{"id":350635,"date":"2018-03-03T15:52:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T14:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/another-senseless-mass-killing-25-dead\/"},"modified":"2018-03-03T15:52:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T14:52:30","slug":"another-senseless-mass-killing-25-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/another-senseless-mass-killing-25-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Senseless Mass Killing: 25 Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>This week, 25 people were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/mideast-crisis-syria-coalition\/syrian-observatory-u-s-led-coalition-strike-kills-25-idINKCN1GA0SM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slaughtered<\/a>\u00a0in yet another mass killing, and half of those deaths were women and children.<\/p>\n<p>But you won\u2019t see these murders broadcast relentlessly on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, nor discussed at length in social media threads. That\u2019s because the U.S. military committed them in their crusade against the Islamic State\u2019s \u201c<i>last enclave on the Euphrates in Syria<\/i>,\u201d\u00a0<i>Reuters<\/i>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/mideast-crisis-syria-coalition\/syrian-observatory-u-s-led-coalition-strike-kills-25-idINKCN1GA0SM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It is for this reason that many Americans will dismiss comparisons between this type of mass killing and school shootings and other domestic mass atrocities. Their grossly overfunded (yet somehow financially\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-audit-army\/u-s-army-fudged-its-accounts-by-trillions-of-dollars-auditor-finds-idUSKCN10U1IG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">irresponsible<\/a>) military is fighting the good fight. If some innocent people have to die in the process Americans can feel safe in their homes and shopping malls, so be it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCollateral damage\u201d is just part of the price the world must pay for the United States to police it and keep it safe, even as the American\u00a0military has racked up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-do-we-ignore-the-civilians-killed-in-american-wars\/2011\/12\/05\/gIQALCO4eP_story.html?utm_term=.779718970ed6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">millions<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/criticism\/iraq_body_count.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">civilian<\/a>\u00a0deaths during its reign as the global arbiter of morality and justice.<\/p>\n<p>Though the figures from this week\u2019s deaths in Syria were reported by the Syrian Observatory on Human Rights \u2014 \u00a0which, though cited often by mainstream media has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theantimedia.org\/media-syrian-source-t-shirt-shop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">questionable<\/a>\u00a0credibility \u2014 the evidence of similar killings from other sources is rampant.<\/p>\n<p>Whether bombing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/apr\/29\/kunduz-hospital-attack-msf-us-military-charges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hospitals<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/10\/10\/photos-show-fragments-of-u-s-bombs-at-site-of-yemen-funeral-masssacre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">funerals<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/09\/25\/syria-us-airstrike-civilian-death-hrw-tabqa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">schools<\/a>, or flat out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/5gwx98\/vietnam-and-the-mere-gook-rule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raping and murdering<\/a>\u00a0villages filled with civilians, the U.S. military\u2019s brutalization of innocent people is not a rare occurrence.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the callous apathy many Americans display in their dismissals and rationalizations for the loss of innocent life funded by their tax dollars, the popular notion that the military must murder civilians to win the greater moral battle is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/03\/no_author\/yet-another-senseless-mass-killing-women-and-children-among-25-dead\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, 25 people were\u00a0slaughtered\u00a0in yet another mass killing, and half of those deaths were women and children. But you won\u2019t see these murders broadcast relentlessly on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, nor discussed at length in social media threads. That\u2019s because the U.S. military committed them in their crusade against the Islamic State\u2019s \u201clast enclave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-350635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}