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Civilian deaths are merely political setbacks, say ‘independent’ news media

Anyone aspiring to write or edit textbooks for the Department of Education should study U.S. news-wire reports. Rarely will you see imperial aggression being so expertly spun into peaceful liberation within the context of U.S. exceptionalism.

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Glenn Beck and the AP, dirty-working for the State

By now, you’ve probably heard about Glenn Beck’s “interview” of Texas gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina.

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It’s a lie, of course; but who’d know, when it comes from the world’s “largest and most trusted” news sources?

Here’s the lede from FOX’s contribution to the AP original:

President Obama said Tuesday that he’s “bent over backwards” to engage Iran in “constructive” dialogue and the U.S. will push in the United Nations to sanction the country, which has begun enriching uranium to levels capable of making an atomic bomb.

You have to read several paragraphs into the story to find that Iran is in fact NOT capable of producing nuclear weapons. But never mind the massive self-contradiction; the damage is done in the headline, subhead, and lede because most readers don’t read beyond those items.

For an excellent debunking, see: “AP Article Fuels Iran War Hysteria” by Jason Ditz at AntiWar.com.

For an empire to enrich and enlarge itself continuously on the backs of its subjects, it has to appear innocuous and noble to the otherwise discerning subjects, who’d just as soon secede from it.

Legend has it that the press in a free republic provide the “voice of the voiceless”; but, when news reports are well edited diary entries of the state, they only cause voicelessness. They keep imperial subjects subjugated.

Enter the Associated Press, whose news reports are again legitimating aggressive war against Iranians by omitting, among other inescapable realities, that aggressive war is already being waged.

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They advocate aggressive war using misleading headlines, gratuitous editorial caveats, and so on.

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New York Times coverage of U.S. federal affairs

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The Houston Chronicle published this report on U.S. Congressman Ron Paul.

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They promote and reward institutionalized theft.

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They tell their readers that being enslaved is no big deal so long as it’s well-intended.

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