{"id":54958,"date":"2020-09-10T07:39:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T12:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54958"},"modified":"2020-09-10T07:39:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T12:39:42","slug":"tens-of-millions-of-people-displaced-by-the-war-on-terror-the-greatest-scam-ever-invented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54958","title":{"rendered":"Tens Of Millions Of People Displaced By The \u2018War On Terror\u2019, The Greatest Scam Ever Invented"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2020\/09\/09\/tens-of-millions-of-people-displaced-by-the-war-on-terror-the-greatest-scam-ever-invented\/\">Tens Of Millions Of People Displaced By The \u2018War On Terror\u2019, The Greatest Scam Ever Invented<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-8832\" class=\"post-8832 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-displaced tag-iraq tag-millions tag-syria tag-terrorism tag-war tag-war-on-terror\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/medium-1.jpeg?fit=1024%2C636&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/medium-1.jpeg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/medium-1.jpeg?resize=300%2C186&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/medium-1.jpeg?resize=768%2C477&amp;ssl=1 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"636\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>A\u00a0<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/files\/cow\/imce\/papers\/2020\/Displacement_Vine%20et%20al_Costs%20of%20War%202020%2009%2008.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new report<\/a>\u00a0from Brown University\u2019s Costs of War project has found that at least 37 million people have been displaced as a result of America\u2019s so-called \u201cwar on terror\u201d since 9\/11, a conservative estimate of a number that may actually be somewhere between 48 million to 59 million.<\/p>\n<p>That number, \u201cat least 37 million\u201d, happens by pure coincidence to be the exact same number of Americans\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hungerandhealth.feedingamerica.org\/understand-food-insecurity\/\">reported to suffer from food insecurity<\/a>\u00a0because their government spends their wealth and resources killing and displacing people overseas.<\/p>\n<p>This inconvenient revelation, which was actually reported on by\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0for once, is causing conniptions for all the right people, with\u00a0<em>The Washington Post<\/em>\u2018s neoconservative war propagandist Josh Rogin\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshrogin\/status\/1303439037508841474\">ejaculating<\/a>, \u201cThe @nytimes should be ashamed for running this as \u2018analysis.\u2019 Blaming the U.S. for the displacement of 7 million Syrians is crazy and dishonest. Way to launder anti-American propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1303439037508841474&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2020%2F09%2F09%2Ftens-of-millions-of-people-displaced-by-the-war-on-terror-the-greatest-scam-ever-invented%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=219d021%3A1598982042171&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1303439037508841474\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Sure Josh, it\u2019s not like the extremist forces who flooded Syria with the goal of toppling Damascus were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/how-america-armed-terrorists-in-syria\/\">backed by the US and its allies<\/a>\u00a0and sprung into existence\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4yPTAxI8wTY\">as a direct result<\/a>\u00a0of the regional destabilization caused western interventionism in the name of fighting terror. Oh wait no that\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/its-time-to-start-getting-enraged-at-what-western-imperialists-have-done-to-syria-a53529c7c0e7\">exactly what happened<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been one of the major forms of damage, of course along with the deaths and injuries, that have been caused by these wars,\u201d the lead author of the report David Vine\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/R3aPp\">told\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a>. \u201cIt tells us that U.S. involvement in these countries has been horrifically catastrophic, horrifically damaging in ways that I don\u2019t think that most people in the United States, in many ways myself included, have grappled with or reckoned with in even the slightest terms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tens Of Millions Of People Displaced By The \u2018War On Terror\u2019, The Greatest Scam Ever Invented A\u00a0new report\u00a0from Brown University\u2019s Costs of War project has found that at least 37 million people have been displaced as a result of America\u2019s so-called \u201cwar on terror\u201d since 9\/11, a conservative estimate of a number that may actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30277,17039,30278,1921,5420,827,864,17921],"class_list":["post-54958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-brown-university","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-josh-rogin","tag-new-york-times","tag-scam","tag-united-states","tag-war-on-terror","tag-war-propaganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54959,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54958\/revisions\/54959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}