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davel , 6 months ago to worldnews in Israel ‘hit squad’ kills three in West Bank hospital operation

I don’t know what to tell you. To not be familiar with Chomsky’s or Parenti’s work is to lack basic media literacy, which, to be fair, is most people.

If you don’t want to read a book, you might start with the video documentary: Manufacturing Consent Noam Chomsky and the Media (Documentary) 1080p

davel , 6 months ago to worldnews in Israel ‘hit squad’ kills three in West Bank hospital operation

• Michael Parenti, Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
• Edward Herman & Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

davel , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to worldnews in Nancy Pelosi asks pro-Palestinian protesters to ‘go back to China’ in video

This you?

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/e1006376-23ec-463c-bfc0-b34d6c5adbb7.webp

davel , 6 months ago to worldnews in Nancy Pelosi asks pro-Palestinian protesters to ‘go back to China’ in video

That and “more jobs” are the only things both parties agree on.

They only agree on that in public, while in private (with a few exceptions) they are fine with the Federal Reserve raising interest rates to induce layoffs to ensure workers are too scared of losing their jobs to demand raises.

davel , 6 months ago to memes in Math

hitler-detector

davel , 6 months ago to worldnews in Nancy Pelosi asks pro-Palestinian protesters to ‘go back to China’ in video

Is this the same China that recently lifted over 800 million people out of extreme poverty? Please, enlighten us with your China expertise.

davel , 6 months ago to worldnews in Nancy Pelosi asks pro-Palestinian protesters to ‘go back to China’ in video

The Dems and Dem-aligned corporate media have spent the last eight years pushing Russiagate conspiracy theories, and now they’re expanding BlueAnon to include China because the US is itching to ramp up Cold War II.

davel , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to worldnews in France Rejects Genocide Accusations Against Israel in Gaza

Li Jingjing: Why the US wants to separate #Xinjiang from China? (cited 2003 report)

The Grayzone has been covering the story for about five years: thegrayzone.com/page/2/?s=xinjiang

ProleWiki: Uyghur genocide allegations

Critical Resist: The blueprint of regime change operations

We see here for example the evolution of public opinion in regards to China. In 2019, the ‘Uyghur genocide’ was broken by the media (Buzzfeed, of all outlets). In this story, we saw the machine I described up until now move in real time. Suddenly, newspapers, TV, websites were all flooded with stories about the ‘genocide’, all day, every day. People whom we’d never heard of before were brought in as experts — Adrian Zenz, to name just one; a man who does not even speak a word of Chinese.

Organizations were suddenly becoming very active and important. The World Uyghur Congress, a very serious-sounding NGO, is actually an NED Front operating out of Germany (from the same town the CIA-owned Radio Free Europe operates). From their official website, they declare themselves to be the sole legitimate representative of all Uyghurs — presumably not having asked Uyghurs in Xinjiang what they thought about that.

The WUC also has ties to the Grey Wolves, a fascist paramilitary group in Turkey, through the father of their founder, Isa Yusuf Alptekin.

Documents came out from NGOs to further legitimize the media reporting. This is how a report from the very professional-sounding China Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) came to exist. They claimed ‘up to 1.3 million’ Uyghurs were imprisoned in camps. What they didn’t say was how they got this number: they interviewed a total of 10 people from rural Xinjiang and asked them to estimate how many people might have been taken away. They then extrapolated the guesstimates they got and arrived at the 1.3 million figure.

Sanctions were enacted against China — Xinjiang cotton for example had trouble finding buyers after Western companies were pressured into boycotting it. Instead of helping fight against the purported genocide, this act actually made life more difficult for the people of Xinjiang who depend on this trade for their livelihood (as we all do depend on our skills to make a livelihood).

Any attempt China made to defend itself was met with more suspicion. They invited a UN delegation which was blocked by the US. The delegation eventually made it there, but three years later. The Arab League also visited Xinjiang and actually commended China on their policies — aimed at reducing terrorism through education and social integration, not through bombing like we tend to do in the West.

But it fell on deaf ears. The sentiment at the time was that the Arab League wanted better relations with China and so they lied and said everything was fine.

Everything the target country does to prove its innocence is a lie. Only we profess the truth.

We suddenly stopped hearing about the ‘genocide’ as the world moved on to the war in Ukraine and now the October 7 operation in Palestine. These last two events were not controlled by Washington, and so they had to take precedence over the ‘genocide’. But it’s not over yet; they’ll find something else to pin on China eventually, and when they do, they’ll want you to remember all they’ve said about China in the past. They’ll want you to remember Tian’anmen (another mostly fabricated event), they’ll want you to remember the Uyghur ‘genocide’. They’ll want you to remember Tibet (for which they try to find stories, but they don’t tend to stick for very long).

All so that when they make up more ludicrous stories about China, you’ll think they’re true, because you’ve been conditioned to believe more and more outrageous stories with time.

When we finally declare war on China (if the NATO bloc ever gets to find a way to win that war), you’ll do the legwork of justifying this invasion yourself. We hope you’ll have been properly subdued by then and will happily cheer for the bombs. And if we install a US comprador government in China, we hope you won’t ask too many questions as it starts privatizing everything, reversing social welfare policies, jailing opponents, plummeting quality of life, destroying jobs and houses… and will just happily accept it as the right legitimate government — because it’s Western-backed.

davel , 6 months ago to worldnews in Hyper-Imperialism: A Dangerous Decadent New Stage

Right, AFAIK the article you posted is a verbatim republication with permission, and I see no reason to change it.

davel , 6 months ago to worldnews in Hyper-Imperialism: A Dangerous Decadent New Stage

No worries.

davel , 6 months ago to worldnews in Hyper-Imperialism: A Dangerous Decadent New Stage

You’re asking me to post the original article, which is precisely what I was doing and said as much confusion You’re confusing me with OP is all I can think of.

davel , 6 months ago to programmerhumor in Never again

People organizing on Discord when Matrix exists 🙄

davel , 6 months ago to worldnews in Hyper-Imperialism: A Dangerous Decadent New Stage

Original article at Tricontinental.

Wiki article on Vijay Prashad & Tricontinental.

davel , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to news in “I Have Lost Everything”: In Federal Court, Palestinians Accuse Biden of Complicity in Genocide

Are you kidding me? He can end it with a phone call to Bibi. In fact he can order his just-offshore aircraft carriers to enforce a no fly zone over Gaza.

davel , 6 months ago to worldnews in China's usually strict sensors are seemingly ignoring rising antisemitism online

The firewall was & is meant to protect indigenous technological development from being overrun by Silicon Valley corporations.