{"id":284692,"date":"2016-12-15T06:31:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T05:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=284692"},"modified":"2016-12-15T21:35:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T20:35:54","slug":"nyt-hides-news-from-americans-unless-u-s-govt-approves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/nyt-hides-news-from-americans-unless-u-s-govt-approves\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times Is Nothing More Than Subservient Government Lapdog"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, December 14th, the front page of The New York Times<\/i> featured four news-reports<\/a>, each of which displays how the employees (editors and reporters), who have been hired by the publisher, convey \u2014 by means of selective reporting and hiding of facts \u2014 the very same partisan political viewpoint, which the readers who subscribe to the publication will falsely believe to be \u2018objective\u2019 and \u2018non-partisan\u2019 (since otherwise they wouldn\u2019t even be<\/i> subscribers to that publication). A \u2018journalist\u2019 in such an organization is thus little different from any other public-relations or PR professional, except that the recipients of the PR that a journalist delivers, believe the PR to be honest, and a \u2018free press\u2019, not mere puffery for some product or political viewpoint. The following analysis of the NYT\u2019s December 14th front page will show that whether or not such journalism is honest depends upon whether or not a person considers to have been honest such things as (to cite examples here that are trivial by comparison, and so are more simple, and famous) Bill Clinton\u2019s statements, \u201cI did not have sexual relations with that woman\u201d<\/a>, or \u201cIt depends upon what the meaning of is is\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Is selective hiding of crucial facts \u2018honest\u2019, or really a \u2018free press\u2019? You\u2019ll be the judge of that, here.<\/p>\n

The journalists\u2019 names won\u2019t be mentioned, because they\u2019re all agents of the same publisher and reflect the same required viewpoint, regardless of the personal identities of any particular employee. Here the four frontpage stories will be excerpted or discussed, starting with each story\u2019s opening:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S.\u201d<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

When Special Agent Adrian Hawkins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation\u00a0called the Democratic National Committee in September 2015 to pass along some troubling news\u00a0about its computer network, he was transferred, naturally, to the help desk.<\/i>
\nHis message was brief, if alarming. At least one computer system belonging to the D.N.C. had been\u00a0compromised by hackers federal investigators had named \u201cthe\u00a0Dukes,\u201d a cyberespionage team\u00a0linked to the Russian government.<\/i>
\nThe F.B.I. knew it well: The bureau had spent the last few years trying to kick the Dukes out of the\u00a0unclassified email systems of the White House, the State Department and even the Joint Chiefs of\u00a0Staff, one of the government\u2019s best-protected networks.<\/i>
\nYared Tamene, the tech-support contractor at the D.N.C. who fielded the call, was no expert in\u00a0cyberattacks. His first moves were to check Google for \u201cthe Dukes\u201d and conduct a cursory search of\u00a0the D.N.C. computer system logs to look for hints of such a cyberintrusion. By his own account, he\u00a0did not look too hard even after Special Agent Hawkins called back repeatedly over the next several\u00a0weeks \u2014 in part because he wasn\u2019t certain the caller was a real F.B.I. agent and not an impostor.<\/i>
\nRELATED COVERAGE<\/i>
\nDemocratic House Candidates Were Also Targets of Russian\u00a0Hacking\u00a0DEC. 13, 2016<\/i>
\nContinue\u00a0reading\u00a0the\u00a0main\u00a0story<\/i>
\n\u201cI had no way of differentiating the call I just received from a prank call,\u201d Mr. Tamene wrote in an\u00a0internal memo, obtained by The New York Times, that detailed his contact with the F.B.I.<\/i>
\nIt was the cryptic first sign of a cyberespionage and information-warfare campaign devised to\u00a0disrupt the 2016 presidential election, the first such attempt by a foreign power in American history.\u00a0What started as an information-gathering operation, intelligence officials believe, ultimately\u00a0morphed into an effort to harm one candidate, Hillary Clinton, and tip the election to her opponent,\u00a0Donald J. Trump.<\/i><\/p>\n

