[Peace-discuss] Lies of our Times

[Ricky Baldwin]

Like the man says, like enemy propaganda.  How I still mourn the loss
of the magazine with your subject line as its title.  FAIR's stuff is
great, of course, and there are others doing the work, but how can you
beat "Lies of Our Times"?

Ricky
--- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Anyone who wants to know why Americans are so ignorant about their
> government's 
> policies need only look at the lead stories in the NY Times yesterday
> and today 
> (and recall that even for those who never read the NYT, it still sets
> the agenda 
> for what the rest of the US media covers, and how they do it).
> 
> Yesterday the paper featured a "human interest" story about Somalia,
> with never 
> a hint that the US overthrew the only popular government that area --
> of 
> interest to the US because of its proximity to ME oil -- has had.
> 
>
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/world/africa/17somalia.html?scp=5&sq=somalia&st=nyt>
> 
> Today the paper fronts a "human interest" story about Lebanon -- with
> no hint of 
> American machinations (which a real newspaper would work to uncover)
> or even the 
> policy that the US has followed literally for generations in the
> region.
> 
>
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/world/middleeast/18lebanon.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin>
> 
> US policy is so consistent that even the editors of the Times (the
> agenda is set 
> by the managing editor, Bill Keller, a Clinton-DLC type) can't claim
> they can't 
> see it.  Forty years ago liberal Democrats started a war that killed
> four 
> million Asians because the country of South Vietnam wouldn't accept
> the 
> government we'd picked out for them.  (After all, Latin American
> countries had 
> been doing it regularly for some time, with only a modicum of
> subversion and 
> torture exported from the US.) The issue is much the same in Somalia
> and 
> Lebanon, different as they are: the US has arranged biddable
> governments for 
> both places, and the locals are too obtuse to accept them, so they
> must be 
> killed. And we're responsible for the killing.
> 
> If you'd like a example to how the Times covers sin with smooth
> names, see the 
> note (it can't be called a review) on p. 20 of today's Book Review by
> the chief 
> of the Times' Washington bureau, on a (slight) bit of political
> myth-making by a 
> opportunist neocon.  --CGE
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