On Bombs And Bombings by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2020-08-17 at 22:20:05 )

On Bombs And Bombings by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

For a full week now the Israeli army has been bombing Gaza, a population that is about to run out of fuel for its only power plant due to a years-long Israeli program of deliberate siege warfare.

Yesterday the United States ordered an airstrike on Syrian forces, killing one, when they refused to let the illegal occupying force past a checkpoint in northern Syria.

In both cases an arm of the United States-centralized empire used wildly disproportionate force against people who stood against a hostile occupation of their own country. In both cases the more powerful and violent occupiers claimed they were acting in "self-defense". In both cases dropping explosives from the sky upon human beings barely made the news.

ISRAEL is dropping bombs on Gaza and no one is talking about it.. WHYYYYY.??-Elaa Naqvi August 17, 2020

Bombs should not exist. Explosives designed to blow fire and shrapnel through human bodies should not be a thing. In a sane world, there would not be bombs, and if some mentally unbalanced person ever made and used one it would be a major international news story.

Instead, bombs are cranked out like iPhones at enormous profit, and nearly all bombings are ignored. Many bombs are being dropped per day by the United States and its allies, with a massive civilian death toll, and almost none of those bombings receive any international attention. The only time they do is generally when a bombing occurs that was not authorized by the United States-centralized empire.

This is one of those absolutely freakish things about our society that has become normalized through careful narrative management, and we really should not allow it to be.

The fact that explosives designed to rip apart human anatomy are dropped from the sky many times per day for no other reason than to exert control over foreign countries should horrify us all.

An interesting social experiment when you talk to someone might be to tell them solemnly, "There has been a bombing." Then when they say "What?? Where??", tell them "The Middle East mostly. Our government and its allies drop many bombs there per day in order to keep a resource-rich geostrategic region balkanized and controllable."

Then watch their reaction.

"There has been a bombing."
"WHAT??? Where???"
"The Middle East mostly. Our government drops many bombs per day on human beings with families and dreams."
"Oh thank God! I thought you were talking about a real place."-Caitlin Johnstone August 18, 2020

You will probably notice a marked change in demeanor as the person learns that what you meant is different from what they thought you meant. They will likely act as though you had tricked them in some way. But you did not. You just called a thing the thing that it is, and let their assumptions do the rest.

When someone gravely tells you "There hss been a bombing," what they almost always mean is that there has been a suspected terrorist attack in a western, majority-white nation. They do not mean the kind of bombing that kills exponentially more people and does exponentially more damage than terrorism in western nations. They do not mean the kind of terrorism that our government enacts and approves of.

There is a lot of pushback nowadays against the racism and prejudices that are woven throughout the fabric of our society, and rightly so. But what does not get nearly enough attention in this discourse is the fact that while some manifestations of bigotry may have been successfully scaled back somewhat in our own countries, it was in a sense merely exported overseas.

The violence that is being inflicted overseas in our name by the United States-centralized empire is more horrific than any manifestation of racism we are ever likely to encounter at home.

It is more horrific than the pre-integration United States of American South.

It is more horrific than even slavery itself.

Yet even the more conscious among us fail to give this relentless onslaught of violence a proportionate degree of recognition and condemnation, even while the consent for it is largely born of the unexamined bigoted notion that violence against people in developing and non-western countries does not matter.

Is there an "-ism" to describe a complete lack of regard for the lives of people in developing nations?-Geri Danton March 20, 2019

Like many other forms of bigotry, this one has been engineered and promulgated by powerful people who benefit from it.

If the mainstream news media were what it purports to be, namely an institution dedicated to creating an informed populace about what is truthfully going on in the world, we would see the bombings in foreign nations given the same type of coverage that a bombing in Paris or London receives.

This would immediately bring consciousness to the unconscious bigotry that those in the United States-centralized empire hold against people in low and middle income countries, which is exactly why the plutocrat-owned media do not report on it in this way.

The United States-centralized empire is held together by endless violence, and the plutocrats who run it have built their kingdoms upon the status quo of that empire.

When people set out to learn what is really going on in their world they often start cramming their heads with history and geopolitics facts and figures, which is of course fine and good.

But a bigger part of getting a clear image of what is happening in the world is simply turning your gaze upon things you already kind of knew were happening, but could not quite bring yourself to look at.

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