Propaganda

Baghdadi Dies Yet Again

October 30, 2019 Abdel Bari Atwan, Raialyoum.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Propaganda, Trump Administration

We never knew how good an actor President Donald Trump was until his press conference on Sunday announcing that US Special Forces had killed Islamic State (ISIS or Daesh) leader Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria’s Idlib province. He basked in self-awarded triumph and behaved as though he had achieved a monumental victory, as though he had defeated the Soviet Union at the height of its power. Each and every one of his utterances and movements, even his facial gestures, were carefully calculated and pre-rehearsed.

New York Times Fakes The Record About Arming The Syrian Rebels

October 23, 2019 Staff, Moonofalabama.org Educate! Middle East, New York Times (NYT), Propaganda, Syria

Now, [..] the sense of betrayal among the Kurds [..] is matched only by their outrage at who will move in: Turkish soldiers supported by Syrian fighters the United States had long rejected as extremists, criminals and thugs...The deadly battles [..] have also given new leeway to Syrian fighters once considered too extreme or unruly to receive American military support...Grandly misnamed the Syrian National Army, this coalition of Turkish-backed militias is in fact largely composed of the dregs of the eight-year-old conflict’s failed rebel movement.

Catalonia ‘Separatists’ Bad, HK ‘Pro-Democracy Protesters’ Good: Orwell’s 1984 Becomes User’s Manual For Western ‘Free Media’

October 22, 2019 George Galloway, Rt.com Educate! Catalonia, Hong Kong, Nationalism, Propaganda

When supporters of Catalan leaders jailed for organizing a democratic vote advance on Barcelona airport, media make a fuss over ‘separatists’ causing chaos. When the same tactic’s used in Hong Kong, it’s a ‘pro-democracy’ protest. In George Orwell’s 1984, The War Ministry was renamed the Ministry of Peace. Truth was Lies, Hate was Love. But author Lewis Carroll got there first. In ‘Through the Looking Glass,’ first published in 1871, Humpty Dumpty tells Alice, and in rather a scornful manner, “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”

Natural Gas Vs. Renewable Energy: Beware The Latest Gas Industry Talking Points

October 21, 2019 Derrick Z. Jackson, Blog.ucsusa.org Educate! Fossil Fuels, Propaganda, Renewable Energy

The campaign is loaded with disinformation. The American Petroleum Institute (API) says it’s pushing gas as a “foundation for the future” because it is “clean.” Major fossil fuel companies including BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Shell are API members. The Independent Petroleum Association of America is playing up outdated 2008 praise of gas by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to decry pledges by leading 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to ban hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for gas.

How The Mainstream Media Tries To Convince You That Medicare For All Is Impossible

October 19, 2019 Celisa Calacal, Independent Media Institute, Economy for All Educate! Health Care, Media, Medicare for all, Propaganda, Reform

Despite numerous polls showing a majority of the public supports a Medicare for All, single-payer health care system, reports from mainstream media paint a different picture. In a New York Times election piece from February on the Democratic candidates’ stances on health care, Alexander Burns explains that Medicare for All “would require so much public funding and would force many people who like their existing health insurance to change plans.” Another New York Times article by Margot Sanger-Katz claims that Medicare for All “would do away with all private health insurance.”

Media Targeted In Ecuador’s Deepening Crisis

October 12, 2019 Staff, Rsf.org Resist! Ecuador, Journalism, Latin America, Media, Propaganda

These large-scale protests began when President Lenin Moreno announced on 2 October that his government was ending fuel subsidies in effect for nearly 40 years, causing a sharp hike in fuel prices. The protests led Moreno to decree a state of emergency the next day and to move the government from the highland capital, Quito, to the port city of Guayaquil. In this extremely tense climate, journalists covering the protests have been targeted by both police and protesters. Police violence and arbitrary arrests of media personnel have been reported in many of the country’s major cities.

Joshua Wong, Juan Guaido, – New Generation Of Pro-Western “Saints”

October 10, 2019 Andre Vltchek, Journal-neo.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Propaganda

The new generation of “pro-Western heroes” and “saints” is clearly failing to impress the world. Juan Guaido and Joshua Wong are definitely as right-wing as Mother Teresa was, but not as “credible”. A long time ago I visited a place in Calcutta, India, where Mother Teresa used to operate. According to the Catholic Church and Western propaganda apparatus, she was helping the poor. When I asked those who knew her personally, they described her as a spiteful, vindictive person, with a short temper. Off the record, of course, as to criticizing her openly would be met with great outrage all over the world.

