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On the Department of State’s Double Speak About Israeli War Crimes
When it comes to accountability, the Department of State has a reputation for using double standards against nonwhite groups
Historically, the Department of State (State) has served as the United States’ main propaganda outlet that fuels the war machine. Since the advent of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the aftermath of 9/11, State’s role has been solely focused on public relations to justify spending billions in taxpayer dollars on death and destruction.
Now, since the “war on terror” has been scaled back after the end of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, they found new wars to fund using nothing short of what the US would call propaganda if it were coming from a non-Western country. While Russia’s war in Ukraine falls under the label of an invasion, the propaganda machine has been running full-throttle in defense of Ukrainian (white) people and children who have been deemed more civilized than children from a far-away place like the Middle East.
To quote Charlie D’Agata from CBS News in April 2022, just after the war in Ukraine started, “Ukraine isn’t a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan, that has seen conflict raging…
