How propaganda is disseminated: WikiLeaks Edition

[Joanne98]

This is how the U.S. government and American media jointly disseminate propaganda: in the immediate wake of some newsworthy War on Terror event, U.S. Government officials (usually anonymous) make wild and reckless -- though unverifiable -- claims. The U.S. media mindlessly trumpets them around the world without question or challenge. Those claims become consecrated as widely accepted fact. And then weeks, months or years later, those claims get quietly exposed as being utter falsehoods, by which point it does not matter, because the goal is already well-achieved: the falsehoods are ingrained as accepted truth.

I've documented how this process works in the context of American air attacks (it's immediately celebrated that we Killed the Evil Targeted Terrorist Leader , while the dead are always, by definition, "militants"); with covered-up American war crimes, with the Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman frauds -- the same process was also evident with the Israeli attack on the flotilla -- and now we find a quite vivid illustration of this deceitful process in the context of WikiLeaks' release of Afghanistan war documents:

CNN, July 29, 2010:


Top military official: WikiLeaks founder may have 'blood' on his hands

The top U.S. military officer said Thursday that Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, was risking lives to make a political point by publishing thousands of military reports from Afghanistan.

"Mr. Assange can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family," Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a news conference at the Pentagon. . . .

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/10/17/wikileaks/index.html

[mike_c]

1. nothing that the U.S. government says is trustworthy any longer...

...and that goes double if the statements originate in the Pentagon.

My partner's son is a marine. You can imagine how she feels, not being able to trust the government that holds his life in their hands.

[Raster]

4. The corporate behemoth and it's money basically control the United States government and it's

enterprises - the American Military for a most obvious example. And of the corporate behemoths, none rank higher than American Military Industrial Complex and it's evil symbiotic twin, the Texas-American Petroleum Mafia. It is almost impossible to find a politician in the United States government that does not have any ties to either entity.

[lob1]

2. Our government has gone from a government for the people,

to a government against the people. We have a corporate government and Supreme court.

[Hissyspit]

3. NATO to CNN: No evidence of harm to Afghans

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9334912