{"id":168975,"date":"2020-09-21T12:01:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T11:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=168975"},"modified":"2020-09-18T10:16:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T09:16:32","slug":"a-photo-gallery-of-doomed-children-who-suffered-because-of-americas-profitable-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/09\/a-photo-gallery-of-doomed-children-who-suffered-because-of-americas-profitable-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"A Photo Gallery of Doomed Children Who Suffered Because of America\u2019s Profitable Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>17 Sep 2020 &#8211; <\/em>This morning I heard courageous patriot and Vietnam War-era whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2020\/9\/17\/daniel_ellsberg_julian_assange_extradition_case?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&amp;utm_campaign=7dada102c3-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_fa2346a853-7dada102c3-190272849\" >interviewed on <em>Democracy Now<\/em>!<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the Afghani refugee tragedies on the Greek Island of Lesbos and elsewhere, Ellsberg said: <strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cOur government is responsible for the flight of 37, 000,000 refugees worldwide because of United States-initiated wars.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And he could have added<em>, <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cThe US is also responsible for the sale of the lethal weapons that militaries and mercenary soldiers use to kill, maim and terrify innocent refugees-to-be all around the world. These weapons and militaries have destroyed families, freedoms, safety, shelter, jobs, food and water supplies, which naturally means that these innocents have to leave their destroyed homelands in search of safety, food, water and a future for them and their children.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just by coincidence, last night I also came across a 5-year old<em> Duty to Warn<\/em> column that contained photos of a small handful of the multitude of censored-out, \u201cunpatriotic\u201d war photos that documented some of what Ellsberg was talking about. Here is the slightly upgraded column.<\/p>\n<p>*************************************<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Below are a few disturbing examples of the \u201ccollateral damage\u201d that accompanies America\u2019s wars which usually have been endorsed or at least not significantly opposed by Christian clergypersons and their followers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_168976\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war1.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168976\" class=\"wp-image-168976\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war1.jpg 413w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war1-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-168976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stalking buzzard and a dying child in a war-ravaged African \u00a0country that had been destabllized by the CIA &#8211; 1993<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_168977\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war2.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168977\" class=\"wp-image-168977\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war2.jpg 345w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war2-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-168977\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carbonized Japanese child \u2013 US atomic bomb victim &#8211; Hiroshima 1945<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_168978\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war3.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168978\" class=\"wp-image-168978\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-168978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese child dying of radiation sickness from the Nagasaki bomb 1945<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_168979\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war4.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168979\" class=\"wp-image-168979\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war4.jpg 347w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war4-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-168979\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terrified Vietnamese children, victims of American napalm bombs \u2013 Vietnam 1968<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>(Note: In 1965,\u00a0Dow Chemical, a Michigan-based chemicals manufacturer, was awarded a $5 million Pentagon contract to produce napalm, a highly incendiary chemical used by American troops during the Vietnam War.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_168980\" style=\"width: 314px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war5.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168980\" class=\"size-full wp-image-168980\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war5.jpg 304w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war5-182x300.jpg 182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-168980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young Vietnamese casualty of war with his American GI captor \u2013 Vietnam 1968<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_168981\" style=\"width: 268px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war6.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168981\" class=\"size-full wp-image-168981\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war6.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war6-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-168981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young Vietnamese being interrogated by an American GI \u2013 Vietnam 1968<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_168982\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war7.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168982\" class=\"size-full wp-image-168982\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war7.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war7-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-168982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deformed, stillborn Vietnamese fetuses whose mothers had been exposed to American chemical manufacturers Monsanto,\u00a0Dow Chemical\u00a0and Diamond-Shamrock\u2019s Agent Orange \u2013 Post-Vietnam War<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0(Note: Agent Orange has a very long-half-life and continues to contaminate the soil and water supplies in Vietnam. In addition, it has also sickened a multitude of US Vietnam-era soldiers &#8211; and even their family members<\/em><\/strong><em> <strong>back home.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_168983\" style=\"width: 295px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war8.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168983\" class=\"size-full wp-image-168983\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war8.jpg 285w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war8-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-168983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iraqi fetus exposed in utero to America\u2019s Lockheed Martin \u201cdepleted\u201d uranium-tipped bombs &#8211; Iraq War<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>(Note: Highly radioactive \u201cDepleted Uranium\u201d has a half-life of many millions of years and will continue to contaminate the Afghanistan and Iraq soil and water that was exposed to it. Also, American soldiers were also contaminated.