REQUIEM FOR MURDERED CHILDREN

REQUIEM FOR MURDERED CHILDREN The terrorist attack in Manchester in which 22 were killed and dozens more injured has received the publicity it deserves. World leaders, including the British (and Canadian) Queen, have condemned it as a shocking, cowardly and wicked attack. Public reaction included flowers, condolences, candles… Today news covered another attack by ‘armed men’ in Egypt on a bus carrying ‘coptic Christians’, many of whom were children. But CBC news also reported on a US attack on a Syrian site that killed some 35 civilians, including ‘women and children’, perhaps for the first time. As Western leaders of the G-7 meet in Sicily and also discuss their reaction to the ‘global’ terror threat, it seems appropriate to remember other children who were also ‘murdered’, but whose memory is forgotten, marginalized, or never been reported. George H. W. Bush (the senior) helped ‘sell’ the 1991 invasion of Iraq (following its invasion of Kuwait) with the story that Saddam Hussein was killing ‘babies’ in Kuwait. His country (aided by the UK) then went on to kill between 500,000 and 750,000 babies in Iraq, with their policy of sanctions called ‘genocidal’ by the 2 British diplomats administering it (who resigned after their protests were dismissed by US Senators with: ‘these men are paid to work, not talk’). Secretary of State Madeleine Albright who was asked in an interview about these infant genocides, replied that it was ‘a price worth paying’. After the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq (following a decade-plus of ‘sanctions’ and ad-hoc bombings by the US and UK whenever Bill Clinton or Tony Blair needed a boost in their domestic political ratings) ended up with an insurgency/civil war in Iraq, belying Dubya’s declaration of ‘victory’, and cost US taxpayers some $4 trillion or more (also putting - along with the 2008 economic crash caused by the multi-trillion dollar sub-prime fraud for which no one was prosecuted, being ‘Too Big to Jail’ – the US $’s reserve currency status under pressure), President Obama resorted to a ‘no-boots on the ground’ approach to the destruction of the other Middle Eastern countries, called for by the Oded Yinon plan for ‘Greater Israel’ (to incorporate not only Gaza and the West Bank but pieces of other countries like Syria, Jordan and Lebanon), or its US counterpart PNAC – the Project for a New American Century. Through the usual devices available to the global SuperPredator and Terrorist, Libya and Syria have been destroyed. One ‘conspiracy theory’ on the internet calls these events the logical execution of Oded Yinon/PNAC, following the ‘false-flag’ operation 9/11 – the ‘New Pearl Harbour’ that PNAC called for as the trigger. The task of the US and Israel is of course only partly finished. Millions of Muslims have been murdered a majority of whom almost certainly were women and children; millions more turned into refugees - such as the bloodied Syrian boy who captured Canadian imagination and led to P. M. Trudeau’s acceptance of 25,000 refugees from Syria. In its buildup to Iraq 2003, the US government boasted about the ‘shock and awe’ its bombings would cause… not reported was that massive numbers of civilians including women and children would be eviscerated as they experienced that ‘awe’. Perhaps the US planners (being Christian) imagined a sort of ‘rapture’ for their victims. And in keeping with the official ‘saintly’ image of Obama, his weekly drone assassinations (some 400 ‘deadly’ attacks during his 8-years in office) – some taking out entire wedding parties or even funeral processions, were simply blanked out from Western news media.. Thousands if not tens of thousands of ‘Muslims’ including ‘women and children’ were blown off the face of the earth, their lives cruelly and prematurely ended. The half-million women who marched on Washington DC the day of Trump’s inauguration, condemning his ‘grabbing of womens’ genitals’ though it may only have been ‘locker-room talk’, lamented the loss of Obama, apparently having no clue about Obama’s murders of women and children. As we are living through the return of the ‘Russian threat', though it may only be ‘American propaganda' – actually the inversion of the the American/NATO threat to Russia (since those forces are amassed on Russia's border, not the other way around) – it seems appropriate to remember other ‘murders’ of children on other pretexts. The burning of untold numbers of Vietnamese children with napalm for one, and the unreported dozens of ‘My Lai’ style massacres the US army carried out, following Nobel Peace Prize winner Kissinger’s order to ‘kill anything that moves’, killing old/infirm men, women including pregnant women after raping them, babies...pigs...chickens...anything that moved. Or of the hundreds of thousands of babies born with missing limbs or brains even today, because of JFK’s ‘drenching' of South Vietnam with Monsanto’s Agent Orange, manufactured in good clean, peace-loving Canada. Even though their effects are far more horrible, agonizing and long-lasting than sarin gas, neither napalm nor Agent Orange is called a ‘chemical weapon’, for obvious reasons. Or the thousands of Laotian children killed and at risk from the millions of unexploded US bombs that litter the country. Or on another note, the murder (reported by Miko Peled, son of one of the generals who helped create the state of Israel , but not covered by Western media) – of hundreds or thousands of Gazan children on whom Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu dropped hundreds of tonnes of phosphorus bombs at 11.30 am, the moment when Gazan school-children change shifts, so that the maximum number of them are on the streets. But in these remembrances of murdered ‘children’ one should not forget ‘fathers’ - especially the ‘founding fathers’ of ISIS – including the prosecutable Tony Blair, and his unprosecutable US masters.

