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\"Chris-Cuomo\"<\/a>I\u2019m one of those \u201ccord-cutters.\u201d I’ve also given up all mainstream media news. Even though I can still watch and read it\u00a0online, I mostly choose not to. The lies and distortions are reaching full on lunacy, and if I do catch a headline, or watch a clip, or read a few paragraphs of what the \u201cvoices of empire\u201d have to say about Syria or Ukraine, it just ruins my day. I get\u00a0depressed\u00a0knowing that most Americans believe the\u00a0false narratives spun by the White House and State Department, narratives that go unquestioned\u00a0by the “journalists” who\u00a0report them. These stories are designed\u00a0to get the country\u00a0on board with the administration’s expensive, illegitimate\u00a0wars that drain resources away from the many to enrich the few.. Unfortunately, most Americans\u00a0feel\u00a0that If CNN or the New York Times<\/em> says it\u2019s true, it must be true.<\/p>\n

In case you haven\u2019t noticed, the U.S. government uses the media to demonize the legitimate heads of state in countries\u00a0it wants to overthrow\u2014most recently Muammar Gaddafi, Bashar al-Assad, and Vladimir Putin. When the demonization starts, you know that country is in the\u00a0crosshairs of the United States. We pursue \u201cregime change\u201d if a country refuses to bow to U.S. hegemony, is making economic alliances with other countries that threaten U.S. economic interests, or if it has resources we want, such as oil. We also destroy\u00a0countries that\u00a0bypass the dollar on trade settlement, as\u00a0Libya was intending to do. Gaddafi was in the process of starting a gold backed pan-African bank that would serve, rather than exploit, the countries on\u00a0the\u00a0African continent. That\u00a0was unacceptable to Wall Street and international banking cartels. Gaddafi was assassinated, and Libya, once the most\u00a0prosperous country on the continent, is now a completely destroyed, failed state.<\/p>\n

How do we invade without deploying troops? We have\u00a0NATO do our dirty work,\u00a0we impose\u00a0economic and financial\u00a0sanctions, we impose “no fly zones,” we\u00a0use mercenaries, we use NGOs to stir up internal unrest and opposition, we send in \u00a0CIA-backed fighters\u00a0like al-Nusra in Syria, we recruit and train jihadists to destabilize our target countries in the Middle East, and we get in bed with corrupt oligarchs and neo-Nazi\u2019s in countries like Ukraine.\u00a0We steal resources, destroy\u00a0economic competition, and preserve, or restore, the primacy of the dollar as reserve currency.\u00a0Most Americans\u00a0have a misguided view of the United States as\u00a0some sort of benign force <\/span>keeping the peace and taking out “bad guys<\/span>.” \u00a0Actually, we are the bad guys.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Have\u00a0a look at this moronic Newsweek<\/em> cover. This is what propaganda looks like. There are deranged Neocons infesting the Obama administration, like Victoria Nuland at State, and Ashton Carter at the Pentagon. And in the DC media, you have people like\u00a0Richard Cohen at the Washington Post.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0They drool\u00a0over the idea of assassinating\u00a0Putin, installing another U.S. puppet, like the late, drunk, Boris Yeltsin, and making Russia, with its vast landmass and resources, into a vassal state. This image of Putin as a crazed power hungry “pariah” is\u00a0the\u00a0false narrative\u00a0they want you\u00a0to buy. Neocons are elitists who don’t believe in democracy. They\u00a0have no problem manipulating and lying to the American people, as they did going into the Iraq War. They feel the destiny of the United States is nothing less than full-spectrum world dominance.<\/p>\n

\"putin\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Humor\u00a0to the rescue, or, “if I wasn’t laughing I’d be crying”<\/h2>\n

I love humor, especially when it\u2019s used to expose a devastating truth about current events. So, in the spirit of John Stewart, John Oliver and the venerable Onion<\/em>, I bring you Gary Leupp,<\/strong> professor of History at Tufts University. By mocking\u00a0current news coverage on Syria, Leupp points to\u00a0what’s\u00a0not <\/em>true in what we\u2019re hearing and reading. Here\u2019s an edited excerpt of his post \u201cA Useful Prep-sheet on Syria for Media Propagandists<\/a>\u201d, (emphasis mine<\/strong>). You\u00a0can read the rest of his wickedly insightful commentary at Counterpunch.<\/a><\/p>\n

