Raqqa door VS platgebombardeerd >> reguliere (massa-) media in de VS zijn er trots op……

Ongelofelijk maar waar, de reguliere media in de VS zijn trots op het platbombarderen van de Syrische stad Raqqa door de luchtmacht van de VS…… Ondanks oproepen van de VN te stoppen met bombarderen van de stad om burgerslachtoffers te voorkomen, ging de VS gewoon door met haar ‘tapijtbombardementen’ op Raqqa, zoals de VS dat eerder deed met West-Mosul en in een verder verleden: Noord-Vietnam, Laos en Cambodja en nog verder terug op Duitse steden ten tijde van WOII……. Intussen zijn volgens voorzichtige schattingen 1.800 burgers vermoord in de illegale oorlog van de VS tegen Raqqa…….

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor raqqa after the airstrikes

Let wel: de VS is illegaal aanwezig in Syrië en voert in feite een illegale oorlog tegen het democratisch gekozen bewind Assad en de Syrische bevolking, een oorlog die deze grootste terreurentiteit op aarde al voorbereidde vanaf 2006……..

Dit alles zal de voornoemde media een zorg zijn, de VS heeft ingegrepen en laten zien wat er gebeurt als je de VS tart en zogenaamd een gevaar bent voor de VS……. Alsof de regering Assad en IS een direct gevaar zijn voor de VS….. Eén ding is zeker, met het platbombarderen van Raqqa heeft de VS terreurgroepen als IS niet uitgeschakeld, integendeel, de VS stimuleert terrorisme met haar terroristische buitenlandbeleid….. Al is dat natuurlijk ook de bedoeling, ofwel de geheime agenda: de winsten van het militair-industrieel complex varen er wel bij zoals een aantal weken terug bleek, toen werd bekendgemaakt dat de wapenindustrie in 2016 absolute recordwinsten heeft gemaakt………

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor raqqa after the airstrikes

Zoals al vaker vastgesteld op deze plek, de VS moet eindelijk eens worden aangeklaagd bij het Internationaal Strafhof (ICC) in Den Haag voor al haar vreselijke oorlogsmisdaden, waar het platbombarderen van Raqqa maar één onderdeel van is……..

Opvallend dat de reguliere westerse media buiten de VS het platbombarderen van Raqqa niet eens noemen………. Ach ‘opvallend?’ Het maakt niet uit wat de VS doet, zelfs voor het bombarderen van ziekenhuizen is of geen aandacht, of men vergoelijkt e.e.a. door een niet bestaand excuus te verzinnen…..

Lees het volgende uitstekende artikel van Darius Shahtahmasebi:

Mainstream
Media Brags About US Wiping Syrian City Off the Face of the Earth

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor raqqa after the airstrikes

October
23, 2017 at 1:18 pm

Written
by Darius
Shahtahmasebi

(ANTIMEDIA) — America’s illegal
war in
the Syrian city of Raqqa has already killed over 1,800
civilians, according to
the monitoring group Airwars. At the time the offensive was launched
in June, the U.S. was
aware that
some 200,000 civilians were trapped. In that first week of operations
alone, the U.N. accused the
Trump administration of killing 300 civilians in less than seven
days’ worth of bombing.

This
trend has continued over the course of the last few months, and as
one might imagine, Syrian infrastructure has been completely
decimated. Rather than label this assault for what it is — namely,
a grave crime against humanity encompassing an endless supply of
potential war crimes — the media appears to have chosen a different
tack.

“Looking
at photographs of the ruined, desolate streets of what was once the
Islamic State’s capital of Raqqa is a reminder of the overwhelming,
pitilessly effective military power of the United
States,” wrote the Washington
Post’s David
Ignatius in an op-ed published Thursday.

That
was merely the opening sentence. Ignatius continued:

“The
heaps of rubble in Raqqa that once housed terrorists and torturers
convey a bedrock lesson, as valid now as in 1945: It’s
a mistake to provoke the United States. It
may take the country a while to respond to a threat, but once the
machine of U.S. power is engaged, it’s relentless — so long as
the political will exists to sustain it.” [emphasis
added]

Who
exactly provoked the United States here? The people who have been
hardest hit are clearly civilians who happened to live in Raqqa. What
crime did these people commit?

And
if Ignatius is referring solely to the terror group ISIS, at what
stage did ISIS “provoke” the U.S.? If anything, ISIS was quite
content trying to topple the governments of Iraq and Syria and set up
their own Islamic caliphate back in 2014. That is why the Syrian
government has been so heavily
involved in
fighting ISIS over the last few years: ISIS directly threatens its
territory. Somehow, the U.S. found itself embroiled in yet another
Middle Eastern conflict that didn’t directly affect the U.S.
government or its people.

Nevertheless,
Russia used this opportunity to turn the tables against the U.S.
after western media lambasted Russia’s
assault on Aleppo at the end of last year. On
Sunday, Russia accused the
U.S.-led coalition in Syria of wiping the city of Raqqa “off the
face of the earth” with carpet bombing similar to what the United
States and Britain did to Germany in 1945.

However,
unlike the U.S., Russia had a legal
basis to
begin its military operations within the country, whether or not it
committed war crimes in the process.

David
Ignatius is right about one thing and one thing only – the media is
almost all but silent on what is going on in Raqqa. However, Ignatius
wrongly attributes this to the “inevitable nature of American
force” that has prompted so little discussion. In reality, it’s
likely this topic isn’t being discussed because of the numerous
illegalities surrounding it.

The
people of Raqqa won’t forget what the U.S. has illegally done to
their homes. In July, one witness told Reuters he
found several of his neighbors dead on the street. Cats were eating
their bodies. It later emerged that
American-led airstrikes were wiping out entire families. This is not
how you defeat terrorism. This is how you perpetuate it.

Corporate
media would do well to separate itself from this violent and
grotesque criminal behavior, yet it continues to endorse it.
If RT released
op-eds that glorified Russian crimes to the extent that western media
is doing right now, the Washington
Post would
have a field day.

This
is not the hallmark of an independent press, but rather, one that
serves horrifyingly violent policies. An independent media would
question both Russia’s and America’s roles in the Middle East,
objectively distinguish between the two, and demand both entities be
held accountable for failing to protect civilians when that evidence
arises.

All
that being said, Airwars has more
or less put its monitoring of
Russian airstrikes on hold this year as the U.S. has continued to
surpass Russia in its civilian death toll by a long shot.

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