Print this post.
Syria's UNO ambassador, Bashar Jaafari: Speaking truth to power, but can sociopaths really listen?
If published in the New York Times, which daily dedicates acres of newsprint to fluff and outrageous warmongering lies of utility only to the world plutocracy it serves (later amplified by the rest of the prostituted mainstream media), statements like Amb. Jaafari's would go a long way to restore sanity and honesty in the affairs of nations. It would take less than one inch in any of the broadsheet's pages. Yes, the truth is simple, direct and concise. It does not require tons of artifice and embellishment. But it won't happen. For the simple reason the New York Times—as we all know so well— and its fellow capitalist media are not really news media but —in regard to all topics of vital interests to humanity—propaganda platforms in the west's Ministry of Truth.
9 April
Jaafari: Some permanent members have become professional liars. Through lying Palestine was occupied and the war in Korea fueled, through lying they invaded Vietnam & Grenada, occupied Iraq and destroyed Libya, and through lying they will create a pretext to invade Syria pic.twitter.com/xE7a8E8eWa— the Lemniscat (@theLemniscat) May 3, 2018
BONUS FEATURES
UNSC meets to discuss reports of chemical attack in Syria
Russia and U.K. clash at United Nations Security Council
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Parting shot—a word from the editors
The Best Definition of Donald Trump We Have Found
In his zeal to prove to his antagonists in the War Party that he is as bloodthirsty as their champion, Hillary Clinton, and more manly than Barack Obama, Trump seems to have gone “play-crazy” — acting like an unpredictable maniac in order to terrorize the Russians into forcing some kind of dramatic concessions from their Syrian allies, or risk Armageddon.However, the “play-crazy” gambit can only work when the leader is, in real life, a disciplined and intelligent actor, who knows precisely what actual boundaries must not be crossed. That ain’t Donald Trump — a pitifully shallow and ill-disciplined man, emotionally handicapped by obscene privilege and cognitively crippled by white American chauvinism. By pushing Trump into a corner and demanding that he display his most bellicose self, or be ceaselessly mocked as a “puppet” and minion of Russia, a lesser power, the War Party and its media and clandestine services have created a perfect storm of mayhem that may consume us all.— Glen Ford, Editor in Chief, Black Agenda Report
^5000The mainstream imperialist media lie CONSTANTLY. Literally 24/7. And it's getting worse.
All of them do it: radio, tv, the newspapers, the movies. The internet. No exceptions.
The corporate Big Lie is pervasive and totalitarian. CBS does it. NBC does it. ABC does it.
CNN does it. FOX does it. NPR does it. And of course the NYTimes and WaPo do it.
Thousands of "diverse" voices telling you the same lies. Enough to convince anyone.