(

"There are many conspiracy theories about 9/11. The US

government's own explanation of 9/11 is a conspiracy theory in
which a few Saudi Arabians outwitted the American national
security state .... When thinking about 9/11, it is important to
differentiate expert opinion from improbable explanations. Among
the expert opinion are 2,600 structural engineers and high-rise
architects who comprise Architects & Engineers for 9/11 truth and
have written to Congress asking for a real investigation,
Firefighters for 9/11 truth, Pilots for 9/11 truth, physicists and
chemists who analyzed the dust from the twin towers and report
finding reacted and unreacted materials used in controlled
demolitions, and former government officials who understand that
a security failure as great as 9/11 would have produced an
immediate and exacting investigation. These groups of qualified
and experienced people say that the official story of 9/ 11 is false.
Architects, engineers, and scientists say that the official story is
physically impossible. Firefighters and WTC maintenance
personnel say that there were numerous explosions within the
towers and that the first explosions were in the sub-basements prior
to the buildings being hit by airplanes. Experienced military and
civilian pilots say the maneuvers of the aircraft are beyond the
capability of the alleged hijackers .... This tells me that 9/11 was a
State Crime Against Democracy. 9/11 was used by the US
government to launch wars that have destroyed in whole or part
seven countries, killing millions of peoples and producing millions
of refugees. 9/11 was also used to create an American police state,
which is a far greater threat to freedom and democracy than
Muslim terrorism" ("9/11: 15 Years Of A Transparent Lie", 10
September 2016).
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, former United States Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury for Economic Policy under President Ronald Reagan.

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Copyright© 2020 by KORSGAARD PUBLISHING

www.korsgaardpublishing.com
ISBN 978-87-93987-04-3

Dr. Gideon Polya's articles may be reprinted, disseminated, and

translated on the condition that a link is provided to the original
article and that the following disclaimer is included:
Dr. Polya does not necessarily endorse the media outlets that
republish his articles.

First Printing: 2020.

Book Cover: Painting by Dr. Gideon Polya, "Manhattan
Madonna"; cover design by Soren Roest Korsgaard.
Book editor: Soren Roest Korsgaard.

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword by S. Korsgaard: Accountability and Freedom of Press-------------v
Foreword by K. Barrett: Holocaust Studies Revised---------------------------xxi
Introduction to US-Imposed Post-9/1 I Muslim Holocaust and Muslim
Genocide by G. Polya------------------------------------------------------------xxvii
Chapter I: Global A voidable Mortality Holocaust------------------------------ I
Chapter 2: Mainstream Media Fake News Through Lying by Omission---15
Chapter 3: "Forgotten" WW2 Bengali Holocaust ( 1942-1945)--------------23
Chapter 4: American Empire ( 177 6- )--------------------------------------------3 7
Chapter 5: US State Terrorism & 9-1 I (2001-)--------------------------------49
Chapter 6: Afghan Holocaust & Afghan Genocide (2001-)------------------61
Chapter 7: Iraqi Holocaust & Iraqi Genocide (1990-2011) ------------------ 73
Chapter 8: Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide (2001-)-----------------85
Chapter 9: Libyan Genocide (20 I 1-)-------------------------------------------107
Chapter I 0: Iranian Holocaust & Iranian Genocide ( 1978-)----------------121
Chapter 11: Iraqi Genocide Resumed (2012-)--------------------------------139
Chapter 12: Syrian Holocaust & Syrian Genocide (2012-)-----------------153
Chapter 13: Somali Holocaust & Somali Genocide ( 1992-)----------------187
Chapter 14: Yemeni Genocide (20 I 5-)----------------------------------------199
Chapter 15: Opiate Holocaust (2001-)-----------------------------------------2 I 5
Chapter 16: Palestinian Genocide (I 916-)-------------------------------------231
Chapter 17: Indian Avoidable Mortality Holocaust ( 1757-)----------------257
Chapter 18: Rohingya Genocide (20 I 6-)--------------------------------------269
Chapter 19: Air Po II uti on Deaths-----------------------------------------------287
Chapter 20: American Ho locaust-----------------------------------------------3 0 I
Chapter 21: Climate Genocide & War on Terra------------------------------315
Chapter 22: War on Truth-------------------------------------------------------3 3 3
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ACCOUNTABILITY AND FREEDOM OF PRESS

Foreword by Soren Roest Korsgaard

One of the most persistent and preposterous notions that underlies

Western democracies is the existence of freedom of press for the
mainstream media. This freedom purportedly enables journalists to
function as watchdogs that investigate and report on government
wrongdoing, thereby ensuring accountability for government
officials. It is implied that information is openly exchanged in the
public domain and no topic is off the charts. Perhaps the majority
of people residing in allegedly non-totalitarian states, notably UK,
France, Germany, US, and Australia, fully ingurgitated this notion
decades ago when access to alternative information was more
limited than today. However, outside of the Anglosphere, under
supposedly more authoritarian political forms of government, few
were fooled. In the 1970s, leading anti-war journalist and
filmmaker, John Pilger, secretly interviewed dissident novelist
Zdenek Urbanek in Czechoslovakia, then a Stalinist dictatorship,
who scoffed at the idea of Western freedom of press: "In one
respect, we are more fortunate than you in the West. We believe
nothing of what we read in the newspapers and watch on television,
nothing of the official truth. Unlike you, we have learned to read
between the lines, because real truth is always subversive."!
This fantastical and grandiose concept of freedom of press, which
is reiterated ad absurdum in elementary schools, universities, and,
of course, in the mainstream media, is utterly false as demonstrated
in this seminal work by Dr. Gideon Pol ya. The majority of this
book documents the actual death toll of the 9/11 wars. Polya's
calculations can effortlessly be replicated using elementary
arithmetic and demographic data provided by the UN Population
Division. Politicians, academics, journalists, and mainstream
influencers have regurgitated numerous ever-changing rationales
for these wars to the point where they have been labeled "[a]
democratic peace foreign policy.t''' Rather than being humanitarian,
Dr. Polya shows that the US Alliance has killed 27 million

1
"The real first casualty of war," www.johnpilger.com/artic1cs/the-real-first-casualty-of-
war
2
"Democratic Peace Q&A," www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/QA.V2.11TML

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Muslims in the Middle East and North Africa via war-imposed

deprivation from October 2001, when the war against Afghanistan
was commenced, until 2015, which is the last data point, although
the wars continue unabated. During this period, the US Alliance
also caused at least 5 million violent deaths, for a total of 32
million victims. Mainstream media journalists, academics, and
commentariats have resolutely ignored the holocausts and
genocides that are outlined in this book. It is clear that the supposed
watchdog of government wrongdoing has with full and malicious
intent propagandized their audiences with the "official rationales"
for these wars. The watchdog did know better as General Wesley
Clark has revealed that the 9/11 wars had been planned years in
advance. Specifically, in 2007, General Clark, a retired four-star
general who was the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO during
the Kosovo War, revealed the following:

About ten days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon and
I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz.
I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on
the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of the
generals called me in. He said, 'Sir, you've got to come in
and talk to me a second.' ... He said, 'We've made the
decision we're going to war with Iraq.' This was on or
about the 20th of September. I said, 'We're going to war
with Iraq? Why?' He said, 'I don't know.' He said, 'I guess
they don't know what else to do.' So I said, 'Well, did they
/
find some information connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda?' He
said, 'No, no.' He said, 'There's nothing new that way.
They just made the decision to go to war with Iraq.' .... So I
came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time
we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, 'Are we still going
to war with Iraq?' And he said, 'Oh, it's worse than that.'
He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper.
And he said, 'I just got this down from upstairs' - meaning
the Secretary of Defense's office - 'today.' And he said,
'This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out
seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then
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Iran.'

The importance of this quote cannot be overstated. The first

conclusion is that the 9/11 wars had been planned in advance. The
second is that the pretexts and rationales for these wars, which were
plastered on front pages and repeated countless times in the news,
were lies and fabrications. The mainstream media propagandized
the masses into accepting and supporting these atrocities. What are
the consequences? Iraq: 1.5 million violent deaths plus 1.2 million
from war-imposed deprivation; Syria: 0.5 million violent deaths
and an additional 171,000 from deprivation; Somalia: 0.5 million
violent deaths plus 1.2 million avoidable deaths; Sudan: 2.3 million
deaths from war-imposed deprivation; Libya: 100,000 violent
deaths and 73,000 avoidable deaths; Lebanon: I 0,000 avoidable
deaths; Iran: 1.0 million avoidable deaths from US sanctions and
opiate-related deaths as a result of the US Alliance's restoration of
the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry.
The media has played to the tune of government, regardless of
political ideology, and has blacked out the all-important Wesley
Clark quote. Not only does this book expose the horrendous reality
of the US Alliance's War on Terror, which in reality is a War of
Terror, but it also demonstrates the complete lack of accountability
for Western war criminals and deka-megamurderers (deka- means
ten or tens; mega- means million). But it does not end there. The
International Criminal Court (ICC) is complicit in these horrendous
post-9/11 genocides and holocausts. Dr. Polya writes, "While
Western Mainstream media, politicians, academics, public servants
and law enforcement agencies ignore these horrendous realities in
gross violation of truth, humanity and rational risk management, I
have made repeated, detailed formal complaints to the International
Criminal Court over US Alliance and Australian war crimes and
genocide complicity in Occupied Afghanistan and elsewhere." Dr.
Polya's complaints, of course, went unanswered demonstrating the
impotence and complicity in these crimes by the ICC. Dr. Polya
concludes with characteristic absence of political correctness: "The
International Criminal Court (ICC) is a cowardly, racist, degenerate
and look-the-other-way organization that, apart from prosecuting

J "Speeches that still matter: Gen Wesley Clark on US going to war in 7 countries in 5
yrs," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTbgl I pCwOc&pbjreload= 10

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 Balkan war criminals, confines its prosecutions to non-European
war criminals. The ICC is thus a holocaust-ignoring and genocide-
ignoring organization that is holocaust-complicit and genocide-
complicit through its depraved indifference to Western imposed
holocausts and genocides." Indeed, "Silence kills and silence is
complicity."
In conclusion, freedom of press and accountability are myths
intended to maintain the shamefully false belief that government is
"of the people, by the people, for the people.?" Furthermore, it is
paramount to governments, not just in the West, to suppress
proliferation of unorthodox and subversive material on the Internet.
The reason is this: Ideas and information that run contrary to
official truths could possibly threaten "national security" and
"national interests." A recent stratagem, which in all probability
originates from the drawing board of the CIA, has been to
designate anti-establishment thinkers and content creators with the
slur "fake news." This stratagem has been successful to the point
that Susan Wojcicki, YouTube's CEO, has had no qualms about:
admitting that 10,000 Google employees and artificial intelligence
had succeeded in reducing the "amount of time Americans watch
controversial content by 70%."5
1 Unlike in the past, YouTube users would now be referred to
government-approved content, such as from the CNN and the BBC.
In this regard, it is relevant to contemplate the bold admission of
CIA Director, William Joseph Casey (1981 to 1987), who stated,
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when
everything the American public believes is false.t" In addition to
assassinations, torture, involuntary medical experiments, regime
changes through violence means, and war crimes, the CIA has
exerted a potent and malicious influence on mass media outlets, the
Western media in particular. For example on April 1, 1967, a CIA
official, Clayton P. Nurnad, sent a dispatch to the agency's chiefs,

4
'The Role of Citizens in Democracy," https://www.dcmworks.org/Rolc-of-citizcns-in-
dcmocracy
5
"YouTubc CEO Wojcicki: We've Cut Amount Of Time Americans Watch
'Controversial Content' By 70%,''
https://www.realclcarpolitics.com/video/2019/12/02/youtubc _ ceo _ wojcicki_ weve _ cut_a
mount o(_ time_ arncricans _ watch_ controversial_ content_ by_ 70.html
(, "CIA: Mission Accomplished; Americans Believe What We Tell Them,"
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/07 /04/cia-m ission-accompl ishcd-amcricans-bcl icvc-what-
we-tell-them/

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stations, and bases. In the dispatch, which was later declassified in

1996, Nurnad outlined how the CIA should discredit and demonize
critics of the Warren Commission's Report.7 In 1963, Lyndon B.
Johnson established a commission to investigate the assassination
of John F. Kennedy. The final report, first released in 1964, became
known as the Warren Report and concluded that Lee Harvey
Oswald acted on his own behalf in carrying out the assassination.
The dispatch describes it as a "matter of concern to the U.S.
government, including our organization" that a public poll had
showed that nearly 50% of the American public did not think that
Oswald acted alone. 8 The document states, "Conspiracy theories
have frequently thrown suspicion on our organization, for example
by falsely alleging that Lee Harvey Oswald worked for us. The aim
of this dispatch is to provide material for countering and
discrediting the claims of the conspiracy theorists, so as to inhibit
circulation of such claims."9 Nurnad then writes that the CIA
should "discuss the publicity problem with liaison and friendly elite
contacts ( especially politicians and editors)" and employ their
"propaganda assets" to discredit critics, and he notes that "book
reviews and feature articles are particularly appropriate for this
purpose." 10 A variety of psychological and propaganda techniques
are then mentioned. For example, the argument should be raised
that a "conspiracy on the large scale often suggested would be
impossible to conceal in the United States."11 Additionally, it
should be claimed that "critics are (i) wedded to theories adopted
before the evidence was in, (ii) politically interested, (iii)
financially interested, (iv) hasty and inaccurate in their research, or
(v) infatuated with their own theories.t''"
Soon after, CIA media outlets such as the Washington Post and
New York Times started to use the slur "conspiracy theorist" for
critics and began to utilize the methods outlined in the dispatch.

7
"Countering Criticism of the Warren Report (Clayton I'. Nurnad and Ned Bennett), CIA
File Number 201-289248 [Psyop Against 'Conspiracy Theorists'] ( 1967),"
https://www .scribd.com/documcnt/2843 21055/Countcring-Criticism-o f-the- Warren-
Rcport-Clayton-P-N urnad-and-N ed-Bennctt-Cl/v-File-N umber-201-289248-Psyop-
Against-Conspiracy-Thcorists-l967
8
Ibid.
9
Ibid.
10
Ibid.
II Ibid.
12
Ibid.

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The CIA's media influence is difficult to overstate, and the Church
Committee, which was a US Senate select committee formed in
1975, that investigated abuses by the CIA and other alphabet
agencies, concluded:

The CIA currently maintains a network of several hundred

foreign individuals around the world who provide
intelligence for the CIA and at times attempt to influence
opinion through the use of covert propaganda. These
individuals provide the CIA with direct access to a large
number of newspapers and periodicals, scores of press
services and news agencies, radio and television stations,
commercial book publishers, and other foreign media
outlets.13

Many volumes have been penned detailing with convincing

evidence, how the CIA and other alphabet agencies influence and
manipulate public opinion. It is therefore no surprise, why and how
it is possible for mass media outlets and alleged anti-war
organizations to ignore the holocausts and genocides outlined in
this book and elsewhere. Also relevant to this discussion is
COINTELPRO. In 1956, the US government commenced its
Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO). The aim was to
shape public discourse through surveilling, assassinating,
infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting dissidents and a long list of
organizations, including feminist organizations, the Communist
/ Party USA, anti-Vietnam War organizers, civil rights movements,
environmentalist and animal rights organizations, and countless
others. The official claim is that the CIA's media influence as well
as COINTELPRO ended in the 1970s. However, there is
compelling evidence that these malicious, criminal, and anti-
humanitarian programs have continued unabated. One tangible way
for us to realize this is to take a quantitative look at the slurs,
"conspiracy theorist," "conspiracy theory," and "fake news." While
the first two were advocated by the CIA dispatch, the term "fake
news" exploded into popularity in the 21st century. Unanimously,
the term was adopted by mainstream media outlets worldwide to

13
"Select Committee into Intelligence Activities:' https://spartacus-
cducational.com/J FKintcl I igcncc. htrn

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 discredit anti-establishment content, a clear indication that the CIA,
or a similar organization, was behind it. The three terms have been
successfully used to demonize and stigmatize those who have
questioned government dogmas, such as the official "conspiracy
theory" regarding the attacks of September 11, 2001.
The New York Times has virtually all of their newspapers digitized
and archived on their website, more than 13 million articles. A
search for the slurs "conspiracy theorist" and "conspiracy theory"
yielded the following results: From 1851 throughout 1966, the slurs
had been used a total of 0 and 14 times respectively. However,
from 1967, the year of the dispatch, throughout 2019, the slurs had
been used 517 and 1746 times respectively. Importantly, there are
no indications that a change to the status quo occurred after the
alleged shutdowns in the 1970s of the aforementioned government
programs. A search for the term, "fake news," yielded: From 1851
and throughout 2000, it had been used only 38 times. However,
from 2001 to the present date, it had been used 2735 times.
Furthermore, when non-violent propaganda techniques are not
sufficient, governments resort to violence, torture, and murder to
deal with vocal dissidents. Additionally, they send a clear message
to potential whistleblowers and nonconformists: Adhere to
government approved thinking and narratives and you are
rewarded. If, on the other hand, you venture outside these
parameters, you could set yourself up for a long list of
punishments. For example, Chelsea Manning (born Bradley
Manning) leaked documents exposing horrendous US Alliance war
crimes, and for her service she was sent to prison while the
perpetrators, George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney,
Condoleezza Rice, Tony Blair, and numerous others, enjoy
impunity. Despite the concerted effort to put Julian Assange, the
editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, into a bad light to minimize public
resistance to his years of arbitrary confinement, harassment,
humiliation, and torture, it is nevertheless evident that he has not
been targeted for spreading false information. Professor Nils
Melzer, the UN's Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, concludes, "While
( the US Government prosecutes Mr. Assange for publishing
information about serious human rights violations, including torture
and murder, the officials responsible for these crimes continue to
enjoy impunity .... In my view, this case has never been about Mr.

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 Assange's guilt or innocence, but about making him pay the price
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for exposing serious governmental misconduct." This book
destroys the ill us ion of Western democracy and its purported moral
conscience. In reality, government serves elitist and corporate
interests, such as the psychopharmaceutical complex and, in
particular, the industrial-military/security complex. Another
essential conclusion, which can be derived from this book, is that
regardless of geography and political system, government is simply
a control mechanism. Philosopher Jerry Day explains this
eloquently in his masterpiece, The Myth of Benevolent Central
Authority:

Government and corporations come into being by

representing themselves as a benefit to the masses, while
actually having no real purpose or effect other than to do
the opposite, to extract excess benefits for the elite at the
expense of the masses. Just as leaves in a pond will collect
at a common point, wealth, power, and force will be
collected and hoarded by certain personality types in
society.
Government is the most overrated concept in human
history. Government is only capable of doing two things: it
can point guns at people to force them to do things, and it
can redistribute the wealth it collects by its accumulated
privilege of force.
/ As a means of projecting force, government will devote
some of its wealth to form a military organization. The
military will do exactly what military is for, it will go out
and kill people. It will do this to impose government. If the
military has a lot of wealth, it will kill a lot of people. Only
by killing and imprisoning people can the government
maintain control. If government only threatens to kill and
imprison, people will soon ignore the commands of
government. Government, to survive, must commit violence
regularly and government must gain a monopoly on
violence. If you want to find the government, look for the

14
"United Nations expert says Julian J\ssange's life is at risk,"
hups ://www.altemet.org/2019/ I I /united-nations-expert-says-ju! ian-assanges-li fc-is-at-
risk/

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 group committing the most violence. Killing and
imprisonment is not used to administer justice, it is used to
maintain government power by creating fear and loyalty
toward government. The deeper a person is in government,
the less likely they will ever be punished for crimes. Justice
is merely the excuse for violence. The reason is power ....
Centralized power is not a consensus mechanism it is a
·
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In the last part of the paragraph, Jerry Day touches upon a very
important aspect, namely that the deeper a person is in government,
the less likely it is that he or she will ever face justice. This concept
becomes palpable if we briefly take a look at the Iraq war. From
2003 to 2011, 1.5 million people died from violence while an
additional 1.2 million died from war-imposed deprivation of which
0.8 million are under-5 infant deaths. However, the US also
bombed Iraq in 1990, and the UN, via heavy US and UK pressure,
followed up by imposing deadly sanctions. Madeleine Albright, US
Ambassador to the UN ( and later US Secretary of State), defended
these sanctions on TV. She was asked, "We have heard that half a
million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died
in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?"16 Albright
calmly replied, "We think the price is worth it."17 Megamurderer
Albright has never been brought to justice and she continues to
enjoy impunity. So much for freedom of speech and accountability.
The second Iraq war, which officially ended in 2011 (even though
the US Alliance still occupy the country and bomb the population),
is perhaps the most glaringly obvious illegal war in history. Even
so, justice remains as elusive as mercury. While the Afghanistan
war was initiated when the world was paralyzed by the false flag
attack of September 11, the Iraq war had a longer buildup. This
made dissent possible and experts had time to dispute the ludicrous
and provably false accusation by the US Alliance that Iraq
possessed weapons of mass destructions (WMD). Even if Iraq had
possessed WMDs, it would not justify war. The reality is that the

15
"The Myth Of Benevolent Central Authority,"
https://www.crimeandpower.com/2 020/0 I /22/thc-myth-o f-bcnevo I en t-ccn tra 1-authori t y /
16
"Madeleine Albright says 500,000 dead Iraqi Children was 'worth it' wins Medal of
Freedom," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omnskeu-puE
17
Ibid.

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US is the only country in world history that has ever used WMDs,
when the atomic holocausts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were
perpetrated. Lest we forget, the US Alliance still has thousands of
active nuclear weapons. It is also well documented that since 1945,
Israeli and US officials have made numerous threats and plans to
use atomic bombs. For example, declassified documents show that
in the 1960s, the USA had prepared to "wipe out 30 major Chinese
cities, killing off 30 percent of the nation's urban population and
halving its industrial capabilities. The successful execution of the
large-scale nuclear assault would ensure that China 'would no
longer be a viable nation."' 18 Although, the war mongering
mainstream media wants us to believe that countries in the Middle
East and North Africa are existential threats, the reality is, Dr.
Polya informs, that the British have invaded 193 countries,
Australia 85, France 82, the US 72 (52 after WW2), Germany 39,
Japan 30, Russia 25, Canada 25, and Israel 12.
Deka-megamurderer George Bush warned in a speech on October
7, 2002, that Iraq was an imminent threat to the US, capable of
striking them at any time with WMDs. However, Bush had, less
than a week before the speech, received the National Intelligence
Estimate (NIE) in which it was concluded by 16 US intelligence
agencies that Iraq would only pose a threat if the US attacked it
19
first, i.e. self-defense. When the Bush administration put out a
declassified version of the NIE just before Congress was to vote on
whether or not it authorized an invasion, the conclusion that Iraq
was not an imminent threat was deleted from the document. The
document had also been manipulated and doctored in several other
ways in order to give the impression that Iraq was an imminent
threat. In 2014, investigative journalist Charles Lewis published,
935 Lies: The Future <if Truth and the Decline <ifAmerica's Moral
Integrity. In the book, he showed that George Bush had told 935
lies about Iraq between 9/l 1 and March 2003.20
In 2002, a total of 317 law professors and teachers from 87 law
schools declared in an open statement that a war against Iraq would

18
"Declassified docs reveal how Pentagon aimed to nuke USSR and China into oblivion,"
h tips://www.rt.com/news/ 4 3 7 43 2-us-declassi fi ed-n uclear-p tans/
19
Vincent Bugliosi. "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder" (Vanguard Press
2008).
°
2
Charles Lewis. "935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America's Moral
Integrity" (PublicAffairs 2014 ).

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not only be a breach of international law, but also violate the
American constitution. In no uncertain terms, they protested "the
Bush administration's illegal plan to conduct a war against Iraq,"
and argued "President Bush maintains that Iraq's 'decade of
defiance' of United Nations resolutions justifies a war against Iraq.
But the President ignores the fact that a US war, unleashed without
the approval of the UN Security Council, against a country that has
not attacked the United States, would itself be an unlawful act, in
defiance of America's treaty obligations, and a violation of US and
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international law." They also stated, "The dangerous path
America is treading will only lead to more suffering by Americans,
as well as by others. The international rule of law is not a soft
luxury to be discarded whenever leaders find it convenient or
popular to resort to savage violence."22 Drawing from the history of
warfare, they made the essential historical reference that "every
nation that has ever committed aggression against another claimed
to be 'defending' itself. The United States helped establish the
United Nations precisely in order to impose the rule of law on such
claims, to make it unlawful for nations to strike against others
unless they were themselves under armed attack. The United States
23
is not under armed attack by Iraq."
Shortly before the war began, 31 Canadian professors of
international law published an open letter affirming that an attack
on Iraq "would be a fundamental breach of international law and
would seriously threaten the integrity of the international legal
order that has been in place since the end of the Second World
War."24 In the letter, they condemned the scheduled war "in the
strongest terms," and they underlined that an invasion would have
imperialist and colonial overtones: "Illegal action by the US and its
allies would simply return us to an international order based on
imperial ambition and coercive force."25 The group was backed by
the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) in Geneva who
expressed "deep dismay that a small number of states arc poised to

21
"Law Professors For the Ruic of Law,"
https://wch.archivc.org/wch/20040214101825/http:/www.thc-rule-of-
law.com:80/index.html
22
Ibid.
23
Ibid.
24
"Canadian law professors declare US-led war illegal,"
https://www.wsws.org/en/articlcs/2003/03/lawy-m22.html
25
Ibid.

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launch an outri¥iht illegal invasion of Iraq, which amounts to a war
6
of aggression." A year into the war, Kofi Annan, former United
Nations Secretary-General, spoke about the invasion of Iraq: "I
have indicated it was not in conformity with the UN charter. From
our point of view and the UN Charter point of view, it was
illegal."27 Kofi Arman's statement was echoed in a 2005 paper
published in the British Journal of Criminology, in which
Professors Kramer and Michalowski concluded that the "invasion
and occupation of Iraq by the United States and its allies is a
violation of international law, and as such constitutes a state
· ,,28
cnme.
The UN's former chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, has stated,
"all in all, we carried out about 700 inspections at different 500
sites and, in no case, did we find any weapons of mass
destruction," and "I am of the firm view that it was an illegal
29
war." Former chief prosecutor of Nazi war crimes at the
Nuremberg tribunal, Benjamin Ferencz, is also on record for stating
that the Iraq War was illegal, and it constituted the "supreme
international crime," which was defined under the Nuremberg trials
as a war of aggression. The proceedings that led to the war he
described as follows:

The United Nations charter has a provision which was

agreed to by the United States, formulated by the United
States, in fact, after World War II. It says that from now on,
no nation can use armed force without the permission of the
U.N. Security Council. They can use force in connection
with self-defense, but a country can't use force in
anticipation of self-defense. Regarding Iraq, the last
Security Council resolution essentially said, 'Look, send the
weapons inspectors out to Iraq, have them come back and

26
"Iraq - ICJ Deplores Moves To-ward a War of Aggression on Iraq,"
https://web.archivc.org/web/200510l5040809/http://www.icj.org:80/news. php3 ?id _article
=2770&1ang=en
27
"Iraq war was illegal and breached UN charter, says Annan,"
https ://www. thegu ard ian. corn/v vor ld/2004/sep/ 16/i raq. iraq
28
"War, Aggression, and State Crime: A Criminological Analysis of the Invasion and
Occupation of Iraq." Ronald C. Kramer. Raymond J. Michalowski. Revised for the British
Journal of Criminology, October 2004.
29
"Iraq inquiry: Former UN inspector Blix says war illegal." www.bbe.com/news/uk-
politics-l 0770239

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 tell us what they've found - then we'll figure out what
we're going to do.' The U.S. was impatient, and decided to
invade Iraq - which was all prearranged of course. So, the
United States went to war, in violation of the charter.i"

The last piece of evidence ( although there is a lot more) that will be
mentioned in this foreword is the so-called Manning-Memo. Tony
Blair's chief foreign policy adviser, David Manning, took notes
during a two-hour meeting between Tony Blair and George Bush at
the White House on January 31, 2003. Bush and Blair made
numerous incriminating statements showing that they were
determined to go to war. Bush was terrified that no weapons of
mass destruction would ever be found, and thus he outlined three
ways for the US to provoke Saddam Hussein into a war. Bush
elaborated on one of these provocations and stated that they could
fly "U2 reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Iraq,
[falsely] painted in UN colours. If Saddam fired on them, he would
be in breach'v" of UN resolutions and that would justify war. Bush
was here proposing nfalse flag operation.
The evidence is overwhelming and more than enough to prosecute
George Bush and his neoconservative, warmongering, and war
criminal associates. But how can we begin the process of rounding
up the responsible for the holocausts and genocides outlined in this
book? The easy targets to identify are Bush, Obama, and Trump in
addition to a plethora of other European and Australian politicians,
power brokers, and top military commanders. However, justice
should not end with these top-level megamurderers as soldiers,
drone operators, pilots, and others carried out these atrocities.
Contrary to propagandists, soldiers are not victims simply deceived
into committing murders and savagery. People who murder and
torture for their government are not exempt from punishment by
conveniently shifting the responsibility to their superiors if a moral
choice was available. Such is explicitly declared by Nuremberg
Principle IV, which states, "The fact that a person acted pursuant to
order of his Government or of a superior docs not relieve him from
responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was

30
"Bush and Saddam Should Both Stand Trial, Says Nuremberg Prosecutor."
https://www.globalpolicy.org/component/contcnt/articlc/167/35806.html
31
Vincent Bugliosi. "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder" (Vanguard Press
2008).

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 32
in fact possible to him." Furthermore, as outlined in this
foreword, the evidence is overwhelming, even before the Iraq war
started, that it was an illegal war, even simple Internet browsing
would have provided sufficient evidence to any rational individual.
Instead, it is clear that the soldiers who participated in the War of
Terror did it with full intent, and therefore they must be prosecuted
for murder, crimes against humanity, torture, and a host of other
serious charges. It has often been stated that soldiers are victims,
too, and they did not know better. However, even with the
mountain of evidence outlined in this foreword, the wars continue
and soldiers still participate and kill for "their country." Claiming
ignorance is not a valid excuse. Soldiers, of course, do not kill for
"their country," they kill for politicians and elitist interests. Judging
by numerous public polls, very few people regard politicians as
trustworthy, yet soldiers accept their provably false rationales when
they go to war and kill. Much can be written about war criminal
megamurderer Henry Kissinger, but he was definitely spot on when
he declared the obvious: "Military men are dumb, stupid animals to
33
be used as pawns for foreign policy." One of these "dumb, stupid
animals" was Christopher Scott Kyle, a United States Navy SEAL
sniper who served several tours in the Iraq War. In his ghostwritten
autobiography, he relishes his many kills and describes his only
regret being that he did not kill more Iraqis. In his book, he is
quoted for saying, "After you kill your enemy, you see it's okay.
You say, Great. You do it again. And again .... I loved what I did. I
still do. If circumstances were different I'd be back in a heartbeat.
I'm not lying or exaggerating to say it was fun."34 He also said,
"People ask me all the time, 'How many people have you killed?'
My standard response is, 'Does the answer make me less or more
of a man?' The number is not important to me. I only wish ' I had '
35
killed more." Kyle admits in his book that "we were slaughtering
the enemy ... our kill total becoming astronomical.v" He also

32
"Principles of International Law Recognized in the Charter or the Niirnbcrg Tribunal
and in the Judgment of the Tribunal."
www.lcgal.un.org/ilc/tcxts/instruments/english/draft_articles/7 I 1950.pdf
31
Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein. "The Final Days" (Simon &- S'chuster 1976).
34
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military
llistory (William Morrow and Company 2012). Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim
Der cl ice.
35
Ibid.
36
Ibid.

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stated, "It got to the point where I had so many kills that I stepped
back to let the other guys have a few."37 The mainstream media
labeled him an "American Hero." Warmonger Clint Eastwood
directed a movie about him, which Professor Chris Hedges
reviewed as follows: "American Sniper, like the big-budget feature
films pumped out in Germany during the Nazi era to exalt
deformed values of militarism, racial self-glorification and state
violence, is a piece of propaganda, a tawdry commercial for the
crimes of empire."38 Kyle was himself killed at a shooting range by
an American who was reportedly suffering from war-induced post-
traumatic-stress syndrome. At Kyle's funeral, the pastor said,
"Chris would tell us if he was with us in person today, that we must
love others and continue to do good."39 The delusional pastor
should instead have quoted Kyle's autobiography, in which he
confessed that he had often wondered how he would feel about
killing someone. Kyle answered, "Now I know. It's no big deal."40
Dr. Gideon Polya's statistics can be difficult to comprehend. How
does one actually fathom the horror associated with millions of
murders? One remedy to this difficult visualization is to realize the
incredible horror even one atrocity brings about. On March 30,
2003, Ali Abbas was 12 years old, and he would later say that he
was "just a little kid, enjoying my life, going to school, playing
football with lots of friends. "41 His family members were poor
farmers, and there were cows and sheep outside their house. That
night in Baghdad, Iraq, he was "woken up by this big noise. All the
house collapsed on us. My home was on fire. Then I heard the
screaming."42 Abbas then recounts what happened next, "I was
burning" and "my arms were basically roasted. After maybe 20
minutes, my neighbour came to try to pull me out of the rubble. He
didn't realise how badly I had been burned. So when he tried to

37
Ibid.
38
"Killing Raghcads for Jesus," https://www.truthdig.eom/artieles/killing-ragheads-for-
jesus/
39
"Chris Kyle's Memorial at Cowboys Stadium (FULL),"
htlps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j m wz71:afhso
40
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military
History (William Morrow and Company 2012). Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim
DeFelice.
41
"What the orphan who became a symbol of the Iraq war says about Tony Blair now,"
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/chilcot-report-iraq-war-orphan-ali-tony-
b lair-what-the-orphan-who-became-a-symbol-of. thc-i raq-war-a 7120 506. html
42
Ibid.

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pull me by my left hand, it came off."43 His mother, father, and
little brother were dead as well as 13 other family members. Both
of his arms had to be amputated, and he had suffered burns to 60
per cent of his body. He would later reflect upon it, "There are
thousands like me in Iraq. Or even worse than me. So many
innocent people killed."44 Chris Kyle states in his autobiography,
"Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq.
That's why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy
'savages.' There really was no other way to describe what we
encountered there.?" George Bush would later say, "I am driven
with a mission from God. God would tell me, 'George go and fight
these terrorists in Afghanistan.' And I did. And then God would tell
me 'George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq.' And I did."46 Should
soldiers be pardoned for gruesome atrocities like this one, or should
they be prosecuted and locked away, or forced to work for the Iraqi
people and the long list of other countries invaded by the US
Alliance, until they have "paid their due"? In any event, it is clear
that justice is imperfect.

Soren Rocst Korsgaard (b. 1986) is a social critic, humanitarian,

entrepreneur, and author. He serves as the editor-in-chief of
www.crimcandpowcr.com. Seren is the founder of the editorially
independent, pro-free speech publishing house, Korsgaard
Publishing (KP). The mission of KP is to advance high quality
books that challenge official dogmas and truths.
editor(mcrimeandpower.com

43
Ibid.
44
Ibid.
45
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military
History (William Morrow and Company 2012). Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim
DcPelice.
46
"George Bush: 'God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq',"
htt ps://www. the guardian. co m/world/200 5/ oct/07 /i raq. usa

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HOLOCAUST STUDIES REVISED

Foreword by Dr. Kevin Barrett

The academic field of Holocaust Studies, like the fictional field of

Hitler Studies in Dan DeLillo's novel White Noise, has an absurdly
narrow focus. If you look up "Holocaust Studies" articles at Google
Scholar or Academia.edu, you will find many tens of thousands of
papers, almost all of them addressing questions related to German-
led crimes against Jews during World War II. Indeed, the very term
Holocaust, whose original meaning was "burnt offering," has been
all but trademarked by Zionist Jews who strongly object to its
being used to describe any historical episode of mass murder
except one: the allegedly pre-planned, Hitler-ordered, deliberate
bureaucratic extermination of six million European Jews, mostly in
gas chambers, between 1942 and 1945. The capital Hin Holocaust
functions as a kind of hidden trademark, suggesting that this
particular episode was unlike any other. In the rest of this essay I
will add a trademark symbol to the big-I-I Holocaust to make this
covert trademarking overt.
Like the more than 13 million Academia.edu papers that come up
when one searches "9/11," the nearly 80,000 papers relating to
Holocaust™ Studies largely ignore factual disputes raised by
revisionists. Instead, victors' history is taken for granted and made
the basis for various forms of mythologizing. Those of us who try
to approach historical issues impartially, by seeking out the
strongest arguments for and against the various interpretations of
reported facts, are often shocked to discover that the "conspiracy
theorists" and "deniers" sometimes appear to have stronger
arguments than their more respectable and better-remunerated
opponents.47

47
For must-read accounts of a mainstream intcllectual's discovery that contrarians have
made shockingly strong cases about 9/11 and the Nazi holocaust. sec Ron Unz's
"American Pravda: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories" (https://www.unz.com/wp-
contcnt/uploads/2019/05/Ron_ Unz_ American Pravda_9 _ 11 _ Conspiracy_Theories. pdf)
and "I Iolocaust Denial" (https://www.unz.com/runzJamcrican-pravda-holocaust-dcnial/).
On 9/11, David Ray Griffin's books prove the "inside job" case beyond a reasonable
doubt. On the Holocaust, Thomas Dalton's revisionist Debating the Holocaust compares
favorably to the two leading books defending mainstream orthodoxy, Denying History by
Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman, and Denying the 1 Iolocaust by Deborah Lipstadt.

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Mainstream Holocaust™ Studies shines its hyperbolic spotlight on
one among many sorry chapters in the epic tale of man's
inhumanity to man. Two unfortunate ironies have arisen from this.
First, the tale of the incomparably horrific Nazi genocide has been
weaponized to legitimize the likewise genocidal crimes of the US
and Zionist empires, especially the genocide of the Palestinians and
the post-9/1 I Muslim holocausts discussed in this book. A sad
irony indeed. Second, the shrill ubiquity of the Holocaust trope has
elicited an angry anti-Jewish backlash. The emotional and
intellectual bullying of the Holocaust™ propagandists, the beatings
and jailings of revisionist historians, the Holocaust™ museums
sprouting in every major Western city and many minor ones, the
lucrative reparations racket and the rest of what Norman
Finkelstein calls The Holocaust Industry, among other aspects of
the tendentious Zionist propaganda weaponization of World War II
era crimes, annoys many people to the point that they begin to
think badly of the tribe that is most visibly pushing the propaganda.
And when those annoyed people look into the debate between
mainstream and revisionist historians, and conclude that the
revisionists obviously have a much stronger case than is commonly
admitted, they are liable to go from annoyed to furious-in some
cases embracing dogmatic anti-Jewish worldviews and racialist alt-
right politics. That is presumably not the kind ofreaction the chest-
thumping trumpeters of the incomparable Holocaust™ were
seeking.
Stories of atrocities committed against one's own group are easily
weaponized as propaganda designed to elicit and legitimize violent
revenge. Whether it is the Hatfields teaching their children about
the horrific anti-Hatfield atrocities perpetrated by the dastardly
McCoys, or Jews celebrating Purim and other "the goys tried to kill
us, we won, let's eat" holidays that legitimize vengeance against
non-Jews, or Christians blaming Jews for the murder of Jesus, or
Muslims seeking revenge for the post-9/11 holocausts by joining
ISIS and executing unbelievers-or for that matter Chinese taking
out anti-imperialist anger on the Uyghurs, Indians on the
Kashimiris, or Burmese on the Rohingya-it seems that atrocity
revenge syndrome is so ubiquitous that it must somehow be hard-
wired into the human psyche.
The late Rene Girard made a strong case that the pervasive
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of victim-centric atrocity propaganda. Girard argues that pagan
cultures, meaning the vast majority of cultures untouched by
Middle Eastern monotheism, engage in simple scapegoating. As
The Stanford University News obituary summarized his epic
discovery:

Girard was interested in the causes of conflict and violence

and the role of imitation in human behavior. Our desires, he
wrote, are not our own; we want what others want. These
duplicated desires lead to rivalry and violence. He argued
that human conflict was not caused by our differences, but
rather by our sameness. Individuals and societies offload
blame and culpability onto an outsider, a scapegoat, whose
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elimination reconciles antagonists and restores unity.

Pagan cultures shamelessly lynch the scapegoat, agreeing

unanimously that he is guilty of all the sins of the tribe; the truth of
the scapegoat's innocence is repressed and rendered unconscious.
The Jewish tradition began to problematize this by fostering
identification with victims. Finally, in Girard's view, Christianity
forces everyone to be fully conscious of the fact that the victim was
spotlessly innocent, that in fact the lynch mob has just murdered
God. As the influence of Christianity spread around the word, the
simple pagan pleasures of lynching scapegoats-human sacrifice
gladiatorial games, witch-burnings, public hangings, and so on-
became unthinkable due to the spectators' growing identification
with victims. In today's post-Christian secular West, identification
with victims has reached idolatrous proportions, as evidenced by
mass worship of sexual and gender deviancy, the "I was victimized
too" contagion of the #Me Too movement, and of course the secular
version of the crucifixion: the Holocaust™.
Girard vacillated between believing that Christianity could fulfill
its promise and produce a universal human community based on
love rather than scapegoating, and his recognition that things might
get worse before they got better ... if indeed they get better at all. He
saw that by removing the simple pagan scapegoating mechanism,

48
Stanford News, "Stanford professor and eminent French theorist Rene Girard, member
of the Academic Francaise, dies at 91."
https://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/november/rene-girard-obit- l I 0415.html

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the natural time-tested basis of human social and tribal solidarity,
Christianity had loosed mere anarchy upon the world: When we no
longer have a designated scapegoat to unite us, we are likely to fall
into universal mimetic-desire-driven rivalry, that Hobbesian war of
all against all that always threatens to destroy every human social
bond and put us at each others' throats.
What Girard overlooked was that Middle Eastern monotheism's
attempt to solve the problem of scapegoating did not end with
Christianity. Islam, implicitly recognizing the defects of
Christianity as a practical solution, emerged with a pervasive
system of symbols, discourses, and rituals that effectively dampen
the fires of mimetic-desire-driven rivalry. By imposing powerful
strictures against the accumulation and especially the flaunting of
wealth; by strictly restricting sexual messaging (via clothing,
comportment, talk, etc.) to the private sphere while subordinating
sexuality to marriage and family; and especially by demanding that
everyone undergo a rigorous fast during the month of Ramadan-a
fast that prepares the soul for life after death by detaching it from
desire-Islam produced societies with relatively low levels of
mimetic-desire-driven rivalry and therefore low levels of
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scapegoating and sacrificial violence.
So though Girard seems to have missed its significance, history's
most blatantly and unmistakably Girardian event-the neocon-
orchestrated mass human sacrifice of September 11, 2001-
succeeded in uniting not just the West, but also such non-Muslim-
majority nations as Russia, China, India, and Burma in a new
quasi-religious zeitgeist whose basis is the scapegoating of Islam
and the mass human sacrifice of millions of Muslims. This is the
hidden ideological factor driving the post-9/11 massacre of 32
million Muslims discussed in this book. And it is the hidden factor
that keeps this ongoing holocaust invisible.
Gideon Polya's work makes this and other invisible holocausts
visible. In this way he is carrying on Girard's work of addressing
the primordial human problem of violence rooted in mimetic-
rivalry-driven sacrifice, and attempting to solve the problem by

49
Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the Sacrifice, the biggest Islamic holiday, commemorates the
end of mimetic-desire-driven scapegoating and human sacrifice. For evidence that even
today's imperialist-damaged watered-down Islam produces societies with notably lower
levels of crime, violence, and other negative social indicators, see Javed Jamil's Muslims
Most Civilised, Yet Not Enough (Mission Publications, 2013).

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revealing the truth. But can the truth alone change our behavior,
our consciousness, our moral and spiritual state? The
Biblical/Qur' anic story of Cain and Abel suggests that it cannot.
God's confronting Cain with the truth in the Bible, like the crow's
showing Cain that he cannot hide Abel's body (and the truth) in the
Qur'an, simply deepens Cain's misery, his consciousness that he is
a murderer.
To avoid becoming a murderer in the first place, Cain should have
assumed the role of "his brother's keeper," the role that he
explicitly rejects. Gideon Polya's work, like the Biblical message,
burns with the consciousness that we are all our brothers' and
sisters' keepers. We see this in the way that Polya, unlike those
who fabricate the holocaust-denying official death counts of the
9/11 wars, does not limit the number of victims to those who are
directly murdered by bullets and bombs. Polya, unlike the deniers,
sees that those who die of the chaos and neglect imposed by the
war are murder victims too. Likewise, the potential children the
direct and indirect murder victims would have had, had the war not
occurred and had the would-be parents not been murdered, must be
added to the final tally.
The deniers will undoubtedly argue that Polya's methodology,
which lumps together the direct and indirect victims, is somehow
illegitimate. They will say that his notion of global avoidable
mortality, the basis of his 2007 book Body Count, puts too great a
burden on authorities by insisting that they live up to standards set
by what he calls the "decently run" countries. After all, they will
say, are the people in charge of nations-including occupation
forces-their brothers' and sisters' keepers? Gideon Polya's
answer, one that humanity would be well to adapt, is "yes, they are.
With great power comes great responsibility."
Polya's work on avoidable mortality and hidden holocausts forces
us to face the question: Will we humans ever stop scapegoating and
sacrificing the Other? Will we ever manage to become our
brothers' and sisters' keepers? It seems unlikely, barring imposed
technological slavery by a "benevolent" Leviathan, or a sudden
spiritual-religious revival on a planetary or near-planetary scale.
Personally I would prefer the revival. But maybe it wouldn't take
anything that radical, just a rapid increase in basic human decency.
That seems to be what Gideon Polya is hoping for. He is making a
long shot bet on human decency. I salute him, and recognize him as

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 an uncommonly decent human. May his brave and generous efforts
be blessed and rewarded.

Dr. Kevin Barrett, a Ph.D. Arabist-Islamologist, is one of

America's best-known critics of the War on Terror. He is host of
TRUTH JIHAD RADIO; a hard driving radio show funded by
listener donations at Patreon.com and FALSE FLAG WEEKLY
NEWS (FFWN); a audio-video show produced by Tony Hall, Allan
Reese, and Kevin himself. FFWN is funded through FundRazr. He
also has appeared many times on Fox, CNN, PBS and other
broadcast outlets, and has inspired feature stories and op-eds in the
New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago
Tribune, and other leading publications. Dr. Barrett has taught at
colleges and universities in San Francisco, Paris, and Wisconsin;
where he ran for Congress in 2008. He currently works as a
nonprofit organizer, author, and talk radio host.
truthj ihad@,gmaiI.com

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INTRODUCTION TO US-IMPOSED POST-9/1 MUSLIM
HOLOCAUST AND MUSLIM GENOCIDE

Gideon Polya

This book deals with the ongoing, US-imposed, post-9-11 Muslim

Holocaust and Muslim Genocide in which 32 million Muslims
have died from violence, 5 million, or from imposed deprivation,
27 million, in 20 countries invaded by the US Alliance since the
US Government's 9-11 false flag atrocity that killed about 3,000
people [ 1, 2]. This book takes the form of selected articles
published by the author in the progressive web magazines Media
With Conscience News (MWC News), Countercurrents and Global
Research over this 2 decade period. Each chapter concludes with a
2020 Postscript that provides a succinct 2020 update.
This book is dedicated to my dear late wife for nearly 52 years,
Zareena (nee Zareena Lateef), whose friendliness, sociability,
honesty, intelligence, good humour, love and humanity helped
rescue me from the prejudices of a British imperial Australian
education and of Anglo-American-dominated Australian
Mainstream media. Zareena was born into a progressive Muslim
family in the sugar industry town of Nausori in the South Pacific
British colony of Fiji. Zareena's mother Habiban was a teacher and
her father Abdul Lateef was a prominent lawyer and Member of
Parliament (MP) who was very active in improving the social
circumstances of a peaceful and multi-racial society in Fiji and in
negotiating independence for Fiji [3]. Zareena is Indian of Bengali
and Bihari origin and all her grandparents came to Fiji from India
as indentured labourers (5 year slaves) to slave on British and
Australian sugar cane plantations (they were known as Girmityas
from mispronunciation of "Agreement"). For all the inevitable ups
and downs, Fiji is a great example to the world as a peaceful,
progressive, multicultural society [4].
I am an anti-racist Jewish and Celtic origin Australian scientist,
writer, activist and artist with a recently determined genetic
heritage that is British Celtic (24%) and Ashkenazi (Eastern
European) Jewish (57%) but with zero English, French, German,
Dutch, Scandinavian or Middle Eastern contribution. My Scots
forebears were ethnically cleansed from the Scottish Highlands
after the Battle of Culloden (1746) in the so-called Highland

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 Clearances and variously fled to North America and Australia
(however 2 crofter's cottages of my forebears still survive just
north of the Mull of Kintyre in Western Scotland). My Jewish
forebears fled to Austria and Hungary from Prussian-occupied
Poland in circa 1800. However they were decimated in the WW2
Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million Jews killed through violence or
deprivation) that was part of a wider WW2 European Holocaust (30
million Slavs, Jews and Roma killed) [5].
In about 1995 I saw the movie "Distant Thunder" by the great
Bengali film maker Satyajit Ray (to whose marvellous work and to
Indian culture in general I had been introduced by Zareena).
"Distant Thunder" described famine impacting British-occupied
Bengal in WW2 and concluded with a shocking estimate that 5
million Bengalis had perished in this atrocity. I always had a keen
interest in history and have a huge personal library, and was
appalled that I was utterly unaware of an atrocity of the same
magnitude as the WW2 Jewish Holocaust, that had occurred at the
same time, and which had been effectively white-washed out of
history. Indeed Zareena's British colonial and Australian education
left her (and her relatives) utterly unaware of this British-imposed
WW2 Bengali Holocaust. Humanity demands that we bear witness,
and over the last 25 years I have been writing and broadcasting
li about this atrocity and similar "forgotten" atrocities, most notably
j I
in the 1998 and 2008 editions of my huge book "Jane Austen and
the Black Hole of British History. Colonial rapacity, holocaust
denial and the crisis in biological sustainability" that is now
available for free perusal on the Web [6, 7].
Zareena and I as humanitarians with a scientific training had a
simple, common and pragmatic social philosophy that is best
expressed, albeit with a secular Humanist caveat, in the American
Declaration oflndependence (1776): "We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed
by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these
are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" [8].
These Rights were subsequently systematized in the 30 articles of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) [9] of which the
most fundamental are:
Article 1, "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and
rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should
act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood";

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Article 2, "Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set
forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as
race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion,
national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the
political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or
territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent,
trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of
sovereignty"; and
Article 3, "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of
person" [9].
Racism is evil because we can do little about where or to whom we
are born. War is the penultimate in racism and genocide is the
ultimate in racism. Peace is the only way but silence kills and
silence is complicity. Accordingly, we are obliged to expose and
oppose racism, war and genocide by bearing witness to these
obscenities. As the wonderful Jewish Palestinian humanitarian
Jesus stated in the parable of the Good Samaritan, we cannot walk
by on the other side [ 1 0].
As a humanitarian scientist and inspired by the example of Polish
hero Jan Karski (who tried to tell a disbelieving world about the
mass murder of Jews, Poles and others in Nazi concentration camps
as it was happening) [11], I have been researching and writing
about the horrendous mortal consequences (thanatology) of racism,
occupation, war and genocide for 25 years [12]. While deaths from
violence are often hard to assess, avoidable deaths from imposed
deprivation are readily estimated from demographic data from 1950
onwards provided by the UN Population Division. My detailed
analysis of a shockingly ignored Global Avoidable Mortality
Holocaust and avoidable mortality from imposed deprivation in all
countries of the world has been published in my 2007 book "Body
Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950" that contains a
succinct, avoidable mortality-related history of all countries since
Neolithic times and is available for free perusal on the Web [5].
Massive avoidable mortality from violence or imposed deprivation
in countries subject to invasion, occupation or foreign hegemony
has the accompanying moral imperatives of exposure and judicial
punishment of the perpetrators. Unfortunately Western Mainstream
media resolutely ignore the ongoing genocidal war crimes of the

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self-assertedly "civilized" US Alliance countries. Further, the
International Criminal Court (ICC) has followed the example of
Western Mainstream media by evidently regarding post-WW2
"genocide" and "war crimes" as things only carried out by non-
European people the US does not like (plus Serbs) [13, 14].
Some terminological and legal exactitude is required before the
Reader progresses further. Thus "holocaust" refers to the death of a
huge number of people. "Genocide" is defined by Article 2 of the
UN Genocide Convention thus: "In the present Convention,
genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to
destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious
group, as such: a) Killing members of the group; b) Causing serious
bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) Deliberately
inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about
its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures
intended to prevent births within the group; e) Forcibly transferring
children of the group to another group" [15]. In relation to
horrendous avoidable deaths from imposed deprivation in countries
variously subject to deadly imperialist occupation, hegemony, neo-
colonialism and sanctions, Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva
Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of
War unequivocally demand that an Occupier must provide its
conquered Subjects with life sustaining food and medical requisites
"to the fullest extent of the means available to it" [ 16].
Finally I must express my profound thanks to humanitarian writer
and activist Soren Korsgaard for his enthusiasm, dedication and
technical proficiency in this humane truth-telling project. We
cannot walk by on the other side.

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References

[I]. Gideon Polya, "Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable

Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance
Since 9-11", Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015:
http://www.countercurrents.org/polya221115.htm.
[2]. "Experts: US did 9-11 ": https://sites.google.com/site/expertsusdid9 l 1 /.
[3]. "Abdul Lateef (Fijian lawyer)", Wikipedia:
https:/ /en. wikipedia.org/wiki/ Abdul_ Lateef_(Fijian _lawyer).
[4]. Gideon Polya, "Review: 'Tears In Paradise. Suffering and Struggle Of
Indians In Fiji 1879-2004' by Rajendra Prasad - Britain's Indentured Indian '5
Year Slaves"', Countercurrents, 4 March, 2015:
https://countercurrents.org/polya0403 I 5.htm.
[5]. Gideon Polya, "Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950", G.M.
Polya, 2007, that includes a succinct history of every country since Neolithic
times and is now available for free perusal on the web:
http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/.
[6]. "Bengali Holocaust (WW2 Bengal Famine) writings of Gideon Polya":
https://sites.google.com/site/drgideonpolya/bengali-holocaust.
[7]. Gideon Polya, "Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial
rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability", G.M. Polya,
Melbourne, 2008 edition that is now available for free perusal on the web:
http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/.
[8]. "United States Declaration of Independence", Wikipedia:
https:/ /en. wikipedia.org/wiki/United _States_ Declaration , of_Independence.
[9]. "Universal Declaration of Human Rights": https://www.un.org/en/universal-
declaration-human-rights/.
[10]. Holy Bible, King James version, Luke IO; 25-37.
[ 11]. "Jan Karski", Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Karski.
[ 12]. "Gideon Polya": https://sites.google.com/site/drgideonpolya/home.
[13]. Edward S. Herman and David Peterson ((foreword by Noam Chomsky,)
"The Politics of Genocide", Monthly Review Press, New York, 2010.
[14]. Gideon Polya, "Book Review: 'The Politics Of Genocide' By Edward
Herman And David Peterson", Countercurrents, 5 December, 20 I I:
https://countercurrents.org/polya0512 I I .htm.
[15]. "Article 2 ofthe UN Genocide Convention":
http://www.edwebproject.org/s ideshow / genocide/convention.htm I.
[16]. "Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilians in Time of
War":
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"Article 55. To the fullest extent of the means available to it, the
Occupying Power has the duty of ensuring the food and medical
supplies of the population; it should, in particular, bring in the
necessary foodstuffs, medical stores and other articles if the
resources of the occupied territory are inadequate ... Article 56. To
the fullest extent of the means available to it, the Occupying Power
has the duty of ensuring and maintaining, with the cooperation of
the national and local authorities, the medical and hospital
establishments and services, public health and hygiene in the
occupied territory, with particular reference to the adoption and
application of the prophylactic and preventive measures necessary
to combat the spread of contagious diseases and epidemics.
Medical personnel of all categories shall be allowed to carry out
their duties ... " Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of
Civilian Persons in Time of War, 1950.
"The solution presented by Polya [in "Body Count. Global
Avoidable Mortality Since 1950"] is to implement a rational, risk-
minimization approach to addressing global avoidable mass
mortality (146). This would require honest, quantitative reporting
of excess mortality, scientific assessment of the causes and
systemic changes to prevent recurrence. His scientific analysis
leads him to make the following suggestions for "how to save the
world" (183): equality, human rights, universal literacy, true global
democracy, information/intolerance of lying, elimination of war
and occupation, population control and more even resource
allocation, biological sustainability, and preservation of nature".
Professor Jacqueline Carrigan (California State University,
Sacramento) in "[Review ofJ Body Count: Global Avoidable
Mortality Since 1950", Socialism and Democracy, 13 April 2011.
"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act
towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood". Article 1,
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, proclaimed by the United
Nations General, 10 December 1948.

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"We are responsible not only for what we do but also for what we
could have prevented ... We should consider the consequences both
of what we do and what we decide not to do". Professor Peter
Singer (Princeton University and the University of Melbourne) in
"Writings on an Ethical Life", 2000.

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GlOBAl AVOIDABLE
MORTALITY HOlOCA\IJS1f

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[First published as Gideon Polya, "Introduction - global
avoidable mortality", Chapter 1, Gideon Pol ya, "Body Count.
Global avoidable mortality since 1950", that includes a succinct
history of every country and is available for free perusal on the
web: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/2012/01/chapter-1-
introduction-global-avoidable.html].
"What are a few hundred thousand to the Multitudians, whose
myriads are countless?! A loss that goes unnoticed is no loss at all".
The Multitudians to the Great Constructor Trurl in The Cyberiad by
Stanislaw Lem [1].
"But the main thing he sees is that the whole system of the world is
built on a lie".
Jake in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers [2].
"In the standard of life they have nothing to spare. The slightest fall
from the present standard of life in India means slow starvation,
and the actual squeezing out of life, not only of millions but of
scores of millions of people, who have come into the world at your
invitation and under the shield and protection of British power".
Winston Churchill, speech to the House of Commons (193 5) [3].
"But the agony of European Jewry was enacted in a separate moral
arena, a grim twilight world where their conventional ethical moral
code did not apply. And so they 'came and looked, and passed by
on the other side"'.
Bernard Wasserstein on British Establishment moral perception of
the Jewish Holocaust [ 4].
"Le scandale du monde est ce que fait l'offence, Et cc n'est pas
pecher que pecher en silence (It is public scandal that constitutes
offence, and to sin in secret is not to sin at all)".
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) in "Le Tartuffe" [5].

1.1 Science & history - history ignored yields history repeated

Humanity has made immense strides over the last few millennia
through rational investigation of the world. Scientific analysis of
the world involves truth, reason, free communication and
application of the scientific method involving generating and
critically testing potentially falsifiable hypotheses [6]. Departure

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from this methodology de-rails the scientific process (although as
analysed by Kuhn [7], Koestler [8] and others there are other ways
of approaching reality and "right brain" mysticism, aesthetics and
poetry have been important in the genesis of some radical new
views of reality leading to major scientific breakthroughs).
Critically, lying by omission (ignoring, rubbing out, deleting or
hiding the data) or lying by commission (falsifying the data) are
fundamentally inimical to understanding reality. This is particularly
true in scientific approaches to history and human affairs. "Rubbing
out" data relating to mass human mortality greatly increases the
probability of the recurrence of such events. Thus we are familiar
with the adage "history ignored yields history repeated" [9] and the
post-Jewish Holocaust (Shoah) resolution "Never again" of the
Jewish people. Indeed in this same spirit, Germany, France,
Austria, Switzerland and Israel have made holocaust denial illegal
(albeit only in relation to the Jewish Holocaust).
While we are all aware of the horror and magnitude of the Jewish
Holocaust (6 million victims) we shall see that other immense,
man-made mass mortality events have been deleted from history
even as they were happening.

1.2 Deleting history - the "forgotten", man-made, WW2 Bengal

famine

Even in the liberal Anglo-Celtic democracies, huge, man-made

mass mortality events continue to be "rubbed out" of history books,
media offerings and hence from general public perception. Thus
during World War 2 (WW2) in British-ruled India there was an
immense man-made, economic, "market forces" famine in the
major province of Bengal that killed an estimated 4 million Hindu
and Muslim victims. In essence, a number of factors had led to an
increase in the price of rice, the Bengali staple. Those who could
not afford the ultimate 4-fold increase in the price of rice simply
perished in the context of callous foreign rule.
Major factors contributing to the increase in the price of rice
included a huge decrease in Indian grain imports, Japanese
occupation of rice-producing areas of Bumm, decreases in rice
production due to storm and fungal pathogen infection, British
strategic seizure of boats, British sequestration of some food
stocks, a massive decrease in Indian Ocean Allied shipping (in turn

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 due to the successive events of strategically erroneous Allied
bombing of Germany, decreased protection of Atlantic convoys
and big losses of Allied shipping), granting of provincial autonomy
over their own grain reserves (a divide and rule policy), deliberate
British ignoring of the Famine Codes for "political reasons",
hoarding and racist British administrative lethargy. Calcutta was a
major industrial city undergoing a war-time boom and essentially
sucked food out of a starving, food-producing countryside [10].
Keeping the Indians half-starved was evidently a successful British
control policy over 2 centuries. However it has been suggested that
the real reason for the Bengal Famine was a cold-blooded,
deliberate scorched earth policy so that any Japanese invasion of
India from Burma would encounter a starving countryside [ 11] -
rather akin to the highly successful British strategy by Sir Arthur
Wellesley (later Lord Wellington) against the French under
Massena in the defence of Lisbon in 1811 during the Napoleonic
Wars) [12].
Civilian and military sexual exploitation of starving women and
girls involved some 30,000 victims in Calcutta alone, possibly
hundreds of thousands throughout Bengal and was so large as to
impact upon female survival statistics. The involvement of the
British Military Labour Corps in this famine-enforced violation of
women and girls demands comparison with the notorious WW2
"comfort women" abuses of the Japanese Imperial Army [13].

/ Remarkably, this horrendous, man-made disaster that occurred at

the same time as the Jewish Holocaust and killed a similar number
of people has been largely "rubbed out" of British history books
and from general public perception - it represents a major
"forgotten holocaust" because "history is written by the victor".
The reader can readily estimate the extent of this continuing British
academic, politician and media holocaust-denial by scanning
relevant texts in their personal, local, city or university libraries.
Bengal is well-watered, has rich soil, an energetic population and
abundant sunshine. It is definitely one part of South Asia that
should be famine-proof. However a dozen years after the conquest
of Bengal by Robert Clive (at the Battle of Plassey, 1757), a man-
made famine in 1769-1770, precipitated by food shortage and
exacerbated by rapacious British taxation, killed 1 0 million
Bengal is or one third of the population. Yet the Great Bengal
Famine is substantially deleted from British history and when

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rarely mentioned is dismissed in a few words. During the
subsequent 2 centuries, Bengal ( as well as other parts of British-
ruled India) was swept by repeated famines, with this culminating
in the "forgotten" WW2 Bengal famine.
In 1971 the US-armed and US-backed military regime in West
Pakistan overturned the results of a democratic election and
invaded East Pakistan (the future Bangladesh). 3 million Bengalis
were killed and 0.3 million Bengali women and girls raped [14].
However an even worse disaster now faces Bengal due to the
consequences of First World industrial profligacy, namely
inundation of this substantially deltaic country from the successive
consequences of global warming, sea level rises, increases cyclonic
intensity and storm surges (a fate threatening other tropical delta
regions including southern Thailand, parts of China and the Gulf
states of the USA).
Thus in both 1988 and 1998 over half of Bangladesh was under
water (from excess monsoon run-off) and 2005 saw the devastating
inundation of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Humanity is
being seriously endangered by First World greed and unacceptable
disregard of history and physical reality. However a holocaust has
been happening over the last half century that dwarfs the Jewish
holocaust and the "forgotten" Bengal Famine by a factor of about
100 - a largely unreported global avoidable mortality holocaust
that has taken the lives of about 1.3 billion human beings since
1950.

1.3 Avoidable mortality ( excess mortality), under-5 infant

mortality and foreign occupation

Europeans are aware from daily news reports that the human
condition can be dreadful in the non-European world. This
awfulness can be quantitatively assessed by dispassionately
measuring human mortality over the last 55 years using publicly-
available United Nations (UN) data.
The United Nations Population Division provides periodically
updated demographic estimates and projections for every country
and region of the World since 1950. When this project commenced
in 2003, the latest data was the "2002 Revision" (later supplanted
in 2005 by the "2004 Revision") [15]. The data tabulated in this

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book were laboriously calculated over 18 months using the "2002
Revision" data and projections.
Avoidable mortality (technically, excess mortality) is the difference
between the ACTUAL mortality in a country and the mortality
EXPECTED in a peaceful, decently-run country with the same
demographics.
By 1950 ALL the World potentially had access to the requisites for
very the low avoidable mortality obtaining in European countries,
namely clean water, sanitation, proper nutrition, literacy ( especially
female literacy), primary health care, antibiotics and major
preventive medicine programs including public health education,
prophylactics (such as insecticides, antiseptics, mosquito netting,
soap and condoms) and major vaccinations.
However such benefits took decades to arrive in many countries
and are still variously lacking in African countries. Nevertheless, in
most countries outside Africa the annual mortality rate ( expressed
as deaths per 1,000 people per year) typically declined to a
minimum and in the best countries (typically European and East
Asian countries) eventually began to rise, with this reflecting aging
populations.
In the present analysis the baseline expected mortality rates for all
countries were estimated graphically for countries grouped
demographically in relation to birth rate, a key demographic
parameter. This methodology (detailed in Chapter 2) has a
fundamental assumption, namely that from 1950 all the World
could and should have had access to the basic requisites for human
survival outlined above.
In reality, in the preceding decade most of the non-European World
was under First World hegemony (Central and South America) or
First World occupation (most of Asia, Africa and the Pacific).
Despite the Geneva Conventions (1949) that unambiguously
specified that occupying powers were obliged to do everything
possible to preserve the lives of their conquered subjects [16], the
subject non-European World did not receive such life-sustaining
requisites from their colonial and neo-colonial masters.
As outlined above, using Web-accessible UN Population Division
demographic data, avoidable mortality (excess mortality) was
calculated for every country in the World since 1950. The results
are horrendous as outlined below.

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1.4 Global avoidable mortality (excess mortality)

The 1950-2005 avoidable mortality ( excess mortality) has been 1.3

billion for the World, 1.2 billion for the non-European World and
about 0.6 billion for the Muslim World - a Muslim Holocaust about
100 times greater than the World War 2 Jewish Holocaust (6
million victims) and the "forgotten" World War 2 Bengal Famine
in British-ruled India ( 4 million Hindu and Muslim victims).
By way of corroboration, using UN data it is possible to calculate
the under-5 infant mortality for every country in the World since
1950. The under-5 infant mortality has been 0.88 billion for the
World, 0.85 billion for the non-European World and about 0.4
billion for the Muslim World.
Whether a person dies violently or dies non-violently from
deprivation or malnourishment-exacerbated disease, the end result
is the same and the culpability the same. Further, the Ruler is
responsible for the Ruled and (as clearly specified by the Geneva
Conventions) an Occupying Power is clearly responsible for
avoidable mortality in a conquered country. However avoidable
mortality consequent on callous foreign control does not typically
cease when foreign soldiers depart. Thus "occupation" can include
economic and political hegemony by a foreign power.
First World countries (notably the US, UK, France, Portugal and
Russia) variously have a major responsibility for the horrendous
post-1950 avoidable mortality in the non-European World through
impositions such as colonial occupation, neo-colonial control,
corrupt client regimes, militarization, debt, economic exclusion,
economic constraint, malignant interference, international war and
civil war.
War and foreign occupation have had a major impact on avoidable
mortality. This is simply illustrated by geo-political grouping of the
countries of the World and expressing their post-1950 avoidable
mortality and under-5 infant mortality as percentages of the present
(2005) population (indicative of how many post-1950 avoidable
deaths or under-5 year old deaths, respectively, for every 100
people alive today for the country or region in question).
Post-1950 avoidable mortality as a percentage of present
population has been 2. 7% (Overseas Europe, comprising North
America, Australasia and Israel), 5.0% (Western Europe), 7.5%
(Eastern Europe), 9 .4% (Latin America and Caribbean), 10. 9%

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(East Asia), 20.7% (Central Asia), 23.0% (Arab North Africa and
Middle East), 25.1 % (South East Asia), 27.3% (the Pacific), 31.9%
(South Asia) and 43.2% (non-Arab Africa).
Post-1950 under-5 infant mortality as a percentage of present
population has been 1.5% (Overseas Europe), 1.7% (Western
Europe), 3.8% (Eastern Europe), 9.7% (Latin America and
Caribbean), 10.7% (East Asia), 12.8% (South East Asia), 13.0%
(the Pacific), 17.0% (Central Asia), 15.4% (Arab North Africa and
Middle East), 19.5% (South Asia) and 27.3% (non-Arab Africa).
It can be clearly seen from the above data that elevated post-1950
avoidable mortality and under-5 infant mortality is generally
associated with First World occupation and hegemony.

1.5 Non-reportage of global avoidable mortality ensures its

continuance

As outlined above, non-reportage of man-made mass mortality

events helps ensure their future repetition. Denial of the Jewish
Holocaust is regarded as utterly repugnant and indeed is a criminal
offence in a number of countries historically linked to that
catastrophe. Nevertheless, First World-dominated global
mainstream media in general utterly refuse to report the greatest
crime in human history, namely the First World-complicit global
avoidable mortality holocaust. Academics, politicians and public
figures are also complicit in this almost comprehensive, holocaust-
denying lying by omission.
Holocaust-ignoring has deadly consequences. Thus the World
largely ignored a dozen years of Nazi anti-Semitism and it was
only 30 months before the end of WW2 that the Allied
Governments formally acknowledged the reality of the Jewish
Holocaust. On 17 December 1942 in the House of Commons,
Anthony Eden formally read out a joint statement on behalf of 11
Allied Governments: "numerous reports from Europe [indicate]
that the German authorities, not content with denying to persons of
Jewish race in all the territories over which their barbarous rule has
been extended the elementary rights, are now carrying into effect
Hitler's oft-repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people of
Europe. The number of victims of these bloody cruelties is
reckoned in many hundreds of thousands of entirely innocent men,
women and children ... " [ 16].

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60 years on from the end of WW2, the First World is gripped with
a new kind of racism and indeed a new kind of anti-Semitism. If
the academics, journalists, politicians, teachers and other public
figures of a prosperous, selfish and right-wing First World country
such as Australia were to resolutely ignore the Jewish Holocaust,
the world would be quite reasonable in regarding them as racist
and, specifically, anti-Semitic. Yet the US-led Anglo-Celtic
Coalition countries, including Australia, resolutely ignore the
global excess mortality holocaust and First World complicity in
this avoidable carnage - and while ignoring horrendous continuing
injustice to Muslims and Arabs, have demonized and violated these
very people in the dishonestly-named and horrendously
disproportionate War on Terror. The First World ignoring of the
First World-complicit global avoidable mortality holocaust is
dishonest, racist and deadly.
This book has been written because, while peace is the only way,
silence kills and silence is complicity. We are obliged to inform
everyone about ongoing, avoidable human mass mortality. We
cannot walk by on the other side [17].

1.6 Summary

Highly successful, rational, scientific approaches to reality involve

truth, reason, free communication and the critical testing of
potentially falsifiable hypotheses. Lying by omission and
commission derails the scientific process. The victor writes history
but history ignored yields history repeated. "Rubbing out" or
ignoring mass mortality events increases the probability of their
recurrence. While we are all aware of the WW2 Jewish Holocaust,
the WW2 man-made Bengal Famine in British-ruled India has been
largely deleted from history and from general perception. The
World is also generally unaware of the horrendous extent of First
World-complicit avoidable mortality (excess mortality) in non-
European countries. Avoidable mortality (excess mortality) is
defined as the difference between the actual mortality and the
mortality expected in a peaceful, decently-run country with the
same demographics. Publicly-available UN demographic data have
enabled calculation of the post-1950 excess mortality for virtually
every country in the World. The post-1950 excess mortality has
been 1.3 billion for the World, 1.2 billion for the non-European

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World and 0.6 billion for the Muslim World, a Muslim Holocaust
100 times greater than the Jewish Holocaust or the "forgotten"
Bengal Famine.
By way of corroboration, the post-1950 under-5 infant mortality
has been 0.88 billion for the World, 0.85 billion for the non-
European World and 0.4 billion for the Muslim World. About 90%
of the under-5 infant mortality in the non-European world has been
avoidable. The First World (principally the UK, the US, France,
Portugal and Russia) have had major complicity in post-1950
excess mortality, this variously involving colonial occupation, neo-
colonial hegemony, corrupt client regimes, economic constraint,
economic exclusion, militarization, debt, malignant interference,
international war and civil war. Non-reportage by media,
academics and politicians of the horrendous extent of global excess
mortality and infant mortality ensures a continuing carnage of
about 55,000 avoidable deaths every day. Peace is the only way but
silence kills and silence is complicity. We cannot walk by on the
other side.

