Estelle PlatiniFeb 3, 2024

The "Costs of War" project, based at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, estimates that the total death toll in post-9/11 wars – including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen – could be at least 4.5-4.7 million:
Stephanie Savell (2023) https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2023/IndirectDeaths

Blair is one of the Western leaders who shares complicity for this appalling death toll: https://mondediplo.com/2003/07/01ramonet

State lying has been thrown down the memory hole by media outlets who welcome him with open arms.

(to be continued)

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How Death Outlives War: The Reverberating Impact of the Post-9/11 Wars on Human Health | Costs of War

The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

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"The Israel Lobby and U.S. #foreignPolicy" is a book by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, published in 2007. In it, they emphasize that the lobby is not a cabal or a conspiracy but simply a powerful interest group, like the National Rifle Association of America or the agrobusiness lobby.

“Since World War Two, the United States has been involved in every nook and cranny of the world, fighting wars here, there, and everywhere. And to do that, you need a very powerful administrative state that can help manage that foreign policy. But in the process, what happens is you get all of these high-level, middle-level, and low-level bureaucrats who become established in positions in the Pentagon, the State Department, and the intelligence community — you name it. And they end up having a vested interest in pursuing a particular foreign policy.”

Watch John Mearsheimer discuss the US #DeepState: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvFtyDy_Bt0&t=70s

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John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs | All-In Summit 2024

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"The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World", by Vincent Bevins

#Book presentation: "In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the twentieth century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the Soviet Union and inspiring copycat terror programs in faraway countries like Brazil and Chile. But these events remain widely overlooked, precisely because the CIA's secret interventions were so successful."

#Quote from book: “I fear that the truth of what happened contradicts so forcefully our idea of what the Cold War was, of what it means to be an American, or how globalization has taken place, that it has simply been easier to ignore it.”

Recension: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/enduring-cold-war-imperialism-on-vincent-bevinss-the-jakarta-method/

Interview: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-world-the-jakarta-method-built-a-conversation-with-vincent-bevins/

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