No, I am not referring to the terrorist attack in London that has a death toll of seven people and is dominating the news cycle. Nor am I referring to the suicide bomb that was set off outside a concert venue in Manchester. No, I'm referring to the one in Kabul, Afghanistan.

A massive blast tore through the diplomatic quarter of the Afghan capital Wednesday, killing at least 80 people and wounding more than 460, officials said. The devastation left Kabul in shock and underlined the country’s security struggles as it confronts a sustained wave of insurgent and terrorist attacks. Interior Ministry officials said a huge quantity of explosives, hidden in a tanker truck, detonated at 8:30 a.m. during rush hour on a busy boulevard in the Wazir Akbar Khan district, which houses embassies, banks, supermarkets and government ministries. An entire city block was ravaged, with office buildings left in rubble and charred vehicles strewn across the road in one of the deadliest single attacks in Kabul.

The Taliban has denied responsibility, blaming ISIS. Some reports have speculated that this suicide attack was the result of Trump dropping the largest conventional bomb in the US military's inventory in the Khoresan province of Afghanistan against ISIS forces operating there because ISIS supposedly has a pattern of responding to attacks against its fighters with suicide bombings.

Meanwhile, yesterday, another bombing, this one at the funeral of an Afghan political figure, killed about twenty more people. That's over 100 people dead and hundreds more wounded from two terrorist attacks in Kabul within a span of four days. Last year conservative estimates place the number of civilians who were killed in Afghanistan's continuing conflict at 3,498 with another 7,920 wounded.

Over the course of the last 12 months there have been seven major terrorist attacks in Kabul alone where 20 or more people died, including two in which over 80 people died. Blame for these attacks has generally been assigned to either the Taliban or ISIS. Yet when these horrors occur, CNN doesn't go into 24/7 freak-out mode. MsNBC and Fox News don't spend hours telling us every last little detail they know or think they know, or provide insufferable analysis from countless experts and commentators about what it all means, who's responsible, what should we do, or should have done, etc., etc., etc.

This is not to diminish the deaths of the victims of the London and Manchester attacks. They are horrific and should be covered. However, I'm willing to bet most people in America knew little if anything about what happened this last week in Kabul. Kathy Griffin's stupid stunt with a fake decapitated head of Donal Trump received more coverage in America than these tragic and ongoing atrocities in Kabul.

Salon recently pointed out the discrepancy in news coverage and the hypocrisy regarding whose deaths from terror attacks we must care about and whose deaths we do not. The fact that the reporting is so skewed in favor of covering the deaths from attacks in Europe and America is largely the result of decisions by these corporate media outlets as to what is considered newsworthy. The subtitle to the Salon article says it all:

In biased media coverage of non-Western terror attack victims, the sense of personal tragedy is mostly absent

That bias has consequences. It magnifies the outrage against Muslims living in the West, thus leading to violent incidents like the most recent one in Portland. At the same time, by dehumanizing the victims of our wars of aggression in the Middle east, Africa and Southwest Asia, we as citizens of the country most responsible for the growth of extremist Islamic terrorists, along with our ally, Saudi Arabia, are manipulated into supporting further escalation of these conflicts. Already there is talk of putting more US troops in Afghanistan and of conducting a proxy war against Iran that could easily escalate into a full out invasion of the country that does not sponsor the terror groups doing most if not all of the killing in both the West and Muslim world.

The media doesn't have to lie to get us to do what the Deep State wants. All it has to do is mislead people through what it emphasizes in its news coverage and what it does not. The death of seven people in London is a tragedy of monumental proportions. The deaths of many, many more around the Muslim world - eh, who gives a damn. Unless we can blame our government's designated villains, Iran, Syria and/or Russia, for those deaths, of course.

So while you watch or read about the London attack yesterday, just remember far worse attacks happen everyday in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia and other places around the world. And also remember none of this would likely have happened if our government and the other governments we dragged into this mess had not made the use of military force our only option. A policy decision, by the way, that was sold to us by the enablers in our complicit "free press."