vendredi, février 18, 2022

Questioning the Ukrainian Crisis Narrative: Matt Lee, Craig Murray, John Pilger, Peter Hitchens (18 Feb 2022)


Matt Lee: questions Ned Price (4 Feb 2022)
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Cry “Havoc!” and Let Slip the Dogs of War
by Craig Murray (12 Feb 2022)

The mainstream media is, without exception, repeating the unevidenced claim from the Biden administration that Russia is about to invade Ukraine. They do this with no proper journalistic questioning or scepticism. They do this despite the fact that, in the last month, not only have we had repeated cries that invasion is “imminent”, we have had specific secret intelligence sourced claims from the Americans, that a Russian staged false flag attack was about to happen, and from the British, that there was about to be a coup in Kiev led by very minor figures. Both claims turned out to be nonsense.

Perhaps more pertinently, the media do this as though the invasion of Iraq had never happened and they had never before been misled by US and UK governments, citing intelligence sources.
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WAR IN EUROPE AND THE RISE OF RAW PROPAGANDA
by John Pilger (17 Feb 2022)

Marshall McLuhan's prophecy that "the successor to politics will be propaganda" has happened. Raw propaganda is now the rule in Western democracies, especially the US and Britain. […]


The war hysteria that has rolled in like a tidal wave in recent weeks and months is the most striking example. Known by its jargon, "shaping the narrative", much if not most of it is pure propaganda.

The Russians are coming. Russia is worse than bad. Putin is evil, "a Nazi like Hitler", salivated the Labour MP Chris Bryant. Ukraine is about to be invaded by Russia - tonight, this week, next week. The sources include an ex CIA propagandist who now speaks for the US State Department and offers no evidence of his claims about Russian actions because "it comes from the US Government".

The no-evidence rule also applies in London. The British Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss, who spent £500,000 of public money flying to Australia in a private plane to warn the Canberra government that both Russia and China were about to pounce, offered no evidence. Antipodean heads nodded; the "narrative" is unchallenged there. One rare exception, former prime minister Paul Keating, called Truss's warmongering "demented".
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Peter Hitchens:
 "A Russian invasion of Ukraine would be an act of clinical insanity" (14 Feb 2022)

PETER HITCHENS: Granny gets her gun - from a bunch of shamelss neo-Nazis... not that the BBC would ever tell you (MAIL 19 Feb 2022)