Our Allegedly "Liberal" Media Catapults War Propaganda

It has been this way since before I was born.  People need to understand just how thoroughly propagandized our population is. 

It's getting harder and harder to pull off these kind of lies and exaggerations - and I'm hopeful that the times are starting to change. 

Is Iran out of the US War Queue? The Twilight of the Hawks

"The point of having an enemies' list is only in part in order to curb an enemy. It serves to scare the public and rally them around the politicians and make them willing to give up personal liberties or forget about being upset at being ruled on behalf of a handful of large corporations. Putting a country in the war queue requires demonizing its leader, twisting his words to make him seem aggressive, and exaggerating his capabilities versus the US. Even Nikita Khrushchev, who denounced Stalin's crimes, was depicted in the US as a menace who pledged, "We will bury you!" What Khrushchev actually had said was, "We'll still be here when your capitalist system is dead and buried." He was wrong but he wasn't threatening to bury anyone. The Soviet Union's economy was never more than half that of the US, and its military was no match for the American, but Americans were taught to be mortally afraid of the Soviets, what with their challenge to … gasp … the supremacy of private property. Likewise, former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's quotation of an old statement by Ruhollah Khomeini that "The occupation regime over Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time" — a hope that Zionism would collapse the way Communism had in 1991, was transformed by American "journalism" into an aggressive threat to wipe Israel off the map. This, despite repeated Iranian assertions that they had a no first strike policy, and that they would never slaughter noncombatants, and despite the laughable character of the proposition that a weak country very distant from Israel could menace it despite Tel Aviv's stockpile of hundreds of nuclear weapons, and its poison gas and other weapons capabilities. Iran does not have an atomic bomb or chemical weapons."

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