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This brief item from the Kyiv Post reveals that Ukrainian soldiers are being tacitly encouraged to ethnically cleanse east and south eastern Ukraine.

The Ukrainian government obviously intends to evict the Russian speaking pro-Russian Ukrainians who largely populate the region. However, what’s really interesting is the universal silence in the Western media about a policy that is obviously intended to promote ethnic cleansing.

This article appeared in the Kyiv Post and we only came across after a correspondent posted it in. In his words:

How is this evil good for ANYONE in Russia or Europe? Why the deafening silence?

Who controls western media?

Indeed. Why the unanimous silence over this policy in our so-called “free press”?

Ukraine’s Land Agency give land to soldiers in the east for free

Oleksandr Klymenko — Interfax – Ukraine June 16, 2014

Land parcels will be given out for free to the servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and other military formations, as well as to the employees of Interior Ministry and the Security Service of Ukraine that are defending territorial integrity and sovereignty of the country in eastern and southeastern regions of Ukraine.

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Churches Occupied!

Posted on 4 July 2014

Dear White Christian Folk of London,

Today the Army and Marine Corps of the United States swept out of Grosvenor Square towards the City of London. They stopped briefly in the City of Westminster to occupy the Abbey Church before carrying on to set up a command post in St Paul’s Churchyard. All men under 50, except those with driving licenses showing they live in London or Westminster are now banned from worshipping in either of these two great churches of Anglicanism.

As a direct response Her Majesty’s Government has dispatched a flotilla including the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth II(named after the Great Great Great Great Granddaughter of George III) across the Atlantic. It should shortly sail up the Potomac and whilst the White House is burning to the ground, thus finishing a job begun during the War of 1812, a set of tunnels will be dug underneath the National Cathedral.

Think its crazy? Foreign armies illegally occupying cities and blocking access to places of worship. Think again. This is happening today in Jerusalem. 

The Israeli Police and Army regularly block access to Masjid Al-Aqsa. The Masjid is not in Israeli territory, but nobody cares about these breaches of International law and UN Security Council resolutions.. Nobody cares, because the actions are directed against Muslims.

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THE MILIBANDS,THE MOSSAD AND DECEPTION IN GENERAL

Alimuddin Usmani Interviews Gilad Atzmon 
July 4, 2014

http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/comment/112046/ralph-miliband-marxist-and-zionist

Alimuddin Usmani: In a recent text you called the British labor opposition leader, Ed Miliband, a shameless Zionist. Ed’s father, Ralph Miliband, was a Marxist and a member of Hashomer Hatzair. Is there a contradiction between being both a Marxist and a Zionist?

Gilad Atzmon: This raises a few questions that deserve close attention. First, can someone be a Marxist and a Zionist simultaneously?Theoretically, NO; practically, YES.

On the theoretical level, there is a blatant contradiction between Marxism and Zionism. Marxism is universal and cosmopolitan, Zionism is tribal and nationalist. Can anyone be a cosmopolitan and a nationalist or universal and tribal? Ordinary people probably can’t, but the Jew can – Ralph Miliband clearly got away with it and he wasn’t the only one.

While the term ‘Jewish Left’ is an oxymoron due to the impossible contradiction between ethno centrism and the universal, it turns out that quite a few Jews have managed to overcome this hurdle. They operate tribally within their racially oriented Jews-only political cells, but they also identify as Marxists, Socialists and leftists. They must believe that no one notices the duplicity. But many do.

In order to understand this form of political dishonesty we must grasp the Jewish progressive twist on the universal. Marxism seeks to unite the proletariat regardless of skin-colour, gender or race. The Jewish left strives to transform Marxism into a tribal friendly discourse. They separate society into different identity groups. Accordingly, the Jewish progressive purports to support the ‘oppressed’ yet he stays cocooned in a Jews only Marxist ghetto in which he doesn’t mix with the Goyim, let alone the working people.

The next question addresses the case of Ralph Miliband. The fact that Ralph Miliband, a petty Zionist, continually managed to convince his socialist cohorts that he was ‘cosmopolitan’ and a ‘socialist’ shows that the British Left has been hijacked by a controlled opposition for some time. This fact alone explains why the working class in this country have been left behind.

Does anyone really believe that any of the Milibands (Ralph, Ed or David) spent a day in a factory in their entire life? I doubt it. And what about Ralph Miliband’s best friend Eric Hobsbawm, was he a worker or a coal miner? These people are members of the Jewish middle class pseudo intelligencia. They are people who claim to know what is good for the ‘working people.’ In Yiddish it is called Chuzpah. In practice, it is nothing short of deception.