2020 Postscript

Using the latest demographic data from the UN Population

Division and assuming a baseline mortality rate of 4 deaths per
thousand of population per year for high birth rate Developing
World countries, one can estimate that 15 million people die
avoidably each year (41,000 per day) from deprivation in the
Developing World (minus China) on Spaceship Earth with
neoliberal One Percenters in charge of the flight deck. The Global
A voidable Mortality Holocaust is continuing with minimal
abatement and indeed is set to increase immensely due to a
worsening Climate Emergency and Climate Genocide. In the
absence of requisite action about 10 billion people are set to perish
prematurely this century en route to an expertly assessed
sustainable human population in 2100 of only about 0.5-1.0 billion
people (see "Climate Genocide":
https://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/).

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[6]. K. Popper ( 1976), "Unended Quest. An Intellectual Biography" (Fontana
Collins, Glasgow).
[7]. T.S. Kuhn ( I 970), "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" (University of
Chicago Press, Chicago).
[8]. A. Koestler ( 1964), "The Sleepwalkers" (Penguin, London).
[9]. G. Santayana ( 1953) (attributed): "Those who cannot remember the past are
condemned to repeat it". See Santayana, G. ( 1953), "The Life of Reason or The
Phases of Human Progress" (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York).
[IO]. S.K. Chatterjee ( 1944 ), "The Starving Millions" (Asoka Library, Calcutta);
P. Chatterjee (1984), "Bengal 1920-1947. Volume I. The Land Question" (K.P.
Bagchi, Calcutta); T. Das, T. (1949), "Bengal Famine (1943) as Revealed in a
Survey of Destitutes of Calcutta" (University of Calcutta, Calcutta); J. Dreze, J.
& A. Sen ( 1989), "Hunger and Public Action" (Clarendon Press, Oxford); J.
Dreze, A. Sen, & A. Hussain ( I 995), "The Political Economy of Hunger"
(Clarendon Press, Oxford); K.C. Ghosh (1944), "Famines in Bengal 1770-1943"
(National Council of Education, Calcutta, 2nd edition 1987); P.R. Greenough,
(1982), "Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: the Famine of 1943-1944"
(Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York; P.R. Greenough (1988),
"Famine" in A.T. Embree (1985) (editor), "Encyclopaedia of Asian History"
(Collier Macmillan, London) pp457-459; N.G. Jog (1944), "Churchill's Blind-
Spot: India", New Book Company, Bombay; C. Mason (2000), "A Short History
of Asia. Stone Age to 2000AD" (Macmillan, London); Polya (I 995, 1998 a.b,
1999 a,b,c, 2001 a,b, 2005) G.M. Polya, G.M. (1995). "The famine ofhistory:
Bengal 1943", Int. Network on Holocaust & Genocide, vol.I 0, pp I 0-15; G.M.
Polya ( 1998), "Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial
rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability" (G.M. Polya,
Melbourne); G.M. Polya ( 1998) "Holocaust denial in an open society and the
crisis in biological sustainability", Australian Humanist, Spring 1998, pp6-7;
G.M. Polya ( 1999), "Austenizing British Atrocities in India", Sulekha web
magazine, 5 May [see:
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(1999), "Bengali famine. Austenizing history, holocaust denial and the crisis in

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"Dr. Gideon Maxwell Polya, Australia", in "Jane Austen Antipodean Views"
(eds, S. Fullerton and A. Harbers), pp8 l-85 (Wellington Lane, Sydney); G.M.
Pol ya (200 I), "Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility and truth in an open society",
Observations, vol.I (4), 75-83; Satyajit Ray (1973), "Distant Thunder" (movie;
Bengal, India); Sen ( 1945), "Rural Bengal in Ruins" (translated by Chakravarty;
cited by Greenough (1982)); A. Sen (1981 ), "Poverty and Famines. An Essay on
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Melbourne); Sen (1945), "Rural Bengal in Ruins" (translated by Chakravarty;
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and the Jews of Europe 1939-1945" (Oxford University Press, 1988).
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Hitler's 'Final Solution"' (Penguin, London, 1982); B. Wasserstein (1979),
"Britain and the Jews of Europe 1939-1945" (Oxford University Press, 1988);
Holy Bible, Luke, I 0:30-35.
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"The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an
opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times,
but in the course of ages there will generally be found persons to
rediscover it, until some one of its reappearances falls on a time
when from favorable circumstances it escapes persecution until it
has made such head as to withstand all subsequent attempts to
suppress it". John Stuart Mill in "On Liberty", 1859.
"In sum, the mass media of the United States are effective and
powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive
propaganda function by reliance on market forces, internalized
assumptions, and self-censorship, and without any significant overt
coercion. This propaganda system has become even more efficient
in recent decades with the rise of the national television networks,
greater mass-media concentration, right-wing pressures on public
radio and television, and the growth in scope and sophistication of
public relations and news management". Edward S. Herman and
Noam Chomsky in "Manufacturing Consent. The political
economy of the mass media", 2002.
"In the 'free' market, free speech has become a commodity like
everything else-justice, human rights, drinking water, clean air.
It's available only to those who can afford it. And naturally, those
who can afford it use free speech to manufacture the kind of
product, confect the kind of public opinion, that best suits their
purpose". Arundhati Roy, "War Talk", 2003.

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 CHAPTER 2
MAINSJREA\M MEDIA
FAKE NEWS JHROIJGiI
LYING BY OMISSION

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 [First published as Gideon Polya, "Mainstream media: fake news
through lying by omission", MWC News, 1 April 20 I 7:
https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammedialying/2017-04-01.]
Fake news is simply a new, Trump-popularized descriptive for
media lying that occurs in 2 basic forms, lying by omission and
lying by commission. Lying by omission is far, far worse than
lying by commission because the latter can at least admit refutation
and public debate.
Western Mainstream media impose a huge burden of fake news on
Western societies through entrenched and pervasive lying by
omission. Indeed the most egregious and pervasive Mainstream
media lie of omission is suppression of reportage of such lying by
omission. The unimpeded, remorseless, corporate-dominated
Mainstream media, politicians and pliant intellectuals are now
going further, and variously threatening residual effective free
speech and Alternative media on the basis of asserted fake news.
Numerous outstanding writers and journalists have commented
cogently on Mainstream media lying and censorship and for
alphabetically-organized compendia of such views see the websites
"Mainstream media lying" [1] and "Mainstream media censorship"
[2]. In particular, Eric Zuesse (an historian and the author, most
recently, of "They're Not Even Close: the Democratic vs
Republican Records 1910-2010" and of "Christ's ventriloquists:
The event that created Christianity") has commented incisively on
/ "the most suppressed news of all - news about the news-
suppression by the 'news'-media" (2014): "Recognize how
extremely far from being a democracy today's United States has, in
fact, become. This is the most shocking realization of all, because
it's the most suppressed news of all - news about the news-
suppression by the 'news'-media .... That's how dire the condition
of what used to be American democracy has now become. The
biggest news-story of all is thus the one that is, and that will
inevitably be, the most suppressed news-story of all: the news-
suppression itself. It extends from the major 'news'-media to the
alternative and even to the specialized 'news'-media ... He [Edward
Snowden] raised the extremely serious question as to whether, and
the extent to which, a government can lie to its public and still be a
democracy. That's the question. How can the public have a
government representing informed consent, if the 'news' media are
constantly, and systematically, lying about the most important

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things, and covering up that government's worst, most heinous,
crimes? Yet, this is what Americans have today. The United States
is thus no longer a model for any country except for a dictatorship.
How likely is it that America's press will let the American public
know this now-established fact? Something's wrong- and it's not
people such as Edward Snowden" [3].
Barbara Kingsolver (American novelist, essayist, poet and author
of "The Poisonwood Bible" and other powerful works) explores
Mainstream, media lying by omission in her great novel "The
Lacuna" (lacuna meaning hiatus, blank, missing part, gap, cavity,
or empty space) which has Russian Communist revolutionary and
theorist Leon Trotsky (Lev) and his secretary Van having the
following discussion about media (2009): '"But newspapers have a
duty to truth', Van said. Lev [Trotsky] clucked his tongue. 'They
tell the truth only as the exception. Zola [French novelist of
"J'accuse" fame] wrote that the mendacity of the press could be
could be divided into two groups: the yellow press lies every day
without hesitating. But others, like the Times, speak the truth on all
inconsequential occasions, so they can deceive the public with the
requisite authority when it becomes necessary.' Van got up from
his chair to gather the cast-off newspapers. Lev took off his glasses
and rubbed his eyes. 'I don't mean to offend the journalists; they
aren't any different from other people. They're merely the
megaphones of other people' ... [Trotsky observes to his assistant
Shepherd] 'Soli, let me tell you. The most important thing about a
person is always the thing you don't know"' [4].
The lying journalists of corporate-owned Mainstream media can
attempt to justify their lying by omission in terms of responsibility
to the shareholders over-riding the responsibility they have for their
readers and the public in general. A very good example of this
neoliberal perversion is provided by John Perkins in his book
"Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" in which he describes how
he spent most of his corporate life deliberately deceiving
Developing Country governments in the interests of US corporate
clients. Eventually his conscience outweighed the generous rewards
from his employers and clients, but he sadly observes at the end of
the book that while he knew what he would be doing was wrong
when he was recruited straight out of university in the early 1970s,
today business studies students in our universities are taught that
their prime moral obligation is to the shareholders and not to truth.

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However "fake news" via lying by omission is most shocking when
it is shamelessly purveyed by non-corporate, taxpayer-funded,
national media such as Australia's taxpayer-funded Australian
Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that is Australia's equivalent of
the taxpayer-supported UK BBC (British Broadcasting
Corporation). Now lying by commission and massive lying by
omission are entrenched in both the ABC [6] and the BBC [7] but it
is of particular interest here to get hard evidence that the ABC and
the BBC lie by omission about their lying by omission. Fortunately,
the ABC and the BBC have Search functions that enable one to
quantitate relative reportage and non-reportage of particular matters
by these lying organizations, as detailed below.
A Search of the UK BBC (on April Fool's Day, 1 April 2017) for
the term "lying by omission" yields only 6 items, with the 2 most
recent (2014) about an actress "coming out" as a lesbian: "I am
tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission". In stark
contrast, a search of the BBC for "fake news" yields about 360
items that are overwhelmingly in 2017. The lying BBC hides the
horrendous reality of its fake news as lying by omission behind a
barrage of "fake news" as inconsequential concoctions dreamed up
by the "yellow press" and on the Web. Alarmingly, this Search of
the BBC for "fake news" throws up repeated calls for legislated
and other censorship of Alternative media and the Web in addition
to that already applied by authoritarian governments, Facebook and
Google. One notes that a Google Search for "lying by omission"
yields 139,000 results whereas a Google Search for "fake news"
yields 32 million.
A Search of the Australian ABC ( on 1 April 2017) for the term
"lying by omission" yields 26 items, with none more recent than
2014, and 10 out of these 26 items being uncensored comments
about ABC programs by one Dr. Gideon Pol ya (me) - there would
have been more comments by me but remorseless censorship by the
Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-perverted and
subverted ABC has effectively cut off this avenue for opposing
ABC "fake news" and lying by omission [6]. In marked contrast, a
Search of the ABC for "fake news" yielded 277 items of which 162
were from 2017.
What a disgrace. The taxpayer-funded ABC and BBC not only lie
by omission, they also lie by omission about their lying by
omission. Indeed, in an endless iteration of falsehood, the ABC and

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BBC are lying by omission about their lying by omission about
their lying by omission ...
The lying by omission by the ABC, the BBC and by Mainstream
journalist, politician and intellectual presstitutes in general has
deadly consequences in the sense that history ignored yields history
repeated, genocide ignored yields genocide repeated, and holocaust
ignored yields holocaust repeated.
Outstanding expatriate Australian journalist John Pilger has written
cogently about lying by omission and "historical amnesia" (2012):
"Writing in his personal blog, ever so quietly, Jon Williams, the
BBC world news editor, effectively dishes his own 'coverage',
citing Western officials who describe the 'psy-ops' operation
against Syria as 'brilliant'. As brilliant as the destruction of Libya,
and Iraq, and Afghanistan. And as brilliant as the psy-ops of the
Guardian's latest promotion of Alastair Campbell, the chief
collaborator of Tony Blair in the criminal invasion of Iraq. In his
'diaries', Campbell tries to splash Iraqi blood on the demon
Murdoch. There is plenty to drench them all. But recognition that
the respectable, liberal, Blair-fawning media was a vital accessory
to such an epic crime is omitted and remains a singular test of
intellectual and moral honesty in Britain. How much longer must
we subject ourselves to such an 'invisible government'? This term
for insidious propaganda, first used by Edward Bernays, the
nephew of Sigmund Freud and inventor of modern public relations,
has never been more apt. 'False reality' requires historical amnesia,
lying by omission and the transfer of significance to the
insignificant. In this way, political systems promising security and
social justice have been replaced by piracy, 'austerity', and
'perpetual war': an extremism dedicated to the overthrow of
democracy. Applied to an individual, this would identify a
psychopath. Why do we accept it?" [8].
In the 2003-2011 Iraq War about 1.5 million Iraqis died from
violence, and 1.2 million died from war-imposed deprivation [9].
However BBC estimates oflraqi deaths in the Iraq War range from
90,000 to about 600,000, while the Australian ABC's estimate on
the occasion of US withdrawal in 2011 was a genocide-ignoring
"tens of thousands". The UK and Australia have invaded 193 and
85 countries, respectively, are both now into their 8th Iraq War
since 1914, and are intimately involved in the Zionist-backed US
War on Muslims (aka the US War on Terror) which has been

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associated, so far, with 32 million Muslim deaths from violence, 5
million, or from imposed deprivation, 27 million, in 20
impoverished countries invaded by the US Alliance since the US
Government's 9-11 false flag atrocity [9].
What can decent people do in the face of burgeoning and deadly
Mainstream imposition of "false reality" by lying by omission
"fake news"? All that decent, informed people can do is to (a)
inform everyone they can, and (b) urge and apply Boycotts,
Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Mainstream media,
politicians and pliant intellectuals involved in deadly "fake news"
lying by omission. Peace is the only way but silence kills and
silence is complicity.

2020 Postscript

I am a 5-decade career scientist and operate on the basis, most

clearly articulated by Karl Popper, of the critical testing of
potentially falsifiable hypotheses. Science has zero tolerance for
lying because it utterly subverts the scientific process. It is a
desperately sad paradox that the Enlightenment that opened the
Pandora's Box ofreason and science also enabled liberalism, free
market capitalism and thence presently dominant ruthless
neoliberalism that now existentially threatens Humanity and the
Biosphere. As 16-year old climate activist Greta Thunberg so
vehemently declared: "How dare you!". I have proposed Gideon
Polya's 3 Laws of Economics that mirror the 3 Laws of
Thermodynamics of science and are (1) Price minus COP (Cost of
Production) equals profit; (2) Deception about COP strives to a
maximum; and (3) No work, price or profit on a dead planet. Profit-
driven neoliberal deception about the true Cost of Production has
generated a gigantic and inescapable global Carbon Debt of circa
$200 trillion that now acutely threatens the Planet (see "Gideon
Polya, "Polya's 3 Laws Of Economics Expose Deadly, Dishonest
And Terminal Neoliberal Capitalism", Countercurrents, 17 October
2015: https://www.countercurrents.org/polyal 71015.htm).

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 "In 1943, some 3 million brown-skinned subjects of the Raj died
in the Bengal famine, one of history's worst. [Dr. Madhusree]
Mukerjee delves into official documents and oral accounts of
survivors to paint a horrifying portrait of how Churchill, as part of
the Western war effort, ordered the diversion of food from starving
Indians to already well-supplied British soldiers and stockpiles in
Britain and elsewhere in Europe, including Greece and Yugoslavia.
And he did so with a churlishness that cannot be excused on
grounds of policy: Churchill's only response to a telegram from the
government in Delhi about people perishing in the famine was to
ask why Gandhi hadn't died yet. British imperialism had long
justified itself with the pretense that it was conducted for the
benefit of the governed. Churchill's conduct in the summer and fall
of 1943 gave the lie to this myth. "I hate Indians," he told the
Secretary of State for India, Leopold Amery. "They are a beastly
people with a beastly religion". The famine was their own fault, he
declared at a war-cabinet meeting, for "breeding like rabbits".
Shashi Tharoor in "The Ugly Briton", Time, 2010.
/ "I think the fact that famines happen when they're so
extraordinarily easy to prevent - nothing in the world is easier to
prevent - affects me. Being a Bengali I can't say that it adds
especially to that because this seems to me to be a basic human
sympathy at seeing suffering all across the world which are
completely needless". Professor Amartya Sen (Harvard University
and 1998 Nobel Laureate in Economics) in "Bengal Famine",
BBC, 2008.
"The Bengal Famine started in Bengal. But as panic responses from
the state tried to bring the famine under control in Bengal localised
famines were created in provinces surrounding Bengal. So that six
to seven million [deaths] figure includes the deaths that happened
in let's say the [neighbouring] provinces of Bihar, Orissa and
Assam". Dr. Sanjoy Bhattacharya in "Bengal Famine", BBC, 2008.

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 CHAPTER 3
"f0R60TTEN" WW2
BENGALI IIOlOClllUST
(1942-1945)

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 [First published as Gideon Polya, "Australia and Britain killed
6- 7 million Indians in WW2 Bengal Famine", Countercurrents,
29 September, 2011: https://countercurrents.org/polya290911.htm.]
India contributed an army of 2.4 million men to assist the British
war effort in World War 2. However India was rewarded by a
British-imposed Bengal Famine (Bengali Holocaust, Indian
Holocaust) that killed 6-7 million Indians in Bengal, Assam, Bihar
and Orissa in the period 1942-1945. Australia was a major supplier
of wheat but deliberately by-passed starving India, this boosting
British food stocks and what was evidently a starvation-based
military strategy to prevent Japanese advance into Bengal.
While there was no catastrophic decline in the amount of rice or
other grain available in Bengal, the price of rice edged up slightly
during 1942 and by December 1942 the wholesale price of rice in
Calcutta had increased to be double that in December 1941. By
mid-1943 it had doubled again to be over 4 times greater than the
price in December 1941. As analyzed by Economics Nobel
Laureate Professor Amartya Sen (Cambridge and Harvard) the
Bengal Famine derived from a cashed-up Calcutta, a major
industrial city involved in a war production boom, sucking rice out
of a starving, rice-producing countryside.
A variety of factors contributed to the greatly increased market
price of rice but the absolute amount ofrice and other grain was not
/ a critical determinant as has been argued from a superficial analysis
of the situation. There was grain available to alleviate the problem
but in late 1941 the British gave Indian provinces autonomy over
their food stocks, this contributing to the huge price increase in
Bengal. Other factors included small decreases in the Bengal rice
harvest due to fungal infestation and storm; loss of rice imports
from Burma (that had been conquered by the Japanese); British
violence in West Bengal that impaired rice production, storage and
availability; British seizure of local food stocks; British seizure and
destruction of Bengali boats crucial for income generation and food
distribution (a measure ostensibly directed against possible
Japanese invasion from Burma); a halving of shipping in the Indian
Ocean in 1943 due to losses in the Atlantic; hoarding by fearful or
greedy Indians that was enabled by British policy; failure to declare
famine under the British India Famine Code; and the resolute
refusal of the British to permit significant grain imports. [ 1].

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Before the war India depended upon grain imports to cover
production deficits. Indeed in 1935 Churchill made the following
statement to the British House of Commons: "In the standard of life
they have nothing to spare. The slightest fall from the present
standard of life in India means slow starvation, and the actual
squeezing out of life, not only of millions but of scores of millions
of people, who have come into the world at your invitation and
under the shield and protection of British power". The British knew
that decreased food availability per se or through price increases
would doom millions to starvation.
The net importation of non-rice grains into India (population about
300 million) in the 6 financial years up to and including the
beginning of the famine is instructive (millions of tons in
parentheses): 37/38 (+ 0.624), 38/39 (+ 1.044), 39/40 (+ 2.221),
40/41 (+ 0.993), 41/42 (+ 0.431) and 42/43 (- 0.361). A similar
picture is seen for net imports of rice into India (millions oftons in
parentheses): 37/38 (+ 1.165), 38/39 (+ 1.235), 39/40 (+ 2.139),
40/41 (+ 1.097), 41/42 (+ 0.723) and 42/43 (- 0.259). Thus in the
financial year that saw the commencement of the worst famine in
India in 2 centuries the British authorities oversaw a massive net
export of grains and rice from an increasingly impoverished
country. This situation no doubt contributed to the price of grain
and rice in Bengal during the famine and the ability of other parts
of India to make a contribution when the provincial autonomy in
this respect was over-ridden in a restricted region for a limited time
during the emergency.
Various British historians have commented on the impact of
decreased wheat imports. Thus C.B.A. Behrens (1955): "It
therefore seems that, given the necessary controls, the famine could
have been averted by wheat imports. By a curious coincidence the
amount of the deficit in the province (about 700,000 tons) was
almost exactly the amount needed to feed Calcutta (a city of 4
million consuming on average 1 lb per head per day) for a year"
and A.J.P. Taylor (1965): "Now he [Churchill] cut down sailings to
the Indian Ocean from 100 a month to 40 in order to sustain his
Mediterranean campaign. This decision had disastrous
consequences. The harvest had failed in Bengal. Imports of food
were urgently needed and did not come. A million and a half
Indians died of starvation for the sake of a white man's quarrel in
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 Before the outbreak of the Second World War, India (population
about 300 million) could largely feed herself with a short-fall of
about 1 million tons of grain (representing only about 2% of the
total requirement) that was met by an excess of imports over grain
exports. This level of existence involved chronic undernourishment
of a large proportion of the population, which accordingly did not
have the literal or metaphorical fat to surmount a major famine of
the Bengal Famine kind without major loss. The above figures
demonstrate the sheer callousness of the administering authorities
in permitting net imports to steadily decline from the minimal
requirement to a substantial net export by mid-War. The opinion of
the British Raj Foodgrains Policy Committee in 1943 is instructive
in relation to the loss of imports - it considered that, the absolute
deficit aside, it "seriously affects the sense of security generally". It
was the loss of that sense of security that lead to hoarding,
consequent catastrophic price rises in Bengal and hence to mass
starvation. [l ].
During World War 2 Britain had a population of about 60 million
and imported about half its food requirements. However imports
roughly halved due to military exigencies and depredations of
German U-boats. Thus Britain's food imports 1940-1944 (in
millions of tons) totaled 19.3 (1940), 14.7 (1943), 10.6 (1942), 11.5
/
(1943) and 11.0 (1944). [2]. Yet Britain (population 60 million)
imported food greatly surplus to its needs during WW2 at the
expense of starving India (population 300 million) [3].
Thus Britain's importation of wheat (1939-1945) (in millions of
tons) totaled 5.3 (1939), 5.8 (1940), 5.4 (1941), 3.5 (1942), 3.3
(1943), 2.8 (1944) and 3.6 (1945). [2]. Britain's importation of
wheat flour (1939-1945) (in millions of tons) totaled 0.4 (1939),
0.6 (1940), 0. 7 (1941 ), 0.4 (1942), 0. 7 (1943 ), 0.8 (1944) and 0.5
(1945). [2]. Britain's importation of barley (1939-1945) (in
millions of tons) totaled 0.7 (1939), 0.5 (1940), 0.1 (1941), 0.0
(1942), 0.0 (1943), 0.0 (1944) and 0.1 (1945). [2]. Britain's
importation of sugar (1939-1945) (in millions of tons) totaled 2.1
(1939), 1.4 (1940), 1.6 (1941), 0.8 (1942), 1.4 (1943), 1.2 (1944)
and I. 1 (1945). [2]. Britain's food imports of the above foods
(1939-1945) (in millions of tons) totaled 8.5 (1939), 8.3 (1940), 7.8
(1941), 4.7 (1942), 5.4 (1943), 4.8 (1944) and 5.3 (1945). [2].

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The population of India during WW2 was about 320 million and
total grain production was 50 to 70 million tons annually. The
population was growing at a rate of about 5% per year and there
was a requirement of net imports of about 1-2 million tons of grain
per annum to make up for deficiencies. According to the figures of
K.C. Ghosh (1944), while the net import of all food grains into
India by sea in 1939-40 was 2.2 million tons, by 1942/43 this had
become a net export of 0.4 million tons. It should be noted that
K.C. Ghosh (1944) and C.B.A. Behrens (1955) differ slightly in
terms of the amount of grain imported into India in this period, the
estimates being 0.02 or at least 0.06 million tons, respectively.
These estimates are 2 orders of magnitude lower than the estimated
annual import requirement of 1-2 million tons. Behrens' figures for
grain shipments (in millions of tons) for India in 1942-1945 are as
follows: 0.03 (1942), 0.3 (1943), 0.6 (1944) and 0.9 (1945). [l].
India produced about 60 million tons of grain for a population of
320 million or an annual food budget of 188 kilogram per person
(i.e. men, women and children). If we assume that an Indian Army
soldier required 50% more food than the average Indian we would
estimate that the annual grain requirement for the 2 million strong
Indian Army forces actually stationed in India would be about 0.56
million tons. The average yearly importation in 1942-1945 was
0.46 million tons and thus we can see that the grain actually
imported was merely enough to feed the Indian Army in India. [l].
Churchill repeatedly refused desperate requests from Viceroy
General Wavell for food for starving India and was supported in
this by Lord Cherwell (Dr. Lindemann) [3] whose "bomb German
cities" policy had contributed to massive shipping losses in the
Atlantic (for want of long-range bomber air cover) and hence the
halving of shipping in the Indian Ocean (and consequent price rises
and mass starvation in India). In 1944 Churchill revealed his
complicity in the mass murder of 7 million Indians in a secret letter
to Roosevelt (the only document I have been able to find in which
Churchill actually refers to the Bengal Famine): "London, April 29
1944. Prime Minister to President Roosevelt Personal and Top
Secret.

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 1. I am seriously concerned about the food situation in India and its
possible reactions on our joint operations. Last year we had a
grievous famine in Bengal through which at least 700,000 people
died. This year there is a good crop of rice, but we are faced with
an acute shortage of wheat, aggravated by unprecedented storms
which have inflicted serious damage on the Indian spring crops.
India's shortage cannot be overcome by any possible surplus ofrice
even if such a surplus could be extracted from the peasants. Our
recent losses in the Bombay explosion have accentuated the
problem.
2. Wavell is exceedingly anxious about our position and has given
me the gravest warnings. His present estimate is that he will require
imports of about one million tons this year ifhe is to hold the
situation, and so meet the needs of the United States and British
and Indian troops and of the civil population especially in the great
cities. I have just heard from Mountbatten that he considers the
situation so serious that, unless arrangements are made promptly to
import wheat requirements, he will be compelled to release military
cargo space of SEAC in favour of wheat and formally advise
Stilwell that it will also be necessary for him to arrange to curtail
American military demands for this purpose.
3. By cutting down military shipments and other means, I have
/ been able to arrange for 350,000 tons of wheat to be shipped to
India from Australia during the first nine months of 1944. This is
the shortest haul. I cannot see how to do more.
4. I have had much hesitation in asking you to add to the great
assistance you are giving us with shipping but a satisfactory
situation in India is of such vital importance to the success of our
joint plans against the Japanese that I am impelled to ask you to
consider a special allocation of ships to carry wheat from Australia
without reducing the assistance you are now providing for us, who
are at a positive minimum if war efficiency is to be maintained. We
have the wheat in Australia but we lack the ships. I have resisted
for some time the Viceroy's request that I should ask you for your
help, but I believe that, with this recent misfortune with the wheat
harvest and in the light of Mountbatten's representations, I am no
longer justified in not asking for your help. Wavell is doing all he
can by special measures in India. If however he should find it

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possible to revise his estimates of his needs, I would let you know
immediately" [I].
Churchill vetoed the offer of 10,000 tons of wheat from Canada
and attempts of Lord Louis Mountbatten to use available Indian
Ocean shipping to transport food to India. General Wavell observed
in his diary that on October 15 1943 in Cairo on his way out to
India, he had inspected Indian troops and spoke to Australian
diplomat Richard Casey about food. Casey (Governor of Bengal in
1944) said Australia had had a bad wheat harvest, Canada could
just supply US and British deficiencies, and that the Argentinians
had burnt their surplus of 2 million tons of wheat as fuel on the
railways in the absence of coal, of which there was a world
shortage.
Indian food shortages continued after the War. Thus a letter from
Churchill's successor, the Labor Prime Minister Attlee, to Ben
Chifley, Labor Prime Minister of Australia, detailed grave concerns
about food shortages in India, the need for food supplies from
Australia and the dangers of famine-induced disorders in India: " ...
India must thus have an import of at least two million tons of rice,
wheat or millet, during 1946, if famine of a dimension and intensity
greater than the Bengal famine of 1943 (is) to be avoided. This is
an increase of 500,000 tons on their earlier request and I should not
be surprised if in point of fact they do not need more. In the
circumstances of political crisis which are approaching, a famine in
India would be bound to lead to disorders and would be likely to
remove the last hope of an orderly solution of the Indian problem ...
As regards the use of wheat for feed, I am very grateful for the
action you have taken to withhold it from dairy stock. As regards
poultry and pigs, while in the new circumstances we shall be more
than ever dependent on Australia for our supplies of bacon and
eggs, and while we should very much regret any reduction in them,
we feel that so long as human beings are exposed to famine and
starvation as a result of the present wheat shortage, human needs
must have a priority" [1 ]. However Australia's role in the Bengali
Holocaust is a very well kept secret and for good reason. Australia
was (and is) a major wheat producer and in the period 1939-1945
produced about 24 million tonnes of wheat (1 tonne= 0.98 long
ton), the breakdown (in millions of tonnes) being: 4.0 (1939), 2.2
(1940), 4.5 (1941 ), 4.3 (1942), 3.2 (1943), 1.5 (1944) and 4.0
(1945). [4].

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About 9.4 million tonnes or 40% of Australia's wheat production
was exported, the breakdown (in million tonnes) being: 2.0 (1939),
2.0 (1940), 1.0 (1941), 1.0 (1942), 1.5 (1943), 1.5 (1944) and 0.4
(1945). [5]. Only a maximum of about 1.8 million tonnes of wheat
- out of 13 .0 million tonnes of wheat produced in Australia in
1942-1945 or of the 4.4 million tonnes of wheat exported from
Australia in 1942-1945 - was sent to starving India (an alternative
source having been British-occupied Iraq), with most one presumes
being sent off to shore up Britain's huge war-time food surplus.
Only a maximum of 0.9 million tonnes of Australian wheat made it
to starving India in the key famine years of 1943-1944.
Australian racism cannot be ignored. Australia only abolished the
obscene anti-Indian, anti-Asian, anti-African White Australia
Policy in 1974 and has an appalling secret genocide history
involving 24 genocide atrocities, 10 of them ongoing. [6].
Australia, like Britain, has compounded its appalling crimes by re-
writing history. Thus a recent quick search of a major Australian
university library produced 7 histories of Australia of which none
mentions the Bengal Famine. However some honest Australian
writers have told the Awful Truth about the Bengal Famine - read
Gideon Pol ya' s "Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British
History" [1] and other writings, Colin Mason's "A Short History of
Asia" [7] and Tom Keneally's "Three Famines" [8].
While Australian media resolutely ignore the Bengali Holocaust
and Australia's part in it, a recent news report from the taxpayer-
funded ABC (the Australian equivalent of the UK BBC) refers to a
ban on wheat exports during the Second World War. Reporting
about the Murtoa Stick Shed, the largest timber-frame structure in
the state of Victoria, known as the Cathedral of the Bush and built
in 1941 to store wheat, the ABC's Guy Stayner reported (26
September 2011) "There were several sheds hastily built during the
1940s to cope with a wheat glut after a ban on exports during the
second world war but the Murtoa stick shed is the last one
standing" [9]. According to the Murtoa Stick Shed website: "There
were many others erected around Southern and Western Australia
during WW2 when they were used as temporary storage for wheat,
which could not be exported at the time" [ 1 O].

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Conclusions

India was held through defence of the frontier against the Japanese,
the presence of a 2 million strong army, the confinement of
political leaders, the arrest of 60,000 other activists and the
detention of 14,000 of them, ruthless suppression of disturbances
and strategic and deadly parsimony in relation to food supplies.
War-time Bengal can be seen to have been secured through the
quiet, cowardly and utterly evil stratagem of deprivation and
consequent mass starvation, just as nearly 2 centuries the earlier
man-made, devastating famine of 1769-1770 (10 million deaths)
delivered the crushed Bengali and Bihari survivors into servitude.
[ 1].
In a review of Lizzie Collingham's book "The Taste of War: World
War 2 and the battle for food", Lara Feigel has written: "It was
Hitler's experience of it in the first world war that led to his
determination to make Germany self-sufficient. The Germans
exported their hunger to Russia, the British averted it through
rationing and imports, while the Russians destroyed their own food
supplies to starve the invading Germans. In total, 20 million people
died from starvation and associated diseases; a figure equivalent to
the 19.5m military deaths ... According to the euphemistically
named 'Hunger Plan', developed by German minister Herbert
Backe, the conquest of Russia would render Germany self-
sufficient. The Germans would starve millions of Russians to death
and turn large parts of the country into a giant farm. Backe's plan
was partly successful, in that millions of Russians starved.
However, as the battle dragged on, the German soldiers could
barely feed themselves, let alone send enough home to feed
Germany. Hitler was faced with a food crisis, and it was partly as a
solution to this strategic problem that he decided to exterminate the
Jews." "The Holocaust," Collingham writes, "was not just the
product of an irrational ideology but the conclusion of a series of
crises in the German conduct of the war" [11].
According to Lara Feigel: "When British-governed India was
struck by famine after losing access to rice in Burma, Churchill
dismissed the Indians as "the beastliest population in the world next
to the Germans". Claiming that they had brought the situation on
themselves by breeding like rabbits, he refused to help. Three

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million people died" [11]. I have estimated that 4 million Bengalis
died in the Bengali Holocaust [1] and Dr. Madhusree Mukerjee has
estimated that 5.4 million Bengalis died assuming a baseline annual
mortality rate of 2.1 %, this estimate not taking into account deaths
in adjoining provinces [3]. However medical historian Dr. Sanjoy
Bhattacharya (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine,
University College London) has estimated that 6-7 million Indians
died in Bengal and in the adjoining provinces of Bihar, Orissa and
Assam [12]. Australia played a quiet and cowardly role in the
British-imposed WW2 Bengali Holocaust that should be exposed,
the more so since Australia - a nation that has exterminated all but
50 of 250 Indigenous languages and Aboriginal nations, with the
rest at great risk [8] - has the effrontery to demand a seat on the
UN Security Council. Perhaps the Murtoa Stick Shed should be
retained as a memorial to Australia's part in Britain's deliberate
starvation to death of 6- 7 million Indians in World War 2. Australia
should be brought to account internationally for its role in the
WW2 Bengali Holocaust (6-7 million killed) and for its current,
world leading annual per capita greenhouse gas pollution that
disproportionately contributes to a worsening climate genocide that
is set to kill 2 billion Indians, 0.5 billion Bengalis and 0.3 billion
Bangladeshis this century if man-made climate change is not
seriously addressed. [13, 14].

2020 Postscript

The WW2 Bengali Holocaust (WW2 Indian Holocaust, WW2

Bengal Famine) has been largely white-washed out of British
historiography and hence general public perception by successive
generations of genocide-ignoring and holocaust-ignoring
Mainstream journalist, editor, politician, academic and
commentariat presstitutes in the English-speaking world [1]. Indeed
my dear late wife Zareena (nee Zareena Lateet) was utterly
unaware of this atrocity having been educated in Australia and in
the British colonial system, and despite all her grandparents being
5-year slaves (indentured labourers) from Bengal and Bihar in
India to British and Australian sugar plantations in Fiji in the early
20th century. All but a dozen of my wider family perished in the
WW2 Jewish Holocaust in Hungary and I was appalled to discover
in circa 1995 that my wife's people had been decimated in a

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comparable but "forgotten" holocaust occurring at the same time in
WW2. Since then I have sought to educate the world about this
atrocity, about related holocausts and genocides ignored by the
mendacious Anglosphere Mainstream media, and the core message
"holocaust ignored yields holocaust repeated" (see "Bengali
Holocaust (WW2 Bengal Famine) writings of Gideon Polya",
Gideon Polya: https://sites.google.com/site/drgideonpolya/bengali-
holocaust). Indeed this book has arisen from the same moral
imperative.

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[I]. Gideon Polya, "Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial
rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability", G.M. Polya,
Melbourne, 1998, 2008, now available for free perusal on the web:
http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/2008/09/jane-austen-and-black-hole-of-
british.html.
[2]. Erin M.K. Weir, '"German submarine blockade, overseas imports, and
British military production in World War II', Journal of Military and Strategic
Studies, vol. 6, number 1, 2003:
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[3]. Madhusree Muckerjee, "Churchill's Secret War. The British Empire and the
ravaging of Indian during World War II", Basic Books, New York, 20 I 0.
[4]. Australian Rural Reconstruction Commission (1946):
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[5]. Edgars Dunsdorfs, "The Australian wheat-growing industry, 1788-1948",
Melbourne: University Press, 1956 (p476) (see:
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[6]. Gideon Polya, "Australian Anzac, Armenian Genocide. Australia's secret
genocide history", MWC News, 25 April 2011:
http:/ /mwcnews.net/focus/analysis/ I 02 56-austral ian-anzac-a-armen ian-
genocide.html.
[7]. Colin Mason, "A Short History of Asia. Stone Age to 2000AD", Macmillan,
London, 2000.
[8]. Aboriginal Genocide: http:/ /sites.google.com/s ite/aboriginalgenocide/.
[9]. Guy Stayner, "Historic stick shed open to public" ABC News, 26 September
2011: http://www.abc.net.au/news/20 l l-09-23/historic-stick-shed-to-open-to-
public/2940220.
[l O]. The Mighty Murtoa Stick Shed: http://www.murtoastickshed.com.au/.
[I I]. Lara Feigel, review of Lizzie Collingham's book "The Taste of War: World
War 2 and the battle for food", UK Guardian, 5 February 2011:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/20 I l/feb/05/war-food-lizzie-cunningham-
review.
[12]. Bengal Famine, BBC radio broadcast series "The things we forgot to
remember", 2008:
http://www.open2.net/thingsweforgot/bengal famine _programme.htm I.
[13]. Climate Genocide: http://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/.
[14]. Gideon Polya, "Shocking analysis by country of years left to zero
emissions", Green Blog, I August 2011: http://www.green-
blog.org/2011 /08/0 l /shocking-analysis-by-country-of-years-left-to-zero-
emissions/.

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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the
pursuit of Happiness". American Declaration of Independence
(1776).
"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily
the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one
international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are
reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best
described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the
majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it
is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the
expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge
fortunes". US Marines Major General Smedley Butler in "War Is A
Racket", 1935.
"Everything is decided by the one percent of the population who
own America ... the [American] Republic ended in 1950. Since
then we have had an imperial system ... The press and the media
are owned and controlled by 'our corporate masters'. I've never
seen the media so tightly controlled as now. They control all the
flow of information, so that the great majority of Americans do not
know what is going on". Gore Vidal in Alan Woods, "The Decline
and Fall of the American Empire", Marxism, 17 November 2005.

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AMERICAN EMPIRE
(1776-)

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 [First published as Gideon Polya, "The US Has Invaded 70
Nations Since 1776 - Make 4 July Independence From America
Day", Countercurrents, 5 July, 2013:
http://www.countercurrents.org/polya050713 .htm.]
The 4th of July is Independence Day for the United States of
America and commemorates the 4 July 1776 Declaration of
Independence for America, the key passage of which is "We hold
these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that
they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness".
Unfortunately American racism has grossly violated the
proposition that "all men are created equal" and the worst form of
racism involves invasion of other countries. The US has invaded
about 70 countries since its inception and has invaded a total of
about 50 countries since 1945 [ 1]. The World needs to declare a
transition from the 4th of July as Independence for America Day to
the 4th of July as Independence from America Day. The following

)
is a list of countries invaded by the US forces (naval, military and
ultimately air forces) since its inception in order of major incidents.
This catalogue derives heavily form the work of US academic Dr.
Zoltan Grossman's article "From Wounded Knee to Libya: a
century of U.S. military interventions" [l], Gideon Polya's book
'Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950" (that includes
a brief history of all countries since Neolithic times) [2] and
William Blum's book "Rogue State" [3]. This list includes
instances of violent deployment of US forces within America ( e.g.
against demonstrators, miners etc), and includes small-scale
bombing and military intervention operations, military evacuations
of Americans and specific instances of explicit threats of use of
nuclear weapons. The list does not include the 1801-1805 US
Marine Barbary War operations against Barbary pirates based in
Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, and also ignores massive US
subversion of virtually all countries in the world.
(1) American Indian nations (1776 onwards, American Indian
Genocide; 1803, Louisiana Purchase; 1844, Indians banned from
east of the Mississippi; 1861 onwards, California genocide; 1890,
Lakota Indians massacre), (2) Mexico (1836-1846; 1913; 1914-
1918; 1923),(3)Nicaragua(1856-1857; 1894; 1896; 1898; 1899;
1907; 191 0; 1912-1933; 1981-1990), ( 4) American forces deployed

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against Americans (1861-1865, Civil War; 1892; 1894; 1898;
1899-1901; 1901; 1914; 1915; 1920-1921; 1932; 1943; 1967; 1968;
1970; 1973; 1992; 2001), (5), Argentina (1890), (6), Chile (1891;
1973), (7) Haiti (1891; 1914-1934; 1994; 2004-2005), (8) Hawaii
(1893-), (9) China (1895-1895; 1898-1900; 1911-1941; 1922-1927;
1927-1934; 1948-1949; 1951-1953; 1958), (10) Korea (1894-1896;
1904-1905; 1951-1953), (11) Panama (1895; 1901-1914; 1908;
1912; 1918-1920; 1925; 1958; 1964; 1989-), (12) Philippines
(1898-1910; 1948-1954; 1989; 2002-), (13) Cuba (1898-1902;
1906-1909; 1912; 1917-1933; 1961; 1962), (14) Puerto Rico
(1898-; 1950;); (15) Guam (1898-), (16) Samoa (1899-), (17)
Honduras (1903; 1907; 1911; 1912; 1919; 1924-1925; 1983-1989),
(18) Dominican Republic (1903-1904; 1914; 1916-1924; 1965-
1966), (19) Germany (1917-1918; 1941-1945; 1948; 1961), (20)
Russia ( 1918-1922), (21) Yugoslavia (1919; 1946; 1992-1994;
1999), (22) Guatemala (1920; 1954; 1966-1967), (23) Turkey
(1922), (24) El Salvador (1932; 1981-1992), (25) Italy (1941-
1945); (26) Morocco (1941-1945), (27) France (1941-1945), (28)
Algeria (1941-1945), (29) Tunisia (1941-1945), (30) Libya (1941-
1945; 1981; 1986; 1989; 2011), (31) Egypt (1941-1945; 1956;
1967; 1973; 2013), (32) India (1941-1945), (33) Burma (1941-
1945), (34) Micronesia (1941-1945), (35) Papua New Guinea
(1941-1945), (36) Vanuatu (1941-1945), (3 7) Austria (1941-1945),
(38) Hungary (1941-1945), (39) Japan (1941-1945), (40) Iran
(1946; 1953; 1980; 1984; 1987-1988;), (41) Uruguay (1947), (42)
Greece (1947-1949), (43) Vietnam (1954; 1960-1975), (44)
Lebanon (1958; 1982-1984), (45) Iraq (1958; 1963; 1990-1991;
1990-2003; 1998; 2003-2011), (46) Laos (1962-), (47) Indonesia
( 1965), ( 48) Cambodia (1969-1975; 1975), ( 49) Oman (1970), (50)
Laos (1971-1973), (51) Angola (1976-1992), (52) Grenada (1983-
1984), (53) Bolivia (1986;), (54) Virgin Islands (1989), (55)
Liberia (1990; 1997; 2003), (56) Saudi Arabia (1990-1991), (57)
Kuwait (1991), (58) Somalia (1992-1994; 2006), (59) Bosnia
(1993-), (60) Zaire (Congo) (1996-1997), (61) Albania (1997), (62)
Sudan (1998), (63) Afghanistan (1998; 2001-), (64) Yemen (2000;
2002-), (65) Macedonia (2001 ), (66) Colombia (2002-), (67)
Pakistan (2005-), (68) Syria (2008; 2011-), (69) Uganda (2011),
(70) Mali (2013), (71) Niger (2013).
The human cost of these US interventions has been horrendous. A
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represented by avoidable deaths from violently-imposed
deprivation. Since 1950 the UN has provided detailed demographic
data that have permitted calculation of such avoidable deaths, year
by year, for every country in the world. 1950-2005 avoidable
deaths total 1.3 billion for the whole world, 1.2 billion for the non-
European world and 0.6 billion for the Muslim world [2], the latter
carnage being 100 times greater than the WW2 Jewish Holocaust
(5-6 million Jews killed, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation) [4, 5] or the
"forgotten" WW2 Bengali Holocaust in which the British with
Australian complicity deliberately starved 6- 7 million Indians to
death for strategic reasons [6]. Currently 18 million people die
avoidably each year in the Developing World on Spaceship Earth
with the US in charge of the flight deck.
Here is a summary of post-1950 avoidable mortality/2005
population (both in millions, m) and expressed as a percentage(%)
for each country occupied by the US in the post-1945 era. The
asterisk(*) indicates a major occupation by more than one country
in the post-WW2 era (thus, for example, the UK and the US have
been major occupiers of Afghanistan, Iraq and Korea, leaving aside
the many other minor participants in these conflicts). Data is also
given for the US: US [8.455m/300.038m = 2.8%], Afghanistan*
[16.609m/25.971m = 64.0%], Cambodia* [5.852m/14.825m =
39.5%], Dominican Republic [0.806m/8.998m = 9.0%], Federated
States of Micronesia [0.016m/0.111m = 14.4%], Greece*
[0.027m/10.978m = 0.2%], Grenada* [0.018m/0.121m = 14.9%],
Guam [0.005m/0.168m = 3.0%], Haiti* [4.089m/8.549m = 47.9%],
Iraq* [5.283m/26.555m = 19.9%], Korea* [7.958m/71.058m =
11.2%], Laos* [2.653m/5.918m = 44.8%], Panama
[0.172m/3.235m = 5.3%], Philippines [9.080m/82.809m = 11.0%],
Puerto Rico [0.039m/3.915m = 1.0%], Somalia* [5.568m/10.742m
= 51.8%], US Virgin Islands [0.003m/0.113m = 2.4%], Vietnam*
[24.015m/83.585m = 28.7%], total= 82.193m/357.651m = 23.0%.
Thus in the period 1950-2005 there have been 82 million avoidable
deaths from deprivation (avoidable mortality, excess deaths, excess
mortality, deaths that did not have to happen) associated with
countries occupied by the US in the post-1945 era. However the US
has subcontracted a huge amount of violence to nuclear terrorist,
democracy-by-genocide, racist Zionist-run Apartheid Israel for
which the related data is as follows: Apartheid Israel

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[0.095m/6.685m =1.4%] - Egypt* [19.818m/74.878m = 26.5%],
Jordan* [0.630m/5.750m = 11.0%], Lebanon [0.535m/3.761m =
14.2%], Occupied Palestinian Territories* [0.677m/3.815m =
17.7%], Syria* [2.198m/18.650m = 11.8%], total=
23.858m/106.854 = 22.3% i.e. Apartheid Israeli aggression has
been associated in 1950-2005 with 24 million avoidable deaths in
the countries it has violently occupied, a carnage similar to that
caused by the German Nazis in Russia during WW2.
Except for the Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust of over 1.3
billion avoidable deaths since 1950 and 18 million avoidable deaths
per year, the above analysis does not take into account US
subversion of virtually every country on earth. One visible
expression of this subversion is the presence of US forces in
hundreds of bases around the world. Thus the Saudi Arabia-
occupied Bahrain dictatorship is not listed above but is a major
base for the US Navy.
According to Canadian geographer Professor Jules Dufour: "The
US has established its control over 191 governments which are
members of the United Nations. The conquest, occupation and/or
otherwise supervision of these various regions of the World is
supported by an integrated network of military bases and
installations which covers the entire Planet (Continents, Oceans
and Outer Space). All this pertains to the workings of an extensive
Empire, the exact dimensions of which are not always easy to
ascertain. The main sources of information on these military
installations (e.g. C. Johnson, the NATO Watch Committee, the
International Network for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases)
reveal that the US operates and/or controls between 700 and 800
military bases Worldwide ... In this regard, Hugh d' Andrade and
Bob Wing's 2002 Map 1 entitled 'U.S. Military Troops and Bases
around the World, The Cost of 'Permanent War', confirms the
presence of US military personnel in 156 countries. The US
Military has bases in 63 countries. Brand new military bases have
been built since September 11, 2001 in seven countries. In
total, there are 255,065 US military personnel deployed
Worldwide. These facilities include a total of 845,441 different
buildings and equipments. The underlying land surface is of the
order of 30 million acres. According to Gelman, who examined
2005 official Pentagon data, the US is thought to own a total of 73 7
bases in foreign lands. Adding to the bases inside U.S. territory, the

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total land area occupied by US military bases domestically within
the US and internationally is of the order of 2,202,735 hectares,
which makes the Pentagon one of the largest landowners
worldwide (Gelman, J ., 2007)" [7].

How docs your country feature in the history of the genocidally

racist American Empire?

My country Australia, one of the richest and most [internally]

peaceful countries in the world, is popularly known as the Lucky
Country because of this good fortune. However since the US forced
Japan into WW2 [6], Australia has shifted its allegiance from the
UK to the US and has become the American Lackey Country.
Appalled by the Vietnam War, the reformist Whitlam Labor
Government (1972-1975) promised to get out of Vietnam and
abolish racism and also sought clarity on Australia's role in US
nuclear terrorism. Whitlam was sacked in a CIA-backed Coup in
1975 [3]. A cowardly Australian Labor Party (aka the Australian
Lackey Party) quickly realized that the only way to get back into
office was to adopt a craven "All the way with the USA" position
and leading Labor figures became intimate with the Americans.
When in the 2004 election campaign Labor Opposition Leader
Mark Latham promised to bring Australian troops back from Iraq
"by Christmas" he was publicly rebuked and vetoed by the US
Ambassador, lost the election and has been reviled and ridiculed by
the pro-war, pro-Zionist, US lackey Australian Mainstream media
and MPs ever since.
In 2010 extremely popular Labor PM Kevin Rudd raised the ire of
the Americans by suggesting destruction of US- protected Afghan
opium crops that were destroyed by the Taliban in 2000-2001 but
restored by the US to 93% of world market share by 2007 and
which have killed over 1 million people world-wide since 2001
(including 200,000 Americans, 50,000 Iranians, 18,000 British,
10,000 Canadians, 8,000 Germans and 4,000 Australians) [8].
Kevin Rudd also raised the ire of the traitorous racist Zionists by
mildly protesting the large-scale Apartheid Israeli forging of
Australian passports for Israel state terrorism purposes and the
kidnapping, shooting, tasering, robbing and imprisonment of
Australians in international waters by Israeli state terrorists. On 24
June 2010 PM Kevin Rudd was removed by a US -approved,

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foreign mining company-backed, pro-Zionist-led Coup. Rudd's
pro-war, pro-Zionist and slavishly pro-American successor PM
Julia Gillard rapidly moved to allow the US to station 2,500 child-
killing Marines in Darwin with suggestions of bases for US
nuclear-armed warships, US drones and US warplanes.
Nevertheless WikiLeaks revealed that 2 of the Coup plotters were
US "assets" who would regularly update the American Embassy
about internal Labor Government matters. The disastrous and
extremely unpopular Gillard Government [9] has finally recently
been replaced by a new Rudd Labor Government and it appears
that PM Rudd has learned his lesson and is evidently shifting Right
to keep Big Business and the Neocon American and Zionist
Imperialist Lobby happy (he hasn't much choice - 70% of
Australian newspaper readers read the media of extreme right-
wing, Australian-turned-US-citizen, media mogul Rupert Murdoch
in Murdochracy, Lobbyocracy and Corporatocracy Australia).

Conclusions

America has invaded 70 countries since its 4th of July

Independence Day in 1776. American imperialism has made a
major contribution to the 1.3 billion global avoidable deaths in the
period 1950-2005. The Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist
One Percenters can be seen as the New Nazis. The World,
including ordinary Americans (1 million of whom die preventably
each year) [IO], must shake off the shackles of endless American
One Percenter warmongering, imperialism and mendacity. The
World must make the Fourth of July Independence from America
Day. Tell everyone you can.

2020 Postscript

To the above list of 70 countries invaded by the US one can add

Diego Garcia (1973) and Serbia (1999). By way of comparison and
considering the last millennium, the British have invaded 193
countries, Australia 85, France 82, the US 72 (52 after WW2),
Germany 39, Japan 30, Russia 25, Canada 25, Apartheid Israel 12,
China 2, Korea arguably none, and Iran none since the time of the
Sassanian Empire (7th century CE (see [2] and "Stop state
terrorism": https://sites.google.com/site/stopstateterrorism/). One

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notes that while Americans declare that the 1776 War of
Independence was about democracy, freedom, liberty and "no
taxation without representation", the ugly reality was that
independence from the UK enabled the American colonies to
invade Indian territories to the West, and by the 1840s Indigenous
Indians were being completely removed (genocide) under
legislative imperative from East of the Mississippi [2]. War is the
penultimate in racism with genocide being the ultimate in racism.
As the wonderful Palestinian humanitarian Jesus said: "Thou shalt
love thy neighbour as thyself' (The Bible, King James Version,
Matthew 22:39) and "Do unto others as you would have them do
unto you" (The Bible, Luke 6:31 and Matthew 7:12). War and
genocide are enabled by people looking the other way and
"walking by on the other side" as in Jesus' parable of the Good
Samaritan (The Bible, Luke 10: 25-37). Peace is the only way but
silence kills and silence is complicity.

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[1]. Dr. Zoltan Grossman, "From Wounded Knee to Libya: a century of U.S.
military interventions":
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Common Courage Press, 2005.
[4]. Martin Gilbert, "Jewish History Atlas", Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London,
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[6]. Gideon Polya, "Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial
rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability", now
available for free perusal on the web: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com.au/.
[7]. Jules Dufour, "The world-wide network of US military bases", Global
Research: http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-worldwide-network-of-us-military-
bases/5564.
[8]. "Afghan Holocaust Afghan Genocide":
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[9]. Gideon Pol ya, "100 reasons why Australians must reject Gillard Labor",
Countercurrents, 24 June, 2013:
http://www.countercurrents.org/polya2406 I 3.htm.
[IO]. Gideon Polya, "One million Americans die preventably annually in USA",
Countercurrents, 18 February 2012:
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"The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state
terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of
international law. The invasion was an arbitrary military action
inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the
media and therefore of the public; an act intended to consolidate
American military and economic control of the Middle East
masquerading as a last resort all other justifications having failed to
justify themselves as liberation. A formidable assertion of military
force responsible for the death and mutilation of thousands and
thousands of innocent people. We have brought torture, cluster
bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder,
misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it
'bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East'. How many
people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a
mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand? More
than enough, I would have thought. Therefore it is just that Bush
and Blair be arraigned before the International Criminal Court of
Justice". Harold Pinter (2005 Nobel Laureate for Literature) in
"Art, Truth and Politics", 2005.
"The crime of 9/11 has served to justify two wars of aggression by
the United States, an indefinite and global "war on terror", the
imposition of the PATRIOT Act, spying of the public, and serious
violations of international law. Many governments have colluded in
these violations and endorsed U.S. lies regarding the events of
9/11. The continuous reliance on the official account regarding
9/11 therefore threatens international peace and security. The above
account should therefore prompt all those who are concerned by
human rights violations and the threat to international peace and
security, to join in demanding the full truth on the events of 9/11 ".
Elias Davidsson, "There is no evidence that Muslims committed
the crime of 9-11 ", Op Ed News, 2008.
"From the outset, the objective was to use 9/11 as a pretext for
launching the first phase of the Middle East War, which consisted
in the bombing and occupation of Afghanistan. Within hours of the
attacks, Osama bin Laden was identified as the architect of 9/11.

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On the following day, the 'war on terrorism' had been launched.
The media disinformation campaign went into full gear. Also on
September 12, less than 24 hours after the attacks, NA TO invoked
for the first time in its history 'Article 5 of the Washington Treaty -
its collective defence clause' declaring the 9/11 attacks on the
World Trade Center (WTC) and the Pentagon 'to be an attack
against all NATO members'. What happened subsequently, with
the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq is already part of history. Iran
and Syria constitute the next phase of the US administration's
military roadmap. 9/11 remains the pretext and justification for
waging a war without borders". Professor Michel Chossudovsky
(University of Ottawa) in "Prof. Michel Chossudovsky: the truth
behind 9-11 ", True Pub Ii ca, 2015.
"We have discovered distinctive red/gray chips in all the samples
we have studied of the dust produced by the destruction of the
World Trade Center. Examination of four of these samples,
collected from separate sites, is reported in this paper. These
red/gray chips show marked similarities in all four samples ... The
properties of these chips were analyzed using optical microscopy,
scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray energy dispersive
spectroscopy (XEDS), and differential scanning calorimetry
(DSC) ... Based on these observations, we conclude that the red
layer of the red/gray chips we have discovered in the WTC dust is
active, unreacted thermitic material, incorporating nanotechnology,
and is a highly energetic pyrotechnic or explosive material".
Professor Niels H. Harrit (University of Copenhagen) and
colleagues, "Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from
the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe", The Open Chemical
Physics Journal, April, 2009.

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 CHAPTER 5
lDS STATE TERRORISM &
9-11 (2001-)

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[First published as Gideon Polya, "Exposure Of Neocon
American And Zionist Imperialist 9-11 Deception",
Countercurrents, 8 September, 2012:
http://www.countercurrents.org/polya0809 l 2.htm.]
We are approaching the 11th anniversary of the 9-11 atrocity. The
World must comprehend the huge 9-11 deception perpetrated on
the American and the World 99% by the lies of the Neocon
American and Zionist Imperialist-dominated US and Western
Establishment 1 %. The neocon Western version of 9-11 is that
3,000 people died in an atrocity perpetrated by Muslim-origin non-
state terrorists ( all of whom allegedly died in the various infernos)
and that an indefinite US-led War on Terror was needed to protect
the US and indeed the World from Muslim-origin non-state
terrorists. However the horrible actualities are that ( 1) 11 million
Americans have died preventably since 2001 plus 1. 1 million
globally from US-protected Afghan opiates, all linked to successive
US Administrations committing $5 trillion to killing Muslims
abroad rather than keeping Americans alive at home, (2) 9 million
Muslims have died in the post-2011 War on Terror, and (3) the US
Government must have been involved in the 9-11 atrocity (see
"Experts: US did 9-11 ":
https://sites.google.com/site/expertsusdid911/).
The late American anti-war, pro-Humanity writer Gore Vidal put it
succinctly in declaring that "Unlike most Americans who lie all the
time, I hate lying" (see "Mainstream media lying":
https://sites.google.com/si te/mainstreammedialying/home ). Two
nonprofit US journalism groups, the Center for Public Integrity and
the affiliated Fund for Independence in Journalism, estimated that
the Bush Administration told 935 lies about Iraq between 9-11 and
the invasion of that ancient and now devastated country (see
"Study: Bush, aides made 935 false statements in run-up to war",
CNN, 23 January 2008: http://articles.cnn.com/2008-0l-
23/politics/bush.iraq_ 1 _ intelligence-flaws-iraq-and-al-qaeda-
study?_ s= PM:PO LITI CS). Yet Mainstream media around the
World blindly accept the lying Bush "official version of 9-11"
despite compelling contrary advice from science, architecture,
engineering, aviation, military and intelligence experts that the US
did 9-11 (see "Experts: US did 9-11 ":
https://sites.google.com/site/expertsusdid9 l 1 /). Similarly,

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Mainstream media have been complicit in massive lying by
omission about 11 million preventable American deaths since 9-11
and the deaths of 9 million Muslims from violence or war-imposed
deprivation in the post-2001 War on Terror - Western Mainstream
media have resolutely ignored the avoidable deaths of some 20
million people linked to the US War on Terror, half of the victims
being American.
Decent people around the World must realize the awful extent of
this Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist 9-11 deception that
has so far killed 21 million fellow human beings but which is
resolutely ignored by Neocon American- and Zionist Imperialist-
beholden mainstream media. The neo-liberal argument is that
suspension of human rights at home and an endless War on Terror
from Libya to Pakistan is required to prevent a repetition of 9-11
(3,000 dead) or a lesser atrocity such as the Madrid, London and
Mumbai atrocities (scores to hundreds killed). Yet the warmongers
resolutely lie by omission over 20 million deaths, half American,
linked to this same War on Terror.
This extraordinary Mainstream Establishment lying by omission is
compelling proof of the utter fraudulence of the 9-11 deception that
must take its place with other excuses for imperialist wars e.g. the
sinking of the Maine in Havana Harbor (Spanish-American War),
the sinking of the arms-laden Lusitania (US entry into WWI), Pearl
Harbor (permitted to occur notwithstanding and US and UK pre-
knowledge; US entry into WW2), Korean invasion of their own
country (Korean War), the fictional Gulf of Tonkin Incident (US
Indo-China War), alleged threat to US students (US invasion of
Granada) and General Noriega's longstanding CIA-linked drug
involvements (US invasion of Panama). These realities of the 9-11
deception are succinctly summarized below.

1. 11 million Americans have died preventably since 2001 due

to pro-war US fiscal perversion plus 1.1 million deaths globally
from US-protected Afghan opiates

It is estimated that a total of about 1 million American preventable

deaths occur annually (11 million since 2001), the breakdown
being 443,000 (smoking), 300,000 (obesity), 75,000 (alcohol),
70,000 (air pollution), 45,000 (lack of health cover), 33,000 (motor
vehicles), 31,000 (guns), 30,000 (suicides, 20% being US

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veterans), 21,000 (under-5 year old infants), 21,000 (opiates from
US Alliance including Australia restoration of the Taliban-
destroyed Afghan opium industry from 6% of world market share
in 2001 to 90% today; the corresponding global, British and
Australian annual deaths from this cause total 100,000, 1,800 and
360, respectively, see "Afghan Holocaust, Afghan Genocide":
https://sites.google.com/site/afghanholocaustafghangenocide/), and
15,000 (homicides) (see "I million Americans die preventably each
year under racist neocon and Zionist rule", Bellaciao, 18 February
2012: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article21696).
It must be noted that some of these categories (e.g. homicides and
gun deaths) are overlapping and for some (e.g. smoking) action
now would not immediately stop the carnage. However, that said,
successive US Administrations have had half a century to act
decisively on the Surgeon General's Report on smoking. Further, it
is estimated that of those Americans lucky enough to have health
cover, as many as 0.1 million die annually from adverse events in
hospitals. Thus the Canadian Institute for Health Information
(CU-II) states "U.S. studies estimate that between 44,000 and
98,000 deaths and more than one million injuries each year are
related to [US] hospital adverse events. Many of these are
preventable. British and Australian studies have come up with
similar findings, suggesting that 5 to 10% of hospital admissions
lead to adverse events, a third of which lead to disability or death,
and a half of which are preventable" ("Adverse events in Canadian
Hospitals", CU-II: http://www.cihi.ca/CIHI-ext-
portal/internet/en/document/health+system+performance/quality+o
f+care+and+outcomes/patient+safety/adevents_bulletin). One notes
that Obama has enabled health cover for a further 30 million poor
Americans but the far-right Tea Party and the racist, religious right
Republicans (R4s) want to abolish this. However the American
media ignore the reality that the Republican candidate Mitt
Romney has a policy of denying health cover that will effectively
kill thousands of uninsured Americans every year just as surely as
if they were in New York skyscrapers subject to US Government
explosive demolition as on 9-11.

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2. 9 million Muslims have died (so far) in the post-2001 War on
Terror

Palestinian Holocaust, Palestinian Genocide: for Palestinians as a

whole, 0.1 million violent deaths and 1.9 million war- and
occupation-related avoidable deaths from deprivation, 1936-2012;
0.75 million under-5 infant deaths (1950-2012). For Occupied
Palestinians, 0.3 million post-invasion violent and non-violent
excess deaths, 1967-2012; 0.2 million post-invasion under-5 infant
deaths, 1967-2012 (75% avoidable and due to US Alliance-backed
Apartheid Israel war crimes in gross violation of the Geneva
Convention and the UN Genocide Convention) 7 million refugees
(see "Palestinian Genocide":
http://sites.google.com/ si te/palestiniangenocide/).
Afghan Holocaust, Afghan Genocide: 5.6 million war-related
deaths, 2001-2012; 1 .4 million post-invasion violent deaths; 4.2
million non-violent excess deaths from deprivation; 2.9 million
post-invasion under-5 infant deaths (90% avoidable and due to US
Alliance war crimes in gross violation of the Geneva Convention
and the UN Genocide Convention), 3-4 million refugees plus 2.5
million NW Pakistan Pashtun refugees (see "Afghan Holocaust,
Afghan Genocide":
http://sites.google.com/site/afghanholocaustafghangenocide/).
Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide: for the period 2003-2011, 2. 7
million post-invasion war-related deaths, 1.5 million violent deaths,
1.2 million non-violent excess deaths from war-imposed
deprivation, 0.8 million post-invasion under-5 infant deaths, 5-6
million refugees; for the period 1990-2003, 0.2 million violent
deaths, 1.7 million non-violent excess deaths from war-imposed
deprivation, 1.2 million under-5 infant deaths; for the period 1990-
2011, 4.6 million war-related deaths, 1. 7 million violent deaths, 2.9
million deaths from war-imposed deprivation, 2.0 million under-5
infant deaths (90% avoidable and due to US Alliance war crimes in
gross violation of the Geneva Convention and the UN Genocide
Convention) (see "Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide":
http://sites. goo gle .com/si te/iraq iho 1 ocaustiraq igenocide/).
Somali Holocaust, Somali Genocide: in the period 1992-2012 (this
successively involving US, Ethiopian and most recently Kenyan
invasion), 0.4 million violent deaths, 1.8 million avoidable deaths
from war-imposed deprivation, 1.3 million under-5 year old infant

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 deaths (90% avoidable and due to US Alliance war crimes in gross
violation of the Geneva Convention and the UN Genocide
Convention), and 2.0 million refugees; in the period 2011-2012
about 1.1 million violent deaths or avoidable deaths from war-
imposed deprivation.
Libyan Holocaust, Libyan Genocide from 2011 onwards: before
the France-UK-US (FUKUS) Coalition invasion the under-5 infant
mortality was only 19 per 1,000 births in Libya as compared to 8 in
the US; the FUKUS Coalition has killed 60,000-100,000 Libyans
and wounded 50,000 already; the FUKUS-backed rebels are
ethnically cleansing "Black Libyans"; Tawerga, formerly home to
10,000 mainly Black Libyans has been destroyed and completely
ethnically cleansed; 1 million Black sub-Saharan refugees have
fled; refugees total about 1.1 million; the Libyan Holocaust and
Libyan Genocide has just begun.
A forthcoming attack on Iran by the US or nuclear-armed
Apartheid Israel is remorselessly adumbrated in the Western media.
The devastation of Syria by Western- and Saudi-backed war has so
far killed about 30,000 people and generated about 100,000
refugees.

3. The US Government must have been involved in the 9-11

atrocity

While there are many aspects of the "official story" from the
egregiously dishonest Bush Administration that strain credulity, the
2 crucial assertions that depart from reality are ( 1) 3 buildings
collapsing at speeds consistent with nearly zero resistance after
relatively limited, low temperature fires (i.e. pointing to explosive
demolition) and (2) a jet passenger plane allegedly flown by single-
engined light plane trainee pilots and evading numerous physical
obstacles landing precisely on a dime at the ground floor of the
Pentagon. Just as US Alliance Governments and the Mainstream
Media (MSM) resolutely ignore the horrendous loss of life
associated with 2 decades of Bush-initiated Wars (13 million
including deaths from US-protected Afghan opiates), so they
resolutely ignore crucial scientific evidence pointing to US
involvement in the 9-11 atrocities.
The expert state-of-the-art finding by Professor Niels Harrit
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n
Copenhagen), and his colleagues, of unexploded nanothermite high
explosive in all samples of WTC dust analyzed proves that
explosive demolition destroyed the Twin Towers and building
WTC7. Only the US Government and/or its surrogates (e.g. the
Israelis) were able to effect explosive demolition of these 3
buildings. Marvin Bush, George W. Bush's brother, was a principal
in the company providing security for the WTC, which underwent
a security, telecommunications and computer shutdown weeks
before 9-11. The discovery of unexploded nanothermite involved
various advanced - but quite standard - chemical physics
techniques (SEM, BSE, XEDS) available with a single workstation
involving Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM; to image sample
surface using a beam of high energy electrons), BSE
(Backscattered Electron imaging based on detection of scattered
electrons) and XEDS (X-ray Energy-Dispersive Spectroscopy for
chemical elemental analysis) coupled with DSC (Differential
Scanning Calorimetry, which determines the difference in the
amount of heat required to increase the temperature of an
experimental sample and reference; a DSC trace shows the
relationship of heat flux to temperature, and thereby the
endothermic or exothermic [ e.g. explosive] behavior of the
sample). Very small particle size nanothermite is much more
explosive than standard thermite. Professor Harrit has described
their finding of unexploded nanothermite high explosive in the
WTC dust as akin to discovering not just the murder weapon but
finding a "loaded gun" (see Niels H. Harrit, Jeffrey Farrer, Steven
E. Jones, Kevin R. Ryan, Frank M. Legge, Daniel Farnsworth,
Gregg Roberts, James R. Gourley, Bradley R. Larsen, "Active
Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade
Center Catastrophe, The Open Chemical Physics Journals, vol.2,
pp.7-31 (25), 2009: http://www .bentham-
open.org/pages/ content. php?TOCPJ /2009 /00000002/0000000 l /7T
OCPJ.SGM, and Niels Harrit, "The seventh tower", 91 ltruth.dk (a
translation of a feature article printed in the Danish newspaper
Information on 31 March 2007):
http://www .911truth.dk/first/en/art_Harrit.htm).
Numerous science, engineering, architecture, aviation, military and
intelligence experts assert that the US did 9-11, with some
suggesting Israeli involvement (for numerous such expert opinions
see "Experts: US did 9-11 ":

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https://sites.google.com/site/expertsusdid91 l/). However such
expert opinions are resolutely ignored by Neocon American- and
Zionist Imperialist-beholden mainstream media. Thus one would
have thought that the discovery, published in a peer-reviewed
chemical physics journal by Dr. Niels Harrit, of unexploded
nanothermite high explosive in the World Trade Centre dust should
have been of huge interest to people around the World. Yet
searches of the UK BBC, Canadian CBC, US ABC, Australian
ABC and US CBS for "Niels Harrit" yield ZERO (0) results for
media reportage of these vital findings crucial to determining what
happened on 9-11.

Conclusions

Neocon American- and Zionist Imperialist-beholden Mainstream

media and the Western Establishment 1 % are resolutely committed
to lying by omission and commission over 9-11 and its horrendous
consequences. Terrorism is defined as commission of violent acts
to advance a political agenda through terrorizing people. If one
wants to quantify terrorism the most objective measure is the
number of people killed from violence or violently-imposed
deprivation. Thus according to the Israeli Foreign Ministry the total
number of Israelis or Jews killed by Palestinians since 1920 has
been 3,700 whereas the number of Palestinians killed through
violence (0.1 million) and from violently-imposed deprivation (1.9
million) total 2.0 million since 1936 (See "Palestinian Genocide":
https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/). Zero (0) Israelis
were killed by home-made Gaza rockets in the year before the
Israeli devastation of Gaza in 2008-2009 that killed 1,400
Palestinians. Accordingly one can roughly estimate that Israeli state
terrorism has been 2.0 million/3,700 = 540 times worse than
Palestinian non-state terrorism. Indeed if one accepts the lying
Bush "official version of 9-11" then one can estimate that US
Alliance state terrorism - notably US state terrorism, UK state
terrorism, French state terrorism and Israeli state terrorism - has
been 21 million/3,000 = 7,000 times more deadly than the
assertedly Muslim-origin non-state terrorism on 9-11.
Mainstream media, lobbyists and politicians - who lie by omission
and commission and ignore the 11 million American preventable
deaths since 9/11, the 1.1 million global deaths linked to US-

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protected Afghan opiates, the 9 million Muslims killed in the War
on Terror, and the numerous science, engineering, architecture,
aviation, military and intelligence experts who assert that the US
did 9-11 - are complicit in these appalling atrocities. The 99% of
the Western Murdochracies, Lobbyocracies and Corporatocracies
are ruled by a Neocon American- and Zionist Imperialist-
dominated 1 % that presides over deadly US Alliance state
terrorism in the US and around the world. Peace is the only way but
silence kills and silence is complicity - please tell everyone you
can.

