Qatari regime and Christian conservatives

"THE GULF STATE of Qatar is small but exceptionally rich and uses its money relentlessly to acquire friends and influence. The recipients of its largesse have been many and various, from Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation in the United States to the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups. But while there have often been complaints about Qatar’s support for militant Muslims its dubious links with non-Muslimreligious groups have largely gone unnoticed.

Over the last decade Qatar has been working quietly with socially-conservative elements in the west to promote "traditional" ideas of family life. In doing so it has readily joined forces with Mormons and the more reactionary parts of the Roman Catholic church. It has also helped fund a right-wing think tank set up by a former leader of Britain's Conservative Party.
In turn, these western groups seem content to accept support from a country where polygamy is legal, where gay sex – and, indeed, any kind of sex outside marriage – is a crime, where loveless arranged marriages are not uncommon, where a husband can divorce a wife simply by saying so three times but a wife who wishes to divorce her husband must go to court." (thanks Morgan)

A scoop by Will McCants, really: apparently Syrian rebels were funded by small donations--just like Bernie Sanders

Will McCants (@will_mccants)

9/5/16, 7:52 AM Debate about who armed Syrians utterly elides role play by outside private citizens. States not sole or even main source of $ early on.

"Israel using “black ops” against BDS, says veteran analyst"

"A veteran Israeli intelligence analyst is linking recent attacks and harassment campaigns against Palestinian activists and human rights organizations to so-called “black ops” by Israel’s intelligence agencies.

Writing in the Maariv newspaper on Sunday, Yossi Melman, who has covered Israel’s spy agencies for decades, reveals telling details about Israel’s ramped up fight against the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement.

The fight is being led by Gilad Erdan, Israel’s minister of strategic affairs. According to Melman, Erdan’s ministry is gearing up to face BDS as if it were a military challenge.

“We want most of the ministry’s work to be classified,” its director general Sima Vaknin-Gil recently told the transparency committee of Israel’s parliament, the Knesset.

“There are many sensitivities, and I can’t even explain in an open forum why there are such sensitivities,” Vaknin-Gil said. “A major part of what we do stays under the radar.”

Vaknin-Gil added that the ministry aims to “build a community of warriors.”

According to Melman, the ministry has recently hired 25 workers whose names are classified. It has an intelligence section run by a former security services operative and receives assistance from “a special unit” within Israeli military intelligence and from the Shin Bet secret police.

This report from Israel’s state broadcaster, subtitled in English by activist Ronnie Barkan, shows Vaknin-Gil vowing to defeat the BDS movement in her testimony to the Knesset committee. It also shows the committee’s chair, Stav Shaffir, complaining that the government is revealing almost nothing about how it is spending the huge sums allocated to the anti-BDS effort. "

Britain protecting Saudi war crimes to facilitate arms sales

"The British government faces growing calls to review its lucrative arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Yesterday the international charity Oxfam accused Britain of being “one of the most significant violators” of the Arms Trade Treaty. 

The UK’s arms sales are, at least in theory, also subject to the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports which forbids “the export of equipment which might be used for internal repression or international aggression, or contribute to regional instability”. It is difficult to see how Saudi Arabia's ill-conceived intervention in Yemen can be regarded as anything other than a contribution to regional instability.

Statistics compiled by the Campaign Against Arms Trade show that the Yemeni war has brought a sales bonanza for British arms firms. In little more than nine months between the start of the bombing campaign and the end of 2015, the UK government approved licences for military exports to Saudi Arabia worth £2.8 billion ($4 billion) – a huge increase on the previous few years.  

The government has clearly been eager not to miss this business opportunity and, longer term, Britain will become even more dependent on trade with countries like Saudi Arabia if it eventually leaves the EU. To justify its position, the government has repeatedly claimed that the Saudis are not committing war crimes in Yemen – despite ample evidence to the contrary.

In the latest example, last week, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announced that it was withdrawing staff from six hospitals in northern Yemen "in the absence of credible assurances" that the Saudi-led coalition would refrain from bombing medical facilities. MSF's announcement came after an airstrike on a MSF-supported hospital in Hajjah province killed 14 people including an MSF staff member on August 15. It was the fourth time in 12 months that MSF facilities in Yemen had been hit.

