Propaganda, Lies and Manipulations of the US-Mainstream Media
The US Cabal and Their Mafia Connections
December 5, 2012
Never
before has it been so important to have independent, honest voices and
sources of information. We are – as a society – inundated and
overwhelmed with a flood of information from a wide array of sources,
but these sources of information, by and large, serve the powerful
interests and individuals that own them. The main sources of
information, for both public and official consumption, include the
mainstream media, alternative media, academia and think tanks.
The
mainstream media is the most obvious in its inherent bias and
manipulation. The mainstream media is owned directly by large
multinational corporations, and through their boards of directors are
connected with a plethora of other major global corporations and elite
interests. An example of these connections can be seen through the board
of Time Warner.
Time Warner owns Time Magazine, HBO, Warner
Bros., and CNN, among many others. The board of directors includes
individuals past or presently affiliated with: the Council on Foreign
Relations, the IMF, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Warburg Pincus,
Phillip Morris, and AMR Corporation,among many others.
Two
of the most “esteemed” sources of news in the U.S. are the New York
Times (referred to as “the paper of record”) and the Washington Post. The New York Times has
on its board people who are past or presently affiliated with:
Schering-Plough International (pharmaceuticals), the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chevron Corporation, Wesco Financial
Corporation, Kohlberg & Company, The Charles Schwab Corporation,
eBay Inc., Xerox, IBM, Ford Motor Company, Eli Lilly &
Company, among others. Hardly a bastion of impartiality.
And the same could be said for the Washington Post,
which has on its board: Lee Bollinger, the President of Columbia
University and Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Warren
Buffett, billionaire financial investor, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire
Hathaway; and individuals associated with (past or presently): the
Coca-Cola Company, New York University, Conservation International, the
Council on Foreign Relations, Xerox, Catalyst, Johnson & Johnson,
Target Corporation, RAND Corporation, General Motors, and the Business
Council, among others.
It is also important to address how the
mainstream media is intertwined, often covertly and secretly, with the
government. Carl Bernstein, one of the two Washington Post reporters who
covered the Watergate scandal, revealed that there were over 400
American journalists who had “secretly carried out assignments for the
Central Intelligence Agency.” Interestingly, “the use of journalists has
been among the most productive means of intelligence-gathering employed
by the CIA.” Among organizations which cooperated with the CIA were the
“American Broadcasting Company, the National Broadcasting Company, the
Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst
Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Newsweek magazine, the Mutual Broadcasting
System, the Miami Herald and the old Saturday Evening Post and New York
Herald-Tribune.”
These types of relationships have continued
in the decades since, although perhaps more covertly and quietly than
before. For example, it was revealed in 2000 that during the NATO
bombing of Kosovo, “several
officers from the US Army’s 4th Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) Group
at Ft. Bragg worked in the news division at CNN’s Atlanta headquarters.”
This same Army Psyop outfit had “planted stories in the U.S. media
supporting the Reagan Administration’s Central America policies,” which
was described by the Miami Herald as a “vast psychological warfare
operation of the kind the military conducts to influence a population in
enemy territory.” These Army PSYOP officers also worked at National Public Radio (NPR) at the same time. The US military has, in fact, had a strong relationship with CNN.
In 2008, it was reported that the Pentagon ran a major propaganda campaign by
using retired Generals and former Pentagon officials to present a good
picture of the administration’s war-time policies. The program started
in the lead-up to the Iraq War in 2003 and continued into 2009. These
officials, presented as “military analysts”, regurgitate government
talking points and often sit on the boards of military contractors, thus
having a vested interest in the subjects they are brought on to
“analyze.”
The major philanthropic foundations in the United
States have often used their enormous wealth to co-opt voices of dissent
and movements of resistance into channels that are safe for the powers
that be. As McGeorge Bundy, former President of the Ford Foundation once
said, “Everything the Foundation does is to make the world safe for
Capitalism.”
Examples of this include philanthropies like the
Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation providing immense financial and organizational
support to Non-Governmental Organizations. Furthermore, the alternative
media are often funded by these same foundations, which has the effect
of influencing the direction of coverage as well as the stifling of
critical analysis…
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Below you can
find further information and articles that elucidate the propaganda,
disinformation and outright lies of the US mainstream media, which is
under the full control of the dark US-cabal who instigates and commits
all criminal acts on this planet:
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