2020 Postscript

These 2012 estimates of violent deaths and avoidable deaths from

imposed deprivation in the US-imposed post-9-11 Muslim
Holocaust and Muslim Genocide have subsequently been revised
upwards as set out in later chapters of this book. This horrendous
mass murder is continuing. Thus it was estimated in 2015 that 32
million Muslims had died from violence, 5 million, or from
imposed deprivation, 27 million, in 20 countries invaded by the US
Alliance since the US Government's 9-11 false flag atrocity
(Gideon Polya, "Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim
A voidable Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries
Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11 ", Countercurrents, 22
November, 2015:
http://www.countercurrents.org/polya22 l l l 5.htm.) Similarly, it is
now estimated that each year 1. 7 million Americans die
preventably from "lifestyle" or "political choice" reasons and thus
1.7 million preventable deaths per year x 18.25 years= 31 million
Americans have died preventably since 9-11. The long-term
accrual cost of the War on Terror has been expertly estimated at
about $6 trillion and thus the US Establishment has been engaged
in a horrendous fiscal perversion involving killing about 30 million
Muslims abroad rather than attempting to keep 30 million
Americans alive at home. "Terrorism" exists in 2 forms, non-state
terrorism ( e.g. jihadi non-state terrorism) and state terrorism ( e.g.
US state terrorism). About 60 Americans have been killed in
America by jihadi psychopaths since 9-11 as compared to 31
million Americans dying preventably in that same period (Gideon
Polya, "West Ignores 11 Million Muslim War Deaths & 23 Million

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 Preventable American Deaths Since US Government's False-flag
9-11 Atrocity", Countercurrents, 9 September, 2015:
https://countercurrents.org/polya090915.htm). The US has a long
record of supporting non-state terrorism, including supporting
jihadi non-state terrorism in Afghanistan, the Balkans, Libya, Syria,
Iraq, the Yemen and Indonesia. Indeed jihadi non-state terrorism
has been a major asset of genocidal US imperialism because every
jihadi atrocity provides an "excuse" for vastly more deadly and
devastating US Alliance aggression.

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..,,,_,
"[re al-Qaeda and 9-11] I don't know if al-Qaeda existed and I
don't know if they exist. I have not seen them and I've not had any
report about them, any report that would indicate that al-Qaeda is
operating in Afghanistan ... [re Osama bin Laden and 9-11] That is
what I have heard from our Western friends. That's what the
Western media says. There is no doubt that an operation, a terrorist
operation was conducted in New York and in Washington ... [re al
Qaeda and 9-11] I neither believe nor disbelieve something that I
don't know about. I can tell you that Afghanistan was as much a
victim of terrorism as was America, as were the people who were
killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks". US-installed Afghan
President Hamid Karzai interviewed by Al Jazeera in "Preview:
Hamid Karzai says al Qaeda is a 'myth"', 10 September 2015.

"According to the figures explored here, total deaths from Western

interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan since the 1990s - from direct
killings and the longer-term impact of war-imposed deprivation -
likely constitute around 4 million (2 million in Iraq from 1991-
2003, plus 2 million from the 'war on terror'), and could be as high
as 6-8 million people when accounting for higher avoidable death
estimates in Afghanistan. Such figures could well be too high, but
[we] will never know for sure. US and UK armed forces, as a
matter of policy, refuse to keep track of the civilian death toll of
military operations - they are an irrelevant inconvenience. Due to
the severe lack of data in Iraq, almost complete non-existence of
records in Afghanistan, and the indifference of Western
governments to civilian deaths, it is literally impossible to
determine the true extent ofloss of life". Nafeez Ahmed,
"Unworthy victims: Western wars have killed four million Muslims
since 1990", Information Clearing House, 8 April 2015.

"About 2.7 million people from Afghanistan are living as refugees,

representing the second-largest refugee population in the world.
Pakistan hosts nearly 1.4 million, including some second- or third-
generation Afghan refugees who have never lived in their home
country. Some have been forced to return home from neighboring

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 countries, but increased violence in Afghanistan since 2015 has led
to a new surge of asylum seekers. As many as 2.6 million Afghans
are displaced within the country due to conflict, drought, and other
natural disasters". World Vision, "Forced to flee: top countries
refugees are coming from", 2019.

"They want stability [US hegemony] in Afghanistan to build the

pipeline. The Taliban did not give them stability, so they decided to
overthrow them". Gore Vidal in Alan Woods, "The Decline and
Fall of the American Empire", Marxism, 17 November 2005.

"The Law. The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of

the Crime of Genocide ( entered into force, 1951) is binding on all
states including the 26 member states of NATO. The Genocide
Convention is jus cogens, the law from which no derogation is
allowed. It provides no exceptions for any nation or any
organization of nations, such as the United Nations or NATO, to
commit genocide. Nor does the Convention allow any exceptions to
genocide 'whether committed in time of peace or in time of war'.
Even traditional self-defense - let alone preemptive self-defense, a
deceptive name for aggression - cannot be invoked to justify or
I
excuse the crime of genocide. In murdering the Taliban, NA TO
armed forces systematically practice on a continual basis the crime
of genocide that consists of three constituent elements - act, intent
to destroy, and religious group". Professor Ali Khan (Washburn
University), "NATO genocide in Afghanistan", Information
Clearing House, 30 January 2008.

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 CHAPTER 6
AFGHAN HOLOCAIJST &
AFGHAN GENOCIDE
(2001-)

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 [First published as Gideon Polya, "9th Anniversary of US
Invasion of Afghanistan: 4.9 Million Afghans Dead",
Countercurrents, 1 0 October, 2010:
https://www.countercurrents.org/polyal 0 101 0.htm.]
As of 7 October 2010, the 9th Anniversary of the US invasion of
Afghanistan, the human cost of the Afghan War has been estimated
as about 4.9 million violent deaths or non-violent avoidable deaths
from Occupier-imposed deprivation. A detailed and documented
Afghan War Human Cost Fact Sheet has been prepared to assist
humane public discussion of the ongoing, US Alliance-imposed
Afghan Holocaust and Afghan Genocide that has now reached the
dimensions of the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million dead, 1 in 6
dying from deprivation).
1. Post-invasion non-violent avoidable deaths from deprivation
total 3.7 million. [l].
2. Post-invasion violent deaths total 1.2 million (assuming advice
that the level of violence has been 4 times lower in the Afghan War
than in the Iraq War and an Iraq War violent deaths/non-violent
deaths ratio of 1.3) [l, 2, 3].
3. Post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 2.6 million [ 1].
4. Afghan refugees total 3.2 million, this comprising 2.7 million in
Iran and Pakistan and 0.4 million internally-displaced persons
(IDPs) in Afghanistan) [4].
5. The US bombing and US-backed Pakistani Army offensive in
NW Pakistan generated 2.5 million Pashtun refugees [5].
6. Annual under-5 infant deaths in Occupied Afghanistan total
311,000, 90% avoidable and due to war-imposed deprivation [ 6]
7. It has been estimated that the annual death rate is 7% for under-5
year old Afghan infants as compared to 4% for Poles in Nazi-
occupied Poland and 5% for French Jews in Nazi-occupied France
[7].
8. Annual per capita total health expenditure permitted by the
Occupiers in Occupied Afghanistan totals US$29 as compared to
US$3,122 for Occupier Australia [8].
9. Life expectancy at birth m/f (years): 42/43 [8].
10. Healthy life expectancy at birth m/f (years, 2003): 35/36 [8].

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11. Probability of dying under five (per 1000 live births): 257 [8].
12. Probability of dying between 15 and 60 years m/f (per 1000
population): 500/443 [8].
13. % of under-fives (2003-2008) suffering from stunting (WHO)
moderate & severe: 59% [6].
14. Adult literacy rate: females as a% of males, 2003-2007: 29%
[6].
15. Maternal mortality ratio ( annual number of deaths of women
from pregnancy-related causes per 100,000 live births): 1,800 [6].
16. US military deaths in and around Afghanistan in the Afghan
War total 1,246 and Australian military deaths total 22 [9].
17. About 100,000 people die avoidably from opiate drug-related
causes each year. The US Alliance restored the Taliban-destroyed
Afghan opium industry from 6% of world market share in 2001 to
over 90% today. It can accordingly be estimated that about 0.1
million people per year x 0.9 x 9 years= 0.8 million people have
died globally due to US Alliance restoration of the Taliban-
destroyed Afghan opium industry, this including about 100,000
Americans and 3,000 Australians [10, 11, 12, 13].
18. Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia
University) and Professor Linda Bilmes (Harvard University)
estimated the accrual cost of the Iraq War alone at over $3 trillion
with huge impacts on oil prices, the Afghan war, US federal debt,
liabilities for injured veterans, the global financial crisis and US
recession. Dr. Michael Intriligator, a senior fellow at the US
Milken Institute, has suggested a long-term cost of the Afghan War
at$ 1.5 trillion to $2.0 trillion. Australia's involvement costs about
$1 billion annually [14, 15].
19. Perverted fiscal diversion for the Afghan War continues to have
mortal consequences in the US and other US Alliance countries
such as Australia. Thus it has been estimated that about 1 million
Americans die preventably each year from poverty, deprivation or
violence (e.g. 30,000 Americans are killed by guns each year, 44
million Americans live in poverty and the difference between
infant mortality rates between Singapore and the world's richest
country, the US, indicates that about 20,000 US infants die
avoidably each year). 9,000 Indigenous Australians die avoidably

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each year out of an Indigenous population of about 0.5 million due
to Third World living conditions and a 2- to 3-fold underfunding of
Aboriginal health ( currently $1.5 billion annually but should be $3
billion to $4.5 billion annually) [16, 17, 18].
20. The horrendous fiscal diversion for war in Afghanistan (and in
Iraq and indeed around the world) has contributed to the ongoing
Global A voidable Mortality Holocaust in which an estimated 24
million people die avoidably each year from deprivation (16
million in 2003) [19].
21. Man-made global warming is a major problem for Humanity,
together with nuclear weapons and poverty. The huge fiscal
diversion for the Afghan War has crippled the political will of
America to tackle man-made climate change. Both Dr. James
Lovelock FRS (Gaia hypothesis) and Professor Kevin Anderson
(Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University
of Manchester, UK) have recently estimated that fewer than 1
billion people will survive this century due to unaddressed, man-
made global warming - noting that the world population is
expected to reach 9.5 billion by 2050, these estimates translate to a
climate genocide involving deaths of 10 billion people this century,
this including 6 billion under-5 year old infants, 3 billion Muslims
in a terminal Muslim Holocaust, 2 billion Indians, 1.3 billion non-
Arab Africans, 0.5 billion Bengalis, 0.3 billion Pakistanis and 0.3
billion Bangladeshis. The nations that need to curb greenhouse gas
pollution most quickly and indeed achieve 100% renewable energy
by 2020 if the world is to have a 67% chance of avoiding a 2C
temperature rise ( estimates by Professor Hans-Joachim
Schellnhuber, head of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact
Research, Germany) are indeed the worst polluting US Alliance
countries, namely the US, Canada and Australia. "Annual per
capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution" in units of "tonnes CO2 -
equivalent per person per year" (2005-2008 data) is 0.9
(Bangladesh), 0.9 (Pakistan), 2.2 (India), less than 3 (many African
and Island countries), 3.2 (the Developing World), 5.5 (China), 6.7
(the World), 11 (Europe), 16 (the Developed World), 23 (Canada),
27 (the US) and 30 (Australia; or 54 if Australia's huge Exported
CO2 pollution is included). Professor Schellnhuber says that an
average annual per capita GI-IG pollution of about 3 tonnes CO2-e
per person per year is needed over 40 years on the path to zero

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. sions by 2050 with a 67% chance of avoiding a 2C

. d'isas t er ( conservative
terrnsperature nse . odds: wou Id you board a
p~:e if there were a 33% chance of it crashing?) [20, 21, 22].
_ The US Alliance i~ involved in an Afghan Holocaust (huge
22
mbers of people dymg) and an Afghan Genocide as defined by
;1rticle 2 of the UN Genocide Convention which states: "In the
esent Convention, genocide means any of the following acts
~~mmitted with inte~t to destroy, in whole or in part, a national,
ethnic racial or religious group, as such: a) Killing members of the
group; b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the
zroup: c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life
~alculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in
part; d) Impos~ng measures_inten~ed to pr~vent births within the
group; e) Forcibly transfernng children of the group to another
group". It mu~t be noted t~at mass murd_erers rarely confess and
"intent" is typically established by sustained, remorseless conduct
(for 9 years in the case of the US Alliance in the Afghan War) [23].
23. The US Alliance is grossly violating Articles 55 and 56 of the
Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons
in Time of War.
Article 55. To the fullest extent of the means available to it the
Occupying Power has the duty of ensuring the food and medical
supplies of the population; it should, in particular, bring in the
necessary foodstuffs, medical stores and other articles if the
resources of the occupied territory are inadequate. The Occupying
Power may not requisition foodstuffs, articles or medical supplies
available in the occupied territory, except for use by the occupation
forces and administration personnel, and then only if the
requirements of the civilian population have been taken into
account. Subject to the provisions of other international
Conventions, the Occupying Power shall make arrangements to
ensure that fair value is paid for any requisitioned goods. The
Protecting Power shall, at any time, be at liberty to verify the state
of the food and medical supplies in occupied territories, except
where temporary restrictions are made necessary by imperative
military requirements.
Article 56. To the fullest extent of the means available to it, the
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the cooperation of national and local authorities, the medical and
hospital establishments and services, public health and hygiene in
the occupied territory, with particular reference to the adoption and
application of the prophylactic and preventive measures necessary
to combat the spread of contagious diseases and epidemics.
Medical personnel of all categories shall be allowed to carry out
their duties. If new hospitals are set up in occupied territory and if
the competent organs of the occupied State are not operating there,
the occupying authorities shall, if necessary, grant them the
recognition provided for in Article 18. In similar circumstances, the
occupying authorities shall also grant recognition to hospital
personnel and transport vehicles under the provisions of Articles 20
and 21. In adopting measures of health and hygiene and in their
implementation, the Occupying Power shall take into consideration
the moral and ethical susceptibilities of the population of the
occupied territory [24].
24. While Western Mainstream media, politicians, academics,
public servants and law enforcement agencies ignore these
horrendous realities in gross violation of truth, humanity and
rational risk management, I have made repeated, detailed formal
complaints to the International Criminal Court over US Alliance
and Australian war crimes and genocide complicity in Occupied
Afghanistan and elsewhere [25].

2020 Postscript

The most fundamental human right is the right to life. While

legitimately criticized for the one party state, the death penalty,
censorship, urban air pollution and harsh treatment of dissidents
and Uighurs, relatively poor China has been hugely successful in
radically reducing infant mortality and maternal mortality in Tibet
and in China as a whole. In stark contrast, the war criminal and rich
US Alliance occupation of neighbouring Afghanistan continues to
be associated with an under- I infant mortality and maternal
mortality incidence that are 7 times higher and 4-12 times higher,
respectively, than that in Tibet - evidence of gross, war criminal
violation of the Geneva Convention and the UN Genocide
Convention by the US Alliance (Gideon Polya, China's Tibet
health success versus passive mass murder of Afghan women and
children by US Alliance", Global Research, 7 January 2018:

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https ://www. gl o balresearch. ca/ chinas-ti bet-heal th-success-versus-
passi ve-mass-m urder-o f-afghan-women-and-chil dren-by-us-
alliance/5625169). It is estimated from the latest UN Population
Division data that presently annual avoidable deaths from
deprivation total about 100,000 in Afghanistan as compared to zero
(0) in China and in the rich European US Alliance countries [19].
The US Alliance countries should be arraigned before the
International Criminal Court (ICC).

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"With respect to these genocidal economic sanctions against Iraq,
the actus reus for the U.S. government and its officials committing
the international crime of genocide is set forth in Genocide
Convention Article II (c): 'Deliberately inflicting on the group
conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction
in whole or in part'. The 500,000 dead Iraqi children, as conceded
and approved by U.S. Secretary of State Albright, constituted a
'substantial part' of the people oflraq, which is the threshold
numerical test for genocide recognized by the International Court
of Justice itself that I had successfully argued there for Bosnia and
Herzegovina against Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) in 1993.
Albright incriminated both herself and the United States of
America at the same time, apparently without thought or concern as
to any future international legal determination of their culpability.
Such is the arrogance of the powerful-which is usually the source
of their downfall". Professor Francis Boyle in "Legal Protection Of
Children In Armed Conflict: The Iraqi Children Genocide",
Countercurrents, 4 December 2012.
"Bush, Blair, and Howard, as leaders of the three members of the
coalition of the willing, inflicted enormous suffering on the people
oflraq. And, as such, they are criminals. I believe the only
deterrent to a repetition of the Iraq situation is punishment in some
form as war criminals". John Valder (National President of the
conservative Australian Liberal Party) in "Howard is a war
criminal, says former colleague", Sydney Morning Herald, 19 July
2004.
"Undisputed UN figures show that 1.7 million Iraqi civilians died
due to the West's brutal sanctions regime, half of whom were
children. The mass death was seemingly intended. Among items
banned by the UN sanctions were chemicals and equipment
essential for Iraq's national water treatment system. A secret US
Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) document discovered by
Professor Thomas Nagy of the School of Business at George
Washington University amounted, he said, to 'an early blueprint for
genocide against the people of Iraq'. In his paper for the

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Association o~ Geno~ide Scholars at the University of Manitoba,
Professor Nag1 explained that the DIA document revealed minute
details of a fully ~orkable i:netho~ to 'fully degrade the water
treatment system of an entire nation over a period of a decade. The
sanctions policy would create 'the conditions for widespread
disease, including full scale epidemics,' thus 'liquidating a
significant p~rti_on of the population of Iraq'", Nafeez Ahmed,
"Unworthy victims: Western wars have killed four million Muslims
since J 990", Information Clearing House, 8 April 2015.
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 CHAPTER 7
IRAQI HOLO(JUJST &
IRAQI GENOCIDE
(1990-2011)

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[First published as Gideon Polya, "12th Anniversary of illegal
Iraqi invasion- 2.7 million Iraqi dead from violence or war-
imposed deprivation", Countercurrents, 23 March, 2015:
https://www.countercurrents.org/polya2303 l 5.htm.]
Those with consciences recently marked the 12th anniversary on 19
March 2015 of the illegal and war criminal US, UK and Australian
invasion oflraq in 2003 that was based on false assertions oflraqi
possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction, was conducted in the
absence of UN sanction or Iraqi threat to the invading nations, and
led to 2.7 million Iraqi deaths from violence (1.5 million) or from
violently-imposed deprivation (1.2 million). The West has now
commenced its Seventh Iraq War since 1914 in over a century of
Western violence in which Iraqi deaths from violence or violently-
imposed deprivation have totalled 9 million. However Western
Mainstream media have resolutely ignored the carnage, this
tragically illustrating the adage "History ignored yields history
repeated" [ 1].
Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-subverted and
perverted Western Mainstream media utterly ignore expert
assessments of how many people the US Alliance has killed in Iraq
and resolutely ignore the crucial epidemiological concept of non-
violent avoidable deaths (excess deaths, avoidable mortality, excess
mortality, deaths that should not have happened) associated with
war-imposed deprivation (for detailed analysis see [2]). Thus, by
way of example, on the occasion of US withdrawal from Iraq in
2011 the Australian ABC (Australia's equivalent of the UK BBC)
reported that "The withdrawal ends a war that left tens of thousands
of Iraqis and nearly 4,500 American soldiers dead" [3]. In contrast,
the expert and eminent US Just Foreign Policy organization
estimates, based on the data of expert UK analysts and top US
medical epidemiologists, 1.5 million violent deaths in the Iraq War
(2003-2011) [ 4- 7] and UN data indicate a further 0.8 million Iraq
avoidable deaths from war-imposed deprivation in this period [2].
Violent deaths and avoidable deaths from violently -imposed
deprivation in the Gulf War (1990-1991) and Sanctions period
(1990-2003) total 0.2 million and 1.2 million, respectively [1].
Accordingly, Iraqi deaths from violence (1.7 million) or war-
imposed deprivation (2.9 million) since 1990 total 4.6 million [1].

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However Western violation of Iraq commenced with the British
invasion in 1914. Assuming excess mortality oflraqis under British
rule or hegemony (1914- 1948) was the same as for Indians under
the British (interpolation from available data indicate Indian
avoidable death rates in "deaths per 1,000 of population per year"
of 37 (1757-1920), 35 (1920-1930), 30 (1930-1940) and 24 (1940-
1950) [8]), one can estimate from Iraqi population data [9] that
Iraqi avoidable deaths from deprivation under British occupation
and hegemony from 1914-1950 totalled about 4 million. Thus
ignoring Iraqi deaths associated with the US-backed Iraq-Iran War,
one can estimate that about 9 million Iraqi deaths from UK or US
violence or imposed deprivation in the century after the 1914
invasion of Iraq by Britain, this constituting an Iraqi Holocaust and
an Iraqi Genocide as discussed below.
Holocaust is the destruction of a large number of people and 9
million Iraqi deaths from Anglo-American violence or violently-
imposed deprivation certainly constitutes an Iraqi Holocaust. The
term "holocaust" was first applied to a WW2 atrocity by Jog in
1944 [ 11] in relation to the "forgotten" man-made Bengal Famine
(Bengali Holocaust) in which 6-7 million Indians (many of them
Muslims, and hence the term WW2 Muslim Holocaust) were
deliberately starved to death by the British in 1942-1945 (Australia
was complicit in this atrocity by withholding grain from its huge
wartime wheat stores from starving India) [ 11-14]. The term
"holocaust" was subsequently applied to the WW2 Jewish
Holocaust (5-6 million killed, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation
according to the recently deceased, pro-Iraq War, and Iraqi
Genocide-ignoring British Zionist historian Professor Sir Martin
Gilbert [15]), noting that the WW2 Jewish Holocaust was part of a
vastly greater WW2 European Holocaust in which 30 million
Slavs, Jews and Gypsies were killed [2].
Genocide is very precisely defined in International Law as "acts
committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national,
ethnic, racial or religious group", as set out by Article 2 of the 1948
UN Genocide Convention: "In the present Convention, genocide
means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy,
in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as
such: a) Killing members of the group; b) Causing serious bodily or
mental harm to members of the group; c) Deliberately inflicting on
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 destruction in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures intended to
prevent births within the group; e) Forcibly transferring children of
the group to another group" [16]. Any argument that the British and
Americans did not "intend" to kill 9 million Iraqis is belied by the
remorseless slaughter over 101 years interrupted only by the period
between the overthrow of the British-installed monarchy in 1958
and the commencement of Sanctions in 1990.
The Anglo-American Iraqi Genocide since 1990 has been
associated with 2 million under-5 year old infant deaths comprising
1.2 million (1990-2003) and 0.8 million (2003-2011 ), 90%
avoidable and due to gross violation of Articles 55 and 56 of the
Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons
in Time of War which demand that an Occupier must supply their
conquered Subjects with food and medical requisites to "the fullest
extent of the means available to it" [17]. The Iraqi Holocaust and
Iraqi Genocide were also war criminal mass infanticide and mass
paedocide.
The appalling legacy of a quarter of a century of Western violence
against Iraq (1990-2015) - for oil, US hegemony and Apartheid
Israeli hegemony - is summarized below, with much of the data
/ being found in "Iraqi Holocaust Iraqi Genocide" [l], "Genocide in
Iraq" volumes I and II by Iraqi scholars Dr. Abdul-Haq Al-Ani &
Tariq Al-Ani and reviews of these works [ 18-21] and noting that
about half of the Iraqi population of 30 million are children:
(1 ). 1. 7 million Iraqi violent deaths.
(2). 2.9 million Iraqi avoidable deaths from violently -imposed
deprivation.
(3). 2 million under-5 year old Iraqi infant deaths, 90% avoidable
and due to gross violation of the Geneva Convention by the US
Alliance.
(4). 7,700,000 Iraqi refugees.
(5). 5,000,000 Iraqi orphans.
(6). 3,000,000 Iraqi widows.
(7). 1,000,000 Iraqis missing.
(8). 4,000 Iraqi women (20% under 18) missing and presumed
"trafficked".
(9). 3.5 million Iraqi children living in dire poverty.

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( 10). 1.5 million Iraqi children are undernourished.
(11). Iraqi cancer cases in cases per 100,000 people were 40
( 1990), 800 ( 1995) and 1,600 (2005).
(12). 40% oflraqi professionals have left since 2003.
(13). 34,000 doctors (1990) declined to 16,000 doctors (2008).
(14). More than 2,200 doctors and nurses killed.
( 15). The Iraqi health budget dropped from $450 million pa (1980-
1991) to $22 million (2002),
( 16). Most of Iraqi children are traumatized by war.
(17). From high literacy pre-1990 to 74% illiteracy in 2011. Iraq
has been substantially destroyed as a modern state by US state
terrorism, UK state terrorism, French state terrorism, Apartheid
Israeli state terrorism and Australian state terrorism, and the same
state terrorists have been variously involved in the similar
destruction of Libya and Syria from formerly being modern,
socially progressive states (albeit under authoritarian governments).
These are unforgivable crimes and the US Alliance war criminals
must be brought to account by the world through international law
and through application of Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions
(BDS) against the war criminal Western states responsible for the
Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide.

Summary

The anti-racist Jewish British writer Harold Pinter declared in his

2005 Nobel Prize acceptance speech: "We have brought torture,
cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts ofrandom
murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call
it 'bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East'. How
many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described
as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand?
More than enough, I would have thought. Therefore it is just that
Bush and Blair be arraigned before the International Criminal
Court of Justice" [22]. 1990-2011 Iraqi deaths from US Alliance
violence (1.7 million) or violently-imposed deprivation (2.9
million) total 4.6 million and one can in 2015 paraphrase this great
humanitarian: "How many people do you have to kill before you

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qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? 4.6
million? More than enough, I would have thought".
Unfortunately the International Criminal Court (ICC) as currently
operating is a racist, cowardly, partisan, genocide-ignoring,
genocide-complicit organization that strictly confines its war
crimes attention to war criminals that the US Alliance doesn't like
(e.g. non-European and Serbian war criminals) (for discussion see
"The Politics of Genocide" by Edward S. Herman and David
Peterson [23, 24]). The ICC has repeatedly ignored complaints over
the Iraqi Genocide (e.g. [25, 26]) and that means the world must
accept recourse to eminent, ICC-independent, international
tribunals to assess the war crimes of the US Alliance in Iraq and
elsewhere.
US state terrorism, UK state terrorism, French state terrorism,
Apartheid Israeli state terrorism and Australian state terrorism have
variously combined over the last 25 years to destroy Iraq as a
united, sovereign, modern state. In the face of endless war against
Iraq and an ongoing Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide, what can
decent people do? Peace is the only way but silence kills and
silence is complicity. Decent people must (a) circumvent the lying
and ignoring by the Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist
(NAZI)-subverted Mainstream media [27] by resolutely attempting
to inform everyone they can about the Iraqi Genocide, and (b) urge
and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)- of the kind
successfully applied against Apartheid South Africa and currently
being applied against US Alliance-backed, nuclear terrorist,
genocidally racist, democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel -
against all people, politicians, parties, companies, corporations and
countries involved in the Iraqi Genocide and the Zionist-promoted
Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide of which it is a part [28].
History ignored yields history repeated. We cannot walk by on the
other side.

2020 Postscript

In another example of outrageous British Establishment mendacity,

the inexpert, Zionist-subverted, UK Iraq Inquiry, aka the 2016
Chilcot Inquiry, criticized intelligence failures re non-existent Iraqi
WMD but whitewashed the US-, UK- and Australia-complicit,
1990-2011 Iraqi Genocide and Iraqi Holocaust in which 4.6 million

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Iraqis died from violence (1.7 million) or from violently-imposed
deprivation (2.9 million) by (a) suggesting that about 150,000
Iraqis may have died due to the 2003-2011 invasion and
occupation, (b) ignoring Coalition war crimes including the
illegality of the invasion per se, ( c) ignoring the real reasons for the
invasion ( oil, US hegemony and Apartheid Israel), and ( d)
implicitly approving such war criminal invasions if done better. Of
course a glaring question left unanswered by the 2.6 million word
Chilcot Report that took 7 years to research and write is simply
this: why did Britain in particular have to invade Iraq? One can
well ask: why not Switzerland, Sweden, Cuba, China etc? The
Elephant in the Room answer from humane truth-tellers from the
Right and the Left is that the Iraq War was about oil, with the
corollaries of US hegemony and Apartheid Israeli hegemony. Thus,
for example, on the Right, Alan Greenspan (who served as
chairman of the US Federal Reserve for almost two decades)
(2015): "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to
acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about
oil". On the Left, Professor Noam Chomsky (famed linguistics
professor and anti-racist Jewish American human rights and anti-
war activist of 85-Nobel-Laureate Massachusetts Institute of
Technology) (2009): "There is basically no significant change in
the fundamental traditional conception that if we can control
Middle East energy resources, then we can control the world"
(Gideon Polya, "Holocaust denial: UK Chilcot Inquiry
whitewashes Iraqi Holocaust & Iraqi Genocide", Countercurrents,
9 July 2016: https://countercurrents.org/2016/07 /holocaust-denial-
uk-chilcot-inquiry-whitewashes-iraqi-holocaust-and-iraqi-
genocide ). As detailed in Chapter 11, the Iraqi Genocide quickly
recommenced in 2012 with the US Alliance variously backing
jihadis in Syria and Iraq and destroying the Iraqi cities of Mosul
and Fallujah. Indeed the US was bombing anti-ISIS Iraqi and
Iranian forces in Iraq in late December 2019, this leading to Iraqi
protesters attacking the US Embassy in Baghdad at the start of the
new decade.

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 "The tragedy of September 11, 2001, goes far beyond the deaths of
those who died in the towers and the deaths of firefighters and first
responders who succumbed to illnesses caused by inhalation of
toxic dust. For thirteen years a new generation of Americans has
been born into the 9/11 myth that has been used to create the
American warfare/police state. The corrupt Bush and Obama
regimes used 9/11 to kill, maim, dispossess and displace millions of
Muslims in seven countries, none of whom had anything
whatsoever to do with 9/11 ... The 9/11 lie has persisted for 13
years. Millions of Muslims have paid for this lie with their lives,
the destruction of their families, and with their dislocation. Most
Americans remain comfortable with the fact that their government
has destroyed in whole or part seven countries based on a lie
Washington told to cover up an inside job that launched the crazed
neoconservatives' drive for Washington's World Empire". Dr Paul
Craig Roberts ( eminent economist and formerly professor at the
Center for Strategic and International Studies, CSIS) in "9-11 after
13 years", 2014.
"In total, the United States has carried out one or more of these
[subversive and/or violent] actions in 69 countries. In almost all
cases, Britain has been a collaborator. The 'enemy' changes in
name - from communism to Islamism - but mostly it is the rise
of democracy independent of Western power or a society
occupying strategically useful territory, deemed expendable, like
the Chagos Islands. The sheer scale of suffering, let alone
criminality, is little known in the West, despite the presence of the
world's most advanced communications, nominally freest
journalism and most admired academy. That the most numerous
victims of terrorism - western terrorism - are Muslims is
unsayable, if it is known. That half a million Iraqi infants died in
the 1990s as a result of the embargo imposed by Britain and the US
is of no interest. That extreme jihadism, which led to 9/11, was
nurtured as a weapon of Western policy ('Operation Cyclone') is
known to specialists but otherwise suppressed. While popular
culture in Britain and the US immerses World War II in an ethical
bath for the victors, the holocausts arising from Anglo-American

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domin~nce of resource-rich regions are consigned to oblivion".
John Pilger, "The World war on democracy", Green Left Weekly, 1
February 2012.

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[First published as Gideon Polya, "Paris Atrocity Context: 27
Million Muslim Avoidable Deaths From Imposed Deprivation
In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-
11 ", Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015:
http://www.countercurrents.org/polya22 l l l 5.htm.]
The appalling Paris atrocity (130 killed) has led Hollande and
Obama to call for the destruction of Islamic State i.e. genocide as
defined by the UN Genocide Convention. A major report by 3
physician organizations recently estimated that 2 million Muslims
had died in the US War on Terror but UN data show that Muslim
avoidable deaths from deprivation in countries subject to Western
military intervention in 2001-2015 now total about 27 million, this
demanding peace now and ICC prosecutions of those responsible
for this Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide.
President Obama (Antalya, Turkey, 16 November 2015) stated:
"Tragically, Paris is not alone. We've seen outrageous attacks by
ISIL in Beirut, last month in Ankara, routinely in Iraq. Here at the
020, our nations have sent an unmistakable message that we are
united against this threat. ISIL is the face of evil. Our goal, as I've
said many times, is to degrade and ultimately destroy this barbaric
terrorist organization" [ 1].
President Francois Hollande (17 November 2015) stated: "France is
at war. No barbarians will prevent us from living how we have
decided to live. To live fully. Terrorism will never destroy the
republic, because the republic will destroy terrorism' ... The
sponsors of the attack in Paris must know that their crimes further
strengthens the determination of France to fight and to destroy
them. We must do more. Syria has become the largest factory of
terrorists the world has ever known. France is not engaged in a war
of civilisations because those assassins don't represent a
civilisation. Our democracy has triumphed before over adversaries
that were much more formidable than these cowards" [2].
There has been saturation coverage in the Western media of the
appalling Paris tragedy that killed 130 people on 13 November
2015, this coverage dwarfing reportage of the recent Kunduz
Hospital atrocity in Afghanistan perpetrated by the US (22 killed, 2
October 2015), the most recent Beirut Massacre by jihadi non-state
terrorists (43 killed, 12 November 2015) and the Bamako Mali
Massacre by jihadi non-state terrorists (27 killed, 20 November
2015) - clear evidence of the entrenched and egregious racism of

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the anti-Arab anti-Semitic, Islamophobic and Neocon American
and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-perverted and subverted Western
Mainstream media.
The eminent US organization Just Foreign Policy has estimated
that there have been 1.5 million "Iraqi deaths due to the US
invasion" and I have estimated (based on UN Population Division
2006 Revision data) that to this we should add a further 1.2 million
Iraqis killed through war-imposed deprivation [4, 5]. However the
ABC News of the taxpayer-funded ABC (Australia's equivalent of
the UK BBC) commenting on the US withdrawal in 2011 stated:
"The withdrawal ends a war that left tens of thousands of Iraqis and
nearly 4,500 American soldiers dead" [6].
Another ABC News report about Wikileaks document releases
states: "The founder of the WikiLeaks website says hundreds of
thousands of US military documents leaked by the website show
the truth about the Iraq war. The documents suggest senior US
commanders turned a blind eye on torture by the Iraqi authorities
and show the US has kept records of civilian deaths, despite
previously denying it. It has put the death toll at 109,000, including
more than 66,000 civilians. The US has criticised the release,
saying the documents are classified and could lead to military and
civilian deaths. But Julian Assange has defended his actions at a
press conference just a short while ago, saying the release serves
the public interest" [7].
The "Iraq Body Count" project currently reports "total violent
deaths including combatants 224,000", this highly flawed estimate
being unwisely based on the dodgy evidence of media and official
reports [8]. The mendacious BBC which, like the endlessly lying,
Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-perverted
Australian ABC, has an appalling record of malreportage [9, 1 O],
opines: "Other reports and surveys have resulted in a wide range of
estimates oflraqi deaths. The UN-backed Iraqi Family Health
Survey estimated 151,000 violent deaths in the period March 2003
- June 2006. Meanwhile, The Lancet journal in 2006 published an
estimate of 654,965 excess Iraqi deaths related to the war of which
601,027 were caused by violence" [11].
Western Mainstream media under-reporting in claiming circa
20,000-200,000 Iraqi deaths due to the US War on Terror - when
the true figure from top medical epidemiologists, the UK ORB
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million Iraqi deaths from violence or imposed deprivation - is
genocide-ignoring and holocaust-ignoring on a massive scale. A
holocaust involves the death of huge numbers of people whereas
genocide is defined more precisely by Article 2 of the UN
Genocide Convention which states that "In the present Convention,
genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to
destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious
group, as such: a) Killing members of the group; b) Causing serious
bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) Deliberately
inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about
its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures
intended to prevent births within the group; e) Forcibly transferring
children of the group to another group" [4].
Genocide-ignoring and holocaust-ignoring is far, far worse than
repugnant genocide-ignoring and holocaust denial because at least
the latter permit public discussion of the matter. The endlessly
lying, Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-perverted
Western Mainstream media are involved in massive lying by
omission, lying by commission, genocide-ignoring, holocaust-
ignoring and effective genocide-ignoring and holocaust denial.
Of course this is not new. Thus, for example, generation after
generation of lying journalists, politicians, and historians in the
English-speaking world have resolutely ignored the "forgotten"
WW2 Bengali Holocaust in which the British with Australian
complicity deliberately starved 6- 7 million Indians to death for
strategic reasons (genocidally racist White Australia was complicit
by withholding food from starving Indians from its huge wartime
grain stores) [12-15]. History is written by the victors and Western
Mainstream media presstitutes are resolutely committed to untruth
[16,17].
It gets worse. Iraq has been subject to repeated Western invasion in
the century since British invasion in 1914 (racist White Australia is
currently involved in its Seventh Iraq War and its Third Syrian War
in a century) and Iraqi deaths from violence or war-imposed
deprivation since 1914 now total 9 million [4]. Further, Iraq is but
one of 20 substantially or significantly Muslim countries variously
invaded, occupied, sanctioned and/or bombed by US Alliance
forces since the US Government's 9-11 false flag atrocity on 11
September 2001 in which about 3,000 people were killed [3].

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All of this raises the key questions of ( 1) precisely how many
millions of Muslims have died from violence or from imposed
deprivation in substantially Muslim countries attacked by the US
Alliance since 9-11; and (2) how the civilized world should
respond.
Kit O'Connell (a US journalist from Austin, Texas, a Daily Staff
Writer for MintPress News, and Associate Editor of Shadowproof)
(2015): "It may never be possible to know the true death toll of the
modern Western wars on the Middle East, but that figure could be
4 million or higher. Since the vast majority of those killed were of
Arab descent, and mostly Muslim, when would it be fair to accuse
the United States and its allies of genocide? A March report by
Physicians for Social Responsibility calculates the body count of
the Iraq War at around 1.3 million, and possibly as many as 2
million. However, the numbers of those killed in Middle Eastern
wars could be much higher. In April, investigative journalist
N afeez Ahmed argued that the actual death toll could reach as high
as 4 million if one includes not just those killed in the wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan, but also the victims of the sanctions against Iraq,
which left about 1. 7 million more dead, half of them children,
according to figures from the United Nations" (18].
Dr. Nafeez Ahmed (investigative journalist, international security
scholar, author of 'Zero Point' and associated with the Institute for
Policy Research and Development) has concluded that "In Iraq
alone, the US-led war from 1991 to 2003 killed 1.9 million Iraqis;
then from 2003 onwards around 1 million: totalling just under 3
million Iraqis dead over two decades ... the total Afghan death toll
due to the direct and indirect impacts of US-led intervention since
the early nineties until now could be as high 3-5 million" (19].
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
(IPPNW), Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and
Physicians for Global Survival (PGS) published a detailed and
documented major report in March 2015 on Muslim deaths in
Western wars that has been ignored by Mainstream media but
concluded (2015): "Executive Summary. This investigation come
to the conclusion that the war has, directly or indirectly, killed [in
2011-2013] around 1 million people in Iraq, 220,000 in
Afghanistan and 80,000 in Pakistan i.e. a total of 1.3 million. Not
included in this figure are further war zones such as Yemen. The
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public, experts and decision-makers are aware of [sic] and
propagated by the media and major NGOs. And this is only a
conservative estimate. The total number of deaths in the three
countries named above could also be in excess of 2 million,
whereas a figure below 1 million is extremely unlikely" [20].
"Iraq Body Count" makes the absurd claim of 224,000 total violent
Iraqi deaths including combatants since the 2003 invasion [8], this
being based on media reports, an approach that has been shown by
top medical epidemiologists to be severely flawed [4]. The
Physicians' Report [20] estimates 1 million Iraqi deaths from
violence or war-imposed deprivation in the period 2011-2011
whereas the eminent US Just Foreign Policy estimates - based on
data from the UK ORB polling organization and from polling by
US medical epidemiologists published in The Lancet - that 1.5
million Iraqis have died due to the US invasion and comments:
"The number is shocking and sobering. It is at least 10 times
greater than most estimates cited in the US media, yet it is based on
a scientific study of violent Iraqi deaths caused by the U.S.-led
invasion of March 2003" (noting that top US medical
epidemiologists in their paper in The Lancet estimated that 90% of
the deaths found were violent) [5].
Using data from the UN Population Division 2006 Revision data I
have made an upper estimate of 2003-2011 Iraqi avoidable deaths
from deprivation totalling 1.2 million, this leading to an estimate of
2.7 million Iraqi deaths from violence (1.5 million) or from war-
imposed conditions as determined from differential pre- and post-
invasion mortality data ( 1.2 million) in the period 2003-2011. This
approach assumed that these 2 data sets (i.e. "deaths from violence"
and "deaths from war-imposed conditions") do not overlap if
violently killed people do not make it to hospitals etc for "official
counting" - indeed the gross, up to 7-fold under-estimate oflraqi
violent deaths by "Iraq Body Count" based on "official counting"
validates my approach [4]. A related approach estimates 7.2 million
Afghan deaths post-9-11 from violence ( 1. 7 million) or war-
imposed deprivation (5.5 million) [21, 22].
Crucially, while the Physicians' Report [20] estimates "deaths from
war-related conditions" as determined from differential
immediately pre- and post-invasion mortality data, I assume that
the historical pre-invasion trend of massive decreases in mortality
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the Iraqi mortality rate post-1990 could and should have attained
the base-line rate for high birth-rate impoverished countries of
about 4 deaths per 1,000 of population per year and hence given an
avoidable death rate of zero (0) but for war-imposed conditions. In
other words, the invasion of Iraq not only yielded violent deaths
and increased avoidable deaths relative to the pre-invasion year, it
also blocked a quite achievable rapid decline to zero avoidable
deaths per annum [23].
Avoidable death (avoidable mortality, excess death, excess
mortality, premature death, untimely death, death that should not
have happened) is the difference between the observed deaths in a
country and the deaths expected for a peaceful, decently governed
country with the same demographics (i.e. the same birth rate and
age distribution) [23]. Thus, for example, in 2015 GDP per capita is
about $6,000 for both Cuba and China and about $15,000 for both
Iraq and Libya [24], but while there are zero (0) annual avoidable
deaths in Cuba and China, as catalogued below annual avoidable
deaths in war-devastated Iraq (population 36.4 million) and Syria
(population 6.3 million) currently total 47,000 and 14,000,
respectively [23].
Finally, the Physicians' Report estimate of 80,000 Pakistani war-
related deaths in 2001-2011 is about 100 times lower than the 9 .1
million Pakistani avoidable deaths from deprivation in the period
October 2001- October 2015 as estimated (see below) using UN
Population 2015 Revision data [24] and assuming a base-line
mortality rate for this high birth rate, impoverished country of 4
deaths per 1,000 births per year for zero avoidable mortality that
could and should have been attained in Pakistan but for US-driven
militarism, dictatorship, terrorism, corruption and war.
Soap, insecticide-impregnated mosquito netting, antibiotics,
immunization, basic preventative medicine, maternal education.
maternal literacy, and good primary health care are vastly cheaper
than drones, bombs, militarization, war and nuclear weapons, as
well illustrated by the marvellous example of the terrific health
outcomes in US sanctions-impoverished but well-governed Cuba
which has an infant mortality rate about the same as for the US that
has a 9-fold greater per capita GDP [23, 24].
To avoid the controversy about how many Muslims have actually
been violently killed, one can simply consider how many Muslims
have died avoidably from Western war- or Western hegemony-

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imposed deprivation in the 14 year period from October 200 I-
October 2015 in substantially or significantly Muslim countries
subject to Western sanctions, attack or occupation in that period.
This approach has the benefit of being uncontroversial and
conservative e.g. it ignores violent deaths in which Muslim bodies
or body parts went into mass graves or otherwise did not make it to
hospitals or morgues for "official counting". Of course, whether a
child is slowly and painfully killed by economically- and/or
militarily-imposed deprivation or is killed quickly by bombs or
bullets, the death is just as final andjust as irreversible [23].
Below is an alphabetical list of 20 substantially or significantly
Muslim countries variously attacked, invaded, occupied or
sanctioned by the US Alliance in the Neocon American and Zionist
Imperialist (NAZI)-promoted US War on Terror since the 9-11
atrocity that numerous science, architecture, engineering, aviation,
military and intelligence experts believe was a US Government 9-
11 false flag operation (with some suggesting Israeli involvement)
[3].
Listed below for these 20 US Alliance-violated, substantially or
significantly Muslim countries are (a) 2015 population [25]; (b)
1950-2005 avoidable deaths [24], (c) annual avoidable deaths
(2015) from the latest UN 2015 Revision data [25], assuming a
baseline mortality for high birth rate, impoverished but otherwise
peaceful and well-governed countries of about 4 deaths per 1,000
of population per year (for Lebanon, Libya, Syria and Palestine
with death rates close to this baseline, avoidable mortality was
estimated as 1 .4 times the under-5 infant deaths) [24]; ( d) average-
based 14 year avoidable deaths for the post-9-11 period of 2001-
2015, (e) present annual per capita GDP [24], (f) % Muslim (upper
estimates), (g) post-9-11 Muslim avoidable deaths based on
Muslim percentage in each country, and (h) Western invasion dates
and details.
Post-9-11 avoidable deaths in 20 countries with substantial or
significant Muslim populations and variously subject to Western
military operations in the post-9-11 US War on Terror:
I. Afghanistan: (a) 32.5 million, (b) 16.6 million. (c) 149,000, (d)
2.2 million, (e) $1,900, (f) 99.8% Muslim, (g) 2.2 million post-9-11
Muslim avoidable deaths, and (h) Afghanistan was subject to
repeated UK invasions in the 19th century but finally recovered
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government in 1978, the Russians invaded and Afghanistan
endured decades of war against the Russians (1979-1989) and
thence civil war (1989-1996); in 2001 Afghanistan was invaded by
the US Alliance (notably the US, UK, France, Germany,
Netherlands, Australia, Canada, New Zealand) on the false basis of
Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda being responsible for 9-11.
2. Burkina Faso: (a) 18.1 million, (b) 6.8 million, (c) 109,000, (d)
1.5 million, (e) $1,700, (t) 60.5% Muslim, (g) 0.9 million post-9-11
Muslim avoidable deaths, and (h) Burkino Faso was a French
colony until 1960, post-independence French military presence and
French forces boosted in 2013 as part of Operation Barkhane
directed against Muslim rebels in the Sahel.
3. Central African Republic: (a) 4.9 million, (b) 2.3 million, (c)
55,000, (d) 0.8 million, (e) $600, (t) 15.0% Muslim, (g) 0.1 million
post-9-11 Muslim avoidable deaths, and (h) the Central African
Republic was a French colony until 1960, post-independence
French military presence and France further boosted forces in 2013
as Muslim Genocide expanded (almost all Muslims have been
expelled from the capital).
4. Chad: (a) 14.0 million, (b) 5.1 million, (c) 147,000, (d) 1.9
million, (e) $2,600, (t) 53.1% Muslim, (g) 1.0 million post-9-11
Muslim avoidable deaths, and (h) Chad became ostensibly
independent in 1960 but there were major post-independence
French military involvements in Northern Chad and France further
boosted forces in 2013 as part of Operation Barkhane directed
against Muslim rebels in the Sahel.
5. Cote D'Ivoire: (a) 20.l million, (b) 7.0 million. (c) 199,000, (d)
3.0 million, (e) $3,100, (t) 38.6% Muslim, (g) 1.2 million post-9-11
Muslim avoidable deaths, and (h) Cote D'Ivoire suffered major
French military involvements in suppressing socialists before and
after independence in 1960 and a major French re-invasion in 2002.
6. Djibouti: (a) 0.9 million, (b) 141,000, (c) 8,000, (d) 0.1 million,
(e) $3,100, (t) 94.0% Muslim, (g) 0.1 million post-9-11 Muslim
avoidable deaths, and (h) Djibouti suffered a major, continuing
French, US and British presence after independence in 1977; it was
a base for French participation in the 1990-1991 Gulf War; French
suppressed Affar rebellion in 1977-2002; France gave the former
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 Djibouti, which then leased it to the US in 2001; France maintains
over 1,500 troops in Djibouti and French forces in Djibouti have
taken part in operations in Somalia, the Democratic Republic of
Congo, and the Cote D'Ivoire.
7. Iraq: (a) 36.4 million, (b) 5.3 million, (c) 47,000. (d) 0.7 million,
(e) $15,300, (f) 97.0% Muslim, (g) 0.7 million post-9-11 Muslim
avoidable deaths, and (h) Iraq suffered invasion by the UK in 1914
with the UK continuing to repress Iraqi rebellion in Iraq up to and
including WW2, notwithstanding ostensible Iraqi independence in
1932; Gulf War (1990-1991) in which 0.2 million Iraqis were
killed; 1990-2003 Sanctions; 2003-2011 US Alliance Iraq War;
renewed US and Australian military advisers and renewed bombing
oflraq in 2014 by US Alliance (US, UK, Australia, France).
8. Iran: (a) 79.1 million, (b) 14.3 million, (c) 55,000 (d) 1.0
million, (e) $17,400, (f) 99.4% Muslim, (g) 1.0 million post-9-11
Muslim avoidable deaths, and (h) Iran is one of the world's oldest
nations and has not invaded another country for several hundred
) years; the US engineered a coup against the secular and democratic
Mossadegh government in 1953 with the installation of dictatorship
under the Shah; the US imposed sanctions on Iran after the
revolution that removed the Shah in 1979; the US backed Iraq in
the Iraq-Iran War in which 1.5 million Iranians were killed (Iranian
1980-1988 avoidable deaths 2.1 million); under urging from the
Zionist-perverted US the UN imposed sanctions on Iran over its
nuclear energy program that Iran declared to be for peaceful
purposes only; the last major direct violent US action against Iran
was the shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655 by a US guided
missile cruiser killing all 290 on board; US ally Apartheid Israel
bombed an Iranian ship in Sudan in 2009; an estimated 68,000
Iranians have died since 9-11 from opiate drug-related causes due
to the US restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium
industry from 6% of world share in 2001 to 93% by 2007; 1.2
million people have died world-wide since 9-11 due to US Alliance
restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry, the
breakdown as of 2015 including 280,000 Americans, 256,000
Indonesians, 68,000 Iranians, 25,000 British, 14,000 Canadians,
10,000 Germans, 5,000 Australians and 500 French; about 4,000
Iranian border guards have died trying to block opiate smuggling
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perverted US the UN imposed deadly sanctions on Iran in 2006
over its nuclear energy program that Iran declared to be for
peaceful purposes only (no sanctions were applied to the nations
including Apartheid Israel that actually have nuclear weapons) -
these opiate-related deaths and deaths from sanctions are reflected
in huge post-9-11 avoidable mortality in Iran.
9. Lebanon: (a) 5.9 million, (b) 0.5 million, (c) 1,000, (d) 16,000,
(e) $18,000, (f) 59.5% Muslim, (g) 10,000 post-9-11 Muslim
avoidable deaths, and (h) Lebanon suffered French occupation after
WWI and gained independence in 1944; substantially occupied by
Apartheid Israel in 1982 (3,000 Palestinians killed in the Sabra and
Shatila Massacre); Israel withdrawal in 2000; in 2006 Apartheid
Israel attacked again killing over 1,000, making I million homeless
and destroying infrastructure on a huge scale.
I 0. Libya: (a) 6.3 million, (b) 0.8 million, (c) 6,000, (d) 78,000
(27,000 in 2011-2015), (e) $15,900, (f) 94.0% Muslim, (g) 73,000
post-9-11 Muslim avoidable deaths, and (h) Libya gained
independence in 1950 and under rule by Muammar Gaddafi in
1969-2011 became the most prosperous country in all of Africa,
but the 2011 France-UK-US (FUKUS) Alliance bombing campaign
removed Gaddafi, splintered and devastated the country, killed
100,000 people and generated 1 million refugees with annual
avoidable deaths increasing 3-fold after Western intervention.
11. Mali: (a) 20.1 million, (b) 7.0 million, (c) 199,000, (d) 1.8
million, (e) $1,700, (f) 90.0% Muslim, (g) 1.6 million post-9-11
Muslim avoidable deaths, and (h) Mali was brutally subdued by the
French in the 19th century but secured independence in 1960 but
with French hegemony; in 2013, France launched airstrikes against
Tuareg rebels who had conquered the northern half of the country
and finally defeated them in a so-called Operation Serval. France
followed up Operation Serval with Operation Barkhane dedicated
to killing Muslim rebels in the Sahel countries of Mali, Mauritania,
Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad.
12. Mauritania: (a) 17.6 million, (b) 1.3 million, (c) 123,000, (d)
2.3 million, (e) $4,300. (f) 100.0% Muslim, (g) 2.3 million post-9-
11 Muslim avoidable deaths, and (h) Mauritania was invaded by
the French in the 19th century so as to consolidate French territory
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 finally overcome in the 1930s; Mauritania became formally
independent in 1960 but was subject to French hegemony and
interference. France's Operation Barkhane involves thousands of
air-supported French troops dedicated to killing Muslim rebels in
the Sahel countries of Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Niger and
Chad.
13. Niger: (a) 19.9 million, (b) 6.6 million, (c) 111,000, (d) 1.8
million, (e) $1,100, (f) 94.0% Muslim, (g) 1.7 million post-9-11
Muslim avoidable deaths, and (h) Niger was conquered by France
in the late 19th century but became ostensibly independent in 1960
but under French hegemony; the French Operation Barkhane
involves thousands of air-supported French troops dedicated to
killing Muslim rebels in the Sahel countries of Mali, Mauritania,
Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad.
14. Pakistan: (a) 188.9 million, (b) 49.7 million, (c) 660,000, (d)
9.1 million, (e) $4,700, (f) 96.0% Muslim, (g) 8.7 million post-9-11
) Muslim avoidable deaths, and (h) Pakistan gained independence
from the UK in 1947 after 2 centuries of British rule in which 1.8
billion Indians died avoidably from deprivation in the British Raj;
independence in 194 7 was marked by generation of 18 million
refugees between India and Pakistan (half Muslim, half Hindu) and
up to 1 million people were killed; in 1971 US-backed Pakistani
forces killed 3 million mostly male Bengalis and raped 300,000
Bengali women in a Bengali Holocaust that marked the creation of
Bangladesh; Australian-targeted US drone attacks commenced in
2004.
15. Palestine: (a) 4.7 million, (b) 0.7 million, (c), 5,000, (d) 70,000,
(e) $4,900 (cf its Occupier Apartheid Israel's $33,000), (f) 85.0%
Muslim, (g) 60,000 post-9-11 Muslim avoidable deaths, and (h)
Palestine has an ancient history dating back to the very start of
agrarian civilization; British forces invaded in 1914 and together
with Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) forces
conquered Palestine; the 1917 Balfour Declaration promised
Palestine to the genocidal Zionists as a Jewish Homeland; Surafend
Massacre of Palestinians by Australian and New Zealand ANZAC
troops in 1918; 1948 creation of the State of Israel with massive
forcible expulsion of 800,000 Palestinians and Zionist seizure of
about 80% of Palestine; in 1967 Israel seized all of Palestine plus
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cleansed and Israeli Apartheid means that of 12 million Palestinian,
6 million are forbidden to step foot in Palestine and of 6 million
Palestinians living under Israeli rule only 28% (I. 7 million
Palestinian Israelis) can vote for the government ruling them - the
rest have essentially zero human rights; 2 million Palestinians have
died since 1936 from Zionist violence (0.1 million) or Zionist -
imposed deprivation (1.9 million).
16. Philippines: (a) 100.7 million, (b) 9.1 million, (c) 270,000, (d)
2. 7 million, ( e) $7,000, (f) 11.0% Muslim, (g) 0.3 million post-9-11
Muslim avoidable deaths, and (h) the Philippines was acquired by
the US from Spain at the conclusion of the Spanish-American War
(1898) but in the subsequent 1899-1913 Philippines-US War about
1 million Filipinos died; the Philippines became independent in
1946 but with retention of US bases; in the 21st century US forces
returned to combat communist rebels and thence Muslim rebels in
the south in Operation Enduring Freedom - Philippines (OEF-P)
(many Filipinos object to this military action by the US in their
country).
17. Somalia: (a) 10.8 million, (b) 5.6 million, (c) 91,000, (d) 1.2
million, (e) $600, (f) 96.0% Muslim, (g) 1.2 million post-9-11
Muslim avoidable deaths, and (h) Somalia was repeatedly invaded
by Italy in the 19th and 20th centuries. The British took over
Somalia in WW2. Independence in 1960 was followed by war
against Ethiopia and civil war, the effects of which were
exacerbated by drought and famine. The US invaded in 1992 and
after extensive civil war an Islamic administration assumed power
in 2005. However the US backed an Ethiopian invasion in 2007
and thence a Kenyan invasion. In 2009 France and Germany
invaded Somali waters to retake a captured French yacht and in
2013 French special forces from Djibouti failed in an operation to
rescue a captured French intelligence agent.
18. Sudan: (a) 40.2 million, (b) 13.5 million, (c) 157,000, (d) 2.3
million, (e) $4,300, (f) 97.0% Muslim, (g) 2.3 million post-9-11
Muslim avoidable deaths, and (h) Sudan was conquered by the UK
in 1898 but eventually became independent in 1958; the US under
Clinton notoriously bombed a Sudan pharmaceutical factory in
1998 (Professor Noam Chomsky estimated that I 0,000 Sudanese
would have died from disease as a result); US ally Apartheid Israel
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 are presently continuing. Apartheid Israeli arms are heavily
involved in the US-backed civil war in the newly independent
South Sudan.
19. Syria: (a) 18.5 million, (b) 2.2 million, (c) 14,000, (d) 190,000
(68,000 in 2011-2015), (e) $5,l 00, (f) 96.0% Muslim, (g) 171,000
post-9-11 Muslim avoidable deaths, and (h) Syria, one of the oldest
nations in the world, was allocated to France by the 1916 Anglo-
French Sykes-Picot Agreement that divided the Middle East
between Britain and France; Syria was put under a League of
Nations mandate to France in 1920; in 1944 Syria became
independent and in 1945 Syria became a founding member of the
UN with the last French forces leaving Syria in 1946; in 1967 the
Syrian Golan Heights region was captured and largely ethnically
cleansed by Apartheid Israel which continues to periodically bomb
Syria; commencement of Sunni rebellion in 2011 backed
diplomatically and materially by Turkey, the US, UK, France,
Qatar, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Apartheid Israel. The Syrian Civil
War has so far killed about 0.3 million people violently, killed a
similar number of people through war-imposed deprivation, and
generated about 12 million refugees. Syria was once a haven of
religious toleration and a world leader per capita in providing
haven for refugees, but over half of its population are now refugees
themselves and Syria has now been devastated in a sectarian civil
war involving the Assad Government versus anti-Assad Sunni
rebels ( of which ISIS is the most powerful) that are variously
backed by the UK, US, France, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
Jordan, Australia and Apartheid Israel.
20. Yemen: (a) 19.9 million, (b) 6.6 million, (c) 111,000, (d) 1.2
million, (e) $1,100, (f) 100.0% Muslim, (g) 1.2 million post-9-11
Muslim avoidable deaths, and (h) South Yemen gained
independence from the UK in 1967 and North and South Yemen
unified in 1989; continuing armed conflict with Australian-targeted
US drone attacks in the 21st century that are continuing. Currently
Yemen is being war criminally invaded by an anti-Houthi Saudi-
led Coalition including Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates,
Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Senegal, and
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Summary and conclusions

The post-9-11 avoidable deaths in the 20 countries violated by the

West in the post-9-11 War on Terror total 34.0 million. However
we can re-assess this data by considering the Muslim percentage of
the population in these 20 countries and can estimate that post-9-11
Muslim avoidable deaths in these 20 US Alliance-violated
countries total 26.8 million, noting that, as discussed above, it is
likely that most of the violent Muslim deaths in the Zionist-
promoted US War on Terror are not included in this estimate.
About half the victims of this Neocon American and Zionist
Imperialist (NAZI)-prosecuted Muslim Holocaust and Muslim
Genocide are children.
This carnage of 26.8 million post-9-11 Muslim avoidable deaths is
26,800,000/130 = 206,154 or about 200,000 times greater than the
130 murdered in the recent appalling Paris massacre - however, in
contrast to the saturation coverage of the appalling Paris atrocity,
this Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide is resolutely ignored
by genocidally racist, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, and
Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-subverted
Western Mainstream media.
Using data from the UN Population Division 2006 Revision of
World Population Prospects it was previously determined that Iraqi
avoidable deaths in 1990-2003 and 2003-2011 totalled 1.7 million
and 1.2 million, respectively, and combining this data with Gulf
War violent deaths of 0.2 million and Iraq War violent deaths of
1.5 million, yielded estimates of Iraqi deaths from violence or
violently-imposed deprivation totalling 1.9 million (1990-2003),
2.7 million (2003-2011) and 4.6 million (1990-2011) [4, 22, 23].
However using the present UN 2015 Revision data [25] one
estimates Iraqi avoidable deaths in 1990-2003 and 2003-2011
totalling 0.5 million and 0.4 million, respectively, this yielding
estimates of Iraqi deaths from violence or violently-imposed
deprivation totalling 0.7 million (1990-2003), 1.9 million (2003-
2011) and 2.6 million (1990-2011 ). The UN 2015 Revision data on
Iraq may underestimate avoidable deaths because they are based on
data provided by the US-installed regime which, for example,
implausibly claims that in Iraq under-5 infant mortality declined
after imposition of Sanctions in 1990 and declined further after the
US invasion in 2003 [25].

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Similarly, using 2006 Revision data it was determined that Afghan
avoidable deaths and violent deaths in 2001-2014 totalled 5.5
million and 1. 7 million, respectively for a total of 7 .2 million post-
invasion deaths from violence or from deprivation. However using
the present UN 2015 Revision data [25] based on data from the
government of US occupied Afghanistan one estimates that Afghan
avoidable deaths and violent deaths in 2001-2015 have totalled 2.3
million and 0.7 million, respectively, for a total of 3.0 million post-
invasion deaths from violence or from deprivation.
The 2015 Paris Massacre in which 130 innocent civilians were
murdered by jihadis is a shocking crime that must be unequivocally
condemned but is already being exploited (a) by the jihadi non-
state terrorist perpetrators as a victory and evidence for more
atrocities to come, and (b) by the US state terrorists, French state
terrorists and US Alliance state terrorists as a "French 9-11" with
calls from Obama and Holland to genocidally destroy jihadi rebels
in Syria and Iraq [l, 2].
Completely missing from the continuing hysterical response to the
Paris atrocity from US lackey Western Mainstream journalists,
politicians and academics is any public airing of the horrendous
reality of27 million Muslims dying avoidably since 9-11 in 20
substantially or significantly Muslim countries that have been
attacked by US Alliance state terrorists. Jihadi non-state terrorists
must be condemned (a) for the violent crimes they personally
commit against innocent people and (b) for the vastly greater
crimes committed by the US Alliance against Muslims in response
to jihadi outrages. Indeed jihadi non-state terrorists are among the
greatest assets of US imperialism - every jihadi atrocity is another
excuse trumpeted by Mainstream media for more atrocities against
the Muslim world by US state terrorists and US Alliance state
terrorists.
The Paris atrocity can be seen as "blowback" for horrendous crimes
committed by the US Alliance against the Muslim world from West
Africa to South East Asia [26, 27]. The horrible reality is that the
US has a long history of false-flag operations (with 9-11 being the
most immediately and subsequently deadly) [3], supporting
terrorism and exploiting terrorist acts by Indigenous insurgents
lacking military industries, navies, airforces and tanks, and
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Indeed the US has a long history of supporting terrorists ( e.g. US-
backed terrorists in Ecuador who would bomb Catholic churches
knowing that the socialists would be blamed; the US-backed
Gladio organization that committed atrocities in post-war Europe
that would be blamed on communists; and backingjihadi fighters
in Afghanistan in the 1980s and in the Balkans in the 1990s) [28].
Indeed the US has an appalling record of replacing secular
governments in the Muslim world with sectarian regimes ( e.g.
Afghanistan, 1978; Iraq, 2003; Libya, 2011; and now in Syria
today but for Russian support for the Assad Government) [29].
Even the appalling Western Mainstream media can no longer
ignore the Elephant in the Room realities that (a) the illegal US
Alliance invasion of Iraq generated sectarian warfare and the Sunni
rebellion that transmuted into ISIS, and (b) support for anti-Assad
rebels by the US Alliance state terrorism - US state terrorism, UK
state terrorism, French state terrorism, Australian state terrorism,
Apartheid Israeli state terrorism, Turkish state terrorism, Jordanian
state terrorism, Qatari state terrorism and Saudi Arabian state
terrorism - has led to ISIS (Islamic State, IS, ISIL, Daesh)
dominating rebel-held Syria.
Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity.
Decent, pro-peace people must wonder what they can do in the face
of appalling non-state terrorism (e.g. as exhibited by ISIS in killing
130 innocent people in this latest Paris atrocity) and the vastly
worse carnage wrought by US state terrorism, UK state terrorism,
French state terrorism, and Apartheid Israeli state terrorism in the
Muslim world involving post-9-11 Muslim avoidable deaths in 20
US Alliance-violated countries now totalling 26.8 million. Decent
people who are utterly opposed to both non-state terrorism and
state terrorism must (a) inform everyone they can, (b) urge and
support urgent cease-fire, dialogue and compromise between all
parties to prevent a worsening catastrophe in both Iraq and Syria,
and ( c) urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BOS)
against all people, parties, politicians, companies, corporations and
countries disproportionately involved in militarism, violence, war,
genocide, non-state terrorism and state terrorism.

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2020 Postscript

One can roughly estimate that violent deaths of Muslims in 20

countries invaded by the US Alliance in the 2-decade US War on
Muslims now total about 5 million, this comprising 1.5 million
(Iraq), 1.5 million (Afghanistan), 0.5 million (Somalia), 0.5 million
(Syria) and 1 million in the remaining 16 countries. To this carnage
we must add 27 million avoidable deaths from deprivation as
estimated in November 2015 for a total of 32 million Muslim
deaths from violence or from imposed deprivation. Anti-Semitism
is evil racism and exists in 2 equally repugnant forms, namely anti-
Arab anti-Semitism against 300 million ethnically Semitic Arabs
and 1,600 million mainly culturally Semitic Muslims
(lslamophobia), and anti-Jewish anti-Semitism against about 20
million mostly culturally Semitic Jews. However the Zionist-
subverted, war criminal and genocidal US Alliance resolutely
ignores anti-Arab anti-Semitism, falsely defines anti-Semitism as
just anti-Jewish anti-Semitism against about 20 million Jews, and is
involved in an ongoing, genocidally anti-Semitic, post-9-11 War on
Muslims that has so far killed 32 million Muslims through violence
or imposed deprivation in an ongoing Muslim Holocaust and
Muslim Genocide. Those US Alliance figures disproportionately
involved in this ongoing atrocity should be arraigned as war
criminals before the International Criminal Court (ICC) as indeed
argued by John Valder (former national president of the powerful
and conservative Liberal Party of Australia) and the anti-racist
Jewish British writer and Literature Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter
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"The NATO invasion and occupation marks the ruinous 'rebirth'

of Libya's standard of living. That is the forbidden and unspoken
truth: an entire Nation has been destabilized and destroyed, its
people driven into abysmal poverty. The objective of the NATO
bombings from the outset was to destroy the country's standard of
living, its health infrastructure, its schools and hospitals, its water
distribution system. And then 'rebuild' with the help of donors and
creditors under the helm of the IMF and the World Bank".
Professor Michel Chossudovsky (University of Ottawa) in
"Destroying a country's standard of living: what Libya had
achieved, what has been destroyed", Global Research, 20
September 2011.
"Estimates of their [refugee] numbers vary between 600,000 and
one million by the Tunisian Ministry oflnterior. If we add [to]
those, many also settled in Egypt, they would be nearly two million
Libyans today outside the borders of a total population estimated at
just over six million inhabitants". Isabelle Mandraud, '"Kaddafi est
toujours la' pour les Libyens de Tunis", Le Monde, 13 May 2014.
"From prosperity to misery - the hand of NA TO. Libyans lived in
safety, whereas today many need protection; migrants had
reasonable living conditions as they were housed in camps, half-
way homes in their trip towards Europe after receiving
documentation. Today they are sold as slaves or tortured or raped.
Or all three. Or murdered. Libyans enjoyed free public healthcare,
in Libya and paid public healthcare abroad if they could not get the
treatment they needed. Today the healthcare system has collapsed".
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey in "Prior to 2011 NATO war Libya had
the highest standard ofliving in Africa", Global Research, 6
February 2019.

