In spite of president Donald Trump’s promise to cull the unnecessary wars that the United States is constantly involved in (or starting), they continue to use tax money to kill civilians with impunity. The blood the U.S. continues to spill is often that of innocents, such as civilians and children.
War is a racket. It always has been, and in the U.S., it enriches the political elites as innocents die overseas. Far too many Americans have become far too comfortable with the killing being done in their name. According to RT, the Trump administration has not only expanded the U.S.’ covert and lethal drone program but has taken the covering up of its civilian death toll to a whole new level. For an administration claiming to be “pro-life,” this new revelation should be incredibly disturbing to everyone.
Like most of the battlefields opened more widely under the Obama administration, Donald Trump ramped up airstrikes against the infamous Al-Shabaab terrorist group in Somalia approximately two years ago. But at least Obama never claimed to be pro-life. He was pretty open about his disregard for others. And, like most drone wars expanded under Obama and dramatically widened under Trump, the details of this covert assault are continuously swept under the rug, particularly when it comes to civilian casualties.
The Pentagon has openly said that its airstrikes in Somalia have killed zero civilians.
Yet, recently, an Amnesty International investigation into just five of the strikes carried out since March 2017 by both manned and unmanned Reaper aircraft found that the strikes resulted in at least 14 civilian deaths, with instances of eight civilian injuries as well. In total, the US has carried out more than 100 strikes in Somalia since 2017. –RT
Lying by governments to further wars is nothing new and no one should expect that it stop. The U.S. as a country is wholly obsolete if they cannot bomb and kill with impunity. The source of their power is the massive military-industrial complex they hold over the heads over everyone on the planet – including their own citizens. (This is seen daily as everyday Americans thank the troops for killing and following the orders of the political elitists without asking questions. In fact, it’s “un-American” to question the wars and those actually spilling the blood on foreign soil.)
Amnesty International has made it quite clear that these attacks have violated international humanitarian laws and may amount to war crimes (remember, they have only assessed five out of over 100 so far). Regardless of this, American media outlets won’t report the fact that the government is slaughtering people. The New York Times appeared to be protecting their “drone king” Barack Obama by failing to mention that he was also a murderer who committed war crimes and violated the most basic of human rights – the right to live.
In just the first few months of 2019 alone, the U.S. military has already carried out 24 strikes on Somali territory, compared to only 14 in the whole of 2016, prior to Trump taking office. In 2018, US airstrikes killed 326 people and yet, not a single civilian has died or been injured if you ask the government.
Just recently, Trump allowed the CIA to keep secret how many civilians are killed in its airstrikes outside of war zones. As it transpires, a law passed by Congress making it compulsory for the Pentagon to publicly report civilians killed in its operations applies to the Pentagon only, and not the CIA drone program.
The law is pointless anyway when one considers how the Pentagon assesses whether civilians have been killed or not. Donald Trump’s relaxation of the rules surrounding airstrikes are in and of themselves a pathway to a war crime tribunal. According to a retired US brigadier general who was consulted by Amnesty, Trump’s executive order widened the list of potential targets to include adult males living in villages sympathetic to Al-Shabaab who are located within range of known fighters. This was already a known tactic under the peace-prize-winning president Barack Obama, who counted all “military-age males” in the vicinity of a target as militants. –RT
The U.S.’ laws have become increasingly pointless over the past few decades. That goes for all their laws – both to try to control the military and to exert control over the people. Someday, people will realize laws are nothing more than commands written by ink on paper by men andwoment generally considered to be crooks and liars. Once the vast majority figures this out, the wars and violence and hatred against others will cease as government power dwindles.
Who the “F” cares? Just over this last weekend slightly more than 30 were shot in Shitcago. You won’t see me boo-hooing over it whether its street issues in the big city or some Muslim ape catching a round from a drone.
PLUS…. As far as I’m concerned there is no longer any innocent.
