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Showing Original Post only (View all)Salon: We are the propagandists: The real story about how The New York Times and the White House [View all]
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We are the propagandists: The real story about how The New York Times and the White House has turned truth in the Ukraine on its headA sophisticated game of manipulation is afoot over Russia: power, influence and money. U.S. hands are not clean
Vladimir Putin (Credit: AP/Mark Lennihan/Photo montage by Salon)
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Ever since the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, reality itself has come to seem up for grabs. Karl Rove, a diabolically competent political infighter but of no discernible intellectual weight, may have been prescient when he told us to forget our pedestrian notions of realityreal live reality. Empires create their own, he said, and were an empire now.
The Ukraine crisis reminds us that the pathology is not limited to the peculiar dreamers who made policy during the Bush II administration, whose idea of reality was idealist beyond all logic. It is a late-imperial phenomenon that extends across the board. Unprecedented is considered a dangerous word in journalism, but it may describe the Obama administrations furious efforts to manufacture a Ukraine narrative and our medias incessant reproduction of all its fallacies.
At this point it is only sensible to turn everything that is said or shown in our media upside down and consider it a second time. Who could want to live in a world this much like Orwells or Huxleysthe one obliterating reality by destroying language, the other by making historical reference a transgression?
Language and history: As argued several times in this space, these are the weapons we are not supposed to have.
Ukraine now gives us two fearsome examples of what I mean by inverted reason.
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Salon: We are the propagandists: The real story about how The New York Times and the White House [View all]
newthinking
Jun 2015
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Addendum: Not just Salon: The Nation Mag, Counterpunch, Project Censored, and many other
newthinking
Jun 2015
#1
You mean people believe "the news?" I thought we all assumed they lied, especially re WAR. nt
valerief
Jun 2015
#7
Why do folks refuse to get it that Russia loves NATO nuclear missiles on it's borders as much as America
Fred Sanders
Jun 2015
#2
Me? Salon wrote it. And if you actually dig you will find the NeoCon's are very much all over this.
newthinking
Jun 2015
#8
Trouble is that is not what happened. Russia secured the area during what the Crimean parliment
newthinking
Jun 2015
#14