While We Take a Break from Fighting Wars, We Fight Proxy Wars Cheered on By the News Media

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Dave Smith:

I just I hate them so much and I really think they deserve it. And it’s not just that they lie about everything. It’s like they lie about everything and then they have the nerve to morally judge us. If you just watched even just the last few weeks of the Trump election, they’re not in the business of reporting the news. They’re totally just in the business of making you feel like you’re a bad person if you don’t fall in line with the regime.

America has this giant war machine, right? We’re always at war. We’re the most war-hungry country in the world. Even if we’re taking a little bit of a break from a war, we’ll fight two more proxy wars while we do that. America looks back at the 90s–Bill Clinton–as the time of peace and prosperity. We call it peace because we only fought a war in Serbia and had a blockade around Iraq, and we’re bombing the crap out of Iraq, with a few other military interventions in there too. You know, the UN estimated that Bill Clinton’s sanctions and bombing regime of Iraq–everyone just thinks of George H.W. Bush’s war and W’s war–but Bill Clinton was bombing Iraq and he had a full blockade around the country. The UN estimated that 500,000 children died of starvation or malnutrition due to the blockade. Now, I’ve heard people argue, by the way, that that number is exaggerated. Maybe it wasn’t 500 that maybe it was only 100,000. So that’s the time that we consider “peace” when we were just starving 100,000 children to death in Iraq. And everybody in the corporate media are in the business every single one of those wars. You’ve sold them. Everyone. My entire life. The media sold those wars and you’re gonna morally look down on me. You’re gonna judge me, motherfucker? You’re in the business of baby murder. Get the fuck out of here. You’re looking down, judging an American because maybe I’m going to vote for Donald Trump? Or maybe I dare to question the results of the last election? Fuck you!

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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