Actually, I thought this article was going to be about the millions of unborn babies being dismembered, sucked out of the womb and into the trash. Those are the innocent being slaughtered with U S tax dollars being given to Planned Parenthood.
Then I realized this is more about war, yawn.
Yep that’s where the real murdering takes place for profit.
Hopefully God has got some road graders sitting about cause he’s gonna need to widen that one road.
Wilson I was thinking the same thing? If we don’t stop butchering innocent unborn children , GOD will! And his drones are something everyone should fear!!
What did you see, my blue eyed son. What did you see, my darling young one. I saw a new born baby, with (Libs) wild wolves all around it. There’s a hard rain gonna fall! I actually prefer the one done by Jimmy Cliff. Trekker Out
I stopped reading at “According to RT”……
And you wonder why traffic keeps dropping…
Dmonic, agreed about RT. Russian media sources are NOT reliable. In fact, they sound too much like old Soviet propaganda.
People really need to look at history with fresh eyes. What is happening now with the war business has been planned for centuries, actually longer.
The plan is to use war as an excuse for a one world government out of the State of Israel. Without crime there would be no justification for camera surveillance, electronic book censorship, restrictions of travel.
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I think your one world government out of the state of Israel is a little far fetched. Israel will/could play a part but not running the show. But yes, our eyes will be mostly watching the happenings over in ISRAEL. It will definitely be the flash point.
Excellent! The only thing I would say is the President cannot control these things.
Foreign policy is determined by the shadow government…the bosses. Trump has no control. He reads approved speeches from a teleprompter like all front men do. The only thing Trump is in control of is his Twitter account. You can change the front men all you want, from red to blue and back again. But you can’t vote the bosses out.
Sure, they let him fiddle around the edges of domestic policy sometimes. This is just to keep him thinking he is in charge of something. He’s not.
When there’s war you will always have “collateral damage”, civilians will be killed, can’t be helped.
As long as you have money hungry people, they will be fighting over something.
It is wise to ignore anything from Amnesty international.
“both manned and unmanned Reaper aircraft”. People don’t fly
on board a Reaper.
RT is pure and simple an arm of the Russian government( I do like the Moscow times). No different from the New Your times or Washington compost being propaganda arms of the DNC.
In either event anytime we ki ll Moslems is is a good time for the normal people of the Earth. I just wish they would use the Reapers on Minneapolis/St.Paul, Somalia.
Bull!
Like Trumps dollar coin along with the majority of past presidents, they are worth about as much as the worthless blank slugs they are minted on. Russia interfered with the 2016 election, hogwash! No, that’s the deep states specialty to kowtow to Israel.
Masonic cabalists and zionists steering the planet to war and one world government. Albert Pike.
Well, let’s see. According to the article, so far this year, the U.S. conducted 24 drone strikes in Somalia. On the other hand, we imported about 100,000 of their fine, lovely folk largely un-vetted in recent years. They even got one amongst the Congress critters now. Does anyone else here think we might be working at cross-purposes? Just sayin’ …
I have no problem with or qualms about the use of ANY method to deliver death to Al-Shabaab, Al Qaeda or any other collection of muslims anytime, anywhere for any or no reason. Islam declared WAR TO THE DEATH against EVERYONE ELSE on planet Earth more than a millennia ago.
It’s high time we their intended victims woke up to that fact and acted accordingly. The ONLY problem with the
‘death from above’ mentality that infects politicians and military officers is their willingness to use said tools on not just muslims but on ANYONE who they decide is an inconvenience or obstruction. And to do so without regard to due process. THAT is the problem….
not the act of sending camel humpers off in search of their 72 virgins.
I don’t see much sympathy in the comments for those shit skin goat molesters. And I feel the same way. Innocent civilian or AL-Shabaab & Al Qaeda or Mudslimes. Kill them all and let God sort them out! Make the world a better place. Increase the Culling!
In context, we are not self-sufficient, and these are legal accusations.