Media Continue To Push Misinformation About Venezuela And Drug Trafficking

September 25, 2019 Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz, Fair.org Educate! Drug Trafficking, Media, Propaganda, Venezuela

In recent years, Western corporate journalists have turned to systematically citing unnamed sources and secret documents from the US national security state. Indeed, one would be forgiven for thinking it was standard operating procedure. The Wall Street Journal (9/15/19) takes this “deep state” fan fiction genre to new heights with its latest on Venezuela, titled “Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez Worked to Flood US with Cocaine, US Prosecutors Say.” As advertised, the Journal’s Juan Forero echoes allegations against the Venezuelan government by US officials, which are contained in undisclosed “documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal.”

Believe Absolutely Nothing The US Government And Media Say About…Anything

September 19, 2019 Glen Ford, Blackagendareport.com Educate! Corporate Media, Propaganda

There was a time, not so long ago, when most Black Americans of all classes were highly skeptical of every word that emanated from the mouths of white folks in power in the United States. A substantial body of Black opinion believed nothing at all that appeared in the corporate media – which, back then, we simply called the “white press.” It was a wise and healthy skepticism, learned over generations of enduring a constant stream of lies and slander against Black people from politicians and mass media of the two governing parties.

Green-Smearing – From Nicaragua To Bolivia

September 17, 2019 Stephen Sefton, Tortillaconsal.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Media, Propaganda

On one level the intensifying deceit of Western media foreign affairs coverage corresponds to the increasing desperation of Western elites confronting their failing global power and influence. But it also signals yet another crisis of capitalist economic growth. After 1945, North America and Western Europe based their genocidal imperialism on a social compact promising prosperity to their peoples at home in exchange for their collusion in imperialist military aggression and neocolonial crimes overseas.

How The BBC’s Quentin Sommerville Created Fairytales Of Underground Hospitals In Syria

September 17, 2019 Staff, Moonofalabama.org Educate! Media, Propaganda, Syria

In August 2013 the BBC produced a fake video headlined "Saving Syria’s Children" about an alleged chemical weapon attack in Syria which it claimed was caused by the Syrian government. Robert Stuart has since pressed the BBC to admit the obvious fabrication of these scenes. Today the BBC posted on its website another Syria clip under the title Idlib's secret hospitals hiding from air strikes: Air strikes have been targeting hospitals in the rebel-held province of Idlib, Syria, despite the fact that it is a war crime. Medics have been forced underground in order to survive.

Climate Science Deniers Planning European Misinformation Campaign, Leaked Documents Reveal

September 16, 2019 By Richard Collett-White, Desmog.co.uk Educate! Climate Change, Climate Science, Propaganda

A coalition of climate science denial groups is gearing up for a European media blitz later this month, in an apparent bid to derail efforts to set an EU-wide “net zero” emissions target, documents obtained by DeSmog show. Plans for a self-styled “European Declaration” include press conferences in Brussels, Rome and Oslo and a letter to be sent to leaders of EU and UN institutions, scheduled for mid-September. The letter claims to have “400 independent Climate Scientists and Professionals” signed up so far.

Western Media Portrays Hong Kong Hooligans As Heroes. But Are They?

September 13, 2019 By Andre Vltchek, Globalresearch.ca Educate! Hong Kong, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Propaganda

On Sunday, huge US flags were waving in the air. A massive demonstration, consisting of mainly young people, was moving up from the old British-built downtown area of the city towards the US Consulate General, often erroneously called the “embassy.” The temperature was well over 30 degrees Celsius, but the number of ‘protesters’ kept growing. Many of the main arteries in Hong Kong were entirely blocked. Western media were there in full force, wearing yellow fluorescent vests, their ‘Press’ insignia, helmets and masks. They mingled with the crowd, filming US flags, clearly enjoying the show.

What Really Happened In Zimbabwe

September 10, 2019 By David Adams, Decade-culture-of-peace.org Educate! Africa, History, Land, Media, Propaganda, Reform, Zimbabwe

At one point they describe his seizure of white-owned farms. “By 1998, although Mr. Mugabe had promised new land for 162,000 black families, only 71,000 white households had been resettled. Then came a dramatic turn. Starting around 2000, Mr. Mugabe’s lieutenants sent squads of young men to invade hundreds of white-owned farms and chase away their owners. The campaign took a huge toll. Over two years, nearly all of the country’s white-owned land had been redistributed . . . The violent agricultural revolution had come with a heavy price.

Propaganda Blitz Against Bolivia’s Progressive Government

September 10, 2019 Cassandra Howath, Off-guardian.org Educate! Bolivia, Latin America, Propaganda, Regime Change, Wildfires

On 26 August, Novara Media’s website published a vicious and reactionary article titled ‘It’s Not Just Brazil’s Forests That Are Burning, Bolivia Is on Fire Too’ by prominent Extinction Rebellion speaker and activist Claire Wordley. Novara and Wordley are recycling from the same imperialist playbook which has been drawn on in recent attacks against Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua – the so-called Troika of Tyranny. The gist of Wordley’s article is that Bolivian President Evo Morales is to blame for the fires raging in the Amazon rainforest...

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