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 CHAPTER 9
LIBYAN GENOCIDE
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[First published as Gideon Polya, "Review: 'The Return' by
Hisham Matar - Libyan Genocide & seeking the disappeared",
Countercurrents, 5 October 2019:
https://countercurrents.org/2019/10/review-the-return-by-hisham-
matar-libyan-genocide-seeking-the-disappeared.]
"The Return. Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between" by Hisham
Matar is a beautifully written and moving account by an expatriate
Libyan writer of his over 2 decade search to find out what
happened to his father, Jaballa Matar, a leading opponent and a
secret political prisoner of the Qaddafi regime in Libya. However
there are some surprising total omissions in the account, most
notably the critical role of the France, UK and US (FUKUS)
Coalition in the genocidal devastation of Libya. Hisham Matar, the
author of "The Return" [1 ], was born in 1970 in New York city
where his father, Jaballa Matar, was a member of the Libyan UN
delegation, notwithstanding his imprisonment for 6 months in 1970
for criticism of Muammar Qaddafi who had come to power in a
1969 military coup. His family returned to Libya in 1973 to live in
Tripoli but fled to live in Cairo in 1979 where Jaballa Matar
developed business interests as well as becoming a leading figure
in resistance to the Qaddafi government. Hisham and his elder
brother Ziad studied overseas under assumed names for serious
security reasons, Hisham in the UK and Ziad in Switzerland [2].
Indeed "The Return" recounts how Ziad narrowly escaped kidnap
and/or assassination in Switzerland (pages 7-9 [ 1 ]). Jaballa Matar
was arrested by Egyptian secret police in March 1990 and
ultimately became a "disappeared" political prisoner in a secret
prison in Libya. In 1993 the Matar family received the first of
several letters from Jaballa Matar indicating that he was imprisoned
in the notorious Abu Salim prison in Tripoli, and in 1995 Jaballa
Matar had a letter smuggled out to a connection in the UK.
Sometime "in the years after 2004" Hisham Matar met a former
inmate who had communicated with his father via "passages" in the
cell walls but who had only ever seen him at a distance. As an adult
Hisham Matar has spent about 25 years trying to find out what has
happened to his father: "I became a thorn in the side of both the
Libyan and British governments" (page 167 [ 1 ]). During this period
the UK-based Hisham Matar also became an accomplished writer
and married [2]. Indeed, as recounted in "The Return", his literary
celebrity eventually gave him Mainstream media coverage for his

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cause and access to politically powerful people in both the UK and
Libya. The facts about Jaballa Matar were set out by the human
rights organization TRIAL in a submission to the UN Human
Rights Committee on behalf of his son, Hisham Matar, in
November 2010: "Jaballa Matar was a colonel in the Libyan army
and became a key member of the opposition to the government
after the 1969 coup. Mr. Matar was arrested in 1970 and detained
for 6 months. After his release, he worked a few years for the
government and then resigned his position because of policy
disagreement. He worked as a businessman from 1973 to 1978 in
Libya but realising it was no longer safe to live there, Jaballa Matar
and his family left the country in 1979 to settle in Egypt, where
they spent 11 years in exile. While in Cairo, Jaballa Matar was a
member of the Executive Committee of the National Front for the
Salvation of Libya (NFSL), an opposition movement. As such, he
wrote many articles calling for democracy, the rule of law and
justice in Libya. On 4 or 5 March 1990, agents of the State Security
Investigation Bureau came to Jaballa Matar's home in the district
ofMohandessin, Cairo. They took him and Mr. Izzat Yousef Al-
Maqrif - another opposition figure living in exile in Cairo - to the
headquarters of the State Security Investigation Bureau. Upon
arriving, Mr. Matar and Mr. Al-Maqrif were interrogated by agents
of the State Security Investigation. They were released by the
Egyptian authorities, but their passports were confiscated. On 12
March 1990, Egyptian authorities returned and took the two men
from their respective homes. The two were detained and not
allowed to return home. Their families never saw them again.
According to letters the two men managed to smuggle out of
prison, their relatives were informed that after their arrest, the two
men were taken to the headquarters of the Egyptian Military
Security for further interrogation and then transferred to Libya by
plane from Cairo airport to Tripoli. From there, they were taken to
Abu Salim prison. Jaballa Matar was never brought before a judge
nor given the possibility to challenge the legality of his detention.
No charges against him were ever presented. His family was never
informed by the authorities about the fate or whereabouts of their
loved one. To this day [November 2010], it remains unclear
whether Jaballa Matar is still alive" [3].
As detailed in "The Return", other relatives and associates of
Hisham Matar were imprisoned by the Qaddafi regime. Indeed his

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grandfather Hamed Matar was a Libyan patriot who was
imprisoned by the genocidal fascist Italian invaders but managed to
escape. Hisham Matar came from a very large family (he had 130
cousins) that was very influential politically and was based in
Ajdabiya, south of Benghazi in eastern Libya. "The Return" makes
a moving account of love of parents, family, tribe, culture, poetry
and country.
"The Return" powerfully describes the indomitability of the human
spirit and makes a significant addition to prison literature,
alongside such diverse works as Oscar Wilde's "De Profundis",
Antonio Gramsci's "Prison Notebooks", Ray Parkin's "Into the
Smother", Wole Soyinka's "The Man Died", Martin Luther King's
"Letter from Birmingham Jail", Nelson Mandela's "Long Walk to
Freedom", and recently Behrouz Boochani's "No Friend But The
Mountains. Writing from Manus Prison" [4, 5]. To this brief
catalogue we must add works from the WW2 European Holocaust
concentration camps (notably "Man's Search for Meaning" by
Viktor Frankl, and "If this is a Man" by Primo Levi), from Stalinist
prisons in Hungary (notably "Political Prisoner" by Paul Ignotus
and "Seven Years Solitary" by Dr. Edith Bone, a cousin of my
grandmother), and from other incarcerations (notably "Prisoner
Without a Name, Cell Without a Number" by Argentinian Jacobo
Timerman and "My Years in an Indian Prison" by Mary Tyler).
The horrors of the Russian Gulag are recounted in the novels "One
Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", "In the First Circle" and "The
Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Anne Frank's
"The Diary of a Young Girl" describes her life hiding from the
Nazis in WW2 Nazi-occupied Netherlands. In Phillip Agee's
"Inside the Company. CIA Diary" the author describes having a
chat with a Uruguayan police chief to whom the US Embassy
supplies the names of dissidents, and who turns up the radio to
mask the distant screams of a torture victim ...
Hisham Matar published the novels "In the Country of Me"
(shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize) and "Anatomy of a
Disappearance", and was widely published in the Mainstream
media in the UK and US. Because of his success as a writer and his
public profile, Hisham Matar was able to garner support and
connect with important politicians in relation to his campaign to
find out about his father. Hisham Matar provides a fascinating and
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particular with Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, the son of the Libyan
dictator, who claimed to know what had happened but evidently
strung Hisham Matar along with conditions for disclosure. A great
irony is that Seif Qaddafi is wanted for a war crimes trial in The
Hague but subsequent to his capture by Libyan militia also became
"disappeared" and remained "disappeared" as of 2017 [6].
"The Return" is very well written and evidently pleased the UK
and American literati because it received excellent reviews and
won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and
the 2017 PEN America Jean Stein Book Award [2]. However it
must be noted that there are some striking absences in "The
Return" that would no doubt have made it acceptable to editors,
publishers, critics and readers in Zionist-subverted America and the
Zionist-subverted UK who resolutely ignore US Alliance war
crimes and would like to think the best of the US, UK and US- and
UK-backed Apartheid Israel. These astonishing absences are set
out below:
(I). There is no mention of the France-UK-US (FUKUS) Coalition
that genocidally devastated Libya. Quite astonishingly there is
absolutely no mention of how the might of the France-UK-US
(FUKUS) Coalition bombed Libya back to the Stone Age and
critically enabled the defeat of the Libyan armed forces in 2011.
The "excuse" for the FUKUS Coalition intervention - all such
devastating US Alliance interventions require "excuses" - was to
prevent a predicted "massacre" of rebel forces in Benghazi by the
Libyan armed forces. In the event up to 25,000 Libyans were killed
in the Libyan Civil War and as many as 50,000 wounded, with I
million refugees being generated, many of them being migrant
workers crucial for the economic survival of their families
elsewhere, notably in other African countries [7-12]. Timothy
Bancroft-Hinchey (2019): "From prosperity to misery- the hand of
NATO. Libyans lived in safety, whereas today many need
protection; migrants had reasonable living conditions as they were
housed in camps, half-way homes in their trip towards Europe after
receiving documentation. Today they are sold as slaves or tortured
or raped. Or all three. Or murdered. Libyans enjoyed free public
healthcare, in Libya and paid public healthcare abroad if they could
not get the treatment they needed. Today the healthcare system has
collapsed. Libyans used to enjoy a plentiful food supply and prided
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 dishes. Today a third of the population is hungry or starving.
Libyans benefitted from Qaddafi's great manmade water supply
across the desert, bringing clean water to the cities and countryside
alike. Today an increasing number of people have no access to
clean drinking water. NATO destroyed all of that. They bombed
the water supply, then bombed the factory producing tubes so that
it could not be repaired, they strafed the electricity grid 'to break
their backs', murdered Qaddafi's grandchildren because they were
classified as 'legitimate targets', murdered civilians, told lie after
lie after lie after lie after lie after lie after lie about the Government
forces attacking indiscriminately when all they were doing was try
to stem the onslaught of foreign terrorists shipped in to do NATO's
dirty work, orchestrated by NA TO boots on the ground, in direct
breach ofUNSC Resolutions 1970 and 1973" [9].
Le Monde (2014): "Estimates of their [refugee] numbers vary
between 600,000 and one million by the Tunisian Ministry of
Interior. lfwe add [to] those, many also settled in Egypt, they
would be nearly two million Libyans today outside the borders of a
total population estimated at just over six million inhabitants" [ 12].
Before the NATO invasion the GDP per capita in Libya (PPP) was
about $30,000 (the highest in Africa) but it collapsed after the
invasion, recovered slightly and then collapsed again after
resumption of civil war down to about $6,000 in 2016 [ 1 O].
/ (2). There is no mention of the subsequent Libyan Civil War (2014-
present). The Egypt- and DAE-backed Libyan National Army led
by General Khalifa Haftar now controls much of Libya and is now
besieging the UN-, Turkey- and Qatar-backed government in
Tripoli [13-16]. The US continues to bomb Islamists in Libya. The
UNHCR (2017): "An estimated 1.3 million people are in need of
humanitarian assistance in Libya [population 6 million]. Hundreds
of thousands of people across the country are suffering. They are
living in unsafe conditions with little or no access to health care,
essential medicines, food, safe drinking water, shelter or
education ... The country presents a complex displacement scenario
with 217,002 people displaced inside the country (IDPs) and
278,559 people who have returned home (returnees) ... Libya also
hosts 43,113 refugees and asylum-seekers who are registered with
UNHCR. Refugees are travelling alongside migrants through
dangerous routes towards Europe. Up to 90 per cent of people
crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Europe depart from Libya" [17].

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(3). There is no mention of a Libyan Genocide associated with US
Alliance-backed war. Although Hisham Matar does deal with the
brutal and genocidal Italian suppression of Libyans in the 1920s
and 193 Os [ 1], there is no mention of Libyan Genocide in relation
to the US Alliance-backed war in once peaceful and prosperous
Libya and 2 million out of 6 million Libyans being forced to live
outside Libya ( ethnic cleansing). Article 2 of the UN Genocide
Convention defines Genocide thus: "In the present Convention,
genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to
destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious
group, as such: a) Killing members of the group; b) Causing serious
bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) Deliberately
inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about
its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures
intended to prevent births within the group; e) Forcibly transferring
children of the group to another group" [18]. Thus the UK, the US
and their allies have been variously killing Iraqis since 1914 - there
have been 9 million Iraqi deaths from Western violence or
Western-imposed deprivation since 1914, this amounting to an
Iraqi Genocide and an Iraqi Holocaust [19, 20]. Likewise it is
estimated that over the same period 2.2 million Palestinians died
from violence, 0.1 million, or from imposed deprivation, 2.1
million, in an ongoing Palestinian Genocide. Presently of 14
million Indigenous Palestinians, 7 million are exiled from
Palestine, and nearly 7 million are subjects of Apartheid
Israel, including 5 million Occupied Palestinians without any
human rights and highly abusively confined to the Gaza
Concentration Camp (2 million) or to West Bank ghettoes (3
million), and nearly 2 million "lucky" Palestinian Israelis living as
Third Class citizens under over 60 Nazi-style race laws. Palestine
has been 90% ethnically cleansed with Netanyahu promising to
annex and ethnically cleanse the Jordan Valley i.e. to "achieve"
ethnically cleansing of 95% of Palestine [23]. Deaths from violence
or imposed deprivation in Libya may be of the order of 0.1 million
since 2011 [20-22], but 2 million out of 6 million Libyans being
forced live outside Libya thanks to the NATO invasion is ethnic
cleansing, a "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life
calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in
part" and consequently a Libyan Genocide. Just as the genocidal
Zionists want the land of Palestine but not the Palestinians (a

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Palestinian Genocide), so the serial war criminal US Alliance wants
Libya's oil but not the Libyans (a Libyan Genocide). In March
2011 I wrote thus about the NATO invasion of Libya: "20 March
2011 marked the 8th anniversary of the illegal, war criminal
invasion of Iraq by the US, UK and Australia. In post-invasion
Iraq, violent deaths (1.4 million) and non-violent avoidable deaths
from war-imposed deprivation (1.2 million) have totalled 2.6
million (so far). Yet the West ignores the carnage of the ongoing
Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide and marked this dreadful
anniversary by commencing a devastating high technology war on
another Arab nation, Libya. A legitimate fear from the US-backed
Palestinian Genocide, the Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide and
the Afghan Holocaust and Afghan Genocide is that this latest US
war, the Libyan War, will likewise evolve to holocaust and
genocide dimensions and to a Libyan Holocaust and Libyan
Genocide" [25]. With 2 million out of 6 million Libyans forced to
live outside Libya [12], that prediction of a Libyan Genocide has
been realized by this appalling ethnic cleansing.
( 4 ). There is no mention of the Israeli shooting down of Libyan
Arab Airlines Flight 114. The destruction of Pan Am Flight 103
over Lockerbie in 1998 is mentioned in relation to Sief Qaddafi
welcoming home the intelligence officer convicted of the appalling
crime that killed 270 people (page 171 [l ]). However there is no
mention of the Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 that was shot down
by the Israelis over the Sinai in 1973 killing 108 people [26].
Indeed the only mention of "Israel" in "The Return" is in reference
to prison handcuffs that were called "Israeli cuffs" from their
manufacture there (page 231 [ 1 ]). These "Israeli cuffs" were used
in the 29 June 1996 Abu Salim Prison Massacre in which 1,270
prisoners were killed (Chapter 21, pages 220-233 [l ]; [27]).
Political prisoner Jaballa Matar may have been killed in this
atrocity. These astonishing absences from "The Return" are
succinctly explained by the comment of brilliant Indian writer
Arundhati Roy on simultaneous First World holocaust commission
and holocaust denial (2004): "The ultimate privilege of the elite is
not just their deluxe lifestyles, but deluxe lifestyles with a clear
conscience" [28]. We all suffer loss of relatives and other loved
ones in our lives but those situations of disappearance and not
knowing what actually happened to the "disappeared" have a
continuing poignancy. Thus only about a dozen of my wider family

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survived the WW2 Jewish Holocaust in Hungary in 1944-1945. My
paternal grandfather, Professor Jeno Polya (Jeno Sandor P6lya, in
German: Eugen Alexander P6lya), was a very famous surgeon and
kept a war-time diary, but the last entry to have survived is dated 8
November 1944 when the Russians were on the verge of liberating
Budapest [29]. It is assumed that he was eventually captured and
killed by the Hungarian Nazis (the Arrow Cross). Thus the abstract
of a review of his life as a surgeon states: "Eugen P6lya was an
outstanding Hungarian surgeon of the first half of this century, a
man of international reputation. Already in 1913 on the basis of
animal experiments he realised the necessity of conservative
treatment in acute pancreatitis. He and Reichel (Germany) share the
fame of the introduction of a modified GE in partial resection of the
stomach (B-II-type). In 1944 P6lya was killed by Hungarian
fascists for racial and political reasons. Nobody knows where his
corpse was buried" [30]. Another review of his life as a surgeon
speculates that he was arrested and killed for protesting the
maltreatment of Jews being led to execution on the banks of the
Danube. I was introduced to a man in Sydney who claimed to have
witnessed as a child the beating death of my grandfather in the
Arrow Cross headquarters. This unresolved "disappearance" had a
big impact on my father and our family. A very famous instance of
"disappearance" at the same time was that of Raoul Wallenberg,
the Swedish diplomat who saved the lives of thousands Jews in
Budapest in 1944 by providing them with Swedish documents but
who disappeared after the Russians liberated Budapest - it is
believed that he ended up in the Soviet Gulag because the Russians
were concerned about possible US links of Raoul Wallenberg or his
family [31]. 5 years later my paternal grandmother's cousin, Dr.
Edith Bone, was "disappeared" into a solitary confinement as a
political prisoner in post-war communist Hungary (she escaped
during the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 and wrote of her
experience in a book "Seven Years Solitary" that was to inspire a
teenager Aung San Suu Kyi years before her own detention) [32,
33]. We are all obliged to "bear witness". As described in a riveting
account in "The Return", Hisham Matar was assiduous in trying to
find out what happened to his "disappeared" father, Jaballa Matar.
Because of his growing literary celebrity, Hisham Matar was
eventually able to get Mainstream media support and indeed was
able to get to talk to people in the top political leadership of both

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the UK and Libya. In my book "Jane Austen and the Black Hole of
British History" (about how the British with Australian complicity
deliberately starved 6- 7 million Indians to death in the WW2
Bengali Holocaust and then erased or "disappeared" it from
history), I made a practical suggestion for protecting all of
Humanity from being "disappeared", to whit: "Global insistence on
basic human rights throughout the world ... a readily addressable
computer-based register of all humanity, from those hiding in the
jungles to those incarcerated in prison or 'refugee camps', so that
no more Anne Franks, Jeno Polyas or Raoul Wallenbergs can
simply be 'disappeared' from the face of the earth without
remorseless international inquiry and penalty that may save them
from oblivion" [34, 35].

2020 Postscript

The Libyan civil war continues in what was once the most
prosperous country in Africa before the war criminal France, UK
and US (FUKUS) invasion. At the start of the new decade, the
Turkish Parliament has just approved deployment of Turkish forces
to support the Tripoli-based, UN-recognised Government of
National Accord (GNA) that is threatened by the Benghazi-based
forces of Egypt- and UAE-backed General Khalifa Haftar's Libyan
National Army (LNA). US President Trump has immediately
objected. Turkey and GNA Libya have lined up against a Greece,
Cyprus and Apartheid Israel plan to bypass Turkey in exporting
Eastern Mediterranean maritime gas to Europe ("Turkey's
Parliament approves military deployment to Libya", Al Jazeera, 3
January 2020: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01 /turkey-
parliament-approves-military-deployment-libya-
200102113511422.html; "Turkey slams controversial EastMed
pipeline deal signed in Athens", TRTWorld, 3 January 2020:
https://www.trtworld.com/europe/turkey-slams-controversial-
eastmed-pi peline-deal-signed-in-athens-3 2668).

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"Any attack by Iran on anything American will be met with great
and overwhelming force. In some areas, overwhelming will mean
obliteration". Donald Trump in a Tweet, 2019.
"Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) emphatically opposes a
U.S. war with Iran. In light of the U.S.'s act of war against Iran,
putting the two nations close to the brink of war, DSA calls on all
members and chapters to mobilize against yet another U.S. war in
the Middle East. On January 2, 2020, the U.S. military
assassinated, on Iraqi soil, Iranian General Qassim Suleimani. Such
a move is an act of war, and escalates an already tense military
situation in Iraq and Iran. In addition to recklessly endangering
millions of lives throughout the Middle East, yesterday's action
violates the War Powers Act, the U.S. Constitution, and
international law". Democratic Socialists of America, "Urgent call
for action against a U.S. war on Iran", 3 January 2020.
"Britain's recent history with Iran is, for the most part, shaming.
Nineteenth-century imperialists and traders exploited and bullied,
redrawing its borders with the Raj ... If Trump's hawks get their
war, Britain risks being sucked in on the side of an aggressive
superpower whose words and deeds are increasingly inimical to
this country's interests and values. There's an old debt to be paid,
and it's high time Britain finally did the right thing by Iran. That
requires unhesitating, active opposition to the threat the Trump
regime poses to Iranians, the wider region - and to us". Simon
Tisdale in "The heedless drift to war with Iran shames Britain",
Guardian, 28 June 2019.

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[First published as Gideon Polya, "Apartheid Israel bombing
Syria & Iraq - hotting up deadly 4-decade US war on Iran",
Countercurrents, 14 August 2019:
https://countercurrents.org/2019/08/apartheid-israel-bombing-syria-
iraq-hotting-up-deadly-4-decade-us-war-on-iran.]
Since the removal of the US-backed Shah in the 1979 Iranian
Revolution, the US has enacted 4 decades of deadly hostility to Iran
through sanctions and violence that can be described as a 4-decade
US War on Iran. l million Iranians died in the 1980-1988 US-
backed Iran-Iraq War and 3 million Iranians died avoidably from
deprivation in 4 decades of variously applied sanctions. Now UK
machinations, US sanctions with threats of "obliteration", and
Apartheid Israeli bombing of Iranian facilities in Syria and Iraq
threaten a devastating hot war of 3 nuclear powers against a
peaceful and non-nuclear-armed Iran.
Words and prior actions matter, especially when they come from a
mendacious, blustering, bullying, murderous, racist and jingoistic
leader of an America that has 7,300 nuclear warheads [1] and
indeed used nuclear weapons to kill 200,000 Japanese civilians in
the war criminal atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in
1945 [2]. President Donald Trump in threatening "obliteration" of
parts oflran (2019): "The Iranian leadership doesn't understand the
words 'nice' or 'compassion', they never have. Sadly, the thing
they do understand is strength and power, and the USA is by far the
most powerful military force in the world, with $1.5tn invested
over the last two years alone ... Any attack by Iran on anything
American will be met with great and overwhelming force. In some
areas, overwhelming will mean obliteration" [3].
After Trump called off a US attack on Iran over the downing of an
unmanned drone, supposedly because it would have killed 150
people, Iranian foreign minister, Javad Zarif commented: "You
were really worried about 150 people? How many people have you
killed with a nuclear weapon? How many generations have you
wiped out with these weapons? It is us who, because of our
religious views, will never pursue a nuclear weapon" [3].
Words and track record matter, and Trump threatened to "totally
destroy" nuclear-armed North Korea (2017): "The US has great
strength and patience. If it is forced to defend ourselves or our
allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea"
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because in the 1950-1953 Korean War US bombing killed 28% of
the North Korean population [5].
Words matter, and what Trump has been so obscenely adumbrating
is an Iranian Genocide, an Iranian Holocaust, a Korean Genocide
and a Korean Holocaust, noting that "holocaust" means deaths of a
huge number of people and "genocide" is defined by Article 2 of
the UN Genocide Convention as "acts committed with intent to
destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious
group". War is the penultimate in racism and genocidal war is the
ultimate in racism.
Decent people around the world legitimately fear the horrendous
consequences of a full-blown US and US Alliance military attack
on Iran. However 4 million Iranians have already died from
violence, 1 million, or from sanctions-imposed deprivation, 3
million, in a 4-decade US War on Iran. Further, while Iran leads the
world in interdiction of opiate drugs from US-occupied
Afghanistan, this flood of US-protected opiates has killed 33,000
Iranians and the 5.2 million people who have died worldwide in a
US-imposed Opiate Holocaust inescapably linked to US restoration
of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry from 6% of world
market share in 2001 to 90% in 2007 [6]. One notes that the WW2
Jewish Holocaust was associated with 5-6 million Jews killed by
the German Nazis through violence or imposed deprivation.
The background to this 4 decade US War on Iran goes back to the
Great Game between Imperial Russia and the British Empire (to
keep Russia away from "British" India, and the Indian Ocean) and
the discovery of strategically vital oil in Iran in the 19th century.
The British and Russians continually and violently interfered in
Iran, culminating in British and Russian occupation of Iran in
WW2. The US successfully destroyed a democratic Iran in 1953
through sanctions, economic blockade and subversion that resulted
in a US-backed coup, replacement of democracy under Prime
Minister Mossadegh (who had attempted nationalization of Anglo-
Iranian oil) with installation of an authoritarian regime under the
Shah and Anglo-American hegemony. The Islamic Revolution in
1979 replaced the US-backed Shah with a democracy-based
theocracy. The removal of Anglo-American hegemony by the
Iranian Revolution immediately initiated 40 years of US hostility,
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Set out below are details of (A) I million violent Iranian deaths,
and (B) 3.1 million Iranian avoidable deaths from sanctions in the
4-decade US War on Iran, (C) the opiate-related deaths of 33,000
Iranians (and 5.2 million people world-wide) due to US restoration
of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry from 6% of world
share in 2001 to 90% in 2007, (D) how US surrogate Apartheid
Israel has already re-commenced a hot US War on Iran by bombing
Iranian facilities in Syria and Iraq, and (E) how a serial invader and
nuclear-armed US Alliance threatens a peaceful, nuclear-weapons-
free Iran.
(A). 1 million violent Iranian deaths in the 4-decade US War on
Iran
The 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War began with the US-backed Iraqi
invasion oflran in 1980. It involved Iraqi use of US-suppled poison
gas and ultimately killed about 1 million Iranians and 250,000-
500,000 Iraqis [7]. Further violent Iranian deaths occurred with the
US Navy downing of an Iranian passenger jet Iran Air Flight 655 in
1988 with the deaths of 290 passengers [8], and Apartheid Israeli
bombing of Syrian Government-invited Iranian forces in Syria and
now also in Iraq. About 4,000 Iranian police have been killed in
attempting to interdict deadly opiate smuggling from US-occupied
Afghanistan [9].
While Iran leads the world in interdiction of deadly opiates [9], the
US is the world's greatest pusher of deadly opiates since the British
Empire under Queen Victoria. However, as set out below, the 3
million Iranian avoidable deaths from deprivation due to imposed
sanctions vastly exceed the 1 million violent Iranian deaths in the 4
decade US War on Iran. Further, 33,000 Iranians and 5.2 million
people worldwide have died opiate drug-related deaths linked to
the US-protected, world-dominating, Afghan opium production in
US-occupied Afghanistan since the US Government's 9-11 false
flag atrocity that killed 3,000 people [10-13].

(B). 3.1 million avoidable Iranian deaths and 1.7 million

Iranian under-5 infant deaths under sanctions in the 4-decadc
US War on Iran

Whether a child dies avoidably from imposed deprivation from

sanctions, or from bashing, bullets or bombs, the death is just as

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final, and the perpetrator culpability just the same. A voidable death
has various synonyms, namely avoidable mortality, excess death,
excess mortality, premature death, untimely death, and death that
should not have happened. A voidable mortality from imposed
deprivation can be readily estimated from UN Population Division
demographic data [14] as the difference between the actual deaths
in a country and the deaths expected for a peaceful, decently-run
country with the same demographics (birth rate, proportion of
children) [2].
In the 4-decade period of the continuing US War on Iran (1979-
2019) the average Iranian population was 65.623 million. In 1979-
2019 the Iranian average birth rate was 18.25 births per thousand of
population per year and hence the average Iranian births per year=
18.25 births per thousand per year x 65,623 thousand= 1.198
million births per year. The Iranian births (1979-2019) totalled
1.198 million births per year x 40 years = 4 7. 920 million. In 1979-
2019 the Iranian average under-5 infant deaths were 34.5 deaths
per thousand child births. Accordingly the Iranian under-5 infant
deaths (1979-2019) = 34.5 deaths per thousand births x 47,920
thousand births = 1.653 million under-5 infant deaths (1979-2019).
For peaceful, reasonably well governed but impoverished, high
birth rate Developing Countries (minus China) the baseline
mortality rate is about 4 deaths per thousand of population per year
[2]. For Iran (1979-2019) the average death rate was 5.15 deaths
per thousand per year and accordingly the average avoidable
mortality rate was 1.15 avoidable deaths per thousand of population
per year. The Iranian avoidable mortality (1979-2019) was
accordingly 1.15 avoidable deaths per thousand of population per
year x 65,623 thousand people x 40 years= 3.019 million Iranian
avoidable deaths from deprivation (1979-2019).
An alternative estimate comes from applying the same analysis to
the whole of Developing Countries (minus China) (1979-2019) -
average total population 3,636 million, an average of 27.9 births
per thousand of population, 101.432 million births ( 1979-2019), an
average of 91.5 under-5 infant deaths per thousand births, 9 .281
million under -5 infant deaths ( 1979-2019), an average of 8.8
deaths per thousand of population, an average of 4.8 avoidable
deaths per thousand of population, and 17.451 million avoidable
deaths ( 1979-2019). For this Developing Countries (minus China)
cohort, the ratio of avoidable deaths/under-5 infant deaths= 17.451

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million/9.281 million= 1.88. Applying this ratio to 1.653 million
Iranian under-5 infant deaths ( 1979-2019) yields 1.653 million x
1.88 = 3 .108 million Iranian avoidable deaths from deprivation
(1979-2019).
(C). Opiate-related deaths of 33,000 Iranians and 5.2 million
people world-wide linked to US restoration of the Taliban-
destroyed Afghan opium industry from 6°/«, of world share in
2001 to 90% in 2007
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
(UNODC), Iran accounts for 74% of the world's opium seizures
and 25% of the world's heroin and morphine seizures. However
Iran's role as a world leader in the War on Drugs and in combating
opiate drugs from US-occupied Afghanistan comes at a heavy
price. Thus Iran has a 900 kilometre border with US-occupied
Afghanistan that produces about 90% of the world's opium under
US Alliance protection. Iran has spent about $700 million policing
its borders against drug movement. About 2.5 million Iranians are
drug users with opium accounting for 67% of drug use. 4,000
Iranian police have been killed protecting Iran and the World from
US-protected opiate smugglers [9-11]. The US Alliance restored
the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry from about 6% of
world market share in 2001 to 93 % in 2007 [ 12, 15-18].
Global drug deaths totalled about 0.2 million in 2001 and about 0.6
million in 2019, and accordingly the average of annual drug deaths
in this period was 0.4 million per year. Assuming that 90% of these
drug deaths were opioid-related, that of these about 90% were due
to opiates (such as opium and heroin, as opposed to synthetic
opioids such as fentanyl and tramadol), and that of these 90% were
linked to Afghan opium production, then the average global death
rate linked to Occupied Afghanistan-derived opium would have
been about 290,000 deaths per year.
For religious reasons the Taliban banned alcohol, banned smoking
for public servants, and in 2000 banned opium production. Thus
one can estimate that by September 2019 - 18 years after the 9-11
atrocity in which 3,000 were killed - about 18 years x 290,000
deaths per year= 5.2 million people would have died linked to US
restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry from
6% of world market share in 2001 to 90% in 2007.

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In terms of body count one can see that Presidents George Bush,
Barack Obama and Donald Trump have been the worst drug
pushers in history since Great Britain's Queen Victoria who
devastated China with imposed opium from British-enslaved India
in the 19th century (up to 100 million Chinese died in the Opium
Wars and the Tai Ping rebellion [2], with the Chinese GDP
remaining almost the same between 1820 and 1950 and dropping
from 30% of world GDP in 1820 to a mere 5% in 1950) [19, 20].
The UNODC reports the annual drug-related deaths of 15-64 year
olds in 2017 totalled 3,021 for Iran with opiates being the principal
cause [11]. Applying a correction factor of 0.6 (to obtain average
deaths in the last 2 decades) one can estimate that total 15-64 year
old opioid drug-related deaths in Iran as of September 2019 in the
18 years since 9-11 would be 0.6 x 18 years x 3,021 deaths per year
= 33,000 drug-related deaths for Iran (with US-protected opiates
from Afghan being the principal cause).

(D). US surrogate Apartheid Israel has already re-commenced

a hot US War on Iran by bombing Iranian facilities in Syria
and Iraq

Such is the extent of utterly vile, Neocon American and Zionist

Imperialist (NAZI) warmongering against Iran that if you Google
the phrases "US War on Iran", "Bomb Iran" and "War on Iran" you
get 1,100,000, 248,000 and 99,000 results, respectively. The
seizure of an Iranian oil tanker in the Mediterranean by the British
and the tit-for-tat Iranian response can be seen as setting up a
trigger for war. Indeed Trump claims to have launched an attack on
Iran but to have cancelled it on the basis that killing an estimated
150 Iranians for the Iranian downing of an unmanned US drone
might be seen as somewhat excessive. The British have dispatched
a warship to the Persian Gulf and the Americans have asked craven
US lackey Australia to join a huge anti-Iranian force. Mainstream
media speculate about whether or not the US will launch a
devastating war against Iran. However as set out below, nuclear
terrorist, genocidally racist, democracy-by-genocide, serial war
criminal and US surrogate, Apartheid Israel, has already re-
commenced a hot US War on Iran by bombing Iranian facilities in
Syria and Iraq.

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Thus Australian ABC (Australia's equivalent of the UK BBC) has
recently reported on Apartheid Israeli attacks on Syria and Iraq as a
war criminal US surrogate (August 2019): "In recent months the
United States and Iran have appeared to be moving closer to a
military confrontation. But while tensions simmer, could the US
already be fighting Iran indirectly? Israel has admitted to striking
hundreds of Iranian targets in Syria and defence experts say it has
recently expanded operations to Iraq, with the blessing of the
United States. While the US diplomatic and economic pressure
plays out in public, an actual conflict is happening in the
background" [21].
Sebastien Roblin (a US expert on peace, war, security and military
matters who writes for "War is Boring") has detailed recent Israeli
air strikes on Syria and deficiencies in Syrian surface to air missile
(SAM) defences (August 2019): "However, as has happened in
over 200 other Israeli air strikes on targets in Syria, the defensive
fire proved inadequate. The weapons struck three Syrian targets ...
However, the [SAM] S-300's silence may reflect a new
understanding reached between Putin and Israeli prime minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, who won reelection just a week prior to the
strike. Apparently, the latter agreed to provide fifteen minutes of
advance notice of strikes to Russian forces ... The IAF has been
using the tactic of saturating the attacked area with various kinds of
missiles and bombs. It is not economical to use the S-300 against
such an attack" [22].
The Baghdad Post has reported on Israeli bombing of Iranian
facilities in Iraq in June 2019 (August 2019): "'Baghdad's silence
on Israeli raids against Iraqi soil raises eyebrows', read the
headline of an article by Iranian journalist Ali Mousavi Khalkhali
published on the Iranian website Iran Front Page. His bewilderment
was shared by around 80 members oflraq' s parliament, who urged
the government to condemn, or at least respond in some way, to the
two strikes attributed to Israel last month - one on the Amirli base
in Salahuddin province and one on the Abu Montazer al-
Muhammadavi base in Diyala province, better known as Camp
Ashraf ... But Saudi and American diplomacy will have a very hard
time severing Iraq from Iran, and not only because Iraq is so
economically dependent on Tehran. Their shared Shiite faith,
which nourishes a shared cultural infrastructure, coupled with
Iraq's fears of being taken over by Sunni Saudi Arabia and the deep

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anti-Americanism of large parts of the public, will all oblige the
Iraqi government - most of whose ministers are Shiite, even if they
don't necessarily support Iran - to weigh its steps very cautiously.
Ostensibly, the attacks on the missile stockpiles should make it
clear to Iraq that if it doesn't end Iran's military penetration, it
could well become the stage for an international war. But this
heavy hint could boomerang if, due to domestic political pressure,
Iraq instead decides to serve as Iran's shield" [23].

(E). Serial invader, nuclear-armed US Alliance threatens a

peaceful, nuclear-weapons-free Iran

Unlike the serial invader US and its craven, serial invading lackeys
Australia and Canada that date back a mere few centuries as
entities based on invasion, colonization and genocide, Iran is an
ancient country dating back thousands of years. Indeed inspection
of the following succinct history of Iran up to the present reveals
that, border spats aside, the last time Iranians seriously invaded
other countries was about 1500 years ago in the 3rd- 7th centuries
CE under Sasanian rule [24]: 4000BC, early settlements; 1800-
800BC, occupied by the Aryan Medes and Persians; circa 1500BC,
Zarathushtra (Zoroaster) and Zoroastrianism; 6th century BC,
Cyrus the Great conquered the Medes; 525BC, Persian Empire
from the Nile to the Indus; 33 l-330BC, conquered by Alexander
the Great; 312-302BC Seleucid rule; 24 7BC-226AD, rule by
Greek-speaking Parthians; 3rd-7th century, Sassanian rule; 641,
Arab Muslim conquest; 7th-13th century, major cultural centre;
1258, destructive conquest by Mongols under Genghis Khan and
his sons; subsequent rule by their successors e.g. Timur; 1501-
1722, Safavid dynasty founded by Shah Ismail; Shi'ite dominance;
1587-1629, Shah Abbas; Portuguese defeated in the Persian Gulf;
1 722, Russians seized Georgia, Baku and thence Central Asia;
Afghan dominance; 1736, Afshar dynasty under Nadir Shah; 1794-
1925, Qajar dynasty; Anglo-Russian "Great Game" over influence;
Russian acquisition of Iranian Caucasus territories through war and
the Treaties of Gulistan (1813) and Turkamanchai (1828); early
19th century, oil discovered; 1906, constitution and parliament;
WWI, Iran neutral but Anglo-Russian involvements; 1921, USSR
withdrew forces and recognized Iran sovereignty; coup by Reza
Khan; 1925-1941, Reza Shah Pahlevi (Reza Khan), modernization,

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pro-Axis; 1941, Anglo-Russian occupation; installation of Shah's
son; 1941-1979, Mohammed Shah Pahlevi; 1946, withdrawal of
USSR forces; 1949, constitution curtailed Shah; Prime Minister
Mossadegh attempted nationalization of Anglo-Iranian oil; 1953,
economic blockade and US-backed coup, thousands killed; US-
backed authoritarian Shah regime; Anglo-American, French and
Dutch oil interests dominant; 1978, martial law against Islamist
opponents; 1979, Shah fled; Islamic theocracy under Ayatollah
Khomeini; US hostage crisis and unsuccessful US military raid;
1980-1988, Iran-Iraq War initiated by US-backed Iraq invasion; 1.5
million dead (1980-1988 excess mortality 2.1 million); 1981, US
hostages released, Irangate Contra arms deal scandal; 1988, Iran
Air Flight 655 passenger jet shot down by US Navy-launched
missile; 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini died and Ayatollah Khamenei
succeeded; 1997, moderate Khatami elected president; 21st
century, US hostility and threats over Iran nuclear program; 2004,
conservative victory in elections; 2007, US-Israeli Stuxnet cyber
weapon attack on Iranian nuclear industry centrifuges; 2011,
Iranian forces invited in by Syria to oppose IS and US-backed
jihadis; 2014, Iranian forces invited in by Iraq to oppose IS; 2015,
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, (Iran nuclear deal) agreed
between Iran and the US, UK, Russia, France, China, Germany and
the EU; 2018, Trump unilaterally walks from the Iran nuclear deal,
imposes more sanctions and threatens war; 2019, Apartheid Israel
extends its bombing of Iranian targets in Syria to such targets in
Iraq (pages 91-92 [2]).
In stark contrast to a remarkably peaceful Iran, in the last
millennium the English have invaded 193 countries, Australians 85,
France 82, the US 72 (52 after WW2), Germany 39, Japan 30,
Russia 25, Canada 25, Apartheid Israel 12, China 2 and Iran zero
(0)[2, 24-30].
The upper estimates of stored nuclear weapons are as follows: US
(7,300), Russia (8,000), Apartheid Israel (400), France (300), UK
(250), China (250), Pakistan (120), India (100), and North Korea
( circa 10) [ 1]. Iran has zero (0) nuclear weapons, repeatedly
declares that it does not want nuclear weapons, insists on a nuclear
weapons-free Middle East, and in 2016 voted with over 100 other
UN countries (notably including US ally New Zealand) for a ban
on nuclear weapons - in contrast, nuclear terrorist countries of the
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with US lackey Canada, US lackey Australia and many US lackey
European countries, voted against the UN nuclear weapons ban [ 1].
In October 2017 the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear
Weapons (ICAN) (initiated in Melbourne, Australia) was awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize [1].
It must be reiterated that an Iran that does not possess and does not
want to possess nuclear weapons is being threatened with
substantial "obliteration" by a nuclear terrorist US which has
surrounded Iran with numerous US military bases. Thus Robert
Fantina in the American Herald Tribune (2018): "With the
imminent defeat of United States-supported terrorist groups in
Syria by the Syrian government, with assistance from Russia and
the Islamic Republic of Iran, one might reasonably think that the
U.S. would finally just go home ... Let's not forget that the U.S. has
over 1,000 military bases around the world, with at least 45 of them
surrounding Iran. One expects that Iran is concerned about the
ability of the U.S. to move materiel into Syria, and rightly so.
Forty-five military bases threaten Iran, while the Islamic Republic
threatens no one, but does maintain its international commitments,
including assisting its ally, Syria, in defeating foreign terrorists
slaughtering innocent people on Syrian soil" [31].
A Zionist-subverted Trump threatens war at the bidding of nuclear
terrorist and genocidally racist Apartheid Israel that may have 5
nuclear weapons-armed, German-supplied submarines off the coast
of Iran [32], is baying for war, has been bombing Syrian
Government-invited Iranian forces fighting US Alliance- and
Apartheid Israel-backed jihadis in Syria, and has recently
commenced bombing Iraqi Government-invited Iranians in Iraq. A
huge, nuclear-armed US naval fleet parades off the cost of Iran, and
Trump threatens "obliteration" while being praised by Mainstream
media as being more "reasonable" than other warmongering
psychopaths in his Administration.
A nuclear terrorist and US lackey Britain has deliberately provided
a potential "trigger" by illegally seizing an Iranian oil tanker in the
Mediterranean. A nuclear terrorist America is ready to commit
nuclear mass murder and indeed used nuclear weapons incinerate
Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 [l, 2]. Apartheid Israel acquired
nuclear weapons with French assistance by 1967 [33-35] and
indeed imprisoned its General Itzhak Yaakov for revealing the

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Israeli plan to detonate a nuclear weapon in Egypt if its 1967 attack
on all of its neighbours did not proceed as planned [36].
Pro-Apartheid, US lackey Australia is second only to Trump
America as a supporter of nuclear terrorist Apartheid Israel, and is
critical to US nuclear terrorism via the joint US-Australian Pine
Gap electronic spying base in Central Australia, and by hosting
nuclear-armed US warships. Australia played a key role in
UK nuclear terrorism by enabling the UK to test nuclear weapons
and missile delivery systems. The Australian Broadcasting
Commission (the ABC, Australia's equivalent of the mendacious
UK BBC) has recently described Iran as a "rogue state", and a
recent ABC TV panel show involving Australian politicians and
commentators blithely discussed the obscenity of Australian
acquisition of nuclear weapons (the only fervent dissenter being
Diana Sayed, a human rights lawyer), with several US-echoing
panellists variously describing Iran as a "state sponsor of terrorism"
and a "rogue state" [38]. Nuclear terrorism-complicit Australia has
invaded 85 countries [27], currently targets illegal US drone strikes
in 7 countries via the Pine Gap base, opposes a ban on nuclear
weapons, has been involved in all US Asian wars since 1950
(atrocities in which 40 million Asians have died from violence or
war-imposed deprivation [2]), and no doubt as a craven US lackey
will accede to US requests to threaten and indeed attack Iran. In
stark contrast, a peace-loving Iran has not invaded another country
for about 1,500 years and has zero (0) nuclear weapons.

Summary and final comments

The 4-decade US War on Iran has been associated with 1 million

Iranian violent deaths in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War. However 4
decades of deprivation due to imposed sanctions has been
associated with 1.7 million Iranian under-5 infant deaths and 3.1
million Iranian avoidable deaths from deprivation. This well-
documented carnage, an Iranian Genocide and an Iranian
Holocaust, is similar in magnitude to the WW2 Jewish Holocaust
(5-6 million Jews killed through violence or deprivation by the
German Nazis) but is ignored by mendacious, Orwellian and
Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-
subverted Mainstream media which praised Donald Trump for

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cancelling a huge attack on Iran on the basis that it might kill 150
Iranians in retaliation for the downing of an unmanned US drone.
While the English, Australians and Americans have invaded 193,
85 and 72 countries, respectively, a peace-loving Iran has not
invaded any other country for about 1500 years. Further, in the last
20 years Iran has been a world leader in the interdiction of deadly
opiate drugs from US-occupied Afghanistan, with 4,000 Iranian
police dying in the process. The Afghan Taliban banned alcohol,
banned smoking for public servants, and after 2000 banned opium
production. Since the 9-11 atrocity in which 3,000 were killed,
about 5.2 million people have died world-wide due to US
restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry from
6% of world market share in 2001 to 90% in 2007, this Opiate
Holocaust carnage including 33,000 Iranians and also huge opioid-
related deaths in US Alliance Anglosphere countries of the "5-Eyes
Club", to whit 748,000 Americans, 43,000 Canadians, 36,000
British, 20,000 Australians, and 3,000 New Zealanders [6].
Only one Western political leader has proposed action on the US-
imposed Opiate Holocaust, namely former Australian PM Kevin
Rudd who, while supporting the US War on Afghanistan, was
unsuccessful in getting the US Alliance to support eradication of
the Afghan opium poppy crop [39]. Unlike human beings, plants
are sessile and cannot run away and hide [40]. The stupidity,
ignorance and egregious greed - SIEG, as in the Nazi "Sieg Heil"
salute - of the pro-war, "5-Eyes club" and US Alliance politicians
and populace means resolute ignoring of the immense mass murder
of their fellow citizens in the ongoing US-imposed Opiate
Holocaust [6] and the key role of Iran in protecting the world from
this atrocity
With the US, UK, Apartheid Israel and Apartheid Saudi Arabia
building up to a renewed violent war on peaceful Iran, one can only
hope that sanity prevails. Decent people throughout the World must
endeavour to protect a peaceful and non-nuclear-weapons Iran -
and indeed Humanity as a whole - from further active and passive
mass murder by the serial war criminal US Alliance countries
through (a) informing everyone they can, and (b) urging and
applying Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all
pro-war people, politicians, parties, corporations and countries of
the genocidally war criminal US Alliance.

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2020 Postscript

US ally Apartheid Israel continues to bomb Iranian and other

targets in both Syria and Iraq. Now at the start of the new decade,
the US has bombed Iranian targets in Iraq, this sparking Iraqi
protests at the US Embassy in Baghdad. To reinforce this
dangerous escalation, the US used missiles to kill Qassem
Soleimani, (who led Iran's elite Quds force) at Baghdad
International Airport (Nahal Toosi, Daniel Lippman, and Wesley
Morgan, "Trump takes massive gamble with killing of Iranian
commander", Politico, 2 January 2020:
https ://www.politico.com/news/2020/01 /02/soleimani-trump-iran-
iraq-093102) Not content with passively murdering scores of
thousands of Iranians each year through sanctions, an
exceptionalist, Zionist-subverted America has embarked on
violently killing Iranians. The latest UN Population Division data
indicate that presently 70,000 Iranians die avoidably each year
from deprivation under deadly, war criminal US sanctions. Peace is
the only way and all that decent people around the world can do is
to (a) inform everyone they can, and (b) urge and apply Boycotts,
Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all pro-war people,
politicians, parties, corporations and countries of the genocidally
war criminal US Alliance. War is the penultimate in racism and
genocidal war is the ultimate racist obscenity.

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genocidal-racist-and-nuclear-terrorist-sh imon-peres.
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 "As the people of [twice demolished] Fallujah struggle to rebuild
their lives, the citizens of those nations who embarked upon a
reckless campaign of invasion and occupation are invited to reflect
on the actions of their political and military leaders. Central to the
Coalition's attempt to subdue the Iraqi people was a campaign to
present a certain version of history that excluded ordinary people
from the dominant narrative. This is a time-honored strategy used
by Western powers, indeed of all those who seek to assert
dominance over other nations". Ross Caputi, Richard Hiland
Donna Mulhearn in "The Sacking Of Fallujah. A People's
History", 2019.
"Kurdish intelligence believes that over 40,000 civilians have been
killed as a result of massive firepower used against them, especially
by the federal police, air strikes and Isis itself'. Hoshyar Zebari in
Patrick Cockburn, "The Massacre of Mosul: 40,000 feared dead in
battle to take back city from Isis as scale of civilian casualties
revealed", Independent, 19 July 2017.
"Well, we had to destroy the town in order to save it". US major in
Ben Tre, Vietnam, during the Tet offensive in 1968, reported by
Peter Arnett, "Brutal fate for those in war's way", USA Today, 3
May 2001.

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 CHAPTER 11
IRAQI GENOCIDE
RIESIJMED (2012..)

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 [First published as Gideon Polya, "Mosul Massacre Latest In
Iraqi Genocide- US Alliance War Crimes Demand ICC &
BDS", Countercurrents, 24 July 2017:
http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/07 /24/mosul-massacre-latest-
in-iraqi-genocide-us-alliance-war-crimes-demand-icc-bds/.]
It is estimated that 40,000 people died in the US Alliance's Mosul
Massacre involving the explosive demolition of a huge city of 2
million inhabitants. This is but the latest atrocity in an Iraqi
Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide. Iraqi deaths from Western violence
and imposed deprivation total 9 million since the British invasion
in 1914. The post-tsunami peaceful settlement of the Islamist
insurgency in Aceh, Indonesia, demonstrated a humane alternative
to genocide. US Alliance war crimes demand comprehensive
Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS).
The Mosul Massacre is but the latest in a Western-imposed Iraqi
Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide that has been ongoing since 1914 in
oil-rich Iraq [1-9]. Leading UK Middle East journalist, Patrick
Cockburn, reporting on the latest awful episode of the Iraqi
Genocide in Mosul, stated (2017): "More than 40,000 civilians
were killed in the devastating battle to retake Mosul from Isis,
according to intelligence reports revealed exclusively to The
Independent - a death toll far higher than previous estimates.
Residents of the besieged city were killed by Iraqi ground forces
/ attempting to force out militants, as well as by air strikes and
Isis fighters, according to Kurdish intelligence services. Hoshyar
Zebari, until recently a senior minister in Baghdad, told The
Independent that many bodies 'are still buried under the
rubble'. 'The level of human suffering is immense,' he said.
'Kurdish intelligence believes that over 40,000 civilians have been
killed as a result of massive firepower used against them, especially
by the federal police, air strikes and Isis itself,' Mr Zebari added ...
The UN estimated that Mosul had 1.2 million inhabitants at the
start of the siege" [ 1 0].
Lest we forget - a Holocaust involves the deaths of a huge number
of people, and Genocide is defined by Article 2 of the UN Geneva
Convention which states: "In the present Convention, genocide
means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy,
in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as
such: a) Killing members of the group; b) Causing serious bodily or
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the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical
destruction in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures intended to
prevent births within the group; e) Forcibly transferring children of
the group to another group" [11].
For all that ISIS was evidently barbarous and fanatical with an
extremist Islamic ideology, a peaceful alternative to more US
Alliance-imposed Iraqi Genocide through the near-total destruction
of the Iraqi cities of Mosul, Ramadi and Fallujah was always
possible. Thus, for example, the fundamentalist Muslim, Sharia
Law-committed Free Aceh Movement (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka or
GAM) fought against Indonesian government forces in the Aceh
insurgency from 1976 to 2005, during which over 15,000 were
killed. After the calamitous 2004 tsunami (170,000 Indonesians
killed, mostly in Sumatra) there was a peace agreement between
Aceh and the Indonesian Government in 2005 involving cessation
of violence and considerable Acinese autonomy. The killing
stopped at the price of imposition of Sharia Law in Aceh - thus, for
example, unmarried lovers, women with a penchant for "immodest
dress", homosexuals and apostates would have their human rights
and civil rights grossly violated and they would have to move from
Aceh to elsewhere in Indonesia to avoid extreme mediaeval
punishment ranging from caning to execution, but at least the war
and killing stopped [12].
The 40,000 killed in the Mosul Massacre must be placed in the
wider context of about 9 million Iraqis who have died untimely
deaths from violence or imposed deprivation in over a century of
Western wars against remote but oil-rich Iraq since the British
invaded and conquered Iraq in 1914 with the help of British Empire
colonial Indian forces and the nascent Australian air force [I, 3]. A
technical examination of Iraqi history shows that the UK and its
former lackey and now US lackey, Australia, are presently into
their 8th Iraq War in just over a century. Indeed this appalling
Western violence against Iraq is but part of a wider scene of
Western violence against Humanity that has been ongoing for the
last millennium in which the British have invaded 193 countries,
Australia 85, France 82, the US 70 (50 after WW2), Germany 39,
Japan 30, Russia 25, Canada 25, Apartheid Israel 12, China 2 and
India none [3, 4, 13-18].
Detailed below are key features of the ongoing post-1914 Western
Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide that has been associated with an

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 estimated Iraqi body count of a total of circa 9 million violent
deaths and avoidable deaths from imposed deprivation."

1. 9 million Iraqi violent deaths and avoidable deaths from

imposed deprivation, 1914-1917.
(a). Assuming excess mortality of Iraqis under British rule or
hegemony ( 1914- 1948) was the same as for Indians under the
British [1, 19] one can estimate from Iraqi population data [20].
that Iraqi avoidable deaths from deprivation under British
occupation and hegemony from 1914-1950 totalled about 4 million.
(b). Iraqi deaths from imposed deprivation under deadly UN
Sanctions (1990-2003) totalled 1.7 million and Iraqi Gulf War
violent deaths totalled 0.2 million, for a total of 1.9 million Iraqi
deaths from violence or imposed deprivation in the Sanctions
period of 1990-2003.
(c). US Just Foreign Policy has used data from top US
epidemiologists to determine 1.5 million violent Iraqi deaths under
occupation in 2003-2011 [21 ], to which we must add a further 1.2
million Iraqi deaths from war-imposed deprivation for a total of 2. 7
million Iraqi deaths from violence or deprivation under US
Alliance occupation (2003-2011 ).
( d). Since the "official" US withdrawal in 2011 one can estimate
from the latest Mosul Massacre data that a further 0.1 million Iraqis
/ have died violently in the US-backed Iraqi Civil War and UN
Population Division data indicate that a further 0.3 million Iraqis
have died from deprivation, for a total of 0.4 million Iraqi deaths
from violence or deprivation since the US withdrawal in 2011.
Thus, ignoring violent Iraqi deaths under the British occupation and
violent Iraqi deaths associated with the US-backed Iraq-Iran War,
one can estimate about 8.8 million Iraqi deaths from UK or US
violence or imposed deprivation in the century after the 1914
invasion of Iraq by Britain. Refugees from the US Alliance
invasion oflraq totalled 5-6 million [1, 2]. This is an ongoing Iraqi
Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide. Even if the killing were to stop, an
estimated circa 50,000 Iraqis presently dies avoidably each year
from deprivation in war-devastated Iraq.

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2. Depraved indifference of the International Criminal Court
(ICC).

As discussed further below, the 2003 invasion of Iraq was illegal

and thus a war crime. The International Criminal Court (ICC) is a
cowardly, racist, degenerate and look-the-other-way organization
that, apart from prosecuting Balkan war criminals, confines its
prosecutions to non-European war criminals. The ICC is thus a
holocaust-ignoring and genocide-ignoring organization that is
holocaust-complicit and genocide-complicit through its depraved
indifference to Western imposed holocausts and genocides such as
the ongoing Palestinian Genocide (90% of Palestine now ethnically
cleansed of Indigenous inhabitants, 2 million Palestinian deaths
from violence, 0.1 million, or imposed deprivation, 1.9 million,
since 1935) [23], the ongoing Iraqi Genocide (9 million deaths
from violence or imposed deprivation since 1914) [l], the ongoing
Afghan Holocaust and Afghan Genocide (6 million deaths from
violence or imposed deprivation since 2001, 12 million deaths from
violence or imposed deprivation since the US-backed overthrow of
secular governance in Afghanistan in 1978) [3, 24], and the
ongoing Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide (32 million
Muslim deaths from violence, 5 million, and imposed deprivation,
27 million, in 20 countries invaded by the US Alliance since the
US Government's 9-11 false flag atrocity that killed about 3,000
people) [2, 22, 25].
It must be noted that genocide-ignoring and holocaust-ignoring is
far, far worse than repugnant genocide-denying and holocaust-
denying because the latter can at least admit the possibility of
refutation and public debate. I have done my duty as a citizen of the
world and sent a well-documented war crimes complaint to the
genocide-ignoring, holocaust-ignoring and thus war crimes-
complicit ICC [25]. Indeed, in general lying by omission is far, far
worse than repugnant lying by commission because at least the
latter permits refutation and public debate. The US-beholden ICC
and Western Mainstream media, politician and academic
presstitutes in general are involved in massive "fake news through
lying by omission" [26-32].

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 3. The Iraqi Genocide has been about oil.

The genocide inflicted on remote and powerless Iraq by the UK

and thence by the Zionist-subverted US Alliance was about oil and
related Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)
hegemony in the Middle East. Thus from the Right, Alan
Greenspan (leading Republican economist, chairman of the US
Federal Reserve for almost two decades, and servant of four US
presidents): "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to
acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about
oil" [33]. On the Left, Professor Noam Chomsky (eminent
linguistics expert and anti-racist Jewish American human rights
activist at IOI-Nobel-Laureate Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) (2009): "There is basically no significant
change in the fundamental traditional conception that if we can
control Middle East energy resources, then we can control the
world" [34].

4. Invasions and subjugations of Iraq were horrendous war

crimes.

The ultimate in racism and the ultimate in crime is genocidal

invasion of other countries. The British, the French, the Americans
and variously UK lackey or US lackey Australia have invaded
scores of countries in genocidal enterprises over 2 centuries (the
/ US and Australia) and over the last millennium (the UK and
France). In contrast, India has invaded nobody over thousands of
years and China has only ever invaded 2 countries, namely Tibet
(in the 13th century) and India (in the border region in 1962). The
UN Charter forbids invasion of other countries unless the invasion
of a country ( a) is approved by the UN, (b) is invited by the
government of the country, or ( c) is in response to invasion by the
country to be attacked. These criteria were not satisfied in the
illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003 by the US, UK and Australia that
was consequently a war crime for which Tony Blair (UK), George
Bush (US) and John Howard (US lackey Australia) and their
associates should be arraigned before the ICC.
Indeed the same criteria are not satisfied today in the US Alliance
invasion of Syria (in contrast, the Russians and Iranians have been
invited by the UN-recognised Syrian Government). The US

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Alliance and the Iranians been invited in by the Iraqi Government,
remembering however, that this was installed "democratically" by
the racist and war criminal Americans after they had had exiled,
imprisoned, tortured, driven underground, mangled or killed the
people they really didn't like (standard practice in the American
Empire from Latin America to Korea and Vietnam). The cities of
Mosul, Ramadi and Fallujah were "liberated by being destroyed".
In Australia John Valder (National President of the conservative
Liberal Party headed by PM John Howard) declared (2004): "Bush,
Blair, and Howard, as leaders of the three members of the coalition
of the willing, inflicted enormous suffering on the people of Iraq.
And, as such, they are criminals. I believe the only deterrent to a
repetition of the Iraq situation is punishment in some form as war
criminals" [35]. US lackeys Blair and Howard went to war on the
basis of false US claims of Iraqi possession of Weapons of Mass
Destruction (WMD). After the invasion no WMD were found but
this begs the question of why would a militarily puny Iraq attack a
nuclear-armed UK or a nuclear-armed UK even if it had WMD.
Anti-racist Jewish British writer Harold Pinter in his 2005 Nobel
Prize Acceptance Address stated: "We have brought torture, cluster
bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder,
misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it
'bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East'. How many
people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a
mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand? More
than enough, I would have thought. Therefore it is just that Bush
and Blair be arraigned before the International Criminal Court of
Justice. But Bush has been clever. He has not ratified the
International Criminal Court of Justice. Therefore if any American
soldier or for that matter politician finds himself in the dock Bush
has warned that he will send in the marines. But Tony Blair has
ratified the Court and is therefore available for prosecution. We can
let the Court have his address if they're interested. It is Number 10,
Downing Street, London" [36].
To paraphrase Harold Pinter, "How many people do you have to
kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a
war criminal? 9 million (1914-2017? 4 million (1914-1950)? 5
million (1990-2011)? 2 million (1990-2003)? 3 million (2003-
2011)? 0.4 million (2011-2017)? More than enough, I would have
thought".

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 Final comments

It is unlikely the George Bush, Tony Blair, John Howard, their

associates and successors - notably war criminal Barack Obama
and war criminal Donald Trump - will ever be arraigned before the
racist, Iraqi Genocide-ignoring and Iraqi Holocaust-ignoring
International Criminal Court (ICC). What can decent people do?
Decent, humane people around the world must (a) penetrate the
Mainstream Media Wall of Silence and tell everyone they can
about the ongoing, blood-for-oil Iraqi Genocide, and (b) urge and
apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all
people, politicians, parties, companies, corporations and countries
complicit in the ongoing Iraqi Genocide and the ongoing Muslim
Genocide.

2020 Postscript

As documented in Chapter 10, Apartheid Israel continues to bomb

Syria and Iraq with impunity, and, notwithstanding the substantial
defeat of the barbarous ISIS, the US has marked the 201 Os to 2020s
transition by bombing anti-ISIS Iraqi and Iranian forces in Syria
and by blatantly assassinating Iranian General Qassem Soleimani
(head oflran's elite Quds Force), and Iraqi Shi'ite leader Abu
/ Mahdi al-Muhandis, (deputy commander oflran-backed militias in
Iraq known as the Popular Mobilization Forces), and others in a
targeted missile attack on Baghdad International Airport. The US
Alliance (European US lackeys, Apartheid Israel and the Gulf
States) have an appalling record of variously de facto backing
jihadi non-state terrorists in Syria and Iraq that became dominated
by ISIS. "The enemy of my friends is my enemy" and from a
genuinely anti-ISIS perspective the continued killing of anti-ISIS
forces in Syria and Iraq by the US and Apartheid Israel further puts
these exceptionalist, serial invader, and serial war criminal rogue
states de facto in the pro-ISIS camp. State terrorist US President
Donald Trump is now promising endless war against Syria, Iraq
and Iran for oil, gas and geo-political hegemony. "The Sacking of
Fallujah. A people's history" by Rodd Caputi, Richard Hiland
Donna Mulhearn (University of Massachusetts Press, 1919) details
the repeated destruction of the huge Iraqi city of Fallujah ("the city

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of mosques", population 275,000 in 2011) by the war criminal
Americans, first in the 2003-2011 Iraq War (in 2004) and thence
again in the resumed and now ongoing US War on Iraq (in 2016;
150,000 residents fleeing). The US-imposed Iraqi Genocide
continues.

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November 2009: http://pubrecord.org/nation/5953/chomsky-invasion-major-
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[35]. "Howard is a war criminal, says former colleague", Sydney Morning
Herald, 19 July 2004:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07 /18/1090089035899.html.
[36]. Harold Pinter, "Art, Truth and Politics", Countercurrents, 8 December
2005: https://countercurrents.org/arts-pinter08 l 205 .htm.

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"In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following
acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a
national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: a) Killing
members of the group; b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to
members of the group; c) Deliberately inflicting on the group
conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction
in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures intended to prevent
births within the group; e) Forcibly transferring children of the
group to another group". UN Convention on the Prevention and
Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948.
"America's unsavory record of violent interventions in Syria-
little-known to the American people yet well-known to Syrians-
sowed fertile ground for the violent Islamic jihadism that now
complicates any effective response by our government to address
the challenge of ISIL. So long as the American public and
policymakers are unaware of this past, further interventions are
likely only to compound the crisis ... Long before our 2003
occupation of Iraq triggered the Sunni uprising that has now
morphed into the Islamic State, the CIA had nurtured violent
jihadism as a Cold War weapon and freighted U.S./Syrian
relationships with toxic baggage". Robert F. Kennedy Jr, "Why the
Arabs don't want us in Syria", Politico, 22 February 2016.
"About 6. 7 million Syrians are now refugees, and another 6.2
million people are displaced within Syria [pre-war population 22
million]. Half of the people affected are children". World Vision,
"Syrian refugee crisis: Facts, FAQs, and how to help", 2019.

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CHAPTER 12
SYRIAN HOLOCJUJS'f &
SYRIAN GENOCIDE
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[First published as Gideon Polya, "Syrian Holocaust and Syrian
Genocide by US Alliance state terrorism", Countercurrents, 23
January 2019: https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/23/syrian-
ho locaust-and-syrian-genocide-by-us-all iance-state-terrorism/.]
US President Trump's announcement of US withdrawal from its
illegal and war criminal occupation of Syrian territory has evoked
passionate denunciation from Republicans, Democrats and the US
military and intelligence Deep State. However there is no such
outcry over the Syrian Holocaust and Syrian Genocide inflicted on
this formerly peaceful and religiously tolerant land by jihadi
psychopaths variously backed by US Alliance countries (the US,
UK, France, Qatar, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Apartheid
Israel) and by direct military action by the France-UK-US
(FUKUS) Coalition, Apartheid Israel and US lackeys Canada and
Australia bent on destruction of the secular Syrian Government for
US hegemony and control of fossil fuel resources.

1. US Alliance-imposed Syrian Holocaust and Syrian Genocide

ignored by mendacious, US lackey Mainstream media

The first casualty of war is truth and this aphorism certainly applies
to the ongoing Syrian Civil War that amounts to a US Alliance-
imposed Syrian Holocaust and Syrian Genocide, noting that
"holocausts" involve the deaths of huge numbers of people and
"genocide" is defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention
thus: "In the present Convention, genocide means any of the
following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part,
a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: a) Killing
members of the group; b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to
members of the group; c) Deliberately inflicting on the group
conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction
in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures intended to prevent
births within the group; e) Forcibly transferring children of the
group to another group" [1 ]. The US Alliance-backed Syrian
Holocaust and Syrian Genocide has been associated with 11
million refugees (5 million being internally displaced persons), 0.5
million violent Syrian deaths and a comparable number of Syrian
avoidable deaths from war-imposed deprivation [2]. The Syrian
Holocaust and Syrian Genocide is part of a wider Muslim
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million Muslim deaths from violence, 5 million, or from imposed
deprivation, 27 million, in 20 countries subject to US Alliance
invasion since the US Government's 9-11 false flag atrocity that
killed 3,000 people (mainly Americans) [3, 4].
There are 2 versions of the Syrian War, Story A involving massive
lying by omission and purveyed by mendacious, US lackey
Western Mainstream media, editor, journalist, politician,
commentariat and academic presstitutes, and Story B, the horrible
reality of the full story that necessarily includes a millennium of
Western imperialism against the Middle East and the Muslim world
leading up to US Alliance support for jihadis and others to
overthrow the secular Assad regime ruling Syria. The remorseless
intent of the US Alliance was regime change in Syria with the goals
of furthering genocidal Israeli strategic interests, and furthering
fundamental US goals of securing fossil fuel resources and US
hegemony. Jihadi non-state terrorism has been of major assistance
to US imperialism and vice versa, and the US-spawned and US
Alliance-supported ISIS barbarism in Iraq and Syria was used as an
excuse for illegal and war criminal US Alliance intervention in
Syria in support of jihadi overthrow of the Assad Government. The
genocidal US Alliance intention was critically frustrated by
Russian support for the Syrian Government. One notes that prior to
the US Alliance-imposed Syrian War, Syria was a remarkable
haven for religious tolerance in the Middle East [5] as well as being
a haven for millions of refugees from genocidal US Alliance
violence in Palestine and Iraq.
The Western Mainstream presstitute Story A ignores much of the
weighty background to the Syrian War and posits that the Syrian
Civil war began as part of the so-called Arab Spring with
demonstrations in 2011 that were violently suppressed leading to a
widespread uprising against the Assad regime that was backed by
the assertedly "peace-loving" US Alliance in the name (as always)
of asserted "freedom", "democracy" ,"human rights" and the US
"responsibility to protect" Syrians (R2P) from the Syrian
Government, including its alleged use of chemical weapons. The
extraordinary depth of US lackey Mainstream media censorship of
US Alliance atrocities can be simply demonstrated by a Google
Search for "Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide", a website that
documents this immense atrocity [2] - thus a Google Search today
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this important website among a mere 53 results whereas a Bing
Search for "Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide" yields this
important website as number 1 on page 1 of 2 million results ( ergo,
"Bing it!" rather than "Google it!").

2. The big picture Story B - the Awful Truth about the Syrian
Holocaust and Syrian Genocide

Story B that can be gleaned from an intelligent reading of generally

accepted historical events reveals the Awful Truth of Western
imperialism in Syria, Palestine and the Middle East that predates
the current Syrian conflict by a thousand years with the Western
European crusades culminating in the European capture of
Jerusalem with massacre of Jews and Crusader rule (1098-1 l 87CE)
that was terminated with reconquest by Saladin. A short period of
further temporary Christian rule occurred as part of a deal to end
the Sixth Crusade (1229- 1244) [6-8]. Apart from subsequent
centuries of European battles with the Ottoman Empire for naval
supremacy in the Mediterranean Sea, the Middle East had freedom
from Western imperialism until the Anglo-French competition for
conquest of Egypt during the Napoleonic wars that culminated in
British naval victory over the French, resultant British hegemony
and final British conquest of Egypt in 1882 [8]. The discovery of
oil in the Middle East occurred in the first decade of the 20th
century with an initial major find in Iran in 1908. Oil was initially
of major strategic importance for the British navy ( crucial for
retention of the global British Empire and most notably of India)
and thence for the navies of other major competing imperial powers
(France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia). Oil was crucial for
vehicular transport, tanks and aeroplanes that were decisive in
WWI. The Allied dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire in WWI
resulted in the Anglo-French decision to divide up the newly-
conquered Middle East via the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, with
France securing Lebanon and Syria and Britain securing Palestine
and Iraq as well as continued rule of Egypt and hegemony over the
Gulf States [8].
Crucially, WWI and war in Palestine resulted in a Palestinian
Famine in which 100,000 perished, and the victory over the Turks
at Beersheba on 31 October 1917 by the charge of the Australian
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(ANZAC) was immediately followed on 2 November 1917 by the
nefarious and racist UK Balfour Declaration that gave Palestine to
Zionists as a Jewish Homeland as an inducement for Zionists to
help keep Russia in WWI and to support decisive US entry into
WWI on the side of Britain and France [9]. The WWI Palestinian
Famine and December 1919 Surafend Massacre of about 100 male
Palestinian villagers by rampaging Anzac soldiers marked the
commencement of the ongoing Palestine Genocide (2.3 million
Palestinian deaths from violence, 0.1 million, or imposed
deprivation, 2.2 million, since British invasion of the region in
WWI) [10-19]. Anglo-French domination of the Middle East
continued after WW2 with the now dominant American Empire
securing oil resources and US hegemony in the region through
ruthless, wide ranging subversion and US-backed coups or through
numerous direct military interventions to secure cooperative
regimes [8, 19]. Variously with the help of the British, the French
and the genocidally racist Zionist colonizers of Palestine, the
Americans overthrew the democratically elected Iranian
Government (1953), crippled post-Nasser Egypt, successfully
opposed Arab union involving Egypt, Syria and Iraq, supported
jihadi overthrow of secular democracy in Afghanistan (1978) (with
this precipitating decades of conflict that is still continuing in now
US -occupied Afghanistan), backed the Iraqi invasion precipitating
the bloody Iraq-Iran War ( 1980-1988, 1.5 million Iranians killed by
US-supplied weaponry including war gases), and supported
Islamofascist dictatorships in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf [8, 19]. A
critical American transition to fervent US backing of a serial war
criminal Apartheid Israel occurred in 1967 after Israeli acquisition
of nuclear weapons and genocidal conquest of all of Palestine and
the Golan Heights part of Syria [21-24].
The imposition of deadly and genocidal Sanctions against Iraq in
1990 saw the beginning of a genocidal US Alliance War on
Muslims that now variously devastates Muslims from the African
Sahel to South East Asia. 1.7 million Iraqis died avoidably from
deprivation under UN-imposed Sanctions (1990-2003) with a
further 0.2 million dying violently in the US-engineered 1990-1991
Gulf War. However much worse was to come in the 21st century.
For several centuries the serial invader Americans have always
used an "excuse" for war criminal violence ( e.g. "remember the
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from Mexico, and "remember the Maine" for the Spanish American
War and the US acquisition of the Philippines, Puerto Rico and
Latin American hegemony [8]. The asserted justification for the
21st century US War on Muslims (aka the US War on Terror) was
the 9 September 2001 atrocity that killed about 3,000 people
(mostly Americans) - however numerous science, engineering,
architecture, aviation, military and intelligence experts assert that
the US Government was responsible for the 9-11 atrocity with
some asserting Saudi, Zionist and Apartheid Israeli involvement
[4].
US Alliance attempts to get a UN-granted Free Fly Zone in Syria
(as successfully employed in Libya to remove the secular Gaddafi
regime) [ see Chapter 9] were this time blocked at the UN Security
Council by Russian veto. The US Alliance thence resorted to
alternative support for the rebels - from the Free Syria Army to
various jihadi groups - that was variously massively provided by
the US, UK, France, Turkey, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and
Apartheid Israel. Direct US Alliance military intervention was
formally constrained by International Law but inevitably happened
on a huge scale and was justified on the basis of (a) the need
to destroy barbaric ISIS (that was spawned by the US invasion and
occupation of Iraq and which seized huge territory in Iraq from
Fallujah to Mosul and in Syria centred on Raqqa), and (b) the need
to punish and ideally destroy the Assad Syrian Government for
human rights abuses and the alleged use of chemical weapons. US
Alliance efforts were ultimately stymied by Syrian Government
invitation of help from Lebanese Hezbollah forces, Iranian forces
and, critically, Russian forces. ISIS was eventually largely
destroyed by Syrian, Russian and US Alliance air power, Syrian-
invited allied Hezbollah and Iranian forces, Iraqi forces, US-backed
Kurdish fighters in northern Syria and Iraq, and by Russian-backed
Syrian Government forces [25-27]. However in the process the
cities of Fallujah, Raqqa and Mosul were also destroyed, with the
"liberation" of Mosul (formerly a city of2 million) being
associated with 40,000 deaths [28]. The awkward and constraining
realities for the US Alliance were that the US Alliance forces and
the Russian-backed Syrian Government forces were on the same
side in opposing ISIS but on opposite sides in that the US Alliance
backed jihadis seeking destruction of the Russian-backed Syrian
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The current situation is that the Russian-backed Syrian Government
has re-taken most of Syria from ISIS and from US Alliance-backed
jihadi and other rebels who are now largely confined to the Idlib
enclave in north western Syria [25]. US-backed Kurdish forces
have defeated ISIS and other jihadis in north-eastern Syria and
have established a socialist, pro-woman, multi-ethnic and secular
Democratic Federation of Northern Syria (Rojava) that faces
continuing violent incursions from genocidally anti-Kurd Turkey
[26, 27]. Remnant ISIS forces are protected from the Syrians and
Russians by a flight restriction zone around an illegal US base in
Eastern Syria containing about 2,000 American forces that
President Donald Trump wants to withdraw against the fervent
opposition from Republican warmongers and the US military and
intelligence "Deep State". US-backed Apartheid Israel continues to
war criminally bomb Syria with impunity.

