{"id":299449,"date":"2017-03-17T10:26:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T09:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fake-news-about-venezuela-a-simple-recipe\/"},"modified":"2017-03-17T10:26:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T09:26:12","slug":"fake-news-about-venezuela-a-simple-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fake-news-about-venezuela-a-simple-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake News about Venezuela: A Simple Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>President Hugo Chavez<\/p>\n

\u201cJournalists\u201d who want to write fake news about Venezuela, or about any other country or group that dares to stand up to US imperialism, only need to follow this simple recipe:<\/p>\n

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  1. Choose one or more countries\/groups opposed to US imperialism<\/li>\n
  2. If available, have a former official, now being paid by the US government, make the accusations<\/li>\n
  3. Season well with doses of \u201cwar on terror\u201d and\/or \u201cwar on drugs\u201d<\/li>\n
  4. Sprinkle with opinions of \u201cexperts\u201d who work in DC think tanks or US-funded NGOs<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    While this looks like a very unsavoury mix, the results last very long and can be reheated with no problems.<\/p>\n

    This recipe has been used and re-used plenty of times, either by US officials to justify policies or by media outlets. But given how the media critically accepts everything when it comes to foreign policy, there is hardly a distinction to be made here.<\/p>\n

    A classical example were the fabricated connections<\/a>\u00a0made between Ch\u00e1vez\/Venezuela and al-Qaeda. Other variants involve dealings with the FARC<\/sup>, Mexican cartels, and the favourite dance partner is Hezbollah<\/a>. On one hand, the US\u2019 relation with al-Qaeda is now a bit more complicated, as extremists may get bombed if they are in Iraq but supported if they cross into Syria. On the other, Hezbollah is the biggest obstacle to Israeli hegemony and the colonisation of Palestine. This kind of propaganda is reminiscent of the effort to fabricate connections between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein in order to…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    President Hugo Chavez \u201cJournalists\u201d who want to write fake news about Venezuela, or about any other country or group that dares to stand up to US imperialism, only need to follow this simple recipe: Choose one or more countries\/groups opposed to US imperialism If available, have a former official, now being paid by the US […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-299449","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\/299449","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\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}