While the #US uses the Orwellian lie that “no American lives have been lost so we haven’t been waging war on much of the rest of the world for the past two decades”, reality is that the ‘exceptionalist’ imperium that is the United States has, in fact, been engaged in ‘permanent war’ during this time.

Yet, because of craven the media silence on this issue, the American public rarely sees the human (and wider) consequences of the imperial violence its government wages in their name & using their tax dollars.

In this powerful interview on the The #Intercept’s #Deconstructed podcast (you can listen to it or read it by clicking on the link below), Norman #Solomon, a journalist and longtime antiwar activist, says that this silence is “by design”.

In his latest book, “War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine,” Solomon lays bare the role of government and media in concealing the consequences of war & the utter mendacity & hypocrisy that underpins the blatant criminality of the US imperial war machine!

He breaks down how American politicians, alongside mainstream media, spin lies and hide the true cost of their wars.

Particularly persuasive are the Solomon’s illustrations of how media outlets have been coopted into producing what is essentially war propaganda and how journalists who seek to question the honesty of government officials are routinely silenced.

Solomon makes a striking comparison between the American media’s strong interest in the losses endured by Ukrainian civilians after the recent #Russian invasion of #Ukraine and its indifference to the fate of arguably millions of #Iraqi civilians after America’s invasion in 2003.

Among a series of great quotes featured in the podcast is the famous letter that writer & theologian Thomas Merton wrote to a friend of his as the #Vietnam War was gearing up in the 1960s.

Merton states, “The world is full of great criminals with enormous power, and they are in a death struggle with each other. It’s a huge gang battle of supremely well-armed and well-organized gangsters, using well-meaning lawyers and policemen and clergymen as their front, controlling papers, means of communication, and enrolling everybody in their armies. Let us avoid false optimism and approved gestures, and seek truth.”

https://theintercept.com/2023/08/11/deconstructed-podcast-norman-solomon-american-wars/

While the #US uses the Orwellian lie that “no American lives have been lost so we haven’t been waging war on much of the rest of the world for the past two decades”, reality is that the ‘exceptionalist’ imperium that is the United States has, in fact, been engaged in ‘permanent war’ during this time.

Yet, because of craven the media silence on this issue, the American public rarely sees the human (and wider) consequences of the imperial violence its government wages in their name & using their tax dollars.

In this powerful interview on the @Intercept’s #Deconstructed podcast (you can listen to it or read it by clicking on the link below), Norman #Solomon, a journalist and longtime antiwar activist, says that this silence is “by design”.

In his latest book, “War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine,” Solomon lays bare the role of government and media in concealing the consequences of war & the utter mendacity & hypocrisy that underpins the blatant criminality of the US imperial war machine!

He breaks down how American politicians, alongside mainstream media, spin lies and hide the true cost of their wars.

Particularly persuasive are the Solomon’s illustrations of how media outlets have been coopted into producing what is essentially war propaganda and how journalists who seek to question the honesty of government officials are routinely silenced.

Solomon makes a striking comparison between the American media’s strong interest in the losses endured by Ukrainian civilians after the recent #Russian invasion of #Ukraine and its indifference to the fate of arguably millions of #Iraqi civilians after America’s invasion in 2003.

Among a series of great quotes featured in the podcast is the famous letter that writer & theologian Thomas Merton wrote to a friend of his as the #Vietnam War was gearing up in the 1960s.

Merton states, “The world is full of great criminals with enormous power, and they are in a death struggle with each other. It’s a huge gang battle of supremely well-armed and well-organized gangsters, using well-meaning lawyers and policemen and clergymen as their front, controlling papers, means of communication, and enrolling everybody in their armies. Let us avoid false optimism and approved gestures, and seek truth.”

https://theintercept.com/2023/08/11/deconstructed-podcast-norman-solomon-american-wars/

by #ApostolisFotiadis in #Solomon:

"In the aftermath of what is believed to be the deadliest shipwreck in Greece’s Search and Rescue (SAR) zone, Solomon’s analysis of the programmes to be implemented, as spelled out in a national programming document, reveals that just a programme of €600,000 has been designated for enhancing the national Search and Rescue capacity.

"This amounts to just 0,07% of the total budget allocated for border management, while the bulk of the money concerns the procurement of deterrence equipment such as drones, vehicles of all kinds, thermal cameras, helicopters, and automated surveillance systems."

https://wearesolomon.com/mag/focus-area/migration/just-007-of-819m-border-budget-to-greece-earmarked-for-search-and-rescue/

#Greece #border #shipwreck #Pylos #SearchAndRescue #EuropeanCommission

#retrogaming #Solomon’s_Key_2

RT @ar_etsch: 🌋👀🛰#Kavachi submarine volcano , #Solomon Island

Submarine eruption is ongoing, nice to see the long submarine plume from the space.

Seen from 🛰#Sentinel2 2022.06.09 in EO-Browser 3D
Eye height: 9,69km

Footage: @CopernicusEU @sentinel_hub

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/CopernicusEU/status/1535237281413533696

RT @geoestratego@twitter.com

“Australian #spies helped expose secret pact between #China and #Solomon Islands”.
Pekín mueve otra ficha en el gran juego geopolítico al pactar la cooperación militar con Honiara, incluyendo maniobras conjuntas.
Va hilo.
https://intelnews.org/2022/04/25/01-3191/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/geoestratego/status/1518622940262248448

RT @geoestratego@twitter.com

“Australian #spies helped expose secret pact between #China and #Solomon Islands”.
Pekín mueve otra ficha en el gran juego geopolítico al pactar la cooperación militar con Honiara, incluyendo maniobras conjuntas.
Va hilo.
https://intelnews.org/2022/04/25/01-3191/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/geoestratego/status/1518622940262248448

RT @geoestratego: “Australian #spies helped expose secret pact between #China and #Solomon Islands”.
Pekín mueve otra ficha en el gran juego geopolítico al pactar la cooperación militar con Honiara, incluyendo maniobras conjuntas.
Va hilo.
https://intelnews.org/2022/04/25/01-3191/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/Caninator/status/1518623878498635776

RT @geoestratego: “Australian #spies helped expose secret pact between #China and #Solomon Islands”.
Pekín mueve otra ficha en el gran juego geopolítico al pactar la cooperación militar con Honiara, incluyendo maniobras conjuntas.
Va hilo.
https://intelnews.org/2022/04/25/01-3191/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/Caninator/status/1518623878498635776

#retrocomputing #Solomon's_Key

The wisdom of Solomon – Forthright Magazine http://forthright.net/2020/01/23/wisdom-solomon/

> When we think of Solomon’s wisdom, three incidents from his life would readily come to mind as well as the book he wrote that we call ‘Proverbs’. If you recall, he asked for wisdom from God when he began his reign – and God answered that request. We see his wisdom when two women were claiming the same baby. The third incident is the visit by the Queen of Sheba.

#Solomon #Bible

Melaneziaj ĵurnalistoj denuncas kreskantajn minacojn al amaskomunikila libereco https://eo.globalvoices.org/?p=6628 #Angla #Australio #Blogo #Ĉefaĵo #Cenzuro #Civitanaj #komunikiloj #Fiĝioj #Homaj #rajtoj #Indonezio #Komunikiloj #kaj #ĵurnalismo #Oceanio #Papuo-Nov-Gvineo #Parollibereco #Politiko #Regado #Samoo #Solomon #Islands #Vanuatu #esperanto #globalvoices