Three Illuminating Quotes About The War In Ukraine from Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, and Chris Hedges
CAITLINJOHNSTONE.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: While we normally do not post on political matters, we are posting on the situation in Ukraine because it is an invaluable case study about Big Tech and Western media. ~~ Hazar Imam, 1996: "For centuries, the press has cast itself as the champion of understanding and enlightenment. And yet, even as the press has become more international, it has often left a trail of misunderstanding in its wake."] ARTICLE: "I've spent my career working in the mainstream, and I've covered probably seven, eight, nine shooting wars; I've never seen coverage so utterly consumed by a tsunami of jingoism, and of manipulative jingoism as this one." (John Pilger) ~~ "It's quite interesting that in American discourse, it is almost obligatory to refer to the invasion as the 'unprovoked invasion of Ukraine'. Look it up on Google, you will find hundreds of thousands of hits. Of course, it was provoked. Otherwise they wouldn't refer to it all the time as an unprovoked invasion." (Noam Chomsky) If your neighbor always referred to his wife as "my wife who I definitely never beat," you'd immediately become suspicious because ...
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