McCarthyism
2.0 – part 4
The
U.S. government is creating a new $160 million bureaucracy to shut
down information that doesn’t conform to U.S. propaganda
narratives, building on the strategy that sold the bloody Syrian
“regime change” war.
by
Rick Sterling
The
Overall Narrative on Syria
Analysis of the Syrian conflict
boils down to two competing narratives. One narrative is that the
conflict is a fight for freedom and democracy against a brutal
regime, a storyline promoted in the West and the Gulf states, which
have been fueling the conflict from the start. This narrative is also
favored by some self-styled “anti-imperialists” who want a
“Syrian revolution.”
The other narrative is that the
conflict is essentially a war of aggression against a sovereign
state, with the aggressors including NATO countries, Gulf monarchies,
Israel and Jordan. Domination of the Western media by these powerful
interests is so thorough that one almost never gets access to this
second narrative, which is essentially banned from not only the
mainstream but also much of the liberal and progressive media.
For example, listeners and viewers
of the generally progressive TV and radio program “DemocracyNow”
have rarely if ever heard the second narrative described in any
detail. Instead, the program frequently broadcasts the statements of
Hillary Clinton, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power
and others associated with the U.S. position. Rarely do you hear the
viewpoint of the Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations, the Syrian
Foreign Minister or analysts inside Syria and around the world who
have written about and follow events there closely.
“DemocracyNow” also has done
repeated interviews with proponents of the “Syrian revolution”
while ignoring analysts who call the conflict a war of aggression
sponsored by the West and the Gulf monarchies. This blackout of the
second narrative continues despite the fact that many prominent
international figures see it as such. For example, the former Foreign
Minister of Nicaragua and former President of the UN General
Assembly, Father Miguel D’Escoto, has said, “What the U.S.
government is doing in Syria is tantamount to a war of aggression,
which, according to the Nuremberg Tribunal, is the worst possible
crime a State can commit against another State.”
In many areas of politics,
“DemocracyNow” is excellent and challenges mainstream media.
However in this area, coverage of the Syrian conflict, the broadcast
is biased, one-sided and echoes the news and analysis of mainstream
Western corporate media, showing the extent of control over foreign
policy news that already exists in the United States and Europe.
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