CANADA PROCEEDING WITH THE TPP

Huffington Post reports that Canada is proceeding to host talks on the TPP, in an undisclosed location in Toronto, even though the US has apparently withdrawn from it. The location is secret for obvious reasons – because the talks are certain to attract protest from activists and hopefully the public. The 6000 page text of the TPP was drafted by corporate lawyers in secret. No public input was either solicited or allowed. Not even members of Parliaments of the concerned countries had input. This alone should have raised RED FLAGS… But in the corporate-owned news media that dominate the West, these basic facts are not given coverage. Their ‘fake news’ hype continues to call it a ‘trade deal’, in furtherance of ‘free trade’. There is nothing ‘free’ about it except for the principal beneficiaries of the deal – big corporations, who by its terms will put the economies affected (including Canada) into a Corpo-Rat straitjacket. This deal (part of a TRIAD including the European TTIP, and the global TISA) is the resurrection of the hated MAI (Multilateral Agreement on Investment) which was scuttered by strong public protests (Paris and Seattle?). The MAI at least had the decency to label itself what it was – an Investor Rights Agreement – not a ‘trade deal’. By falsely labelling the TPP a ‘trade deal’, both the media and governments are misleading the public. Lowering tariffs is a very tiny part of this deal, which is calculated to squeeze the life out of what little remains of national sovereignty after decades of successful neo-liberalism, or what should be regarded as the economics of fraud and theft. It is designed to maximise the power of big corporations to plunder national resources, destroy environments (land, water, air), and exploit labour by continuing the devastation of unions. If nation-states do not comply with corporate demands, they will be on the hook for massive damage claims for lost future profits that the concerned corporations will claim, and which will be adjudged not by national courts, but by private arbitration panels made up of the same corporate lawyers who principally drafted the near-6000 page text, kept secret from the public (except where pieces and fragments have been made public by the courage of Wikileaks) and even members of Parliaments. As one tiny example, the town of Erin voted recently on a proposal to slightly raise the infinitesmal price it charges Nestle for water which the company sells at huge profits to the public. Such liquidation of resources has been happening all over the US, as reported by Mark Zepezauer in his book 'Take the Rich off Welfare'. This is a damning piece of work by the Canadian government, to proceed with the TPP instead of embracing (warmly) the opportunity to smash it given by Donald Trump's executive order. Blame must also be assigned to activists on the left who have relentlessly attacked Trump for issues of political correctness, while ignoring the three areas of positive possibility offered by him: improved relations with Russia and the dialling-down of the awesome danger of a terminal war, the promise to retract trillions of dollars of expenditure on never-ending war-crimes abroad, and to kill the dangerous TPP. The first possibility has already been smashed by the ‘Deep State’ with its successful (and largely fraudulent) claims of Russian hacking; the US is the biggest hacker of the entire planet’s population as revealed by Snowden, has the biggest cyberwarfare budget, and a history of destroying democracy around the planet, and within its own borders with Citizens United. (The Democratic Party itself sabotaged the chances of Bernie Sanders in favour of Hillary Clinton)…The ouster of Flynn for essentially engaging in what used to be considered diplomacy – talking to a foreign government - has been a major step. This led naturally to the killing of the second possibility which also was a big threat to the war-mongering Deep State, and the massive weapons industry. That leaves the TPP. Truly an uninformed public needs to awake and protest this serious threat to their economic interest….and hopefully lead to the crumbling of the related TTIP and TISA as well.