The U.S. Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations” Since World War II

First published on November 15, 2015, this incisive report was among Global Research’s most popular articles. As a result of media censorship it is no longer featured by the search engines .

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GR Editor’s Note .

Let us put this in historical perspective: the commemoration of the War to End All Wars  acknowledges that 15 million lives were lost in the course of World War I (1914-18).

The loss of life in the second World War (1939-1945) was on a much large scale, when compared to World War I: 60 million lives both military and civilian were lost during World War II. (Four times those killed during World War I).

The largest WWII casualties  were China and the Soviet Union, 26 million in the Soviet Union,  China estimates its losses at approximately 20 million deaths.

Ironically, these two countries (allies of the US during WWII) which lost a large share of their population during WWII are now under the Biden-Harris administration categorized as “enemies of America”, which are threatening the Western World.

NATO-US Forces are at Russia’s Doorstep. A so-called “preemptive nuclear war” against China and Russia is on the drawing board of the Pentagon. 

Germany and Austria lost approximately 8 million people during WWII, Japan lost more than 2.5 million people. The US and Britain respectively lost more than 400,000 lives. 

This carefully researched article by James A. Lucas  documents the more than 20 million lives lost resulting from US led wars, military coups and intelligence ops carried out in the wake of what is euphemistically called the “post-war era” (1945- ).

The extensive loss of life in Lebanon,  Syria, Yemen, Ukraine and Libya is not included in this study.

Continuous US led warfare (1945- ): there was no “post-war era“.

And now, a World War III scenario is contemplated by US-NATO.

Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research,  September 17, 2022

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New Legislation Will Profit Large Canadian Media Outlets by Over $300 Million, Says PBO

New legislation will profit large Canadian media outlets and publishers by upwards of $329 million in government subsidies, if passed, according to Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Yves Giroux.

“We expect news businesses to receive a total compensation around $329.2 million per annum from digital platforms and spend about $20.8 million in transaction and compliance costs for negotiating their first deals under the Bill,” wrote the PBO in his “Cost Estimate for Bill C-18: Online News Act,” as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.

Bill C-18 is titled “An Act respecting online communications platforms that make news content available to persons in Canada” and will regulate “digital news intermediaries,” such as Google and Facebook, in order to “enhance fairness in the Canadian digital news marketplace and contribute to its sustainability.”

In short, C-18 will compel internet and social media giants to make deals for sharing ad revenue with online Canadian news outlets.

The bill, which is sponsored by Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez, is currently up for consideration by committee in the House of Commons.

If passed, the PBO said it expects the total cost of developing and implementing the bill to be around “$5.6 million per year over 5 years” for the Canadian Heritage Department and the CRTC.

“The new regulations will give rise to regulatory compliance costs for businesses as well as costs to negotiate and enforce agreements,” wrote the PBO. “This will in turn have fiscal consequence for the federal government.”

‘More Mistrust’

Independent publishers testifying before the House of Commons Canadian Heritage committee on Sept. 23 criticised Bill C-18 as a bailout for “struggling media corporations.”

“I suspect that what we see here is a form of rent-seeking behaviour in which struggling media corporations are using every last iota of their dwindling financial and social capital to lobby for subsidies and regulations,” said Jen Gerson, co-founder of an online newsletter called “The Line.”

Gerson added that “the more the federal government tries to help the media, the more it risks hurting our credibility.”

“When the federal government tries to save the media, the media becomes a legitimate target for partisan attacks, which undermines our fundamental democratic role and function,” she said.

Testifying before the committee on Sept. 27, former CRTC commissioner Peter Menzies said Canadians’ trust in media has “never been lower.”

“It’s going to create more mistrust and it’s not going to end well,” Menzies said about C-18.

When Rodriguez presented the bill in April, he said Canada’s news sector “is in crisis and this contributes to the heightened public mistrust and the rise of harmful disinformation in our society.”

However, “the more that relationship is broken, the more subsidy will be required,” he added.

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