Murder, Inc.
The U.S. is now an openly criminal enterprise. The Venezuelan boats we’re blowing up, ostensibly for carrying drugs, could be fishing boats.
Meanwhile, plans are in play to send troops into the country, while special forces will apparently be dispatched to capture or murder the president, Nicolas Maduro. The assertion that Venezuela is a center of narco terrorism that poses a threat to the U.S. is as absurd and delusional as the lie that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. Flimsy excuses offered up for criminal invasions.
Meanwhile, the U.S. maintains its support of our sister in crime, Israel. While schools are shutting their doors in the “land of the free” for lack of money, billions in arms and money continue to flow into Israel to support her ongoing genocide.
Well over 50% of Israelis approve what’s happening in Gaza, including expulsion of the survivors to other countries or even the Negev Desert. A clear majority asserts there are no innocents in Gaza, which perhaps explains the high death rate among children--UNICEF currently reckons around 50,000.
The current Israeli opposition leader says the IDF kills children as a hobby. The Navi Palley Commission, headed by the former human rights chief at the UN, unequivocally asserts that Israel targets children. It has long been known that IDF snipers target children in the head and the chest. It targets toddlers, it targets the handicapped. A special high-protein formula for infants is banned by the Israelis.
In a newly released video, Israeli guards, stationed at a torture center in the Negev Desert, are seen sexually assaulting a Palestinian male prisoner. The video--filmed by the guards themselves--shows them repeatedly assaulting the man with a wired baton. The army’s legal attache’s attempts to prosecute the men were met by pro-rape riots across Israel. The woman--a Major-General--now sits in jail, her punishment for releasing the video to the public. She now faces a prison term while the perpetrators are walking free.
Netanyahu’s reaction to the video was predictable. The crime was not that it was done, which he doesn’t deny--Palestinians are sub-human vermin, after all--but that it created an enormous public relations problem for Israel, since now everyone knows what’s going on in their torture dungeons. According to the Israeli president, the video “. . .caused immense damage to the image of the state of Israel and to the IDF. It’s the most severe public relations attack to the state of Israel since its establishment.”
Max Blumenthal reports that “the leader of the rapists actually went on national TV on talk shows as a kind of national folk hero.”
“And this,” Blumenthal reminds us, “is our ally.”
Meanwhile, none of the allegations of rape by Hamas on Oct 7, ‘23, have been validated by any forensic evidence. Long ago discounted outside the U.S. press, they likely originated with the IDF or Netanyahu himself, then passed on to Joe Biden, who passed them on to our compliant press.
Parroting Netanyahu, our own President Trump remarked on the genocide: “It looks bad, this killing, all this killing looks bad.” The issue is not mass murder or torture, but how it looks, the image it presents. In a gangster enterprise, where presidents routinely order murder from the oval office, such banal comments should come as no surprise.