The Consequence of War is so Easily Forgotten.

 

War is indeed hell.  

Despite the pain, suffering and millions of deaths in the 20th century and the last 26 years due to unending war, the wealthy and the politicians they finance, continue to warmonger, and their paid stooges in the media continue to promote and justify the mass killing as something necessary for humankind. From any perspective, morally, economically or otherwise, war only benefits the few, while the rest of humanity suffers during war, and those brief pauses between them.  

As a people we seem to have chronic amnesia, that war only brings death and mass suffering.  

To give a general overview of the number of estimated deaths in war through the 2 centuries: 

WWI – 15-22 million deaths. 6-13m were civilian. 

WWII – 70-80 million deaths. 52m were civilian. 

Korea – Between 1.5 to 3 million civilian deaths. 

Vietnam – 3.1 million deaths. 2m were civilian.  

Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan – 2.4 million have been killed because of the U.S. invasion of Iraq while 1.2m killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan.  

This does not include U.S. and their allies dirty war in Syria and NATO’s bombing Libya, Somalia, Yemen and Sudan.  

In the Israeli genocide in Gaza, it is estimated that over 75,000 deaths and 30% of that number are children.  

The above statistics in no way reflect the number of deaths in other US adventures, including famine, disease, and its long-term effects after a particular “incursion” has ended.  

The United States has been at war 229 years out of 249 years since its founding in 1776. From this number we can accurately conclude that the US thrives on war and is the essential thrust for its economy.  

Aside the soldiers who fought in these wars, currently in the West, particularly those who cheerlead war, have never experienced the impact that war brings to noncombatants or civilians. This is changing slightly with the advent of the internet, witnessing the slaughter and deprivation of the Palestinian people since 7/23. I would argue that for many, war remains an abstract notion because physical reality has not been directly experienced.  

A prominent journalist that I admire once stated that for the elite and their willing stenographers, see war as a form of entertainment. One can see this on social media, where individuals cheer bombing and post with glee about the murder of soldiers on the battlefield.  

The elites start these wars – banksters and corporations – profit from them, sit back and are entertained. Revealing the amount of people who have died in these wars, mainly noncombatants, we should become more aware that as a common people, we are led like sheep to our slaughter for the sole benefit, mainly financial, of the psychotic few.  

More specifically, my concern in present time: Will Trump and the brutal Israeli regime prolong this war of aggression against Iran, and the result being extreme economic hardship world-wide? This is when those in the West who have never been touched by the consequences of war, finally feel the sting, thereby “waking up” to understand that we’ve been lied to from the beginning?  

War is indeed hell but more accurately war is a racket.  

War and its consequences should never be forgotten.

Note: Image is of Picasso's Guernica. (Famous anti-war painting - 1937) 

UK Prime Minister Starmer is losing in Britian; will Australia follow Suit? Opinion.

From the latest voting results out of the UK, we can see the people have had enough of Starmer and his Labor Party. The BBC is the UK’s largest state news organization, (equivalent to the Soviet Union's Pravda, in the 20th century), many around the planet have deemed unreliable news source at the best of times. In the case of the local election results, any clever spin is pointless because the numbers don’t lie. Watching the BBC early this morning, there were two resignations from the lower ranks of labor, and a call within the party for Starmer to resign. The writing is on the wall, they say. After observing Starmer's swing to authoritarianism with the engine behind this move to be Zionist Israel, anti-Russian rhetoric, and his colleague's connection to the Epstein Files, we will see Starmer disappear from the British political landscape. As we say in Australia, “Don’t let the screen door smack you in the ass on the way out, mate.” 

I lived in London in the late 80’s, and although you had the Thatcherite “Iron lady” phenomenon, people were free to speak out their disagreements with their politicians and their policies. London today is a vastly different place. For example, I read a devastating story about a woman on a train, merely talking about her concerns with the genocide in Palestine, where once getting off on her stop, was approached by two metro policemen, saying that they had received complaints about her conversation. This is cold war Stasi shit, and straight out of Orwell’s 1884. This is Starmer’s Britain.  

