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Corporate media oppose Afghan control of Afghanistan
Establishment reporting over the future of Afghanistan after Biden’s announcement demonstrated the imperialist mindset of corporate journalists.
When President Joe Biden announced the “withdrawal” of U.S. troops from Afghanistan after almost 20 years of occupying the country in violation of international law, corporate media not only misled their audiences on what the U.S. is actually planning to do in Afghanistan, but also somehow made it seem as if withdrawing from the longest overseas war in U.S. history would be premature (
Establishment reporting over the future of Afghanistan after Biden’s
Tuesday, 27 April 2021, 11:03 am
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at Strategic
Culture
The dictatorship manages information both
by deceiving the public to believe what the regime itself
knows to be actually false (such as that
Saddam Hussein might be only six months away from having an
atomic bomb), and also by removing the lie from its
‘news’-media as soon as that lie has served its purpose
and becomes no longer useful to the regime. The lie goes
down the memory-hole, instead of being focused upon and
analyzed by the regime’s media, and the reason why they
disappear the lie is that after a certain amount of time,
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