Alimuddin Usmani: Three young Israeli settlers who disappeared recently in the West Bank were found dead. Since their disappearance the Israeli government took measures to punish the Palestinians collectively. What do you think of this affair?

Gilad Atzmon: Collective punishment is a popular activity in the Jewish State. After all, the Jews have been waiting for 2000 years to punish the goyim collectively.

In order to understand Israel and its actions we must understand Israeli policy within the context of the Jewish continuum. It is not Zionism that drives Israel to impose collective measures against Palestinians. This response is embedded in the nature of the Jewish state.

There is also a deeper rationale behind such collective punishment. The abuse of the Palestinians in a collective manner contributes to Israeli collectivism. The punishment of Arabs as a homogenous identity unites the Jews, it enhances the Jewish collective and it sets clear racial barriers between the Arabs, the Goyim and the ‘Jewish continuum’.

Alimuddin Usmani: The most radical Zionist figures were born in Eastern European countries : Ze’ev Jabotinsky (Ukraine), Yitzhak Shamir (Belarus), Menachem Begin (Belarus). Is there a link between their place of birth and their harshness against Arabs and Palestinians?

Gilad Atzmon: The great Palestinian spokesperson Hanan Ashrawi, said once that Israel is the place where Jews punish Palestinians for crimes committed by the Europeans. There is no doubt that Jewish suffering in Eastern Europe contributed to the formation of hawkish Israeli right wing militarism. However, although the Iron Wall philosophy (the idea that Jews should treat Arabs with a fist) was introduced by Ze’ev Jabotinsky, it was Ben Gurion and the so-called Jewish ‘Left’ who implemented the Iron Wall and expelled the Palestinians.

I have long agreed with Avi Shlem that Jabotinsky’s Iron Wall matured into Left Zionism praxis by means of osmosis. However, I now think that it might be possible that it wasn’t an ideological transformation that made Ben Gurion into a Jabotinsky disciple. It appears that Jabotinsky and Ben Gurion as well as the rest of the Zionist elite were interpreting the Jewish national aspiration as a biblical homecoming project driven by racial supremacy and plunderous inclinations. In other words, both Ben Gurion and Jabotinsky treated the Palestinians with a fist because this is how they interpreted the meaning of their Jewish existence.

Alimuddin Usmani: Do you think that Mossad, whose motto is “by way of deception”, inherited a Jewish historical tradition dating from the sicarii (siqariqim in modern hebrew)?

Gilad Atzmon: “By way of deception” is a quote from the Bible (Proverbs 24:6). And this is significant because, in the eyes of the Israeli it conveys an imaginary continuum between the Biblical Israelites and the current crop of Mossad agents who facilitate too many ‘false flag’ operations, foolishly believing that no one notices.

But in fact it is the Mossad motto that helps us to grasp the political role of people such as the Milibands, BHL, The CRIF, LFI, Dershowitz, Neocons, Hasbara, AIPAC, George Soros and others. The Mossad’s motto suggests that from a Jewish perceptive, deception is kosher. This is devastating indeed.

Alimuddin Usmani: You attended a joint conference with Alain Sorel on the11th of June. Can you share your thoughts about this event?

Gilad Atzmon: I enjoyed the conference enormously. To start with, entering Dieudonne’s shrine is a spiritual treat that I would happily practice on a daily basis. I admire the man and love the room. On top of that I am totally inspired by E&R’s activity, the diverse crowd, the intellectual enthusiasm and the scholarly approach. It is a societal transformation at its inception. This was my second event with Alain Soral, whom I regard as the last French thinker. I respect his thoughts, the methods by which he develops his argument and the depth of his scholarship. It is clear that the harassment Soral endures at the hands of the Jewish Lobby and their puppet anti-Social government is due to the fact that our rulers lack the ability to address the questions raised by Soral and E&R.

Alimuddin Usmani: On the 20th of June Dieudonné prevailed in a case against a Jewish student organization (UEJF) that attempted to censor a video disseminated via YouTube. The UEJF demanded that Dieudonné contribute 50,000 Euros to a Shoah memorial. The judge rejected their claims and stated that Dieudonné’s target was primarily Prime Minister Manuel Valls rather than the Jews. What is your reaction to this judgment?

Gilad Atzmon: It means that in France the prime minister is far more vulnerable than a certain tribe that believes itself to be ruler of the land.

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EU Sanctions Target Humanitarian Aid and Hinder Restoration of Global Heritage in Syria

FRANKLIN LAMB

Damascus

Al-manar

Today, a civilization that used to lead the world and for centuries was the beacon of learning, tolerance and trade, and that still protects our global cultural heritage, is damaged—and only the Syrian people can rebuild it for all of us. We need to help them.

