This is not a full account of the topic “America’s contribution to Pakistan’s misery”, which would fill multiple volumes if not a library.

It’s just a brief, sad item that encapulates how despicable the War Empire that grew out of the once respected United States of America has become.

The news from Pakistan is truly awful. Some twenty million people – close to the entire population of Australia – are now homeless. At least 1,600 are dead. There are reports of cholera. This is a global humanitarian emergency of the first order, yet aid is only “trickling in”.

America's aid to Pakistan: hi-tech murder

What else is in the news about Pakistan this morning?

It’s reported an American drone killed another 13 and wounded 5 in Pakistan.

Who were these people, executed by the US military without trial or sentencing inside another sovereign nation?

Apparently the strike occurred during special Ramadan prayers.

Senior Pakistani security officials in the area… on condition of anonymity, told AFP:

“One missile fired from a US drone struck a militant compound in the village killing at least 13 rebels, many among them foreigners”

“It is also not yet clear if there was any high value target present in the area at the time of attack“

In other words, who the hell knows who those guys were?

Just another bunch of hapless unknowns, blown away in the ‘War on Terror’.

More business for the military industrial complex.

Another reason for America to be held in utter contempt by what remains of the civilized world.