Under pressure, the British government has now retreated from its claims that Saudi-led forces are not committing war crimes in Yemen. It did so quietly by issuing a written statement on the last day of parliament before the summer recess – thus minimising the opportunities for discussing it."

Human Rights Watch director and his admiration for Jordanian regime:

The director of HRW has been peddling praise for this Jordanian diplomat (he calls him UN human rights chief--like he won the post from heavy work on human rights by the Jordanian regime).  There is little attention and campaigns by HRW about human rights deterioration in Jordan.  There is a Jordanian writer (Nahid Hattar) who is languishing in jail (and in poor health) without trial because he allegedly insulted God by posting a cartoon on Facebook.  I don't like Hattar and there is an old ideological feud between us and he supports Syrian regime brutality and referred to Syrian people in racist terms, but if Hattar was a prisoner for the same offense in Iran or some other non-pro-US regime, all Western human rights organization and media would be launching campaigns on his behalf. The other day, the Jordanian regime also arrested Ghazi Husayni without charging him with a crime. But like all violations of human rights in the despotic kingdom, there is no noise in Western media.  And here is director of HRW below expressing his admiration for this member of the Jordanian royal family:

Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth)

9/6/16, 5:39 AM UN rights chief takes on Geert Wilders' "lies & half-truths, manipulations" & fearmongering. bit.ly/2bOTICc pic.twitter.com/3ZQoHTCgAe Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) 9/5/16, 8:53 PM Beware the populists lest we succumb to their "banalization of bigotry"--UN rights chief.

For the first time officially, the Mufti of Saudi Arabia declares that all Shi`ites are not Muslims

He said in a phone interview: "We have to understand that those are not Muslims. Those are sons of Magi.  And their hostility to Muslims is an ancient matter, especially toward the Sunnis".

PS The WSJ story, from the AP, is not accurate. It claims that he was referring to "Iranian leaders". He did not. He said: those people.  It was clear from the rest of his rant that he was talking about Shi`ites.

Incumbency rate in the US Congress

Tom Perry of Reuters is freaking out over Hariri's financial crisis

"The Hariri family's pre-eminent role in Lebanese politics is being shaken by a financial crisis at its Saudi construction firm, a development that could dilute Sunni influence in the country and leave Iran's allies even more firmly in control."  This Perry guy is so pro-Hariri that he maintained that Hariri built his reputation on "rebuilding Lebanon". Yes, he racked a debt of $60 billion while he managed the worst reconstruction plan of any post-war country anywhere.  And not one person interviewed in this article is not pro-Hariri. Not one.

Don't be alarmed: this case does not involve Muslims. It involves a Christian murderer

"An Oklahoma woman accused of killing her daughter by forcing a crucifix down her throat told police she believed the 33-year-old woman had been possessed by the devil. KFOR-TV reports that police went to the suspect's Oklahoma City home Saturday afternoon and found Geneva Gomez dead on the ground with a crucifix placed on her chest. Officers say they found Gomez's body arranged in the shape of a cross."

creepy propaganda

"A provincial governor in Egypt has ordered changes to a sculpture honoring fallen soldiers after many on social media said it appeared to depict an unwanted advance on a woman symbolizing the country." (thanks Fred)

The New York Times is too ignorant to tell the difference between a far-left person and a far-right person: on the great George Carlin

"Mr. Carlin, who died in 2008, had always been a left-leaning comic whose skepticism of government would be right at home with the Tea Party."  Ehhhh, no, he won't be at home although I understand that ideological variations are beyond your understanding based on the duality of Republican-Democrat.

Olivier Roy on Islamization of Radicalization

"I think that these guys do not become radicalized because they become more and more religious. It is not religious radicalization that leads to political radicalization. When they became radical, they are religious. They frame their wrath in a religious narrative. They think they will go to paradise. It is Islamization of radicalization. I think Islam is the framework of the radicalization; it is not the primary cause. What I am saying, which there is a lot of misunderstanding about: It is not because they pray more and more, or go more and more to a mosque, that they become radicals. When they became radicals, they choose the religious narrative and believe in it. These guys are not Salafi. The idea that this is the Salafization of Islam does not make sense because their approach to salvation is not the Salafi approach. The Salafis do not believe in suicide. They think that suicide is a sin against God, like the Jews and the Christians. If you kill yourself or put yourself in a position where you will necessarily be killed, you preempt the will of God. But in the mind of the suicide bombers, the idea is that you don’t need to be a good Muslim, you don’t need to pray five times a day, you don’t need to go for hajj. If you make a supreme sacrifice, you will go directly to paradise and there is no need to be strict believer." (thanks Nabeel)

Did you know that the Ethiopian people didn't have a cuisine until Ethiopian arrived in Israel?