3. Expert alternative opinions countering US Alliance

allegations of Syrian Government use of chemical weapons

The US Alliance and its Western Mainstream propaganda machine

successfully used the utterly false claim of Iraqi possession of
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) as the justification for the
illegal, devastating and war criminal invasion of Iraq by the US,
UK and US lackey Australia. When no WMD were found after the
US occupation of Iraq, the US Alliance did not apologize and
withdraw but simply kept on killing Iraqis. Today the best the
Iraqis have received is a concession from both Presidents Obama
and Trump that the invasion of Iraqi was a "mistake" for America.
This "mistake" killed 2. 7 million Iraqis through violence ( 1.5
million) or through war-imposed deprivation (1.2 million) [2, 29].
The US Alliance repeatedly used the similar allegation
of possession and use of chemical weapons by the Syrian
Government to justify bombing of Syria in support of jihadi and
other rebels. However the Syrian Government had surrendered all
chemical weapons to the UN and had nothing to gain from use of
such weapons in the face of the might of the US Alliance and US
Alliance preparedness to use the "chemical weapons" excuse for
devastating intervention. Nevertheless mendacious, US lackey
Western Mainstream media toed the US Alliance propaganda line
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Dissenting "alternative" views of some leading Western journalists
and some other Middle East experts are set out below
(alphabetically so for reader convenience).
Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari (Syrian Ambassador to the UN ) responding to
the France-UK-US (FUKUS) Coalition bombing of Syria in 2018
after unsubstantiated chemical weapons allegations (2018): "I
would clarify here that the history of these three states [U.S.,
Britain and France] is built on using lies and fabricated stories to
wage aggressive wars in order to occupy states, seize their
resources, and change governments in them by force" [30].
Richard Black (decorated Vietnam War veteran, retired Pentagon
lawyer and Virginia state senator) alleging US Alliance chemical
weapons false flag plans in various interviews (2018):
"Around four weeks ago, we knew that British intelligence [MI6]
was working towards a chemical attack in order to blame the
Syrian government, to hold Syria responsible .... From what I can
tell, they have been planning a fake attack, not a genuine one, but
one where they actually move people out of a town and they have
trained people to portray victims of a gas attack. And the plan is to
use the White Helmets who have always been involved in these
notorious deceptions, to portray an attack" [31].
Ghali Hassan (Australia-based researcher and analyst) on France-
UK-US (FUKUS) Coalition bombing of Syria in 2018 after
unsubstantiated chemical weapons allegations (2018): "On 14 April
2018, the U.S., France and Britain committed another barbaric act
of aggression against the majority-Muslim nation of Syria. Donald
Trump, Emmanuelle Macron and Theresa May claim that their
combined aggression was in response to the alleged 'chemical
attack' in the Damascus suburb of Douma (in the Ghouta district)
by the Syrian Government. The aggression was an act of state
terrorism in flagrant violation of UN Charter, the principles of
international law and civilised norms. The attacks targeted a
University building, the Higher Institute for Applied Science and
Technology (HIAST)" [32].
Seymour Hersh (Pullitzer Prize-winning US investigative reporter)
on US chemical attack false flag through unsubstantiated
allegations and leading to Trump bombing Syria (2017): "On April
6 [2017], United States President Donald Trump authorized an
early morning Tomahawk missile strike on Shayrat Air Base in
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agent attack carried out by the Syrian government two days earlier
in the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun. Trump issued the order
despite having been warned by the U.S. intelligence community
that it had found no evidence that the Syrians had used a chemical
weapon ... there was no formal intelligence report stating that Syria
had used sarin, merely a 'summary based on declassified
information about the attacks,' as the briefer referred to it. The
crisis slid into the background by the end of April, as Russia, Syria
and the United States remained focused on annihilating ISIS and
the militias of al-Qaida. Some of those who had worked through
the crisis, however, were left with lingering concerns. 'The
Salafists and j ihadists got everything they wanted out of their
hyped-up Syrian nerve gas ploy,' the senior adviser to the U.S.
intelligence community told me, referring to the flare up of
tensions between Syria, Russia and America. 'The issue is, what if
there's another false flag sarin attack credited to hated Syria?
Trump has upped the ante and painted himself into a corner with
his decision to bomb. And do not think these guys are not planning
the next faked attack. Trump will have no choice but to bomb
again, and harder. He's incapable of saying he made a mistake"'
[33].
John Pilger (outstanding, UK-based, expatriate Australian
journalist, writer and documentary-maker) on Anglo-American-
French missile strikes against alleged Syrian chemical facilities
(20 I 8): "[Offensive] built on a series of ... lies, fabrications ... I
don't think anything she [UK PM Theresa May] says is to be
believed ... I've never known a time when mainstream journalism
has been so integrated into a propaganda barrage. To simply write
down and swallow what governments tell you is the antithesis of
what 'real journalism' is. What we're seeing is the most intense
campaign of propaganda, at least since the build-up to the Iraq War
in 2003" [34].

4. US Alliance-driven regime change in Syria and elsewhere

with the help of jihadis as allies and "excuses"

The primary goal of the US Alliance in Syria was regime change as

earlier successfully achieved in Libya on the dishonestly asserted
basis of the "responsibility to protect" (R2P) proposition notably
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Evans. The France-UK-US (FUKUS) Coalition attack killed 0.1
million Libyans, created 1 million refugees and devastated what
had formerly been the most prosperous country in Africa. The US
has an appalling record of subverting and invading other countries.
The US has a 3-stage policy of bending other countries to its will
that successively involves (a) subversion of the governments of
other countries, (b) backing coups and assassinations if subversion
was deemed unsuccessful, and ( c) actual invasion and regime
change if all else failed to deliver a satisfactory outcome. The US
Deep State subverts every country on earth, including the US itself
[8, 20, 35-37]. The US has actually invaded 72 countries (52 since
WW2) as compared to the British 193, Australia 85, France 82,
Germany 39, Japan 30, Russia 25, Canada 25, Apartheid Israel 12,
China 2 and North Korea arguably zero [8, 20, 38-43]. The US has
about 800 military bases in 70 countries, including Syria [44, 45].
The US repeatedly interferes in the internal affairs of "White" and
prosperous US lackey Australia, and the "king making" US
Murdoch media empire has about 70% of Australian daily
newspaper readership in Murdochracy Australia. The most serious
US intervention in Australia was the 11 November 1975 CIA-
backed Coup that removed the reformist Whitlam Labor
Government from office [46, 47]. This was a "bloodless coup" but
established the craven sine qua non of Australian politics of "all the
way with the USA". In contrast, US intervention in Syria has
involved a Syrian Holocaust and Syrian Genocide associated with
11 million refugees (5 million being internally displaced persons),
0.5 million violent Syrian deaths and a comparable number of
Syrian avoidable deaths from war-imposed deprivation [2]. One
notes that 1950-2005 avoidable deaths from deprivation in
countries occupied by the US since WW2 total 82 million [8].
Mendacious, US- and Zionist-subverted Mainstream media have
endlessly served the cause ofNeocon American and Zionist
Imperialist (NAZI) violence by promoting terror hysteria and
thence the US Alliance War on Terror that in horrible reality is a
genocidal US War on Muslims. Thus only about 60 Americans
have been killed by jihadi terrorists in America since 9-11 [ 48-50]
but since then about 7,000 US soldiers have died in US wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan [51], 128,000 US veterans have committed suicide
[52-54], and 30 million Americans have died preventably from
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violence and illicit drug use [55-57] (1.5 million Australians, 2.6
million Britishers and 1.8 million Canadians have died preventably
from such causes since 9-11 [58-60]). The long-term accrual cost
of the Iraq War and Afghan War has been about $6 trillion, and this
huge waste of resources is inescapably linked to 30 million
preventable American deaths since 9-11 - successive US
Governments have embraced the fiscal perversion of committing
$6 trillion to the killing of over 30 million Muslims abroad rather
than to trying to keep 30 million Americans alive at home.
The US has had an appalling history of false flag terrorist atrocities
around the world [36, 61-65] of which Syrian possession and use of
chemical warfare agents is the most recent. 21st century US
Alliance Mainstream media terror hysteria masks the horrible
reality that the US has backed jihadi non-state terrorists in
Afghanistan, Kosovo and Syria. Further, it is patently clear that
jihadi non-state terrorism - whether US Alliance-backed or not -
has been of massive assistance to US imperialism by providing the
"excuse" for disproportionately violent invasion and devastation of
Muslim countries. The US has an appalling record of backing
j ihadi terrorists in the replacing or attempted replacing of secular
governments in the Muslim world with sectarian regimes ( e.g. in
Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen) [3]. Set out below are
some expert opinions about the US Alliance backing of jihadi
terrorists in Syria in the attempted removal of the secular Assad
Syrian government.
Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari (Syrian Ambassador to the UN) responding to
the France-UK-US (FUKUS) Coalition bombing of Syria in 2018
after unsubstantiated chemical weapons allegations (2018): "I
would clarify here that the history of these three states [U.S.,
Britain and France] is built on using lies and fabricated stories to
wage aggressive wars in order to occupy states, seize their
resources, and change governments in them by force" [ 66].
Dr. Tim Anderson (progressive, anti-war Australian academic
presently fighting suspension by Sydney University and author of
"The Dirty War on Syria") (2018): "Proxy armies oflslamists,
armed by US regional allies (mainly Saudi Arabia, Qatar and
Turkey), infiltrate a political reform movement and snipe at police
and civilians. They blame this on the government and spark an
insurrection, seeking the overthrow of the Syrian government and
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of the US to create a 'New Middle East', subordinating every
country of the region, by reform, unilateral disarmament or direct
overthrow. Syria was next in line, after Afghanistan, Iraq and
Libya. In Syria, the proxy armies would come from the combined
forces of the Muslim Brotherhood and Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi
fanatics. Despite occasional power struggles between these groups
and their sponsors, they share much the same Salafist ideology,
opposing secular or nationalist regimes and seeking the
establishment of a religious state ... In a hoped-for 'end game' the
big powers sought overthrow of the Syrian state or, failing that, the
creation of a dysfunctional state or dismembering into sectarian
statelets, thus breaking the axis of independent regional states. That
axis comprises Hezbollah in south Lebanon and the Palestinian
resistance, alongside Syria and Iran, the only states in the region
without US military bases. More recently Iraq - still traumatised
from western invasion, massacres and occupation - has begun to
align itself with this axis. Russia too has begun to play an important
counter-weight role. Recent history and conduct demonstrate that
neither Russia nor Iran harbour any imperial ambitions remotely
approaching those of Washington and its allies, several of which
(Britain, France and Turkey) were former colonial warlords in the
region. From the point of view of the 'Axis of Resistance', defeat
of the dirty war on Syria means that the region can begin closing
ranks against the big powers. Syria's successful resistance would
mean the beginning of the end for Washington's 'New Middle
East"' [67].
Professor Michel Chossudovsky on the US Alliance attack on Syria
as part of US global war on Humanity (2015): "The 'globalization
of war' is a hegemonic project. Major military and covert
intelligence operations are being undertaken simultaneously in the
Middle East, Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia and
the Far East. The U.S. military agenda combines both major theater
operations as well as covert actions geared towards destabilizing
sovereign states. Under a global military agenda, the actions
undertaken by the Western military alliance (U.S.-NATO-Israel) in
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Palestine, Ukraine, Syria and Iraq are
coordinated at the highest levels of the military hierarchy. We are
not dealing with piecemeal military and intelligence operations.
The July-August 2014 attack on Gaza by Israeli forces was
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The actions in Ukraine and their timing coincided with the
onslaught of the attack on Gaza. In turn, military undertakings are
closely coordinated with a process of economic warfare which
consists not only in imposing sanctions on sovereign countries but
also in deliberate acts of destabilization of financial and currencies
markets, with a view to undermining the enemies' national
economies" [68].
General Wesley Clark (retired general of the US army) on US
Middle East war plans to remove governments in 7 countries
including Syria (2007): "[War plans of] a half dozen other
collaborators from the Project for the New American Century ...
Six weeks later [2 months after 9-11 ], I saw the same [Pentagon]
officer, and asked: 'Why haven't we attacked Iraq? Are we still
going to attack Iraq?' He said: 'Sir, it's worse than that.' He said-
he pulled up a piece of paper off his desk - he said: 'I just got this
memo from the Secretary of Defense's office. It says we're going
to attack and destroy the governments in 7 countries in five years -
we're going to start with Iraq, and then we're going to move to
Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran'" [69].
Glenn Greenwald (US lawyer, journalist, and author, best known
for his role in publication of the Edward Snowden revelations) on
US war and regime change plans for the Middle East including
Syria (2011 ): "The current turmoil in the Middle East is driven
largely by popular revolts, not by neocon shenanigans. Still, in the
aftermath of military-caused regime change in Iraq and Libya (the
latter leading to this and this), with concerted regime change efforts
now underway aimed at Syria and Iran, with active and escalating
proxy fighting in Somalia, with a modest military deployment to
South Sudan, and the active use of drones in six - count 'em: six
- different Muslim countries, it is worth asking whether the
neocon dream as laid out by [General Wesley] Clark is dead or is
being actively pursued and fulfilled, albeit with means more subtle
and multilateral than full-on military invasions (it's worth
remembering that neocons specialized in dressing up their wars in
humanitarian packaging: Saddam's rape rooms! Gassed his own
people!)" [70].
Ghali Hassan (Australia-based researcher and analyst) on US
Alliance violence for regime change in 6 Muslim countries (2018):
"The U.S. and its vassal-state allies have no interests in Syria. Their
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destruction of Syria is part of a planned U.S. aggression to destroy
seven Muslim-majority nations, starting with Iraq, moving to Syria,
Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran. The perpetrators of this
criminal plan are the pro-Israel U.S. neo-Nazis, better known as the
'Neocon cabal'. Their aim is to destabilise the region to safeguard
Israel's fascist interests. It is important to remember that, Trump,
Macron and May were put in their positions by big corporations
and wealthy pro-Israel Zionists, 'the Deep State', which controls
most Western regimes" [71].
Efraim In bar (director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic
Studies in Apartheid Israel) (2016): "The West should seek the
further weakening of Islamic State, but not its destruction ...
Allowing bad guys to kill bad guys sounds very cynical, but it is
useful and even moral to do so if it keeps the bad guys busy and
less able to harm the good guys ... Moreover, instability and crises
sometimes contain portents of positive change ... The American
administration does not appear capable of recognizing the fact that
IS can be a useful tool in undermining Tehran's ambitious plan for
domination of the Middle East" [72].
Diana Johnstone (progressive and anti-war US writer, journalist,
editor and activist based in Europe and author of "Fools' Crusade:
Yugoslavia, NATO, and Western Delusions" and "Queen of Chaos:
the Misadventures of Hillary Clinton") (2016): "The plain truth is
that Syria is the victim of a long-planned Joint Criminal Enterprise
to destroy the last independent secular Arab nationalist state in the
Middle East, following the destruction of Iraq in 2003. While
attributed to government repression of 'peaceful protests' in 2011,
the armed uprising had been planned for years and was supported
by outside powers: Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United States and
France, among others. The French motives remain mysterious,
unless linked to those of Israel, which sees the destruction of Syria
as a means to weaken its archrival in the region, Iran. Saudi Arabia
has similar intentions to weaken Iran, but with religious motives.
Turkey, the former imperial power in the region, has territorial and
political ambitions of its own. Carving up Syria can satisfy all of
them. This blatant and perfectly open conspiracy to destroy Syria is
a major international crime, and the above-mentioned States are co-
conspirators ... There is no chance that this criminal enterprise will
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Criminal Court, which like most major international organizations
is totally under U.S. control" [73].
Stephen Lendman (progressive, anti-war, anti-racist Jewish
American journalist) on US Alliance war on Syria (2018):
"Launched by the Obama regime in March 2011, orchestrated by
Hillary Clinton in cahoots with NATO partners, Israel and the
Saudis, war in its eighth year has no prospect for near-term
resolution. From the onset, it was and remains about toppling
overwhelmingly popular Bashar al-Assad, replacing him with pro-
Western puppet rule. That's what all US wars of aggression are all
about, making the world safe for America's military, industrial,
security, media complex, Wall Street and other corporate interests.
US war in Syria has nothing to do with combating the scourge of
ISIS Washington created and supports, along with al-Qaeda, its al-
Nusra offshoot, and other regional terrorist groups. In Syria, Iraq,
Libya, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, they're used as proxy foot
soldiers, letting them do America's killing and dying in pursuit of
its imperial objectives, supporting them with US-led terror-
bombing, massacring countless tens of thousands of defenseless
civilians. That's the stark reality of all US wars, what Western
media never report, pretending US aggression is about
humanitarian intervention and responsibility to protect, polar
opposite [to] Washington's objectives" [74]. Stephen Lendman
(2016): "Israel directly aids ISIS, providing weapons, munitions
and medical treatment for its wounded fighters, along with
intermittently bombing Syrian targets. It's complicit with Obama's
regional wars, including by profiting from stolen Syrian and Iraqi
oil" [75].
Eric Margolis (anti-racist, Jewish-origin conservative US writer) on
the US war on Syria (2016): "What a mess! In the crazy Syrian
war, US-backed and armed groups are fighting other US-backed
rebel groups. How can this be? It is so because the Obama White
House had stirred up the war in Syria but then lost control of the
process ... the two arms of offensive US strategic power, the
Pentagon, and CIA, went separate ways in Syria. Growing
competition between the US military and militarized CIA broke
into the open in Syria. Fed up with the astounding incompetence of
the White House, the US military launched and supported its own
rebel groups in Syria, while CIA did the same. Fighting soon after
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Special Forces joined the fighting in Syria, Iraq and most lately,
Libya ... The US, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey armed and financed
ISIS as a weapon to unleash on Syria, which was an ally of Iran
that refused to take orders from the Western powers. The west
bears a heavy responsibility for the deaths of 450,000 Syrians, at
least half the nation of 23 million becoming refugees, and
destruction of this once lovely country. At some point, ISIS shook
off its western tutors and literally ran amok. But the US has not yet
made a concerted attempt to crush ISIS because of its continuing
usefulness in Syria and in the US, where ISIS has become the
favorite whipping boy of politicians" [76]. Eric Margolis (2018):
"Trump ordered the 2,000 US troops based in Syria to get out and
come home. Neocons and the US war party are having apoplexy
even though there are some 50,000 US troops spread across the rest
of the Mideast. The US troops parked in the Syrian Desert were
doing next to nothing. Their avowed role was to fight the remnants
of the ISIS movement and block any advances by Iranian forces.
As a unified fighting force, ISIS barely exists, if it ever did.
Cobbled together, armed and financed by the US, the Saudis and
Gulf Emirates to overthrow Syria's regime, ISIS ran out of control
and became a menace to everyone. In fact, what the US was really
doing was putting down a marker for a possible US future
occupation of war-torn Syria that risked constant clashes with
Russian forces there. We will breathe a big sigh of relief if the US
deployment actually goes ahead: it will remove a major risk of war
with nuclear-armed Russia, whose forces are in Syria at the
invitation of the recognized government in Damascus" [77].
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar (Malaysian political scientist, Islamic
reformist and activist president of the International Movement for a
Just World (JUST)) on "The Globalization of War: America's
'long war' against Humanity" by Professor Michel Chossudovsky
(2015): 'The Globalization of War' is undoubtedly one of the most
important books on the contemporary global situation produced in
recent years. In his latest masterpiece, Professor Michel
Chossudovsky shows how the various conflicts we are witnessing
today in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq and Palestine are in fact inter-linked
and inter-locked through a single-minded agenda in pursuit of
global hegemony helmed by the United States and buttressed by its
allies in the West and in other regions of the world" [78].

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David Paul (president, Fiscal Strategies Group) (2015): "Turkey is
actively supporting Jabhat al Nusra, the al Qaeda affiliated Sunni
rebel group widely viewed as the most powerful faction in the
Syrian conflict, and which is tacitly allied with ISIS in opposition
to Assad. Turkey has been and continues to be the conduit for
jihadi fighters and funding coming from other countries to join ISIS
as well as other groups. Similarly, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf
states are actively backing Sunni jihadist groups fighting Assad.
For Saudi Arabia and the Gulf monarchies, Assad and Iran are their
sworn enemies. ISIS is of less concern to them. Our relationships
with Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf monarchies exemplify our
challenge in the region. While in the US media the battle against
ISIS is presented as the sine qua non of the conflicts in that region,
our allies there have each chosen their own paths, and are each now
either actively or tacitly aligned with ISIS. And so it has always
been with Pakistan, our other ally in the region, whose ISi created
and nurtured the Afghan Taliban against whom we fought the
longest war in our history" [79].
Dr. Ron Paul (US author, physician, obstetrician-gynecologist,
former Republican Representative for Texas, candidate for
Republican presidential nomination, founder of the Ron Paul
Institute for Peace and Prosperity, and author of numerous books)
on de facto US support for jihadis in Syria (2018): "Does the
Trump Administration actually support al-Qaeda and ISIS? Of
course not. But the 'experts' who run Trump's foreign policy have
determined that a de facto alliance with these two extremist groups
is for the time being necessary to facilitate the more long-term
goals in the Middle East. And what are those goals? Regime
change for Iran. Let's have a look at the areas where the US is
turning a blind eye to al-Qaeda and ISIS. First, Idlib. As I
mentioned last week, President Trump's own Special Envoy to
fight ISIS said just last year that 'Idlib Province is the largest Al
Qaeda safe haven since 9/11 '. So why do so many US officials -
including President Trump himself- keep warning the Syrian
government not to re-take its own territory from al-Qaeda
control? ... Second, one of the last groups oflSIS fighters in Syria
are around the Al-Tanf US military base which has operated
illegally in northeastern Syria for the past two years ... It is
considered a strategic point from which to attack Iran. The US
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the neighbourhood" [80]. Dr. Ron Paul (2018): "There was no al-
Qaeda in Iraq before the 2003 U.S. invasion. There was no Islamic
State in Syria before President Obama's covert support for regime
change after the 2011 unrest. The massive pipeline of U.S.
weapons to 'moderate' rebels in Syria ended up in the hands of al-
Qaeda affiliated groups and ISIS. Does anyone think that
harebrained scheme makes anyone safer? The facts are clear: ISIS
is on the ropes. It controls no significant town or population center.
It is holed up in the desert and is being eliminated by the Syrian
government and its allies. Without foreign support, ISIS will never
regain significant positions in Syria. So why are we staying? The
U.S. Central Command commander, Gen. Joseph Votel, said we
must stay in Syria to 'stabilize' parts of the country occupied by
U.S. forces and 'consolidate ... our gains'. But what gives us the
right to 'stabilize' and 'consolidate' foreign territory we have no
legal right to occupy?" [81].
Professor James Petras (author, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at
Binghamton University, New York, and Research Associate of the
"Centre for Research on Globalization") (2017): "Frustrated at its
inability to control national policy of various independent nation-
states, Washington used direct and indirect military force to destroy
the central governments in the targeted nations and create
patchworks of tribal-ethno-mini-states amenable to imperial rule.
Tens of millions of people have been uprooted and millions have
died because of this imperial policy ... blinded by the media
propaganda reports of their 'successes', Washington and the NATO
powers launched a bloody surrogate war against the secular
nationalist government of Syria, seeking to divide, conquer and
obliterate an independent, pro-Palestine, pro-Iran, ally of Russia.
NATO's invading armies and mercenary groups, however, are sub-
divided into strange factions with shifting allegiances and patrons.
At one level, there are the EU/US-supported 'moderate' head-
chopping rebels. Then there are the Turkey and Saudi Arabia-
supported 'serious' head-chopping al Qaeda Salafists. Finally there
is the 'champion' head-chopping ISIS conglomeration based in Iraq
and Syria, as well as a variety of Kurdish armed groups serving as
Israeli mercenaries. The US-EU efforts to conquer and control
Syria, via surrogates, mercenaries and [jihadi] terrorists, was
defeated largely because of Syria's alliance with Russia, Iran and
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Alon Pinkas (former Apartheid Israeli consul general in New York)
onjihadis versus the Syrian Government (2013): "This is a playoff
situation in which you need both teams to lose, but at least you
don't want one to win - we'll settle for a tie. Let them both bleed,
hemorrhage to death: that's the strategic thinking here" [83].
Dr. Jill Stein (physician and 2016 presidential candidate for the
American Greens) (2016): "The situation in Syria is complicated
and disastrous, with an all-out civil war in Syria entangled with a
proxy war among many powers seeking influence in the region. US
pursuit of regime change in Libya and Iraq created chaos that
promotes power grabs by extremist militias. Many of the weapons
we are sending into Syria to arm anti-government militias end up in
the hands ofISIS. In Syria it's extremely difficult to sort out this
complicated web of resistance fighters, religious extremists and
warlords with backing from regional and world powers. The one
thing that is clear is that historic and current US military
intervention in the Middle East is throwing fuel on the fire" [84].
Mark Taliano (progressive Canadian journalist and author of
"Voices from Syria") on US Alliance state terrorism in Syria
(2017): "The invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya were all
based on lies; likewise for Ukraine. All of the post-9/11 wars were
sold to Western audiences through a sophisticated network of
interlocking governing agencies that disseminate propaganda to
both domestic and foreign audiences. But the dirty war on Syria is
different. The degree of war propaganda levelled at Syria and
contaminating humanity at this moment is likely unprecedented. I
had studied and written about Syria for years, so I was not entirely
surprised by what I saw. What I felt was a different story. Syria is
an ancient land with a proud and forward-looking people. To this
ancient and holy land we sent mercenaries, hatred, bloodshed and
destruction. We sent strange notions of national exceptionalism and
wave upon wave oflies ... The 'Global War on Terrorism' also
known as the 'war on Terror' is a fraud. It is literally a global war
for terror. Empire creates and uses extremist terrorist proxies,
including ISIS (also called by its Arabic acronym, Daesh), to
advance its geopolitical goals ... The cancer is NATO and its allies,
including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan. We are the countries
funding the terrorists, and we are the cancer that wants to illegally
impose regime change in Syria ... As a first step, we would do well
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injustice and war ... Mainstream media often uses public-relations-
engineered sources for its stories- the 'White Helmets' and the
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) are good examples.
Historical memory teaches us that the dirty war against Syria is
consistent with previous illegal wars of aggression and western-
sourced evidence demonstrates beyond a reasonable doubt that we
are, yet again, the terrorists" [85].
Andre Vltchek (USSR-born American philosopher, novelist,
filmmaker, investigative journalist and author of numerous books)
on US Alliance-backed j ihadis in Syria (2016): "Day and night, for
years, an overwhelming force has been battering this quiet nation,
one of the cradles of human civilization. Hundreds of thousands
have died, and millions have been forced to flee abroad or have
been internally displaced. In many cities and villages, not one
house is left intact. But Syria is, against all odds, still standing.
During the last 3 years I worked in almost all of Syria's perimeters,
exposing the birth of ISIS in the NATO-run camps built in Turkey
and Jordan. I worked in the occupied Golan Heights, and in Iraq. I
also worked in Lebanon, a country now forced to host over 2
million (mostly Syrian) refugees. The only reason why the West
began its horrible destabilization campaign, was because it 'could
not tolerate' Syria's disobedience and the socialist nature of its
state. In short, the way the Syrian establishment was putting the
welfare of its people above the interests of multi-national
corporations" [86].
Ludwig Watzal (progressive German researcher and writer) on
Mark Taliano's book "Voices from Syria" and the US Alliance
attack on Syria (2017): "Slowly but surely, the truth about the
planned attack on Syria by Western powers under the leadership of
the US Empire and its allies comes to the fore. For too long, the
mainstream media held the monopoly on reporting about this havoc
inflicted by the West together with its terrorist partners such as
ISIS, al-Nusra front, and so-called moderate rebels in Syria.
Especially the Obama administration pampered the last one. As the
public knows by now, there hasn't been such a thing as 'moderate
rebels'. That the public in the West could have been so
misinformed, was the fault of CNN , BBC, NYT and other media
outlets. They prostituted themselves to the power elite in
Washington D. C. Independent reporting was not their task. They
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, to establish another Islamic
dictatorship according to the Saudi Arabian model... His book
provides a convincing testimony to the bravery and resilience of the
Syrian people, who have been fighting against an alliance of
Western aggressors and Islamic terrorists for over six years. The
fact that one of the oldest cultural nations of the world is bombed
back to the Middle Ages by the West and its Arab allies is not only
a colossal war crime but also a crime against humanity. The book
corrects a large part of Western propaganda claims on Syria" [87].

5. Proposed gas pipelines and the Syrian War

US goals in Syria and the Middle East in general have been about
oil and geopolitical hegemony as well as supporting the colonial
Crusader fortress of Apartheid Israel, which in turn is a key part of
these US goals [19]. The ongoing, horrendous US Alliance War on
Humanity has fundamentally been about an unquenchable Anglo-
American desire for hegemony and control of oil. Thus from the
Right, Alan Greenspan (leading Republican economist, chairman
of the US Federal Reserve for almost two decades, and servant of
four US presidents) (2007): "I am saddened that it is politically
inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is
largely about oil" [88]. On the Left, Professor Noam Chomsky
(eminent linguistics expert and anti-racist Jewish American human
rights activist at 10 I-Nobel-Laureate Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) (2009): "There is basically no significant
change in the fundamental traditional conception that if we can
control Middle East energy resources, then we can control the
world" [89]. In relation to fossil fuel resources and Syria, Apartheid
Israel wants the lion's share of Eastern Mediterranean gas
resources. From the US Alliance perspective, Syria is vital for a
proposed US- and Saudi-preferred Qatar to Turkey pipeline and for
a Russia- and Iran-preferred Iran to Syria gas pipeline as conduits
for gas supplies to Europe (although presently not needed due to
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) exports from Qatar). Below are some
expert opinions on this aspect of the US Alliance war on Syria.
Dr. Nafeez Ahmed (executive director of the London-based
Institute for Policy Research & Development and author of "A
User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilisation: And How to Save It" and
other books) (2013): "The 2011 uprisings, it would seem-

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triggered by a confluence of domestic energy shortages and
climate-induced droughts which led to massive food price hikes -
came at an opportune moment that was quickly exploited. Leaked
emails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor including notes
from a meeting with Pentagon officials confirmed US-UK training
of Syrian opposition forces since 2011 aimed at eliciting 'collapse'
of Assad's regime 'from within' ... It would seem that
contradictory self-serving Saudi and Qatari oil interests are pulling
the strings of an equally self-serving oil-focused US policy in
Syria, if not the wider region. It is this - the problem of
establishing a pliable opposition which the US and its oil allies feel
confident will play ball, pipeline-style, in a post-Assad Syria - that
will determine the nature of any prospective intervention: not
concern for Syrian life. What is beyond doubt is that Assad is a war
criminal whose government deserves to be overthrown. The
question is by whom, and for what interests?" [90].
Bruno P. Gebarski (progressive writer) (2017): "Looking at all the
illegal wars the United States of America, the rogue Empire of
Chaos, has in progress, the most complex one is probably the
Syrian war. So what could drive the U.S. to undertake such a
crusade in this already battered part of the world? ... A 'minute
detail' that bothers the U.S. neocons is the fact that Syrian
President Bashar Al Assad has refused to support the Qatari
pipeline in favor of the Iranian one sponsored and supported by
Russia: one of the main reasons why the US and Europe are
involved in a conflict of geopolitical and gee-strategic
importance: the Syrian conflict is about who will control the export
· of Middle Eastern gas: the United States of America or Russia? ...
It's about the geopolitics of who is going to control the supply of
LNG towards Europe and the world: Qatar and its US allies
defending the Petrodollar or Iran and its Russian allies defending
the Petroyuan? (Image 4.) Pipeline One: Petroyuan Russian
side: Persian Gulf South Pars from Iran via Iraq, Syria, Lebanon; a
project backed up by Russia (Gazprom), Iran and China. Pipeline
Two: Petrodollar U.S. side: Persian Gulf North Dome from Qatar,
via Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria; a project supported by the United
States of America and its allies: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the
United Arab Emirates. Who will win this financial war? (Image 5.)
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China and Russia with the Petroyuan? This is the real dichotomy of
the Syrian conflict" [91].
Robert Kennedy Jr (son of Robert Kennedy) on gas pipelines and
Syrian war (2016): "America's unsavory record of violent
interventions in Syria-obscure to the American people yet well
known to Syrians-sowed fertile ground for the violent Islamic
Jihadism that now complicates any effective response by our
government to address the challenge ofISIS ... While the compliant
American press parrots the narrative that our military support for
the Syrian insurgency is purely humanitarian, many Syrians see the
present crisis as just another proxy war over pipelines and
geopolitics ... In 1957, my grandfather, Ambassador Joseph P.
Kennedy, sat on a secret committee charged with investigating
CIA's clandestine mischief in the Mid-East. The so called 'Bruce
Lovett Report,' to which he was a signatory, described CIA coup
plots in Jordan, Syria, Iran, Iraq and Egypt, all common knowledge
on the Arab street, but virtually unknown to the American people
who believed, at face value, their government's denials ... Assad
further enraged the Gulf's Sunni monarchs by endorsing a Russian
approved 'Islamic pipeline' running from Iran's side of the gas
field through Syria and to the ports of Lebanon. The Islamic
pipeline would make Shia Iran instead of Sunni Qatar, the principal
supplier to the European energy market and dramatically increase
Tehran's influence in the Mid-East and the world. Israel also was
understandably determined to derail the Islamic pipeline which
would enrich Iran and Syria and presumably strengthen their
proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas. Secret cables and reports by the
U.S., Saudi and Israeli intelligence agencies indicate that the
moment Assad rejected the Qatari pipeline, military and
intelligence planners quickly arrived at the consensus that
fomenting a Sunni uprising in Syria to overthrow the uncooperative
Bashar Assad was a feasible path to achieving the shared objective
of completing the Qatar/Turkey gas link. In 2009, according to
WikiLeaks, soon after Bashar Assad rejected the Qatar pipeline, the
CIA began funding opposition groups in Syria ... " [92]. Dr. Jill
Stein (2016): "This explains so much: there are 2 proposed
pipelines through Syria - 1 supported by US, 1 supported by
Russia" [93].

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Final comments

The Syrian War- the Syrian Holocaust, Syrian Genocide, Syrian

Civil War- has been about the remorseless desire of the Neocon
American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)- dominated American
Empire for hegemony and resource control. The consequences are
utterly appalling - cities, towns and villages devastated, 11 million
refugees out of a population of 24 million, 0.5 million Syrians dead
and a comparable number of Syrian avoidable deaths from war-
imposed deprivation. This atrocity has been enabled by the
remorseless mendacity including lying by omission of the US- and
Zionist-subverted Western Mainstream media. Eminent US writer
and author Gore Vidal has commented on American lying thus:
"The people have no voice since they have no information ... No
First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from
its media all objectivity - much less dissent" [94], and has made
the following damning assertion about American lying: "Unlike
most Americans who lie all the time, I hate lying" [95]. This deadly
culture of lying and censorship is entrenched in the countries of the
US Alliance. Thus Dr. Tim Anderson (Australian political
economist and author recently suspended from the censorious
University of Sydney) on Western Mainstream media censorship
over Syria (2016): "In my country (Australia) we have seen five
years of a near monolithic war narrative on Syria, and associated
wartime censorship of dissenting views. Although I have probably
written more than any other Australian academic on the conflict in
Syria I have been effectively black-listed from the Australian
corporate and state media, because what I say does not fit the
official line" [96]. I too have been effectively rendered "invisible"
in look-the-other-way, US lackey Australia for quantitating the
carnage of the Palestinian Genocide [l 0] and the US-imposed
Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide of which the Syrian
Holocaust and Syrian Genocide is a part [2]. Also comprehensively
hidden by mendacious Mainstream media, the Zionist-backed US
War on Muslims has had a deadly impact on ordinary Americans,
30 million of whom have died preventably from "lifestyle" and
"political" choices since the US Government's 9-11 atrocity that
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Governments have embraced the fiscal perversion of committing
$6 trillion to killing over 30 million Muslims abroad rather than
trying to keep 30 million Americans alive at home. Saturation
Mainstream terror hysteria also hides the realities that only about
60 Americans have been killed by jihadi psychopaths in America
since 9-11, and that a fundamentalist America has trashed or
attempted to trash secular governance, modernity, democracy,
women's rights and children's rights in the Muslim world [96].
What can decent people do? Peace is the only way but silence kills
and silence is complicity. Decent people must (a) tell everyone they
can, (b) eschew mendacious Mainstream media, ( c) demand expert,
non-government war crimes tribunals to document the immense
war crimes of the US Alliance, and (d) urge and apply Boycotts,
Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all people, politicians,
countries and corporations associated with the war criminal US
Alliance and its ongoing Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide
of which the ongoing Syrian Holocaust and Syrian Genocide is but
a part.

2020 Postscript

Turkey has illegally invaded a swathe of the northern Syrian

Kurdish Rojava region that was liberated from variously US
Alliance-supported ISIS by democratic Kurdish forces. The US has
left one of its illegal bases in Syria but continues to illegally occupy
and bomb Syrian territory. Apartheid Israel and the US continue to
bomb anti-ISIS Syrian, Iraqi and Iranian bases in Syria and Iraq. As
observed in Chapter 9, Apartheid Israel has just signed a gas
pipeline deal with Greece and Cyprus that is opposed by Turkey
("Turkey slams controversial EastMed pipeline deal signed in
Athens", TRTWorld, 3 January 2020:
https ://www.trtworId.com/europe/turkey-slams-controversial-
eastmed-pipeline-deal-signed-in-athens-32668). Despite ongoing
Turkish, US and residual ISIS violence and occupation, much of
Syria is now at peace under Syrian government control. However,
as observed in Chapter 10, the serial war criminal rogue states of
the US and Apartheid Israel are ratcheting up to a war that will
engulf Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Iran. US lackey Australia has been
involved in all post-1950 US Asian wars (genocidal atrocities
associated with 40 million Asian deaths from violence or war-

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imposed deprivation) [8]. However Australia's subservience to
America involves some further serious contradictions. Thus
Australians vehemently claim to be non-racist but Australia is
second only to the US as a supporter of democracy-by-genocide
Apartheid Israel. US lackey Australia enthusiastically joined the
fight against ISIS in Syria and Iraq (Australia's Third Syrian War
and its Eighth Iraq War) [8], notwithstanding massive support for
ISIS by US Alliance countries. Further, Australia has passed over
70 draconian laws aimed at jihadis but which also seriously
threaten the civil liberties of law-abiding Australians. The terror
hysteric and human rights-abusing Australian Coalition
Government refuses to rescue about 40 Australian children ( and
their mothers) threatened with death from disease, deprivation or
violence in detention camps in northern Syria camps because their
fathers are allegedly ISIS fighters (Ben Doherty and Helen
Davidson, "Australia urged to act quickly to get families out of
Syrian refugee camps", Guardian, 7 October 2019:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/oct/07 /australia-
urged-to-act-quickly-to-get-families-out-of-syrian-refugee-camps ).

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since 1991. More than 5 million Somalis ( over 40 percent of the
population) need some form of humanitarian assistance; over 1
million face crisis levels of food insecurity. Conflict has driven
740,000 Somalis to nearby countries and a further 2.6 million
people are displaced within the country. Flooding at the end of
2019 could push these numbers to record levels". The International
Rescue Committee (IRC), "The top 10 crises the world should be
watching in 2020", 7 January 2020.

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(1 ). [History summary with updates in square brackets; from
"Somalia" in Chapter 7, "Non-Arab Africa - colonialism, neo-
colonialism, militarism, debt, economic constraint and
incompetence" in Gideon Polya, "Body Count. Global avoidable
mortality since 1950".]
Early trade with Romans and Egyptians; Galla, Haussa and Yemeni
settlements; 7th-I 0th century AD, Muslim Arab and Persian
trading and settlements; 15th-16th century, Christian Ethiopian and
Muslim Somali conflict; 1541, Portuguese destroyed major towns;
1698, Portuguese expelled; 18th-19th century, Ottoman Turkish
control of north, Zanzibar Arab control of south; mid-19th century,
the Suez Canal construction impelled territorial seizures by Italy
(Eritrea), Britain (Berbera, Zelia) and France (Obuck, now
Djibouti); 1870, partial Egyptian occupation; 1884, Egyptians
withdrew; 1896, Italians defeated by Ethiopia; 1906, Italians took
the South coast of Somalia; 1885-1920, Somali resistance to British
crushed using air power; 1925, Jubaland conquered by the Italians;
1936, Italian-occupied Somalia incorporated with Ethiopia and
Eritrea into Italian East Africa; 1941, British forces from Kenya
defeated the Italians; 1950, Italian Somaliland a UN Trust Territory
under Italian control; 1960, Italian and thence British Somalia
independence; union as United Republic of Somalia; 1969, coup
under Barre; 1974, joined the Arab League; 1976-1988, war by US-
and Saudi-backed Somalia against USSR-backed Ethiopia over the
Ogaden region, 840,000 refugees fled to Somalia; 1980, US gained
Berbera base; Somalia-Ethiopia peace accord (1976-1988 excess
mortality 1.4 million); 1991, coup; North Somalia (formerly
British) seceded; Mogadishu civil war between Mahdi and Aidid
factions; 1992, famine due to drought exacerbated by civil war (0.3
million famine deaths); UN aid; 1993, Pakistan peacekeeper
deaths; US forces entry; US left; 1995, last UN forces left; 1996,
Aidid died of wounds; 1997, devastating floods; 1998, Northeast
Puntland region and Jubaland (South Somalia) declared
independence; 21st century, fragmented country (Northern
Somaliland, Southwestern Somaliland, Northeast Puntland and
Mogadishu region); 2002, ceasefire covering most areas;
continuing attempts at resolution with Kenyan facilitation (I 991-
2005, excess mortality 1.9 million); [Transitional National
Government (TNG), 2000-2004; Transitional Federal Government
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2006- 2007; US-backed Ethiopian invasion, restoration of the TFG,
supported by African Union forces, notably from Kenya; Islamic
forces, notably Al-Shabaab, opposed foreign occupation of
Somalia, 2007-present; US-led "anti-piracy" multinational naval
coalition, 2008- present; recurrent drought and famine, 2010-
present]. Foreign occupation: Turks, French, British, Italians (pre-
1950); UK (post-1950); post-1950 foreign military presence: UK,
US, UN (Pakistan peacekeepers), Ethiopia, Kenya; post-1950
excess mortality/2005 population= 5.568m/10.742m = 51.8%;
post-1950 under-5 infant mortality/2005 population=
3.582m/10.742m = 33.3%.

(2). [Mainstream censorship of the Somali Holocaust and the

Muslim Holocaust [first published as Gideon Polya, "Western and
Australian pro-Zionist Mainstream Media censorship of
Muslim Holocaust and Palestinian Holocaust", Countercurrents,
7 May, 2012: https://www.countercurrents.org/polya0705 l 2.htm.]
The insidious evil of censorship not only offensively inhibits free
speech and human communication but also short-circuits science-
based risk management that is crucial for societal safety and which
successively involves (a) accurate information, (b) scientific
analysis and ( c) informed systemic change to minimize risk.
Neocon- and Zionist-promoted Mainstream media censorship has
perverted Western democracies which have become Murdochracies
(Big Money buys public perception of reality and votes) and
Lobbyocracies (Big Money buys politicians, parties, policies,
public perception of reality and votes).
However intelligent analysis of censorship can help Humanity. M.
Aarons and J. Loftus in "The Secret War Against the Jews. How
Western espionage betrayed the Jewish people" stated "The hidden
parts of history, the covert sides, are more orderly and rational, but
can be seen and understood only if you are told where to look. The
holes in history are what make sense of the thing". In the example
outlined below, analysis of censorship by the ABC (Australia's
equivalent of the UK BBC), can reveal what They (with a capital
T) do not want the people to know.
The ABC Radio National Late Night Live (LNL) program is an
interview program that is ostensibly progressive but which actually
has conservative views and regularly censors out comments by
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presumably because they contain facts or opinions the ABC
(Australia's equivalent of the UK BBC) does not want its listeners
to know about or think about. A consistent feature of listener
comments attracting ABC censorship is criticism of war criminal
US and/or Apartheid Israel human rights abuses and war crimes.
A detailed chronologically-ordered record is being kept of those
comments by me on Late Night Live (LNL) that the ABC permits
and those that it censors out, noting that I am a 5-decade career
scientist who offers carefully researched and documented
comments under my own name, Dr. Gideon Polya. The censored
comments are recorded in bold and a quick scroll down reveals an
ABC propensity to censor comments critical of the racist, genocidal
war policies of neocon- and racist Zionist-dominated America and
of racist Zionist-run Apartheid Israel. In particular the ABC LNL
censors comments about the appalling Palestinian Holocaust and
Palestinian Genocide being perpetrated by US-backed Apartheid
Israel (see "ABC Late Night Live (LNL) censors listener
comments": https://sites.google.com/site/abccensorship/abc-late-
night-live-1 and "Censorship by ABC Late Night Live":
https://sites.google.com/site/censorshipbyabclatenightlive/).
Thus, by way of example, on 2 May 2012 ABC LNL broadcast a
program involving an interview with an American disaster recovery
expert about "Post-Katrina recovery in New Orleans":
http://www .abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/post-
katrina-recovery-in-new-orleans/3983272. However my following
comments were completely censored out by the ABC:
"Of the various disasters mentioned in the program the devastation
of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina on 29 August 2005 was the
worst - 1,464 dead, 1 million (mostly temporary) refugees, and
thousands of homes and businesses destroyed. The disaster was
ultimately due to the failure of levees constructed by the US Army
Corp of Engineers.
Successive Neocon- and Zionist-dominated US Administrations
had more urgent if racist, genocidal and obscene fiscal priorities
than protecting American lives and property e.g. hundreds of
billions of dollars committed to shoring up racist, genocidal, racist
Zionist-run Apartheid Israel (2 million Palestinian deaths since
1936, 0.1 million from violence and 1.9 million from war-,
occupation- and expulsion-imposed deprivation, 7 million refugees,
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accrual cost of the Iraq and Afghan Wars alone (4.6 million war-
related Iraqi deaths since 1990 and 5-6 million refugees; 5.6
million Afghan war-related deaths since 2001, 3-4 million
refugees).
Of course resolutely kept under wraps by the traitorous, lying,
neocon- and Zionist-beholden US Mainstream media (and their
presstitutional ilk worldwide) is the ongoing American disaster of
about 1 million American preventable deaths each year due to such
obscene fiscal perversion by the murderous and traitorous 1 % at the
expense of the 99% of Americans (for details and documentation of
this Awful Truth simply Google '1 million Americans die
preventably each year'. In Australia (population 22.3 million as
compared to America's 314 million) an estimated 66,000
Australians die preventably each year in an ongoing disaster under
neocon- and Zionist-beholden, pro-war, anti-Humanity, anti-
science and anti-Biosphere Liberal-Laborn! (Lib-Lab) governments
(Google '66,000 Australians die preventably')".
Indeed the only comment surviving (so far) on the LNL website is
a comment by me referring to the censorship: "For LNL listener
comments disgracefully censored out by the neocon American and
Zionist imperialist-subverted ABC Google 'LNL censors"'. This
absence of comment suggests that other listener comments on this
program may have also been censored by the ABC (indeed I know
that at least one other listener poster has been censored on the LNL
website by the ABC).
As illustrated by this example (and many others; see "Mainstream
media censorship":
https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/), the
neocon- and Zionist-subverted ABC (like the other neocon- and
Zionist-subverted Western Mainstream media) censors the
qualitative actuality and horrendous magnitude of the ongoing,
Zionist-promoted Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide that
includes the Palestinian Holocaust and Palestinian Genocide. It
must be noted that the term "holocaust" is used to describe events
involving the deaths of huge numbers of people whereas the tenn
"genocide" is very precisely defined by Article 2 of the UN
Genocide Convention as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in
whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group". The
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Palestinian Holocaust, Palestinian Genocide

In 1880 there were about 0.5 million Indigenous Palestinians. Of

the 25,000 Jews in Palestine half were immigrants (see:
http://www. palestineremem be red .com/Acre/Palestine-
Remembered/Story559 .html and
http://www.mideastweb.org/palpop.htm). Palestinian casualties of
war violence total about 80,000 since 1948 and about 100,000 since
1936 (see "Palestinian casualties of war".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_casualties_of_war).
However one must also consider avoidable Palestinian deaths from
war-, expulsion- and occupation-imposed deprivation that now total
about 1.9 million since 1948. Palestinian refugees total about 7
million. This has been a Palestinian Genocide as defined by Article
2 of the UN Genocide Convention.
According to the Israeli Foreign Ministry: "From 1920 through
1999, a total of 2,500 residents of Mandatory Palestine and, since
1948, the State of Israel fell victims to hostile enemy action; in
most cases, terrorist attacks" (see:
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-
+Obstacle+to+Peace/Palestinian+terror+before+2000/) and "l ,218
people have been killed by Palestinian violence and terrorism since
September 2000" (see: http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-
+O bstacle+to+ Peace/Palestinian+terror+since+ 2000N ictims+of+ P
alestinian+Violence+and+Terrorism+sinc.htm ).
The race-based, racist Zionist-run Apartheid State of Israel is a
democracy by genocide. Of about 12 million Palestinians only the
adults of 1.6 million Palestinian Israelis (21 % of the Israeli
population) can vote for the government ruling all of Palestine plus
part of Lebanon and a near-completely ethnically cleansed part of
Syria, albeit as third class citizens. 1.6 million Occupied
Palestinians are abusively confined to the Gaza Concentration
Camp and 2. 7 million Occupied Palestinians live under highly
abusive military rule in West Bank Bantustans. About 6 million
Palestinians are forbidden to even live in Palestine. There are 5.9
million Jewish Israelis and 0.3 million non-Jewish and non-Arab
Israelis.
Since 1936, the ongoing Palestinian Genocide has involved about
2.0 million war- and occupation-related Palestinian deaths, 0.1
million Palestinians killed violently (see:

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million avoidable Palestinian deaths from war-, occupation- and
expulsion-imposed deprivation, 7 million refugees. 3,000
Palestinian infants are passively murdered by Apartheid Israel each
year, and 0.8 million Palestinian children are abusively confined to
the Gaza Concentration Camp for the "crime" of being Indigenous
Palestinians.

Muslim Holocaust, Muslim Genocide

The horrendous dimensions of the ongoing Muslim Holocaust are

set out below. Palestinian Holocaust, Palestinian Genocide: for
Palestinians as a whole, 0.1 million violent deaths and 1.9 million
war- and occupation-related avoidable deaths from deprivation,
1936-2011; 0.75 million under-5 infant deaths (1950-2012). For
Occupied Palestinians, 0.3 million post-invasion violent and non-
violent excess deaths, 1967-2011; 0.2 million post-invasion under-
5 infant deaths, 1967-2011 (75% avoidable and due to US
Alliance-backed Apartheid Israel war crimes in gross violation of
the Geneva Convention and the UN Genocide Convention) 7
million refugees (see "Palestinian Genocide":
http://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/).
Afghan Holocaust, Afghan Genocide: as of October 2011, 5.6
million war-related deaths, 2001-2011; 1.4 million post-invasion
violent deaths; 4.2 million non-violent excess deaths from
deprivation; 2.9 million post-invasion under-5 infant deaths (90%
avoidable and due to US Alliance war crimes in gross violation of
the Geneva Convention and the UN Genocide Convention), 3-4
million refugees plus 2.5 million NW Pakistan Pashtun refugees
(see "Afghan Holocaust, Afghan Genocide":
http://sites.google.com/site/afghanholocaustafghangenocide/).
Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide: for the period 2003- 2011, 2. 7
million post-invasion war-related deaths, 1.5 million violent deaths,
1 .2 million non-violent excess deaths from war-imposed
deprivation, 0.8 million post-invasion under-5 infant deaths, 5-6
million refugees; for the period 1990-2003, 0.2 million violent
deaths, 1. 7 million non-violent excess deaths from war-imposed
deprivation, 1.2 million under-5 infant deaths; for the period 1990-
2011, 4.6 million war-related deaths, 1.7 million violent deaths, 2.9
million deaths from war-imposed deprivation, 2.0 million under-5

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infant deaths (90% avoidable and due to US Alliance war crimes in
gross violation of the Geneva Convention and the UN Genocide
Convention) (see "Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide":
http://sites.google.com/site/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide/).
Somali Holocaust, Somali Genocide: in the period 1992-2011 (this
successively involving US, Ethiopian and most recently Kenyan
invasion), 0.4 million violent deaths, 1.8 million avoidable deaths
from war-imposed deprivation, 1.3 million under-5 year old infant
deaths (90% avoidable and due to US Alliance war crimes in gross
violation of the Geneva Convention and the UN Genocide
Convention), and 2.0 million refugees.
Libyan Holocaust, Libyan Genocide from 2011 onwards: before
the France-UK-US (FUKUS) Coalition invasion the under-5 infant
mortality was only 19 per 1,000 births in Libya as compared to 8 in
the US; the FUKUS Coalition has killed 0.1 million Libyans and
wounded 50,000 already; the FUKUS-backed rebels are ethnically
cleansing "Black Libyans"; Tawerga, formerly home to 10,000
mainly Black Libyans has been destroyed and completely
ethnically cleansed; 1 million Black sub-Saharan refugees have
fled; refugees total about 1.1 million; the Libyan Holocaust and
Libyan Genocide has just begun.
Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust: the above atrocities are
dwarfed by the 1950-2005 excess deaths in the mostly post-
colonial Muslim World that totalled 0.6 billion (see my book
"Body Count. Global voidable mortality since 1950", G.M. Polya,
Melbourne, 2007, and "Global avoidable mortality":
http:// globalavoidablemortali ty. blogspot.com/).
Climate Holocaust, Climate Genocide: man-made global warming
increasingly impacts the current 18 million annual avoidable deaths
from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease; estimates
from top UK climate scientists Dr. James Lovelock and Professor
Kevin Anderson point to 10 billion avoidable deaths this century
due to unaddressed global warming, this including 6 billion infants,
3 billion Muslims in a near-terminal, 21st century Muslim
Holocaust, 2 billion Indians, 1.3 billion non-Arab Africans, 0.5
billion Bengalis, 0.3 billion Pakistanis and 0.3 billion
Bangladeshis) (see "Climate Genocide":
http://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/).

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Conclusions

Analysis of censorship by Western mainstream media reveals the

Awful Truth that they do not want their consumers to know about
or think about, namely the ongoing Muslim Holocaust and Muslim
Genocide (12 million war-related deaths in the post-1990 US War
on Muslims and 20 million refugees) of which a part is the
Palestinian Holocaust and Palestinian Genocide (2 million war-
related deaths since 1936, 7 million refugees).
Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity.
Numerous outstanding anti-racist scholars have written about the
ongoing Palestinian Holocaust and Palestinian Genocide (for
details see "Palestinian Genocide":
https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/). All decent
people must take action by (a) informing everyone they can about
the Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide and the Palestinian
Holocaust and Palestinian Genocide, and (b) by urging and
applying Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against
Apartheid Israel and its racist supporters just as the world
successfully boycotted Apartheid Israel-supported Apartheid South
Africa after the Sharpeville Massacre (69 Africans killed).
Fundamentally, decent people must expose Zionist-promoted
censorship and oppose Zionist subversion of Western politics,
academia and media. The racist Zionists and their supporters,
notably the Neocon American and Zionist Imperialists (NAZls),
must be sidelined in public life as have been like racists such as the
Nazis, neo-Nazis, Apartheiders and KKK. A slice of this Zionist
perversion of Western democracies is given by the following
websites: "ABC Censorship":
https://sites.google.com/site/abccensorship/; "Censorship by The
Conversation":
https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/censorshi
p-by; "ABC Late Night Live (LNL) censors listener comments":
https://sites.google.com/site/abccensorship/abc-late-night-live-1;
"Censorship by ABC Late Night Live":
https://sites.google.com/site/censorshipbyabclatenightlive/;
"Censorship by the BBC":
https://sites.google.com/site/censorshipbythebbc/; "Boycott
Murdoch Media":
https://sites.google.com/site/boycottmurdochmedia/; "Mainstream

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Media Censorship":
https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/;
"Mainstream Media Lying":
https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammedialying/; and
"Censorship by the ABC":
https://sites.google.com/site/censorshipbytheabc/.
It is one thing for a media mogul to bias the reportage by his
presstitute employees, quite another thing entirely for taxpayer-
funded media to variously lie or censor against the national interest
and to the benefit of racist, genocidal, nuclear terrorist rogue states
like the US and Apartheid Israel. Media in general should not
censor, lie by commission or lie by omission, an injunction that
applies with great stringency to media funded by taxation or licence
fee imposts on ordinary citizens e.g. the taxpayer-funded Australian
ABC, the Australian university- backed and academic-based The
Conversation and the licence-fee funded UK BBC, which is in
effect a propaganda arm of the British Government.
Genocide ignoring and holocaust ignoring are far, far worse than
genocide denial or holocaust denial because the latter at least admit
the possibility of public debate. Nazi collaborator journalist Lord
Haw Haw (William Joyce) was hanged by the British in 1946 but,
in the interests of free speech, genocide ignoring and holocaust
ignoring (and hence genocide-complicit and holocaust-complicit)
journalists today must only be punished by simple public exposure
of their offences and removal of consumer and government support
for the media concerned. Taxpayers must insist that taxpayer-
funded media do not lie or censor under pain of reduction in
taxpayer funding.

2020 Postscript

The well-fed First World sailors of the US-led anti-"piracy" naval

force are not just (legitimately) policing piracy and kidnapping off
the Somali coast but are also attempting to block the
(unsustainable) Somali charcoal trade by impoverished Somalis
("How Somalia's charcoal trade is threatening the Acacia's
demise", UN Environment, 21 March 2018:
https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/story/how-
somalias-charcoal-trade-fuelling-acacias-demise ). Drought is
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million Somalis will shortly face starvation and a further 3.2
million will face food severe insecurity (Rebecca Ratcliffe, "Two
million people face starvation as drought returns to Somalia",
Guardian, 6 June 2019: https://www .theguardian.com/global-
development/2019/jun/06/two-million-people-at-risk-of-starvation-
as-drought-returns-to-somalia). Yet the rich US Alliance continues
to make war on impoverished and starving Somalia and Yemenis.
In Occupied Somalia the morally degenerate and war criminal US
Alliance is grossly violating Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva
Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of
War that unequivocally demand that an Occupier must provide its
conquered Subjects with life-preserving food and medical
requisites "to the fullest extent of the means available to it".
UNHCR: "The impact of nearly two-and-a-half decades of armed
conflict in Somalia, compounded by drought and other natural
hazards, challenges the resilience and the coping mechanisms of
Somalia's most vulnerable citizens. Over 870,000 Somalis are
registered as refugees in the Horn of Africa and Yemen, while an
estimated 2.1 million men, women and children are displaced
within the country itself' (UNHCR, "Somalia":
https://www.unhcr.org/en-au/somalia.html). The comprehensive
Western ignoring of the ongoing Somali Holocaust and the ongoing
Muslim Holocaust of which it is a part is considered further in
Chapter 22.

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"The aggression by Saudi Arabia against Yemen and its innocent
people was a mistake ... It has set a bad precedent in the region ...
This is a crime and genocide that can be prosecuted in international
courts. Riyadh will not emerge victorious in its aggression".
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in "Iran: Saudi Arabia causing Yemeni
genocide", World Bulletin, 2015.
"Tums out the United States and the Islamic State, ISIS, are de
facto allies of Saudi Arabia and its alliance of dictator states, all
bent on exterminating Yemeni Houthis and pretty much any other
Yemeni in the neighborhood. This Y emenicide started in earnest in
March 2015. After years of US drone strikes proved too slow and
ineffective at wiping out people in the poorest country in the Arab
world, it was time to expand the arsenal of war crimes. Rarely, in
discussions of Yemen, does one hear much about the violations of
international law that have reduced the country to its present war-
torn and devastated condition". William Boardman in "Yemeni
Genocide proceeds apace, enjoying world's silence", Dissident

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[First published as Gideon Polya, "Saudi crimes: Khashoggi
murder, Yemeni Genocide & complicity in US-imposed Muslim
Holocaust & Muslim Genocide", Countercurrents, I November
2018: https ://countercurrents.org/2018/ 11 /saudi-crimes-khashoggi-
murder-yemeni-genocide-complici ty-in-us-imposed-muslim-
holocaust-muslim-genocide.]
Mass murderer Joseph Stalin notoriously observed: "A single death
is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic". This aptly applies to
justified Western outrage over the brutal murder of Saudi journalist
Jamal Khashoggi by the Saudi Arabian Islamofascist regime as
compared to resolute Western ignoring of the over 30 million
Muslim deaths from violence or deprivation in the Saudi-complicit
US War on Terror aka the anti-Arab anti-Semitic and Islamophobic
US War on Muslims. One hopes that inspired by Jamal Khashoggi
Saudi Arabians will eventually secure human rights and
democracy.
A major export of Saudi Arabia in addition to oil has been a
primitive, ignorant, fanatical, fundamentalist and anti-science
Wahabist interpretation of Islam that has inspired ignorant
fanaticism from Africa to South East Asia and hampered the post-
colonial movement towards modernity in the Arab world and
indeed the Muslim world [ 1-3]. I can personally testify to the deep
frustration involved in trying to convince a fundamentalist Muslim
of the utility of the Darwinian theory of evolution through natural
selection that is overwhelmingly accepted by the world scientific
community but not by ignorant devotees of Saudi Wahabism or
indeed of American fundamentalist Christian Biblical literalism.
While a secular Humanist, I happily married into a large Muslim
family and can personally testify to the sophistication, modernity,
sociability and reasonableness of this large body of modern
Muslims who have been resistant to brainwashing by Saudi-
exported, primitive and mediaeval religious fundamentalism.
Professor Riaz Hassan's book "Inside Muslim minds" is an
excellent analysis of opinion in a range of Muslim countries. In
Professor Hassan's analysis, Kazakhstan, that had the benefit of
secular rule for 70 years, is a stand-out for sensible, science-
informed, pro-woman and humane opinion, in stark contrast to the
primitive, anti-science, misogynistic, mediaeval fanaticism
exported to the Muslim world by Saudi Arabia [1, 2].

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Fundamentalist jihadi non-state terrorists have been a major asset
of US imperialism - every j ihadi atrocity has been used an as
excuse to support further massive violence against Muslims by the
US and its anti-Arab anti-Semitic and Islamophobic allies. Jihadi
non-state terrorists were backed by the US to overthrow secular
rule in Afghanistan in 1978 [ 4] and in Libya in 2011. Saudi Arabia
and the US Alliance (including Apartheid Israel) also backed
jihadis in the attempted overthrow of the secular state in Syria since
2011. The Saudi Coalition backs Al Qaeda in Yemen. The Saudis
opposed the US invasion of Iraq [5] but the secular Iraqi Baathist
Sunni opposition to the US invaders eventually transmuted into the
appalling and barbaric IS [ISIS] that variously received Saudi,
Western, Turkish and Israeli support in the devastation of Iraq and
Syria.

1. The murder of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi

by the Saudi regime

For simply articulating quite conservative pro-Humanity opinions,

courageous Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi has
evidently been imprisoned, tortured, butchered and dismembered in
the Saudi Istanbul consulate by the serial war criminal, corrupt,
misogynist, mediaeval, Muslim-killing, Islam-violating,
Islamofascist Saudi regime. The latest revelation from the Turkish
authorities is that soon after Jamal Khashoggi entered the consulate
to secure papers for his forthcoming marriage he was hooded,
bashed, and strangled with his body then being dismembered and
disposed of. The strong world response against this atrocity,
notably from Western, arms-supplying allies of the Saudis such as
the US, UK, France, Canada and Australia, has been because the
murder was evidently pre-planned by Saudi authorities, was
exceptionally awful, occurred in a consulate and occurred while his
poor wife-to-be waited outside. Some of Jamal Khashoggi's
opinions that led to his brutal murder and dismemberment in the
Saudi Consulate in Istanbul are set out below.

Jamal Khashoggi on the Yemen War: "The Yemeni people ... are
already suffering immensely. This conflict is the horrific result
of preventing the people of Yemen from achieving their desire for
freedom. Now the Houthi has become a significant force, and they

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do not hold the values of the Arab Spring based on power sharing.
The world is watching Yemen; not only should the Saudis stop the
war, but there should be pressure for the Iranians to stop their
support for the Houthis; both sides must accept a Yemeni formula
to share power ... The longer this cruel war lasts in Yemen, the
more permanent the damage will be. The people of Yemen will be
busy fighting poverty, cholera and water scarcity and rebuilding
their country. The crown prince must bring an end to the violence
and restore the dignity of the birthplace of Islam" [ 6].
Jamal Khashoggi on Saudi corruption and Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman [MBS] media control: "When many of
Saudi Arabia's media tycoons ended up in Riyadh's Ritz-Carlton
along with more than 300 royals, senior officials and wealthy
businessmen accused of corruption, many people assumed that the
kingdom's strongman, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, aims
to control the media, too. This is far from true, simply because he
already does" [6].
Jamal Khashoggi on Saudi slums: "Many inner cities in Saudi
Arabia fester today as Detroit once did - they are miserable Third
World slums that completely mock the oil riches of the kingdom.
So, before MBS ventures into building new cities, perhaps he
should deal with the old ones" [6].
Jamal Khashoggi on censorship: "In Saudi Arabia at the moment,
people simply don't dare to speak. The country has seen the
blacklisting of those who dare raise their voices, the imprisonment
of moderately critical intellectuals and religious figures, and the
alleged anti-corruption crackdown on royals and other business
leaders" [6].
Jamal Khashoggi on women's rights and human rights in general:
"It is appalling to see 60- and 70-year-old icons of reform
being branded as 'traitors' on the front pages of Saudi newspapers.
Women and men who championed many of the same social
freedoms - including women driving - that Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman is now advancing were arrested in Saudi
Arabia last week. The crackdown has shocked even the
government's most stalwart defenders" [6].
The brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi has led to a thoroughly
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that variously supply the Saudi regime with weapons to kill Arabs
and Muslims.

2. Saudi Coalition-imposed Yemeni Genocide.

The respected Al Jazeera has provided the following succinct

summary of the Yemen Civil War (2018): "The Houthis and the
Yemeni government have battled on and off since 2004, but much
of the fighting was confined to the Houthis' stronghold, northern
Yemen's impoverished Saada province. In September 2014, the
Houthis took control of Yemen's capital, Sanaa, and proceeded to
push southwards towards the country's second-biggest city, Aden.
In response to the Houthis' advances, a coalition of Arab states
launched a military campaign in 2015 to defeat the Houthis and
restore Yemen's government... As of March 26, 2018, at least
10,000 Yemenis had been killed by the fighting, with more than
40,000 casualties overall. .. Save The Children estimated at least
50,000 children died in 2017, an average of 130 every day ... The
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has
estimated that Saudi-led coalition air attacks caused almost two-
thirds of reported civilian deaths, while the Houthis have been
accused of causing mass civilian casualties due to their siege of
Taiz, Yemen's third-largest city ... The United Nations Office for
the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimates that
more than 3 million Yemenis have fled their homes to elsewhere in
the country, and 280,000 have sought asylum in other countries,
including Djibouti and Somalia ... Yemen was ruled for a
millennium by Zaydi Shia imams until 1962, and the Houthis were
founded as a Zaydi Shia revivalist movement. However, the
Houthis have not called for restoring the imamate in Yemen, and
religious grievances have not been a major factor in the war" [7].
Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the world with a per capita
GDP (2017) of $551 [8]. The foreign participants in the Saudi-
imposed Yemeni Genocide are as follows (with IMF-estimated
2017 per capita GDP given in brackets): Saudi Arabia ($21,120),
United Arab Emirates ($37,226), Bahrain ($24,029), Kuwait
($27,319), Egypt ($2,501), Jordan ($5,678), Morocco ($3,151),
Senegal ($1,038), Sudan ($1,428). Qatar ($60,804) withdrew from

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the genocidal, anti-Arab anti-Semitic Saudi Coalition in 2017 in the
face of dire Saudi threats [9].
The war criminal Saudi Coalition is further supported by the
following countries (with IMF-estimated 2017 per capita GDP and
the nature of the support given in brackets): US ($59,501; weapons,
intelligence, troops, naval blockade), UK ($39,735; weapons sales,
training, intelligence, logistical support, naval blockade), Australia
($55,707; weapons sales, logistical support, naval support,
targeting of drone and other bombing attacks from the US-
Australia Joint electronic spying facility at Pine Gap, Australia),
Canada ($45,077; weapons sales and logistical support), Turkey
($10,512), Al Qaeda (Saudi-backed, combatants), South Korea
($29,891), Finland ($46,017; weapons sales and logistical support),
Brazil ($9,895; weapons sales and logistical support), Malaysia
($9,813), Pakistan ($1,541; Pakistani troops in Saudi Arabia but not
in Yemen), Bosnia and Herzegovina ($5,149; weapons sales),
Djibouti ($1,989), Eritrea ($980), US Coalition-occupied and
starving Somalia ($92 from the UN in 2015), France ($39,859;
weapons supply, logistics support and special forces troops with
U AE forces).
It is alleged by the Saudi Coalition and the Western US Coalition
that the Houthis are supported by the following countries or entities
(with IMF-estimated 2017 per capita GDP and the nature of the
support given in brackets): Iran ($5,305; through weapons evading
the Saudi Coalition and US Coalition naval blockade), and Qatar
($60,804; intelligence and media), as well as by the Shia Hezbollah
in Lebanon ($11,409), and the US Coalition bete noire, North
Korea ($665, UN 2015 estimate).
It is difficult to ascertain the death toll in Yemen. Thus Sophie
Akram (2017): "10,000 people have died as a result of the war in
Yemen, over 5,000 of them have been civilians. Except we've been
hearing that statistic for close to a year now, one that was
conservative to begin with. Now, after 1,000 days in conflict have
passed, it's time to get real about the true impact of the war as it
goes far beyond 10,000" [ 10].
Save the Children provides dire assessment of under-5 infant
mortality in Yemen (2017): "A continuing blockade by the Saudi
Arabia-led coalition on the country's northern ports of entry is
likely to increase the death toll further, past the projected 50,000
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need treatment for severe acute malnutrition in Yemen this year -
but aid agencies are struggling to reach them all amid chronic
funding shortfalls, the largest cholera outbreak in modern history,
and obstructions to supplies of food and aid. Without urgent,
unhindered access for humanitarian organisations and an increase
in funding, Save the Children is warning half of these children will
most likely go without treatment. Based on the available evidence,
if left untreated approximately 20-30% of children with severe
acute malnutrition will die each year. Even before this latest
blockade, based on this calculation Yemen would expect to see
about 50,000 malnourished children under the age of five die from
hunger or disease this year - an average of 130 a day, or one child
every ten minutes" [ 11].
Sir Mark Lowcock (UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian
Affairs, Emergency Relief Coordinator, and Head of the UN Office
for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) has foreshadowed
millions dying from the Saudi- and US Alliance-imposed war and
blockade (2017): "I have told the [UN Security] Council that unless
those [blockade] measures are lifted ... there will be a famine in
Yemen. It will not be like the famine that we saw in South Sudan
earlier in the year, where tens of thousands of people were affected.
It will not be like the famine which cost 250,000 people their lives
in Somalia in 2011. It will be the largest famine the world has seen
in many decades, with millions of victims" [12].
An alternative approach to determining how many Yemenis are
dying from war-imposed deprivation is via the UN Population
Division World Population Prospects 2017 [13] from which one
gleans that in 2015 in Yemen (population 27 million) there were
865,000 births, and 51,000 under -5 infant deaths. Now avoidable
mortality is the difference between the actual deaths in a country
and deaths expected for a peaceful, decently-governed country with
the same demographics. The annual death rate for Yemen in 2015
was 6.55 deaths per thousand of population [13], and the death rate
expected for a poor but peaceful and decently governed country
with the same demographics ( e.g. birth rate) as Yemen is about 4
deaths per thousand of population [ 4] i.e. 2015 Yemeni avoidable
deaths from deprivation were 2.55 per thousand of population or
2.55 x 27,000 = 69,000. A similar estimate is of 71,000 avoidable
deaths from deprivation in Yemen coming from the finding that for
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avoidable deaths from deprivation is 1.4 times the under-5 infant
deaths [4].
Thus before the start of the Saudi invasion of Yemen about 70,000
Yemenis were dying from deprivation each year. The merciless war
imposed on Yemen by the Saudi Coalition and the US Coalition
will simply kill scores of thousands more each year on top of that
2015 carnage through violence or imposed deprivation. It is utterly
appalling that the richest Arab countries (with now the exception of
Qatar), and together with rich US Alliance Western nations, are
involved in a genocidal war against their starving Arab and Muslim
brothers in Yemen. However Yemen represents just one venue for
Saudi complicity in the Zionist-promoted US War on Muslims as
detailed below.

3. Saudi complicity in the US War on Muslims and the ongoing

Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide

A "holocaust" involves the deaths of a huge number of people.

However "genocide" is defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide
Convention: "In the present Convention, genocide means any of the
following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part,
a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: a) Killing
members of the group; b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to
members of the group; c) Deliberately inflicting on the group
conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction
in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures intended to prevent
births within the group; e) Forcibly transferring children of the
group to another group" [14]. The Yemeni disaster is set to become
a Yemeni Holocaust if the "millions of victims" adumbrated by UN
humanitarian official Sir Mark Lowcock [ 12] come to pass.
However the Yemeni atrocity is already a Yemeni Genocide, with
genocide as defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide Conventions
as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a
national, ethnic, racial or religious group" [14].
Saudi Arabia is a key ally of the US and is thus intimately
complicit in the Zionist-promoted US War on Muslims (aka the
War on Terror) in which 32 million Muslims have perished from
violence, 5 million, or from deprivation, 27 million, in 20 countries
invaded by the US Alliance since the US Government's 9-11 false
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aviation, military and intelligence experts have concluded that the
US Government was involved in the 9-11 atrocity, with some
asserting involvement of Apartheid Israel and Saudi Arabia [17].
Through alliance with the Zionist-dominated US Alliance, Saudi
Arabia is complicit in a War on Muslims that must be described as
a Muslim Holocaust and a Muslim Genocide [15].
The penultimate in racism is making war and the ultimate in racism
is genocide. Saudi Arabia is involved in fostering jihadi fanaticism
across the world through its export of intolerant and fundamentalist
Wahabi Islam. Jihadi violence has provided the excuse for US
Alliance devastation of the Muslim world- the mendacious and
warmongering Americans always need an "excuse" for their war
criminal violence. The Saudis have backed jihadi violence in
Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen. In backingjihadi terrorists in
Syria, Saudi Arabia became a de facto ally of Apartheid Israel
against the Russia- and Iran-backed secular Syrian Government
[ 18]. In addition to bombing and starving Yemen, Saudi Arabia has
intervened militarily in Bahrain, threatens Qatar and is a major ally
of both Islamophobic Apartheid Israel and Zionist-dominated
America in threatening and sanctioning a peaceful and nuclear
weapons-rejecting Iran.
In addition to being complicit in the Muslim Holocaust and Muslim
Genocide, waging war on Muslims, threatening Muslims,
supporting war on Muslims, overtly supporting Islamophobic
America and covertly supporting anti-Arab anti-Semitic and
Islamophobic Apartheid Israel against Iran, the Saudi regime also
revolts decent Humanity because of its appalling, violent and
massive human rights abuse of its own citizens, notably women,
dissidents and intellectuals. The Islamofascist Saudi regime has
made a pact with the devil in the mutual support between the brutal
dictatorship and mediaeval religious fundamentalists.
However the Saudi regime also violates a fundamental tenet of
Islam, to whit respect and support for the poor. Thus a rich Saudi
Arabia (per capita GDP $21,120, essentially zero annual avoidable
mortality) is complicit in the rich US Alliance in its devastation of
impoverished Muslim communities across the world from Africa to
South East Asia that have high annual avoidable mortality from
deprivation and very low per capita GDP.

