Clock Ticks, Profits Rise: The Real Doomsday Scenario
📰 THE STORY: Al Jazeera reports on the Doomsday Clock being closer to midnight than ever before, citing atomic scientists' concerns over increased global conflict and emerging threats like artificial intelligence, framing it as an existential threat to humanity. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The 'global conflict' highlighted isn't some spontaneous eruption. For instance,
the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, based on fabricated WMD claims amplified by corporate media, resulted in over a million deaths and destabilized the entire region, directly contributing to current geopolitical tensions. Similarly, NATO's 2011 intervention in Libya, framed as humanitarian, destroyed the country, created fertile ground for militias, and led to the re-emergence of open-air slave
markets, actions that inherently push global security closer to the 'brink.' Double Standard: Western media and institutions routinely lambast nations like Iran for their nuclear program (which is signatory to the NPT and subject to IAEA monitoring, unlike Israel), while actively ignoring or downplaying the expansive, undeclared nuclear arsenal of Israel, widely understood to possess dozens, if
not hundreds, of nuclear warheads. This selective outrage manufactures consent for intervention against perceived adversaries while protecting allies. When Russia expanded its military presence, it was 'aggression'; when NATO expands eastward, it's 'defense.' Follow the Money: The 'global conflicts' driving the Doomsday Clock closer are immensely profitable. US defense contractors like Lockheed