{"id":355221,"date":"2018-04-04T18:28:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T17:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=355221"},"modified":"2018-04-04T18:28:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T17:28:20","slug":"u-s-press-lie-americans-invasions-routinely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/u-s-press-lie-americans-invasions-routinely\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. and its press lie Americans into invasions routinely."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The 2003 invasion of Iraq is the best-known example of America\u2019s Government and press lying to fool its public to invade a foreign country that actually posed no threat to U.S. national security (so that America\u2019s Defense Department was obviously America\u2019s Aggression<\/i> Department, and even its very name was a lie). However, that fraud and its resulting mega-violence were unfortunately typical, not at all exceptional, for the brutal American regime. This crucial but ugly fact will be documented here, so as to destroy (by clear facts) the lying U.S. regime\u2019s supposed credibility \u2014 and this refers to both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party wings (and their \u2018news\u2019media), of our ruling aristocracy<\/span><\/a>. (Same for America\u2019s lapdog, UK.)<\/span><\/p>\n

First, however: it\u2019s important to document that both Americans and Brits were lied (and that word should be not only a noun, but also a verb, because \u201cdeceived\u201d is far too soft a term for so heinous a consequence) into invading and occupying Iraq: <\/span><\/p>\n

A crucial date was 7 September 2002, when George W. Bush and Tony Blair both said<\/a><\/span> that a new report had just been issued by the IAEA saying that Saddam Hussein was only six months away from having a nuclear weapon. The IAEA promptly denied that it had issued any such \u201cnew report\u201d at all, and the \u2018news\u2019 media simply ignored the denial, which the IAEA then repeated weeks later, and it again was ignored<\/span><\/a>; so, the false impression, that such an IAEA report had been issued, remained in the publics\u2019 minds, and they consequently favored invading Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein before there would be, as Condoleezza Rice warned the next day following Bush-Blair, on September 8th, a \u201cmushroom cloud\u201d<\/span><\/a>. It was all just lies \u2014 lies that were believed by the public, at the time, and even believed by many for a long time after we invaded. <\/span><\/p>\n

Some of these lies were derived from torturing detainees \u2014 torturing them to say what the U.S. and British regimes<\/span><\/a> wanted them to say. But all were concocted by the perpetrating dictators. Like CIA Director George Tenet told his boss, George W. Bush, fooling the public into invading Iraq would be a \u201cslam-dunk.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Even today, many Americans still are successfully suckered into believing that torture extracts truths, instead of the desired lies, from suspects, to serve as \u2018evidence\u2019, in this \u2018democracy\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

So: that\u2019s the reality behind America\u2019s destruction of Iraq \u2014 it was based upon lies from the Government, which were stenographically published and broadcast to the public as being truths, while the actual truths were being simultaneously hidden from the public \u2014 and the truth that the regime was lying didn\u2019t get to reach us until we had already invaded and occupied the targeted country. That\u2019s what happens when an evil regime fools its public, into supporting and doing its aristocracy\u2019s invasion, at the taxpaying public\u2019s expense, and psychopathically ignoring the massive horrors it is imposing upon the residents in the attacked country. This is psychopathy<\/span><\/a> being displayed by a dictatorship<\/span><\/a> \u2014 one that claims to be a \u2018democracy\u2019 and that demonizes other governments that it claims to be (and some of which, occasionally, are) dictatorships. With the \u2018anti-communist\u2019 excuse<\/span><\/a> gone, only these types of lies still work; so, they\u2019re used non-stop.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are other such instances:<\/span><\/p>\n

Right now, the Obama-Trump regime, which use Al Qaeda in Syria to train and arm jihadists from around the world to go to Syria to fight and overthrow Syria\u2019s Government and replace it by one that will be a stooge-regime of the U.S. aristocracy\u2019s allied Saudi aristocracy (the Saud family)<\/span><\/a>, is, yet again, violating Trump\u2019s promise to leave Syria as soon as ISIS is defeated. In contrast to the U.S. regime\u2019s promises, Trump stays on in Syria after ISIS\u2019s defeat and tries to carve out the northeastern part of Syria, now relying mainly upon Kurdish forces in Syria\u2019s northeast, but also upon Al Qaeda-led jihadists in Ghouta and elsewhere, to serve as America\u2019s \u201cboots-on-the-ground,\u201d for establishing the stooge-regime<\/span><\/a> that the U.S. aristocracy and its allied Saudi and Israeli aristocracies want to control that land, so as to construct through it oil and gas pipelines to increase the invading aristocracy\u2019s profits<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

