Propaganda

No. 1 Sponsor Of Terrorism? US Media Name Iran, But Overlook A Candidate Closer To Home

February 14, 2020 Joshua Cho, Fair.org Educate! Assassination, Media, Middle East, Propaganda, Qassem Soleimani

After the illegal assassination of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, FAIR (1/9/20) noted that the corporate media offered no moral objections to murdering another country’s high-ranking state official. The media consensus was that Soleimani was a despicable “terrorist” responsible for the deaths of “hundreds of Americans”—a formula that buried the crucial distinction between terrorism and armed resistance...

The US Land Of Make Believe

February 6, 2020 Chris Hedges, Truthdig. Educate! Myths, Propaganda, US Empire, White Supremacy

If what happens in courtrooms across the country to poor people of color is justice, what is happening in the Senate is a trial. If the blood-drenched debacles and endless quagmires in the Middle East are victories in the war on terror, our military is the greatest on earth. If the wholesale government surveillance of the public, the revoking of due process and having the world’s largest prison population are liberty, we are the land of the free. If the president, an inept, vulgar and corrupt con artist, is the leader of the free world, we are a beacon for democracy and our enemies hate us for our values. If Jesus came to make us rich, bless the annihilation of Muslims by our war machine and condemn homosexuality and abortion, we are a Christian nation.

Smart Power & The Human Rights Industrial Complex

January 22, 2020 By Patrick Henningsen, Ukcolumn.org Educate! Human Rights, NGOs, Propaganda

Human rights in the West: does the reality live up to the rhetoric? On the surface, the cultural narrative seems innocent enough: billionaire philanthropists, political luminaries and transnational corporations, along with legions of staff and volunteers – all working together in the name of social justice, forging a better, fairer and more accountable world. The story reads well on paper, and well it should. After all, the 20th century saw a string of failures by various governments to curb and halt some of the most horrific exhibitions of genocide and crimes against humanity.

U.S. Media Bias Creates False Pictures Of Russia

December 26, 2019 Staff, Moonofalabama.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Propaganda, Russia

The NYT can claim that Russia's GDP is smaller than Italy's because it only looked at the nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of those countries. But nominal GDP like nominal wages are not meaningful comparisons. The question is how much can be bought for each nominal unit. Andrei Martyanov has recently looked at two quite comparable houses, one near Moscow and one near Washington DC. The Russian house costs some $93,000 while the U.S. one is offered for $440,000...

The Propaganda Multiplier

December 24, 2019 Swiss Propaganda Research. Educate! CIA, Media, Propaganda

It is one of the most important aspects of our media system, and yet hardly known to the public: most of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by only three global news agencies based in New York, London and Paris. The key role played by these agencies means Western media often report on the same topics, even using the same wording. In addition, governments, military and intelligence services use these global news agencies as multipliers to spread their messages around the world. A study of the Syria war coverage by nine leading European newspapers clearly illustrates these issues: 78% of all articles were based in whole or in part on agency reports, yet 0% on investigative research. Moreover, 82% of all opinion pieces and interviews were in favor of a US and NATO intervention, while propaganda was attributed exclusively to the opposite side.

China Detaining Millions Of Uyghurs?

December 23, 2019 Ajit Singh and Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone Educate! China, Propaganda, US Imperialism, Uyghurs

The US House of Representatives passed the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act on December 3, legislation which calls for the Donald Trump administration to impose sanctions against China over allegations that Beijing has detained millions of Muslim-majority Uyghurs in the western region of Xinjiang. To drum up support for the sanctions bill, Western governments and media outlets have portrayed the People’s Republic as a human rights violator on par with Nazi Germany. Republican Rep. Chris Smith, for instance, denounced the Chinese government for what he called the “mass internment of millions on a scale not seen since the Holocaust,” in “modern-day concentration camps.” The claim that China has detained millions of ethnic Uyghurs in its Xinjiang region is repeated with increasing frequency, but little scrutiny is ever applied.

As The OPCW Is Accused Of False Reporting, US Propaganda Jumps To Its Help

December 4, 2019 By Moonofalabama.org Educate! Chemical Weapons, Propaganda

Under U.S. pressure the OPCW management modified or suppressed the findings of its own scientists to make it look as if the Syrian government had been responsible for the alleged chemical incident in April 2018 in Douma. The public attention to the OPCW's fakery lead to the questioning of other assertions the OPCW had previously made. With the OPCW under fire someone had to come to its help. To save the propaganda value of the OPCW reports the U.S. financed Bellingcat propaganda organization jumped in to save the OPCW's bacon.