Last month, half-heartedly and without unanimity among its 28 member states, the European Union levied yet more sanctions on Syrian officials. Passed under pressure from the usual suspects (the US, France, Britain, and the international Zionist lobby), the EU measure targets 12 government ministers, none of whom wields or holds police authority of any type. Not a single one of these individuals has any capacity or wherewithal—or even any interest—in committing “serious human rights violations,” as the measure accuses them of having carried out.

It is a charge that amounts to defamation of character and which the EU made without offering a scintilla of evidence. Widely seen as EU frustration over failed western policy in Syria, the action is also thought to have been motivated by a sense that the EU ought to keep itself relevant by…well…doing something, given that there is a deep split within its ranks over military aid to Syrian rebels. Coming three weeks after the Syrian presidential election (generally viewed as a significant victory for the Assad government), the measure puts the officials under an EU travel ban and asset freeze, and it also raises to 191 the number of Syrian government employees, along with 53 companies, now being targeted by EU sanctions.

The impact of EU and western sanctions on the Syrian economy has been severe—this is well known. Heavy fighting has damaged or destroyed economic infrastructure, significantly impeding normal access to sources of income for average Syrians. In addition, internal distribution and supply networks have been disrupted if not destroyed; currency depreciation has devastated purchasing power; and the heavy US, EU and Arab League sanctions have hampered imports and exports. Even the import of items not subject to the sanctions has been restricted by the sanctions on financial transactions, while tourism revenue, for example, has all but disappeared.

The EU’s ill-considered action simply adds to the multitude of woes faced by Syrian citizens, woes which have forced many of them to leave their country and become refugees. The ministers targeted tend to be technocrats, specialists in their field of work; they are not major government policy makers. Some are involved in humanitarian work, and some of them are ministers whose efforts in this regard have made them quite popular with Syrian people, both at home and abroad. One of these is Kinda al-Shammat, who heads Syria’s Ministry of Social Affairs.

​Dr. Kinda al-Shammat, human rights advocate-capriciously targeted with EU political sanctions on 6/23/14

 Minister  Shammat works closely with the U.N. and other aid agencies operating on the ground in Syria, her efforts facilitating the delivery of assistance to millions of internally displaced Syrians. The UN has hundreds of aid workers working with the Syrian government through her. She has never been involved in “serious human rights violations,” but she is a well-known human rights advocate. Ms. Shammat holds a PhD in Private Law from the University of Damascus, where she teaches, and she has also worked with the Syrian Commission for Family Affairs, the General Union of Syrian Women, and the UN Development Fund. In the latter capacity she served as a legal expert in family affairs and violence against women, and in 2012 she was also a member of the committee that amended the Syrian constitution.

Ms. Shammat first came to this observer’s attention for her continued dedication to getting aid to Palestinian refugees trapped inside Yarmouk camp during the current crisis. She survived an assassination attempt by rebels opposed to her views on women rights, and some suggest that she became a target for al-Qaeda types last year when Damascus University banned the wearing of total full face veils. It was a decision she openly welcomed at the time, saying that it was in line with the Syrian belief in moderation.

“We in Syria have never gone to the extreme left or the extreme right,” she told Al-Arabiya TV.

Kinda al-Shammat is surely one of the last officials, in Syria or anywhere else, who would warrant EU sanctions against her, and it is deeply egregious that she should be targeted, along with her colleagues, without any proof of wrongdoing. Most of the other ministers added to the sanctions list also have stellar records of public service; they would doubtless be applauded by the people, and probably, under different circumstances, would even be esteemed and well received in all 28 EU member states as well. These include Finance Minister Ismael Ismael, Economy and Foreign Trade Minister Khodr Orfali, Oil Minister Suleiman Al Abbas, Industry Minister Kamal Eddin Tu’ma, Labor Minister Hassan Hijazi, and Minister of Tourism, Bishr Riad Yaziji. None of these individuals has ever been accused of any conduct that could be construed as anything other than humanitarian. Of these it is perhaps Yaziji who most embodies the “new breed” of Syrian officials.

Yaziji was appointed as Minister of Tourism on 8/22/13, and he appears beholden to no person or thing other than his own vision of restoring Syria’s vital tourist industry. Born in Aleppo in 1972, Yaziji is a businessman, and he is currently the youngest member of the Assad Cabinet. With a Bachelor’s degree in Informatics Engineering from Aleppo University (1995), he is possessed with distinctively Kennedyesque good looks, voices progressive ideas, and exerts a charm and charisma that instantly connects with ordinary citizens and foreigners alike. Not affiliated with the Baath Party, Yaziji is an independent and was elected as such to the People’s Assembly, or the Syrian parliament. This observer has closely followed his work, both in the media and from direct personal experience.

