Tag: Vietnam War

A Tale of Two Breadline Massacres

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

All breadline massacres are equal, Orwell might have written, whilst adding that some breadline massacres are more equal than others. Such a thought comes to mind after February 4, 2024, when a Ukrainian armed forces projectile killed 28 residents in the city of Lysychansk, Lugansk region, and wounded several dozen. The civilian victims were standing in line in front of a local bakery, intending to buy bread.

A Tale of Two Breadline Massacres

Previously:

Death toll from Ukraine shelling of a bakery in Lysychansk rises to 28

Why Are CNN, ABC, and NBC Reporters Embedding With the Israeli Military?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Why Are CNN, ABC, and NBC Reporters Embedding With the Israeli Military?

Helen Benedict, author of The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq and a professor at the Columbia Journalism School, noted in an interview that “the original purpose of embedding was to control journalists.” She and Christenson both referenced Phillip Knightley’s classic 1975 book The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker From the Crimea to Vietnam, which describes how the government invented embedded journalism in response to critical coverage of the Vietnam War. In a chapter added in 2004, Knightley wrote that as civilian casualties in Afghanistan passed 5,000, “the Pentagon sought a media strategy that would turn attention back to the military’s role in the war, especially the part played by ordinary American service men and women. This would require getting war correspondents ‘on side.’”

H/T: Council Estate Media

Previously:

Doubt that it’s just CNN: All CNN Gaza Coverage Seen by Bureau Monitored by IDF Before Publication

US Foreign Policy Is a Scam Built on Corruption

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

US foreign policy seems to be utterly irrational. The US gets into one disastrous war after another — Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Ukraine, and Gaza. In recent days, the US stands globally isolated in its support of Israel’s genocidal actions against the Palestinians, voting against a UN General Assembly resolution for a Gaza ceasefire backed by 153 countries with 89% of the world population, and opposed by just the US and 9 small countries with less than 1% of the world population.

US Foreign Policy Is a Scam Built on Corruption

Henry Kissinger, world-shaping diplomat who was revered and reviled, dies at 100

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Henry Kissinger, the toweringly influential former secretary of state who earned a reputation as a sagacious diplomat but drew international condemnation and accusations of war crimes for his key role in widening the American presence in Vietnam and the U.S. bombing of Cambodia, died Wednesday.

Henry Kissinger, world-shaping diplomat who was revered and reviled, dies at 100 🎉

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Dead at 100, Henry Kissinger Leaves Behind a Bloody Legacy

State Dept. May Well Be Trying to Abrogate the Fourth Geneva Convention, Turning Gaza and the West Bank into Free-Fire Zones

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Today, I followed up on my questioning from Wednesday.

Again, the State Department would not say directly if they recognized the Fourth Geneva Convention as applying to the West Bank and Gaza.

State Dept. May Well Be Trying to Abrogate the Fourth Geneva Convention, Turning Gaza and the West Bank into Free-Fire Zones

Wait?! WTF?! Shoot anything that moves?! 😳

Related:

Vietnam Free Fire Zones – Anything That Moved Within Was Attacked And Destroyed

After all of these steps had been completed, the areas would be declared Free Fire Zones. Anything that was seen moving in these areas day or night was subject to attack by any and all forces that could be brought to bear.

Top US General Warns Israel’s Killing of Civilians Will Create More Hamas Members