According to the New York Times (which called Howard Stern a feminist), Ethiopian food is not worth unless it arrives via Israel.

The worst place to study Arabic for Americans

"It’s hard to say, but probably not Lebanon! No offense to Beirut, but I found it really hard to find people who would speak Arabic to me."

Sign of progress? Reading Deepak Chopra in Tehran?

"“It doesn’t mean that people are atheist or anti-Islam,” Behjat said. “It means the middle class is fed up with the official version of religion that is imposed on them politically.” The texts are legal and officially licensed, but the readership is small. Behjat sells fewer than 2,000 Chopra books a year."

I have signed this petition against the Ramallah collaborationist clique

The statement and signatures are here.

How Muslims are expected, nay required, to police their own communities

This is now standards in Western societies: that Muslims are required in return for tolerance toward them to police their own communities and to point out the trainers and dangerous elements among them.  Imagine if this is said, say, about the Jewish communities. That would be classified rightly as classical anti-Semitic: the typical anti-Semitic view that the Jewish citizenship in Western societies is conditional on good behavior and conduct.  And the beauty is that in all Arab American and Muslim American conventions and conferences, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security send officials to speak to those members and to urge them to intensify their police work of other Muslims.  And the audiences cheer as if the visits by government security officials is an honor for the audiences.

Liking Syrian refugees and hating Syrian people

I like how some American liberals feign love and acceptance of Syrian refugees in the West but they call for US bombing of Syria, presumably because the bombs will only kill Asad and his family, but will spare the Syrian people.

And everyone raced to shake Sisi's hands

I love this sentence in the Times: "Ethiopia, while an American ally and an economic leader by African standards, is notoriously repressive."

"Ethiopia, while an American ally and an economic leader by African standards, is notoriously repressive. The minority Tigrayan regime has jailed hundreds of bloggers, journalists and opposition figures, keeping itself in power by intimidating political opponents, rigging elections and violently putting down protests. Since November of last year, according to Human Rights Watch, state security forces killed more than 400 protesters in the Oromia region, which surrounds Addis Ababa. Protests have recently spread to the Amhara region, as well; in August, security forces shot dead roughly 100 demonstrators and injured hundreds more. Thousands of Oromos, a minority group that makes up about a third of the population, have been jailed without trial on suspicion of supporting the Oromo Liberation Front, a secessionist group. The Ethiopian marathoner Feyisa Lilesa, who won the silver medal at the Olympics this year, drew global attention to the government’s abuses when he held his crossed arms over his head at the finish line in solidarity with his fellow Oromos; he says he fears returning home and is seeking political asylum." This paragraph only forgets to mention Israel.

"the Saudis pretty much subsidized everything"

As Des Roches reminded me, the U.S. government is the official vendor for weapons sales on behalf of corporations such as Boeing and Textron. “We levy a surcharge for the U.S. government’s involvement,” he explained, reminding me that the sale of the F-15s and other assorted items ran to $60 billion. “Seven percent of that is a significant amount of money,” he continued. “That basically covers U.S. government operating expenses to run things like training for the Bolivian armed forces in counternarcotics, and stuff like that. Up until very, very recently, the Saudis pretty much subsidized everything. People do not realize how much benefit we get from our interaction with them.” (thanks Morgan)

To Obama from General Sisi: please shake my hand

Watch this video NOW.

This is a picture of an Israeli satellite being launched...into the ground. Hahaha

Do you know the story of the former Minister of Religious Endowment in Jordan?

He once missed a meeting at his ministry, so he simply photoshopped himself into the head of the table (although the shadow showed someone else).  True story.

Saudi-Israeli relations

Jamal Khashuqji (who works for Prince Al-Walid bin Talal) argues against Saudi normalization with Israel.