What\u2019s not discussed in this news-report is whether providing the American public with information about Hillary Clinton, which she had wanted to hide from the public, was a good or bad thing to do. Of course, every major political campaign entails \u201copposition research,\u201d which aims to discover and expose to the public, facts about the opponent that will reduce the opponent\u2019s vote. The New York Times<\/i> might think that opposition research is bad, and that every candidate (or at least every candidate whose election they endorse) should be able to hide from the public whatever he or she doesn\u2019t want the public to know about himself\/herself. However, cooperation by the press in such efforts, support of the effort to hide such things from the public, is said to be an attribute of the \u2018news\u2019 media in dictatorships, not<\/i> in democracies.<\/p>\n

This article goes on to say:<\/p>\n

What started as an information-gathering operation, intelligence officials believe, ultimately\u00a0morphed into an effort to harm one candidate, Hillary Clinton, and tip the election to her opponent,\u00a0Donald J. Trump.<\/i><\/p>\n

The United States government itself routinely engages in \u201cinformation-gathering\u201d operations; that\u2019s what the CIA, FBI, NSA, etc., do. Every country does likewise.<\/p>\n

The United States government also routinely engages in efforts to overthrow or even kill foreign leaders who have already been democratically elected, but whom the U.S. government dislikes, such as Mohammad Mosaddegh<\/a> in Iran in 1953 (where we installed a fascist dictatorship), and Jacobo Arbenz<\/a> in Guatemala in 1954 (where we installed a fascist dictatorship), and Salvatore Allende<\/a> in Chile in 1976 (where we installed a fascist dictatorship, and Viktor Yanukovych<\/a> in 2014 (where we installed a fascist dictatorship, which was followed by a breakup of that country, and ethnic-cleansing<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Furthermore, in 1937, top executives of pro-Hitler U.S. corporations who were major donors to the Republican Party, plus two members of the U.S. Congress, secretly sought funds from Hitler\u2019s Nazi government to assist their Party to elect in 1940 a different President, who \u2014 unlike FDR \u2014 would either join with Hitler or else keep America neutral in the coming war. Whether the initiative in that case, to overthrow the existing President, came from a foreign country \u2014 Germany \u2014 or from those leading Americans, isn\u2019t clear, but no one was prosecuted for it (and the German participants soon thereafter rose to higher positions in Hitler\u2019s government).<\/p>\n

On 13 July 1942 (during<\/i> the war!), investigative journalist George Seldes published, in his newsletter, In Fact<\/i>, a memorandum from this secret meeting which had taken place in the U.S., on 23 November 1937, between two German Barons (Kurt von Tippleskirch and Manfred von Killinger) who were consuls at the German Embassy, one U.S. Senator, one other member of Congress (unidentified as to Senate or House), and five executives of DuPont and GM (identified only as \u201cheads of General Motors\u201d and \u201cheads of the Du Pont interests\u201d). (Only the two Germans permitted themselves to be identified in the Memorandum by name. However, none of the statements made in the transcript identified by name any of the American speakers.) Headlining \u201cNazis Made Fifth Column Pact With Seven Leading Americans,\u201d Seldes reported von Killinger as having said, \u201cIt is time to think seriously of the centralization of all forces of American nationalism and traditionalism. … Above all, we believe in cooperating with the economic leaders.\u201d One of the Americans emphasized, \u201cThat is possible but by no means easy. The people must become aware of the disastrous economic effects of the policies of the present Administration first. … Technically, it remains a question as to whether this drive may center around the Republican National Committee.\u201d<\/p>\n

No records survive as to whether any German money may have been funneled into Republican political coffers as a consequence of this meeting. However, the German diplomats condemned \u201cThe Roosevelt administration\u201d for being like \u201cGermany of the republican period,\u201d the Weimar Republic, which was headed by Germany\u2019s democratic party, the Social Democrats \u2013 the Nazis\u2019 chief enemy in their own elections. In fact, von Killinger said, \u201cToday\u2019s America presents a very close picture of Social-Democratic Germany.\u201d He especially lambasted FDR\u2019s \u201cwelfare legislation,\u201d and FDR\u2019s support for labor unions and workers\u2019 collective-bargaining rights in general, and he criticized \u201cthe lack of unity and clear-sighted leadership in the scattered national camp\u201d in the United States.<\/p>\n

