Invisible War Crimes: The Corporate Media On Yemen
by Media Lens / September 10th, 2015
One line hints at the Wests real concern:
Yemen is strategically important because it sits on the Bab al-Mandab strait, a narrow waterway linking the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden, through which much of the worlds oil shipments pass.
Amnesty observed that:
the United States and United Kingdom have been providing intelligence and logistical support to the coalition.
After NATOs attempt to invoke the responsibility to protect (R2P) as justification for the destruction of Libya, it became clear that NATO was merely hiding behind the principles of humanitarian concern, not upholding them.
He continues:
However, R2P is conveniently absent amid what little talk of Yemen that does take place in the Western media. US-backed blockades and months of aerial bombardments have tipped Yemen toward a humanitarian catastrophe
Full article:
http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/09/invisible-war-crimes-the-corporate-media-on-yemen/
Noam Chomsky: Yemen is the most extraordinary global terrorism campaign in history
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)American supplied bombs BFF Saudi is dropping on their homes,
polly7
(20,582 posts)Even after the whole world is finally seeing the already staggering number of refugees desperate to escape and so many dying. trying. It takes some gall for corporate media to still try to paint it as anything but what it is.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Which is probably why the blackout on news of a war killing thousands of people on a scale as large as anything in Iraq or Syria...it is amazing what they get away with because they hold all the free speech megaphones which all blare out the same tune...or no tune at all.
The media in America is too busy creating and then covering their own self generated food fights and clearly fraudulent scandals and passing that off as " news".
"Anyone struggling to understand the violent upheaval in Yemen this year might be tempted to consult the countrys most important source of news the BBC. An online piece titled Yemen crisis: Who is fighting whom? explains:"
No time to spare for actual news! "Who is fighting whom?" in America means wall to wall coverage of feces-throwing Trump versus Bible-thumping Huckabee or anyone else who wants go join the shit fight.
polly7
(20,582 posts)bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)MSM is all about, 24/7 Psy-Ops. No more Fourth Estate for the most part. Journalists and whistleblowers have/can become targeted individuals/TI's.
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