Do you remember me telling you that all Arab normalizers with Israel (and their number is very small) are all anti-Semitic? I am never wrong there

This Saudi columnist, Siham Al-Qahtani, made an argument from the perspective of national security, that normalization with Israel is good for Saudi Arabia.  But this very same columnist had written that she believes in a "Jewish conspiracy against the Arabs".  I am not kidding.

US-backed coalition fighting alongside al-Qaeda

"Journalist Safa al-Ahmad, reporting for the BBC, said she saw Emirati forces from the Saudi-led coalition fighting alongside al-Qaeda, together battling Yemen’s Houthi rebels." "The U.S. and U.K. have played a pivotal role in the catastrophic war. The Obama administration has done more than $110 billion in arms deals with the Saudi monarchy. The U.S. military continues to refuel coalition planes and provide intelligence, and American and British officials have physically been in the room with Saudi bombers. The New York Times editorial board noted, “Experts say the coalition would be grounded if Washington withheld its support.” "

"Israeli-Palestine" in Western liberal discourse

It so annoys me when I see liberals and leftists in the West refer to Palestine as "Israel-Palestine".  I totally reject the term.  Now they may say: but we need to accept the Jewish population on the land. Of course, I agree and the historic term of Palestine can accommodate all faiths and non-faiths, as it did historically.  Imagine if we refer to Algeria as "France-Algeria" or to Vietnam as "US-Vietnam".  It is Palestine and that is all there is to it.  

Pro-Israeli creepy propaganda

"For the second time in the last five months, Vice has run a bizarre, titillating photo spread of “girlish,” “teenage” Israeli soldiers that manages to be obtuse and borderline creepy at the same time." "Some observers of the Israel/Palestine conflict have found these glamorous spreads offensive, saying they both normalize and glamorize a military that levels daily humiliations and violence aimed at Palestinians. Author and activist Steven Salaita said, “Vice again provides a hip, glamorous appeal to those who enforce Israeli settler colonization.” Journalist Zab Mustefa tweeted, “Another Vice story trying to normalize Israeli occupation by romanticizing female IDF ‘defiant’ soldiers.” " (thanks Amir)

James Stoker's new book on Lebanon: the most important book to come out on Lebanese civil war in many years.

I have started writing a series of critical review of the new book by James Stoker, titled: Spheres of Invention: US Foreign Policy and the Collapse of Lebanon, 1967-1976" by Cornell University Press.    I will not write my critical review here as I am writing in full details in Arabic in Al-Akhbar but will share a few remarks: 1) it is an excellent read. The author is unusually adept at narrating.  2) I don't know James's politics: we communicated but I don't know his politics but that does not detract from the value of the book.  I did tell James that I did not like his references to Israeli attacks on Lebanon, that he does not seem to realize the extent to which Israeli terrorism in Lebanon since the 1960s inflicted damage and fear and destruction on the lives of people of South Lebanon. I told him that my grandfather's house in Tyre was bombed three times by Israeli terrorists.  His bent on the civil war also lacks an appreciation of the socio-economic component. 3) the author is a diligent researcher: he searched for materials in a many archives which explains why he has come up with the most revealing story of US intervention in Lebanon.  At some point, I was not sure that James realized how important those materials are.  To me, the materials clearly implicate the US government in igniting and prolonging the Lebanese civil war--at least in the first phase of 1975-76 which is covered in the book.  4) The font of the print of the book is lousy. Cornell University Press should be criticized for the faint font, which strains the eye of the reader--especially the reader who read the book twice in a row.  5) The author is too cautious in his conclusions: he is too reserved to implicate the US, and is at pains to reiterate that there was no smoking gun that the US armed the right-wing militias of Lebanon. But the arming does not occur solely through embassy channels and often happens through CIA and DIA channels.  The US government was quite adept at covert civil war involvement (then and now).  6) The author did such extensive research that this book had unusually a very small number of factual mistakes.  (In some cases, due to reliance on the diplomatic dispatches, which is also the case in transliteration).  7) The author (who told me that he studied Arabic in Damascus for a year and later with tutor) should have consulted more Arabic books. Lebanese Leftist literature on the origins of the war has been validated by Stoker's findings.  8)  The author seems to maintain that Kissinger was not that interested in the Lebanese civil war but that is contradicted by the recent release of CIA presidential briefs from the administration of Ford which shows that the president was provided with a daily update about the developments in the Lebanese civil war.  9) we learn so much about the role of King Husayn and Israel in arming and supporting the right-wing militias and with the full knowledge and approval of the US.  10) Hafidh Al-Asad during his military invention in Lebanon in 1976 was close to the US government than had been previously thought, and his relations with the USSR was worse than had been previously thought. He clearly was trying to build up a relationship with the US government but then figured that the fruits would not be big given the US condescending treatment of Sadat at the time.  11) King Husayn was the chief advocate of the Syrian regime vis-a-vis Washington. 12) the US government clearly saw the war in Lebanon as it was: not as Muslim-versus-Christian but as right-versus-left and supported the right as part of the US cold war strategy.  13) The Lebanese government was an accomplice in the Israeli war on the Palestinian resistance and the American war on the left.  Maronite political leader clearly launched the war with the full support and encouragement of US and Israel and the reactionary Arab regimes.  14) Lebanese leftist rhetoric about the war back then was correct but the lousy leaders of the left (George Hawi, Kamal Jumblat, and Mohsin Ibrahim) foolishly did not prepare for a war that was imminent. 15) Yasser Arafat clearly did not want to be involved in the Lebanese war, and he was dragged into it. 16) Lebanese left should have listened to George Habash who tried early on to arm and support the Lebanese left, which was more under the sway of lousy Arafat.  17) Kissinger ran his policies on Palestine and the PLO totally in opposition to the entire rank of Arabists at his department of state. 18) Since the 1960s, Lebanese presidents and Maronite leaders were begging for a US military invention in Lebanon.  

