MEDIA LIES

MAITREYA BHAKAL—The reason why the My Lai massacre was allowed to enter the popular US imagination was to hide America’s much larger war crimes. As Nick Turse points out in his award-winning book Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam: “Today, histories of the Vietnam War regularly discuss war crimes or civilian suffering only in the context of a single incident: the My Lai massacre… Even as that one event has become the subject of numerous books and articles, all the other atrocities perpetrated by US soldiers have essentially vanished from popular memory.”

Max Blumenthal and Jimmy Dore—along with Caleb Maupin, Lee Camp, and Kim Iversen— demolish the pile of fetid lies being disseminated by the imperial media and its multitude of minions and useful idiots to justify their attacks on Cuba. A great quick lesson in the sheer cynicism and sociopathic criminality of a supposedly law-abiding “democratic” government. 

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—Mass media punditry is divided on where to assign the blame for the plummet in public opinion of their work, with some blaming it on Russia and others blaming it on Donald Trump. Others, like a recent Forbes article titled “Restoring Public Trust In Technology And Media Is Infrastructure Investment” blame it on the internet. Still others, like a Washington Post article earlier this month titled “Bad news for journalists: The public doesn’t share our values” blame it on the people themselves.

The one thing they all seem to agree on is that it’s definitely not because the billionaire-controlled media are propaganda outlets which manipulate us constantly in conjunction with sociopathic government agencies to protect the oligarchic, imperialist status quo upon which the members of the billionaire class have built their respective kingdoms. It cannot possibly be because people sense that they are being lied to and are fed up with it.

In this video one of the most credible experts on China, Nathan Rich, pushes back against the NYTimes claims about the state of healthcare in China. The US has declared a hybrid war against Beijing, and the barrage of lies splattered all over the Western press is an integral part of this campaign. 

KIM PETERSEN—”Practice open-minded skepticism; demand evidence; demand to know who the people involved are; scrutinize the history and backgrounds of the people, media, and places. In other words don’t allow yourself to easily be lied to…”