U.S. PREPARES TO STRIKE IRAN
Comment by Larry Ross, May 2 , 2006
Google is a great resource to get the details on U.S. war plans, objectives and methods of making war on other nations. Also, it has many articles on U.S. excuses and justifications for each war. The fact that the Bush Administration engages in an almost continuous flow of lies and false justifications, does not stop the mass media from parroting each and every lie as if it is true. The mass media usually does not publish doubts and exposure of these lies or the real purposes of the Bush Administration. If anything it runs editorials justifying the lies as if the lies are really true. Then it does not print letters exposing these lies.
Like Bush, editors like to feel omnipotent. They do not like criticism, particularly if they are knowingly helping the Bush Administration perpetrate fraudulent wars on the people.
As a consequence the people who only get their news from their daily paper or TV tend to accept and believe the lies constantly generated by the Bush Administration and relayed on by our mass media.
If an important issue is avoided or downgraded in the media, people don't recognise the subject as an important issue. A good example is when Bush announced his various new nuclear doctrines such as:
1) U.S. intentions to use nuclear weapons as an extent ion of conventional military operations,
2) U.S. right to wage pre-emptive nuclear war against any nations it claims might, one day, make WMD and then, might attack the U.S. This is a formula of madness, justifying perpetual wars. A pre-emptive nuclear war could be a sudden, unexpected, bolt-out-of-the-blue, nuclear strike that may kill millions. The U.S. creates false so-called "intelligence" to justify their wars and lend credibility to their lies. The media accept it, repeat it, and the people believe it is true, because challenging it with the facts is not allowed. As Adolph Hitler said: "The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it." A good example is the U.S. war on Iraq, where the media endlessly repeated Bush lies, while refusing to print material which exposed these lies. Then they did not apologise to their readers for misleading them when the Bush deceptions became too widely exposed for the editors to avoid.
Most mass media either buried, downgraded or did not even mention the new nuclear issue and treated it as a completely normal expression of U.S. foreign policy. No worries at all. So the people believed, had no worries and dismissed the issue as unimportant. This was amazing as even the poorly informed know that once a nuclear weapon is used, events can very easily escalate to include others, and into a global nuclear war that kills them, their families, and everyone else in the world. They have been conditioned to be passive and accepting of a doctrine that if applied, could end the world. Is any other proof needed that people can be conditioned into passively accepting any doctrine that is presented by an authority?
In fact this now widely accepted new policy is criminally insane, in violation of all disarmament treaties, many of which were developed by previous U.S. administrations, the UN Charter and international laws, painfully developed over previous centuries. Here is an issue that can lead to the destruction of our world and of humanity.Yet our mass media have decided that it's hardly worth mentioning, and suppress criticism of it.So the people believe it's of little importance, nothing to worry about. They do nothing to repudiate, or even recognise, what could become a death sentence for the human race.
So most people, conditioned by their media, let the issue pass and just accept the new doctrines as perfectly normal, as they had been conditioned to do by their local media.
In many Western countries, such as the U.S., Australia, Britain and New Zealand, people live in this 'bubble of ignorance', where important issues are considered to be sports, celebrities and local happenings. This 'bubble of ignorance' is created by a mass media that has abandoned it's traditional role of telling the truth, of exposing political lies about U.S. wars such as Iraq and the preparations for war on Iran. Facts which expose the Bush Administration as liars and schemers to arrange wars, are banned.
A few well-known examples of this type of corrupted mass media are The New York Times, The London Times and Fox TV. There are many others.
Sure, they have a few exposure-type articles and they may be honest on most other marginal issues.
But for the Bush Administration, for it's wars, planned future wars, lies, propaganda and tactics, the rules are very different. George Bush can act as a virtual empire or dictator, arranging wars and mass killing as he pleases, even nuclear war, for any false reasons he chooses to offer as "truth". The mass media repeat it all as true. Most people are fooled, and tend to believe the stories as Hitler said. We are the Germans of today. If Bush manages to arrange a nuclear war and gets away with killing millions of people and widely spreading nuclear contamination, most mass media will defend him and his motives, and deliberately omit or gloss over the vital issues and the lies he used to justify the use of nuclear weapons.
All the articles on page one of Google's 134 million choices, look excellent with well-known authors and sources. They will help impress on people who may be living in the twilight world of press-generated ignorance, that the planned war on Iran is a very, very important issue that wont go away. It threatens everyone and may effect them, their families and the world for a very long time if it is not prevented. Or it may destroy the world, if the war escalates, involves more nations and becomes a nuclear conflagration that consumes the world. Because they are ideologues, extreme religious fundamentalists, Zionists, criminally insane and drunk with power, Bush's neo-conservative administration don't mind taking extreme chances with the world. They are as unconcerned that their war policies may destroy the world, as about the many direct warnings that climate change may destroy the world.
Everyone has a choice to either remain passive and a casual spectator, or help prevent this catastrophe from happening and from people believing the Bush lies. The biggest job is educating people about the fog of propaganda that is fed to them. Anyone can help educate by simply wiggling their finger and forwarding this article and Google page to others. Then follow up with some of the top selected articles on our web site.
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