Prior to the conflict, tourism brought in more than $8 billion annually, and as one admirer of Yaziji, who also works in government, put it, “The Tourism Ministry is working to reconnect to the world the way we Syrians used to reach out.” The official added:

“Syria’s treasures, from the cradle of civilization that we are, fundamentally belong to all of humanity, and please accept our promise—that we will do our best to repair all damage to the antiquities and will welcome assistance, as we shall welcome every visitor again, before long, enshallah (God willing).”

​Minister of Tourism...HE  Bashr Yaziji..Another target of EU political sanctions last week

Minister Yaziji appears to thrive on the broad scope and depth of his work, which in fact includes visiting Syrian archaeological sites and drawing international focus on the need to protect and restore humanity’s collective cultural heritage, of which the people of Syria are the custodians. He also spends his time participating in youth festivals, visiting wounded citizens in hospitals, and recently attended a “Loyalty to Syria” gathering, where he stressed the importance of NGOs in conveying the reality of events in Syria to the global public. At that gathering he also discussed the unparalleled richness of the country’s historical and religious monuments, and spoke of “boosting the social values and developing national capacity to serve the best interest of Syria.”

This new generation of Syrian officials is dedicated to ameliorating the country’s humanitarian crisis as well as preserving our global heritage. They have been indefatigable in their around-the- clock projects, and they need to be encouraged, not hindered. In an interview with Reuters on 6/28/14, Yaziji said the sanctions will not interfere with his work—and he also said he has never been involved with any “human rights violations” of any sort. Some have pointed to the curious timing of this latest round of sanctions, so soon after the presidential election, and have suggested that in reality it is a form of collective punishment of the Syrian people—for daring to vote the wrong way, or in a way disapproved of by the EU and the rest of the West.

The EU has spoken piously of  “Cultural Heritage—our debt to the past, our promise to the future,” and claims that it seeks to “promote culture as a catalyst for creativity,” but its actions last month belie this. If it truly seeks to implement its claimed humanitarian values, the EU should work to open the paths of these Syrian officials, not close them. At the very least it should desist from layering more “show sanctions” upon those in Syria who are striving to salvage their country. Yaziji and al-Shammat are Syrian patriots whose invaluable work the EU should be encouraging rather than hindering with politically motivated sanctions and silly, gratuitous defamations of character.

Few in the Syrian Arab Republic these days question the urgency and enormity of the task of reconstructing their ancient country from war-caused destruction, the fall-out from a conflict already more than half as long as World War I and approaching two-thirds as long as World War II. For this ten-millennium civilization, emergency measures are needed to protect its thousands of priceless archaeological treasures, both from the ravages of war as well as plunder and illegal excavation wrought by thieves. The Syrian government has given high priority to the preservation of cultural heritage, a policy that presumably not many in the EU would openly disagree with. Yet the EU’s ill-considered sanctions are harming multi-faceted restoration efforts—by intimidating members of the international public who want to help and by attempting to isolate Syrian officials whose full schedules these days are consumed by humanitarian undertakings as well as projects aimed at restoring cultural heritage sites and preserving our link to the past. And by the way, some of these sites they are working to protect are included on UNESCO’s list of World Heritage Sites. These include the Ancient City of Aleppo , the Ancient City of Bosra , Ancient City of Damascus , Ancient Villages of Northern Syria , Crac des Chevaliers and Qal’at Salah El-Din and the Site of Palmyra .

Syria and her hardworking public servants will survive these gratuitous political sanctions, but the sanctions likely will remain an indelible stain on the EU and its claimed humanitarian principles for a long time to come.

Franklin Lamb is a visiting Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law, Damascus University and volunteers with the Sabra-Shatila Scholarship Program (sssp-lb.com).

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Horrendous global deaths means make Fourth of July Independence from America Day

by: Dr Gideon Polya 

Friday July 4, 2014 - 09:09

The World should urgently make 4 July Independence from America Day. Make no mistake, the World loves and is inspired by the best of America, and notably by the best of its entertainers, sportsmen, writers, scholars, scientists, musicians, artists, actors, heroes and activists, and in particular we love American ideals as expressed in the American Declaration of Independence and the small community values of friendship, goodwill, tolerance and altruism. However America has progressively fallen into the hands of the Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist One Percenters with dire consequences for Americans and the World.

