NATO bombed #Yugoslavia 25 years ago
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'They #poisoned our #land, #water, and #air': Serbs hold NATO responsible for depleted uranium pollution

"NATO must pay compensation,” Serbian lawyer Srdjan Aleksic told Sputnik. “By #bombing #Serbia and the Republic of Srpska with #depleted #uranium ( #DU) shells, despite knowing DU's long-term effects—such as its half-life of 4.5 billion years—the alliance poisoned our land, water, and air. Depleted uranium entered the #food chain."

The North Atlantic Alliance deployed DU weapons during the war in #Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in 1995, and then again during the aggression against Yugoslavia in 1999.

In September 1995, NATO forces had fired off 4.5 #tons of DU penetrators in the territory of BiH, according to the Commission of Inquiry into the Consequences of the Use of Depleted Uranium.

The Serbian Ministry of Defense said the Western military bloc dropped 15 tons of DU munitions on Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999.

Aleksic follows in the footsteps of his Italian counterpart, Angelo Tartaglia, who won more than 300 cases for Italian soldiers who served in the NATO KFOR mission in #Kosovo and later fell ill or died of cancer.

"Currently, 35 lawsuits against NATO have been filed in courts in Belgrade, Nis and other cities in Serbia,” Aleksic said. “50 biopsy results of Serbian military and police officers who served in Kosovo and were diagnosed with cancer have been sent to Italian laboratories."

Aleksic called on residents of the Republic of Srpska (part of BiH) suffering from cancer to establish a causal link between their condition and the bombing with depleted uranium shells.

"The biopsy results show the presence of heavy metals and depleted uranium, which is 100 percent proof that we are right," he stressed.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1833981382667968578
NATO bombed a capital of Europe for 78 days to break Serbia and create Kosovo with largest #military base in #Europe - Jeffrey Sachs to Tucker Carlson
- Wasnt it to save Muslims in Kosovo?
- No, it was very much to save military industrial complex to have nice locations in Europe
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#history #ww11 #bombing #england
WWII Bombing of London, England. 1941
AL BOWLLY KILLED
- On the night of April 16-17, 1941, the Luftwaffe conducted a raid over London. Several hours after midnight, two bombs fell into Jermyn Street, causing extensive damage and killing 23 people. One of the victims, a well-known professional entertainer named Al Bowlly, had declined the offer of overnight lodgings in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, after having performed there the previous evening, preferring to catch the last train home. He was in bed reading when the parachute bomb went off outside his apartment building. His bedroom door, blown off its hinges by the force of the explosion, was propelled across the room, hitting him in the face and killing him instantly. He was 42 years old.

Nothing is Real

From very large and significant matters to very small and trivial ones, the media is constantly massaging your perceptions of reality:

#VanityFair #France has apologised after it was found to have #photoshopped an image of actor #GuyPearce, removing a pin of the #Palestinian #flag that he wore at the #Cannes Film Festival. The ‘Time Machine’ and ‘Prometheus’ star posed for a photo shoot wearing a #badge displaying the Palestinian flag on his jacket. The item was reportedly visible in the #French magazine edition of Vanity Fair, but absent from images shared by the publication’s website and #Instagram account.

Now, in the grand scheme of things, it doesn’t matter in the slightest if an #actor wears a #Palestine pin or not. But his doing so violates the #Narrative, which is that all good and right-thinking people support #Israel’s right to defend itself by #bombing #refugee #camps full of #women and #children situated on #foreign #territory, and therefore his action has to be disappeared before it reaches the public eye.

Never forget that if the #media is reporting it, it is almost certainly #false or #misleading in some way.

Poem: For Warmth by Thich Nhat Hanh

I hold my face in my two hands.
No, I am not crying.
I hold my face in my two hands
to keep the loneliness warm—
two hands protecting,
two hands nourishing,
two hands preventing
my soul from leaving me
in anger.

Written after the bombing of Ben Tre, Vietnam when an American military man made the comment, "We had to destroy the town in order to save it."

