US, UK and Israeli warplanes have been bombing Yemen, and oil refining facilities in Al-Hudaydah Port – the excuse given is “to defend Israel”. In other words, to defend Israel’s right to genocide and starve Palestinians. Now they want to do more killing of Arabs in Yemen….

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  1. Trump called this “decisive and powerful military action.”

    William Lutz, from his 1989 book, ‘Doublespeak: How Government, Business, Advertisers, and Others Use Language to Deceive You’

    “Doublespeak is a language designed to evade responsibility, make the unpleasant appear pleasant, the unattractive appear attractive; basically, it is a language designed to mislead while pretending not to. Is it done consciously? Oh yes, very consciously. Doublespeak is not a slip of the tongue or mistaken use of language; it’s exactly the opposite. It is language used by people who are very intelligent and very sophisticated in the use of language… … Who’s the worst defender in sheer bulk, yes, sheer numbers of examples? The government, if we count government from the local level all the way up to the federal level. I had to stop writing the chapter on government doublespeak; it was going to take over the whole book. But interestingly enough, and this was a revelation in doing the book, about a half a step behind comes business with a tremendous amount of doublespeak.”

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    1. Lutz gave a few other examples:

      downsizing, instead of layoff
      air support, instead of bombing

      Kellyanne Conway, advisor to Donald Trump authored the term ‘alternative fact’

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  2. Thought provoking:

    “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
    — Howard Zinn

    “Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities: WAR. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out… and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.”
    — Mark Twain

    “All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
    — George Orwell

    “A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.”
    — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    “Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the gun down.”
    — Malcolm X

    “Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.”
    — Haruki Murakami

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