The Carrion-Feeders [Pub.L. 107-40]
A series of five 20 second digital videos with sound, attached to the Ethereum blockchain as NFTs on July 2, 2021, upon reports of mass troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, and distributed via paid social media advertisements from September 18, 2021 through October 7, 2021. Videos depict glitched images of weapon manufacturer headquarters, a text overlay drawn from extensive research, voiceover reading that text, and a pulsing underscore.
On October 7, 2001, U.S. forces commenced airstrikes on Kabul, Kandahar, and Jalalabad, initiating the Global War on Terror. Over 900,000 people have died in the conflicts since; see Brown University’s Costs of War project.
Through original analysis, research and database scraping, I estimate that at least 28,000 of those persons were civilians whose murder can be directly linked to U.S.-led forces, using weapons built by five major arms manufacturers, paid for by U.S. taxpayers. I’ve documented my methodology and the citations that link DOD contracts to arms manufacturers to reports placing their weapons in the conflict zones.
The digital videos drawing on this research were attached to the ethereum blockchain as NFTs, and presented to the general public via ads on instagram and youtube.