Omidyar’s Intercept Teams Up With War-Propaganda Firm Bellingcat

December 3, 2019 By Whitney Webb, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Propaganda, Wars and Militarism

NEW YORK — The Intercept, along with its parent company First Look Media, recently hosted a workshop for pro-war, Google-funded organization Bellingcat in New York. The workshop, which cost $2,500 per person to attend and lasted five days, aimed to instruct participants in how to perform investigations using “open source” tools — with Bellingcat’s past, controversial investigations for use as case studies. The exact details of what occurred during the workshop have not been made public and Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins declined to elaborate on the workshop when pressed on social media.

U.S. Is Using Hong Kong For A Shakedown

November 30, 2019 Huang Jiyuan, News.cgtn.com Educate! China, Hong Kong, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Propaganda

The United States government just officially crowned itself as a shakedown artist. The passage and signing of Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act and Placing Restrictions on Teargas Exports and Crowd-control Technology to Hong Kong Act have gone beyond mere interference in domestic affairs. Maybe U.S. politicians don't realize it, or maybe they just don't care anymore, but this bill has removed all façade that the United States have put up. It isn't designed to protect Hong Kong residents' "freedom" and "human rights" as Congress claims it to be.

NYT’s “Leaked” Chinese Files Story Covers For Terrorism

November 27, 2019 Tony Cartalucci, Journal-neo.org Educate! China, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, New York Times (NYT), Propaganda

The New York Times has once again exposed itself as an organ of US special interests operating under the guise of journalism – contributing to Wall Street and Washington’s ongoing and escalating hybrid war with China with a particularly underhanded piece of war propaganda. Its article, “‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims,” at face value attempts to bolster allegations made primarily by the United States that China is organizing unwarranted and oppressive “mass detentions” of “Muslims” in China’s western region of Xinjiang.

US Launches New Mandarin Media Network Focused On Influencing Chinese Youth

November 26, 2019 By Mark Magnier, Scmp.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Propaganda

The US government is planning a major new Mandarin-language initiative in an effort to bolster its global reputation at a time of Chinese ascendancy and eroding American soft power. According to internal memos, job placement advertisements and interviews with people close to Washington’s information arms, Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Asia (RFA) are joining forces on a new network called Global Mandarin. Its annual budget would be between US$5 million and US$10 million, potentially rising in the second year, according to a source who requested anonymity given links to the networks...

How Human Rights Watch Whitewashed A Right-Wing Massacre In Bolivia

November 25, 2019 By Alan Macleod, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Bolivia, Electoral Politics, Latin America, Propaganda

Bolivia is currently in turmoil after President Evo Morales was deposed in a U.S.-supported coup d’état on November 10. The new coup government forced Morales into exile, began arresting politicians and journalists while pre-exonerating security services of all crimes committed during the “re-establishment of order,” effectively giving them a license to kill all resistance to their rule. Dozens have died and massacres of indigenous protesters have occurred in the city of Cochabamba and the small town of Senkata.

Bot Campaign On Twitter Fuels Confusion About Bolivian Unrest

November 22, 2019 By Zoe Schiffer, Theverge.com Educate! Bolivia, Latin America, Media, Propaganda, Regime Change

Since last week, a network of Twitter bot accounts has been spreading confusion about the events surrounding Bolivian President Evo Morales’ abrupt resignation. The messages, which appear in English and Spanish, all carry the exact same text, beginning with the words, “Friends from everywhere, in Bolivia there was no coup.” Initial iterations of the tweet seem to have been written by an authentic critic of Morales, but the sentiment was co-opted and amplified by what experts say is a network of automated Twitter accounts.

Criticize But Don’t Demonize China

November 10, 2019 Nathan Gardels, The WorldPost Educate! China, Propaganda

This week, the Berggruen Institute’s 21st Century Council met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing and then gathered in this city-region of 22 million inhabitants for the fourth “Understanding China” conference. The theme this time was China’s plans for the next phase of “reform and opening up” and what the Chinese leader calls “the new globalization.” In his opening remarks, Xi framed the discussion. “You can’t understand China,” he said, “unless you understand its path to development, which is linked to globalization. China will never close its opening to the world.”

Why Is The Media Covering Protests In Hong Kong, Chile So Differently?

October 31, 2019 By Morgan Artyukhina, Sputniknews.com Resist! Chile, Hong Kong, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Media, Propaganda, Protests

Media coverage of the protest movements in Hong Kong and Chile contrasts sharply, tracing a line in US foreign policy that aims to buttress movements that benefit US imperialism while ignoring or demonizing those that challenge it. In several key ways, this dichotomy is apparent and palpable. On both sides of the Pacific, sustained civil resistance is rocking governments to their core. In Hong Kong, anger at a proposed extradition bill with mainland China erupted into huge demonstrations in June...

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