[Peace] DN still carrying establishment water, now on Nicaraguan elections

[karen aram]

J.B. 

Your analysis by way of Aaron Mate, Ben Norton, and so many others is spot on. Unfortunately those who only receive their news from NPR, Democracy Now, CNN or Fox are clueless as to what is taking place whether Nicaragua, Venezuela, Russia or China. We can now add Ethiopia to the list.

Please see:  https://blackagendareport.com/abraham-wodaje-kebede-ground-ethiopia. 

The below is a very interesting debate with conservatives and communists in agreement on the cause of so many problems related to our economy today. Please see: 

https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/540015-economic-processes-great-reset/


On Nov 11, 2021, at 9:41 PM, J.B. Nicholson via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote: 

> From Aaron Maté in https://twitter.com/i/status/1457766073995087874:
> 
>> This is how @democracynow "reported" the news of Nicaragua's presidential
>> elections today. It sounds like it's lifted from a State Department press
>> release:
> From https://www.democracynow.org/2021/11/08/headlines/#ortega_set_to_retain_nicaraguan_presidency_in_elections_marred_by_crackdown_on_opposition
> 
>> In Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega appears to have secured his victory in
>> Sunday’s election after unleashing a months-long crackdown on his opposition. An
>> early count shows Ortega receiving about three-quarters of the vote, with around
>> half of the ballots still to be counted. He’s seeking a fourth term as president.
>> Dozens of opposition figures, including seven presidential hopefuls, have been
>> arrested since June. That prompted international outcry and sanctions from the
>> U.S., European Union and other nations. This is an exiled Nicaraguan in San José,
>> Costa Rica, at a protest denouncing Sunday’s election.
>> Noemi Pavón: “In Nicaragua, there are no elections. In Nicaragua, there is an
>> electoral circus, where Ortega chose those who will accompany him in this
>> political circus. He let his political allies go free — collaborationist parties,
>> as we call them. He imprisoned those candidates who formed a genuine opposition.”
> Aaron Maté continues in subsequent posts to the aforementioned Twitter thread:
> 
>> There's a whole int'l delegation, including from US, in Nicaragua observing the
>> vote. And there are journalists like @BenjaminNorton who live there and do
>> in-depth reporting, including on the US-backed right-wing opposition. DN once
>> elevated voices like these; not any longer.
>> For a corrective to the hegemonic US propaganda parroted by @democracynow, see the
>> reporting (on the ground in Nicaragua) by The Grayzone and @BenjaminNorton:
> See https://thegrayzone.com/2021/11/05/nicaragua-us-informant-dora-maria-tellez-mrs/ -- "From Nicaraguan revolutionaries to US embassy informants: How Washington recruited ex-Sandinistas like Dora María Téllez and her MRS party"
> 
> Also see The Convo Couch's coverage of the Nicaraguan election such as https://twitter.com/theconvocouch/status/1457983793323823107 and reports on their YouTube channel such as:
> 
> https://youtube.com/watch?v=GSZPFbOctZI -- Debunking the U.S Lies on Nicaragua’s Election Process - Our On-The-Ground Experience
> https://youtube.com/watch?v=C85sxtpOD4M -- Debunking Western Lies on Nicaraguan Elections
> https://youtube.com/watch?v=aEDvx2JIE2E -- LIVE Press Conf. Debunking MSM Lies - Managua, Nicaragua
> https://youtube.com/watch?v=4nSyqhWBItw -- LIVE 4th VOTING STATION in Bilwi, Nicaragua
> https://youtube.com/watch?v=kQlr0RoTrfg -- LIVE Nicaragua Elections - Loma Verde, Bilwi, Nicaragua
> https://youtube.com/watch?v=mdGnm6-6hY4 -- LIVE Debunking CNN, NYT - Polling Stations Open NICARAGUA
> 
> Pres. Biden and VP Harris still have plenty of time left in their administration to foment a Nicaraguan coup. One wonders if Amy Goodman will stop serving establishment interests and make her show worth watching and hearing again. For now the best I can say about DN is that their best is behind them; I remember the high point of that show's history during the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war when DN was challenging the establishment with unembedded journalists and debunking NYT lies about Iraqi WMDs making DN a must-see show. DN was not repeating the establishment narrative or re-airing CNN without critique as DN apparently does now.
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