State Department talking points on Syria for cable news anchors:<\/h2>\n
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  • Keep mentioning the barrel bombs<\/strong>. Do not mention how the Israeli Air Force pioneered their use in 1948, and how they were used by the U.S. Air Force in Vietnam in Operation Inferno in 1968. Keep repeating, \u201cbarrel bombs, barrel bombs\u201d and stating with a straight face that the Syrian regime is using them \u201cagainst its own people.\u201d Against its own people. Against its own people. Against its own people.<\/li>\n
  • Keep mentioning \u201c200,000.\u201d<\/strong> (The UN estimates that 220,000 have been killed in the conflict since 2011.) Declare, like you really believe it, that this is the number of civilians the Syrian government of Bashar Assad has killed during the war. (Do not be concerned about any need to back the figure up. No one is ever going to call you on it publicly.)<\/strong> Do NOT mention that around half of the war dead (estimates range from 84,000 to 133,000) are Syrian government forces waging war against an overwhelmingly Islamist opposition, and an additional 73,000 to 114,000 are anti-government combatants. Do not discuss these figures because they would call into question the claim that the Syrian government is targeting and killing tens of thousands of civilians willy-nilly.<\/li>\n
  • Keep expressing consternation if not outrage that Russia is \u201cinterfering\u201d in Syria.<\/strong> Scrunch up your face and act like you think it\u2019s puzzling. Do NOT mention that Syria is much closer to Russia than to the U.S. and that Russia faces a much greater threat of Islamist terror than the U.S. (in places like Chechnya and Dagestan that your viewers can\u2019t locate on a map). Downplay the fact that Russia has had a military relationship with Syria since the 1950s, no more nor less legitimate that the U.S. military relationship with Saudi Arabia<\/strong>. (And avoid any objective comparisons of the human rights records of Saudi Arabia and Syria since the former\u2019s is manifestly so much worse than the latter\u2019s!) Do NOT imply any moral equivalence between Russia\u2019s desire to prevent U.S.-backed regime change in Syria and the U.S.\u2019s desire to inflict another Iraq or Libya-type regime change on that tragically war-torn country.<\/li>\n
  • Keep treating the Assad regime as an obvious pariah, whose leader has \u201clost legitimacy.\u201d<\/strong> Say that with an air of authority, like you really believe that U.S. presidents\u2014like Chinese emperors of the past or medieval popes\u2014 enjoy so much \u201clegitimacy\u201d that they can confer this on, or remove it from, anybody else. Study CNN anchor Chris Cuomo\u2019s facial expressions and body language when he announces\u2014so matter-of-factly, as a self-evident fact, as a done deal\u2014that (come on, everybody!) \u201cAssad has lost legitimacy.\u201d (Chris is your model. He\u2019s the State Department\u2019s pleasantly vapid headed scion-of-privilege poster boy, whose occasional dark flashes of indignation\u2014especially those directed towards anyone questioning the official talking points on Russia\u2014embody the attitude Foggy Bottom seeks to encourage in the corporate press.) Do NOT remind viewers that the Syrian government is internationally recognized, holds a UN seat, retains cordial relations with most nations and is engaged in a life-and-death struggle against people who enslave, crucify, behead, bury alive and burn alive people, and want to replace Syria\u2019s modern secular government with a medieval religious one intolerant of any diversity.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Keep treating Russian President Vladimir Putin as America\u2019s Enemy Number One,<\/strong> an ally of a Syrian government that U.S. has said must go, deploying force in Syria to bolster Assad rather than (as Moscow claims) to target ISIL. Do NOT lend any credence to the Russian assertion that the Syrian Army is the force best placed to defeat ISIL. Do NOT point out the incongruity of the U.S. invading and attacking countries from Pakistan to Libya since 2001 while expressing alarm that Moscow is (after much hesitation) taking action against Islamist terrorists at Damascus\u2019s invitation.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Please keep everything simple,<\/strong> following the examples set by MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe\u201d Scarborough and CNN\u2019s Cuomo, and inculcate in the mind of the viewer that Assad is the main problem and most horrible actor in the Syrian situation.<\/strong> Tell them that Putin, while striving to revive the tsarist empire, is backing Assad as a loyal ally<\/strong> and using his military to prolong his rule that Washington condemns rather than (as he states) taking action against ISIL.<\/li>\n
  • If you do all this, you will demonstrate your loyalty to the State Department, the bipartisan foreign policy consensus, the military-industrial complex, the One Percent, your advertisers, your producers and editors, and the unsung heroes behind the scenes who arrange your teleprompter scripts.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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