The dream of America has transmuted into a Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI) One Percenter Amerika to the point that Jewish Hungarian American investor, billionaire, philanthropist and WW2 Jewish Holocaust survivor George Soros has called for the “de-Nazification” of America, stating in relation to the illegal war in Iraq that “[America’s future depends on the] extent it recognizes the mistake. America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process" [1].

In similar vein, conservative, blue blood Republican, so-called Father of Reaganomics Dr Paul Craig Roberts (formerly Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy under Reagan, associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate, and with many university appointments) writing for 4 July 2014 stated: “In the United States patriotism and militarism have become synonyms. This July 4th find the courage to remind the militarists that Independence Day celebrates the Declaration of Independence, not the American Empire. The Declaration of Independence was not only a declaration of independence from King George III but also a declaration of independence from unaccountable tyrannical government. The oath of office commits the US officeholder to the defense of the US Constitution from enemies ”foreign and domestic.” In the 21st century Americans’ worst enemies are not al Qaeda, Iran, Russia, and China. America’s worst enemies are our own presidents who have declared repeatedly that the orchestrated “war on terror” gives them the right to set aside the civil liberties guaranteed to every citizen by the US Constitution” [2].

Two conservative swallows do not make a summer. Accordingly it is useful to objectively and quantitatively consider American One Percenter crimes against Humanity, including Americans, concentrating on direct or indirect violations of the most fundamental human right, namely the Right to Life of born human beings. Thus when America invades and occupies a country or establishes hegemony through military bases or political subversion (as revealed by world heroes Julian Assange and Edward Snowden), America then becomes responsible not just for violent deaths through killing but also for avoidable deaths from US-imposed deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease [3].

I have set out below a succinct, quantitative summary of American One Percenter imperialism since 1776 and its dire human consequences.

1. America has invaded 70 nations since 1776. 

The list below does not include the 1801-1805 US Marine Barbary War operations against Barbary pirates based in Morocco , Algeria , Tunisia and Libya; Muslim countries subject to attacks by US-backed Apartheid Israel; current Apartheid Australia-targetted US drone attacks from Mali to Pakistan; and massive US subversion of virtually all countries in the world as revealed by Julian Assange and Edward Snowden). In recent weeks the US has re-invaded Iraq with a total, so far, of 800 military personnel.

American Indian nations (1776 onwards, American Indian Genocide; 1803, Louisiana Purchase; 1844, Indians banned from east of the Mississippi; 1861 onwards, California genocide; 1890, Lakota Indians massacre), (2) Mexico (1836-1846; 1913; 1914-1918; 1923), (3) Nicaragua (1856-1857; 1894; 1896; 1898; 1899; 1907; 1910; 1912-1933; 1981-1990), (4) American forces deployed against Americans (1861-1865, Civil War; 1892; 1894; 1898; 1899-1901; 1901; 1914; 1915; 1920-1921; 1932; 1943; 1967; 1968; 1970; 1973; 1992; 2001), (5), Argentina (1890), (6), Chile (1891; 1973), (7) Haiti (1891; 1914-1934; 1994; 2004-2005), (8) Hawaii (1893-), (9) China (1895-1895; 1898-1900; 1911-1941; 1922-1927; 1927-1934; 1948-1949; 1951-1953; 1958), (10) Korea (1894-1896; 1904-1905; 1951-1953), (11) Panama (1895; 1901-1914; 1908; 1912; 1918-1920; 1925; 1958; 1964; 1989-), (12) Philippines (1898-1910; 1948-1954; 1989; 2002-), (13) Cuba (1898-1902; 1906-1909; 1912; 1917-1933; 1961; 1962), (14) Puerto Rico (1898-; 1950; ); (15) Guam (1898-), (16) Samoa (1899-), (17) Honduras (1903; 1907; 1911; 1912; 1919; 1924-1925; 1983-1989), (18) Dominican Republic (1903-1904; 1914; 1916-1924; 1965-1966), (19) Germany (1917-1918; 1941-1945; 1948; 1961), (20) Russia (1918-1922), (21) Yugoslavia (1919; 1946; 1992-1994; 1999), (22) Guatemala (1920; 1954; 1966-1967), (23) Turkey (1922), (24) El Salvador (1932; 1981-1992), (25) Italy (1941-1945); (26) Morocco (1941-1945), (27) France (1941-1945), (28) Algeria (1941-1945), (29) Tunisia (1941-1945), (30) Libya (1941-1945; 1981; 1986; 1989; 2011), (31) Egypt (1941-1945; 1956; 1967; 1973; 2013), (32) India (1941-1945), (33) Burma (1941-1945), (34) Micronesia (1941-1945), (35) Papua New Guinea (1941-1945), (36) Vanuatu (1941-1945), (37) Austria (1941-1945), (38) Hungary (1941-1945), (39) Japan (1941-1945), (40) Iran (1946; 1953; 1980; 1984; 1987-1988; ), (41) Uruguay (1947), (42) Greece (1947-1949), (43) Vietnam (1954; 1960-1975), (44) Lebanon (1958; 1982-1984), (45) Iraq (1958; 1963; 1990-1991; 1990-2003; 1998; 2003-2011, 2014), (46) Laos (1962-), (47) Indonesia (1965), (48) Cambodia (1969-1975; 1975), (49) Oman (1970), (50) Laos (1971-1973), (51) Angola (1976-1992), (52) Grenada (1983-1984), (53) Bolivia (1986; ), (54) Virgin Islands (1989), (55) Liberia (1990; 1997; 2003), (56) Saudi Arabia (1990-1991), (57) Kuwait (1991), (58) Somalia (1992-1994; 2006), (59) Bosnia (1993-), (60) Zaire (Congo) (1996-1997), (61) Albania (1997), (62) Sudan (1998), (63) Afghanistan (1998; 2001-), (64) Yemen (2000; 2002-), (65) Macedonia (2001), (66) Colombia (2002-), (67) Pakistan (2005-), (68) Syria (2008; 2011-), (69) Uganda (2011), (70) Mali (2013), (71) Niger (2013) [4].

