The U.S. Military has dozens of ‘schools’ where we train ‘rebels’ to commit war crimes- with the tacit approval of the New York Times.
Is the New York Times’ failure to accurately report assassination programs proof they are ignorant- or complicit in perpetuating war and death?
Read more: New York Times, Journalism, and U.S. Assassination Schools
When a piece of evidence that contradicts the overall impression is absent from the reportage, the reportage itself is almost worthless.
What is the best way to cut through establishment propaganda?
Read more: Everything They’re Telling Us About Syria….Is False?
For those versed in the black arts of propaganda, the hijacking of Arab Spring must be a beauteous thing to behold.
First came evidently spontaneous uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. Then some up-and-comer in Washington or London or Paris had a brainstorm, a new twist on a very old idea: if you can’t beat em, join em. Or even better, co-opt them, and use them for your own purposes.
How big a part does alternative media play in the strategy of the CIA?
Read more: The Hijacking Of Arab Spring, And The Media’s Complicity
‘As in the case of Libya, from NY Times to Fox News, from Guardian to National Post and from Le Monde to Le Figaro, the Western mainstream media’s coverage of the Syrian conflict has been mostly simplistic and black & white with a Hollywoodian good (opposition) and evil (Syrian government) story.’
Read more: Political Propaganda: Six Ways the Media Has Misreported Syria
‘The air is full of dire warnings of an impending Israeli attack on Iran. Prophets of doom declare themselves full of forebodings and point fearfully to the meeting in the White House between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as crucial in making the decisions that will lead to peace or war.’
Read more: Media Wars & Big Bluffs: Israel’s Huff and Puff Game
‘“Israel Vs Iran” reads Sunday’s cover of the New York Times Magazine– the words written ominously in ashes from which smoke and flame still rise. Inside the magazine, Ronen Bergman a military analyst for the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth argues that an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities in 2012 is inevitable, though he admits that, even if successful, such an operation might only delay the development of an Iranian bomb by a few months or at most years, and would open Israel to a devastating counterattack by Iranian rockets, some of which can hit Tel Aviv.
Once again, we are being presented with war as a fait accompli. But does such reporting function as a self-fulfilling prophecy?’
Read more: Bad Journalism: The War Drums of the New York Times
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