Het volgende artikel komt van Information Clearing House en is geschreven door Peter Koenig. Hij spreekt hier over de kinderen onder het enorme aantal vluchtelingen wereldwijd, dat zijn er naar schatting 25 miljoen…… Een feilloze analyse van waar het westerse terrorisme, o.l.v. de VS met de NAVO aan de hand, toe heeft geleid en leidt: grote ellende door de dood van de ouders, sterfte onder de kinderen vanwege slechte voeding en ziekten, kindermisbruik, (kinder-) slavernij en ga nog maar even door……… Bent u Obama fan? (och….) Schrik niet!
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The
Children of Syria
By
Peter Koenig
March
21, 2016 “Information
Clearing House”
– There is no other species, no other biological being on this
planet that for no necessity at all destroys its own species for
sheer greed and power.
Hardly anybody talks about and shows
the horrendous situation in Syria on the ground, how this US
instigated war affects the people, the individuals – and in
particular the children. No future. Three million of them (UNICEF) do
not go to school; they are malnourished, many sick, many die –
miserable deaths, in unsanitary refugee camps; uncounted
children are orphans at young age – have to fend for themselves,
are being abused, exploited, mistreated, physically and
mentally.
What a future? What a life. – Add to
these 3 million from Syria alone the uncounted children from Iraq,
Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, Palestine, Somalia, Sudan, Pakistan –
and the list goes on. All of these children were made homeless and
refugees and many also orphans through wars and armed conflicts
started by the US and its western ‘allies’.
Be sure
always to remember, who is behind these conflicts; who could stop the
misery anytime and who has the power to bring peace to humanity
rather than constant war and mass killings to satisfy their greed –
greed for dominance, greed for resources.
According to the
UNHCR about 60 million people worldwide are on the move as refugees.
This figure in reality is probably at least 70 million. It also masks
another reality – one of abject poverty and misery, caused by a
US-led world elite living in superb luxury and comfort, killing for
more wealth and more power. The number of children can only be
estimated. It is fair to guess that at least 1/3 of all refugees are
children and adolescents, some 25 million. Again, most of these
worldwide refugees are the result of US aggressions or conflicts
initiated by Washington and carried out by US / NATO armed forces, or
by America’s vassals and proxies, i.e. the war in Yemen nominally
fought by the Saudis and other Gulf states, but with full backing and
arms supplied by the US / NATO.
Young girls and adolescent
women are often ending up in the sex-trade. Many of the boys and
girls are abused as slaves or at best cheap, hardly-paid labor,
working at least 12-hour days and of course – no chance of going to
school – a missed opportunity to get a basic education. – What
will they do in the future? – Those who may one day be ‘free’
from seeking shelter as refugees, free from slavery and able to enter
a ‘normal’ work life?
The number of refugees is
increasing with every bombing run by the US and NATO; by drone
assassinations, yes, personally approved by Obama, the self-appointed
leader of the world who goes around the globe preaching human rights,
the biggest human rights abuser in recent history. US drones have
killed tens of thousands in the last 15 years. To that you may add
the hundreds, perhaps thousands killed by UK and French drones. At
least 90% of those killed are civilians, many of them, maybe as many
as half, are children or adolescents.
Many children
survive as orphans. Especially when the trigger-happy drone-trained
operators in Houston, Dallas, Las Vegas or elsewhere on the US
territory, or the US Air Force base in Ramstein, Germany, Djibouti,
direct their joysticks towards a wedding or funeral celebration in
Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan – you name it. They have a particular
liking for these mass family gatherings. The ‘bug splats’ –
military slang for people killed by remote control – are the most
numerous, the most fun, the bloodiest ‘bang for the buck’, for
these inhuman monsters, trained to kill in places tens of thousands
of kilometers away from their comfort zone – and ordered to do so
by the Assassin-in-chief, Obama; he who proudly says that he approves
each killing personally. How does the man – if he still deserves
the term – sleep at night?
Many of these drone ‘pilots’
work from mobile air-conditioned trailers outside large cities in the
US, but also from Africa, Afghanistan or the United Arab Emirates.
There are at least 60 drone bases around the world, most of them
controlled by the CIA and their proxies. Their number may be flexible
with a tendency to grow. They are often operating from simple
airstrips, easy to set up and easy to dismantle. They are clad in a
shroud of secrecy, therefore difficult to monitor. This is modern
American warfare, by robot, removed from emotions. Killing is a mere
statistic, a measure accounted for on a spreadsheet. Almost nobody
talks about this atrocious way of combat that is easily and
painlessly replicated everywhere and endlessly.
How can a
future Syria be built without an educated population? There will
be a generation gap, for several generations – if ever – before
the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region can recuperate its
economy, its social and physical infrastructure – its sheer living
of normal lives. Syria, Libya and Iraq were the most progressive
countries in MENA: free education and health care; a
first-class social safety net and physical infrastructure that
functioned; a deep and profound history of humanity, the cradle
of our western civilization. No more. The very ‘western
civilization’ has destroyed it all. Bombed into oblivion. They were
and Syria still is socialist by definition – a red flag and no-go
for the western neoliberal fascist way of thinking and economic
model.
Most of these people have done no harm, are no
terrorists, especially the children, they were happy to go to school,
to play with their friends, to have a home and caring family and
daily food on the table. Now everything is lost. No home. Street
children, begging, eating from the gutters, sick, torn and filthy
clothing, cold, no shelter – no health care – no care at all.
Washington and Washington directed stooges have taken away their
future, have plunged them into misery, those that have survived and
are roaming the globe as ‘refugees’. What a western sanitized
term out of the handbook on statistics – when these poor souls are
more often than not at the edge of survival, expulsed from one
country to another, beaten, threatened with guns, sometimes killed,
hovering between a life of despair and death from starvation, disease
or sheer neglect.
Because the greed-driven neoliberal western
colonialists – the same Europeans and some of them have become
North Americans in the 18th, 19th and 20th century – who have
ravaged and raped and exploited the world for centuries, these
same people – can they still be called people? – are now decimating
and destroying what’s left of our globe, for full spectrum
dominance.
Killing is the new normal. Desolation and
misery of living beings is of no importance. Interference
without limitation, that is what the west does best, literally
best. They have perfected an evil science: how to create a chaos of
suffering and misery efficiently, with the least effort, at
least cost – bombs, drones – poison gas, spent uranium, GMOs,
and finally – the atom bomb – eradicating all. By chaos you
divide and conquer.
Paradise going up in flames, taking
evil humanity with it – safe for a few indigenous people, who
have lived all their lives and are still living close and with
nature. They may become the founders of a new humanity.
Peter
Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a
former World Bank staff and worked extensively around the world in
the fields of environment and water resources. He is the author
of Implosion
– An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and
Corporate Greed – fiction based on facts and on 30 years
of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author
of The
World Order and Revolution! – Essays from the Resistance.
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