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_168985\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war9.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168985\" class=\"size-full wp-image-168985\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war9.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war9-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-168985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iraqi children killed in an USAF air strike \u2013 Fallujah &#8211; 2009<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_168986\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war10.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168986\" class=\"wp-image-168986\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war10.jpg 326w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war10-300x248.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-168986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drowned Syrian toddler, most of whose refugee family also drowned fleeing the war begun by the US\u2019s \u201cShock and Awe\u201d wars &#8211; 2015<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_168987\" style=\"width: 447px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war11.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168987\" class=\"size-full wp-image-168987\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war11.jpg 437w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gary-kohls-children-war11-291x300.jpg 291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-168987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two Malnourished Victims of US-led Corporate Capitalism<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Each of the hard-to-look-at images above are of children \u2013 not to mention their parents &#8211; who suffered and died before their time. But the guilty American weapons-manufacturing corporations that profited from the wars prefer to not acknowledge that are at the root of the refugee problem.<\/p>\n<p>So, I am obligated to end with a short list of some of the boycott-worthy, profiteering corporations (and their happy share-holders) that are at least partly responsible for the plight of the war\u2014ravaged children pictured above:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><strong>Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, McDonalds, Burger King, Walmart, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Dow Chemical, Monsanto, Syngenta, Lockheed-Martin, Northrup-Grumman, Pfizer, <\/strong><strong>Merck, Johnson &amp; Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Lilly, Exxon-Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, British Petroleum, Halliburton, Deepwater Horizons, Rio Tinto, Antofagasta, Glencore.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And thousands others inherently exploitive, greedy, conscienceless, extractive corporations that are knowingly polluting the planet, always eager to profit from the militarization of our society while simultaneously harming children and other living things.<\/p>\n<p>This sample list of corporations are the paymasters that also own, operate and\/or control (and profit from) the Mainstream Media, Big Pharma\u2019s vaccine and drug manufacturers, Big Medicine\u2019s price-gouging, unaffordable but highly profitable healthcare corporations, Big Government\u2019s private corporation-infiltrated and bribed HHS\/NIH\/CDC\/NIAID\/FDA, and many of the multi-millionaire US political candidates that are sanctioned by both political parties.<\/p>\n<p>Identifying the billionaire culprits that are providing the economic support for the pro-business, pro-war, anti-environment, anti-worker, union-busting, pro-pollution, so-called \u201cChristian\u201d political agendas that keep unemployment high, wages low and corporate profits at an obscene level may somehow stimulate resistance efforts, prolong the survival of the planet, sustain the future of our democracy and the future of suffering humanity, especially the children.<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/gary-g-kohls-phd-02-200x249-e1528305529648.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-88722\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/gary-g-kohls-phd-02-200x249-e1528305529648.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Dr Gary G. Kohls is a retired rural family physician from Duluth, MN, USA and <\/em><em>a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network<\/a><\/em><em>. <\/em><em>Since his retirement in 2008, Dr Kohls has written a weekly column for the <\/em>Reader Weekly<em>, Duluth\u2019s alternative newsweekly magazine. His column, titled <\/em>Duty to Warn<em>, has been re-published and archived at websites around the world.\u00a0 He practiced holistic mental health care in Duluth for the last decade of his family practice career, primarily helping psychiatric patients who had become addicted to their cocktails of dangerous, addictive psychiatric drugs to safely go through the complex withdrawal process. His <\/em>Duty to Warn<em> columns often deal with various unappreciated health issues, including those caused by Big Pharma\u2019s over-drugging, Big Vaccine\u2019s over-vaccinating, Big Medicine\u2019s over-prescribing, over-screening, over-diagnosing and over-treating agendas and Big Food\u2019s malnourishing and sickness-promoting food industry. Those four powerful, profit-seeking entities combine to seriously affect the physical, mental, spiritual and economic health of the recipients of the prescription drugs, medical treatments, toxic vaccines and the consumers of the tasty, ubiquitous and disease-producing \u201cFrankenFoods\u201d \u2013 particularly when they are consumed in combinations, doses and potencies that have never been tested for safety or long-term effectiveness.<\/em><em> Dr Kohls\u2019 <\/em>Duty to Warn<em> columns are archived at, among many other websites:<\/em><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/author\/?a=Gary%20G.%20Kohls,%20MD\" >https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/author\/?a=Gary%20G.%20Kohls,%20MD<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/duluthreader.com\/search?search_term=Duty+to+Warn&amp;p=2\" >http:\/\/duluthreader.com\/search?search_term=Duty+to+Warn&amp;p=2<\/a>; <\/em><br \/>\n<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/gary-g-kohls\" >http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/gary-g-kohls<\/a>; <\/em><br \/>\n<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/freepress.org\/geographic-scope\/national\" >http:\/\/freepress.org\/geographic-scope\/national<\/a>; and<\/em><br \/>\n<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/author\/gary-g-kohls\/\" >https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/author\/gary-g-kohls\/<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 Sep 2020 &#8211; Below is a small handful of the multitude of censored-out and \u201cunpatriotic\u201d war photos that document examples of the \u201ccollateral damage\u201d of children, which accompanies America\u2019s wars. These are usually endorsed or at least not significantly opposed by the overwhelming majority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":168983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[867,1817,2009,554,2163,101,1253,100,291,1105,99,1969,70],"class_list":["post-168975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-anglo-america","tag-anti-militarism","tag-anti-war","tag-children","tag-collateral-damage","tag-cultural-violence","tag-demilitarization","tag-direct-violence","tag-military","tag-military-industrial-complex","tag-structural-violence","tag-us-wars","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}