So, the Germans hinted at a likely willingness of Hitler to help the Republicans financially. Von Tippleskirch said, \u201cGermany is therefore willing to undertake everything humanly possible in order to approach directly the financial and industrial leaders of the United States. … The new presidential elections must bring the United States on the side of the powers fighting for the reorganization of world markets [to favor the international cartels \u2013 dominated by German and American corporations]. … This support does not only include the swinging of the German-American vote, … but … all possible cooperation with truly national forces.\u201d One of the Americans present said, \u201cWe will be grateful for any service our German friends may give us.\u201d<\/p>\n

If financial assistance did result from this meeting, the likeliest method would have been in the already ongoing extensive business payments between, on the one side, companies such as DuPont, GM, U.S. Steel, Ford Motor Company, and other pro-fascist U.S. internationals; and, on the other, their German suppliers and bankers; so as to free up additional cash on the U.S. side to enable those U.S. firms to increase their contributions to the Republican Party. \u201cDiscounts\u201d provided by German firms could thus easily have been laundered into political donations \u201cby\u201d American ones.<\/p>\n

For example, perhaps the likeliest American to have been at that meeting (other than Jasper Crane, Lammot du Pont, or Ir\u00e9n\u00e9e du Pont) was GM\u2019s chief, Alfred P. Sloan (who, incidentally, had donated $20,000 to the fascist American Liberty League, which Crane, and the du Ponts led). Historian Edwin Black headlined, for Jewish Telegraph Agency, on 30 November 2006, \u201cHitler\u2019s Carmaker: The Inside Story of How General Motors Helped Mobilize the Third Reich.\u201d GM\u2019s Opel division, by far Germany\u2019s largest carmaker, \u201cproduced some 40 percent of the vehicles in Germany and about 65 percent of its [car] exports.\u201d Thus, \u201cthe company … earned the foreign currency the Reich desperately needed … for the regime\u2019s crash rearmament program.\u201d Moreover, Sloan \u201calso harbored a political motivation. Sloan despised the emerging American way of life being crafted by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Sloan hated Roosevelt\u2019s New Deal, and admired the strength, irrepressible determination and sheer magnitude of Hitler\u2019s vision.\u201d Sloan wanted Hitler to win the coming war: \u201cAt one point, Sloan\u2019s senior officials at GM even threatened to launch a deliberate business slowdown to sabotage the [Roosevelt] administration\u2019s recovery plan.\u201d When David Farber\u2019s biography Sloan Rules<\/i> was published in 2002, Farber summarized in an interview: \u201cThere\u2019s a lot I don\u2019t like about Mr. Sloan. His steady opposition to making safer automobiles, his dismissal of workers\u2019 rights, his inability to see Adolf Hitler and his henchmen as evil, … and his general disregard for issues of social justice and the common good make him a not very lovable figure.\u201d That was describing a perfect libertarian. Farber\u2019s biography of Sloan was written primarily from the files of the DuPont family, files which were admittedly \u201cculled to some extent,\u201d by the DuPonts, prior to his seeing them. The reason for that was: \u201cSloan left behind no private papers or correspondence, and GM says it destroyed all his corporate papers.\u201d GM was controlled by the DuPont family from the 1920s until 1963, and Sloan was their ideal CEO. What he did is what they wanted done. Similarly, what a major newsmedium\u2019s executives want done, is what their employees do.<\/p>\n

The assumption underlying the Times\u2019s lead story here, on December 14th, is that if Russia was involved in the making-public of that information from John Podesta\u2019s computer, then the U.S. government should retaliate against Russia, and maybe Donald Trump\u2019s election should be thrown out. It\u2019s an outrageous assumption.<\/p>\n

The lead-story then says:<\/p>\n

While there\u2019s no way to be certain of the ultimate impact of the hack, this much is clear: A low-cost,\u00a0high-impact weapon that Russia had test-fired in elections from Ukraine to Europe was trained on\u00a0the United States, with devastating effectiveness. For Russia, with an enfeebled economy and a\u00a0nuclear arsenal it cannot use short of all-out war, \u2026<\/i><\/p>\n

