POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Of course it will take time.
The national army is, after all, fighting people supplied
and assisted by the United States, Israel, and other American satrapies.
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"The west doesn't
support truth, we deny it."
The truth is that virtually all of our news in the
international sphere now is synthetic.
We almost never see any more genuine reporting from places
like Syria.
We read re-written press releases from Pentagon or State
Department sources.
Or we read re-written stuff from organs directly serving
Pentagon interests, outfits like Reuters or the Washington Post.
Even when we do have reporters on war fronts, they are now
"embedded" and not the least free to address hard issues.
And a military like that of the U.S. has many ways of
intimidating and shaping what they may write in their embedded situation. An
extraordinary number of journalists were killed by American forces in Iraq,
including journalists from several other countries.
And then the planted and warped stuff that we do read is
further re-inforced by an army of journalistic ants scribbling away at columns
about places and events they know very little if anything about, the Margaret
Wente's of this world.
There is no perspective in the mainline press on any international
matter except the perspective intended by those manipulating events.
Orwell anticipated this reality with Oceania's party
constantly re-writing history and making words disappear.
But the modern reality is far more subtle and insidious with
all the pretenses of reportage maintained and all the hollow claims of truth
from independent sources on the Internet, again a place well-larded with
CIA-supported blogs and news sheets which have all the tone and appearance of
genuine independent sources.
It is becoming harder, day by day, to speak to truth and
have it heard.
