Propaganda

Monsanto’s Fingerprints All Over Newsweek’s Hit On Organic Food

January 26, 2018 Stacy Malkan, Usrtk.org Educate! Monsanto, Propaganda

If that name sounds familiar – Henry I. Miller – it may be because the New York Times recently revealed a scandal involving Miller: that he had been caught publishing an article ghostwritten by Monsanto under his own name in Forbes. The article, which largely mirrored a draft provided to him by Monsanto, attacked the scientists of the World Health Organization’s cancer panel (IARC) for their decision to list Monsanto’s top-selling chemical, glyphosate, as a probable human carcinogen. Reporting on an email exchange released in litigation with Monsanto over cancer concerns, the Times’Danny Hakim wrote: “Monsanto asked Mr. Miller if he would be interested in writing an article on the topic, and he said, ‘I would be if I could start from a high-quality draft.’ The article appeared under Mr. Miller’s name, and with the assertion that ‘opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.’

Manufacturing Consent for War as a Public-Private Partnership

January 23, 2018 Nina Illingworth for NiniaIllingworth.com Educate! Media, militarism, Propaganda

The terrifying truth in all of this is that western military, government, media and economic establishments have spent the better part of the past fifty years creating a self-perpetuating political environment that can only and inevitably lead to endless imperial war. After all, if the entire ruling class always supports the business of military conflict, nobody ever suffers any consequences for advocating on behalf of war and public opinion can easily be swayed in favor of US intervention by sympathetic private interests, it would be objectively naive to assume America’s current state of “forever war” is some sort of unlucky accident – this is a feature of neoliberal imperialism, not a bug. Armed with the light of knowledge, is it really all that absurd to question if the elite American establishment is actively trying to manufacture consent for a large-scale conflict that would effectively eliminate Vladimir Putin’s influence in the Middle East by attacking Russian-allied Syria and Iran?

Media’s Wildly Different Take On Unrest In Tunisia And Iran

January 17, 2018 By Whitney Webb, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Iran, Media, Propaganda, Tunisia

TUNIS, TUNISIA — As the new year began, social media and corporate-owned news organizations alike were giving the protests in Iran constant coverage, despite the fact that the protests were relatively small in size and motivated primarily by economics — not politics, as many popular news outlets had claimed. Not surprisingly, these same organizations failed to mention the role of sanctions backed by the West in fomenting the economic troubles facing Iranians. Soon after — despite U.S. encouragement and financial backing, as well as the key role of the U.S.-trained, Iran-based terrorist group MEK, in fomenting the unrest — the protests in Iran fizzled. It was difficult to know this if one relied exclusively upon corporate media reports, which claimed that the protests were growing by the minute...

Washington Post: US Military-Industrial Complex’s Chief Propagandist

January 12, 2018 Eric Zuesse, Strategic-culture.org Educate! Military Industrial Complex, Propaganda, US Imperialism

It used to be that the New York Times and the Washington Post competed against each other to be the chief propagandist for the hundred or so top firms who sell to the US federal government — the 100 top “federal contractors,” almost all of which are Pentagon contractors — mainly these are weapons-manufacturing firms, such as the biggest, Lockheed Martin. The federal government is a large part of these firms’ essential market; so, invasions by the US against other countries require lots of their goods and services; and, also, America’s foreign allies additionally buy these weapons; and, right now, US President Trump is demanding that they increase their ‘defense’ budgets to buy more of them. Wars produce corporate profits if (like in the United States) the military suppliers are private corporations instead of government-owned (socialized).

76 Countries Now Involved In Washington’s War On Terror

January 10, 2018 By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Propaganda, Terrorism, US Imperialism, Washington DC

He left Air Force Two behind and, unannounced, “shrouded in secrecy,” flew on an unmarked C-17 transport plane into Bagram Air Base, the largest American garrison in Afghanistan. All news of his visit was embargoed until an hour before he was to depart the country. More than 16 years after an American invasion “liberated” Afghanistan, he was there to offer some good news to a U.S. troop contingent once again on the rise. Before a 40-foot American flag, addressing 500 American troops, Vice President Mike Pence praised them as “the world’s greatest force for good,” boasted that American air strikes had recently been “dramatically increased,” swore that their country was “here to stay,” and insisted that “victory is closer than ever before.” As an observer noted, however, the response of his audience was “subdued.”

Derailing The Neocon Train To Armageddon

January 9, 2018 Al Markowitz, Almarkowitz.blogspot.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Media, Neocolonialism, Propaganda, Russia

The media war drums are again beating with demonization aimed at Iran, the DPRK and especially Russia. We can't blame this on Trump alone. Our government, under the heavy hand of corporate corruption, has embraced neoliberal economics, debt colonialism and military aggression since Reagan replaced the New Deal with the Raw Deal. Presidents of both parties, including both Bushes, Clinton, Obama, and now Trump have continued on this track which inevitable led to Bush's invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, Obama's Libya disaster and a foreign policy based on regime change, drone terror, arms sales and permanent war – the final product of a marriage of neocon foreign policy and neoliberal economics.

New York Times Trumpwashes 70 Years of US Crimes

December 31, 2017 Adam Johnson, FAIR Educate! Donald Trump, Mass Media, Propaganda

Trumpwashing—defined as whitewashing, obscuring or rewriting the broader US record by presenting Donald Trump as an aberration (FAIR.org, 6/3/16)—was on full display Thursday in a nominally straight news report from the New York Times’ Mark Landler (12/28/17) on how Trump has reshaped US foreign policy. What exactly is this “liberal, rules-based international order,” and when did “the world” view the United States as its most reliable anchor? Landler doesn’t say, he simply asserts this highly contestable and ideological claim, and moves on to pearl-clutch about Trump ruining the US’s hard-won moral authority. He has some 100 percent uncut pro-US ideology to push under the guise of criticizing Trump, and no amount of basic historical facts will get in his way.

