Now Twitter is just as corrupt (propaganda-organizations) as Google and Facebook and MSNBC and CNN and Fox and the Washington Post and The Atlantic and all the rest.
Caitlin Johnstone nailed it, on September 12th, under the headline “Have You Noticed How Social Media Purges Always Align With The US Empire?” and she opened:
Twitter has suspended multiple large Cuban media accounts for reasons the social media platform has yet to explain as of this writing, a move which journalist Dan Cohen has described as “the equivalent of silencing CNN, Fox, WaPo and NPR’s accounts” for that nation. The Union of Cuban Journalists has denounced the move as censorship.
Prior to that, on July 12th, she had headlined “Top Assange Defense Account Deleted By Twitter”,
and she reported that, “One of the biggest Twitter accounts dedicated
to circulating information and advocacy for WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange, @Unity4J, has been completely removed from the site. The
operators of the account report that they have been given no reason for
its removal by Twitter staff, and have received no response to their
appeals.” Four days later, she headlined “Twitter Restores Assange Activism Account In Response To Backlash”, and Twitter will probably do the same this time around, but what about all the times they do this against less prominent entities or voices than Cuba or Julian Assange?
Everybody knows — Google and Facebook
even have help-wanted ads out for — America’s social media barons hiring
censors to restrict what those ’social’ media (a.k.a. U.S.-imperialist
propaganda-organizations) will allow from ’society’ (the billionaire-approved members of it, that is) to report.
And as far as the print and broadcast
U.S. media are concerned, they all are peddlers of either the Republican
National Committee’s propaganda-line, or the Democratic National
Committee’s propaganda-line (each controlled by that Party’s
billionaires, its mega-donors); and does it really make any basic
difference whether one is seeing propaganda from Republican Party
billionaires, or from Democratic Party billionaires?
Why isn’t the entire world now blacking-out those media — those agencies of the U.S. international-corporate empire?
Why aren’t China, and Russia, and Iran,
and maybe even India, developing their own competitors against the U.S.
billionaires’ media?
Okay, you might say, RT.com
was already somewhat that (and more truthful than any of the
U.S.-and-allied versions were), before the U.S. Government declared it
to be a “foreign agent,” and yet the U.S. regime doesn’t do the same (in
effect) banning against the BBC, or against other (U.S.-regime-allied)
government-broadcasters. But what’s especially needed, all over the
world, are non-U.S.-regime competitors (Russian or otherwise), against Google and Facebook and Twitter, etc., and not only against the U.S. regime’s ’news’-media (NYT, CBS, CNN, NPR, or other).
When are those start-ups going to appear —
and why haven’t they appeared already? Wouldn’t the competition be
terrific for the public! After all: RT is ‘banned’ but still can be
accessed.
The U.S.-and-allied ’news’-media
propagandized the entire world to invade Iraq in 2003 on the basis only
of U.S.-Government lies, and repeated that evil performance for the
invasion of Libya in 2011, and of Syria in 2012 till today. Doesn’t
anybody get it? Those ‘news’-media are the master fake-’news’
propagandists of all — now decade after decade! Their lies produce and
‘justify’ these wars.
Maybe some of America’s ‘enemies’ can
produce alternatives that are far more trustworthy than the corrupt,
lying, U.S.-and-allied, ’news’ and ’social’ media versions. Maybe they
can all get together and try. And maybe, in the interim, everybody can
just explore such non-U.S.-non-billionaires-controlled media as:
http://www.interfax.ru/ Chrome to translate
rr=UC&a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.epravda.com.ua%2f
rr=UC&a=https%3a%2f%2frusvesna.su%2f
Here is another non-mainstream news
report that, like Caitlin Johnstone’s, was published online on September
12th, and whose excellence demonstrates well the relatively trashy
performance of U.S.-and-allied ‘news’-media:
If one compares that with what’s being
published in the mainstream press on the same issue, is there really any
comparison, at all? And such excellence is routine for the anonymous
writer of that blog. Subscribers to U.S.-allied media are paying to have
propaganda parading as ‘news’ fed to them.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
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