was started under Republican President George W. Bush, it was a top appointee of President Obama (Obama’s favorite, John Brennan, himself a key architect of the torture program, who chose to prosecute him five years after his interviews with ABC which should have made him a national hero instead of a disgraced felon.
Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scheer-intelligence/id1054586928?i=1000534891456
Investigative Journalism is basically dead in the Free World, we have instead 'influencers'.
And --- a major MYSTERY --- 170++ dead Afghans and 13 US soldiers...
Just HOW a suicide bomber, in densely packed crowd, can kill 183 people?
PS: It turns out that US SOLDIERS ended up killing many by recklessly firing into the crowd of civilians after the bomb went off and they started panicking. Who knows how many they killed this way included in the official toll. Absolutely unconscionable.
There will be a MAJOR effort by corporate media and Pentagon/arms industry to suppress this national shame
Questions With New Reports That US Forces Gunned Down Civilians After Kabul Blast - by Caitlin Johnstone - Caitlin’s Newsletter (substack.com)
https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/questions-after-new-reports-that?
"Indeed, the Pentagon only admitted to the unjust slaughter of civilians in this one particular instance because the mass media did actual investigative journalism on this one particular airstrike."
The only reason the MSM did any investigation was because they wanted to punish the Biden Adminstration for leaving Afghanistan.
Otherwise, we were free to murder to our hearts' content on the most laughable pretexts, and the NYT never so much as raising a peep.
And add to this "Move along nothing to see here" narrative from our 'rulers' but, thankfully not escaping Caitlin's wrath above! We have John Durham finally, bringing a Grand Jury indictment that is pretty telling, but may just be using Sussmann as a Dangle (to hide bigger fish/ploys/Deep State actors). The Conspiracy Theories keep coning true though! Great read. Here's the link to the Indictment if you want to see it Caitlin. Good stuff. https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21063441/sussmann.pdf
of course, the problem is the media business model which reward access more than objectivity
I consider some of what is happening a positive development. Still, one must ponder why:
1. Investigative journalism has gone by the wayside.
2. Apologies long overdue are only coming out now.
3. Daniel Hale, along with Craig Murray and Julian Assange currently reside in prison.
4. Importantly, why there has been no accountability for mistakes made - for a long effing time now - my whole LIFE! I mean for heaven's sake, how are you going to get better unless there are consequences after you make a mistake. I paid for my mistakes so why doesn't anybody in the military or the gubment have to pay? Seems to me like a military and gubment done lost all discipline and is heading towards 100% decadency. Seem to me.
5. Oh, yeah, Most Importantly, using this latest event as a prime example, along with the other innocent lives, the lives of 7 children coming to meet an adult they respect bringing water home got mercilessly killed by the killers. I don't know about you all, but children our innocent and my military just killed 7 of them and nobody is being held accountable. That tells me all I need to know and I've known it for a long time. So sick of it....sick of it. It is sickening. Pathetic.
~
BK
When murdering human beings becomes a career move, something is seriously wrong, yet this is the reality for the military, the media (inasmuch as they support it), our politicians, and for members of what is laughingly called the defense industry. Often these career paths are intrinsically intertwined.
A public tribunal in the form of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission is long overdue, although I would favor long prison sentences; psychopaths should be removed from the general population instead of making policy.
This is the ONLY website taking up this point! Spot on! We are SO bein played....SO bein played. All of a sudden Fox news is a bleeding heart for civilians! Heck, in reality FOX could care less about its' own base dying from covid, openly mocks the big metropolitan cities of its alleged home country. A pox on the hyprocrites! A pox on the hypocrites!
There is a deeper problem lurking here, though. In all of the US' prior dirty wars, from Korea to Iraq, it was understood that any real investigative journalism would have hurt the US' position. Why? It was assumed--correctly, as Vietnam demonstrated--that if the American populace became aware of what 'their' gov't was doing abroad, they would have rebelled. That is precisely why the gov't went to such lengths to cover up any attempts to reveal the truth about its (c)overt operations around the world.
But now, this assumption no longer holds. The US public is broadly quite informed, or at least possesses the requisite Internet literacy to inform themselves, of the atrocities of the US war machine in the past and in the present. But it doesn't seem to matter. No amount of reporting can seem to enrage or embarrass the American public into rebelling against the US gov't. Investigative journalism has died precisely because the subject it was designed to inspire has grown apathetic. Things are so bad that, indeed, the Pentagon can freely admit of its own misdeeds without ever needing to fear a domestic uprising. THAT is the real problem, because without a viable movement for revolution in this country, there is no force that could ever redeem the decades of bloodshed wreaked upon the Afghan people.
Just to beat the point to death - found on internet:
"In 2015 (during the Obama administration) whistle blower Daniel Hale gave the Intercept secret Army documents showing during one five-month period, more than 90 percent of those killed by US airstrikes were not the intended targets. The Intercept published them in its ‘Drone Papers’. I could find no evidence that the NYT deemed this fact news worthy at the time. Hale was just recently sentenced to 45 months in jail under the Espionage act.
Suddenly the MSM and Army seemed shocked, shocked, that such “tragic accidents” could happen. What changed?"