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Thus consider the following 2015 data for annual avoidable deaths
as a percentage of population and annual per capita GDP for 20
countries variously invaded by the Saudi-associated US Alliance
since the US Government's 9-11 false flag atrocity [16]:
(1) Afghanistan (149,000/18.5 million= 0.46%, $1,900);
(2) Burkina Faso (109,000/18.1 million= 0.60%); $1,700);
(3). Central African Republic (55,000/4.9 million= 1.12%, $600;
(4) Chad (147,000/14.0 million= 1.05%, $2,600);
(5) Cote D'Ivoire (199,000/20.1 million= 0.99%, $3,100);
(6) Djibouti (8,000/0.9 million= 0.89%, $3,100);
(7) Iraq (47,000/36.4 million= 0.13%, $15,300);
(8) Iran (55,000/79.1 million= 0.07%); $17,400);
(9) Lebanon (1,000/5.9 million= 0.02%, $18,000);
(10) Libya (6,000/6.3 million= 0.10%); $15,900);
(11) Mali (199,000/20.1 million= 0.99%, $1,700);
(12) Mauritania (123,000/17.6 million= 0.70%, $4,300);
(13) Niger (111,000/19.9 million= 0.56%, $1,100);
(14) Pakistan (660,000/188.9 million= 0.35%, $4,700);
(15) Palestine (5,000/4.7 million= 0.11 %, $4,900);
(16) Philippines [11 % Muslim] (270,000/100.7 million= 0.27%,
$7,000);
(17) Somalia (91,000/10.8 million = 0.84%, $600);
(18) Sudan (157,000/40.2 million= 0.39%, $4,300);
(19) Syria (14,000/18.5 million= 0.08%, $5,100);
(20) Yemen (111,000/19.9 million= 0.56%, $1,100).
It is utterly appalling that a rich Arab and Muslim country like
Saudi Arabia is variously associated with the devastation of so
many impoverished Muslim countries or communities by the
genocidally anti-Arab anti-Semitic and Islamophobic US Alliance,
that includes nuclear terrorist Apartheid Israel that has ethnically
cleansed 90% of Palestine and has illegally seized Jerusalem, the
third holiest site for Muslims.

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Final comments

Saudi Arabia is a grossly human rights abusing, Islamofascist

dictatorship that is involved in an ongoing Yemeni Genocide, and
as a US ally is variously complicit in an ongoing, Zionist-
promoted, US-driven Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide.
Saudi Arabia and genocidally anti-Arab anti-Semitic and
Islamophobic Apartheid Israel have been prosecuting the same
cause in supporting jihadi terrorists in Syria and in threatening and
sanctioning peaceful Iran that rejects nuclear weapons and nuclear
terrorism. In contrast, the major US Alliance countries, the US,
Apartheid Israel, France and the UK, have up to 7,315,400,300
and 250 nuclear warheads, respectively [19]. The Saudi
dictatorship is complicit in horrendous crimes against Muslims at
home and abroad and is variously allied with the genocidally anti-
Arab anti-Semitic and Islamophobic US Alliance countries.
US Alliance countries involved in supplying arms to Saudi Arabia
(the US, UK, France and Australia) have demonstrated immense
hypocrisy in ignoring the horrendous carnage associated with the
US Alliance War on Muslims while legitimately expressing horror
at the brutal murder and dismemberment of Saudi journalist Jamal
Khashoggi. What can decent Humanity do in the face of this
breath-taking evil? Decent Humanity and especially substantially
Muslim countries must (a) inform everyone they can, (b) urge and
apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BOS) against
Islamofascist Saudi Arabia and the genocidally anti-Arab anti-
Semitic and Islamophobic US Alliance of which it is an evil and
utterly reprehensible part, and (c) urge and support human rights
and democracy for the people of Saudi Arabia.

2020 Postscript

The US Alliance-imposed Yemeni Genocide continues with a

coalition of rich Gulf State countries and some of the richest
Western countries ganging up on one of the most impoverished
countries in the world. According to UN News (2019): "Today
twenty million Yemenis - some 70 per cent of the population - are
food insecure, marking a 13 per cent increase from last year' ... in
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increased sharply from 203,000 to around 420,000" ("l O million
Yemenis 'one step away from famine', UN relief agency calls for
'unhindered access' to frontline regions", UN News, 26 March
2019: https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/03/1035501 ). FAQ (2017):
"The world faces one of the largest food crises in 70 years, with 20
million people in four countries - northeastern Nigeria, Somalia,
South Sudan and Yemen - at risk of famine. If no action is taken,
an additional 10 million will be threatened by famine" ("Famine
response and prevention in Northeastern Nigeria, Somalia, South
Sudan and Yemen", FAO, July 2017:
http://www.fao.org/emergencies/resources/documents/resources-
detail/en/c/854239/). For the UK, US, France, Australia and
Canada, involvement in the Yemeni Genocide is simply par for the
course because they have been involved in the invasion,
devastation, dispossession and genocide of non-European peoples
for centuries [4]. However words fail in attempting to characterize
the utter moral depravity of rich Arab and Muslim Gulf States
being involved in the genocidal mass murder of fellow Arabs and
fellow Muslims in impoverished and starving Yemen.

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 ''
"Drug overdose is now the leading cause of death for the under-50s
in the United States. More than 60,000 people succumbed last year,
and millions more are addicted. When compared with other
nations, the statistics are shocking. According to a report this year
from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, America has
4% of the world's population but some 27% of its overdose deaths.
The bulk of these people have taken opioid drugs - both legally
and illegally sourced. Americans consume some 50,000 prescribed
doses of opioid painkillers per million people each day - almost
double those handed out in the next-highest-prescribing nation, the
neighbouring Canada, with just over 30,000". Nature editorial, 29
November 2017.
"Globally, some 35 million people are estimated to suffer from
drug use disorders and who require treatment services ... The
Report [UNODC World Drug Report 2019] also estimates the
number of opioid users at 53 million, up 56 per cent from previous
estimate, and that opioids are responsible for two thirds of the
585,000 people who died as a result of drug use in 2017. Globally,
11 million people injected drugs in 2017 ... In 2017, an estimated
271 million people, or 5,5 per cent of the global population aged
15-64, had used drugs in the previous year". United Nations Office
on Drugs and Crime re "World Drug Report 2019", 2019.
"[US-occupied] Afghanistan was again the country responsible for
the vast majority of the world's illicit opium poppy cultivation and
opium production in 2018. The 263,000 ha under cultivation in
Afghanistan in 2018 dwarfs cultivation in nearest rivals Myanmar
(37,300 ha in 2018) and Mexico (30,600 ha in 2016/17) ... The
world's single largest heroin trafficking pathway continues to be
the Balkan route, which sees drugs smuggled from Afghanistan
through the Islamic Republic of Iran, Turkey and the Balkan
countries and on to various destinations in Western and Central
Europe". UN Office on Drugs and Crime (ODC), Executive
Summary, World Drug Report, 2019.

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OPIATE HOLOCJUJST
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[First published as Gideon Polya, "US-imposed Opiate Holocaust
- US protection of Afghan opiates has killed 5.2 million people
since 9-11", Countercurrents, 10 August 2019:
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us-protecti on-of-afghan-opiates-has-kil led-5-2-mill ion-people-
since-9-11.
Numerous science, engineering, architecture, aviation, military and
intelligence experts conclude that the US Government was
responsible for the 9-11 atrocity (3,000 people killed) with some
asserting Israeli and Saudi involvement, but US-beholden Western
Mainstream media are united in blind belief in the official version
of mendacious George Bush. However resolutely ignored is the
UNODC report that 0.6 million people die from illicit drugs each
year with 290,000 such deaths linked to US protection of the
Occupied Afghanistan opium industry. US Government-beholden
Mainstream media continue to turn reality on its head by ignoring
this US-imposed carnage of 290,000 per year x 18 years = 5 .2
million opiate drug-related deaths world-wide linked to US
restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry from
about 6% of world market share in 2001 to 93% in 2007 [l-7].
Further, Mainstream media ignore the reality that Iran is the world
leader in combating this deadly scourge of US-protected opiate
drugs and instead beat the drums of war against Iran by the nuclear
terrorist and serial invader countries of the US, Apartheid Israel,
the UK and France against Iran, a country that has not invaded
another country for 1,500 years [2], does not have nuclear
weapons, nor any intention of building them, and repeatedly
declares that it wants a nuclear weapons-free Middle East.
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
(UNODC), Iran accounts for 74% of the world's opium seizures
and 25% of the world's heroin and morphine seizures. However
Iran's role as a world leader in the War on Drugs and in
combating opiate drugs from US-occupied Afghanistan comes at a
heavy price. Thus Iran has a 900 kilometer border with US-
occupied Afghanistan that produces about 90% of the world's
opium under US Alliance protection. Iran has spent about $700
million policing its borders against drug movement. About 2.5
million Iranians are drug users with opium accounting for 67% of
drug use. 4,000 Iranian police have been killed protecting Iran and
the World from US-protected opiate smugglers [1-3].

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 The US Alliance restored the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium
industry from about 6% of world market share in 2001 to 93% in
2007 [ 1- 7]. Drought reduced the Afghan share of the world opium
production in 2018 to 82% [7]. UNODC (2017): "[Occupied]
Afghanistan continues to be at the epicenter of the global illicit
opium trade. In 2017 as highlighted in the Afghanistan Opium
Survey, opium cultivation reached record levels, rising by 63 per
cent compared to 2016. The survey also showed opium production
increased by 87 per cent to a record of 9,000 metric tons in 2017
compared to a year earlier. The donor community and other
international stakeholders in the country have expressed alarm over
these record numbers" (page 32 [1]). UNODC World Drug Report
(2019): "Globally, some 35 million people, up from an earlier
estimate of 30.5 million, suffer from drug use disorders and require
treatment services. The death toll is also higher: 585,000 people
died as a result of drug use in 2017 (page 1 [7]) ... Global
production of opium was even more affected than was cultivation
by the drought in Afghanistan, which produced 82 per cent of the
world's opium in 2018. After an upward trend over the last two
decades, global production fell by 25 per cent from 2017 to 2018,
to some 7,790 tons. Despite that drop, the amount of opium
produced was the third largest amount since UNODC started to
systematically monitor opium production in the 1990s (pages 8-5
[7]) ... Some 585,000 people are estimated to have died as a result
of drug use in 2017. More than half of those deaths [ over 293,000]
were the result of untreated hepatitis C leading to liver cancer and
cirrhosis; almost one third were attributed to drug use disorders
[almost 193,000]. Most (two thirds) of the deaths attributed to drug
use disorders were related to opioid use [129,000]" (page 19 [7]).
Note that synthetic opioids (notably fentanyl and tramadol) are of
deadly importance, particularly in wealthy North America.
UNODC (2019): "The amount of heroin seized in the Americas has
shown a clear upward trend over the last decade. Most of this
trafficking takes place within North America, usually from Mexico
to the United States, although the heroin found in Canada
originates in Afghanistan. Analysis of wholesale seizures of heroin
in the United States has shown the increasing predominance of
heroin originating in Mexico. Some 80 per cent of the heroin
samples analysed in 2016 came from Mexico ... In the case of
fentanyl, for example, the bulk of the substance found on the illicit

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market comes from illicit manufacture, although some small
diversions of fentanyl [ from medical use] have been reported in the
United States. The large market for tramadol for non-medical use
in North Africa and the Near and Middle East also seems to be
supplied by tramadol specifically manufactured and trafficked for
the illegal market, but information remains limited ... Outside
North America, where the diversion of pharmaceutical opioids such
as codeine and oxycodone from the licit to the illicit market is
evident, such diversions are not reported in large quantities. This
could be the result of underreporting or the limited capacity oflaw
enforcement authorities to detect diversions" (page 18 [7]).
Global drug deaths totalled about 0.2 million in 2001 and about 0.6
million in 2019, and accordingly the average of annual drug deaths
in this period was 0.4 million per year. Assuming that 90% of these
drug deaths were opioid-related, that of these about 90% were due
to opiates (such as opium and heroin, as opposed to synthetic
opioids such as fentanyl and tramadol), and that of these opiate-
related deaths 90% were linked to Afghan opium production [7],
then the average global death rate from Afghanistan-derived opium
in the last 2 decades would have been about 290,000 deaths per
year - or a total of 5 .2 million since 9-11.
For religious reasons the Taliban banned alcohol, banned smoking
for public servants, and after 2000 banned opium production. Thus
one can estimate that as of September 2019 - 18 years after the 9-
11 atrocity in which 3,000 were killed - about 18 years x 290,000
deaths per year= 5.2 million people would have died due to US
restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry from
6% of world market share in 2001 to 90% in 2007.
In terms of body count one can see that Presidents George Bush,
Barack Obama and Donald Trump have been the worst drug
pushers in history since Great Britain's Queen Victoria who
devastated China with imposed opium from British-enslaved India
in the 19th century (up to 100 million Chinese died in the Opium
Wars and the Tai Ping rebellion [8], with the Chinese GDP
remaining almost the same between 1820 and 1950, and dropping
from 30% of world GDP in 1820 to a mere 5% in 1950) [9, 10].
The Indians suffered a similar catastrophe under the rapacious
British. Thus eminent Indian economist Professor Utsa Patnaik
(Jawaharlal Nehru University) has estimated that Britain robbed
India of $45 trillion between 1765 and 1938. I have estimated that

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 iflndia had remained free with 24% of world GDP as in 1700 (like
China) instead of similarly collapsing to 5% by 1950, then its
cumulative GDP would have been $232 trillion greater (1700-
2003) and $44 trillion greater (1700-1950). Deprivation kills and it
is estimated that 1.8 billion Indians died avoidably from egregious
deprivation under the British (1757-1947) [11-17].
The Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-subverted
Anglo-American Mainstream media, politician, commentariat and
academic presstitutes lie by omission about this horrendous
Occupied Afghanistan-derived, opiate-related carnage of 5.2
million people - a US-imposed Opiate Holocaust that is similar in
magnitude to the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million Jews killed
by violence or imposed deprivation) [18-20]. One can well
understand how the Mainstream can resolutely ignore the
compelling question of who did the 9-11 atrocity in which 3,000
people were killed, and the opinions of numerous science,
engineering, architecture, aviation, military and intelligence experts
who conclude that the US Government must have been involved,
with some concluding that Apartheid Israel and misogynistically
Apartheid Saudi Arabia were also involved [21].
It gets worse. Thus the UNODC reports the annual drug-related
deaths of 15-64 year olds in 2017 in the following "White"
countries of the US Alliance and of the Anglosphere "5-Eyes"
Intelligence Club, with opioids being the leading cause of death:
the US (70,237), Canada (3,998), UK (3,394), Australia (1,899),
Germany (1,333), France (257), and New Zealand (261). By way of
comparison, the figures are as follows for some further entities: the
World (585,000), China (25,727), Russia (7,529), Iran (3,021),
Vietnam (2,184), Kenya (1,338), Indonesia (447), Myanmar (275),
Uzbekhistan (220), Kazakhstan (141), Mexico (113), and
Afghanistan ( 16) (no data for Pakistan and India) [2]. Applying a
correction factor of 0.6 (to obtain average deaths in the last 2
decades) one can estimate total 15-64 year old opioid drug-related
deaths in the 18 years (September 200 I -September 2019) since 9-
11 in these US Alliance countries and inescapably linked to the
substantial worldwide impact of US-protected Occupied
Afghanistan opiates (with similarly inescapably connected US
synthetic opioids now very being important in the US and Canada):
the US (759,000), Canada (43,000), UK (37,000), Australia
(21,000), Germany (14,000), France (3,000), and New Zealand

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(3,000). By way of comparison, these UN O DC-based figures are as
follows for some further entities: the World (6,318,000), China
(278,000), Russia (81,000), Iran (33,000), Vietnam (24,000),
Kenya (14,000), Indonesia (5,000), Myanmar (3,000), Uzbekhistan
(2,000), Kazakhstan (2,000), Mexico (1,000), and Afghanistan
(170). One notes that the low figures for the major opiate producers
(Occupied Afghanistan, Myanmar and Mexico; no data for
Colombia) indicate that the impoverished inhabitants in these
countries cannot afford to buy the opiates their fellow countrymen
produce.
CIA-linked, US-backed opium production shifted from Turkey in
the 1960s, and to South East Asia during the Vietnam War years
[22-24 ], before shifting massively to Afghanistan after 9-11 and the
war criminal US invasion. CIA-linked black profits aside, the
strategic motivation was subversion and damage to Russia and
China. Starting massively in the Vietnam War years, drugs have
devastated African American communities and crippled the
democratic prospect of African Americans holding the balance of
power in the US (felony laws excluding large numbers of African
American males from voting assisted this perversion of democracy
by the White American Establishment) [25-28].
Anti-racist Jewish American journalist I.F. Stone famously stated
"Government lie" [29, 30], and famed American writer Gore Vidal
observed: "Unlike most Americans who lie all the time, I hate
lying" [31]. Indeed the bigger the atrocity the more assiduously do
Anglosphere Mainstream media presstitutes lie to the public [32,
33]. Thus patriotic Americans would generally be aware that 3,000
people were killed on 9-11, and that about 8,500 US Alliance
soldiers have died in the US War on Terror [34]. However hidden
from them by mendacious Mainstream media are the following
appalling post-9-11 realities: 31 million American preventable
deaths from lifestyle or political choices [35-40], 7 million
Occupied Afghan deaths from violence or deprivation [41, 42], 4.6
million Iraqi deaths from violence or deprivation, 1990-2011 [ 41,
43], 6.3 million World drug-related deaths, 5.2 million World
opiate drug-related deaths linked to US-protected Afghan opium
production in US-occupied Afghanistan, 759,000 US drug-related
deaths, and 130,000 US veteran suicides [44]. They are, of course,
utterly unware of 32 million Muslim deaths from violence, 5
million, or from deprivation, 27 million, in 20 countries invaded by

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 the US Alliance since the US Government's 9-11 false flag atrocity
[45] - the bigger the US-imposed atrocity the more assiduously is it
white-washed away by US-beholden Mainstream media.
In my own country, fervently US lackey and resolutely "look-the-
other-way" Australia, people are aware of 3,000 people being
killed on 9-11 and possibly that only about 40 Australian solders
have died in the US War on Terror. However they are utterly
unaware that since 9-11 there have been 5.2 million World opiate
drug-related deaths linked to US-protected Afghan opium
production in US-occupied Afghanistan, that about 1.5 million
Australians have died from "lifestyle" or "political choices" [ 46-
50], that 21,000 Australians have died from drug-related
causes (mostly opiate-related) [2], or that that 1,400 Australian
veterans of US Alliance wars have suicided [44].
Interestingly, in 2008 the Australian PM Kevin Rudd suggested to
a NATO meeting on Afghanistan that the Coalition should destroy
the Afghan opium crop that presently kills about 290,000 people
each year. His suggestion was, of course, rejected [51],
notwithstanding the glaring reality that unlike Afghan combatants
fighting the US and NA TO Alliance, plants are sessile, cannot run
away, and accordingly elaborate a huge array of chemical defences
(including opiates) [52].
About 31,000 Americans die gun-related deaths each year and
558,000 will have died thus (from homicide, suicide or accidents)
in the 18 years since 9-11 [35-40]. Notwithstanding this carnage
and an almost weekly occurrence of mass shootings in the US,
there is inaction on gun control laws due to the lobbying power of
the National Rifle Association (NRA). Similarly, there are about
80,000 annual drug deaths in the 5 nations of the US-led, White
Anglosphere, "Five-eyes club" (the US, UK, Canada, Australia and
New Zealand), and 1.4 million will have died thus in the 18 years
since 9-11 (most of these deaths being opioid-related and
inescapably connected to the 18 year US Alliance war in
Afghanistan). However for whatever secret strategic reason, the US
Alliance will not destroy the Afghan opium crops that are killing
huge numbers of US Alliance citizens.
Yet while only about 60 Americans have been killed in America
since 9-11 by j ihadi psychopaths, this tiny - albeit horrible - death
toll provides a continuing basis for the US War on Terror in which
32 million Muslims have died from violence, 5 million, or from

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deprivation, 27 million, in 20 countries invaded by the US Alliance
since the US Government's 9-11 false flag atrocity [45]. It gets
worse because the US War on Terror has been associated with a
long-term accrual cost of about $6 trillion, a vast sum that could
have been used for keeping millions of Americans alive at home
instead of killing millions of Muslims abroad - 1. 7 million
Americans die preventably each year from "life-style" or
"political" choices and 31 million Americans will have died thus in
the 18 years since 9-11 [35-40].
A compelling rationalization of this irrational, US-imposed
Orwellian nightmare - "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery and
Ignorance is Strength ... [and] 2 plus 2 does not equal 4" [53] - is
that the American Establishment is resolutely committed to
mendacity, subversion, violence, war and mass murder to ensure
continuing American global hegemony for the benefit of the US
One Percenters. Australian writer John Menadue has cogently
commented on bullying US attempts to involve Australia (and
indeed other US allies) in a Cold War and potentially a hot war
against China: "We [Australians and other US allies] are being
softened up again step by step to support the US military and
industrial complex that promotes perpetual war. The US is the
greatest threat to peace in the world. It is an aggressor across the
globe. It is the most violent country both at home and abroad. And
people know it. The Pew Research Centre found in 2018 that 45%
of people surveyed around the world saw US power and influence
as a major threat. .. In so far as China is any sort of distant threat it
would be much less so if we were not so subservient to the US. The
US is determined to make China its enemy. We are cooperating in
that process. The US is a very dangerous ally. It is more likely to
get us into trouble than out of trouble. We are joined at the hip to
the most violent and dangerous country in the world" [54].
One notes that the US subverts all countries [55, 56], has removed
67 national governments (many of them democratically elected)
[57], has trashed secular government and modernity in the Muslim
world [58], has collaborated with jihadi and non-jihadi terrorists
around the world [56, 58], has over 700 military bases in over 70
countries [59], and has invaded 72 countries (52 after WW2), as
compared to the English 193, Australians 85, France 82, Germany
39, Japan 30, Russia 25, Canada 25, Apartheid Israel 12, China 2
and Iran zero (0) [8, 60-64].

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Final comments

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reports that 0.6

million people die from illicit drugs each year, and it is estimated
that of these about 290,000 deaths per year are linked to US
protection of the Occupied Afghanistan opium industry. There are
80,000 annual drug deaths in the 5 nations of the US-led,
Anglosphere "Five-eyes club" (the US, UK, Canada, Australia and
New Zealand), and 1.4 million will have perished thus in the 18
years since 9-11. However Western Mainstream media resolutely
ignore this largely US-imposed carnage while fervently adhering to
the science-incompatible, lying Bush "official version" of the 9-11
atrocity (3,000 people killed, assertedly by technically-illiterate
j ihadi fanatics hiding in Afghan caves).
What can decent Humanity do in the face of this horrendous US
Establishment mendacity and mass murder? Decent Humanity must
(a) inform everyone they can about the largely US-imposed Opiate
Holocaust, and (b) urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and
Sanctions (BDS) against all those people, politicians, parties,
corporations and countries involved in this deadly assault on
Humanity. The 80,000 annual US drug-related deaths are just the
tip of a horror in which 1. 7 million Americans die preventably each
year from "life-style" and "political choice" reasons. Decent,
patriotic Americans in particular who love their fellow citizens
must demand at the very least that those responsible for the
deception and mass murder of their fellow Americans in the
ongoing Opiate Holocaust are removed from public life as utterly
unelectable and utterly unfit to hold public office.

2020 Postscript

While remote and peaceful Iran is the world leader in interception

of opiates and the serial war criminal US is the world leader in
protecting the deadly opium industry in Occupied Afghanistan, the
US and nuclear terrorist Apartheid Israel are presently bombing
Syria and Iraq and are evidently moving towards devastating war
against an Iran that has not invaded another country for 1500 years,
does not have nuclear weapons, insists that it does not want them,
and wants a nuclear weapons-free Middle East. As detailed in

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Chapter 10, presently 70,000 Iranians die avoidably each year from
imposed deprivation under deadly, war criminal US sanctions.

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Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance
Since 9-1 I", Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015:
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By US Alliance Since 9-11", Countercurrents, 23 September, 2014:
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traumatized veterans", Countercurrents, 18 May 20 I 8:
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Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull",
Countercurrents, I November, 2015:
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compulsory Australian values statement", Countercurrents, 12 May 2017:
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austral ia-po Iicy-compu lsory-austral ian-values-statement/.
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horrendous war crimes & climate crimes", Countercurrents, 24 April 2017:

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Modernity, Democracy, Women's Rights And Children's Rights In The Muslim
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Independence From America Day", Countercurrents, 5 July, 2013:
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(Australia Day, Invasion Day) British Invasion Day", Countercurrents, 23
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85 Countries (British 193, French 80, US 70)", Countercurrents, 9 February,
2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya0902 l 5.htm.
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French Invasion Of 80 Countries Since 800 AD", Countercurrents, 15 January,
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 "The Palestinians have been the victims of genocide as defined by
the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the
Crime of Genocide, under which a government can be guilty of
genocide even if it intends to destroy a mere 'part' of the group".
Professor Francis Boyle (University of Illinois College of Law) in
"The Palestinian Genocide by Israel", 2013.
"Each provocation and counter-provocation is contested and
preached over. But the subsequent arguments, accusations and
vows, all serve as a distraction in order to divert world attention
from a long-term military, economic and geographic practice
whose political aim is nothing less than the liquidation of the
Palestinian nation. This has to be said loud and clear for the
practice, only half declared and often covert, is advancing fast these
days, and, in our opinion, it must be unceasingly and eternally
recognised for what it is and resisted". Tariq Ali, John Berger,
Noam Chomsky, Eduardo Galeano, Naomi Klein, Harold Pinter,
Arundhati Roy, Jose Saramago and Howard Zinn in "Israel,
Lebanon, and Palestine", Open Letter, 2006.
"As Dr Gideon Polya eloquently put it in 'Palestinian Me Too: 140
Alphabetically-listed Zionist Crimes Expose Appalling Western
Complicity & Hypocrisy': 'A peaceful, humane solution that would
be of enormous benefit to all the world, to all the Jewish Israelis
and to all the Indigenous Palestinians, would be a unitary state in
Palestine with return of all refugees, zero tolerance for racism,
equal rights for all, all human rights for all, one-person-one-vote,
justice, goodwill, reconciliation, airport-level security, nuclear
weapons removal, internationally-guaranteed national security
initially based on the present armed forces, and untrammelled
access for all citizens to all of the Holy Land. It can and should
happen tomorrow"'. Professor Rima Najjar (Al-Quds University) in
"An exodus of "Jewish settlers" from Palestine in inevitable", 22
December 2018.

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[First published as Gideon Polya, "Apartheid Israel's Palestinian
Genocide & Australia's Aboriginal Genocide compared",
Countercurrents, 20 February 2018:
https://countercurrents.org/2018/02/20/apartheid-israels-
palestinian-genocide-australi as-aboriginal-genocide-compared/.]
Coalition-ruled Australia is second only to Trump America as a
supporter of nuclear terrorist, democracy-by-genocide Apartheid
Israel. The 2 countries have a common history of invasion with
dispossession and ethnic cleansing of Indigenous people that
continues with an ongoing Palestinian Genocide and an ongoing
Australian Aboriginal Genocide that are both marked by a circa 10
year gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-
Indigenous inhabitants. The term "genocide" is absent from the
latest Australian Government report on massive and deadly
Aboriginal disadvantage, this prompting a detailed comparison here
between the 2 ongoing genocide atrocities. Before proceeding
further it is crucial to note that Article 2 of the UN Genocide
Convention defines "genocide" thus: "In the present Convention,
genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to
destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious
group, as such: a) Killing members of the group; b) Causing serious
bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) Deliberately
inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about
its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures
intended to prevent births within the group; e) Forcibly transferring
children of the group to another group"[ 1]. This definition of
"genocide" in International Law informs the following comparison
of the ongoing Palestinian Genocide and the ongoing Australian
Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide.
Indigenous Palestinians and many scholars, most notably genocide
and international law expert Professor Francis Boyle (professor of
international law at the University of Illinois College of Law) [2,
3], refer to a Palestinian Genocide [2-9]. Similarly, Indigenous
Australians and many scholars, most notably genocide expert
Professor Colin Tatz (formerly director of the Australian Institute
for Holocaust and Genocide Studies) [10-13], refer to an Australian
Aboriginal Genocide [10-20]. Below is a succinct, quantitative
comparison of 10 key features of Apartheid Israel's ongoing
Palestinian Genocide and Australia's ongoing Aboriginal
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1. Historical genocide

Australia. Indigenous Australians and those sympathetic to their lot

quite properly regard 26 January (Australia Day) as Invasion Day
that marks the British invasion of Australia on 26 January 1788 and
commencement of the ongoing Aboriginal Genocide in which some
2 million Indigenous Australians have died untimely deaths due to
violence (0.1 million) or due to dispossession, deprivation, and
disease (the remainder). The Indigenous population dropped from
about 1 million to 0.1 million in the first century after the invasion
in 1788, mainly through violence, dispossession, deprivation and
introduced disease. The last massacres of Aborigines occurred in
the late 1920s in Central Australia [14, 17-19]. Throughout much
of the 20th century there was a policy of forcibly removing
Aboriginal children (especially mixed race children) from their
mothers, a systematic genocidal policy involving the removal of
perhaps 0.1 million children (the Stolen Generations). This practice
ended in the 1970s, and in 2008 Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
offered a formal apology, but removal of Aboriginal children from
their mothers continues (albeit for ostensibly different reasons) at a
record rate [21-23], leading Kevin Rudd to warn of a "second
stolen generation") [22].
Before the British invasion in 1788 there were 350-750 different
Indigenous Australian (Aboriginal) tribes and a similar number of
languages and dialects, of which only 150 survive today and of
these all but about 20 are endangered in a process of continuing
Australian Aboriginal Ethnocide and Cultural Genocide of
remaining Indigenous Australian societies [1]. Removal of
Aboriginal children from their mothers and communities, removal
of Federal and State government support for remote Aboriginal
communities, and substantial removal of instruction of Aboriginal
children in their own language are all ultra-conservative measures
that threaten destruction of most of the surviving Aboriginal
languages and dialects. According to a recent study (2009): "At the
end of 2008 the Northern Territory Government, supported by the
Commonwealth Government, all but closed bilingual education in
remote Indigenous schools by determining that the language of
instruction for the first four hours of school must be English. This
decision could spell the death of the remaining endangered
Indigenous languages in Australia" [24].

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Palestine. In 1880 there were about 500,000 Arab Palestinians and
about 25,000 Jews (half immigrants) living in Palestine. The
Palestinian Genocide commenced with the British invasion of
Palestine in WWI that precipitated a massive famine in which
100,000 Palestinians perished. The contemptible 1917 Balfour
Declaration that opened Palestine to massive Jewish colonization
was made 2 days after the Australian and New Zealand Army
Corps (ANZAC) Light Horse victory over the Turks at Beersheba
and in actuality was an attempt to get Russian Zionists to keep
Russia in the war against Germany [7]. According to anti-racist
Jewish Israeli historian Ilan Pappe the British until the late 1930s
envisaged a unitary state in Palestine but the Zionists were
implacable and wanted a Jewish state [25, 26]. A 1939 White paper
restricted Jewish entry to Palestine in WW2 in order to appease
Muslims in the British Empire. However in 1944 the UK War
Cabinet headed by warmonger, racist, Zionist and mass murderer
Churchill approved post-war Partition at a time when Jews
represented one third of the population of Palestine. The UN
approved Partition in 1947 and in 1948 Israel declared
independence, and conquered 78% of Palestine, driving out
800,000 Palestinians or about half the Palestinian population. In
1967 a now nuclear-armed Israel attacked all its neighbours,
conquering all of Palestine and parts of Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and
Syria, with a further 400,000 Palestinians being expelled. The State
of Israel became a nuclear-armed, race-based, democracy-by-
genocide Apartheid state, with the Occupied Palestinians denied all
Human Rights as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights [7, 8].
The Palestinian Genocide has involved 2.0 million Palestinian
deaths from violence (0.1 million) and from imposed deprivation
(1.9 million), 8 million Palestinian refugees, the ethnic cleansing of
90% of the land of Palestine, and highly abusive, violent and
indefinite confinement of presently 5 million Occupied Palestinians
in the Gaza Concentration Camp (2 million) or in West Bank
ghettoes (3 million). The horrendous dimensions of the ongoing
Palestinian Genocide invite comparisons with the WW2 Jewish
Holocaust (5-6 million Jews killed by violence or imposed
deprivation). Of about 14 million Palestinians (half of them
children), 7 million are forbidden to even step foot in their own
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Israeli guns in the Gaza Concentration Camp (2.0 million) or in
ever-dwindling West Bank Bantustan ghettoes (3.0 million), and
1.8 million live as Third Class citizens as Israeli Palestinians under
Nazi-style Apartheid Israeli race laws. 90% of Palestine has now
been ethnically cleansed of Indigenous Palestinian inhabitants in an
ongoing war criminal ethnic cleansing that has been repeatedly
condemned by the UN and most recently by UN Security Council
Resolution 2334 that was unanimously supported (with a
remarkable Obama US abstention rather than a veto). Of Apartheid
Israel's now 50% Indigenous Palestinian subjects, 74% cannot vote
for the government ruling them - egregious Apartheid [7,8, 27-29].

2. Annual avoidable mortality in ongoing Indigenous Genocide

Australia. Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull in his introduction to

the report "Closing the Gap. Prime Minister's Report 2018": "As
we look back on the 10 years that the Closing the Gap framework
has been in place, there is much to celebrate .... Today, Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander people, on average, are living longer than
ever before - and factors contributing to the gap such as death from
circulatory disease (heart attack and stroke) are going down ...
Although much progress has been made, we know we have a
continuing journey ahead of us to truly Close the Gap" ([30], page
7). However plough through scores of pages of self-congratulatory
rubbish in this politically-driven report and we find that the life
expectancy gap is still about 10 years for Indigenous Australians as
compared to non-Indigenous Australians. Presently the death rate
for Indigenous Australians is 1,000 per 100,000 or 1.0% ([30],
Figure 28, page 105). Given a baseline mortality rate of about 0.4%
pa for decently-run Developing countries with a high young
demographic such as that of Indigenous Australia [31 ], this
translates to an avoidable mortality of 0.6% per annum (pa) in
2018, between the 1.0% pa for impoverished non-Arab Africa and
0.4% for impoverished South Asia and India occurring in one of
the world's richest countries. By way of comparison, the avoidable
death rate is about 0.0% pa for White Australia, North America,
rich Western European countries, South Korea, Japan, Singapore,
China and Cuba ( for details see [31 ]).
The 2016 Indigenous Population was 649,000 but corrected for
"undercounting" is about 787,000 [14] of whom 4,720 die

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avoidably each year. Careful analysis of the comparative
Indigenous mortality data in the Closing the Gap reports of 2015
and 2018 [30, 32] reveals that the Indigenous mortality rate has
fallen from 1,200 per 100,000 people per year in 1998 (Indigenous
population about 500,000) to 1,000 per 100,000 people per year in
2013 (Indigenous population 670,000) [32] and remained at 1,000
per 100,000 people per year in 2016 (Indigenous population
787,000 [33]), these estimates translating to annual avoidable
deaths from deprivation ( on a global scale) of 4,000 ( 1998), 4,020
(2013), and 4,720 (2016). Given the upward trend oflndigenous
deaths per 100,000 of population ([1], Figure 28, page 105) and
assuming an avoidable mortality in 2018 of0.6% pa and an
estimated Indigenous of population of 865,000 (2018), Indigenous
avoidable deaths in 2018 are expected to total about 5,200 i.e.
Indigenous Australian avoidable mortality is increasing.
An alternative assessment of avoidable Indigenous death
rate comes from "Closing the Gap. Prime Minister's Report 2018"
([30], Figure 28, page 105). The Indigenous death rate is 1,000 per
100,000 of population pa whereas the non-Indigenous death rate is
540 per 100,000 pa, with the difference, 460 per 100,000 pa being
the Indigenous avoidable death rate. On this basis the Indigenous
avoidable death rate is 0.46% pa or about 0.5% per year, as
compared to the 0.6% pa estimated above.
Palestine. The annual GDP per capita is $2,800 for Occupied
Palestinians as compared to $39,000 for their genocidally racist
occupier, Apartheid Israel [34]. This is a huge and deadly
discrepancy that is reflected in differential avoidable mortality and
differential infant mortality. UN Population Division data [35]
reveal that the under-5 infant mortality rate (under-5 infant deaths
per 1,000 live births) is 22 for Occupied Palestinians as compared
to 3.5 for their occupier Apartheid Israel, and that annual under-5
infant deaths total 3,300 for the Occupied Palestinians as compared
to 580 for occupier Apartheid Israel [36]. This huge discrepancy
reveals avoidable annual under-5 infant deaths of Occupied
Palestinians totalling about 3,000 annually in gross violation of the
Geneva Convention [37] and thence of the UN Genocide
Convention [1] by Apartheid Israel, Thus Articles 55 and 56 of the
Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in
Time of War unequivocally state that the Occupier must supply its
Subjects with life-sustaining food and medical services "to the

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fullest extent of the means available to it" [37]. For impoverished
Developing countries, avoidable deaths from deprivation are about
1.4 times the under-5 infant deaths [31] and hence annual Occupied
Palestinian avoidable deaths from deprivation total 4,600. Given an
Occupied Palestinian population of 4,662,884 in 2015 [35], the
Occupied Palestinian avoidable death rate is 4,600 x 100/4,662,884
= 0.1 % pa. Thou shalt not kill children. Through intentionally
imposed deprivation Apartheid Israel intentionally passively
murders 3,000 under-5 year old Palestinians each year (mass
murder, mass paedocide and mass infanticide). About 5,100
Occupied Palestinians die avoidably annually from violence (500)
or from imposed deprivation (4,600) (2015 data) in a process of
active and passive mass murder of Indigenous Palestinians in gross
violation of the Geneva Convention [37] and thence of the UN
Genocide Convention [ 1].
The Occupied Palestinian avoidable death rate of 0.1 % pa is much
lower than the Australian Indigenous avoidable death rate of 0.5-
0.6% pa determined above by 2 methods. Since the life expectancy
difference between Israelis and Occupied Palestinians and between
non-Indigenous and Indigenous Australians is about 10 years, the
Occupied Palestinian avoidable death rate of 0.1 % pa may be an
under-estimate.

3. Violent deaths in ongoing Indigenous Genocide

Australia. Australia ceased massacring Indigenous Australians

since the 1928 Central Australian Coniston Massacre that was the
last officially sanctioned massacre oflndigenous Australians [38,
3 9]. In 1991 a Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in
Custody issued its final report into the deaths in custody of 99
Aboriginal people between 1980 and 1989 [40]. However an expert
auditing has shown that the bulk of its 339 recommendations were
not implemented and since the report a further over 340 Indigenous
Australians have died in custody. According to the Australian
Bureau of Statistics, in 2015 Indigenous people were 13 times more
likely to be jailed than non-Indigenous people and made up 27% of
the prison population whereas in 1991 Indigenous people were 18
times more likely to be imprisoned and made up 20% of the prison
population [41].

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In 1989-90, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
[Indigenous Australians] comprised 12% of homicide victims and
15% per cent of perpetrators, while Indigenous Australians
constituted only 1.5% of the total Australian population [ 42].
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, in 2015 in
Australia's largest state population-wise (New South Wales)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people had more than three
times the victimisation rate for assault as compared to non-
Indigenous people (2,456 victims per 100,000 persons compared
with 729 victims per 100,000 people) whereas in the Northern
Territory (30% Indigenous population) the Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander victimisation rate was 6,355 per 100,000 people as
compared to the non-Indigenous rate of 1,108 per 100,000 people
[43]. Poverty and isolation are deadly - in Western Australia,
Aboriginal mothers are 17 .5 times more likely to die from
homicide than non-Aboriginal mothers, and Aboriginal mothers are
6.5 times more likely to die from preventable causes than non-
Aboriginal mothers (about 40 per cent of the [preventably dying]
Indigenous mothers die in transport accidents) [ 44].
Palestine. Behind the deadly, Zionist-promoted, warmongering, and
civil rights-abusing terror hysteria in US Alliance countries is the
actuality that deaths from jihadi terrorism in these countries is
negligible compared to over 30 million Muslim deaths from
violence or imposed deprivation in the 21st century, Zionist-
promoted US War on Muslims [45]. Similarly, notwithstanding
Israeli and Western hysteria about Palestinian terrorism, in the 21st
century there have been 1,615 non-terrorism Israeli deaths from
homicide by Israelis, 164 Israeli deaths from terrorism in Israel
( excluding Jerusalem), 1,183 further Israeli deaths from terrorism
elsewhere in Zionist-ruled Palestine, 9,505 Occupied Palestinian
violent deaths by Israelis, and 72,000 Occupied Palestinian
avoidable deaths from imposed deprivation [9], On average in the
21st century the Israelis have violently killed about 500
Palestinians each year whereas an average of about 80 Israelis have
been killed [annually] by Palestinians in the same period [9]. The
relative protagonist body counts from violence since the British
invasion of Palestine in WWI (100,000 Palestinians killed versus
4,000 Zionists) shows that Israeli state terrorism is vastly more
deadly than any Palestinian non-state terrorism.

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4. Infanticide in ongoing Indigenous Genocide

Australia. Indigenous Australian under-5 infant deaths amount to

146 deaths per 100,000 of population, 1. 9 times the incidence for
non-Indigenous Australians ([30], Figure 2, page 40), and hence
there were 1,149 such Indigenous Australian deaths in 2016. As
shown below, the under-5 infant mortality for Occupied
Palestinians is 6.3 times greater than that for Israelis.
Palestine. The annual GDP per capita is $2,900 for Occupied
Palestinians as compared to $37,000 for their genocidally racist
occupier, Apartheid Israel [34]. This is a huge and deadly
discrepancy that is reflected in differential avoidable mortality and
differential infant mortality, UN Population Division data [35]
reveal that the under-5 infant mortality rate (under-5 infant deaths
per 1,000 live births) is 22 for Occupied Palestinians as compared
to 3.5 for their occupier Apartheid Israel, and that annual under-5
infant deaths total 3,300 for the Occupied Palestinians as compared
to 580 for occupier Apartheid Israel. This huge discrepancy reveals
gross violation of the Geneva Convention [37] and thence of the
UN Genocide Convention [1] by Apartheid Israel, Thus Articles 55
and 56 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of
Civilian Persons in Time of War unequivocally state that the
Occupier must supply its Subjects with life-sustaining food and
medical services "to the fullest extent of the means available to it"
[3 7]. Thou shalt not kill children.

5. Maternal mortality in ongoing Indigenous Genocide

Australia. In 2008-2012 there were 105 maternal deaths in

Australia that occurred within 42 days of the end of pregnancy,
representing a Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) of 7 .1 deaths per
l 00,000 women who gave birth in Australia. Maternal mortality for
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women is 2.1 times greater
than for other Australian women, with an Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander MMR of 13.8 deaths per 100,000 women who gave
birth as compared to 6.6 deaths per 100,000 for other Australian
women who gave birth [46].
Palestine. According to the CIA Factbook, maternal mortality
(maternal deaths per 100,000 live births) is 45 for both the West
Bank and the Gaza Concentration Camp as compared to 5 (9.0

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times lower) in Apartheid Israel proper [47]. With annual births
totalling 149,212 (in Occupied Palestine) and 165,323 (in
Apartheid Israel) these estimates translate to annual maternal
deaths totalling 67 (Occupied Palestine, population 5 million) as
compared to 8 for Apartheid Israel (population 8.7 million) with
about 62 being avoidable and due to Zionist-imposed egregious
deprivation. While Australia (area 7.7 million square kilometres) is
a huge country, the Royal Flying Doctor Service provides
emergency succour for people in remote communities. In stark
contrast, Palestine is a tiny country (Occupied Palestine area 6,220
square kilometres; Apartheid Israel area 20,770 square kilometres;
total area 26,990 square kilometres). However Apartheid Israeli
road blocks and "Jews-only roads" add enormously to the time for
Occupied Palestinians to access hospitals in emergency. Amalia L.
Cabezas, Ellen Reese, Marguerite Waller in their book "Wages of
Empire: Neoliberal Policies, Repression, and Women's Poverty"
have stated (2007): "The maternal mortality rate in Palestine is not
available for the most recent period, but previous to the economic
downturn of 2000 it was between 60 and 140 deaths per 100,000
[live births], depending upon the age of the woman (PCBS 1998).
One trend documented during the 2000-2003 period is that
pregnant women had considerable trouble reaching health facilities,
leading to a decline in prenatal health care and to a very sharp
decrease in the number of women who give birth in the presence of
a health worker (from almost 100 per cent down to 67 percent
(UNIFEM 2005). This was due not so much to the increase in
poverty (since many Palestinians have access to free health care) as
to extreme restrictions on Palestinian mobility related to Israeli
road blocks and closures. As a result, women often are unable to
get to a medical facility, and many have given birth at Israel-
controlled road blocks. Clearly these circumstances increase the
chances of complications for both mother and children. Amnesty
International (2005) has documented a number of cases where
[Palestinian] women have been forced to give birth at road blocks
and have lost their children as a result" [ 48].

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6. Poverty and other social disadvantage in ongoing Indigenous
Genocide

Australia. According to the Australian Indigenous Health InfoNet

in relation to Indigenous Australians, (a) the population was
745,000 (2016); (b) 26,885 reported in 2008 as having been
removed from their family; ( c) about 34% were aged less than 15
years, compared with 19% of non-Indigenous people, and about
4.2% were aged 65 years or over, compared with 15% of non-
Indigenous people; (d) 25% had completed year 12 High School,
compared with 52% of non-Indigenous people (2011); (e) 42% of
those aged 15 years or older were employed and 17% were
unemployed versus 61 % of non-Indigenous people aged 15 years
or older were employed and 5% were unemployed (2011); (f) the
most common occupation was 'labourer' (18%) followed by
'community and personal service workers' (17%) whereas the most
common occupation classification of employed non-Indigenous
people was 'professional' (22%); (g) the median real
equivalised gross weekly household income for Indigenous
households in 2011-13 was $465 as compared with $869 for non-
Indigenous household [ 49], and Indigenous households averaged
3.3 persons per house, compared with 2.5 for non-Indigenous
households (2008) [50] - using this data we can estimate that while
per capita GDP is US$54,069 for Australians as a whole [34], for
Indigenous Australians it is ($465 per household/$869 per
household) x (2.5 persons per house/3.3 persons per house) x
US54,069 = $21,918; (h) in 2016 about 4 7% of Indigenous adults
were employed as compared to 72% non-Indigenous ([30], Figure
23, page 76); and (i) housing overcrowding and poor infrastructure
has a big impact on Indigenous health, especially in remote
communities [51, 52].
Racist White Australians say "Get over it" but Indigenous
Australians carry the burden of a huge and continuing injustice
(invasion, dispossession, genocide, the Stolen Generations,
continuing deprivation) that was only partly ameliorated by the
1967 Referendum (allowing the Federal Government to make laws
about Indigenous Australians and allowing them to be counted
whereas formerly they were counted under a Fauna and Flora Act)
[53]), the 1975 Racial Discrimination Act (that was subsequently
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Indigenous communities) [54, 55], and the 1992 Mabo Decision of
the High Court that overturned the notion of "terra nullius"
(Australia as an empty land to be colonized), recognized native title
for the first time, and ultimately resulted in qualified land rights,
mainly in arid and remote areas [56]. Effective slavery of surviving
Indigenous people on huge rural estates involved "wages" of sugar,
tea and tobacco and exposure to the core White Australian alcohol
abuse culture with present day consequences of a type 2 diabetes
epidemic, alcohol-fuelled domestic violence, and huge preventable
deaths and morbidity associated with smoking and drinking [ 51].
Racist White Australians say "We spend billions on Aborigines but
nothing changes". The "Closing the Gap. Prime Minister's Report
2018" boasts of spending A$3.6 billion over 4 years on the
Indigenous Australian Health Program [32] but this is in a context
in which Indigenous Australians suffer the greatest medical
problems of any ethnic sub-group in Australia [51]. In 2014-15, the
overall age-standardised hospitalization separation rate of 950
separations per 1,000 population for Indigenous people was 2.4
times that for non-Indigenous people [57]. 5,000 Indigenous
Australians die avoidably each year but while only 4 Australian
have been killed by jihadi psychopaths, successive Australian
Governments have committed to an annual cost, including long-
term accrual cost, of $11 billion per year to the Zionist-promoted
US War on Terror [58]. There are appalling differences between
Indigenous and non-Indigenous Health. Thus Australia is the only
advanced country with trachoma (an eye disease that is endemic in
remote communities). Macular degeneration in the eyes is rare
among Indigenous Australians because they mostly do not live long
enough to acquire it [59, 60].
Palestine. Like many Indigenous Australians, the Indigenous
Palestinians live in the direst poverty. The annual GDP per capita is
$2,900 for Occupied Palestinians as compared to $37,000 for their
genocidally racist occupier, Apartheid Israel [34]. The Gaza
Concentration Camp is one of the most densely populated areas in
the world but has been subject to repeated massive bombing by the
Israelis that has destroyed hospitals, schools and vital
infrastructure. UN humanitarian coordinator Maxwell Gaylard has
stated: "Action needs to be taken now if Gaza is to be a livable
place in 2020 and it is already difficult now" [61].

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7. "Forcibly transferring children of the group to another
group" in ongoing Indigenous Genocide

Australia. Indigenous survivors were used as effective slave labor

as farm workers or domestics. A policy of forcibly removing
Aboriginal children from their mothers was a systematic genocidal
policy involving the removal of perhaps 0.1 million children over 2
centuries. This practice ended in the 1970s, and in 2008 Labor
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd offered a formal apology to the so-
called "Stolen Generations," but removal of Aboriginal children
from their mothers continues at a record rate, albeit for "welfare"
reasons [21-23], this leading Kevin Rudd to warn of a "second
stolen generation" [22]. Right-wing but thoughtful and humane
[Labor] PM Kevin Rudd was removed from office in 2010 in a US-
approved, Mining Corporation-backed and pro-Zionist-led Coup
[62, 63]. Indigenous leaders plead that Indigenous children
removed from their impoverished mothers for "welfare reasons"
[ should] at least have community, family and cultural connections
retained.
Palestine. Jewish Israeli racism suggests that removal of Palestinian
children to childless Israeli couples would be rare (although such a
removal was the thesis of a moving Palestinian novel "Mornings in
Jenin" by Susan Abulhawa) [64]. However genocidal Israeli racism
has seen the violent displacement of millions of Palestinian
children with their parents from their ancestral homes e.g. the 1
million children in the Gaza Concentration Camp [28] and the 3.5
million Palestinian children forever exiled from their homeland.

8. "Intent to destroy in whole or in part" and ongoing

Indigenous Genocide

Australia. "Intent to destroy" is rarely confessed but is clearly

established by the evidence of sustained actions (230 years by
White Australia and 130 years by the racist Zionists). Politically
correct racism (PC racism) in present-day Australia [largely]
prevents outright racist or genocidal assertions. However the
extreme right wing former Coalition PM of Australia, Tony Abbott,
was accused of effectively declaring Australia to be "terra nullius"
before British settlement when he remarked in a breakfast speech to
UK PM David Cameron and many others: "As we look around this

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glorious city [Sydney], as we see the extraordinary development,
it's hard to think that back in 1788 it was nothing but bush" [65].
The most appalling racist sentiments accompanied the violent
genocide of Indigenous Australians in the 19th century of which
the following are but a few examples: "They are the most degraded
of the human race, and never seem to wish to change their habits
and manner of life" (Reverend Samuel Marsden, the notorious
clergyman and merciless flogging magistrate, commenting on
Sydney aborigines in 1819); "The Native soon saw that in yielding
to his natural aggressive impulses he would be opposed to those
who were not only his equals in savage cunning and endowment,
but his superiors by alliance with the Europeans" (Port Phillip
Administrator Charles La Trobe in the 1840s, commenting on the
efficacy of the murderous Australian Native Police that he set up in
colonial Victoria in 1841 ); "I have the honour to state that there are
no aboriginals in my District" (The Reverend James Walker, MA,
Minister of the Church of England, North Parramatta, 1846); "Of
the Australian black man we may certainly say that he has to go.
That he should perish without unnecessary suffering should be the
aim of all who are concerned in the matter" (Anthony Trollope,
1873); "Whether the Blacks deserve any mercy at the hands of the
pioneering squatters is an open question, but that they get none is
certain. They are a doomed race, and before many years they will
be completely wiped out of the land" (Harold Finch-Hatton, 1885)
[66, 67]. Political correctness and "we are not racists"
notwithstanding, many White Australians argue with various
degrees of offensiveness for non-violent "assimilation" (see #9
below concerned with Indigenous ethnocide ).
Palestine. The Anglosphere countries (the UK, US, Canada,
Australia and New Zealand) are variously based on genocide of the
Indigenous inhabitants but in the post-WW2 era these countries
variously came to terms with this genocidally racist past. Indeed
Donald Trump and the lunatic right aside, it is now simply
unacceptable in Western Mainstream society for Mainstream
politicians and other public figures to express outright racism or
support for genocide. Indeed Western Mainstream journalist,
politician, academic and commentariat presstitutes can be described
as politically correct racist (PC racist) by endlessly declaring their
love of 'moderate Muslims' and their desire to bring them freedom
and democracy, while supporting US Alliance wars in the Muslim

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 world that have killed millions. Thus in this century 32 million
Muslims have died from violence, 5 million, or from deprivation,
27 million, in 20 countries invaded by the US Alliance since the
US Government's 9-11 false atrocity that killed about 3,000 people
[ 45, 68]. In the case of Zionism, a genocidally racist political
ideology that has only been significant in the last century, there are
no such qualms, notwithstanding the Zionism-backing West having
otherwise given up genocidal colonialism by the 1970s. The
Zionists routinely make frank assertions about the inferiority of the
Indigenous Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims and Asians and the
necessity of ethnic cleansing to preserve a Jewish-dominated state
in Palestine. This should have (but so far has not) created a serious
political problem in the US, Australia and Canada that globally are
number l, 2 and 3, respectively, in support for nuclear terrorist,
racist Zionist-run, genocidally racist, democracy-by-genocide
Apartheid Israel. For an alphabetical compendium of such obscene
assertions see [69].
Thus, for example, Golda Meir (Israeli Prime Minister 1969 -
1974) and one of the more verbally restrained genocidal Zionist
psychopaths: "Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab
refugees back must also say how he expects to take the
responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is
better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this
happen", "There is no such thing as a Palestinian people ... It is not
as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They
didn't exist", "How can we return the occupied territories? There is
nobody to return them to", and "This country exists as the
fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be
ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy" [69]. Benjamin
Netanyahu (Israeli Prime Minister 1996 - 1999 and 2009-present)
(1989): "Israel should have exploited the repression of the
demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that
country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the
territories" [69].

9. Indigenous ethnocide in ongoing Indigenous Genocide

Australia. Before the British invasion in 1788 there were 350-750

different Indigenous Australian (Aboriginal) tribes and a similar
number of languages and dialects, of which only 150 survive today

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and of these all but about 20 are endangered in a process of

continuing Australian Aboriginal Ethnocide and Cultural Genocide
[l]. Removal of Aboriginal children from their mothers and
communities, removal of Federal and State government support for
remote Aboriginal communities, and substantial removal of
instruction of Aboriginal children in their own language are all
ultra-conservative measures that threaten destruction of most of the
surviving Aboriginal languages and dialects. According to a recent
study (2009): "At the end of 2008 the Northern Territory
Government, supported by the Commonwealth Government, all but
closed bilingual education in remote Indigenous schools by
determining that the language of instruction for the first four hours
of school must be English. This decision could spell the death of
the remaining endangered Indigenous languages in Australia" [24],
i.e. Australian Aboriginal Ethnocide. Just imagine if the EU
decided for economic reasons that English was to be the official
EU language (notwithstanding Brexit) and that French was to be
encouraged to die out!
Palestine. Indigenous Palestinians encompass distinct Muslim,
Christian, Druze, Bedouin and Samaritan groups (the latter
speaking the same language, Aramaic, spoken by Assyrians today
and indeed spoken by the wonderful Palestinian humanitarian,
Jesus). The racist Zionists have mangled and devastated this rich
culture with 90% of Palestine now having been ethnically cleansed
by the genocidally racist neo-Nazi invaders [2-9].

10. History ignored yields history repeated - Israeli and

Australian complicity in other Indigenous genocides

Australia. Australians have invaded 85 countries as compared to

the British 193, France 82, the US 72 (52 after WW2), Germany
39, Japan 30, Russia 25, Canada 25, Apartheid Israel 12 and China
2 [31, 70- 73]. About 30 of these invasions have involved genocide
as defined by the UN Genocide Convention [l, 74]. Presently, in
addition to the ongoing Aboriginal Genocide and ongoing
Aboriginal Ethnocide, Australia is critically involved via the Pine
Gap joint US-Australian electronic spying facility in targeting
illegal US drone strikes in 7 countries (Libya, starving Somalia,
starving Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan). In the late
20th century and the 21st century Australia has been militarily

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involved in the Iraqi Genocide, the Afghan Genocide, the Syrian
Genocide and the endless Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide
(32 million Muslim deaths from violence, 5 million, or from
imposed deprivation, 27 million, in 20 countries invaded by the US
Alliance since the US Government's 9-11 false flag atrocity) [45,
75, 77].
Palestine. Apartheid Israel is intimately involved in Aung San Suu
Kyi-led Myanmar's Rohingya Genocide through supply of
advanced gunboats and armaments as well as military training to
genocidal Burmese forces in Rakhine state. Palestinian Genocide-
imposing Apartheid Israel has similarly been involved in the Maya
Indian Genocide in Guatemala, the Sri Lankan Tamil Genocide, the
South Sudan Civil War, the Syrian Genocide, the Iraqi Genocide,
and the ongoing, endless Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide
[45, 75, 77, 78].

Summary and conclusions

Apartheid Israel is involved in an ongoing Palestinian Genocide

and as a dirty tricks surrogate of the US has been complicit in other
genocidal atrocities around the world. Likewise Australia is
involved in an ongoing Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal
Ethnocide as well as participating in numerous genocidal atrocities
as a UK or US lackey. It is hardly surprising given this appalling
history that Coalition-ruled Australia, led by fervent Christian
Zionist PM Malcolm Turnbull, is second only to Trump America as
a supporter of nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run, serial war
criminal, genocidally racist, democracy-by-genocide Apartheid
Israel.
Careful comparison of the 100 year Zionist Palestinian Genocide
and the 230 year White Australian Aboriginal Genocide reveal in
each case a similar carnage of about 2 million deaths with about 0.1
million due to violence and the remainder due to imposed
deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease. Presently about
5,100 Occupied Palestinians die avoidably annually from violence
(500) or from imposed deprivation (4,600) (2015 data) in a process
of active and passive mass murder of Indigenous Palestinians in
gross violation of the Geneva Convention [37] and thence of the
UN Genocide Convention [1]. In contrast, about 5,000 Indigenous
Australians die avoidably each year from imposed deprivation -

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unlike the murderous Israelis, the Australians ceased massacring

Indigenous Australians in about 1930.
Nevertheless a stark difference found here is that the Occupied
Palestinian avoidable death rate of 0.1 % pa is much lower than the
shocking Australian Indigenous avoidable death rate of 0.5-0.6%
pa. Since the life expectancy difference between Israelis and
Occupied Palestinians and between non-Indigenous and Indigenous
Australians is about 10 years in both cases, the Occupied
Palestinian avoidable death rate of 0.1 % pa as estimated here may
be an under-estimate.
Genocide is the worst of all crimes short of the omnicide and
terracide threatened by nuclear terrorist rogue states like Apartheid
Israel which possesses up to 400 nuclear weapons [29]. Australia is
highly complicit in US nuclear terrorism [29]. Apartheid Israel and
White Australia need to be dragged before the International
Criminal Court (ICC) but this will not happen until the ICC gives
up the racist fantasy that post-WW2 genocides have only been
committed by Serbs and non-Europeans not allied with the US.
Genocidal and ethnocidal Australia should be expelled from the
UN Human Rights Council.
Zionism is egregious, genocidal racism and racist Zionists and all
their supporters should be sidelined from public life, as have been
other racists such as the neo-Nazis, Nazis, Apartheiders and the Ku
Klux Klan. Decent people around the world will urge and apply
Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against not only
Apartheid Israel but also against all people, politicians, parties,
companies, collectives, corporations and countries complicit in
these appalling crimes. PC racist Australia must similarly be held
accountable for its past and continuing genocidal and ethnocidal
crimes against Indigenous Australians.
Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity.
Obvious humane solutions exist to end the ongoing Palestinian
Genocide and the ongoing Australian Aboriginal Genocide and
ongoing Aboriginal Ethnocide. In Palestine the 2-State Solution
(and Western excuse for inaction) is now dead because of the
ethnic cleansing of 90% of the land of Palestine. However, a
peaceful, humane solution informed by the post-Apartheid South
African experience is for a unitary state in Palestine with return of
all refugees, zero tolerance for racism, equal rights for all, all
human rights for all, one-person-one-vote, justice, goodwill,

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reconciliation, airport-level security, nuclear weapons removal,
internationally-guaranteed national security initially based on the
present armed forces, and untrammelled access for all citizens to all
of the Holy Land.
As for rich, PC racist White Australia that annually commits about
$30 billion to defence, annually commits $11 billion in immediate
and long-term accrual cost to the genocidal US War on Muslims,
annually commits about $30 billion in subsidies to religion and to
intellectual child abuse in religious schools, and in which 20% of
corporations have not paid any tax in the last 5 years, there is
plenty of fiscal room to urgently bring the Aboriginal Genocide and
Aboriginal Ethnocide to a stop. Unfortunately a narcissistic
national "look the other way" culture and egregious Mainstream
media fake news through lying by omission [79, 80] ensure that
ordinary Australians are well insulated from the Awful Truth. The
World must act to bring a PC racist, US lackey, pro-Zionist, pro-
Apartheid Israel, pro-Apartheid, pro-war, war criminal, climate
criminal, genocidal, ethnocidal, dog-in-the-manger White Australia
to heel. Australia has the resources to urgently solve the problem
but what are missing are perception of key truths and genuine
empathy for the Indigenous people whose forebears sustainably
lived on this continent for 65,000 years. Australian genocidal and
ethnocidal policies must cease immediately and the appalling
conditions killing 5,000 Indigenous Australians each year must be
addressed with the same urgency and resources that sports-
obsessed Australia commits to saving solo round-the-world
yachtsmen venturing into the stormy Great Southern Ocean. Please
tell everyone you can.

2020 Postscript

On 18 July 2018, the race-based Apartheid Israeli Knesset

(parliament) passed the racist Jewish Nation-State Law onl 8 July
2018, with a vote of 62 to 55 with two abstentions. This racist law
offensively and intolerably ignores the Indigenous Palestinians who
are nearly 50% of Israeli subjects and enshrines a special,
dominant, race-based position for the Jewish Israelis who constitute
a 47% minority of the subjects of Apartheid Israel (Gideon Pol ya,
"Israeli nation state law enshrines Apartheid and genocidal
racism", Countercurrents, 24 July 2018:

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https://countercurrents.org/2018/07 /israeli-j ewish-nation-state-law-
enshrines-apartheid-and-genocidal-racism). Apartheid Israel has
annexed Jerusalem (Al Quds), the Syrian Golan Heights, proposes
to annex the Jordan Valley, and has welcomed US President
Donald Trump's assertion that the illegal settlements on the West
Bank are "legal". Nuclear terrorist Apartheid Israel (up to 400
nuclear war heads) and the Zionist-subverted US (7,300 nuclear
warheads) are bombing Syria and Iraq and evidently heading for a
war to devastate Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Iran. The ethnic
cleansing of 90% of the land of Palestine means that the 2-state
solution dishonestly espoused by Apartheid Israel and its pro-
Apartheid US Alliance supporters is now dead. Further, it is clear
that the racist Zionists running Apartheid Israel are locked in to
continuation of Jewish Israeli domination of all of Palestine, with
the boundary prospects of endless Apartheid or complete ethnic
cleansing of Palestine. It is becoming blatantly obvious to decent
observers that a democratic, secular, one-state solution (unitary
state, bi-national state) is the compelling humane solution for a
post-Apartheid Palestine (Gideon Polya, "Democratic one-state
solution (unitary state, bi-national state) for post-Apartheid
Palestine", Countercurrents, 22 December 2018:
https://countercurrents.org/2018/12/22/democratic-one-state-
so 1 uti on-unitary-state-bi-national-state-for-post-apartheid-
palestine/). Meanwhile the Palestinian Genocide and Australian
Aboriginal Genocide continue with passive mass murder, water
deprivation and heat stress of Indigenous people an obscene
commonality (Gideon Polya, "Australian climate criminality, heat
stress deaths & Australian Aboriginal Ethnocide", Countercurrents,
19 December 2019: https://countercurrents.org/2019/12/australian-
climate-criminality-heat-stress-deaths-australian-aboriginal-
ethnocide, and Gideon Pol ya, "Water crisis, Global A voidable
Mortality Holocaust, Water Apartheid, Global Warming & Mina
Guli", Countercurrents, 17 May 2019:
https://countercurrents.org/2019/05/water-crisis-global-avoidable-
mortality-holocaust-water-apartheid-global-warming-mina-guli).

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 "I wish I were Commander in Chief over there [India]! I would
address that Oriental character which must be powerfully spoken
to, in something like the following placard, which should be
vigorously translated into all native dialects, I, The Inimitable,
holding this office of mine, and firmly believing that I hold it by
the permission of Heaven and not by the appointment of Satan,
have the honor to inform you Hindoo gentry that it is my intention,
with all possible avoidance of unnecessary cruelty and with all
merciful swiftness of execution, to exterminate the Race from the
face of the earth, which disfigured the earth with the late
abominable atrocities [2,000 British killed in the 1857 Indian War
oflndependence aka the 1857 Indian Mutiny]". Charles Dickens in
in a letter to Emile de la Rue on 23 October 1857, quoted in Grace
Moore, "Dickens and the Empire. Discourses of class, race, and
colonialism in the works of Charles Dickens", 2004.
"In the standard of life they have nothing to spare. The slightest fall
from the present standard of life in India means slow starvation,
and the actual squeezing out of life, not only of millions but of
scores of millions of people, who have come into the world at your
invitation and under the shield and protection of British power".
Winston Churchill in a speech to the House of Commons, 1935.
"The British Empire ... population in 1900 stood at 370 million [270
million Indians]. Since there were 37 million people in Britain
herself in 1901, one can see that every Briton had 10 colonial
slaves working for him overseas". V.G. Trukhanovsky in "Winston
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INDIAN AVOIDABLE
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 [Gideon Polya, "Demonetisation, WW2 Bengal Famine
And Horrendous Indian Avoidable Mortality Then And Now",
Countercurrents, 11 January 2017:
http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/01/11 /demonetisation-ww2-
bengal-famine-and-horrendous-indian-avoidable-mortality-then-
and-now/.]
The demonetisation of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 notes by the
government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is disproportionately
impacting the poor oflndia [noting that 201 million Muslim
Indians represent 15% oflndia' s 1.34 billion population and 11 %
of the world's 1.8 billion Muslims]. Presently 4.5 million Indians
die avoidably from deprivation each year and demonetisation will
make this worse by increasing poverty, deprivation and
disempowerment. Indians must reject this callous and deadly attack
on the poor, reject deadly pro-One Percenter neoliberalism and
demand social justice via social humanism (democratic socialism).
Countercurrents.org editor Binu Mathew has written: "In a
cashless/digital money India, Big Brother would be watching 24/7.
The digitally illiterate vast majority would be driven out of
circulation like the old notes. It's a long process, perhaps more
lethal than Hitler's 'Final Solution'. More people died in World
War II Bengal famine than Hitler's gas chambers. Did it make it at
least into the footnotes of Indian history? Demonetised India
doesn't need gas chambers, hunger will do the job!" [1].
Unfortunately Binu Matthew is essentially correct and indeed quite
conservative in his estimation. Poverty and disempowerment
combine to constitute a deadly deprivation in India today that is
already linked to an annual avoidable mortality of 4.5 million
Indians each year as estimated from mortality data from the UN
Population Division [2]. A voidable mortality ( avoidable death,
excess mortality, excess death, untimely death, deaths that should
not happen) is the difference between actual deaths in a country in
a given period and deaths that would be expected if that country
were at peace and subject to humane governance [3].
Demonetisation will make this horrendous Indian avoidable
mortality holocaust worse by increasing poverty, deprivation and
disempowerment.
The annual mortality in India (2017 population 1,350 million [2]) is
7.3 deaths per 1,000 of population [2]. However for poor and high
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 about 4 deaths per 1,000 of population [3], the difference being 7.3-
4.0 = 3.3 avoidable deaths per 1,000 of population per year and
accordingly 3.3 avoidable deaths per 1,000 of population x 1.35
thousand million people = 4.46 million avoidable Indian deaths
from deprivation every year. It must be noted that a total of 17
million people presently die avoidably each year from deprivation
in the Developing World (minus China) [3]. In contrast, annual
avoidable death is effectively zero (0) for China, South Korea,
Japan, Western Europe, and the colonization-derived countries of
the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Apartheid Israel [3].
4.46 million or about 4.5 million avoidable Indian deaths every
year in "the world's biggest democracy" means that untimely
Indian deaths every 2 years exceed the carnage of the WW2 Jewish
Holocaust (5-6 million Jews killed by violence or imposed
deprivation in 1941-1945) [4] or of the WW2 Bengali Holocaust
(Bengal Famine) in which the British with Australian complicity
deliberately starved 6- 7 million Indians to death in 1942-1945 for
strategic reasons in Bengal, Orissa, Bihar and Assam [5-14],
Australia being complicit by withholding grain from its huge
wartime wheat stores from starving India [5]. When the price of
rice rose up to 4-fold (for a variety of complex reasons), those
living at the edge (notably land-less labourers) could not buy food
and perished under merciless British rule.
The appalling 4.5 million avoidable deaths each year in ostensibly
democratic but neoliberal India as compared to zero (0) in
authoritarian but pluralistic and altruistic China is testament to the
abolition of endemic poverty in China but not in India. The
ostensibly free but One Percenter-owned Mainstream media of
India are able to report the explicit, publicly-visible horrors of war,
terrorism and famine but fail to report the worsening avoidable
mortality holocaust occurring behind closed doors. Thus it has been
estimated that in 2003 about 3.7 million Indians died avoidably
from deprivation as compared to the 4.5 million such deaths
expertly predicted for 2017 [3]. But just as Western media still
overwhelmingly ignore the WW2 Bengali Holocaust (6-7 million
avoidable Indian deaths from deprivation in Bengal and
neighbouring states in 1942-1945), so Indian media largely ignore
the worsening Indian avoidable mortality holocaust (presently
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Indian famine expert and 1998 Nobel Laureate for Economics,
Amartya Sen, and his colleague Jean Dreze commented thus on
media reportage and avoidable deaths from deprivation (1995):
"The contrast is especially striking in comparing the experiences of
China and India. The particular fact that China, despite its much
greater achievements in reducing endemic deprivation, experienced
a gigantic famine during 1958-1961 (a famine in which, it is now
estimated, 23 to 30 million people died), had a good deal to do with
lack of press freedom and the absence of political opposition. The
disastrous policies that paved the way to the famine were not
changed for three years as the famine raged on, and this was made
possible by the near-total suppression of news about the famine and
total absence of media criticism of what was then happening in
China ... However, it appears that even an active press, as in India,
can be less than effective in moving governments to act decisively
against endemic under-nutrition and deprivation - as opposed to
dramatically visible famines. The quiet persistence of 'regular
hunger' kills millions in a slow and non-dramatic way, and this
phenomenon has not been much affected, it appears, by media
critiques" [15].
Thus the World is well aware of the 1958-1961 famine in China
(23-30 million deaths) that was associated with the Great Leap
Forward but is overwhelmingly unaware of the hundreds of
millions of "slow and undramatic" Indian avoidable deaths from
deprivation under the British and post-Independence. Using Indian
census data 1870-1950, assuming an Indian population of about
200 million in the period 1760-1870, and estimating by
interpolation from available data an Indian avoidable death rate
(deaths per 1,000 of population per year) of37 (1757-1920), 35
(1920-1930), 30 (1930-1940) and 24 (1940-1950), one can estimate
Indian excess deaths (avoidable deaths, untimely deaths) of 592
million (1757-1837), 497 million (1837-1901) and 418 million
( 1901-194 7), roughly 1.5 billion in total or 1.8 billion including the
Native States. However after Independence the avoidable death rate
dropped dramatically to circa 3 .5 deaths per 1,000 of population
per year by 2003 (2003 population 1,057 million), with 1950-2005
avoidable deaths from deprivation totalling about 350 million [16].
Brilliant Indian writer and activist Arundhati Roy has provided a
succinct explanation for Mainstream lying by omission over
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 is not just their deluxe lifestyles, but deluxe lifestyles with a clear
conscience" [17]. It must be recognized that ignoring horrendous
realities and lying by omission are far, far worse than repugnant
lying by commission ( explicit lying) because the latter can at least
be refuted and admit the possibility of public discussion [18, 19].
Demonitisation is worsening the conditions of the poor of India and
will thus inevitably contribute to a worsening of the killing of
"millions in a slow and non-dramatic way" that presently stands at
about 4.5 million avoidable Indian deaths from deprivation each
year.
Demonetisation has led to a cash shortage that disproportionately
affects the poor. The poor have limited cash to buy food, farmers
have limited cash to pay rural labourers to harvest food, farmers are
having trouble selling harvested food, and the result is real
deprivation and hunger [20]. West Bengal chief minister Mamata
Banerjee has claimed (January 2017) that the demonetisation of Rs.
500 and Rs. 1000 notes (announced by Prime Minister Narendra
Modi on November 8, 2016) could lead to suffering and famine for
the poorest: "The decision to demonetise the currency has led to
severe hardship among the poor and the marginalised. In many
areas, labour is not available to harvest the grains from the field. In
other parts of the state, farmers are not able to earn money from
cultivation of vegetables as demand has slowed down and people
are cutting consumption ... Tea sellers who used to earn Rs500 a
day are now unable to find customers due to shortage of currency.
This Rs2,000-note has created more confusion and hardships for
the people. This happens when the leadership loses connection with
people" [21, 22].
News World India has commented on the massive move to a
cashless society: "On November 8, all Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes
were made invalid. Was this a masterstroke by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi? He must have had a noble intention behind this
decision but, economic prudence can never allow that 86 percent of
the money should be removed from circulation ... But, what about
that daily wage earner who doesn't even know what 'go cashless'
means. A large amount of money belonging to the poor and the
uninformed lot has become invalid. It is their hard-earned savings
which they are unable to convert either because they don't have
access or right information about the whole process ... The so
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thrives on cash transactions. More than 90 percent of the labour
force in India is dependent on this, receiving the biggest setback of
their lives. The demand has come down drastically and the small or
micro enterprises have slowed down on their production. Since the
labour force works on a daily wages, a loss of one-month of their
pay has crippled the informal economy like never before" [23].
"The Hindu" similarly concludes that demonetisation has caused a
shortage of cash (a "cash famine") that disproportionately
impacts the poor who are not part of the digital economy [24].
Physicist and outstanding Indian environmental and social analyst
and activist, Dr. Vandana Shiva, has excoriated this
disempowerment of the poor for the benefit of the rich (January
2017): "As 2017 begins and we flounder in our mad rush to force
all oflndia into a digital economy overnight ... We live in times
where the non-working rent collectors and speculators have
emerged as the richest billionaires. Meanwhile, the hard working
honest people, like farmers, workers in self-organised economies
(mistakenly called unorganised and informal) are not just being
pushed into deep poverty, they are, in fact, being criminalised by
labelling their self-organised economic systems as 'black' ...
Imposing the digital economy through a 'cash ban' is a form of
technological dictatorship, in the hands of the world's billionaires.
Economic diversity and technological pluralism are India's strength
and it is the 'hard cash' that insulated India from the global
market's 'dive into the red' of2008 ... When I exchange Rs 100
even a 100 times it remains Rs 100. In the digital world those who
control the exchange, through digital and financial networks, make
money at every step of the 100 exchanges. That is the how the
digital economy has created the billionaire class of one per cent,
which controls the economy of the 100 per cent. The foundation of
the real economy is work. Gandhi following Leo Tolstoy and John
Ruskin called it 'bread labour' - labour that creates bread that
sustains life. Writing in Young India in 1921, he wrote: 'God
created man to work for his food, and said that those who ate
without work were thieves"' [25].
Satya Sagar, a journalist and public health worker, has similarly
commented on this massive disempowerment of the poor (January
2017): "From all evidence so far it is clear, that the Scheduled
Castes and Tribes, who make up a bulk of those surviving off
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sudden disappearance of cash from the economy. Agricultural
labour, construction workers, employees of micro-enterprises, the
urban and rural poor - mostly from these marginalized castes- have
been pushed to the brink of starvation or worse due to loss of jobs
and income. The other sections, whose lives have been severely
disrupted are small and medium sized farmers, who are
overwhelmingly from Other Backward Castes and artisans, mostly
from poorer Muslim communities ... what the Narendra Modi
dispensation is doing through its devious insistence on a digitalised
economy - imposing on the already disadvantaged a test designed
to not just make them fail but also put the blame for their misery on
their own 'ignorance'. If in the past they were actively denied
knowledge of the 'Vedas' by the upper castes now, as they are
trying to catch up, the rules of the game are either being changed
abruptly or they are being priced out of the market. The most apt
way to describe what is happening in India today is perhaps
through a completely new term - dwijitalisation. It captures well
the long-term implications ofNarendra Modi's push for a digital
economy in a country that has long been ruled by the dwij - or
twice born castes as the Hindu elite call themselves. Under the new
rules of the dwijital economy only the dwij- at the top of the social,
economic and political ladder - will climb still higher, while
kicking the ladder down to ensure no one can follow" [26].