There’s no doubt that the US, UK, Germany, and Australia are occupied by a foreign entity known as Zionist Israel. This takeover has been insidiously clever, where most voters concerned about merely surviving, can now face punishment for criticizing Israel, a tiny ethno-supremacist state, currently committing genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. In the instance of the girl on the train, there are spies everywhere ready to turn you in for expressing an opinion. In Queensland, Australia, expressing a certain catch phrase will land you a prison term of up to five years. On the face of it, this is absurd. But it’s really happening.  

For certain, I can’t speak for many people but currently living in a society where you can be punished for not criticizing your own country, but for criticizing another, is a situation that is intolerable for any citizen living in a “democratic” society.  

While watching British State television this morning, hearing that Heir Starmer’s party was losing in landslides, and pundits within his own party calling for his resignation, brought me a gleamer of hope, that Democracy is alive and well, and may triumph over current thralls of totalitarianism. 

For many of us who pay attention, liker Starmer's Labor in the UK, in Australia, we can already feel a movement away from our current Labor Party’s subservience to Zionist Israel.  

This will be proved in the next Federal election.  

  

Why are we Censored when Criticizing Israel? Opinion.

 

“If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.” – Voltaire 

 Over the past week, a select few far-right podcasters, Israel firsters and the pro-genocide crowd, have submitted a request to X (formally known as Twitter) to silence anti-Israeli voices. This would include anti-war voices and staunch free speech advocates. Considering Israel refuses international journalists from entering Gaza to report on the slaughter, and murdering over 250 of them to boot, this should come as no surprise. What Israel has done and continues to commit is unadulterated genocide. This mass slaughter has reached, last time I checked, over 70,000 people, 30% of that number are children. There is no doubt that Israel is an ethno-supremacist regime, ethnic cleansing the Palestinian people. When they are confronted with any criticism, their default response is to scream “antisemitism” and assume the posture of the victim. What is truly concerning to many is that countries like the UK, Germany, US and Australia have installed laws framing any criticism of Israel as “hate speech” and punishing their population with prison time. What or who is behind this tyrannical oppression of free speech that, for many is a Right, enjoyed by citizens of any democratic society?  

 

The crackdown of free speech is coming down hard, as western governments are using “antisemitism” as a front to silence any criticism of Netanyahu and his regime of murderers, warmongers, rapists and pedophiles. Based on Voltaire's notion that to know who is controlling you are those you are not allowed to criticize comes into clear focus with the amount of censorship that has been imposed on the people of democratic nations across the planet.  

 

From a cursory glance of independent and social media, more people are becoming aware of the persuasive evil influence of Zionism. Despite governments attempts to silence our criticism of Israel’s crimes against humanity, many are taking to the streets, facing barbaric opposition from police. At this moment in time, the censorship and punishment of dissident voices give me hope that Zionism is losing its grip on the souls of humankind.  

 

What is disturbing is our politician's blatant unctuous behavior when it comes to Israel. It is argued that 90% of US politicians have been given money by the Israel lobby, APAC. In Australia, though the numbers have yet to be released, how much cash is flowing under the table to our politicians? What caring and intelligent human being can continue to not condemn what Israel has done in Gaza and currently Lebanon? In fact, no politician in Australia has uttered a single critical word against Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Therefore, keeping Voltaire’s adage in mind, the Zionists are in control of our government. This is a disturbing notion, but their lack of conscious, apparent obsequiousness and lack of criticism towards Israel leads me to no other conclusion.   

 

Zionism is an ethno-supremacist ideology, created by a fascist wealthy elite, using the Judaic religion as a front to justify their intentions of dominance around the planet. They’re a murderous regime who has no moral compass, viewing everybody else as inferior, and their cruelty knows no bounds.  

 

Western democracies are in a Zionist chokehold and desperately gasping for air. The scream of antisemitism and their default stance of victimhood is beginning to lose its power in the minds of the greater public. Our politicians must come out from under the Israeli threats of mass violence and obvious bribes and make a stand against these gangsters. Zionism is a cancer that must be removed before the entire world comes completely undone.  

 

Our governments are obviously under the control of this reptilian force known as Zionism. This becomes evident because we are not allowed to criticize them and are punished when we do so.  

 

Voltaire was indeed correct.  

 

The French writer and philosopher also wrote: 

 

“I might disagree with your opinion, but I am willing to give my life for your right to express it.”