“UK MILITARY REFUSES TO GIVE ‘RUNNING COMMENTARY’ ON IRAN CIVILIAN DEATHS”

by Phil Miller in Declassified UK

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“Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) is refusing to tell the media or parliament how many Iranian civilians have been killed by US bombing missions from British air bases.

Officials are also not commenting on whether target lists for so-called ‘defensive’ US strikes from British soil are approved by the UK before each mission, or if they are audited afterwards”

https://www.declassifieduk.org/uk-military-refuses-to-give-running-commentary-on-iran-civilian-deaths/

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Oh, wow. The liars, frauds, and corrupt bastards with bars on their chests and fat wallets are going to investigate themselves over their mass murder of Iranian girls. Our leaders rape them. I'm astonished they give it this much attention. Had they been strapped to beds for our glorious 2-party rapists who spend their days now abusing our soldiers and sailors to provide media diversion from the Epstein files, the brass wouldn't have given 2 shits.

IT WAS A DOUBLE-TAP MASS MURDER, A MODERN AMERICAN SPECIALTY!

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Today in Labor History February 25, 1986: As a result of ongoing protests, Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos begged President Ronald Reagan for advice. Reagan told him to “cut and cut cleanly.” That evening, Marcos and his wife Imelda fled the nation aboard a U.S. air force plane, after 20 years of rule. He and his family, and an entourage of 90 people (mostly servants), arrived in Hawaii the next day. They brought 22 crates of cash valued at $717 million, 300 crates of jewelry of unknown value, $4 million worth of unset precious gems, $200,000 in gold bullion, $1 million in Philippine pesos and deposit slips for $124 million in banks in the Cayman Islands. Plus, countless crates of shoes. The Marcos’s hold the Guinness record for the largest ever theft from a government, but Trump will likely smash this record, if he hasn't already. Their son, Bong Bong Marcos, is the current president of the Philippines. His vice president is Sara Duterte, daughter of the Philippines last president, the violently repressive Rodrigo Duterte, who oversaw the assassinations of well over 1,000 street children and alleged drug dealers. Under Ferdinand Marcos, there were over 3,000 documented extrajudicial murders, 35,000 documented victims of torture and tens of thousands of people imprisoned.

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Today in Labor History February 22, 2004: Education Secretary Rod Paige called the nation’s largest teachers union, National Education Association (NEA), a terrorist organization. No teachers were killed or imprisoned for belonging to the union under the Bush administration, but the government did use the epithet to justify imprisoning citizens and non-citizens indefinitely without trial for being “terrorists.” And the 20-year “war on terror” that Bush initiated led to as many as 5 million deaths. This would put Bush up there with the top ten most murderous world leaders of the past 100 years.

Currently, the Trump administration is using the “terrorist” epithet to justify the mass deportation, imprisonment and murder of immigrants, regardless of the legal status; the kidnapping of foreign heads of state; and the imprisonment and extrajudicial execution of anyone who opposes his fascist regime or who speaks up in support of Palestinians. However, the U.S. government targeting its own citizens as “terrorists” is nothing new. They prosecuted and imprisoned numerous environmental and animal rights activists as terrorists in the 90’s and early 2000’s. In the 1960s and early ‘70s, they murdered numerous activists from organizations they labeled as “terrorists,” like the Black Panthers and American Indian Movement. And going back at least as far as the 1860s, they were falsely accusing Irish union organizers of being Molly Maguire terrorists, wrongfully executing 10 of them on June 21, 1877, in the second largest single-day mass execution in U.S. history, after the 1862 mass execution of 38 Dakota Indians. Considering Trump’s goal of abolishing, or at least gutting, the Department of Education; his hatred of unions; and the anti-union objectives of Project 2025; it is not hard to see the “terrorist” epithet again being hurled at teacher unions, and at all unions (except, perhaps, those that affiliate with a future pro-MAGA American Labor Front, like Hitler’s German Labor Front).

Or, we could just start arming teachers, as many on the right have demanded, and see where that takes us…

You can read more about the so-called Molly Maguires here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/13/the-myth-of-the-molly-maguires/

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