Final comments

The Indian demonetisation is a huge shift towards a largely cash-

less, digital economy that disproportionately impacts the largely
digitally illiterate poor. This shift is towards a massive
disempowerment of the poor for the benefit of the rich.
The top One Percent of the world owns half the world's wealth and
this is clearly incompatible with one-person-one-vote democracy.
India, even more blatantly so than other ostensible democracies,
has become a kleptocracy, plutocracy, lobbyocracy, and
corporatocracy in which Big Money in the hands of a relative few
buys people, politicians, parties, policies, public perception of
reality, and hence votes and more political power, with the
consequences of even more private profit and private wealth that
further trash democracy. Indeed India can be seen as a kind of
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because the poor majority has been duped by Big Money
perversion of democracy. Small wonder that nuclear terrorist, serial
war criminal, racist Zionist-run, gcnocidally racist and democracy-
by-genocide Apartheid Israel has successfully courted Modi.
Poverty and disempowerment constitute a deadly deprivation in
India today that is already linked to an appalling, worsening and
resolutely ignored annual avoidable mortality (annual untimely
deaths) of 4.5 million Indians. Demonetisation will inevitably
worsen deprivation and avoidable death. However the very
callousness, wealth transfer, disempowerment and inequity implicit
in Modi's demonetisation may prove to be just too much to bear
and hence lead to the downfall of the neolibcral One Percenters
running kleptocracy India.
The currently dominant neoliberal economic model involves
maximizing the freedom of the smart and advantaged to exploit the
natural and human resources of the world for private profit, with an
asserted trickle-down of some benefit to the poor. The clear,
humane alternative to neoliberalism is social humanism (socialism,
democratic socialism, ecosocialism, the welfare state) that seeks via
evolving social contracts to maximize human happiness,
opportunity and dignity for everyone [27, 28]. Yet, as demonstrated
by the injustice of demonetisation, India is firmly in the hands of
the neoliberal One Percenters.
Indeed democracy is fundamentally the expression of the will of
the people and one would reasonably suppose that a fundamental
desire of virtually all people would be minimization of avoidable
deaths from deprivation, especially for themselves and their loved
ones. The annual avoidable deaths of 4.5 million Indians are
testament to the utter perversion of fundamental democracy by the
rich One Percenters.
The sheer callousness of the Modi-led One Percenter
demonetisation will hopefully induce national clarity in which
humane Indians will reject neoliberal greed, corruption, inhumanity
and inequity, and demand realization of the social humanist
decencies for all promised at Independence nearly 70 years ago.

2020 Postscript

The British controlled vastly more populous India for 200 years by
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 controlled by well-fed British soldiers and British-paid Indian
soldiers. This egregious deprivation led to 1,800 million avoidable
Indian deaths over 2 centuries in an Indian Holocaust that was
quantitatively the worst holocaust in human history. When they left
India, the British bequeathed an appalling legacy of Hindu versus
Muslim communal antipathy resulting in Partition (18 million
refugees and 1 million deaths) [3] and an ultimate nuclear standoff
between Pakistan (120 nuclear war heads) and India (100 nuclear
war heads) that threatens Humanity ("Nuclear weapons ban, end
poverty & reverse climate change":
https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/nuclear-weapons-ban).
While India under Congress led the world in the peaceful fight
against Apartheid in South Africa and banned military purchases
from Apartheid Israel over egregious Israeli corruption, under the
present PM Narendra Modi, leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP, Indian People's Party), India has cosied up to nuclear
terrorist, genocidally racist, neo-Nazi, democracy-by-genocide
Apartheid Israel (Gideon Polya, "Dual citizenship & Zionist
perversion of America, Australia, India & Humanity",
Countercurrents, 30 July 2017:
https://countercurrents.org/2017 /07 /dual-israeli-citizenship-zionist-
perversion-of-america-australia-india-humanity). Under Modi India
has seen a flourishing of Hindutva, an ideology seeking to establish
the hegemony of Hindus and the Hindu way of life in India. Modi
recently passed a Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) that
discriminates against Muslims in easing the path to citizenship of
non-Muslim minority refugees from India's Muslim neighbours,
and has brought millions of Indians out on the streets protesting
this evident threat to India's secular constitution, especially in the
context of an adumbrated national register of citizens (Reuters in
Hyderabad, "Indian citizenship law: 100,000 attend Hyderabad
protest", Guardian, 5 January 2020:
https ://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/j an/04/india-hyderabad-
protest-against-ci tizenshi p-law).

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''
"Gambian Minister of Justice Abubaccar Tambadou's vision,
moral courage and leadership in seeking justice for the Rohingya
[ at the International Court of Justice, ICJ] is truly inspirational.
Gambia demonstrated to the world that there was a state brave
enough to take on Myanmar's brutal ethnic cleansing campaign and
risk China's wrath in doing so". Param-Preet Singh (associate
director of Human Rights Watch's international justice program) in
"Interview: Landmark Court Order Protects Rohingya From
Genocide", Human Rights Watch, 2020.
"On the cusp of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of
Auschwitz, the court's clear and forceful order, which is binding, is
a significant day for international law, the rights of individuals and
groups, and the meaningful obligation of every state and person to
desist from any act that could plausibly be characterised as
genocide". Professor Philippe Sands QC (University College
London and counsel for the Gambia before the ICJ) in Owen
Bowcott and Rebecca Ratcliffe, "UN's top court orders Myanmar
to protect Rohingya from genocide", The Guardian, 23 January
2020.
"Since Aug. 25, 2017, more than 740,000 people from Myanmar
have fled to Bangladesh because of extreme violence in the
northern part of Rakhine State on the country's western Bay of
Bengal coast. Most of the refugees identify as Rohingya, a Muslim
minority ethnic group in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar.
Flooding into camps near the town of Cox's Bazar, they joined
more than 200,000 people who fled to Bangladesh years earlier.
About 55% ofRohingya refugees are children". World Vision,
"Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh: Facts, FAQs, and how to help",
2020.

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CHAPTER 18
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 [First published as Gideon Polya, "Hitler, Churchill, Aung San
Suu Kyi & genocidal intent to destroy", Countercurrents, 29
September 2017:
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aung-san-suu-kyi-genocidal-intent-to-destroy/.]
The UN Genocide Convention defines genocide as "acts committed
with intent to destroy in whole or in part". Hitler sought and
effected "removal" and "annihilation" of the Jews, Churchill hated
and thence deliberately starved 7 million Indians to death, and both
sought to cover it up. In 2017 Trump vows to "to totally destroy
North Korea", Aung San Suu Kyi white-washes Myanmar's
Rohingya Genocide, a deferential EU won't even use the term
Rohingya, and Mainstream media ignore the carnage of America's
ongoing Muslim Genocide and Muslim Holocaust.
Holocaust ignored yields holocaust repeated, and genocide ignored
yields genocide repeated. A "holocaust" involves the deaths of a
huge number of people. Thus the WW2 Jewish Holocaust involved
the death of 5-6 million Jews from violence or imposed deprivation
under the German Nazis [1], this holocaust being part of a wider
and largely ignored European WW2 Holocaust involving the deaths
of 30 million Slavs, Jews and Gypsies [2]. Similarly ignored is the
WW2 Chinese Holocaust in which 35 million Chinese died under
the Japanese in 1937-1945 [3], and the WW2 Indian Holocaust
(Bengali Holocaust, Bengal Famine) in which 6- 7 million Indians
were deliberately starved to death by the British with Australian
complicity in Bengal and adjoining provinces in 1942-1945 [ 4-6].
These WW2 holocausts were also genocides because they were
effected by people with "intent to destroy". Genocide is often
simplistically regarded as "total annihilation" of a particular group
but this definition is clearly wrong because even in the most
proportionally devastating genocides a substantial proportion of the
affected ethnic group can survive by hiding or by being in refuge
territories, as exampled by the WWI Armenian Genocide (1.5
million killed) and the WW2 Jewish Genocide (5-6 million killed).
Indeed in the WW2 Jewish Holocaust the proportion of the Jewish
population killed under Nazi rule varied from 1.7% (Denmark),
7.5% (Italy) and 21.7% (France) to 86.7% (Poland) and 89.6%
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Article 2 of the post-WW2 UN Genocide Convention states: "In the
present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts
committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national,
ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of
the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members
of the group; ( c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of
life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in
part; ( d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the
group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another
group" [7]. Implicit in this definition of genocide is ethnic
cleansing arising from refugees fleeing terrifying and genocidal
violence as occurs in all genocides.
Crucial to the UN definition of genocide is the phrase "intent to
destroy in whole or in part". Because of potential repercussions and
a "bad look", genocidal psychopaths often fail to publicly declare
such a deliberate intent. However in such cases "intent" can be
reasonably determined from sustained and remorseless conduct
leading to mass mortality. Indeed "complicity" and hence
remorseless "intent" are confessed when there is continuing
asserted justification by the perpetrator's establishment of
horrendous atrocities.
Thus the UK ,US and US Alliance Establishments still variously
minimize and/or justify (e.g. per war-time exigencies, collateral
damage, "bringing freedom and democracy", saving Allied lives,
countering terrorism ... ) the following atrocities that have occurred
within living memory ( dates and numbers of deaths from violence
and imposed deprivation in brackets): the Palestinian Genocide (2
million, 1920 - present), the Indian Holocaust and Bengali
Holocaust ( 6- 7 million, 1942-1945), the nuclear annihilation of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki (0.2 million, 1945), the Korean Genocide
(5.2 million, 1950-1953), Laotian Genocide (1.2 million, 1955-
1975), the Vietnamese Genocide (15.3 million, 1955-1975), the
Cambodian Genocide (6 million, 1965-1975), the Chinese
Indonesian Genocide (0.2 million, 1965), the Congolese Genocide
(30 million, 1960 - present), the Guatemalan Genocide (2 million,
1960-1966), the Afghan Genocide (9 million, 1978 - present; 6.0
million, 2001- present), Iraqi Genocide (9 million, 1914-present;
4.6 million, 1990 - present; 2.7 million, 2003 - present), the
Somalian Genocide (2.3 million, 1992 - present), the Libyan
Genocide (0.2 million, 2011 - present), Syrian Genocide (1.0

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million, 2012 - present), and the deprivation-driven Global
Avoidable Mortality Holocaust (1,500 million, 1950 - present) [2,
8-12].

1. Adolph Hitler's "intent to destroy" and genocide cover-up

Adolph Hitler was similar to Donald Trump in urging genocide

involving total destruction and one can find several explicit
Hitlerian exhortations to genocide. Thus Adolph Hitler in a 1919
letter to Adolf Gemlich foreshadowed the WW2 Jewish Genocide:
"Anti-Semitism as a political movement should not and cannot be
determined by factors of sentiment, but only by the recognition of
the facts. These are the facts: To begin with, Jewry is unqualifiedly
a racial association and not a religious association .... Its influence
will bring about the racial tuberculosis of the people. Hence it
follows: Anti-Semitism on purely emotional grounds will find its
ultimate expression in the form of pogroms. Rational anti-semitism,
however, must lead to a systematic legal opposition and elimination
of the special privileges which Jews hold, in contrast to the other
aliens living among us (aliens' legislation). Its final objective must
unswervingly be the removal of the Jews altogether. Only a
government of national vitality is capable of doing both, and never
a government of national impotence" [13]. In WW2 Adolph Hitler
talked of"annihilation" of the Jews in a 1942 speech to the
Reichstag: "Today I will once more be a prophet. If the
international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should
succeed in plunging nations once more into a world war, then the
result will not be the bolshevization of the earth and this the victory
of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!" [14,
15]. In a further 1942 speech to the Reichstag, Adolph Hitler
stated: "In my speech before the Reichstag on the first of
September 1939, I spoke of two matters: first, since we are forced
into war, neither the threat of weapons nor a period of transition
shall conquer us; second, if world Jewry launches another war in
order to destroy the Aryan nations of Europe, it will not be the
Aryan nations that will be destroyed, but the Jews" [14, 15].
However, unlike the thoughtlessly outspoken Donald Trump and
his psychopathic vow to "to totally destroy North Korea", Adolph
Hitler evidently realized that genocide was wrong, punishable or
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invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 and at the Wansee
Conference in Berlin on 20 January 1942, Reinhard Heidrich
presented a plan for mass deportation and extermination of Jews
[16]. However, in 1943 Martin Borman, instructed by Hitler,
ordered no mention of "a future overall solution" of the "Jewish
Question" (1943): "National-Socialist German Workers' Party,
Party Secretariat, Head of the Party Secretariat, Fuhrer
Headquarters, July 11, 1943, Circular No. 33/43 g. Re: Treatment
of the Jewish Question: On instructions from the Fuhrer I make
known the following: Where the Jewish Question is brought up in
public, there may be no discussion of a future overall solution
[Gesamtlosung]. It may, however, be mentioned that the Jews are
taken in groups for appropriate labor purposes. Signed M.
Bormann" [17].

2. Winston Churchill's understanding and cover-up of his

WW2 Indian Holocaust

Winston Churchill had a hatred for Indians comparable to that of

Hitler for Jews. Thus Winston Churchill to Leo Amery, Secretary
of State for India (1942): "I hate Indians. They are a beastly people
with a beastly religion" [18]. The horrible reality of Britain's 2-
century subjugation of India was that it achieved this by keeping
most of the population on the edge of starvation and guarded by
well-fed British and Indian soldiers. This utterly evil policy meant
that inevitable frequent downturns in provincial circumstances
meant frequent famine and mass mortality events between the
1769-1770 Great Bengal Famine (10 million deaths) and the 1942-
1945 Bengal Famine (WW2 Indian Holocaust, WW2 Bengali
Holocaust) (6-7 million deaths). Indian avoidable deaths from
deprivation have been estimated at 592 million (1757-1837), 497
million (1837-1901) and 418 million (1901-1947), roughly 1.5
billion in total or 1.8 billion including the Native States [19].
Winston Churchill was well aware of this horrible circumstance.
Thus in a speech to the UK House of Commons in 1935 Winston
Churchill commented on the fragile circumstances of Britain's 350
million impoverished Indian subjects: "In the standard of life they
have nothing to spare. The slightest fall from the present standard
of life in India means slow starvation, and the actual squeezing out
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have come into the world at your invitation and under the shield
and protection of British power" [20, 21 ]. India needed to import 1-
2 million tons of grain annually before WW2, and in 1939-1940
imported 2.2 million tonnes, but by 1942/1943 there was a net
export of 0.4 million tonnes. The average yearly importation of
grain in 1942-1945 was 0.46 million tons, barely enough to feed
the 2.4 million-strong Indian Army [6].

3. Donald Trump's intent to "totally destroy North Korea" and

similar craziness

Trump's declaration at the UN of his preparedness "to totally

destroy North Korea" is a statement of genocidal "intent to destroy
in whole" the 25 million North Korean people, noting that US
saturation bombing killed 28% of the North Korean population in
the Korean War in which 5.2 million Koreans died from violence
or war-imposed violence in the period 1950-1953 [2, 8]. Here is
Trump's "intent to destroy" assertion in context: "No nation on
earth has an interest in seeing this band of criminals arm itself with
nuclear weapons and missiles. The United States has great strength
and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will
have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea. Rocket Man is
on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. The United
States is ready, willing and able, but hopefully this will not be
necessary. That's what the United Nations is all about; that's what
the United Nations is for. Let's see how they do. It is time for
North Korea to realize that the denuclearization is its only
acceptable future" [25].
Nikki Haley (the killer shark-eyed US ambassador to the United
Nations) on CNN's "State of the Union" and echoing Trump's
genocidal intent with her own: "If North Korea keeps on with this
reckless behavior, if the United States has to defend itself or defend
its allies in any way, North Korea will be destroyed. None of us
want that. None ofus want war. But we also have to look at the fact
that you are dealing with someone [in Kim] who is being reckless,
irresponsible and is continuing to give threats not only to the
United States, but to all of its allies. So something is going to have
to be done" [26]. The Prime Minister of pro-Zionist, US lackey
Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, has backed Trump's bellicosity,
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 country will be wiped out. .. many, many thousands of innocent
people will die" [27].
Of course other US officials have been similarly threatening,
whether in bluff or reality. Thus Henry Kissinger (US Secretary of
State and mass murderer) was ordered by President Richard Nixon
to suggest a "madman scenario" to the Soviet Union leadership:
"You know, Nixon's under a lot of pressure right now and, you
know, he drinks at night sometimes, so you guys ought to be real
careful. Don't push this into a crisis" [28]. Colonel Edward
Lansdale (US CIA operative on whom Graham Greene based his
central character in "The Quiet American", and quoting Robert
Taber's "The War of the Flea"): "There is only one means of
defeating an insurgent people who will not surrender, and that is
extermination. There is only one way to control a territory that
harbours resistance, and that is to turn it into a desert" [29].
Hillary Clinton ( former US Secretary of State and 2016 Democrat
presidential candidate) in an interview with ABC's Good Morning
America when asked what she would do if Iran attacked Israel with
nuclear weapons: "In the next 10 years, during which they might
foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able
to totally obliterate them. That's a terrible thing to say but those
people who run Iran need to understand that, because that perhaps
will deter them from doing something that would be reckless,
foolish and tragic" [30].
And of course nobody can forget former US president Ronald
Reagan's deliberate or idiotic joke picked up by microphones that
led to emergency action in Russia: "My fellow Americans, I am
pleased to tell you today that I have signed legislation that will
outlaw Russia for ever. We begin bombing in five minutes" [31 ].

4. Aung San Suu Kyi whitewashes the Rohingya Genocide and

Myanmar military action against unarmed civilians

After the world responded indignantly to 450,000 Rohingya

refugees being violently expelled by the Myanmar Army from
Rakhine state, Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi made a key
speech in which the terms "genocide", "Rohingya" and
"Rohingyan Genocide" failed to appear. Oliver Holmes of the UK
Guardian analyzed her speech and concluded: "Address by de facto
leader of Myanmar on forced displacement of hundreds of

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thousands of Muslims contained truths, half-truths and
falsehoods .... she claimed her government did not 'fear
international scrutiny' over its handling of violence in Rakhine
state. But she was criticised for what some saw as her ongoing
reluctance to address the crisis and the government's role in it"
[32]. The horrible reality is that a former world hero, Nobel Peace
prize winner, and civilian leader of a now quasi-democratic
Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, has become complicit in the ongoing
Rohingyan Genocide. Humanitarian considerations aside, this has
been a deep personal disappointment for me because my former
heroine Aung San Suu Kyi in her BBC Reith lecture series
acknowledged the influence of the book "Seven Years Solitary" by
Dr. Edith Bone (a cousin of my grandmother, Livia (nee Borbas)
Polya). Dr. Edith Bone wrote this book after surviving 7 years in
solitary confinement in a Communist Hungarian prison, 1949-1956
[33-35].
Just as Aung San Suu Kyi won't use the term "Rohingya", so the
EU out of cowardly deference won't use the term "Rohingya"
either [36]. Now, apologists for Aung San Suu Kyi argue that she is
constrained by the military who retain massive power in quasi-
democratic Myanmar and could re-assume total control if it suited
them. One can only reply that peace is the only way but silence
kills and silence is complicity. Silence over genocide is complicity
in genocide. Even worse is whitewashing of genocidal military
action that has sent about 400,000 Rohingyas fleeing for their lives
in the last few weeks, with Aung San Suu Kyi falsely declaring "It
is not the intention of the Myanmar government to apportion blame
or to abnegate responsibility. We condemn all human rights
violations and unlawful violence ... Since 5 September, there have
been no armed clashes and there have been no clearance
operations" [32].
Half the Rohingyan refugees are children and three quarters are
women and children. There is something utterly awful about
women excusing atrocities against women and children. One is
reminded of US Ambassador to the UN (and later US Secretary of
State), Madeleine Albright, who on 12 May 1996 defended UN
sanctions against Iraq on a "60 Minutes" segment in which anti-
racist Jewish American journalist Lesley Stahl asked her "We have
heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that's more
children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth

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it?" and to which Albright replied "we think the price is worth it"
[9, 37].

5. Intent to destroy - North Korean and Israeli nuclear

terrorism versus Big Power nuclear terrorism

Nuclear terrorist countries with nuclear weapons intend to use them

i.e. they have clear "intent to destroy" on an unimaginable scale
with a high likelihood of this precipitating into a general
decimation of humanity (terracide). A Big Power nuclear exchange
would wipe out most of Humanity (current population about 7.5
billion), successively through the initial instantaneous destruction
of cities, subsequent deaths from burns and radiation sickness from
radioactive fallout, and finally through a "Nuclear Winter"
decimating agriculture, photosynthesis and photosynthate-based
life in general. While imposing deadly Sanctions on Iran (that has
zero nuclear weapons and repeatedly states that it does not want
nuclear weapons and wants a nuclear weapons-free Middle East),
the US (7,315 nuclear weapons) is boosting its nuclear and
conventional forces in Asia and Australia, and continues to pour
billions of dollars of military aid into the war criminal, genocidally
racist, ethnic cleansing and nuclear terrorist rogue state of
Apartheid Israel that reportedly has up to 400 nuclear weapons.
The upper estimates of stored nuclear weapons are as follows: US
(7,315), Russia (8,000), Apartheid Israel (400), France (300), UK
(250), China (250), Pakistan (120), India (100), and North Korea
(less than 10). India, Pakistan, Apartheid Israel and North Korea
have not ratified the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) [38-
40].
The world overwhelmingly wants to ban nuclear weapons
(although this is ferociously opposed by the US and its nuclear
terrorist allies) [3 8]. The smaller nuclear powers - France
(population 66.9 million), UK (population 65.6 million), North
Korea (population 25.4 million), and Apartheid Israel (Jewish
Israeli population 6.5 million) - should be most easily persuaded to
relinquish their weapons with suitable security inducements. The
big nuclear powers - China (population 1,379 million), India
(population 1,324 million), the US (population 323.1 million),
Pakistan (population 193 .2 million), and Russia (population 144.3
million) - might be harder to persuade, especially given America's

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nuclear destruction of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, its
Australia-assisted nuclear weapons targeting and surveillance threat
over the whole world, and its threat to "to totally destroy North
Korea", a nation that lost 28% of its population to US saturation
bombing in the Korean War [8].
Obviously it is very bad for North Korea to have some 10 nuclear
weapons and delivery systems up to and including the ICBM level,
but the same goes for the other 8 nuclear powers - a Nuclear
Weapons Ban can and must apply to all nations. In all the well-
justified global hysteria about North Korea, there is nothing said
about Apartheid Israel which reportedly has up to 400 nuclear
weapons as well as chemical weapons, biological weapons and
delivery systems including aircraft; submarine-launched cruise
missiles, and the Jericho series of intermediate to inter-continental
range ballistic missiles (I CB Ms) [ 41].
Victor Gilinsky (program advisor for The Nonproliferation Policy
Education Center (NPEC) and a Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner
under presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan) (2016) :"The story has
been covered extensively in Germany and even in Israel, but it
seems to have largely escaped notice in the United States: Israel
has acquired a fleet of [six] advanced German submarines that -
Prime Minister Netanyahu has signalled - carry nuclear weapons
pointed at Iran. The Obama administration's pretense that it knows
nothing about any nuclear weapons in Israel makes intelligent
discussion about the dangers of nuclear weapons in the Middle East
all but impossible ... This US policy carries a very real risk: As one
of the four NPT holdouts (the others being India, North Korea, and
Pakistan), Israel is also one of the countries most likely to use
nuclear weapons against an adversary" [ 42].
North Korea has not invaded any other country (if you exclude the
serial invader US proposition that North Korea invaded itself in the
Korean War). However nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run,
genocidally racist, and endlessly exceptionalist democracy-by-
genocide Apartheid Israel has an appalling record of repeated bouts
of mass ethnic cleansing, invading other countries and occupying
other countries and threatening other countries. Thus US-backed
Apartheid Israel has attacked 12 countries, occupied the territory of
5 other countries, still occupies the territory of 3 countries,
practices an ongoing Palestinian Genocide and has variously
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Iran at will. The frequently realized threats from Apartheid Israel
have meant massive militarization of the Middle East and diversion
of resources from keeping people alive to defence. 1950-2005
avoidable deaths from deprivation in 5 countries variously
occupied by US-backed Apartheid Israel totalled 24 million [2].
Nuclear terrorist Apartheid Israel has attacked 12 other countries
whereas the British have invaded 193 countries, Australia 85,
France 82, the US 72 (52 after WW2), Germany 39, Japan 30,
Russia 25, Canada 25, China 2, and North Korea zero (0) [2, 43-
48]. Of immense concern is perversion and subversion of all
countries by Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-
subverted America and Apartheid Israel [49-53]. While North
Korea is a harsh, one-party state, Apartheid Israel is a democracy-
by-genocide with a continuing regime of genocide and other gross
violation of the human rights oflndigenous Palestinians [54, 55].
Nevertheless, resolute US backing via the US veto at the UN means
that Apartheid Israel - unlike North Korea - has escaped sanction
by the UN Security Council (UNSC). Even the UNSC Resolution
2334 that condemned Israeli actions in the Occupied Palestinian
Territories and was passed unanimously (except for an abstention
by Obama America) has not resulted in sanctions against nuclear
terrorist Apartheid Israel [56, 57].

Conclusions

Genocide is the worst of all crimes and as defined by the UN

Genocide Convention encompasses "acts committed with intent to
destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious
group" [7]. The 9 nuclear weapons powers have clear "intent to
destroy" in threatening the world, "in whole or in part", with
nuclear annihilation. The non-European nations of the world
overwhelmingly support a Nuclear Weapons Ban (this being
rejected by the barbarous US and its mainly European allies). The
will of the civilized, anti-nuclear weapons countries must be
rapidly achieved by application of Boycotts, Divestment and
Sanctions (BDS). Realistically, the small nuclear weapons powers
- France, the UK, North Korea and Apartheid Israel - should be
most easily persuaded to relinquish their weapons with suitable
security inducements and BDS threats. The kinds of sanctions
presently applied to North Korea should be also applied to all 9

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nuclear weapons powers and their key allies (e.g. nuclear terrorism-
complicit and US lackey Australia).
During the campaign for Republican presidential candidature,
Donald Trump notoriously stated "I could stand in the middle of
Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters"
[58]. There must be zero tolerance for threats of genocide such as
President Donald Trump's threat "to totally destroy North Korea"
that has been echoed by his underlings including US ambassador to
the UN, Nikki Haley, and the PM of US lackey Australia, Malcolm
Turnbull. Such threats should make the bullies utterly unfit for
public life. Unfortunately, corporate- and Zionist-perverted
Mainstream media passivity over this core moral issue has made
"intent to destroy" the new normal. This genocide-accommodating
new normal has allowed our former heroine Nobel Laureate Aung
San Suu Kyi to whitewash the ongoing Rohingya Genocide
(murderous ethnic cleansing generating 0.5 million refugees so far)
and Western Mainstream ignoring of the horrendous consequences
of the US War on Terror aka the Zionist-backed US War on
Muslims (a Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide involving 32
million Muslim deaths from violence, 5 million, or from
deprivation, 27 million, in 20 countries invaded by the US Alliance
since the US Government's 9-11 false flag atrocity) [11, 59].
The US quite happily wiped out 28% of the North Korean
population during the Korean War [8]. Donald Trump's threat "to
totally destroy North Korea" and 25 million more North Koreans
might actually be realized at any time due to the genocide-
accommodating Mainstream "new normal". Indeed 17 million
people presently die avoidably from deprivation on Spaceship
Earth with the First World in charge of the flight deck [2]. A
worsening Climate Genocide may mean 10 billion deaths this
century if man-made global warming is not requisitely addressed
[60].
What can decent people do in these dire times of genocide
commission, genocide advocacy, genocide ignoring and genocide
denial? Decent people must urgently (a) inform everyone they can,
and (b) urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
against all people, politicians, parties, collectives, countries and
corporations complicit in nuclear terrorism and in past, present and
proposed genocide.

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2020 Postscript

Apartheid Israel is intimately involved in Aung San Suu Kyi-led

Myanmar's Rohingya Genocide through supply of advanced
gunboats and armaments as well as military training to genocidal
Burmese forces in Rakhine state violating the Muslim Rohinguas.
Palestinian Genocide-imposing Apartheid Israel has similarly been
involved in the Maya Indian Genocide in Guatemala, Sri Lankan
Tamil Genocide, South Sudan Civil War, Syrian Genocide, Iraqi
Genocide, and in current deadly state terrorism in 7 countries by
the US and by US drone-targeting, US lackey Australia that is
second only to the US as a supporter of Apartheid Israel (Gideon
Polya, "Palestinian Genocide-imposing Apartheid Israel complicit
in Rohingya Genocide, other genocides & US, UK & Australian
state terrorism", Countercurrents, 30 November 2017:
https ://countercurrents.org/201 7 / 11 /palestinian-genocide-imposing-
apartheid-israel-complicit-in-rohingya-genocide-other-genocides-
us-uk-australian-state-terrorism and Apartheid Israeli state
terrorism: (A) individuals exposing Apartheid Israeli state
terrorism, and (B) countries subject to "Apartheid Israeli state
terrorism." Palestinian Genocide:
https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/apartheid-israeli-
state-terrorism). The German DW News has reported Aung San
Suu Kyi's recent appearance before the UN International Court of
Justice (ICJ) in The Hague thus (2019): "More than 730,000
Rohingya fled the coastal state of Rakhine after the military
launched its crackdown in 2017 and were forced into squalid camps
across the border in Bangladesh" ("Aung San Suu Kyi in The
Hague for Rohingya genocide show down", DW, 10 December
2019: https://www.dw.com/en/aung-san-suu-kyi-in-the-hague-for-
rohingya-genocide-showdown/a-51603 718). The International
Criminal Court (ICC) is investigating Apartheid Israel for war
crimes in Palestine (Peter Beaumont, "ICC to investigate alleged
Israeli and Palestinian war crimes", Guardian, 21 December 2019:
https ://www.theguardian.com/law/20 l 9/dec/20/icc-to-investigate-
alleged-israeli-and-palestinian-war-crimes.

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perversion-of-america-austral i a-i ndia-human ity /.
[50]. Gideon Polya, "Australian Pro-Zionist PM Turnbull's Jewish Heritage
Means He May Be Ineligible To be An MP", Countercurrents, 17 September
2017: https://countercurrents.org/2017/09/17 /australian-pro-zionist-prn-turnbulls-
jewish-heritage-means-he-may-be-ineligible-to-be-an-mp/.

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Global Research, I April 2017: http://www.globalresearch.ca/mainstream-media-
fake-news-through-lying-by-omission/5582944.
[52]. Gideon Polya, "Australian ABC and UK BBC fake news through lying by
omission", Countercurrents, 2 May 2017:
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through-lyi ng-by-omiss ion/).
[53]. Gideon Polya, "Racist Zionism and Israeli State Terrorism threats to
Australia and Humanity", Palestinian Genocide:
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[54]. Gideon Polya, "Israeli-Palestinian & Middle East Conflict - From Oil to
Climate Genocide", Countercurrents, 21 August 2017:
https://countercurrents.org/2017 /08/21 /israel i-palestinian-middle-east-confl ict-
from-oil-to-cl i mate-genocide/.
[55]. Gideon Polya, "Apartheid Israel Excludes Occupied Palestinians From All
Provisions Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights", Countercurrents,
20 May 2012: https://countercurrents.org/polya200512.htm.
[56]. Gideon Polya, "ls UN Security Council Resolution 2334 the beginning of
the end for Apartheid Israel?", Countercurrents, 28 December 2016:
https:/ /countercurrents.org/2016/ 12/28/is-un-security-counci 1-reso I ution-2334-
the-beginn ing-of-the-end-for-apartheid-israel/.
[57]. Gideon Polya, "Anti-racist Jewish humanitarians oppose Apartheid Israel
and support UN Security Council Resolution 2334", Countercurrents, 13 January
2017: https://countercurrents.org/2017/0 I/I 3/anti-racist-jewish-humanitarians-
oppose-apartheid-israel-support-un-security-council-resolution-2334/.
[58]. "Donald Trump: 'I could shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters',
Guardian, 24 January 2016: https://www.theguardian.com/us-
news/20 I 6/jan/24/donald-trump-says-he-could-shoot-somebody-and-still-not-
lose-voters.
[59]. "Experts: US did 9-11 ": https://sites.google.com/site/expertsusdid9 I l/.
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"Since most air pollutants come from the burning of fossil fuels, we
need to switch to other sources of energy urgently. When we use
clean, renewable energy, we are not just fulfilling the Paris
agreement to mitigate the effects of climate change, we could also
reduce air pollution-related death rates by up to 55%". Professor
Jos Lelieveld (Max-Plank Institute for Chemistry in Mainz,
Germany) in "Air pollution deaths are double previous estimates",
The Guardian, 12 March 2019.
"Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and
premature death in the world today. Diseases caused by pollution
were responsible for an estimated 9 million premature deaths in
2015-16% of all deaths worldwide-three times more deaths than
from AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined and 15 times more
than from all wars and other forms of violence. In the most
severely affected countries, pollution-related disease is responsible
for more than one death in four. Pollution disproportionately kills
the poor and the vulnerable. Nearly 92% of pollution-related deaths
occur in low-income and middle-income countries and, in countries
at every income level, disease caused by pollution is most prevalent
among minorities and the marginalised. Children are at high risk of
pollution-related disease and even extremely low-dose exposures to
pollutants during windows of vulnerability in utero and in early
infancy can result in disease, disability, and death in childhood and
across their lifespan". The Lancet Commission on pollution and
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[First published as Gideon Polya, "Australia rejects IMF Carbon
Tax & preventing 4 million pollution deaths by 2030",
Countercurrents, 15 October 2019:
https://countercurrents.org/2019/ 1 O/australia-rejects-imf-carbon-
tax-preventing-4-million-pollution-deaths-by-2030.]
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) report on climate change
mitigation advocates a Carbon Tax of $75 per ton of CO2 by 2030
that, if progressively implemented in the 020 countries alone,
would prevent an estimated 4 million air pollution deaths by 2030.
However the effective climate change denialist Coalition
Government of Australia, a 020 country that is among world
leaders in 15 areas of climate criminality, has flatly rejected a
global Carbon Tax. If all 020 countries followed Australia's
rejection of a global Carbon Tax then they would be complicit in an
unconscionable Climate Genocide and Climate Holocaust killing 4
million people over the next decade.
Here are the key findings of the IMF report on climate change
mitigation (September 2019): "Global warming is threatening our
planet and living standards around the world, and the window of
opportunity for containing climate change to manageable levels is
closing rapidly. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are a key driver
of this alarming trend. Fiscal policy has an important role to play ...
Action to date has been inadequate. The 2015 Paris Agreement
goes in the right direction, but the commitments countries have
made fall well short of those needed to limit global warming to the
level considered safe by scientists-2°C, at most, above
preindustrial temperatures. Furthermore, it remains uncertain
whether countries are reducing emissions as agreed. The longer that
policy action is delayed, the more emissions will accumulate in the
atmosphere and the greater the cost of stabilizing global
temperatures-let alone of failing to do so ... Limiting global
warming to 2°C or less requires policy measures on an ambitious
scale, such as an immediate global carbon tax that will rise rapidly
to $75 a ton of CO2 in 2030. Under such a scenario, over 10 years
electricity prices would rise, on average, by 45 percent
cumulatively and gasoline prices by 15 percent, for households,
compared with the baseline (no policy action). The revenue from
such a tax (1.5 percent of GDP in 2030, on average, for the Group
of Twenty [020] countries) could be redistributed, for example, to
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workers or communities (for example, coal-mining areas), cut other
taxes ... The shift from fossil fuels will not only transform an
economy but also profoundly change the lives of households,
businesses, and communities. Importantly, the shift would generate
additional and immediate domestic environmental benefits, such as
lower mortality from air pollution (725,000 fewer premature deaths
in 2030 for a $75 a ton tax for G20 countries alone). Businesses
that deploy new technologies would earn profits and create jobs,
which in the renewables sector already reached 11 million globally
in 201 7 ... Some advanced and emerging market economies already
use carbon taxes and emission trading systems, but insufficiently.
Indeed, the average price on global emissions is currently $2 a ton,
a tiny fraction of what is needed for the 2°C target. An early start to
reinforce the Paris process could be made through a carbon price
floor arrangement among countries with the largest emissions ... "
[ 1].
The IMF's assertion of "725,000 fewer premature deaths in 2030
for a $75 a ton tax for G20 countries alone" means (assuming that
such a Carbon Tax could be rapidly implemented by all the G20
countries) that lives saved in the period 2020-2030 would average
725,000/2 = 362,500 lives saved per year, and thus would total
362,500 lives per year x 11 years= 4.0 million lives saved (2020-
2030).
However in response to the Australian ABC query "Would
Australia accept a global Carbon Tax?" the Australian Coalition
Government simply and emphatically replied "No" [2, 3].
If all of the G20 followed Australia's example then they would be
complicit in a Climate Genocide in which 4 million people would
die prematurely from carbon pollution in 2020- 2030. Presently
each year 8 million people die from air pollution (World Health
Organization, WHO) [ 4, 5], this including about 10,000 Australians
and 75,000 dying from the effects of pollutants from the burning of
Australia's world leading coal exports [5].
This adumbrated 4 million Climate Genocide carnage should be
considered in relation to other genocidal atrocities - it is of the
same order as the carnage of the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6
million deaths from violence or imposed deprivation) [6, 7] and the
WW2 Bengali Holocaust (6-7 million Indians starved to death for
strategic reasons by the British with Australian complicity) [8-22)
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Holocaust (30 million Slavs, Jews and Roma killed) [12], the WW2
Chinese Holocaust (35 million Chinese killed under the Japanese,
1937-1945) [12, 23] and 40 million Asian deaths from violence or
imposed deprivation in Australian Coalition-backed, post-1950 US
Asian wars [12].
It gets worse when one considers climate change-related deaths. It
is estimated that about I million people die from climate change
per se each year [24] but this may be an underestimate because 15
million people die avoidably each year from deprivation in the
variously tropical and/or sub-tropical Developing World (minus
China) that is disproportionately badly impacted by climate change
[12]. Further, a variety of scholars from climate scientists to
demographers predict a sustainable human population of only 0.5-
1.0 billion by 2100, this implying a Climate Genocide involving
about 10 billion deaths this century if climate change is not
requisitely dealt with [25, 26].

Australia's ongoing commitment to war crimes and climate

crimes

Australia is among leading countries in 15 areas of climate criminal

activities: (1) annual per capita greenhouse gas pollution, (2)
methanogenic livestock exports, (3) natural gas exports, ( 4)
recoverable shale gas reserves that can be accessed by hydraulic
fracturing (fracking), (5) coal exports, (6) land clearing,
deforestation and ecocide, (7) speciescide or species extinction, (8)
coral reef destruction, (9) whale killing and extinction threat
through global warming impacting on krill stocks, (I 0) terminal
carbon pollution budget exceedance, (11) per capita Carbon Debt,
(12) ultimately GHG generating iron ore exports, (13) climate
change inaction, (14) Climate Genocide (its coal exports ultimately
kill 75,000 people per year), and (15) increasing GHG pollution
post-Paris (contrary to the Paris demand to decrease GHG
pollution) [25].
Thus, for example, in 2018 Australia ranked 57 out of 60 countries
for climate change action ( only South Korea and Saudi Arabia were
worse) [27]. Annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution in
tonnes CO2-equivalent per person per year ( and taking land use
into account) is as follows for Australia and some other countries
(2016): Australia (52.9; 116 if including its huge OHO-generating

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 exports), United States (41.0), China (7.4), and India (2.1) [28].
Australia with 0.3% of the world's population is responsible for
4.5% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions (with Australia's
exported GHG pollution included).
Australia's "No!" to a global Carbon Tax means an obscene
commitment to a 4 million victim Climate Genocide over the next
decade. The Australian Coalition has made it absolutely clear that it
is opposed to a Carbon Tax. However the Labor Opposition,
reeling from an unexpected election defeat in May 2019, remains
silent. Indeed the right-wing Labor Shadow Minister for
Agriculture, Joel Fitzgibbon, has put the cat among the pigeons by
urging that Labor should pragmatically go soft on climate change
action and adopt a pollution reduction position closer to that of the
climate criminal Coalition Government in order to increase its
electoral appeal [29]. Labor promised before the May 2019 election
to cut economy-wide emissions by 45% on 2005 levels by 2030
whereas the Coalition's target is a miserable 26-28 % cut, with both
involving offsetting emissions by the manipulative trick of
purchasing international credits ( e.g. from non-destruction of rain
forests in the Developing World) [30]. The Australian Coalition
Government and Labor Opposition have a common climate
criminal policy of indefinite export of coal, gas, iron ore and
methanogenically-derived meat.
Australia's being among world leaders in 15 areas of climate
criminality make it disproportionately complicit in a worsening
Climate Genocide that, in the absence of requisite action, is
expected to kill 10 billion people this century en route to a
sustainable world population in 2100 of merely 0.5-1.0 billion
people [25, 26]. However Australia is notorious for its 2-century
Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide (2 million
Indigenous deaths from violence, 0.1 million, or imposed
deprivation; of 350- 750 Indigenous languages and dialects only
150 remain and of these all but 20 are endangered) [31 ]. As UK or
US lackeys, Australians have invaded 85 countries (as compared to
the British 193 countries, France 82, the US 72 (52 after WW2),
Germany 39, Japan 30, Russia 25, Canada 25, Apartheid Israel 12
and China 2) [32, 33], and of these invasions 30 were genocidal as
defined by the UN Genocide Convention [34]. Australia as part of a
US Alliance continues to occupy Afghanistan in gross violation of
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Through its joint US-Australia Pine Gap electronic spying base US
lackey Australia plays a key role in US nuclear terrorism [36] and
in the targeting of war criminal US drone strikes in 7 countries [3 7-
39]. The Liberal Party-National Party Coalition Government and
the Labor Opposition (aka the Lib-Labs) endlessly proclaim
"Australian values" but it would appear that genocide is a core
White Australian value, from the post-1788 British invasion
[initiated] Aboriginal Genocide to the presently worsening Climate
Genocide. Australia has been involved in all post-1950 US Asian
wars, atrocities associated with 40 million Asian deaths from
violence or imposed deprivation [12] - the US lackey Coalition
backed all of these vile wars and US lackey Labor backed all but 2
(the Vietnam War and the Iraq War).
About 10,000 Australians die each year from air pollution and
200,000 have died thus this century [5]. However this is just the tip
of an iceberg of Australian preventable deaths. The Stupidity,
Ignorance and Egregious Greed (SIEG as in Dr. Strangelove and
"Sieg heil") of successive neoliberal Lib-Lab Australian
governments has made them complicit in the preventable deaths of
1.7 million of their fellow Australians this century. Thus each year
about 85,000 Australians die preventably from "life style" and
"political choice" reasons, the breakdown (including some
overlaps) being as follows: (1) 26,000 annual Australian deaths
from adverse hospital events, (2) 17,000 obesity-related Australian
deaths, (3) 15,500 smoking-related Australian deaths, (4) 10,000
carbon burning pollution-derived Australian deaths, (5). 4,000
avoidable Indigenous Australian deaths, (6). 5,600 Australian
alcohol-related deaths, (7) 2,900 Australian suicides ( circa 100
being veterans), (8) 1,400 Australian road deaths, (9) 630
Australian opiate drug-related deaths with 570 linked to US
restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry, and
( 10) 300 Australian homicides (80 being of women killed
domestically) [40-43].

Final comments

The IMF has proposed a Carbon Tax rising rapidly to "$75 a ton of
CO2 in 2030" in order to keep global warming to less than a
catastrophic plus 2C [ 1]. Crucially the IMF states that this will
"lower mortality from air pollution (725,000 fewer premature

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 deaths in 2030 for a $75 a ton tax for 020 countries alone)".
However it must be noted that Dr. Chris Hope (of 90-Nobel-
Laureate University of Cambridge) has determined a damage-
related Carbon Price for Europe of $200 per tonne CO2 [44].
Presently annual global greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution totals 63.8
billion tonnes (70.3 billion tons) CO2-equivalent (taking land use
into account and a global warming potential for methane based on a
20 year time frame) [ 45]. Thus the annual value of a Carbon Tax
would be about $5.3 trillion (IMF) and $12.8 trillion (Hope). By
way of comparison, the world nominal GDP in 2019 was projected
to be $88 trillion [46].
By way of further comparison, many scientists consider that we
must return the atmospheric CO2 to about 300 ppm CO2 for a safe
and sustainable planet for all peoples and all species [47, 48].
Lowering the atmospheric CO2 from the present 410 ppm CO2 to a
requisite 300 ppm CO2 would mean removing 110 ppm CO2 x 7.8
billion tonnes CO2 per ppm CO2 = 858 billion tonnes CO2 i.e. a
Carbon Debt of 858 billion tonnes CO2. Assuming a damage-
related Carbon Price of US$200 per tonne CO2-equivalent [44],
this corresponds to a Carbon Debt of $172 trillion [ 49, 50].
The bottom line is that we must pay the true cost of the goods and
services we buy through mandatory incorporation of "externalities"
into prices. Thus even the social conservatives Pope Francis I and
Pope Benedict XVI have clearly stated: "Yet only when the
economic and social costs of using up shared environmental
resources are recognized with transparency and fully borne by
those who incur them, not by other peoples or future generations,
can those [economic] actions be considered ethical" [ 51, 52].
Unfortunately, the mendacious and politically dominant neoliberal
One Percenters refuse to pay for these "economic and social costs
of using up shared environmental resources" ["externalities"] and
are happy to exploit and pollute Humanity's common assets of the
air, the ocean and the environment for free.
I have translated the 3 Laws of Thermodynamics, to whit, (1)
conservation of energy, (2) entropy (disorder, chaos, lack of
information content) increases to a maximum, and (3) zero motion
at Absolute Zero, to Polya's 3 Laws of Economics, to whit (1)
Profit= Price minus Cost of Production, (2) Deceit about Cost of
Production increases to a maximum, and (3) no life, work, price or
profit on a dead Planet [53]. This massive neoliberal deceit over the

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true Cost of Production illustrates Polya's Second Law of
Economics, and the result is increasingly disastrous for Humanity
and the Biosphere. The damage is already so severe as to demand
that negative carbon emissions, negative population growth and
negative economic growth are needed to save the planet [54].
In response to the worsening Climate Emergency the IMF has
issued what is actually a very modest moral challenge to the
prosperous countries of the 020 - rapidly and progressively
introduce a big Carbon Tax to tackle climate change or become
complicit in 4 million pollution deaths in the coming decade.
Climate criminal Australia has immediately said "no" - how will
the other 020 countries respond? The world is waiting.
What can decent people do in the face of this worsening Climate
Emergency? Decent people must (a) inform everyone they can, and
(b) urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BOS)
against all people, politicians, parties, countries, collectives and
corporations disproportionately involved in the worsening Climate
Emergency that already kills about 1 million people each year.

2020 Postscript

In the context of a US-imposed Muslim Holocaust and Muslim

Genocide, one notes the following: (a) the world's 1.8 million
Muslims represent 24% of the world's population of 7 .6 billion; (b)
of the 8 million people who die annually from the long-term effects
of air pollution about 50% are dying from indoor pollution; ( c) a
large proportion of those dying from indoor pollution are located in
the substantially Muslim Developing World encompassing Africa
and Asia; ( d) the Western and Gulf States US Alliance countries
that are variously involved in the post-9-11 Muslim Holocaust and
Muslim Genocide are among world leaders in toxic pollutant-
generating fossil fuel exploitation as reflected in Domestic and
Exploited per capita Greenhouse Gas (GHG) pollution [28] and in
climate change inaction. Thus out of 60 countries scored for
climate change action, the 9 worst-ranking countries are Russia
(52), Kazakhstan (53), Canada (54), Australia (55), Chinese Taipei
(56), Korea (57), Iran (58), US (59) and Saudi Arabia (60) (Jan
Burck et al., "Climate Change Performance Index 2019":
https://germanwatch.org/sites/germanwatch.org/files/CCPI-201 9-
Results-190614- WEB%20A3. pdf). Climate criminal US lackey

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Australia has 0.3% of the world's population but contributes 4.5%
of global GHG pollution (Exports included), vehemently rejects
any Carbon Tax, and is among world leaders in 15 areas of climate
criminality (Gideon Pol ya, "Millions join Global School Climate
Strike - we are running out of time", Countercurrents, 22
September 2019: https://countercurrents.org/2019/09/millions-join-
gl o bal-schoo I-climate-strike-we-are-running-out-of-time.) Climate
criminal Trump America has unilaterally walked away from the
Paris Climate Change Agreement. The neoliberal One Percenter-
dominated world made commitments at Paris that amounted to a
global warming of plus 3.2 degrees Centigrade, the Paris target of
plus I .SC will be reached in a decade, and a catastrophic plus 2C is
now effectively unavoidable. However decent people are obliged to
do everything they can to make the future "less bad" for future
generations.

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"Historically, every other developed nation has achieved universal
health care through some form of nonprofit national health
insurance. Our failure to do so means that all Americans pay higher
health care costs, and 45,000 pay with their lives [annually]".
Professor Steffie Woolhandler (Harvard University) in David
Cecere, "New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of
health coverage", The Harvard Gazette, 17 September 2009.
"North America has seen a rising number of overdose deaths
resulting from the use of opioids. More than 4 7~000 opioid
overdose deaths were recorded in the United States in 2017, an
increase of 13 per cent from the previous year. Those deaths were
largely attributed to synthetic opioids such as fentanyl and its
analogues, which were involved in nearly 50 per cent more deaths
than in 2016". UN Office on Drugs and Crime (ODC), Executive
Summary, World Drug Report, 2019.
"Each year, nearly 900,000 Americans die prematurely from the
five leading causes of death - yet 20 percent to 40 percent of the
deaths from each cause could be prevented, according to a study
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The five
leading causes of death in the United States are heart disease,
cancer, chronic lower respiratory diseases, stroke, and unintentional
injuries. Together they accounted for 63 percent of all U.S. deaths
in 2010, with rates for each cause varying greatly from state to
state". Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "Up to 40
percent of annual deaths from each of five leading US causes are
preventable", CDC press release, 2014.
"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic". Joseph
Stalin in C.R.S. Marsden, "The Dictionary of Outrageous
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[First published as Gideon Polya, "American Holocaust, Millions
Of Untimely American Deaths And $40 Trillion Cost Of Israel
To Americans", Countercurrents, 27 August, 2013:
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The horrendous financial cost of Israel to Americans has now
reached a gigantic $40 trillion in today's dollars. However the
human cost involves the preventable deaths of millions of
Americans - passive mass murder of Americans in an American
Holocaust inflicted by the fiscal perversion of traitorous Neocon
American and Zionist Imperialist One Percenters committing $8-10
trillion to ethnic cleansing and active and passive mass murder of
Muslims abroad in support of Apartheid Israel instead of keeping
Americans alive at home. Zionist-subverted American Government
support for Apartheid Israel in circa 2008 dollars totals about $40
trillion, the breakdown being (1) $3 trillion (1948-2003) [aid], (2)
$4-6 trillion (Zionist-promoted Iraq and Afghan Wars), (3) $0. 7
trillion (Value of a Statistical Life- or VSL-based cost of 88,000
US veteran suicides since September 2001) and ( 4) about $3 0
trillion (one quarter of the VSL-based cost of 15.6 million
preventable American deaths since September 2001 ). This is an
under-estimate because it does not consider the millions of
preventable American deaths before 9-11 linked to Zionist
subversion and perversion of America.

1. $3 trillion cost of Israel to America, 1948-2003

In 2003 Dr. Thomas R. Stauffer (1935-2005; a respected energy

analyst, author, educator, consultant, and graduate of 144-Nobel-
Laureate Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies
(CMES)), estimated that the 1948-2003 cost of Israel to the US was
over $3 trillion in 2002 dollars: "Conflicts in the Middle East have
been very costly to the U.S., as well as to the rest of the world. An
estimate of the total cost to the U.S. alone of instability and conflict
in the region-which emanates from the core, Israeli-Palestinian
conflict-amounts to close to $3 trillion, measured in 2002 dollars.
This is an amount almost four times greater than the cost of the
Vietnam war, also reckoned in 2002 dollars ... Total identifiable
costs come to almost $3 trillion. About 60 percent, well over half,
of those costs-about $1.7 trillion-arose from the U.S. defense of

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[2].

2. $4-6 trillion cost to America of the Zionist-promoted Iraq

and Afghan Wars

The Zionist-promoted illegal invasions of Iraq, the Iraq War, and

the Afghan War have been associated with a huge ongoing cost
commitment of $4-6 trillion. Thus Professor Joseph Stiglitz
(professor of economics at 98-Nobel-Laureate Columbia
University, chairman of President Bill Clinton's Council of
Economic Advisers and winner of the Nobel Prize in economics in
2001) and Dr. Linda J. Bilmes (Daniel Patrick Moynihan senior
lecturer in public policy at 144-Nobel-Laureate Harvard
University) estimated a long-term cost of the Iraq war at $3 trillion
in their 2008 book "The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost
of the Iraq Conflict" [3].
However in 2010 Professors Stiglitz and Bilmes revised this
estimate upwards: "Writing in these pages in early 2008, we put the
total cost to the United States of the Iraq war at $3 trillion. This
price tag dwarfed previous estimates, including the Bush
administration's 2003 projections of a $50 billion to $60 billion
war. But today, as the United States ends combat in Iraq, it appears
that our $3 trillion estimate (which accounted for both government
expenses and the war's broader impact on the U.S. economy) was,
if anything, too low ... There is no question that the Iraq war added
substantially to the federal debt. This was the first time in
American history that the government cut taxes as it went to war.
The result: a war completely funded by borrowing. U.S. debt
soared from $6.4 trillion in March 2003 to $10 trillion in 2008
(before the financial crisis); at least a quarter of that increase is
directly attributable to the war. And that doesn't include future
health care and disability payments for veterans, which will add
another half-trillion dollars to the debt" [4].
Professor Michael Intriligator (a senior fellow at the US Milken
Institute and professor emeritus of economics, political science and
public policy at the 13-Nobel-Laureate University of California at
Los Angeles, UCLA) has indicated a long-term cost of $1.5 to 2.0
trillion for the war in Afghanistan [5].

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 Dr. Linda Bilmes (2013): "The Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts,
taken together, will be the most expensive wars in US history -
totaling somewhere between $4 to $6 trillion. This includes long-
term medical care and disability compensation for service
members, veterans and families, military replenishment and social
and economic costs. The largest portion of that bill is yet to be
paid. Since 2001, the US has expanded the quality, quantity,
availability and eligibility of benefits for military personnel and
veterans. This has led to unprecedented growth in the Department
of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense budgets. These
benefits will increase further over the next 40 years. Additional
funds are committed to replacing large quantities of basic
equipment used in the wars and to support ongoing diplomatic
presence and military assistance in the Iraq and Afghanistan region.
The large sums borrowed to finance operations in Iraq and
Afghanistan will also impose substantial long-term debt servicing
costs. As a consequence of these wartime spending choices, the
United States will face constraints in funding investments in
personnel and diplomacy, research and development and new
military initiatives. The legacy of decisions taken during the Iraq
and Afghanistan wars will dominate future federal budgets for
decades to come" [ 6].
Pamela Olsen (a President's Scholar at 54-Nobel-Laureate Stanford
University 1998-2002 with a major in Physics, a minor in Political
Science, lived and worked in the Palestinian West Bank, worked as
a researcher in Moscow, Siberia, and China, research analyst at the
Institute for Defense Analysis, and the author of "Fast Times in
Palestine") has recently commented critically on the huge cost of
Israel to the US (2013): "Israel's cost to American taxpayers has
remained high since Stauffer's 2003 study. The US currently gives
Israel an average of $3 billion a year in military aid, under an
agreement signed by the Bush administration to transfer $30 billion
to Israel over ten years, starting in 2009 ... And if, as many experts
believe, the US would not have invaded Iraq without intense and
sustained pressure from Washington insiders who advocate actively
on behalf of Israel, this adds yet another dimension of staggering
cost to the equation ... The Israel lobby and partisans are currently
gunning for a war with Iran with the same zeal they showed in the
run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. By all estimates, the costs of a
war with Iran will be much higher than the Iraq war. In addition to

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 the loss oflife, analysts predict, for example, that if Iran's oil
production were taken out of the world market, gas prices would
rise 25- 70 percent ... So now we are back to the question of why
America continues to pour money into a state that commits daily
human rights violations, defies US strategic interests, provokes
rage and resentment among billions of people, competes with and
crowds out US interests using technology subsidized by US
taxpayers, and sells America's military secrets to its enemies. The
answer is simple and summed up well by professors Stephen Walt
and John Mearsheimer in their ground-breaking article in the
London Review of Books, 'The Israel Lobby' and their book 'The
Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy' ... AIPAC, the American
Israel Public Affairs Committee, is consistently ranked in the top
two most powerful lobbies in Washington. And it is only one arm
of the much larger, multi-faceted, and well-financed Israel lobby"
[7].

3. $0. 7 trillion VSL-based costing of 88,000 US veteran suicides

since September 11, 2001 in the era of the Zionist-promoted
War on Terror

There is growing concern over the high rate of US veteran suicides

that constitute about 20% of the 30,000 annual suicides in the US
[8]. Over the last dozen years, there have been roughly 20 US
veteran suicides every day. i.e. 365.25 x 20 = 7,305 per year and
about 88,000 since the start of the Zionist-promoted War on Terror
in September 2001 [9]. This horrendous death toll of 88,000 dead
US veterans linked to traitorous and racist Zionist-promoted wars
for the benefit of Apartheid Israel is about 3,000 times greater than
the 34 US servicemen deliberately murdered by Apartheid Israel in
its 1967 attack on the USS Liberty [7, 1 OJ.
It is impossible to value a life but one crude approach is through
the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL) which can be defined as the
value placed on changes to the likelihood of death [ 11]. The US
Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has recently estimated the
Value of a Statistical Life (VSL) at $8 million, this indicating the
average social investment in hospitals, security, workplace safety
etc to keep a person safe. The VSL can be seen, for example, as an
accounting estimate of the cost of life-saving government
regulations i.e. a risk-avoidance-based cost of preserving a human

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life in a given group [12]. On this measure the assumed war-related
suicide of 88,000 US veterans obviates a social expenditure of $8
million per person x 0.088 million persons= $0.7 trillion.

4. A $125 trillion cost associated with 15.6 million preventable

American deaths since September 2001, of which about $30
trillion can be attributed to US fiscal perversion supporting
Apartheid Israel

About 1.3 million Americans die preventably each year, the

breakdown being as follows: 15,000 Americans are violently
murdered annually; 21,000 avoidable under-5 year old US infant
deaths annually; 21,000 US opiate drug-related deaths annually
from US restoration and protection of the Taliban-destroyed
Afghan opium industry; 30,000 Americans suicide annually, with 1
in 5 being US veterans; 31,000 gun-related US deaths annually;
33,000 Americans killed by motor vehicles each year; 45,000 US
deaths annually from lack of medical insurance; 70,000 Americans
die annually from air pollution ( e.g. from coal burning, vehicle
exhaust, carbon burning in general); 75,000 American alcohol-
related deaths annually; 225,000 deaths per year in the US from
iatrogenic (medical personnel-related) causes; 300,000 Americans
die from obesity-related causes; and 443,000 Americans die from
smoking-related causes (roughly 1 in 5 of all deaths and 49,000 or
about 10% from passive smoking) [13, 14]. Some qualifications
can be offered e.g. it should be noted that some of these areas
overlap e.g. homicides and suicides overlap with gun-related
deaths, and smoking-related deaths would take a long time to stop
after nationally legislated cessation of smoking.
This huge carnage of 15.6 million preventable American deaths
since September 2001 must be seen in the context of a fiscal
perversion outlined in sections #1-3 above in which $8-10 trillion
in roughly today's dollars has been committed in this period by the
Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist One Percenter American
Establishment to the strategic interests of nuclear terrorist,
democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel. The World Health
Organization (WHO) informs us that in 2011 the total US health
expenditure was 17.9% of the GDP [15] and the US GDP in 2011
was $14.4 trillion [ 16] i.e. the 2011 annual total health expenditure
of the US was 0.179 x $14.4 trillion= $2.6 trillion. Thus the upper

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estimate of a $10 trillion cost of Apartheid Israel to America is
equivalent to about 4 years of the post- September 2001 total health
expenditure of America. Alternatively, this $10 trillion fiscal
perversion could have otherwise been used to increase the total
American health expenditure since September 2001 from about $30
trillion to $40 trillion.
The estimate of 1.3 million preventable American deaths per year
means 12 x 1.3 million= 15.6 million preventable deaths since
September 2001. Applying a VSL of $8 million person yields a
notional cost of 15 .6 million x $8 million = $125 trillion. If we
accept the estimate that 25% of these preventable deaths can be
attributed to 25% less US health funding (i.e. the total American
health expenditure $30 trillion since September 2001 rather than [a
possible] $40 trillion due to the pro-Zionist, pro-Apartheid Israel
fiscal perversion) then we can add a further $125 trillion/4 or about
$30 trillion to the cost of Apartheid Israel to America.

Conclusions

Zionist-subverted American Government support for Apartheid

Israel in circa 2008 dollars totals about $40 trillion, the breakdown
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promoted Iraq and Afghan Wars), (3) $0.7 trillion (the VSL-based
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about $30 trillion (one quarter of the VSL-based cost of 15.6
million preventable American deaths since September 2001 ).
Like the other Western democracies, the United States is a
Murdochcracy, Lobbyocracy and Corporatocracy in which Big
Money buys people, politicians, policies, parties, public perception
of reality, votes and political power. Lying Mainstream media
simply won't report the 2 million Palestinian deaths since 1936 in
the Palestinian Genocide from violence (0.1 million) and violently-
imposed derivation (1.9 million) [17], the 12 million Muslims who
have been killed through violence (3.5 million) or war-imposed
deprivation (8.9 million) in the post-1990, Zionist-promoted US
War on Muslims [ 18], or the 10 million Muslims who have died
from violence (3 million) or from war-imposed deprivation (7
million) since the US Government (with likely Zionist and Israeli
involvement) almost certainly committed the 9-11 atrocity against
the American people (see "Experts: US did 9-11 ", [19]) - indeed

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the larger the crime, the more assiduous the Mainstream media
censorship and Mainstream media lying [20-27].
The US has invaded 70 countries since 1776 [28] and is now
evidently getting ready to war criminally invade and devastate
Syria after several years of supplying one side of the civil war.
However US hegemony over the world has come at a huge price.
Thus each year about 18 million people die avoidably from
deprivation on Spaceship Earth with the US in charge of the flight
deck. Indeed it is estimated that 1.3 billion people have died from
deprivation since 1950, this including 1.2 billion non-Europeans
and 0.6 billion Muslims, the latter Muslim Holocaust being I 00
times greater in death toll than in the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6
million killed, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation) or the "forgotten"
WW2 Bengal Holocaust in which the British with Australian
complicity deliberately starved 6- 7 million Indians to death for
strategic reasons [29-31 ].
The horrendous human cost to America of support for Apartheid
Israel by the Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist One
Percenters can be quantified in terms of a $40 trillion committed
financial cost in circa 2008 dollars since 1948 and some 4 million
preventable American deaths in this century alone - a Zionist-
imposed American Holocaust that goes unreported because of
Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist-perverted Mainstream
media, politicians and academics. 99% of Congress are pro-
Zionists and 20% are Jewish Zionists (although the Jewish
population of America is only about 2% of the total). In contrast,
about 80% of African American males in Chicago (a city with a
Jewish Zionist mayor, the son of an Irgun Zionist terrorist involved
in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine) [32] and 27.4 % of African
Americans live and die in poverty [33].
What can decent people do? Decent people are obliged to speak out
against all human rights abuse and the horrendous, genocidal
crimes of Apartheid Israel and its US Alliance supporters in
particular (see "Jews Against Racist Zionism" [34], "Non-Jews
Against Racist Zionism" [35] and "Boycott Apartheid Israel" [36]).
Decent, patriotic Americans, and indeed all decent people who care
for ordinary Americans and their fellow human beings in general,
should inform everyone they can about the Zionist-imposed
American Holocaust and Zionist perversion of an America in
which 1.3 million Americans die preventably each year linked to

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the Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist One Percenter fiscal
perversion of committing trillions of dollars to killing Muslims
abroad rather than saving American lives at home. Americans must
wake up to the deadly perversion of their society by the traitorous
and genocidally racist Zionists and their neocon supporters. The
traitorous, genocidally racist Zionists and their neoconservative
supporters should be exposed and sidelined from public life as have
been like racists such as the Nazis, neo-Nazis, Apartheiders and
KKK. Please tell everyone you can.

2020 Postscript

The Awful Truths simply won't go away for all that they are buried
by Mainstream media dominated by mendacious and traitorous
Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI) One Percenters.
US mass media are resolutely lying to Americans in the interests of
the US Establishment (Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky,
"Manufacturing Consent. The political economy of the mass
media", Pantheon, 1988, 2002). US debt now totals $23 trillion
(November 2019). Post-9-11 US veteran suicides now total 20 per
day [9] x 365.25 days per year x 18.4 years= 134,000 as of January
2020. American preventable deaths from "life-style" and "political
choice" causes are now estimated to total about 1. 7 million per
year, the breakdown including the breakdown being 443,000
(smoking), 300,000 (obesity), 75,000 (alcohol), 70,000 (air
pollution), 45,000 (lack of health cover), 33,000 (motor vehicles),
31,000 (guns), 30,000 (suicides, 20% being US veterans), 21,000
(under-5 year old infants), 21,000 (opiates from US Alliance
restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry from
6% of world market share in 2001 to 90% today), 15,000
(homicides) and 4 (Americans killed by jihadis in the US). One
should note that some of these categories overlap (guns, homicide
and suicide) and some categories ( e.g. deaths from smoking and
obesity) won't respond immediately to action taken now after
decades of inaction (Gideon Polya, "Trump's abolition of
Obamacare will kill 43,000 Americans over 2 Trump terms",
Countercurrents, 16 March 2017:
https://countercurrents.org/2017/03/trumps-abolition-of-
obamacare-will-kill-43000-americans-over-2-trump-tenns ). Thus
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fiscal perversion, "life-style" and "political choice" causes, total 31
million as of January 2020. Successive Zionist-subverted US
Governments have committed $6 trillion to killing over 30 million
Muslims abroad in the post-9-11 US War on Muslims rather than
attempting to save the lives of over 30 million Americans at home.