In The Dark, Without Witnesses And Cameras

December 27, 2017 Miko Peled, Ahtribune.com Resist! Israel, Nationalism, Propaganda

“In the case of the girls the price must exacted at another time, in the dark, without witnesses and cameras.” Wote Israeli journalist Ben Caspit about Ahed Tamimi who kicked and slapped an IDF officer who invaded her home. In his piece he congratulates the officer who didn’t respond to the slapping and kicking and he continues to say that the Tamimi family must learn the hard way that provoking IDF fighters will cost them dearly. "The IDF has creative abilities" Caspit asserts, abilities with which to exact a price in ways that will not damage its image. Reading the Israeli press, one is reminded of the story where an evil Jinn came in to a city one day and poured a drug into all the wells of that city.

Why We Shouldn’t Fall For Members-Only Unionism Trap

December 27, 2017 By Chris Brooks, Portside.org Strategize! Corporations, Labor, Propaganda, Unions

One of corporate America’s next big goals might surprise you: passing legislation to prevent unions from having to represent workers who don’t pay dues. This is just the latest of many business-friendly labor law reforms proliferating across the country. Over the past decade, the Republican Party has ascended to become the dominant political force in the U.S. government, controlling two-thirds of state legislatures, a majority of governorships, both houses of Congress and the White House. Conservatives also make up a majority on the Supreme Court. This growth in power of the GOP has also given rise to a new slew of anti-union legislation. States in over half the country have passed open-shop laws, euphemistically referred to as “right-to-work.”

This New Book Shows The Future Of The US

December 26, 2017 By Alexander Mercouris, Theduran.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Propaganda, Russia

One of the most deeply frustrating things for anyone with any knowledge of Russia who has been following the Russiagate saga is the staggering ignorance of basic facts about Russia which is so prevalent amongst elites in the US. What makes this especially frustrating is that there is actually no shortage of knowledgeable and erudite experts about Russia who could be called upon if any true desire for knowledge about Russia actually existed. Of those one who who stands out is Gilbert Doctorow, who has been a professional Russia watcher since 1965. Gilbert Doctorow has now offered us a new book – “Does the United States have a Future” – which brings together his splendid collection of essays about Russia and about Russian-American relations which he has been writing since 2015.

The Permanent Lie, Our Deadliest Threat

December 26, 2017 By Chris Hedges, Truthdig.com Educate! Capitalism, Class war, Propaganda, Repression

The most ominous danger we face does not come from the eradication of free speech through the obliteration of net neutrality or through Google algorithms that steer people away from dissident, left-wing, progressive or anti-war sites. It does not come from a tax bill that abandons all pretense of fiscal responsibility to enrich corporations and oligarchs and prepares the way to dismantle programs such as Social Security. It does not come from the opening of public land to the mining and fossil fuel industry, the acceleration of ecocide by demolishing environmental regulations, or the destruction of public education. It does not come from the squandering of federal dollars on a bloated military as the country collapses or the use of the systems of domestic security to criminalize dissent

Ten Big Lies About Venezuela And Its Revolution

December 25, 2017 Carlos E. Lippo, Resumen Educate! Media, Propaganda, Venezuela

The Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela has been widely vilified by the means of the right even before its rise to power in 1999; an example of this was when its top leader, Commander Hugo Chávez, was falsely accused by Ernesto Samper, then president of Colombia, to be behind the infamous Colombian guerrilla attack on the Venezuelan border naval post in 1995. This falsehood was disseminated by the media on the right without a shred of evidence but was not retracted even when Chavez went to the neighboring country to undermine such a lie. The dirty war labs that create the alter reality about Venezuela started to dramatically increase to the stratospheric levels it is at now when Chavez declared the anti imperialist character of the Bolivarian Revolution on May 16, 2004. Here we present a list of 10 of the greatest lies lodged against Venezuela . . .

Lee Camp Dissects NPR’s Propagandistic Attack Against Him

December 21, 2017 By Lee Camp, nakedcapitalism.com Educate! Journalism, Media, Propaganda

I never thought I’d be the target of an NPR attack piece. Through my twenties I even looked to NPR as an outlet full of good, progressive, thoughtful reporting – You know, the soothing voices occasionally interrupted by music no one really listens to but that sounds good between soft-spoken ivy league journalists over the age of 50. Everything about NPR subtly reinforced the idea, “Everything is fine. You’re probably a middle to upper class white person or you hope to be one day, and that’s just great. Everything is fine.” They might not SAY that, but they say that. And for a long time, I was cool with that message.Then I woke up. About the time NPR was avoiding Occupy Wall Street...

Most Censored Stories Of 2017, Honduras V. Venezuela

December 20, 2017 Lee Camp, youtube.com Resistance Report Censorship, Honduras, Media, Propaganda, Venezuela

Lee Camp covers what were some of the most censored stories this year, according to the media watchdog site “Project Censored.” He also discusses accused pedophile Roy Moore, who lost his bid for the Senate in Alabama. Then, correspondent Naomi Karavani joins Lee at the desk to discuss just how corrupt local politicians are and correspondent John F. O’Donnell reports on the hypocrisy of US treatment of Honduras and Venezuela.

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