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This after all comes out following a new Byline Times report [bylinetimes.com] which found that “at least 5.8 to 6 million people are likely to have died overall due to the War on Terror– a staggering number which is still probably very conservative.”

It also comes out two months after whistleblower Daniel Hale was sentenced to nearly four years in prison [theintercept.com] for leaking secret government information [jacobinmag.com] about America’s psychopathic civilian-slaughtering drone assassination program [theintercept.com].

It also comes a few months after a Code Pink report found [mintpressnews.com] that the US and its allies have been dropping an average of 46 bombs per day in the so-called War on Terror for the last twenty years.

Do you remember seeing an average of 46 news reports a day on bombings conducted by the US and its allies? Do you remember even reading about one single US bombing per day in the mainstream news? I don’t. The US power alliance has for decades been continuously raining explosives from the sky on impoverished people in the Global South and the mainstream news reports on almost none of those instances, much less launches an in-depth investigation into whether each one killed who the military claims they killed.

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/09/18/where-was-all-the-investigative-journalism-on-us-airstrikes-the-last-20-years/ [caitlinjohnstone.com]

Now that the occupation is "over", it's safe to write about. Anyway, it's better to keep people distracted from domestic politics by directing their outrage at the invulnerable machine of the MIC.