From the book Call Me By My True Names (Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1999)

#poem #ThichNhatHanh #violence #MassMurder #bombing

#BRUTAL #BOMBING CONTINUES
#BBC
Many are afraid to go into the Sinai Desert because of a lack of food and supplies. They also fear leaving their homeland permanently. Bisan is now making her way back north to find shelter in Deir al-Balah in #Gaza’s middle area.

‘It’s Bisan From Gaza, And Israel Is Trying to Push Us Into The Desert’

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8UmpeJyO1Gc

Bombing Muslims for Peace

Complete article

A few quotes:

(...) Right now, of course, the world is witnessing yet another U.S. bombing campaign, the latest in a series that seems all too predictable (and futile), meant to teach the restless rebels of Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and possibly even Iran a lesson when it comes to messing with the United States of America. (...)

Israel is systematically destroying Gaza, rendering it essentially uninhabitable for those Palestinians who survive the ongoing rampage. In fact, early in its war of annihilation, Israeli leaders cited the Allied destruction of the German city of Dresden in 1945 in support of their own atrocious air and ground campaign against the Palestinians.

Looking at this dispassionately as a military historian, the Dresden reference makes a certain twisted sense. In World War II, the Americans and their British allies in their “combined bomber offensive” destroyed German cities indiscriminately, seeing all Germans as essentially Nazis, complicit in the crimes of their government, and so legitimate targets. Something similar is true of the right-wing Israeli government today. It sees all Palestinians as essentially members of Hamas and thus complicit in last year’s brutal October 7th attacks on Israel, making them legitimate targets of war, Israeli- (and American-) style. Just like the United States, Israel claims to be “defending democracy” whatever it does. Little wonder, then, that Washington has been so willing to send bombs and bullets to its protégé as it seeks “peace” through massive firepower and genocidal destruction. (...)

Putting [the issue of genocide] aside, it’s undeniable that Israel has been using indiscriminate bombing attacks and a devastating invasion in a near-total war against Palestinians living on that 25-mile-long strip of land, an approach that calls to mind the harrowing catchphrase “Exterminate all the brutes!” from Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness. (...)

Try to imagine such events from the perspective of a historian writing in the year 2200. Might that future scribe not refer to repeated U.S. invasions of, incursions into, and bombing campaigns across the Middle East as a bloody crusade, launched under the (false) banner of democracy with righteous vengeance, if not godly purpose, in mind? Might that historian not suggest that such a “crusade” was ultimately more about power and profit, domination and control than (as advertised) “freedom”? And might that historian not be impressed (if not depressed) by the remarkable way the U.S. brought seemingly unending chaos and death to the region over such a broad span of time?

Consider these facts. More than 22 years after the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. still has at least 30,000 troops scattered across the Middle East. At least one Navy carrier strike group, and often two, dominate the regional waters, while striking numbers of military bases (“Little Americas”) are still sprinkled across countries ranging from Kuwait to Bahrain, from Qatar to the United Arab Emirates and beyond. So many years later, about 900 U.S. troops still illegally occupy part of Syria (not coincidentally, where that country produces most of its oil) and 2,500 more remain in Iraq, even though the government there would like them to depart. (...)

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Bombing Muslims for Peace

Like many American boys of the baby-boomer generation, I played “war” with those old, olive-drab, plastic toy soldiers meant to evoke our great victory over the Nazis and “the Japs” during World War II. At

Israeli bombing of Gaza leaves 110,000 dead, wounded, missing

#Israeli #bombing of #Gaza #leaves #110000 #dead , #wounded , #missing #Israel #Palestine

"The #death toll in Gaza has reached #35096 , including #12345 #children and #7656 #women , along with #309 #health #workers, #41 #civil #defense #members , and #121 #journalists"

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Israeli bombing of Gaza leaves 110,000 dead, wounded, missing

The death toll in Gaza has reached 35,096, including 12,345 children and 7,656 women, along with 309 health workers, 41 civil defense members, and 121 journalists

In My Two Hands (song by Betsy Rose)

Based on the poem For Warmth by Thich Nhat Hanh

https://youtu.be/rfkujnf6JKM?si=C0Dol82DDmAFw43L

#BetsyRose #ThichNhatHanh #song #music #anger #war #suffering #bombing

For Warmth

Poem by Thich Nhat Hanh

I hold my face in my two hands.
No, I am not crying.
I hold my face in my two hands
to keep the loneliness warm—
two hands protecting,
two hands nourishing,
two hands preventing
my soul from leaving me
in anger.