2. America has military bases in at least 156 countries. 

According to Canadian geographer Professor Jules Dufour: “The US has established its control over 191 governments which are members of the United Nations. The conquest, occupation and/or otherwise supervision of these various regions of the World is supported by an integrated network of military bases and installations which covers the entire Planet (Continents, Oceans and Outer Space). All this pertains to the workings of an extensive Empire, the exact dimensions of which are not always easy to ascertain … the presence of US military personnel in 156 countries. The US Military has bases in 63 countries. Brand new military bases have been built since September 11, 2001 in seven countries. In total, there are 255,065 US military personnel deployed Worldwide. These facilities include a total of 845,441 different buildings and equipments. The underlying land surface is of the order of 30 million acres. According to Gelman, who examined 2005 official Pentagon data, the US is thought to own a total of 737 bases in foreign lands. Adding to the bases inside U.S. territory, the total land area occupied by US military bases domestically within the US and internationally is of the order of 2,202,735 hectares, which makes the Pentagon one of the largest landowners worldwide (Gelman, J., 2007)” [5].

3. American hegemony is associated with over 1.3 billion avoidable deaths since 1950. 

A major component of war- or hegemony-related deaths is represented by non-violent avoidable deaths from violently-imposed deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease. Since 1950 the UN has provided detailed demographic data that have permitted calculation of such avoidable deaths, year by year, for every country in the world. 1950-2005 avoidable deaths total 1.3 billion for the whole world, 1.2 billion for the non-European world and 0.6 billion for the Muslim world, the latter carnage being 100 times greater than the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million Jews killed, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation) or the “forgotten” WW2 Bengali Holocaust in which the British with Apartheid Australian complicity deliberately starved 6-7 million Indians to death for strategic reasons. Currently 17 million people die avoidably each year in the Developing World on Spaceship Earth with the US in charge of the flight deck [3].

4. American occupation has been associated with over 82 million avoidable deaths since 1950.

Below is a summary of 1950-2005 avoidable mortality/ 2005 population (both in millions, m) and expressed as a percentage (%) for each country occupied by the US in the post-1945 era. The asterisk (*) indicates a major occupation by more than one country in the post-WW2 era (thus, for example, the UK and the US have been major occupiers of Afghanistan , Iraq and Korea , leaving aside the many other minor participants in these conflicts). Data is also given for the US: US [8.455m/300.038m = 2.8%], Afghanistan* [16.609m/25.971m = 64.0%], Cambodia* [5.852m/14.825m = 39.5%], Dominican Republic [0.806m/8.998m = 9.0%], Federated States of Micronesia [0.016m/0.111m = 14.4%], Greece* [0.027m/10.978m = 0.2%], Grenada* [0.018m/0.121m = 14.9%], Guam [0.005m/0.168m = 3.0%], Haiti* [4.089m/8.549m = 47.9%], Iraq* [5.283m/26.555m = 19.9%], Korea* [7.958m/71.058m = 11.2%], Laos* [2.653m/5.918m = 44.8%], Panama [0.172m/3.235m = 5.3%], Philippines [9.080m/82.809m = 11.0%], Puerto Rico [0.039m/3.915m = 1.0%], Somalia* [5.568m/10.742m = 51.8%], US Virgin Islands [0.003m/0.113m = 2.4%], Vietnam* [24.015m/83.585m = 28.7%], total = 82.193m/357.651m = 23.0%. [3]. However one should also consider the 24 million avoidable deaths in 1950-2005 linked to the attacks on and occupation of neighbouring countries by the US-backed, genocidally racist colony of Apartheid Israel for which the corresponding 1950-2005 avoidable mortality/ 2005 population data have been garnered: Israel [0.095m/6.685m =1.4%] - Egypt* [19.818m/74.878m = 26.5%], Jordan* [0.630m/5.750m = 11.0%], Lebanon [0.535m/3.761m = 14.2%], Occupied Palestinian Territories* [0.677m/3.815m = 17.7%], Syria* [2.198m/18.650m = 11.8%], total = 23.858m/106.854 = 22.3% [3].