...as opposed to the West, which is full of liberals--especially in the US

"We might not like them, because they are not liberal".

How the US ignited the Lebanese civil war

My weekly article for Al-Akhbar: "This is how the US ignited the Lebanese civil war".

Pledge Of Allegiance

Regarding the national anthem controversy in the US: I once was invited to speak at a local club here in Turlock (and I rarely over the years spoke locally in this area--for many reasons). Before my talk, the event started with a Pledge of Allegiance. They all stood up and did the pledge, while I remained seated (facing the audience) minding my own business. People in the audience were furious: several stormed out in protest and one wanted to know why I didn't participate in the Pledge of Allegiance. I explained that I don't do religious or pagan rituals, and this was a combination of both. My explanation did not go well--I felt.

New York Times on Assange

This article is such a piece of propaganda.  First the Times faults Assange for criticizing the West but not criticizing Russia: "Notably absent from Mr. Assange’s analysis, however, was criticism of another world power, Russia".  But doesn't that criticism apply to the Times itself? That it criticizes Russia but not the US/Israel?  And this independent newspaper yet again vomits the propaganda of the US government: "United States officials say they believe with a high degree of confidence that the Democratic Party material was hacked by the Russian government".  The US government provided no evidence to its "high confidence" but the Times obliges.  But the entire premise of the article is nullified by the painful admission of the Times: "Among United States officials, the emerging consensus is that Mr. Assange and WikiLeaks probably have no direct ties to Russian intelligence services. "  OK. Make sure you remember that. Of course, it took a professor in London to remind the Times that: "He noted that intelligence services had a long history of using news organizations to plant stories, and that Western news outlets often published “material that comes from the C.I.A. uncritically.”"  And the whole article relies on the theories and analysis of a pro-US Russian "investigative journalist" (in US media, an investigative journalist in the world is anyone who supports the US government--I recently discovered that in the Panama Papers release the International committee of investigative journalists include Arab writers in Saudi media as their representative of "Arab investigative journalists"--kid you not).  And the Times faults Assange because the release of Saudi documents was damaging to Western interests: "The Saudi documents, for instance, which highlighted efforts to manipulate world opinion about the kingdom, were published months after Mr. Putin accused the Saudis of holding down oil prices to harm the economies of Russia and its allies Iran and Venezuela."  So there should be no release of Saudi documents because Putin accused the Saudis of holding down oil prices? What a stretch of a conspiracy.  And this phrasing got my attention: "Russia Today, the Kremlin-controlled English-language propaganda channel".  Would the Times refer to Radio Liberty or Voice of America as "propaganda outlets for the US government", or the designation only fits enemies of US?  

