The Western media’s ability to invent reality & talk over millions of people in any country the West wants to destroy is scary. Huge demonstrations that don’t fit the narrative are ignored, while comparatively tiny ones are magnified & handpicked voices portrayed as illustrative.
Even if pro-government demos are reported on, which is rare, they are then delegitimised by framing the participants as “hardcore loyalists” or implying they have been coerced into attending - both techniques implying that such manifestations of support can & should be dismissed.
And of course, these techniques are always accompanied by a campaign that attacks and slanders anyone outside of the country targeted if they offer their support to it and reject the imperialist narrative.
Or blatantly dishonest techniques like this that we have seen over the past few days:
“The press does many things and serves many functions, but its major role, its irreducible responsibility is to continually recreate a view of reality supportive of existing social and economic class power.”
Contrary to this cheap propaganda from Amnesty, the Cuban government is in virtually constant dialogue with its population regarding its policies and actually incorporates its feedback and criticism into policy making in a way literally unimaginable in Western “democracies”.
So the idea it “does not listen” is just a lie. This is one of the key functions of Amnesty and HRW, to demonise and isolate official enemy states of the US through the rubric of ‘human rights’ and to lend imperialist propaganda campaigns ‘progressive’ credibility.
It’s function is very clear. For instance re. Venezuela:
The only ‘freedom’ the US Government and it’s reactionary, gusano supporters want for the people of Cuba is the freedom to starve.
Anyone in the West who makes public criticisms of the Cuban Government or disingenuously calls for “nuance” at this very moment – when there is a clearly a dangerous intensification in US subversion against it – is doing the work of imperialists.
Why is this framed like Bennett is an unknown entity and not the certified fascist and murderer of Palestinians everyone already knows that he is. All such statements do is perpetuate the myth of a reformable Israel.
Even if it wasn't clear what Bennett's politics were, propagating the idea that a single politician, even if prime minister, could change the course & fundamental nature of Israel (violent, expansionist and racist) is in itself a dishonest, ahistorical & soft Zionist position.
It is baffling to me that after everything, and no longer under the immense pressure of being leader, Corbyn still decides to make such misleading and milquetoast statements like this.
Every time I think this awful imperialist feminist genre of books for young girls can’t get any more depraved, they somehow do. This new one on “Immigrant women who changed the world’ includes monsters including Golda “The Palestinians don’t exist” Meir 😳
Some other highlights
Ilhan Omar will presumably be delighted to be included alongside her hero Madeline Albright.
This BBC report, that portrays US occupying soldiers in Iraq as the good guys threatened by the evil Iranians, should be studied as a textbook example of imperialist propaganda - wildly disingenuous framing, omission of crucial context, emotional manipulation, it’s got everything
No mention at all of the US invasion in 2003, no mention either of its killing of Soleimani last year, completely uncritical endorsement of the lie that US troops are in Syria & Iraq altruistically to “fight ISIS”, just pure propaganda from start to finish.
It does contain the interesting fact that the Louisiana National Guard are currently stationed in NE Syria. It’s incredible how little the US invasion & occupation of Syria is actually discussed, it’s just mentioned in passing in reports like this & is always justified of course.