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"For humanity it's a matter oflife or death. We will not make all
human beings extinct as a few people with the right sort of
resources may put themselves in the right parts of the world and
survive. But I think it's extremely unlikely that we wouldn't have
mass death at 4C. If you have got a population of nine billion by
2050 and you hit 4C, 5C or 6C, you might have half a billion
people surviving". Professor Kevin Anderson (University of
Manchester and Uppsala University) in "Wanning 'will wipe out
billions"', The Scotsman, 29 November 2009.
"In the future, the effects of rising temperatures and reduced
rainfall will disproportionately affect poor farmers of Africa, the
Middle East, South Asia, and Latin America. If the more affluent
parts of the world continue to produce greenhouse gasses in a
business-as-usual scenario, and if they continue to ignore calls for
help from starving people, these actions will amount to genocide".
Professor John Scales Avery (University of Copenhagen and
associated with the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Pugwash
Conferences) in "The Climate Emergency: Two time scales", 2017.
"We see great peril if governments and societies do not take action
now to render nuclear weapons obsolete and to prevent further
climate change". Professor Stephen Hawking (University of
Cambridge) in "Brief Answers to the Big Questions", 2018.
"Dominant relations can hence be characterized as governed by
what Chomsky calls 'depraved indifference' to human life.
Australian scientist Gideon Polya has termed the current situation
'climate genocide', while Bangladeshi climatologist Atiq Rahman
similarly labels it 'climatic genocide'. The phrases are accurate if
the word genocide is to be understood as murder of persons
belonging to particular classes and social groups, as originally
formulated by Raphael Lemkin, the concept's inventor. If the
definition is extended to membership or residence in particular
geographic regions - a collective of sorts - the term fits better,
even if the question of intent for such eventualities is left
unresolved: Under the internationally accepted definition, acts of
genocide occur only if governed by conscious intent. Against this
view, Chomsky is right to suggest that those concerned with such

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problems focus on 'predictable outcome as evidence for intent'.
Not to work to undermine global capitalism is effectively to be
complicit with the genocide of southern peoples. Jean-Paul Sartre
put it well in a statement he issued as president of the International
War Crimes Tribunal on Vietnam: 'The genocidal intent is implicit
in the facts. It is not necessarily premeditated.'" Javier Sethness-
Castro in "Imperiled life: revolution against climate catastrophe",
2012.

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[First published as Gideon Polya, "Exceptionalist Trump

America exits from Paris Agreement & launches neoliberal
War on Terra", Countercurrents, 6 June 2017:
http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/06/06/exceptionalist-trump-
america-exits-from-paris-agreement-launches-neoliberal-war-on-
terra/.]
An exceptionalist Trump America has withdrawn from the Paris
Climate Change Agreement and thereby launched a neoliberal War
on the Planet (Terra). The US has 4.4% of the world's population
but contributes more to annual global greenhouse gas (GHG)
pollution than China (18.6% of world population). The Paris
Agreement's upper limit of avoiding a catastrophic 2C temperature
rise is already unattainable but climate change denialist Trump's
decision will make the future even worse for future generations.
The American Declaration oflndependence in 1776 proclaimed
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the
pursuit of Happiness" [ 1] but for over 240 years exceptionalist
American actions have rejected the self-evident truth that "all men
are created equal". Slavery of African Americans continued for 90
years after 1776 to be replaced after the American Civil Wars by
the discrimination and segregation as exampled by the Jim Crow
Laws in the Deep South and industrial exploitation in the North.
Civil rights activism finally made progress on desegregation and
voter registration in the 1 960s but in the 21st century African
Americans are disproportionately impacted by poverty, differential
wealth, exclusion from voting and wealth-based Educational
Apartheid with a massive return of de facto segregation [2].
Racism is as American as apple pie and the ultimate in racism is
the invasion of other countries. America has invaded 72 countries
[3-5], has military personnel in 156 countries [6], has military bases
in 75 countries [6, 7], and through corporations or government
agencies actively subverts every country [8-10]. Post-1950 US
Asian wars have so far been associated with 40 million Asian
deaths from violence or war-imposed deprivation [11]. An ultra-
violent America is presently directly making war in 8 countries
(Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the
Philippines). The US War on Muslims (aka the US War on Terror)
has so far been associated with 32 million deaths from violence (5

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 million) or from deprivation (27 million) in 20 countries invaded
by the US Alliance since the US Government's 9-11 false flag
atrocity [12, 13].
American exceptionalism is most seriously exhibited in relation to
the 3 key existential threats facing Humanity, namely nuclear
weapons, poverty and climate change. A nuclear war would wipe
out most of Humanity and the Biosphere through the initial blasts,
subsequent radioactive pollution and a lengthy, global nuclear
winter. America has about 8,000 nuclear weapons, is complicit in
the spread of nuclear weapons, opposes nuclear disarmament [ 14]
and under Trump is raising the spectre of an apocalyptic first strike
against China and Russia [ 15]. Poverty kills and 17 million people
die annually from deprivation on Spaceship Earth with America in
charge of the flight deck [ 11]. America makes a disproportionately
high (20%) contribution to annual greenhouse gas pollution [16,
1 7] and a worsening climate genocide will mean 10 billion deaths
from climate change this century if greenhouse gas (GHG)
pollution is not requisitely stopped and reversed [18].
Despite American neoliberalism and exceptionalism representing
an acute threat to Humanity and the Biosphere, lying by
commission and omission by One Percenter-dominated Mainstream
media ensures that the masses are treated like mushrooms - kept in
the dark and fed manure. Indeed the presently much-vaunted
American democracy involving one-person-one-vote and an
informed electorate was flawed from the get-go in 1776 -African
American slaves and women did not have the vote and the wealthy
had a disproportionate influence. In the 21st century American
Democracy has become a Kleptocracy, Plutocracy, [Murdochracy],
Lobbyocracy, Corporatocracy and Dollarocracy in which Big
Money purchases people, parties, policies, public perception of
reality, votes and hence more political power and more personal
profit. American and Western democracies are perverted by
Mainstream media fake news through lying by omission [19-22].
No better example of corporate perversion of public perception is
the horrible reality that America has elected a climate change
denying president in ignorant, scientifically illiterate, anti-science
billionaire Donald Trump despite a 97% scientific consensus that
climate change is real, man-made and a serious threat to Humanity.
Now idiot Trump has withdrawn America from the Paris Climate
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warming to less than a catastrophic plus 2C and ideally to less than
plus I.SC [23]. Unfortunately plus I.SC will be exceeded in 4-10
years and a catastrophic plus 2C is now unavoidable [14, 24-26].
Decent people cannot give up and must do everything they can to
make the future "less bad" for future generations e.g. by promising
judicial punishment for criminals [27], urging a (peaceful) Climate
Revolution [28], and demanding that the environmental and human
cost of pollution be fully borne by the polluters by application of a
Carbon Price to pollution [29, 30], as indeed demanded by science-
trained, Green-Left Pope Francis [31, 32]. Dangerously ignorant,
stupid and exceptionalist Trump thinks otherwise and has ordered
that America will exit the Paris Agreement and head for a future
that will be "far worse" rather than "less bad" for future
generations.
Estimating the significance of Trump American withdrawal from
the Paris Agreement requires proper quantitative estimate of
greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution by all countries. A revised
estimate of "annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution"
has been made for all countries in units of "tonnes CO2-equivalent
per person per year", taking methanogenic animal husbandry and
land use into account [ 16, 17], and considering the Global
Warming Potential (GWP) of the greenhouse gas methane (CH4,
the major component in natural gas) on a relevant 20 year time
frame [33]. Such an analysis by World Bank experts revised annual
global GHG pollution upwards from 41.8 Gt CO2-equivalent (41.8
billion tonnes CO2-equivalent) to 63.8 Gt CO2-equivalent. The
term CO2-equivalent takes all greenhouse gases (except for water,
H2O) into account, notably carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CI-14)
and the nitrogen oxides (NO2 and N2O), and expresses the total in
terms of CO2 equivalents. Methane (CH4) (about 85% of natural
gas) is 105 times worse than CO2 as a greenhouse gas (GHG) on a
20 year time frame and taking aerosol impacts into account.
Methane leaks (3.3% in the US based on the latest US EPA data
and as high as 7. 9% for methane from "fracking" coal seams) and a
2.6 % leakage of CH4 yields the same greenhouse effect as burning
the remaining 97.4% CH4) [34].
The annual GHG pollution of a country is a "Carbon Debt" that can
be expressed in Gt CO2-equivalent. However Dr. Chris Hope from
90-Nobel-Laureate Cambridge University (UK) has estimated a
damage-related cost of GHG pollution at US$200 per tonne CO2-

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equivalent) [30], and hence the annual per capita Carbon Debt for
any country of x tonnes CO2-requivalent per person per year can
be expressed in US dollars i.e. x tonnes CO2-equivalent per person
per year x $200 per tonne CO2-equivalent = $200x per person per
year. Whereas ordinary financial debt can be expunged by default,
bankruptcy or printing money, Carbon Debt is inescapable e.g.
future generations will have to build sea walls or cities will drown
[29].

Below is a summary for all countries of (a) annual per GHG

pollution (tonnes CO2-equivalent per person per year); (b) Carbon
Debt per person per year in US$; ( c) total 2016 population in
millions (M) [35]; and (d) total annual GHG pollution (Gt CO2-
equivalent):

(A) countries with about 4 to 41 times the world average annual

per capita GHG pollution (8.9 tonnes CO2-equivalent per
person per year):

Belize (366.9; $73,380; 0.366M; 0.134 Gt), Guyana(203.l;

$40,620; 0.771M; 0.157 Gt), Malaysia (126.0; $25,200; 30.8M;
3.881 Gt), Papua New Guinea (114.7; $22,940; 7.78M; 0.892 Gt),
Qatar (101.8; $20,360; 2.29M; 0.233 Gt), Zambia (97.5; $19,500;
16.7M; 1.628 Gt), Antigua & Barbuda (85.6; $17,120; 0.093M;
0.008 Gt), United Arab Emirates (82.4; $16,480; 9.12M; 0.751),
Panama (68.0; $13,600; 3.99M; 0.271 Gt), Botswana (64.9;
$13,629; 2.30M; 0.149 Gt), Liberia (55.0; $11,000; 4.62M; 0.254
Gt), Indonesia (53.6; $10,720; 260.6M; 13.968 Gt), New Zealand
(53.2; $10,640; 4.57M; 0.243 Gt), Australia (52.9; $10,580; 24.0M;
1.270 Gt - 116; $23,200; 24.0M; 2.784 Gt if including its huge
GHG-generating exports), Nicaragua (51.2; $10,240; 6.15M; 0.315
Gt), Canada (50.1; $10,020; 36.3M; 1.819 Gt), Equatorial Guinea
(47.5; $9,500; 0.870M; 0.041 Gt), Venezuela (45.2; $9,040; 31.5M;
1.424 Gt), Brazil (43.4; $8,680; 209.6M; 9.097 Gt), Myanmar
(41.9; $8,380; 54.4M; 2.279 Gt), Ireland (41.4; $8,280; 4.71M;
0.195 Gt), United States (41.0; $8,200; 324.IM; 13.288 Gt),
Cambodia (40.5; $8,100; 15.8M; 0.640 Gt), Kuwait (37.3; $7,460;
4.01 M; 0.250 Gt), Paraguay (37.2; $7,440; 6.73M; 0.250 Gt),
Central African Republic (35.7; $7,140; 5.00M; 0.179 Gt).

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(B) countries with about 2 and 4 times the world average
annual per capita GHG pollution:

Peru (34.8; $6,960; 31.8M; 1.107 Gt), Mongolia (32.2; $6,440;

3.0lM; 0.097 Gt), Singapore (31.2; $6,240; 5.70M; 0.178 Gt),
Bahrain (30.5; $6,100; 1.40M; 0.043 Gt), Trinidad & Tobago
(29.8; $5,960; 1.36M; 0.041), Cameroon (29.5; $5,900; 23.9M;
0.705 Gt), Congo, Democratic Republic (formerly Zaire) (29.3;
$5,860; 77.3M; 2.265 Gt), Cote d'Ivoire (29.1; $5,820; 23.3M;
0.678 Gt), Denmark (27.8; $5,560; 5.69M; 0.158 Gt), Brunei (27.4;
$5,480; 0.429M; 0.012 Gt), Bolivia (27.3; $5,460; 10.9M; 0.298
Gt), Guatemala (26.9; $5,380; 16.7M; 0.449 Gt), Belgium (26.3;
$5,260; 11.4M; 0.300 Gt), Ecuador (26.2; $5,240; 16.4M; 0.430
Gt), Estonia (25.4; $5,080; 1.31 M; 0.033 Gt), Laos (25.3; $5,060;
6.92M; 0.175 Gt), Suriname (25.1; $5,020; 0.548M; 0.014 Gt),
Netherlands (24.9; $4,980; 17.0M; 0.423 Gt), Libya (24.9; $4,980;
6.33M; 0.158 Gt), Nepal (24.6; $4,920; 28.9M; 0.711 Gt), Benin
(24.5; $4,900; 11.2M; 0.274 Gt), Angola (23.8; $4,760; 25.8M;
0.614 Gt), Madagascar (23.7; $4,740; 24.9M; 0.590 Gt), Argentina
(23.7; $4,740; 43.8M; 1.038 Gt), Uruguay (23.7; $4,740; 3.44M;
0.082 Gt)*, Luxembourg (23.6; $4,720; 0.576M; 0.014 Gt),
Turkmenistan (23.5; $4,700; 5.44M; 0.128 Gt), Czech Republic
(23.5; $4,700; IO.SM; 0.247 Gt), Zimbabwe (23.3; $4,660; 16.0M;
0.373 Gt), Gabon (23.1; $4,620; 1.76M; 0.041 Gt), Greece (21.9;
$4,380; 10.9M; 0.239 Gt), United Kingdom (21.5; $4,300; 65.lM;
1.400 Gt), Cyprus (21.4; $4,280; 1.18M; 0.025 Gt), Congo,
Republic (21.0; $4,200; 4.74M; 0.100 Gt), Spain (20.9; $4,180;
46.lM; 0.963 Gt), Finland (20.6; $4,120; 5.52M; 0.144), Israel
(20.2; $4,040; 8.19M; 0.165 Gt), Norway (20.1; $4,020; 5.27M;
0.106 Gt), Colombia (19.8; $3,960; 48.7M; 0.964 Gt), Namibia
(19.8; $3,960; 2.51M; 0.050 Gt), Mauritania (19.7; $3,940; 4.17M;
0.082 Gt), South Africa (19.4; $3,880; 55.0M; 1.067 Gt), Ukraine
(19.1; $3,820; 44.6M; 0.852 Gt), Germany (18.6; $3,720; 80.7M;
1.501 Gt).

(C) countries with about 1 and 2 times the world average

annual per capita GHG pollution:

France (17.7; $3,540; 64.7M; 1.145 Gt), Italy (17.6; $3,520;

59.8M; 1.052 Gt), Uzbekistan (17.5; $3,500; 30.3M; 0.530 Gt),

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 Costa Rica (17.1; $3,420; 4.86M; 0.083 Gt), South Sudan (16.8;
$3,360; 12.7M; 0.213 Gt)*, Sudan (16.8; $3,360; 41.2M; 0.692 Gt),
Saudi Arabia (16.6; $3,320; 32.2M; 0.535 Gt), Slovenia (16.5;
$3,300; 2.07M; 0.034 Gt), Azerbaijan (I 6.4; $3,280; 9.9M; 0.162
Gt), Russia (16.2; $3,240; 143.4M; 2.323 Gt), Sierra Leone (16.2;
$3,240; 6.59M; 0.107 Gt), Slovakia (15.9; $3,180; 5.43M; 0.086
Gt), Honduras (15.8; $3,160; 8.19M; 0.129 Gt), Hungary (15.5;
$3,100; 9.82M; 0.152 Gt), Kazakhstan (15.4; $3,080; 17.9M; 0.276
Gt), Portugal (15.0; $3,000; IO.3M; 0.155 Gt), Sweden (15.0;
$3,000; 9.85M; 0.148 Gt), Iran (14.5; $2,900; 80.0M; 1.160 Gt),
Iceland (14.2; $2,840; 0.332M; 0.005 Gt), Mexico (13.9; $2,780;
128.6M; 1.788 Gt), Oman (13.8; $2,760; 4.65M; 0.065 Gt), Malta
(13.3; $2,660; 0.420M; 0.006 Gt), Austria (13.0; $2,600; 8.57M;
0.111 Gt), Poland (12.9; $2,580; 38.6M; 0.498 Gt), Jamaica (12.8;
$2,560; 2.80M; 0.036 Gt), Palau (12.8; $2,560; 0.0215M; 0.00028),
South Korea (12.7; $2,540; 50.5M; 0.641 Gt), Guinea (12.5;
$2,500; 12.9M; 0.161 Gt), North Korea (12.1; $2,420; 25.3M;
0.306 Gt), Bahamas (12.1; $2,420; 0.393M; 0.005 Gt), Nigeria
(11.7; $2,340; 187.0M; 2.188 Gt), Nauru (11.7; $2,340; 0.0103M;
0.00012 Gt), Malawi (11.7; $2,340; 17.7M; 0.207 Gt), Mali (11.6;
$2,320; 18.lM; 0.210 Gt), Chad (11.6; $2,320; 14.5M; 0.168 Gt),
Taiwan (11.6; $2,320; 23.4M; 0.271 Gt), Latvia (11.4; $2,280;
1.96M; 0.022 Gt), Vanuatu (11. 1; $2,220; 0.270M; 0.003 Gt),
Switzerland (11.0; $2,200; 8.38M; 0.092 Gt), Romania (10.9;
$2,180; 19.4M; 0.211 Gt), Togo (10.9; $2,180; 7.50M; 0.082 Gt),
Japan (10.7; $2,140; 126.3M; 1.351 Gt), Serbia & Montenegro
(I 0.4; $2.080; 8.81 M; 0.092 Gt), Seychelles (10.2; $2,040;
0.0970M; 0.00099 Gt), Bulgaria (10.1; $2,020; 7.10M; 0.072 Gt),
Lebanon (9.8; $1,960; 5.99M; 0.059 Gt), Syria (9.4; $1,880;
18.6M; 0.175 Gt), Tanzania(9.3; $1,860; 55.2M: 0.513 Gt),
Turkey (9.2; $1,840; 79.6M; 0.732 Gt), Barbados (9.1; $1,820;
0.285M; 0.0026 Gt), Jordan (9.1; $1,820; 7.75M; 0.071 Gt),
Occupied State of Palestine (9.1; $1,820; 4.80M; 0.044 Gt)*,
Philippines (9.0; $1,800; 102.3M; 0.921 Gt), Guinea-Bissau (9.0;
$1,800; 1.89M; 0.017 Gt).

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(D) countries with annual per capita GHG pollution at or below
world average (8.9 tonnes CO2-equivalent per person per
year):

Ghana (8.9; $1,780; 28.0M; 0.249 Gt), Thailand (8.7; $1,740;

68.lM; 0.592 Gt), Chile (8.7; $1,740; 18.lM; 0.157 Gt), Fiji (8.7;
$1,740; 0.897M; 0.0078 Gt), Belarus (8.6; $1,720; 9.48M; 0.082
Gt), Sri Lanka (8.5; $1,700; 20.8M; 0.177 Gt), Macedonia (8.5;
$1,700; 2.08M; 0.018 Gt), Tonga (7.4; $1,480; 0.107M; 0.00079
Gt), Croatia (7.4; $1,480; 4.23M; 0.031 Gt), China (7.4; $1,480;
l,382.3M; 10.229 Gt), Burkina Faso (7.3; $1,460; 18.6M; 0.136
Gt), Bosnia & Herzegovina (7.2; $1,440; 3.80M; 0.027 Gt), Kenya
(7.1; $1,420; 10.6M; 0.075 Gt), Dominican Republic (7.1; $1,420;
10.6M; 0.075 Gt), Senegal (7.0; $1,400; 15.6M; 0.109 Gt), Tunisia
(7.0; $1,400; 11.4M; 0.080 Gt), Algeria (6.6; $1,320; 40.4M; 0.267
Gt), Grenada (6.4; $1,280; 0.107M; 0.00068 Gt), Samoa (6.2;
$1,240; 0.195M; 0.0012 Gt), Rwanda (6.1; $1,220; 11.9M; 0.073
Gt), El Salvador (6.0; $1,200; 6.15M; 0.037 Gt), Lithuania (5.9;
$1,180; 2.85M; 0,017 Gt), Mozambique (5.8; $1,160; 28.8M; 0.167
Gt), Lesotho (5.7; $1,140; 2.16M; 0.012 Gt), Burundi (5.5; $1,100;
11.6M; 0.064 Gt), Iraq (5.5; $1,100; 37.5M; 0.206 Gt), Eritrea (5.3;
$1,060; 5.35M; 0.028 Gt), St Kitts & Nevis (5.1; $1,020; 0.0562),
Uganda (5.1; $1,020; 40.3M; 0.206 Gt), Haiti (5.0; $1,000; 10.8M;
0.054 Gt), Mauritius (5.0; $1,000; 1.28M; 0.0064 Gt), Albania (4.3;
$860; 2.90M; 0.012 Gt), Dominica (4.2; $840; 0.0730M; 0.00031
Gt), Bhutan ( 4.1; $820; 0. 784M; 0.0032 Gt), Niger (4.1; $820;
20.7M; 0.085 Gt), Ethiopia (4.1; $820; 101.9M; 0.418), Moldova
(4.0; $800; 4.06M; 0.016 Gt), Georgia (4.0; $800; 3.98M; 0.016
Gt), Yemen (3.7; $740; 27.5M; 0.102 Gt), Tajikistan (3.7; $740;
8.67M; 0.032 Gt), Afghanistan (3.6; $720; 33.4M; 0.120 Gt),
Swaziland (3.6; $720; 1.30M; 0.0047 Gt), Cuba (3.5; $700; 11 .4M;
0.039 Gt), Cape Verde (3.5; $700; 0.527M; 0.0018), Kyrgyzstan
(3.4; $680; 6.03M; 0.021 Gt), The Gambia (3.0; $600; 2.05M;
0.0062 Gt), St Lucia (2.9; $580; 0.186M; 0.00054 Gt), Bangladesh
(2.7; $540; 162.9M; 0.440 Gt), Egypt (2.6; $520; 93.4M; 0.243 Gt),
Niue (2.6; $520; 0.00162M; 0.0000042 Gt), Pakistan (2.5; $500;
192.8M; 0.482), Morocco (2.5; $500; 34.8M; 0.087 Gt), Djibouti
(2.4; $480; 0.900M; 0.0022 Gt), St Vincent & Grenadines (2.4;
$480; 0.11 OM; 0.00026 Gt), Armenia (2.3; $460; 3.03M; 0.0070
Gt), Maldives (2.1; $420; 0.370M; 0.00078 Gt), India (2.1; $420;

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1,326.SM; 2. 786 Gt), Cook Islands (2.1; $420; 0.0209M; 0.000044
Gt), Vietnam (1.9; $380; 94.4M; 0.179 Gt), Sao Tome and Principe
(1.9; $380; 0.194M; 0.00037 Gt), Comoros (1.6; $320; 0.807M;
0.0013 Gt), Solomon Islands (1 .4; $280; 0.595M; 0.00083 Gt),
Kiribati (1.2; $240; 0.114M; 0.00014 Gt), Tuvalu (1.2; $240;
0.00994; 0.000012 Gt)*(* indicates an estimate based on that for
an immediately contiguous, ethnically-related country).
In terms of international action to limit national GHG pollution we
can arbitrarily decide to concentrate on 24 countries with annual
GHG pollution greater than 1 Gt CO2-equivalent. Note that adding
up, country-by-country, the total revised GHG pollution for these
24 "big polluter" countries yields 81 Gt CO2-equivalent, similar to
but significantly bigger than the world total estimate of 64 Gt CO2-
equivalent arrived at from global considerations by World Bank
analysts [33], this discrepancy arising from the common
assumptions made in the country-by-country analysis [16, 17]. In
the astonishing absence of more authoritative data on country-by-
country annual per capita GHG pollution taking livestock and land
use into account, we can only use the present country-by-country
data [16, 17] with some confidence in relative values arrived at
through application of the same methodology to all countries.

Ranked below in descending order arc 24 big polluter countries

with annual GHG pollution greater than 1 Gt CO2-equivalent:

Indonesia (53.6; $10,720; 260.6M; 13.968 Gt), United States (41.0;

$8,200; 324.lM; 13.288 Gt), China (7.4; $1,480; l,382.3M; 10.229
Gt), Brazil (43.4; $8,680; 209.6M; 9.097 Gt), Malaysia (126.0;
$25,200; 30.SM; 3.881 Gt), India (2.1; $420; l,326.8M; 2.786 Gt),
Russia (16.2; $3,240; 143.4M; 2.323 Gt), Myanmar (41.9; $8,380;
54.4M; 2.279 Gt), Congo, Democratic Republic (formerly Zaire)
(29.3; $5,860; 77.3M; 2.265 Gt), Nigeria (11.7; $2,340; 187.0M;
2.188 Gt), Canada (50.1; $10,020; 36.3M; 1.819 Gt), Mexico (13.9;
$2,780; 128.6M; 1.788 Gt), Zambia (97.5; $19,500; 16.7M; 1.628
Gt), Germany (18.6; $3,720; 80.7M; 1.501 Gt), Venezuela (45.2;
$9,040; 31.5M; 1.424 Gt), United Kingdom (21.5; $4,300; 65.lM;
1 .400 Gt), Japan (10.7; $2,140; 126.3M; 1.351 Gt), Australia (52.9;
$10,580; 24.0M; 1.270 Gt - 116; $23,200; 24.0M; 2.784 Gt if
including its huge GHG-generating exports), Iran (14.5; $2,900;
SO.OM; 1.160 Gt), Peru (34.8; $6,960; 31.8M; 1.107 Gt), South

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Africa (19.4; $3,880; 55.0M; 1.067 Gt), Argentina (23.7; $4,740;
43.8M; 1.038 Gt), France (17.7; $3,540; 64.7M; 1.145 Gt), and
Italy (17.6; $3,520; 59.8M; 1.052 Gt).

We accept that "all men are created equal" and accordingly in

terms of moral culpability one must rank these 24 biggest polluting
countries in descending order of annual per capita GHG pollution
in 2 categories:

1. Worst offender big polluters with annual per capita GHG

pollution 2-14 times greater than the world average:

Malaysia (126.0; $25,200; 30.8M; 3.881 Gt), Zambia (97.5;

$19,500; 16.7M; 1.628 Gt), Indonesia (53.6; $10,720; 260.6M;
13.968 Gt), Australia (52.9; $10,580; 24.0M; 1.270 Gt), Canada
(50.1; $10,020; 36.3M; 1.819 Gt),Venezuela (45.2; $9,040; 31.5M;
1.424 Gt), Brazil (43.4; $8,680; 209.6M; 9.097 Gt), Myanmar
(41.9; $8,380; 54.4M; 2.279 Gt), United States (41.0; $8,200;
324.IM; 13.288 Gt), Peru (34.8; $6,960; 31.8M; 1.107 Gt), Congo,
Democratic Republic (formerly Zaire) (29.3; $5,860; 77.3M; 2.265
Gt), Argentina (23.7; $4,740; 43.8M; 1.038 Gt), United Kingdom
(21.5; $4,300; 65.IM; 1.400 Gt), South Africa (19.4; $3,880;
55.0M; 1.067 Gt), Germany (18.6; $3,720; 80.7M; 1.501 Gt).

2. Big polluters with annual per capita GHG pollution less

than 2 times the world average:

France (17.7; $3,540; 64.7M; 1.145 Gt), Italy (17.6; $3,520;

59.8M; 1.052 Gt), Russia (16.2; $3,240; 143.4M; 2.323 Gt), Iran
(14.5; $2,900; 80.0M; 1.160 Gt), Mexico (13.9; $2,780; 128.6M;
1.788 Gt), Nigeria (11.7; $2,340; 187.0M; 2.188 Gt), Japan (10.7;
$2,140; 126.3M; 1.351 Gt), China (7.4; $1,480; l,382.3M; 10.229
Gt), India (2.1; $420; 1,326.8M; 2. 786 Gt).

While all countries must reduce their GHG pollution in order to

make the future "less bad" for future generations, it is clear that the
worst offenders are those in category A above i.e. big polluters
with annual per capita GHG pollution 2-14 times greater than the
world average of 8.9 tonnes CO2-equivalent per person per year as
estimated from a global analysis [33]. Trump America falls in the

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 middle of these "worst offender" big polluter nations and a
reasonable concern is that the climate criminal, pro-coal, pro-gas,
pro-fossil fuels, exceptionalist position espoused by Trump in
exiting Paris may be adopted by other "worst offender" big polluter
countries.
Indeed climate criminal Australia is in the "worst offender big
polluter" category with an annual per capita GHG pollution that is
1.3 times bigger than that of the US. US lackey Australia has been
careful in its response to the American exit from Paris with its
right-wing, Liberal Party-National Party Coalition PM Turnbull
stating "It was a very core campaign commitment of his. It is
disappointing. We would prefer the United States to remain part of
the agreement" and the US lackey Labor Opposition similarly
carefully expressed disappointment [36]. However the responsible,
pro-planet Australian Greens (who unfortunately only have 10%
electoral support in Australia) were appalled: "Donald Trump's
decision to run from the Paris Climate Agreement is a betrayal of
his office. We have seen this betrayal play out in Australia, as the
government pays for fossil fuels from our clean energy fund, as
they gut ARENA and as they consider billion-dollar loans to Adani
for a massive coal mine. The Greens stand with the Australian
community in our commitment to strong action against global
warming. We will not turn our backs on our children's generation.
We won't ignore the imminent threat to the [Great Barrier] reef, to
our farmers and to those nations already under direct threat from
rising sea levels. We won't allow vested interests to wield power
through political donations, to the detriment of those that come
after us. The Liberals and Labor have shown none of the climate
leadership Australians want. Together, we will hold them to
account and together, we will win this" [36]. The climate criminal
Australian Coalition Government and the climate criminal Labor
Opposition are united in their support for unlimited coal, gas, and
iron ore exports and unlimited meat exports from methanogenic
livestock farming. Australia is the world's leading coal exporter
and will soon become the world's biggest Liquid Natural Gas
(LNG) exporter. Australia's present annual per capita Domestic
plus Exported GHG pollution is 116 tonnes CO2-equivalent per
person per year, 2.8 times greater than the annual per capita GHG
pollution of the US.

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The Trump America withdrawal from the Paris Agreement may
possibly encourage other disproportionately climate criminal
countries to do likewise. However it is far more likely that other
climate criminal countries will follow the example of climate
criminal Australia by remaining a party to the Paris Climate
Agreement and its woefully insufficient and non-binding demands
while pretending to take action against GHG pollution and climate
change [3 7].

Final comments

In withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement, an

exceptionalist Trump America is showing utter contempt for the
Biosphere and the non-American 96% of Humanity. With a mere
4.4% of the world's population, the US uses about 25% of
exploited global resources each year. Dangerous, inhumane and
ignorant American exceptionalism under Trump involves
expanding America's huge Carbon Debt by unlimited fossil fuel
burning and other greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution, mindlessly
expanding investment in grossly polluting highways, and endlessly
polluting the one common atmosphere and ocean of all countries.
Humanity must vigorously respond to Trump America's
disproportionate GHG pollution and President Trump's ecocidal,
speciescidal, terracidal, Australian-style policy of unlimited
exploitation of fossil fuels [38]. Humanity must act against Trump
America and other disproportionately climate criminal countries
through Green Tariffs, International Court of Justice (ICJ)
litigations, International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutions, and
resolute and comprehensive Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions
(BOS).

2020 Postscript

In 2019 over 11,000 scientists signed up to a World scientists'

warning of a Climate Emergency that set out trends in 24 climate-
related areas over the last 40 years. Scientists became aware of the
climate change threat from greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution in the
1980s, but in 21 of these 24 areas the trends are ( a) huge, (b) in the
wrong direction, and (c) linear or quasi-linear functions of time,
with this allowing extrapolation from the present climate

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 emergency to a climate catastrophe in 2030. Professor Dabo Guan
(School of International Development, University of East Anglia,
UK) (2016) has commented thus on inescapable limits to growth:
"For everyone in the world to have an American lifestyle, we
would need seven planets, and three to live as Europeans" (Gideon
Polya, "Extrapolating 11,000 scientists' climate emergency
warning to 2030 climate catastrophe", Countercurrents, 14
November 2019: https://countercurrents.org/2019/11/extrapolating-
1 l O00-scientists-climate-emergency-warning-to-2030-catastrophe.)
At about the same time a paper co-authored by some eminent
climate scientists and published in the prestigious scientific journal
Nature, analysed 9 critical tipping points impacted by man-made
climate change, and concluded: "Act now ... the evidence from
tipping points alone suggests that we are in a state of planetary
emergency: both the risk and urgency of the situation are acute ...
The stability and resilience of our planet is in peril. International
action - not just words - must reflect this" (Gideon Polya,
"Climate scientists: planetary emergency, planet in peril, act now",
Countercurrents, 3 December 2019:
https://countercurrents.org/2019/ 12/climate-scientists-planetary-
emergency-planet-in-peril-act-now). Eminent physicist Professor
Stephen Hawking has stated the problem and solution very
succinctly: "We see great peril if governments and societies do not
take action now to render nuclear weapons obsolete and to prevent
further climate change" (Stephen Hawking, "Brief Answers to the
Big Questions", John Murray, 2018, Chapter 7). Decent folk must
(a) inform everyone they can about the worsening Climate
Emergency, Climate Genocide and Intergenerational Inequity, (b)
urge a climate revolution (peaceful and non-violent of course) with
hundreds of millions out in the streets inspired by the likes of
teenage activist Greta Thunberg, and (c) urge and apply Boycotts,
Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all people, politicians,
parties, collectives, corporations and countries disproportionately
involved in the worsening Climate Genocide that is presently set to
kill 10 billion people this century ( a quarter of them Muslims) en
route to a sustainable human population of merely 0.5-1.0 billion in
2100 [18].

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still committed to Paris agreement, Malcolm Turnbull says", ABC News, 2 June
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 "The ultimate privilege of the elite is not just their deluxe
lifestyles, but deluxe lifestyles with a clear conscience". Arundhati
Roy in Arundhati Roy and David Barsamian, "The Chequebook
and the Cruise Missile", 2004.
"I.F. Stone [Isidor Feinstein] was one of the great journalists of our
time. He would be invited to speak to students in journalism
schools who were going to be reporters. He would say to them,
'Among all the things I'm going to tell you today about being a
journalist, all you have to remember is two words: governments
lie.' It's very important to know that. Otherwise we are victims of
whatever the authorities say". Professor Howard Zinn (Boston
University) in "Terrorism and War", 2011.
"Unlike most Americans who lie all the time, I hate lying. And here
I am surrounded with these hills [in Hollywood] full of liars -
some very talented ... Yeah, [lying] about themselves, about their
beliefs, about their histories, degrees from universities - this is
piled up lies. Americans are not interested in the truth about
anything. They assume everybody is lying because they go out and
lie everyday about the automobile they are trying to sell you ... This
is a country of hoax. P.T. Barnum is the god of this republic, which
is no longer a republic alas. It is an oligarchy and a rather vicious
one". Gore Vidal interviewed by Melvyn Bragg, "South Bank
Show", 2008.
"If I understand you rightly, you have formed a surmise of such
horror as I have hardly words to - Dear Miss Morland, consider the
dreadful nature of the suspicions you have entertained. What have
you been judging from? Remember the country and the age in
which we live. Remember that we are English, that we are
Christians. Consult your own understanding, your own sense of the
probable, your own observation of what is passing around you.
Does our education prepare us for such atrocities? Do our laws
connive at them? Could they be perpetrated without being known,
in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on
such a footing, where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood
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Abbey", 1818 [My answers: Yes! Yes! Yes!].

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fake news through lying by omission", Countercurrents, 2 May
2017: http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/05/02/australian-abc-
and-uk-bbc-fake-news-through-lying-by-omission/.
The UK BBC and the Australian ABC (Australia's equivalent of
the BBC) pride themselves on superiority over the Yell ow Press as
typified by the sex and scandal tabloids of the Murdoch media.
However, as analysed below, both the Oz ABC and the UK BBC
betray their audiences with fake news through lying by omission
over horrendous Australian, British and US Alliance war crimes
and over the acute seriousness of the worsening climate emergency
and worsening climate genocide.
The world is swamped with fake news through lying by omission
but doesn't know about it because of ... fake news through lying by
omission and indeed through lying by omission aboutlying by
omission. Wikipedia defines "Fake news" thus: "Fake news is a
type of yellow journalism that consists of deliberate misinformation
or hoaxes spread via the traditional print, broadcasting news media,
or via Internet-based social media. Fake news is written and
published with the intent to mislead in order to gain financially or
politically, often with sensationalist, exaggerated, or patently false
headlines that grab attention" [1 ]. Wikipedia defines "Fake news
websites" thus: "Fake news websites (also referred to as hoax news
websites) are Internet websites that deliberately publish fake news
- hoaxes, propaganda, and disinformation purporting to be real
news - often using social media to drive web traffic and amplify
their effect" [2].
However "fake news" is a form of lying and lying comes in 2 basic
varieties, lying by commission and lying by omission. Lying by
omission is far, far worse than lying by commission because the
latter, while repugnant, at least admits the possibilities of refutation
and public debate.
One of the worst lies of commission by Western media is blind
acceptance of the "official lying Bush version of 9-11 ". The
"official US government version" asserts that "Al Qaeda men in
Afghan caves" were responsible for the 9-11 atrocity whereas this
alleged culpability has never been judicially proven in a court of
law. Indeed Osama bin Laden, the alleged perpetrator, has denied
complicity and was on the FBI's "Most Wanted List" but not for 9-
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 Barack Obama in Pakistan in 2011 and the body was very
conveniently immediately buried at sea. However former Pakistani
Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in a subsequently BBC-censored
interview with Sir David Frost shortly before her death in 2007
made it clear that Osama bin Laden was already dead with her
BBC-censored, informed, insider comment "Omar Sheik, the man
who murdered Osama bin Laden" [3]. Further, the former US-
installed President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, has declared that
he is unaware of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and is very
diplomatically agnostic about the US "official version of 9-11 ":
"[Al-Qaeda] is for me a myth[ ... ] For us, they don't exist. I don't
know if al-Qaeda existed and I don't know if they exist. I have not
seen them and I've not had any report about them, any report that
would indicate that al-Qaeda is operating in Afghanistan ... [re
Osama bin Laden responsibility for 9-11] That is what I have heard
from our Western friends. That's what the Western media says.
There is no doubt that an operation, a terrorist operation was
conducted in New York and in Washington" [4].
Lies and liars are simply not tolerated in science but the eminent
US Center for Public Integrity determined that the Bush and his
aides told 93 5 lies about Iraq between 9-11 and the invasion oflraq
[5]. The famed Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist
Seymour Hersh has closely examined the Obama story about the
alleged US killing of Osama bin Laden and concluded that it is a
pack of lies [ 6] but eminent US writer Dr. Paul Craig Roberts goes
further: "If, as Hersh reports, lies comprise 99% of Washington's
tale of the raid in Abbottabad, why believe that 1 % of the story is
true and that bin Laden was killed. It is difficult to have murder
without a body. The only evidence that bin Laden was killed is the
government's claim. In my opinion, Washington's disinformation
agencies have finally managed to deceive Seymour Hersh with a
concocted 'inside story' that saves Washington's claim of having
murdered bin Laden by proving that the US government is an
extraordinary liar and violator of law. Hersh's story does prove that
the US government is a liar, but it does not prove that a SEAL team
murdered Osama bin Laden" [7].
Numerous science, architecture, engineering, aviation, military and
intelligence experts have concluded that the US did 9-11, with
some asserting that Apartheid Israel had to be involved. The lying
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(WTC) North and South Towers and a third building, WTC 7 (not
suffering plane impact nor major fires), falling rapidly into their
footprint like perfect explosive demolitions; the evidence from
Professor Niels Harrit and colleagues of unexploded nanothermite
particles in the WTC dust; and the alleged perpetrators having
learned to fly on single-engined light aircraft and then allegedly
performing Hollywood movie-style stunts that would challenge
experienced passenger jet pilots [8]. Famed US journalist 1.F. Stone
gave the following advice to journalism students: "Among all the
things I'm going to tell you today about being a journalist, all you
have to remember is two words: governments lie" and famed US
writer Gore Vidal asserted: "Unlike most Americans who lie all the
time, I hate lying" (for related opinions see [9 -13]).
The BBC, like the ABC and other Western Mainstream media,
blindly accepts the "official lying Bush version of 9-11 ", egregious
lying by commission in the absence of judicial proof in a properly
conducted court of law [9, 12]. The UK BBC and the US lackey
Australian ABC detail Seymour Hersh's scepticism over Obama's
allegations, but censored Benazir Bhutto's comment on the actual
death of Osama bin Laden, and totally ignore eminent US writer,
economist and "Father of Reaganomics" Dr. Paul Craig Roberts,
nanothermite, "9-11 false flag" and "Niels Harrit". Of course, as
detailed below, the BBC and the ABC lie by commission and by
omission over the horrendous consequences in the Muslim World
of the US Government's 9-11 false flag atrocity, with about 10,000
Muslims dying from violence or deprivation in the post-9-11 War
on Terror for each person dying on 9-11 [ 14].
Extraordinarily and notoriously the BBC reporter in New York,
with a cityscape including an intact WTC building 7 (WTC7)
behind her, reported the collapse of WTC7 about 15 minutes before
it actually happened [15, 16].
One of the worst Mainstream lies of omission has been failure to
report the WW2 Bengali Holocaust (WW2 Indian Holocaust, WW2
Bengal Famine). In the WW2 Bengali Holocaust the British with
Australian complicity deliberately starved 6- 7 million Indians
including 4 million Bengalis) to death for strategic reasons in 1942-
1945, an atrocity that was associated with military and civilian
sexual abuse of as many as 300,000 starving women and girls on a
scale commensurate with the "comfort women" atrocities of the
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Australia was complicit by withholding wheat in its huge wartime
granaries from starving India [17]. This atrocity is remarkable for
its horrendous magnitude (bigger than the WW2 Jewish Holocaust
in which 5-6 million Jews died from violence or deprivation) and
for its almost complete white-washing by Mainstream media,
politicians and academic presstitutes from British history and from
general public perception. Winston Churchill (British imperialist
and WW2 British leader) was responsible for the WW2 Bengal
Famine in which 6- 7 million Indians were starved to death by the
British with Australian complicity. However there is no mention of
the Bengali Holocaust in Churchill's 6-volume "The Second World
War" that was substantially the basis for the award of his 1953
Nobel Prize for Literature. Churchill has stated: "In wartime, truth
is such a precious commodity that she must always be protected by
a bodyguard oflies" [18]. Similarly, British Zionist Sir Martin
Gilbert (1936-2015) was an eminent UK historian in the areas of
Jewish history, Zionism, Churchill, WWI, WW2 and 20th century
history and wrote millions of words and 80 books,. He was one of
very few UK historians who actually mentioned the 1943-
1945 Bengali Holocaust ( 6- 7 million Indians killed by Churchill)
but must be criticized for hugely under-estimating this atrocity,
excusing the British, eliminating any mention of this from his
histories of Churchill, ignoring other holocausts and grossly
exaggerating deaths in the WW2 Jewish Holocaust above the
generally accepted 5-6 million deaths [19]. Nevertheless the
Bengali Holocaust has been exposed in a number of books by
ethical and humane writers [20- 31].
The BBC did run a program on the Bengal Famine (in which I was
an invited participant) as part of a series self-confessedly entitled
"Things we forget to remember" (for transcript see [32, 33]). The
ethical and humane ABC Science Unit (scientists don't lie) invited
me to make a broadcast on the Bengal Famine [34]. However a
current search of the ABC for "Bengal Famine" yields 25 items, the
first being my broadcast and most of the remainder being
comments from me as a listener to ABC programs. A search of the
BBC for "Bengal Famine" yields 10 items, of which one is the
"Things we forgot to remember" broadcast but with no transcript.
In contrast, a Search of the BBC for "Jewish Holocaust" yields 380
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 results. Searches of the BBC and the ABC for "The Holocaust"
(now virtually synonymous in usage with the WW2 "Jewish
Holocaust") presently yield 3,600 and 1,930 results, respectively.
One notes that "holocaust" means death of a huge number of
people and the Bengal Famine was indeed the first WW2 atrocity
to have been described as a "holocaust" (in 1944 by N.G. Jog in his
book "Churchill's Blind-Spot: India" [35]). On the other hand,
"genocide" is defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention
thus: "In the present Convention, genocide means any of the
following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part,
a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: a) Killing
members of the group; b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to
members of the group; c) Deliberately inflicting on the group
conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction
in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures intended to prevent
births within the group; e) Forcibly transferring children of the
group to another group" [36].
The terms "Indian Holocaust", "Bengali Holocaust", "Indian
Genocide", and "Bengali Genocide" are accordingly quite
appropriate in relation to the 1942-1945 Bengal Famine that
involved the sustained, remorseless, and deliberate killing of 6- 7
million Indians including about 4 million Bengalis by the British
with Australian complicity. However a Search of the BBC News
for these terms yields zero results ( except for 1 result referencing
Pakistan's 1971 Bengali Genocide in East Pakistan, today's
Bangladesh). A search of the ABC News yields zero results for
ABC reportage per se (although, despite ongoing ABC censorship,
there are some results due to advocacy by me posting comments as
a listener to ABC programs). Just imagine the global outcry if the
BBC failed to mention the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million
Jews killed by violence or imposed deprivation).
The racism, genocide-ignoring and holocaust-ignoring of the ABC
and the BBC is not confined to their "fake news through lying by
omission" about Indians. Thus the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6
million Jews killed by violence or deprivation) was part of a wider
European Holocaust in which 30 million Slavs, Jews and Gypsies
were killed. However the WW2 European Holocaust is ignored by
the ABC and the BBC, as is the WW2 Polish Holocaust (6 million
Poles killed, half of them Jewish Poles). The WW2 Chinese
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ignored by the ABC and the BBC in a continuing process of racist
genocide ignoring, holocaust ignoring, effective genocide denial
and effective holocaust denial.
The Establishment-beholden ABC and BBC ignore the ongoing
Global A voidable Mortality Holocaust, Muslim Genocide and
Climate Genocide. Since the Norman invasion of England in I 066,
the Norman-founded English Establishment has invaded 193
countries as compared to Australia 85, France 82, the US 72 (52
after WW2), Germany 39, Japan 30, Russia 25, Canada 25,
Apartheid Israel 12 and China 2 [38-44]. Many of these British and
Australian invasions involved mass murder, holocausts and
genocide [38, 39, 41]. Indeed the initial Norman victory was
immediately followed by an English Genocide known as the
Harrying of the North [45]. However English historiography has
largely white-washed a millennium of appalling crimes by the
English Establishment, a process of active holocaust denial or more
exactly "holocaust disappearance" that I described as
"Austenizing" in my book "Jane Austen and the Black Hole of
British History. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in
biological sustainability" (Jane Austen confined her brilliant and
exquisitely truthful novels to the English upper class at the time of
the horrendous Napoleonic Wars when 1 in every 7 women in
London was a prostitute) [25].
We are familiar with the aphorism "history ignored yields history
repeated". However ignoring ongoing atrocities simply ensures
their continuance and that indeed is the immense, ongoing crime of
the ABC and the BBC. Avoidable mortality (avoidable death,
excess mortality, excess death, untimely death, premature death,
deaths that do not have to happen) is simply the difference between
the actual deaths in a country and the deaths expected for peaceful,
decently governed country with the same demographics (birth rate
and proportion of children). It can be determined from UN
Population data that 1,500 million people have died avoidably from
deprivation or deprivation-exacerbated disease since 1950 [39].
This Global A voidable Mortality Holocaust is continuing with 17
million people, half of them children, in the Developing World
(minus China) dying avoidably each year on Spaceship Earth with
rich countries (including the UK and Australia) in charge of the
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WW2 in Africa and Asia of which the most appalling was Indian
Partition that killed 1 million Indians and generated 18 million
refugees and has led to a present and continuing standoff between a
nuclear-armed Pakistan and nuclear-armed India [39]. The UK
partition of Palestine resulted in 750,000 Palestinians ultimately
being expelled from their homeland. The ongoing Palestinian
Genocide has been associated with 2 million Palestinian deaths
since 1935 from violence (0.1 million) or from imposed deprivation
(1.9 million), a present 7 million Palestinian refugees, removal of
all human rights from the present 4.7 million Occupied
Palestinians, and the ethnic cleansing of 90% of Palestine by a
nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run, genocidally racist, democracy-
by-genocide Apartheid Israel [39, 46, 47]. Australia as a US lackey
has been involved in all post-1950 Asian Wars, atrocities that have
been associated with 40 million Asian deaths from violence or
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deprivation. Both Australia and the UK have been involved in the
ongoing Zionist-promoted US War on Muslims (aka the US War
on Terror) that has been associated, so far, with 32 million Muslims
deaths from violence (5 million) or deprivation (27 million) in 20
countries invaded by the US Alliance since the US Government's
9-11 false flag atrocity that killed 3,000 people, mostly Americans
( see above) [8, 14].
Yet searches of the BBC and the ABC reveal that the terms
"Muslim Holocaust", "Muslim Genocide", "Palestinian Genocide",
"Post-1950 US Asian Wars", "US War on Muslims", and "Global
A voidable Mortality Holocaust" are effectively unknown to the
BBC and also effectively unknown to the ABC ( except insofar that
I have been able to evade ABC censorship and post comments
using these terms on ABC websites).
However it gets worse. The World Health Organization (WHO)
informs that 7 million people die annually from air pollution, this
including 10,000 Australians, 9,000 Londoners and 75,000 people
dying annually from the long-term effects of pollutants from the
burning of Australia's world-leading coal exports (this specific
Australian-complicit carnage including 10,000 Chinese deaths
annually) [48- 50]. Eminent UK climate scientists Professor James
Lovelock FRS and Professor Kevin Anderson have independently
estimated that all but 0.5 billion people may perish this century due
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these estimates translate to a Climate Genocide involving deaths of
10 billion people this century, this including roughly twice the
present population of particular mainly non-European groups,
specifically 6 billion under-5 year old infants, 3 billion Muslims in
a terminal Muslim Holocaust, 2 billion Indians, 1.3 billion non-
Arab Africans, 0.5 billion Bengalis, 0.3 billion Pakistanis and 0.3
billion Bangladeshis [ 51]. On a per capita basis Australia is among
the very worst greenhouse gas (GHG) polluters. Properly taking
methanogenic animal husbandry and land use into account, revised
"annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution" in units of
"tonnes CO2-equivalent per person per year" is 52.9 for Australia
and 116 for Australia's Domestic plus Exported annual per capita
GHG pollution (i.e. including its huge GHG-generating exports) as
compared to the annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution
of 8.9 (for the World), 7.4 (China), 2.1 (India), 2.5 (Pakistan) and
2.7 (Bangladesh) [52, 53].
Australia with 0.3% of the world's population has a Domestic plus
Exported GHG pollution equivalent to 4.4% of the World's total.
However, if the gigantic, Australia-approved Adani coal mine
eventuates it will lift this outrageously disproportionate percentage
to 4.5% [48-50]. A fairer measure of relative climate criminality is
"annual per capita income-weighted annual per capita greenhouse
gas (GHG) pollution" [53] and on this scale Australia ranks 3rd out
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the UK are disproportionately complicit in a worsening Climate
Emergency and a worsening Climate Genocide. The Paris Climate
Agreement's ideal target of no more than a I.SC temperature rise
will be exceeded in 4-10 years and a plus 2C temperature rise is
now unavoidable [54-57]. Indeed the best thing decent people can
now do is to collectively promise that disproportionately bad
climate criminal politicians and corporate officials will all
eventually and inescapably suffer dispossession and harsh custodial
punishment of the kind presently handed out to the very worst drug
pushers [58].
A search of the BBC for "annual per capita greenhouse
gas" astonishingly yields zero (0) results for this key measure of
GHQ pollution but a Search for "climate genocide" actually yields
3 results (there are inevitably some decent people at the BBC). A
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virtually all of these results are comments posted by me as a
listener on ABC websites i.e. both the ABC the BBC ignore these
key matters associated with the worsening climate crisis.
Finally, a key aspect of the worsening climate emergency is Carbon
Debt. The Historical Carbon Debt (aka Historical Climate Debt) of
a country can be measured by the amount of greenhouse gas
(GHG) pollution it has introduced into the atmosphere since the
start of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-18th century. Thus the
total Carbon Debt of the world from 1751-2016 is about 1,850
billion tonnes CO2. Assuming a damage-related Carbon Price of
$200 per tonne CO2-equivalent, this corresponds to a Carbon Debt
of $3 70 trillion, similar to the total wealth of the world and 4.5
times the world's total annual GDP. Using estimates from
Professor James Hansen of national contributions to Historical
Carbon Debt, and assuming a damage-related Carbon Price in USO
of $200 per tonne CO2-e, the World has a Carbon Debt ofUS$370
trillion that is increasing at US$ l 3 trillion per year, and Australia
has a Carbon Debt of US$7 .5 trillion (A$ IO trillion) that is
increasing at US$400 billion (A$533 billion) per year and at US
$40,000 (A$53,000) per head per year for under-30 year old
Australians [59].
A search of the BBC for "carbon debt" yields 9 results but none of
these stories put numbers to this horrendous and increasing
imposition on future generations. A search of the ABC for "carbon
debt" yields 24 results of which 1 O are comments posted by me on
ABC websites notwithstanding egregious censorship. The ABC and
the BBC are aware of the general notion of "carbon debt" but
scrupulously avoid putting numbers to it, and for good reason -
properly informed, the young who will have to bear this horrendous
and inescapable Carbon Debt will surely revolt in a global Climate
Revolution (peaceful one hopes) [60]
I sent the following letter to Australian MPs, media, and ABC
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Fake news is simply a new, Trump-popularized descriptive for

media lying that occurs in 2 basic forms, lying by omission and
lying by commission. Lying by omission is far, far worse than
lying by commission because the latter can at least admit refutation
and public debate. Western Mainstream media impose a huge
burden of fake news on Western societies through entrenched and
pervasive lying by omission. The most egregious and pervasive
Mainstream media lie of omission is suppression of reportage of
such lying by omission. Indeed, in an endless iteration of
falsehood, the ABC and BBC are lying by omission about their
lying by omission about their lying by omission ... The unimpeded,
remorseless, corporate-dominated Mainstream media, politicians
and pliant intellectuals are now going further, and variously
threatening residual effective free speech and Alternative media on
the basis of asserted fake news.
The lying by omission by the ABC, the BBC and by Mainstream
journalist, politician and intellectual presstitutes in general has
deadly consequences in the sense that history ignored yields history
repeated, genocide ignored yields genocide repeated, and holocaust
ignored yields holocaust repeated. Thus the UK and Australia have
invaded 193 and 85 countries, respectively, are both now into their
8th Iraq War since 1914, and are intimately involved in the racist
Zionist-promoted US War on Muslims (aka the US War on Terror)
which has been associated, so far, with 32 million Muslim deaths
from violence, 5 million, or from imposed deprivation, 27 million,
in 20 impoverished countries invaded by the US Alliance since the
US Government's 9-11 false flag atrocity with 20 million people
now facing famine within this planet-spanning war zone. The
genocidal racist Zionist enterprise of an Apartheid Israel in an
ethnically cleansed Palestine has also been enabled by massive
Mainstream media lying by omission. Peace is the only way but
silence kills and silence is complicity - see Gideon Polya,
"Mainstream media: fake news through lying by omission", MWC
News, 1 April 2017:
https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammedialying/2017-04-01;
"Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide":
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http://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/.
Yours sincerely, Dr. Gideon Polya, Melbourne, Australia. END
LETTER.

The Silence has been Deafening. The ABC and BBC are lying by
omission about their lying by omission about their lying by
omission ... Peace is the only way but silence is complicity.
History ignored yields history repeated. Holocaust ignored yields
holocaust repeated. Genocide ignored yields genocide repeated.
Indeed genocide ignoring and holocaust ignoring are far, far worse
than repugnant genocide denial and holocaust denial because at
least the latter permit refutation and public debate.
Barbara Kingsolver in her brilliant novel "The Lacuna" has
Russian Communist revolutionary and theorist Leon Trotsky (Lev)
and his assistant Van having the following discussion about media
(2009): "' But newspapers have a duty to truth', Van said. Lev
[Trotsky] clucked his tongue. 'They tell the truth only as the
exception. Zola [French novelist of "J'accuse" fame] wrote that the
mendacity of the press could be could be divided into two groups:
the yellow press lies every day without hesitating. But others, like
the Times, speak the truth on all inconsequential occasions, so they
can deceive the public with the requisite authority when it becomes
necessary.'
Van got up from his chair to gather the cast-off newspapers. Lev
took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. 'I don't mean to offend the
journalists; they aren't any different from other people. They're
merely the megaphones of other people' ... [Trotsky observes to his
assistant Shepherd] 'Soli, let me tell you. The most important thing
about a person is always the thing you don't know'" [61].
The taxpayer-funded ABC and the non-commercial BBC are held
to be above the Yellow Press because they are careful to avoid
outright lying, but as demonstrated above, both the ABC and BBC
are egregiously deceiving their audiences with fake news through
lying by omission. Decent people must (a) eschew lying
Mainstream media, (b) support ethical and humane Alternative
media (such as Countercurrents), and (c) inform everyone they can
about Mainstream media fake news through lying by omission.

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2020 Postscript

Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity.
Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZl)-subverted and
perverted Western Mainstream media are complicit through their
craven silence in the ongoing US-imposed Muslim Holocaust and
Muslim Genocide in which 32 million Muslims have died from
violence, 5 million, or from imposed deprivation, 27 million, in 20
countries invaded by the US Alliance since the US Government's
9-11 false flag atrocity that killed 3,000 people, mostly Americans
[8, 14]. Indeed, as far as I am aware, the only instance in which a
genocidal US Government admitted to the scale of this worsening
atrocity occurred on May 12, 1996, when the Zionist Jewish
American US UN Ambassador, Madeleine Albright, defended
deadly UN sanctions against Iraq on a "60 Minutes" segment in
which anti-racist Jewish American journalist Lesley Stahl asked her
"We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean,
that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the
price worth it?" and to which Albright confessed: "We think the
price is worth it" ("Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide":
https://sites.google.com/site/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide/). In
/
contrast to this singular admission, as exhaustively determined by
the US Center for Public Integrity, the Bush Administration told
935 lies between 9-11 and the illegal invasion of Iraq ("Study:
Bush, aides made 935 false statements in run-up to war", CNN, 24
January 2008:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/Ol/23/bush.iraq/).
Holocaust ignoring and genocide ignoring are far, far worse than
repugnant genocide denial and holocaust denial because the latter
at least permit public refutation and public debate ("Lying by
omission":
https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammedialying/lying-by-
omission). For alphabetically-organized compendia of what
eminent writers and commentators have said about such deadly
deception see "Mainstream media censorship" [l 0] and
"Mainstream media lying" [11].

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"Over the expanse of five continents throughout the coming years an

endless struggle is going to be pursued between violence and friendly
persuasion, a struggle in which, granted, the former has a thousand times
the chances of success than that of the latter. But I have always held that,
if he who bases his hopes on human nature is a fool, he who gives up in
the face of circumstances is a coward. And henceforth, the only
honorable course will be to stake everything on a formidable gamble: that
words are more powerful than munitions". Albert Camus (1957 Nobel
Laureate for Literature) in "Neither Victims nor Executioners", 1946.
"We have come into this world to accept it, not merely to know it. We
may become powerful through knowledge, but we attain fullness through
sympathy". Rabindranath Tagore ( 1913 Nobel Laureate in Literature) in
Henry Miller, "Moloch", 1992.
"36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said
unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with
all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great
commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy
neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law
and the prophets". Jesus, The Holy Bible, King James Version, Matthew
22:36-40 [for secular Humanists "God" in this context can be taken as the
set of evolved and deduced altruistic and respectful human behaviours].

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This appalling catalogue of human suffering and premature death
in the 21st century Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide should
be considered in the context of atrocities in the 20th century and
earlier. Deaths in holocausts, genocides and famines and deriving
from actual violence or from imposed deprivation are given in
brackets as follows for the following alphabetically listed atrocities:
1978-1997 Afghan Genocide and Afghan Holocaust (6 million),
2001 onwards Afghan Genocide and Afghan Holocaust (7 million),
15th - 19th century African Holocaust (slave trade; 6 million),
16th century onwards Amerindian Genocide (90 million),
19th century Argentinian Indian Genocide (1 million),
1915-1923 Armenian Genocide (1.5 million),
post-1950 Asian Holocaust due to Australia-complicit US Asian
Wars (40 million),
1914-1924 Assyrian Genocide (Syriac Genocide; 0.2-0.3 million),
1788 onwards Australian Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal
Ethnocide (2 million),
1769-1770, Bengal Famine (10 million),
1942-1945 WW2 Bengali Holocaust, WW2 Bengal Famine and
WW2 Indian Holocaust (6-7 million),
1971-1972 Bengali Holocaust and gendercide (3 .0 million),
1967-1970, Biafran Genocide (2 million),
1990s Bosnian Genocide ( circa 0.1 million),
20th century Brazilian Indigenous Genocide (1 million),
1969-1998 Cambodian Genocide (6.0 million),
19th century Chinese Holocaust (Opium wars and Tai Ping
rebellion; 20-100 million),
1937-1945 WW2 Chinese Holocaust (35 million),
1958-1961 Chinese Holocaust of the Great Leap Forward (20-30
million),
19th -20th century Congo Genocide (Belgian Congo) (10 million),
1960 onwards Congolese Genocide and Congolese Holocaust (20
million),

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1 984-1985 Ethiopian famine ( 1 million),
1939-1945 WW2 European Holocaust (30 million Slavs, Jews and
Roma killed),
1941-1950 German Genocide and German Holocaust (9 million),
Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust (1,500 million since 1950),
1960-1996, Guatemala Mayan Indian Genocide (1.9 million),
1757-1947 Indian Holocaust from famine and deprivation (1,800
million),
1947 Indian Holocaust due to Partition (1.0 million),
1918-1920 Influenza epidemic (50-100 million),
1917-1919 Iranian Famine (2 million),
1978 onwards Iranian Holocaust and Iranian Genocide (3 million),
2003-2011 21st century Iraqi Genocide and Iraqi Holocaust (2.7
million),
1990-2011 Iraqi Genocide and Iraqi Holocaust (4.6 million),
1914-2011 Iraqi Genocide and Iraqi Holocaust (9 million),
1939-1945 WW2 Jewish Holocaust, Shoa (5-6 million),
1950-1953 Korean Genocide and Korean Holocaust (5.2 million),
1840s Irish Famine (2 million),
1955-1975 Laotian Genocide (1.2 million),
2011 Libyan Genocide (0.2 million),
19th century Maori Genocide in New Zealand (0.2 million),
2000 onwards 21st century Muslim Genocide and Muslim
Holocaust (32 million),
1900s Namibian Genocide (0.1 million),
17th - 19th century North American Indian Genocide (up to 18
million),
1916 onwards Palestinian Genocide and Palestinian Holocaust (2.2
million),
1865-1870 Paraguay Genocide (1 million)

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1939-1945 WW2 Polish Genocide and Polish Holocaust (6
million),
21st century Rohingya Genocide ( circa 0.1 million),
1921-1922 Russian famine, Povolzhye famine ( 5 million),
1930-1953 Russian Holocaust under Stalin (20 million),
1994 Rwandan Genocide (0.9 million),
1992 onwards Somali Genocide and Somali Holocaust (2.2
million),
19th century South Pacific Genocide via disease (0.1 million)
1930-1953 Soviet Holocaust under Stalin (20 million),
1955-2018 Sudan Genocide and Sudan Holocaust (13 million),
2011 onwards Syrian Genocide ( 1.0 million),
1990-2018 Tamil Genocide in Sri Lanka (0.2 million),
1975-1999 East Timorese Genocide (0.3 million),
1930s Ukrainian Famine, Holodomor (7 million),
1945-1975 Vietnamese Genocide and Vietnamese Holocaust (15.3
million),
2015 onwards Yemeni Genocide ( circa 0.1 million) (my sincere
apologies for any absences or underestimates) (updated from [1,
2]).
Back in 2007 the final conclusion of "Body Count. Global
avoidable mortality since 1950" was as follows: "The continuing,
horrendous global avoidable mortality is fundamentally due to
violence, deprivation, disease and lying. We are one species
confined to one planet and we revel in the richness of nature and
human cultural diversity. The peace and cooperative community
we commonly experience at the level of village, town, city and
nation should apply internationally throughout Spaceship Earth.
Intolerance of dishonesty, bigotry and violence, respect for human
rights, international law and our common environment and
commitment to truth, reason and a modestly decent life for
everyone will end the global avoidable mortality holocaust and
ensure that it will never be repeated" (pages 186-187, [3 ]).

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Unfortunately the violence, deprivation, disease and lying are
continuing. The US has over 700 bases located in over 70
countries, is bombing 7 countries (Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Syria,
Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan) and is violently occupying the
territory of 4 countries (Somalia, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan). 15
million people presently die avoidably each year from deprivation
and deprivation-exacerbated disease in the Third World (minus
China) on Spaceship Earth with Zionist-subverted America
ferociously seeking to maintain control of the flight deck through
threat, deadly violence, deadly sanctions and sustained lying by
Mainstream journalist, politician, academic and commentariat
presstitutes. Indeed the horrendous realities set out in this book are
resolutely ignored by Mainstream presstitutes in a mendacious,
deadly and Orwellian process of deception, massive lying by
omission, social control and censorship that threaten participatory
democracy, human rights and indeed the very survival of much of
Humanity [4-10].
Eminent physicist Stephen Hawking has succinctly and repeatedly
described the existential threats facing Humanity: "We see great
peril if governments and societies do not take action now to render
nuclear weapons obsolete and to prevent further climate change"
[ 11, 12]. However dangerous and idiotically anti-science Trump
has unilaterally walked away from the Iran nuclear deal with major
powers, opposed the UN nuclear weapons ban, adumbrated
departure from the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF)
treaty, explicitly threatened North Korea and Iran with
"annihilation", and unilaterally walked away from the 2015 Paris
Climate Change Agreement.
Successive expert reports from leading scientists present a grim
picture of mass species extinction in the present Anthropocene Era
and exceedance or near-exceedance of critical tipping points
leading to irreversible destructive changes [12-20]. The national
commitments made at the 2015 Paris Climate Change Conference
amount to a catastrophic plus 3.2C temperature rise. The
conservative IPCC has conceded that at present rates of greenhouse
gas (GHG) pollution the critical limit of plus l .5C will be exceeded
within 10 years [14, 15, 21]. Indeed the global cooling effects of
sulphate aerosols deriving from fossil fuel burning means that a
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global dimming and global cooling sulphate aerosols are washed
out of the atmosphere and not replaced [22, 23].
In November 2019 about 11,000 scientists signed up to a World
scientists' warning of a Climate Emergency that sets out trends in
24 climate-related areas over the last 40 years. Scientists became
aware of the climate change threat from greenhouse gas (GHG)
pollution in the 1980s, but in 21 of these 24 areas the trends are (a)
huge, (b) in the wrong direction, and (c) linear or quasi-linear
functions of time, with this allowing extrapolation from the present
climate emergency to a climate catastrophe in 2030 [17]. German
and Australian climate scientists have determined a Terminal
Carbon Pollution Budget of 600 Gt CO2 that cannot be exceeded
for a 75% chance of avoiding a catastrophic plus 2C temperature
rise [24, 25] (would you get on a plane that had even a 0.75%
chance of crashing?). However the upwardly revised estimates of
greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution properly taking land use and
methane (CH4) into account means an annual GHG pollution of
63.8 Gt CO2-equivalent and hence 638 Gt CO2-equivalent over the
post-2009 decade [26] i.e. the world will have exceeded this
Terminal Carbon Pollution Budget by 2020.
In short, a catastrophic plus 2C temperature rise is now effectively
unavoidable. The political failure to address a worsening Climate
Emergency and a worsening Climate Genocide [27] stems from
political short termism in democratic countries ( changing
governments every 3-5 years) and from endlessly greedy
neoliberalism that dominates the global economy. The
Enlightenment that brought us reason, science, and immensely
beneficial advances in agriculture and medicine, also brought us
horrendously deadly high technology wars, nuclear weapons with
the potential to wipe out most of Humanity and the Biosphere, and
liberalism that has led to the rapacious and unsustainable
neoliberalism that now dominates the planet and has brought us to
the edge of the precipice. Humanity and the Biosphere are now
existentially threatened by nuclear weapons and run away climate
change [11, 12].
Neoliberalism demands maximal freedom for the smart and
advantaged to exploit human and natural resources for private
profit. This ruthless ideology is ultimately responsible for the
carnage of the ongoing, 21st century Muslim Holocaust and
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imposed deprivation) [27] and the ongoing Global Avoidable
Mortality Holocaust ( 15 million avoidable deaths from deprivation
each year) [3]. The rapaciously neoliberal One Percenters have
50% of the wealth of the world and want even more [28, 29]. Thus,
for example, as expertly perceived by both Alan Greenspan (former
long-time chairman of the US Federal Reserve) on the Right and
Professor Noam Chomsky on the Left, the invasion and occupation
oflraq was fundamentally about oil and control of resources (see
Chapter 7, Iraqi Holocaust & Iraqi Genocide (1990-2011 ), [27]).
French economist Thomas Piketty has analysed the massive global
wealth inequity in which One Percenters own half the wealth of the
world. Piketty argues that even within prosperous Western
countries wealth inequity threatens democracy (Big Money buys
votes) and threatens the economy (the poor cannot afford to buy the
goods and services they produce). Piketty has proposed an annual
wealth tax to address this dangerous inequity [30-35]. Indeed
France has such a tax (up to 1 % per year) and for 1,400 years Islam
has demanded an annual 2.5% wealth tax (zakat) [32]. In 2014 it
was estimated that a 4% annual wealth tax could bring all countries
up to the GDP per capita of China and Cuba (poor countries that
nevertheless have zero (0) avoidable deaths from deprivation each
year) and hence abolish the Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust
[3, 33].
Indeed there needs to be a massive redirection of global wealth for
other compelling and related reasons. Time is running out to save
Humanity and the Biosphere from further catastrophic climate
change and further massive biodiversity loss. Massive harm has
already occurred due to continuing carbon pollution, population
growth and economic growth and it is clear that zero growth in
these areas is insufficient - there must be negative carbon pollution
(atmospheric CO2 draw-down to a safe and sustainable 300 ppm
CO2 from the present disastrous 410 ppm CO2 that is ever
increasing), negative population growth (population decline by
about 50%) and negative economic growth (degrowth by about
50%) to halt and reverse this worsening disaster. Thus the world
coral reefs started when the atmospheric CO2 reached 320 ppm
CO2 at which time (about 1962) the world population was only 3.3
billion. The major burden of economic degrowth would have to be
borne by rich countries to enable poor countries to attain a minimal
and modestly decent economic status [36].

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While the presently dominant and deadly neoliberalism demands
maximal freedom to exploit human and natural resources for
private profit, this rapacious course now existentially threatens
Humanity and the Biosphere as the world careers towards a
Climate Genocide in which 10 billion people will die avoidably this
century en route to a sustainable population in 2100 of a mere 0.5-
1.0 billion [37]. The world has a crucial choice between (a) near-
total mass murder of Humanity and (b) sustainable sharing of
limited resources on Spaceship Earth. The clear alternative to
genocidal neoliberalism is Social Humanism (socialism,
democratic socialism, eco-socialism, the welfare state, universal
basic income) that seeks to sustainably maximize human happiness,
dignity and opportunity through evolving, pragmatic and culturally
sensitive intra-national and international social contracts [38-43].
It is now effectively too late to avoid a catastrophic plus 2 degrees
Centigrade temperature rise but we are nevertheless obliged to do
everything we can to make the future "less bad" for future
generations. Critical to intergenerational justice and
intergenerational equity is the notion of Carbon Debt (Carbon
Price) that is simply the damage-related cost of greenhouse gas
(GHG) pollution that if not addressed now will inescapably have to
be paid by future generations. Thus, for example, if sea walls are
not built then coastal populations will drown or be displaced.
However GHG emissions continue to rise inexorably and there is
no global program to draw down CO2 and other GHGs from the
atmosphere. While young people are now vociferously demanding
massive climate action, inescapable global Carbon Debt is $200-
$250 trillion and increasing by $16 trillion each year [ 44]. Dr.
Chris Hope of 90-Nobel laureate has estimated a damage-related
Carbon Price of $200 per tonne CO2 [ 45] but the IMF has
determined that average global Carbon Price is presently a mere $2
per tonne CO2 [ 46, 4 7]. Social conservative but science-trained
Pope Francis has demanded that the environmental and social cost
of pollution be "fully borne" by the polluters [48, 49]. Further, we
cannot destroy what we cannot replace, and any species is priceless
[44].
Decent people must oppose the neoliberal Gadarene rush to global
suicide by (a) informing everyone they can, (b) following the
example of the marvellous Greta Thunberg [50] and the School
Strikers and launching a Climate Revolution (peaceful and non-

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violent of course) with millions out in the streets [ 51 ], and ( c)
urging and applying Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
against all people, politicians, parties, collectives, corporations and
countries disproportionately involved in the worsening climate
emergency, climate genocide and Biosphere destruction. There is
no Planet B and there must be zero tolerance for the neoliberal,
genocidal and terracidal climate criminals. However, as argued in
the Introductory comments, fundamentally we must all rigorously
adhere to the principle that "all men are created equal and have an
inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" - and
that means an end to Mainstream mendacity, the ongoing Global
A voidable Mortality Holocaust, the ongoing Muslim Holocaust and
Muslim Genocide, and the worsening Climate Genocide.

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