Written during the Vietnam war, after the bombing of the village Ben Tre, after an American officer made the comment "We had to destroy the town in order to save it"

#ThichNhatHanh #poetry #poem #anger #war #bombing

100 days later #Israel still #Bombing and #killing. . #IsraHell #genocide
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100 days later Israel stillBombing and killing. . #Israel #genocide

Palestinian boy mourns his brother killed by Israeli strike on Gaza | AJ #shorts

“Bury me with him!” This is the moment Palestinian boy Saaed farewells his brother Mohammad who was killed in an Israeli air strike on Gaza City. More than 7...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Bombing #Boy #Brother #Gaza #GazaCity #Israel #IsraeliAttack #Killed #Mourns #Palestinian #Strike #Truce #War #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #latestnews #newsheadlines
Palestinian boy mourns his brother killed by Israeli strike on Gaza | AJ #shorts

Because the western empire has been raining military explosives upon the middle east continuously for many years now, westerners have become desensitized to news reports about bombings happening there.

— Caitin Johnstone, in her article We Don't Think Hard Enough About What Bombs Are And What They Do

#CaitinJohnstone #bombing #MassMurder

We Don't Think Hard Enough About What Bombs Are And What They Do

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): If I told you that ten thousand people had just been murdered by terrorists in Portland, Oregon — including thousands of children — you would understandably be shocked and horrified. If I...

Two journalists killed by Israeli bombing on Bureij refugee camp | AJ #shorts

In the past 24 hours, six media professionals have been killed by Israeli bombing, including journalists Sari Mansour and Hassouneh Salim. They were hit by a...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Bureij #HassounehSalim #Israeli #SariMansour #Two #airstrike #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #bombing #camp #journalists #killed #latestnews #media #newsheadlines #professionals #refugee #workers
Two journalists killed by Israeli bombing on Bureij refugee camp | AJ #shorts

#Gaza #genocide #horror #death #bombing

https://twitter.com/Marwa__Osman/status/1721589226519617815

#NormanFinkelstein #Gaza #bombing #refugees #genocide

https://twitter.com/normfinkelstein/status/1721184493443162557

Bombing people creates terrorist

#bombing #terrorists

#Gaza #trauma #bombing

https://twitter.com/s_m_marandi/status/1718340808368173466

With communications cut off, Gaza goes dark amid Israeli attacks | The Take

It was after 7pm local time in Gaza on Friday when we heard that most people there lost contact with the world. Internet and phone services went down as the ...#aljazeeralive #aljazeeraenglish #aljazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #AlJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #aljazeeralatest #latestnews #newsheadlines #aljazeeravideo #gaza #gazablackout #blackout #internet #internetblackout #israel #bombing #palestine
With communications cut off, Gaza goes dark amid Israeli attacks | The Take

Palestinian Red Crescent says there is no safe place in Gaza | AJ #Shorts

The Israeli military has expanded its operations in Gaza and communications have been cut off. In an interview with Al Jazeera the director of the Palestinia...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Gaza #Hamas #Israel #Palestine #RedCrescent #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #bombardment #bombing #ceasefire #groundinvasion #humanitarian #latestnews #newsheadlines #war
Palestinian Red Crescent says there is no safe place in Gaza | AJ #Shorts

Jenin mosque bombed in Israeli air strike | Al Jazeera Newsfeed

Israel has bombed the occupied West Bank as its bombardment of Gaza enters a third week. An air strike demolished a mosque in the Jenin refugee camp, which I...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Israeli #Jenin #Jeninrefugeecamp #Palestinian #air #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #bomb #bombing #fighters #latestnews #mosque #newsheadlines #route #strike #underground
Jenin mosque bombed in Israeli air strike | Al Jazeera Newsfeed