But actually, the United States perpetrated a coup<\/a> which violently overthrew the elected government of Ukraine and replaced it by a rabidly anti-Russian one on Russia\u2019s very doorstep, so that statement is essentially a vicious lie. And the statement that Russia \u201ccannot use short of all-out nuclear war\u201d is even more viciously false, because also the United States cannot use its nuclear arsenal short of all-out war. What do you think would happen if the U.S. were to use a \u2018small\u2019 nuclear weapon against Russia? Of course, Russia would retaliate nuclearly, and neither side would be willing to be the one doing the less damage to the other \u2014 so it would inevitably escalate to global destruction.<\/p>\n

The second major story was:<\/p>\n

\u201cAmid Rain of Shells, Aleppo\u2019s Civilians Offer \u2018Final\u00a0Scream\u2019\u201d<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Artillery shelling by pro-government forces resumed early Wednesday<\/span><\/span> on\u00a0besieged eastern neighborhoods of the Syrian city of Aleppo, delaying the evacuation of thousands\u00a0of civilians and fighters who had expected to leave under a deal involving Russia and Turkey.<\/i>
\nIt was the latest, bitter whiplash for those trapped in the shrinking rebel-held districts of the ruined\u00a0city. Under a\u00a0supposed deal\u00a0announced on Tuesday<\/span><\/span> by Turkey, Russia and Syrian rebels, the last\u00a0remaining fighters were to evacuate to rebel-held territory farther north and civilians were free to\u00a0join them or to move to government-held areas. The whole city of Aleppo then would be in the\u00a0hands of forces loyal to President\u00a0Bashar al-Assad.<\/i>
\n\u201cThe Syrian government has a clear responsibility to ensure its people are safe and is palpably\u00a0failing to take this opportunity to do so,\u201d the United Nations high commissioner for human rights,\u00a0Zeid Ra\u2019ad al-Hussein, said in a\u00a0statement\u00a0on Wednesday<\/span><\/span>. He asserted that the resumed\u00a0bombardment was \u201ca violation of international law and most likely constitutes war crimes.\u201d<\/i>
\n\u201cThe way this deal was dangled in front of this battered and beleaguered population \u2014 causing them\u00a0to hope they might indeed live to see another day \u2014 and then snatched away just half a day later is\u00a0also outrageously cruel,\u201d his statement said.<\/i>
\nOne Man\u2019s View Into the\u00a0Last Days in Rebel-Held\u00a0Aleppo<\/i>
\nA radiology nurse in Aleppo, Mohamed al-Ahmad, said he hoped the world would hear \u201cour final\u00a0scream from the last free neighborhoods in Aleppo.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

This gives the impression that the problem in Syria is the barbaric Bashar al-Assad, not the jihadists who are fighting to overthrow him with U.S. help. That\u2019s a lie.<\/a> The fight against jihadist gangs that the U.S. and Saudi governments hire and arm to overthrow the most secular, non-sectarian, government in the Middle East, cannot be killed short of doing some barbaric things.<\/p>\n

It also gives the false impression that it\u2019s Assad and Russia that don\u2019t want a democratic future for Syria, and that it\u2019s the U.S. government that does. That too is a lie: the Obama Administration has been (along with the Sauds) the opponent blocking a democratic future for Syria. Furthermore, even Western polling in Syria shows that the Syrian majority want Assad to remain as their nation\u2019s leader, and loathe what the U.S. has been doing to their country.<\/a> Furthermore, Aleppo is one of the most pro-jihadist parts of Syria, but, even there, the support for jihadists isn\u2019t a majority. Furthermore, 82% of Syrains blame the U.S. for the jihadists.<\/p>\n

The remaining two page-one stories were:<\/p>\n

\u201cRick Perry, Ex-Governor of Texas, Is Trump\u2019s Pick as Energy Secretary\u201d<\/a>
\n\u201cUnder Rex Tillerson, Exxon Mobil Forged Its Own Path\u00a0Abroad”<\/a><\/p>\n

Those articles are also Democratic Party propaganda \u2014 definitely anti-Trump \u2014 but I myself am a Bernie Sanders Democrat, who loathes Hillary Clinton so much that because of her nomination, I left the Democratic Party, after having been a Democrat all my life, and I\u2019m not going to criticize those two pieces of propaganda, because on environmental matters I myself am strongly opposed to the positions that Trump has been advocating.<\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/a>,<\/i> and of \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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