{"id":37579,"date":"2018-09-10T07:10:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T12:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37579"},"modified":"2018-09-10T07:10:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T12:10:26","slug":"how-the-u-s-does-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37579","title":{"rendered":"How the U.S. Does Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonsblog.com\/2018\/09\/how-the-u-s-does-propaganda.html\">How the U.S. Does Propaganda<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A typical example was on NPR\u2019s \u201cWeekend Edition Saturday,\u201d on September 8th, when the program-host Scott Simon interviewed the Obama Administration\u2019s diplomat Robert Malley, in a segment titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/09\/08\/645818824\/whats-next-in-the-syrian-war-idlib\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cWhat\u2019s Next In The Syrian War: Idlib\u201d<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Simon\u2019s introduction said: <i>\u201cAfter this weekend, the last contested region of Syria may come under ferocious attack. After more than seven years of fighting, the end of the Syrian war may come down to Idlib province. \u2026 It holds more than 3 million people, many of whom have been displaced. It\u2019s been essentially a kind of dumping ground for those opposed to Bashar al-Assad\u2019s regime and ISIS.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Actually, there\u2019s a factual problem with Simon\u2019s lead-in there. Though I have seen <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.southfront.org\/how-us-government-relies-on-lying-media\/\"><span class=\"s2\">official estimates of the population of Idlib ranging from 1.5 million to 3 million<\/span><\/a>, I haven\u2019t seen any of \u201cmore than 3 million people.\u201d Mr. Simon is always happy to please his CIA minders, and might simply have gotten carried away in this interview.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Furthermore, Simon\u2019s lumping \u201cBashar al-Assad\u2019s regime and ISIS\u201d together was striking, because ISIS has actually been one of the major forces in Syria working to overthrow \u201cAssad\u2019s regime\u201d; and, \u201cAssad\u2019s regime\u201d was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syrian_presidential_election,_2014\"><span class=\"s3\">elected in 2014<\/span><\/a> and has been shown by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/09\/04\/how-us-government-relies-on-lying-media.html\"><span class=\"s2\">repeated polling done since then by the British firm of Orb International to retain more support amongst the Syrian public than does anyone else to serve as that nation\u2019s leader<\/span><\/a>. Polls taken in the U.S. today show that more of the public wish that Bernie Sanders were our President than that Donald Trump is; and, so, if Syria is a \u201cregime\u201d instead of a \u201cgovernment,\u201d then the U.S. is even more of a regime than is Syria. (And <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/america-is-one-dollar-one-vote-not-really-one-person-one-vote\/\"><span class=\"s3\">the scientific evidence is consistent that the U.S. is more of a \u201cregime\u201d than a \u201cdemocracy.\u201d<\/span><\/a>)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the U.S. Does Propaganda A typical example was on NPR\u2019s \u201cWeekend Edition Saturday,\u201d on September 8th, when the program-host Scott Simon interviewed the Obama Administration\u2019s diplomat Robert Malley, in a segment titled \u201cWhat\u2019s Next In The Syrian War: Idlib\u201d. Simon\u2019s introduction said: \u201cAfter this weekend, the last contested region of Syria may come under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[7844,4394,21569,446,2190,6457,655,1343,21592,21593,776,827],"class_list":["post-37579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-donald-trump","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-idlib-province","tag-isis","tag-national-public-radio","tag-npr","tag-propaganda","tag-regime-change","tag-robert-malley","tag-scott-simon","tag-syria","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37580,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37579\/revisions\/37580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}