The format of this blog today will be directly from me to you because I am still wrestling and swearing at the way this computer works - and often doesn't.
The big story that the the commercial news media including they have been ignoring for ten years now is Julian Assange.I earlier said The Guardian, too, had ignored him. They had been. But they're picking up the slack now.
Assange, an Australian, was the founder of Wikkileaks. Back in 2010 an American intelligence agency gave him a list of U.S. war crimes. Since then he has, in effect, beenn an overseas prisoner of the U.S. Most recently, he is in a British prison and in declining health after ten years of suffering. Britain, kissing up to the U.S, has put him on trial which, if he loses, will send him to the U.S. to spend the rest of his life in prison, probably in solitary. He is now and has been for some years in failing health because of his ordeal.
He should be in prison? No. It's the job of a reporter to tell the truth. It's called freedom of speech. But governments don't like freedom of speech - and owners of TV news and newspapers don't like freedom of speech.
Almost all of them don't permit freedom of speech, a condition that has become even worse since 1945. Almost all news media lie. In this case, they have lied to cover up war crimes. I've spent a good deal of time in news rooms - and I've heard a great deal of lying. Journalists, most of them, (almost all of them), are liars. In this case, they are lying to destroy the freedom of speech. And Britain is kissing American ass.
Of course the U.S. commits war crimes. It's been committing them ever since the landing of the Pilgrims, the mass murder of native peoples including children. under George Washington, the deliberate bombing of civilians in Dresden, the mass murder of priests, missionaries and nuns in Guatemala in the 1950s and 60s, the deliberates starvation of men, women and children in the middle east, the current starvation and homelessness in Canada and the U.S.... Every days roving drones bomb and murder civilians with a blind aim that murders adults and children.. Have you seen much news about that.
Have we had information about the stunning profits that the super rich are still making while millions starve.
It's the job of a reporter to tell us about this, to expose how savage our military leaders can be. Instead, almost of them smother the real news. Yes. Savage.And we are not allowed to know exactly what horrors we pay our taxes to create.
As an aside, I think of the journalists in New Brunwick where I lived for some years. The Irving family has been robbing that province blind for almost a century. But not a word of that ever appears in the province's news. Of course. The Irvings own most of the news sources. Those news sources slobber all over the Irvings even as they grasp billions of dollars of taxpayers money for their own greed, and even as schools and health services suffer.
And in the recent election, almost all the votes went to the Liberal and Conservative parties, the two parties that are owned by the Irvings. The NDP, which is honest and which has no billionaires behind it, got a low vote. Of course. The voters of New Brunswick, like those of most jurisdictions, are profoundly ignorant of the world they live in. (That's true in almost all "democracies".)
We allow ourselves to believe the lies of our news media. And we are going to pay one hell of a price for it. Soon. Our enemies are not Russia or China - though both have their own faults. No. What's destroying us is the greed of our super rich supported by our lying news media. Probably the most evil country in the world today is the U.S. And Canada and it's news media right up there with it.
This has been going on for all the thousands of years of human existence. And we are now dreadfully close to the final act.
(I had to rush this to get my computer to the shop for adjustments. So you may find mistakes. But don't tell me.)
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