{"id":271849,"date":"2016-10-08T15:45:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T15:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-great-libya-war-fraud\/"},"modified":"2016-10-08T15:45:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T15:45:22","slug":"the-great-libya-war-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-great-libya-war-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Libya War Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"
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National newspapers were \u2018unimpressed by Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s victory\u2019 in the Labour leadership election, Roy Greenslade noted<\/a> in the Guardian, surprising no-one. Corbyn secured almost 62% of the 506,000 votes cast, up from the 59% share he won in 2015, \u2018with virtually no press backing whatsoever\u2019.<\/p>\n

In reality, of course, Corbyn did not just lack press backing. He won in the face of more than one year of relentless corporate media campaigning to politically, ethically, professionally, psychologically and even sartorially discredit him. That Corbyn survived is impressive. That he won again, increased his vote-share, and took Labour Party membership from 200,000 to more than 500,000, is astonishing.<\/p>\n

None of this moves journalists like the BBC\u2019s political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, who commented<\/a>: \u2018there\u2019s been no big new idea or vision this week that Labour can suddenly rally round\u2019.<\/p>\n

Polly Toynbee explained:<\/a> \u2018I and many Guardian<\/em> colleagues can\u2019t just get behind Corbyn\u2019. Why? \u2018Because Corbyn and McDonnell, burdened by their history, will never ever earn the trust of enough voters to make any plans happen.\u2019<\/p>\n

Toynbee fails to recognise the nature and scale of the problem. In supporting Corbyn, the public is attempting to shape a genuinely democratic choice out of the sham choices of corporate-owned politics. This awesome task begins with the public waking up to the anti-democratic role of the corporate media in defending, of course, corporate-owned…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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National newspapers were \u2018unimpressed by Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s victory\u2019 in the Labour leadership election, Roy Greenslade noted in the Guardian, surprising no-one. Corbyn secured almost 62% of the 506,000 votes cast, up from the 59% share he won in 2015, \u2018with virtually no press backing whatsoever\u2019. In reality, of course, Corbyn did not just lack press […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-271849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}