The Economist cheer Mr. Temer's achievements already

"Mr Temer now promises to revive the economy, largely by reversing her policies. His talk of privatisation, deregulation and fiscal discipline has cheered investors. “Our motto is to spend only what we collect,” he said in his first television address as president. His economic team, led by the finance minister, Henrique Meirelles, inspires confidence. The São Paulo stockmarket and the real, Brazil’s currency, have strengthened since Mr Temer took charge. The cost of insuring government bonds against default has fallen by a quarter."

This is an Israeli rocket exploding in the air as it was launching a satellite into space. If this was North Korea, US media would have mocked it

Let us all mock Israeli rocket technology.

Saudi Arabian man is jailed for 10 years and given 2,000 lashes for tweeting that he is an atheist and criticising religion

"A Saudi Arabian court has ordered a man should be given 2,000 lashes and spend 10 years in prison because he ridiculed the Koran and denied the existence of God on Twitter."

Today, Arabs were circulating this picture because the simplicity and austerity of furnishing contrasts with Gulf regime extravagance and ostentation

Lebanon's only glory: the biggest Shawarma sandwich in the world

Notice that the Lebanese Army commander-in-chief was represented in the festivities.  

An Israeli analyst and a Lebanese researcher in the US

A Lebanese researcher came to the US to join a university research center having finished his doctorate at a European university.  He was contacted recently by someone who identified himself as "a Middle East analyst" at the Israeli consulate in the city where the university is located.  He asked to meet with him to discuss matters of interest.  The Lebanese researcher didn't even bother to reply.  He showed me a copy of the official email but does not want me to share or to identify him by name.  

The corrupt Lebanese businessman who funded the Clinton political enterprises

"Nigerian billionaire Gilbert Chagoury, one of Africa’s richest men, has built a reputation as a giant of global philanthropy.  His name is on a gallery at the Louvre and a medical school in Lebanon, and he has received awards for his generosity to the Catholic Church and St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. He owns a seven-bedroom hilltop mansion in Beverly Hills, and he has a high-level network of friends from Washington to Lebanon to the Vatican, where he serves as an ambassador for the tiny island nation of St. Lucia. His website shows him shaking hands and laughing with Pope Francis. “I never imagined what the future would hold for me,” Chagoury once said of his boyhood in Nigeria. “But I knew there was a vision for my life that was greater than I could imagine.… I consider it a duty to give back.”  Since the 1990s, Chagoury has also cultivated a friendship with the Clinton family — in part by writing large checks, including a contribution of at least $1 million to the Clinton Foundation."  By the way, politically--as this article implies--he belongs to the camp which supports the Syrian regime in Lebanon.  His closest ally is not Aoun, as the LA Times suggests but Sulayman Franjiyyah.

Official: in Jordan no news media can ever refer to stories or news of the King which is not authorized by the royal court

This is an actual story which will never make it into the Western press. The Jordanian potentate issued a decree that only his royal court can discuss the King and any news media which does not carry the wishes of the court will be punished.  In other news, Jon Stewart invited Jordanian king to discuss the democratic aspiration of the Arab youth.

India’s External Affairs Minister: China should take precautions against Saudi prince’s US-backed mission

"Indian Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj who was responding to a question of Hindustan Times reporter about the visit of Saudi Arabia’s deputy Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman al Saud to China and Japan and the important economic agreements planned to be signed between Saudi Arabia and some East Asian countries, said that India is not concerned about the Saudi Prince’s visit to Pakistan, China, and Japan. “We don’t have any strategic concern about Saudi deputy Crown Prince visiting Pakistan, China, and Japan. He has had his major strategic agreements in his last month travel to United States and no big strategic deal is likely to be clinched in this trip. I advise the Chinese officials to be cautious of Saudi prince’s US-backed mission in China,” said the minister."

CORRECTION: Wahhabi and Islamist standards: a woman is a pudendum

A parliamentary list in Jordan puts a picture of flowers instead of the face of the female candidate.

PS Some are saying that the picture above is photoshopped.  And that the image of the woman does appear.  (below)

US intervention is not intervention

"One can’t help but notice that to liberal hawks US interventions that cause massive death tolls simply aren’t acknowledged and the answer to a failed intervention is more intervention."