5. Huge and deadly American wealth inequality is linked to violence and war. 

There is a remarkable dichotomy of evil and good in America as illustrated by war monger, war criminal and mass murderer George Bush versus the humane conservative Dr Paul Craig Roberts who stated (2014): “On July 4th all across America there will be patriotic speeches about our soldiers who gave their lives for their country. To an informed person these speeches are curious. I am hard pressed to think of any examples of our soldiers giving their lives for our country. US Marine General Smedley Butler had the same problem. He said that his Marines gave their lives for United Fruit Company’s control of Central America. “War is a racket,” said General Butler, pointing out that US participation in World War I produced 21,000 new American millionaires and billionaires”[2]. French economist Thomas Piketty in his important book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” has shown that the One Percenter share of total income in each of the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia fell from about 20% in 1910 to 6-9% in 1970, but after 1980 variously increased to 10-18% in 2007 (18% for the US). A similar pattern obtains with the top 10% (the Ten Percenters) in these countries, a phenomenon that Piketty describes as “the rise of the supermanager: an Anglo-Saxon phenomenon” [6, 7] (see [6], Figures 9.2-9.8, pp315-324). The One Percenters now own about 50% of world wealth with a huge impact on global avoidable mortality from deprivation now totalling 17 million avoidable deaths in the Developing World. However a roughly 4% annual global wealth tax generating US$16 trillion annually (pigs might fly) would suffice to bring all poor countries up to the modest annual per capita income of Cuba (annual per capita income of US$6,301), a country having lower infant mortality than the wealthy US (annual per capita income of US$51,163) and zero annual avoidable mortality [8] .

6. American wealth inequality is linked to 1.3 million preventable American deaths annually. 

The horrendous wealth inequality and militarism (including an estimated $40 trillion long-term accrual cost of Apartheid Israel to Americans [9]) is linked to 1.3 million preventable American deaths each year linked to the fiscal perversion of traitorous Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist One Percenters committing $8-10 trillion to ethnic cleansing and active and passive mass murder of 12 million Muslims abroad since 1990 in the War on Muslims (and 10 million in the post-2001 War on Terror) in support of US hegemony, oil and Apartheid Israel instead of keeping Americans alive at home [9, 10]. 7. American violence linked to 100,000 opiate drug deaths annually. According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) about 0.1 million people die from opiate drug-related causes each year. The US Alliance restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry from 6% of world market share in 2001 to 93% in 2007 means about 0.9 x 0.1 million deaths per year x 12.7 years = 1.1 million global deaths due to US Alliance-pushed Afghan opiates, this including about 200,000 Americans, 50,000 Iranians, 18,000 British, 10,000 Canadians, 8,000 Germans and 4,000 Australians [10].

8. American–initiated and US-dominated tobacco industry kills 6 million people each year. 

In the United States tobacco use is responsible for about one in five deaths annually (i.e., about 443,000 deaths per year, with an estimated 49,000 of these smoking-related deaths as the result of second hand smoke exposure) [10]. However, worldwide tobacco-related deaths total about 6 million each year from the American –initiated and US-dominated tobacco industry [11].

