Atrocity Propaganda

recently a progressive friend of mine cited as fact a claim she'd heard or read somewhere that the russian military had bombed 300 hospitals in ukraine during it's recent invasion of that nation. i don't believe this, just as i doubt just about everything that comes from corporate american media that purports to be 'news'.

i've just discovered a new term which relates to this sort of claim: 'atrocity propaganda'. it's an old trick which has probably been used for centuries if not millennia to drum up support for wars against supposedly evil enemies of all sorts. as it happens, i know of a very good example of it to cite that's extremely well documented, relatively recent, and that was directed mainly at the american public to incite war fever against iraq for the first invasion there by usa forces in 1991.

this involved a 10 million dollar p.r. campaign and the daughter of the kuwaiti ambassador to the usa who was also a member of the royal family. she presented herself as a regular citizen who as a volunteer hospital worker claimed to have witnessed iraqi soldiers stealing incubators from the hospital and pitilessly leaving the babies taken from them to die on the cold floor. she gave this testimony to some sort of congressional panel tearfully and earnestly and it was all just a well rehearsed big lie which got sopped up not only by the establishment media and the american public, but by other supposedly more discerning and trustworthy groups like amnesty international. it wasn't until a couple of years later, after this propaganda bs had served it's purpose in galvanizing public support for an invasion that the truth came out.

u can read about it in the short article linked below or watch an award winning canadian documentary titled To Sell A War which is about the same event also linked below. the bottom line being imo that u may have a lot to learn about the pervasiveness of deceitful propaganda that's regularly sold to the public on a whole host of things including international relations which consistently demonize one side or the other. imo, there's been such a thing going on to demonize russia quite endlessly for the past decade, quite similar to other campaigns which demonize other supposedly evil regimes like those of cuba, venezuela, iran, syria, and so on.

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Nayirah_al-%E1%B9%A2aba%E1%B8%A5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hExlqV-fsP8

The Grayzone

i think it's a pretty good rule of thumb to assume that the u.s. government and most american media including some supposedly independent and objective sources can't be trusted, or even worse, can be trusted to be deceitful and on the wrong side of most conflicts / issues. for many years i've placed much more trust on alternative media which are openly critical of the american government and mainstream media, including russia today, a platform financed by the russian government which employed several american journalists and social critics who have been effectively banned from appearing on american media outlets because of their refusal to toe the establishment line. russia today has itself now been deplatformed by tptb that control internet access, like google, owner of youtube, so that there are fewer and more difficult to find sources of radical disagreement to what might be termed 'consensus media (sur)reality' to be found.

one that remains is the grayzone. as far as i know, it depends on no governmental or corporate funding. regarding the current ukrainian russian war, it takes a far different stance as to which side is more to blame, more reprehensible, than can be found in the near unanimous decree from other american media that this is 'putin's war', or 'russia's war' and that it's the russian side that is totally evil, while ukrainians are the heroic resistant victims. if u wish, check this alternative view out, which paints almost the opposite picture:

https://thegrayzone.com/2022/04/17/traitor-zelensky-assassination-kidnapping-arrest-political-opposition/

Ukraine On Fire

i just watched a 6 year old documentary titled Ukraine On Fire, executive produced by 'controversial' film maker oliver stone, who was also behind the film 'jfk' which prompted me on my own journey as an independent researcher and 'conspiracy theorist' some 30 years ago.

imo Ukraine On Fire presents a much more accurate and nuanced version of the situation in ukraine than that commonly found in american corporate media. this version shows the american establishment to be supporting and promoting far right wing nationalists (including neo-nazis) in Ukraine who staged a violent coup d'etat there in 2014, much like the american government (especially the cia) has been behind a great many political assassinations and violent coup d'etats all around the world over the past century, subverting democracy in favor of installing pro (american) business right wing governments which favor oligarchs at the expense of the general public.

this documentary is being censored on youtube. the first youtube site for it i visited was censored. by chance i happened upon a second, which as of a moment ago has yet to be censored. with luck perhaps it still will be available should u wish to check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iaUWtbE0Os