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The Terrorism Industry: A Merciless Continuous Attack on the American People's Blood and Treasure
By Hassan El-Najjar
A Lecture Outline
Introduction The American people have been subjected to a merciless and continuous attack on their blood and treasure by the beneficiaries of the terrorism industry. This lecture is an attempt to expose this industry and its beneficiaries and a contribution towards more informed and more educated public opinion.
1. Definition of Terrorism:
Terrorism is the systematic use of violence in order to intimidate a
population or a government into granting terrorists their demands (Webster’s
Dictionary).
It can be perpetrated by groups or by states.
2. War and Terrorism:
While post WWII wars and invasions perpetrated by states have been
imperialistic, for domination and looting resources, resistance to these
invasions has been labeled as terrorism.
State wars and invasions result in killing millions of people (Korea,
Vietnam, and Iraq).*
Current air strikes in the Middle East result in killing scores of people
every time.
With the exception of the attacks on the Trade Center (1994, 2001),
so-called terrorist attacks are perpetrated by individuals, not Al-Qaeda or
any other group.
These are rare incidents in the past three decades. With little scrutiny it
can be argued that these are either individual domestic crimes or even
security-orchestrated false-flag operations. The only difference is that
these are perpetrated by Muslim individuals.
There was one attack in Canada, and one in Australia in which only the
attackers were killed. Both attacks preceded the involvement of both
counties in the current war on the Middle East. The Boston attack resulted
in killing the attacker and two people. The Boston police knew everything
about them and let them do it.
3. Why is all this fuss about terrorism? Answer:
It’s a very profitable industry, for the wholesale producers and
retailers, and it’s very convenient to the conscience of the consumers.
A) Producers of the Terrorism Industry
These are the rulers of the Empire, who have been amassing more than $18
trillion from wars, invasions, and military spending to maintain the
World-Wide American Empire.
Just like they used the fear of Communism, during the Cold War era
(1945-1989), to justify the trillions of dollars in military spending, they
shifted to the use of Terrorism to justify about $18 trillion in military
spending since 1990.
This class of producers of the terrorism industry includes owners of the
Federal Reserve cartel of Banks, owners of the military and oil industries, the high-ranking personnel in the military and intelligence
establishments who are associated with firms benefiting from the terrorism
industry, and Israelis and their supporters.
B) Retailers of the Terrorism Industry The category of retailers of the terrorism industry includes those who disseminate the propaganda about the terrorism myth to the consumers. These include members of Congress, corporate media units (TV, radio, news agencies, newspapers, and magazines), book authors, teachers, and church leaders, all of whom compete in how to sell this myth to the consumers.
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C) Consumers of the Terrorism Industry
Consumers of the terrorism myth are members of the general population. These
find it an excuse not to question rulers of the Empire about how they
benefit from the military spending, invasions, and wars around the world. It
also numbs them towards Islamophobia, or the continuous hate campaigns
against Islam and Muslims, perpetrated by the retailers.
4. Islamophobia:
Islamophobia is the continuous hate campaigns against Islam and Muslims,
perpetrated by the retailers of the Terrorism Industry, particularly
corporate media TV stations, such as Fox news and CNN.
Islamophobia helps numb the population to accept the wars in the Middle East
and around the Muslim World and to be silent towards violations of civil
liberties and civil rights against their fellow Americans at home.
5. The Apartheid Israeli Regime
The apartheid Israeli regime and its supporters have a vested interest in
disseminating the terrorism myth because it justifies its theft of
Palestinian lands, its continuous occupation of the Palestinian territory of
the West Bank, and its continuous siege of Gaza Strip.
Actually, it’s the Israeli occupation government was the one who invented
the idea of the “War on Terror,” which was later adopted by the Bush
administration.
The role of supporters of Israel in dragging the US to invade the Middle
East, starting from 1990, is very well known.
Their ultimate objective is devastating the Middle East and to turn it into
small failing states, in order for them to achieve their dream of a greater
Israel, from the Nile to the Euphrates.
6. The Real Terrorism and Genocide on the American People
The real terrorism, and actually genocide, perpetrated against the American
people, which are obscured by manufactured fears, like the terrorism myth,
include the following:
1. The current US national debt is about $18 trillion, as of September 2015.
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/debt/current
2. More than 500,000 Americans are killed annually by the tobacco industry.
3. Alcohol is involved in
the killing of about 100,000 Americans every year, including about 11,000
motor vehicle deaths.