9. Apocalyptic One Percenter US state terrorism and nuclear, poverty and climate change threats.

It is likely that a nuclear exchange involving the US and other state nuclear terrorism would wipe out all of Humanity (currently 7 billion people). Already about 17 million people die avoidably each year from US- and other First World One Percenter-imposed poverty. Presently about 5 million people die avoidably each year from climate change (0.5 million) and carbon burning (4.5 million) in a worsening climate genocide [12] but it is estimated that 10 billion will perish this century (all but circa 0.5 billion of Humanity) if man-made climate change is not properly addressed [13]. The One Percenter-dominated US has about 4.5% of the world’s population and consumes about 25% of the world’s resources in a carbon-based economy. Obama rhetoric aside, the One Percenter-run US is giving no indication that it will address America’s disproportionately huge contribution to man-made climate change [14] and the primary driver, massively increasing wealth inequality. Despite a desperate innate optimism in relation to the potentially achievable , I really cannot see the One Percenter-dominated US adopting the science-based imperative of urgently returning atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) to a safe and sustainable 300 ppm CO2 from the current dangerous and damaging 400 ppm CO2 [15].

Conclusions.

The US One Percenters are not the only One Percenters in the world but the US One Percenters dominate as does their neoliberal philosophy. Similarly, while the US has invaded 70 countries and subverts all countries on earth, other first world countries contribute to egregious global violence and accompanying wealth inequality. The richest countries in the world in terms of per capita income include those with the worst records of invading other countries. Thus the US has invaded 70 nations [4], the UK about 170 [16] and France has invaded 80 countries [17]. The US , the UK and France are united in the egregiously violent France-UK-US (FUKUS) Coalition and are world leaders in ownership of global wealth, in arms sales, and in invasion and occupation of other countries since 1945 and in the 21st century [6, 7].

With half the world’s wealth in the hands of the One Percenters, “one dollar one vote” trumps the notional “one man one vote” for the remaining 99% who, like legislators, are subject to a barrage of neoliberal propaganda from the presstitutes of the One Percenters. The Western democracies have become One Percenter- and Ten Percenter-dominated Murdochracies. Lobbyocracies and Corporatocracies in which Big Money buys people, politicians, parties, polices, public perception of reality and political power.

What can decent people do before it is too late (if it is not too late already)? Decent people who care for future generations, Humanity and the Biosphere must (a) inform everyone they can, (b) apply, where feasible, Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against the climate criminal and war criminal One Percenters and their Ten Percenter lackeys, and (c) make the Fourth of July Independence from America Day.

References.

[1]. Gideon Polya, “George Soros urges Bush America "de-Nazification" after removal of war criminal Bush regime”, Bellaciao, 21 February 2007:http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?ar... .

[2]. Paul Craig Roberts, “July 4th Militarist Bunkum (an encore by request)”, Countercurrents, 3 July 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/robe... .

[3]. Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” that includes an avoidable mortality-related history of every country since Neolithic times and is now available for free perusal on the web:http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ .

[4]. Gideon Polya, “The US Has Invaded 70 Nations Since 1776 – Make 4 July Independence From America Day”, Countercurrents, 05 July 2013:http://www.countercurrents.org/poly... .

[5]. Jules Dufour, “The world-wide network of US military bases”, Global Research: http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-wo... .

[6]. Thomas Piketty “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”.

[7]. Gideon Polya, “Key book review: “Capital In The Twenty-First Century” by Thomas Piketty”, Countercurrents, 1 July 2014:http://www.countercurrents.org/poly... .

[8]. Gideon Polya, “4 % annual Global Wealth Tax to stop the 17 Million deaths annually”, Countercurrents, 27 June, 2014:http://www.countercurrents.org/poly... .

[9]. Gideon Polya, “American Holocaust, millions of untimely American deaths and $40 trillion cost of Israel to Americans”, Countercurrents, 27 August, 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/poly... .

[10]. Gideon Polya, “ One million Americans die preventably annually in USA ”, Countercurrents, 18 February 2012:http://www.countercurrents.org/poly... .

[11]. “Tobacco”, WHO, 2014: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/fact... .

[12]. DARA, “Climate Vulnerability Monitor. A guide to the cold calculus of a hot planet”, 2012, Executive Summary pp2-3: http://daraint.org/climate-vulnerab... .

[13]. “Climate Genocide”: “Climate Genocide”:https://sites.google.com/site/clima... .

[14]. Gideon Polya, “Pro-gas Obama’s EPA-based plan to reduce coal-based pollution amounts to climate change inaction”, Countercurrents, 7 June 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/poly... .

[15]. “300.org – return atmosphere CO2 to 300 ppm”:https://sites.google.com/site/300or... .

[16]. Jasper Copping, “British have invaded nine out of ten countries – so look out Luxembourg . Britain has invaded all but 22 countries in the world in its long and colourful history, new research has found”, Telegraph, 4 November 2012: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/... .

[17]. Gideon Polya, “President Hollande and French invasion of privacy versus French invasion of 80 countries since 800 AD”, Countercurrents, 15 January, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/poly... .

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