AlterNet: Blame for Iraq Extends Far Beyond the GOP
Its dangerous to allow history to be written that it was “the Republicans” who got us into Iraq — a lot of Americas mushy moderate media and political establishment thought the invasion was a great idea at the time.
Planted Propaganda - washingtonpost.com
Planted Propaganda
It’s a bad idea, whether or not it violates regulations. Too bad the Pentagon won’t say that.Monday, October 23, 2006; Page A20THE DEFENSE Department inspector general has concluded that having a Pentagon contractor secretly pay Iraqi journalists and news organizations to run positive news stories about the war doesn’t violate any laws or regulations. It’s almost impossible to tell whether that conclusion is correct: The scanty, two-page summary released by the Pentagon provides no details about the activities of the contractor, the Lincoln Group, the contract under which it was operating or the applicable rules.
We won’t dwell too long, though, on the irony that an assessment of the military’s secret propaganda operations is itself — except for the largely exculpatory conclusion — secret. The more important point is that, assuming the inspector general’s legal assessment is right, it only makes the problem worse. The U.S. government has a legitimate interest in conveying its point of view. The problem is when it does so in secret. The government shouldn’t be in the business of covertly peddling propaganda — especially in a war based on the notion of seeking to export democratic values such as, say, a free press.
Horror and Hypocrisy in the World Media
October 15, 2006. Daily evening-news on a German TV-station. Here the quote of the speaker: “The president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, was visiting today the building where she and her mother were tortured and, contrary to many others, survived. 260 people were tortured to death alone in this prison and “disappeared” during the regime of Pinochet. Michelle Bachelet said that she felt still very sad about what happened during those years of terror.”That’s all. This is the way today media inform about the past. Not one word about over 3000 youth, journalists, editors, teachers, women and children been tortured to death by a man who is still living in luxury in his villa near Santiago de Chile. Not one word about 30000 killed in the same way in Argentina, several 100000 all over the right-wing regimes in Central and South America, assisted by all governments of the USA and instructed by CIA. Not one word about these killers and torturers, still being alive and living in best circumstances in this world.
What huge hypocrisy! The media of the world are skunks that undertake everything to make us forget all crimes of states and governments during the last 100 years. But I, Rene Delavy, will not forget and I have written this in my Editors letter “End of humanity”; that analysis can not be surpassed in literature but it can be extended by exactly this very letter.
Now the hypocrites in media world wide have to learn now - the heavy way so - the truth about the real horror not commented truthfully during the last 100 years:
Here the proofs and facts: 9/11 was peanuts. Bombs in trains in London were peanuts. Same goes for Madrid. Palestine self-murder-bombs are peanuts. Bin Laden and his funny al-Qaeda are peanuts. The real terrorism finds place, yes, but always in areas where uninformed readers would never look out for.
Let’s talk of the real thing in matters of state-terrorism:
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