How can a news-consumer tell if a supposed \u2018news\u2019-medium is honest about Syria? Here\u2019s a simple and reliable method: If the \u2018news\u2019-medium uses the term \u2018rebels\u2019 instead of \u201cjihadists\u201d or \u201cterrorists\u201d in order to refer to the people who are trying to overthrow and replace Syria\u2019s Government, then you know it\u2019s lying, because those aren\u2019t \u2018democrats\u2019 in any sense: they are jihadists-terrorists who are aiming to establish in Syria a fundamentalist-Sunni, Wahhabist-Salafist, and rabidly anti-Shia, dictatorship there, which will be basically run by the Sauds. For example, on 2 April 2018, the BBC headlined \u201cUncertainty Over Rebel Deal in Ghouta\u201d<\/span><\/a> instead of \u201cUncertainty Over Jihadist Deal in Ghouta\u201d or \u201cOver Terrorist Deal,\u201d and so the BBC is clearly a lying propaganda-outlet that cannot reasonably be believed, but whose reports one instead must independently verify before citing or quoting to others. Similarly, the prior day, the Telegraph<\/i> had bannered \u201cGhouta ‘deal struck’ as rebel fighters evacuated\u201d<\/span><\/a> and thus made clear that it too is propaganda, not reliable news-reporting. To show how consistent these types of deception are through time, the Telegraph,<\/i> on 6 March 2013, had headlined an editorial \u201cTo end the conflict in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad has to go\u201d and called his overthrow \u201cOur moral obligation\u201d<\/span><\/a>. And, just two days later, they bannered \u201cUS and Europe in ‘major airlift of arms to Syrian rebels through Zagreb\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/a> \u2014 which \u2018news\u2019 would have been real news-reporting if only those \u2018rebels\u2019 (and what they actually represented) had been at all honestly described. The basic technique of propaganda is to lie in the framing of an issue. It\u2019s so routine as to be endemic in the \u2018news\u2019-reporting in any dictatorship. <\/span><\/p>\n

For yet another example: Any \u2018news\u2019-medium that refers to the overthrow in 2014 of Ukraine\u2019s democratically elected Government, and its replacement by a racist-fascist (nazi) rabidly anti-Russian dictatorship, as having been not a coup but instead a \u2018revolution\u2019<\/span><\/a>, is a rotten lying propaganda-medium, nothing better than that<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

If the word \u201crevolution\u201d is used to describe the 2014 Ukraine overthrow, and the word \u201crebels\u201d is used to refer to the fighters for the overthrow of Assad, not only is the medium consistently propaganda, but it is consistently pumping to precipitate World War III<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In my \u201cThe Nations that Accept Nazism\u00a0Today\u201d<\/span><\/a> I documented that under Obama there were three: U.S., Ukraine, and Canada. And then in my \u201cTrump Continues Obama\u2019s Support of Nazism\u201d<\/span><\/a>, I documented that the number had declined to two \u2014 and now it was only U.S. and Ukraine. Those two news-reports (and my prior ones about Obama\u2019s having backed nazism at the U.N.) were distributed free to all media, but only a few tiny media published any of them. The dictatorship needed to hide this shocking news from the public, not broadcast it to the public. The mainstream media (and some of the non-mainstream media) are fake-news media \u2014 and this comprises almost all of the \u2018news\u2019-media. On international relations, they\u2019re just loaded with lies, and the key terms right now are, for Syria, \u201crebels\u201d versus \u201cjihadists\u201d; and, for Ukraine, \u201crevolution\u201d versus \u201ccoup.\u201d<\/span><\/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><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org The 2003 invasion of Iraq is the best-known example of America\u2019s Government and press lying to fool its public to invade a foreign country that actually posed no threat to U.S. national security (so that America\u2019s Defense Department was obviously America\u2019s Aggression Department, and even its very name was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":281910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,519],"tags":[30,96,535,38,754,523,755,1235],"class_list":{"0":"post-355221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-newswire","9":"tag-big-brother","10":"tag-cover-up","11":"tag-global-news","12":"tag-iraq","13":"tag-syria","14":"tag-ukraine","15":"tag-usa","16":"tag-war"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355221","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\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}