Propaganda is propaganda... Archived Message
Posted by Si on June 17, 2019, 12:14 pm, in reply to "I agree with DJ, despite the Assad problem..."
...and Hitchens is guilty of repeating the central western propaganda trope wrt Syria: Assad is a tyrant in need of removal. Hitchens may well believe that. But surely he also knows that Bolton; unproblematically described as a 'US National Security Advisor', is in fact a criminally insane serial warmonger - why doesn't Hitchens say that? Why, when he mentions USUKetc does he not finger them explicitly as being guilty of serial initiation of the supreme war crime? The reason the 'audience understands' Assad is a 'tyrant' is because people such as Hitchens keep repeating it - that's how propaganda works, as we bloody well know. The only reason I called Hitchens on this occasion is because he foregrounds that which it takes to get a 'democracy' into war, that is, the deception of decent people - just as he himself deceives, in fact. We see a great deal here on TLN of the overt brand of cack-handed and shabby propaganda emanating from the G and bbc - and rightly people fulminate against that most aggregious poison. But poison can be found in a pretty pill also, and as I said, I'll continue to call it out when I see it.
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