One-third of the convicted jail inmates report that they were under
influence of alcohol when they committed their crimes.
Horrible abuse practices, cruelty, and rape happen while perpetrators are
under influence of alcohol, which is also related to 100,000 date rapes
annually.
4. Why do we have the highest rates of imprisonment, abortion, and teenage
pregnancy in the world?
(Olson, David et. al, “Marriages and Families,” 2014: 449)
(Macionis,
John J. “Social Problems,” 2015: 239-242).
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* Appendixes:
Millions of People were killed as a result of US-led wars in Korea, Vietnam,
and Iraq.
1. Korean War (1950-1953):
U.S. Troops Statistics
Source: Dept. of Defense
U.S. Deaths:
Hostile: 33,739
Non-Hostile: 2,835
Total In-Theatre: 36,574
U.S. Wounded in Action - 103,284
Other Casualties by Country (killed and missing)
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica
South Korea - (217,000 military, 1,000,000 civilian)
North Korea - (406,000 military, 600,000 civilian)
China - (600,000 military)
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/28/world/asia/korean-war-fast-facts/
2. Vietnam War (1961-1975)
Casualties in the Vietnam War:
The U.S. suffered over 47,000 killed in action plus another 11,000 noncombat
deaths; over 150,000 were wounded and 10,000 missing.
Casualties for the Republic of South Vietnam will never be adequately
resolved. Low estimates calculate 110,000 combat KIA and a half-million
wounded. Civilian loss of life was also very heavy, with the lowest
estimates around 415,000.
Similarly, casualty totals among the VC and NVA and the number of dead and
wounded civilians in North Vietnam cannot be determined exactly. In April
1995, Vietnam’s communist government said 1.1 million combatants had died
between 1954 and 1975, and another 600,000 wounded. Civilian deaths during
that time period were estimated at 2 million, but the U.S. estimate of
civilians killed in the north at 30,000.
Among South Vietnam’s other allies, Australia had over 400 killed and 2,400
wounded; New Zealand, over 80 KIA ; Republic of Korea, 4,400 KIA; and
Thailand 350 killed.
http://www.historynet.com/vietnam-war
See also: Vietnam War casualties
Estimates of the number of casualties vary, with one source suggesting up to
3.8 million
violent war deaths in Vietnam for the period 1955 to 2002.[423]
195,000–430,000 South Vietnamese civilians died in the war.[19][20]
Extrapolating from a 1969 US intelligence report, Guenter Lewy estimated
65,000 North Vietnamese civilians died in the war.[19]
The military forces of South Vietnam suffered an estimated 254,256 killed
between 1960 and 1974 and additional deaths from 1954–1959 and in 1975.[424]
The official US Department of Defense figure was
950,765
communist forces killed in Vietnam from 1965 to 1974.
In addition, Guenter Lewy assumes that one-third of the reported "enemy"
killed may have been civilians, concluding that the actual number of deaths
of communist military forces was probably closer to 444,000.[19]
A detailed demographic study calculated 791,000–1,141,000 war-related deaths
for all of Vietnam.[18]
Between 240,000[36][425] and 300,000[34] Cambodians died during the war.
About 60,000 Laotians also died,[426] and 58,300 U.S. military personnel
were killed.[427]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
3. Three Wars on Iraq:
A) In January-February 1991 War
About 50,000 – 300,000 Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait or
retreating from it, and thousands of Iraqi civilians.
A lower number of deaths was reported by US official sources.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War
B) About 1.5 million Iraqi children died
as a result of the thirteen years of the embargo (1990-2003).
During the years of punitive sanctions (1990 – 2003), around 4000 children
under the age of five were dying each month from respiratory diseases and
gastric problems related to malnutrition and unclean water supplies.
http://childvictimsofwar.org.uk/the-impact-of-the-iraq-war-on-iraqi-children/
C) Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were killed as a result of the US
invasion and occupation of Iraq (2003-2011).
500,000 (half a million) deaths:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/15/iraq-death-toll_n_4102855.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131015-iraq-war-deaths-survey-2013/
D) Current US-NATO-Arab allies’ air strikes have resulted in killing
thousands of people in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Libya. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/13/us-mideast-crisis-strikes-idUSKCN0RD0X020150913
http://europavarietas.org/evnc/en/aggregator/categories/5?page=93
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