Against Venezuela and Ecuador, Bush plays the 'weapons of mass destruction' game again.

Short inventory list of disinformation.

10 wars, 10 media lies

MICHEL COLLON - May 16th, 2008

Every war is preceded by a big media lie. Today, Bush [threatens] Venezuela and Ecuador. Tomorrow, Iran? And after that, who's next?

With, as the puppet, President Uribe, drug dealer and Indian slaughterer (four million refugees), he pretends [he has]...[proof] of Chavez' support [for] terrorism and militarization of the region [and] [this] [has] been found in the indestructible Raul Reyes' (FARC) computer.

Mainstream newspaper[s] reflect this propaganda campaign for the next Bush war. Let's recall how many times [the] USA and those same media have manipulated us. Every major war is 'justified' by what will appear as disinformation[.] [Here's a] short list:

1. VIETNAM (1964-1975):

- MEDIA LIE: August 2 and 3 (1964), North Vietnamese forces are accused by US government of attacks against two US military ships in the [Gulf of Tonkin].

- WHAT WE'VE LEARNED LATER ON: No ships [were] ever attacked. That was the White House's pure invention.

- REAL OBJECTIVE: To impeach Vietnam[ese] independence and to maintain...US domination in this region.

- CONSEQUENCES: Millions of victims, genetic malformations (Agent Orange), massive social problems.

2. GRENADA (1983):

- MEDIA LIE: The small Caribbean island is accused [of] install[ing] a Soviet military base and to [save] the [lives] of US doctors.

- WHAT WE'VE LEARNED LATER ON: Completely false. US president Reagan invented all of that from scratch.

- REAL OBJECTIVE: To impeach social and democratic reforms of the Prime Minister, [Maurice] Bishop (who was murdered). Reagan said 'We cannot allow communist apaches to take over our private garden...'

- CONSEQUENCES: US Marine invasion, brutal oppression [and] restoration of Washington['s] control over the country.

3. PANAMA (1989):

- MEDIA LIE: The US marine invasion was set-up to arrest president [Manuel] Noriega [who is] accused [of being] a drug dealer.

- WHAT WE'VE LEARNED LATER: CIA agent Noriega claimed Panama Canal sovereignty at the end of the lease. {This is] [u]nacceptable [to] the USA.

- REAL OBJECTIVE: To maintain US control over this strategic communication's way.

- CONSEQUENCES: US bombing killed from 2 to 4000 civilians, ignored by [the] media.

4. IRAQ (1991):

- MEDIA LIE: Iraqis stole incubators in Kuwait-city materni[ty] [wards].

- WHAT WE'VE LEARNED LATER: Total invention produced by Hill & Knowlton advertising agency, paid by the Emir of Kuwait himself.

- REAL OBJECTIVE: To impeach middle-east...independence [gains] against USA domination and to maintain Israel['s] military control over the region.

- CONSEQUENCES: Uncountable amount of victims during the war, followed by a long embargo, medication included.

5. SOMALIA (1993):

- MEDIA LIE: [Bernard] Kouchner presents himself as a hero of a humanitarian campaign in Somalia.

- WHAT WE'VE LEARNED LATER: Four US companies had bought a quarter of Somalia underground, rich [in] oil.

- REAL OBJECTIVE: To control a militar[ily] strategic region.

- CONSEQUENCES: Unable to control Somalia, USA maintains the country in...total chaos.

6. BOSNIA (1992 - 1995):

- MEDIA LIE: US Firm Ruder Finn and Bernard Kouchner denounced so called 'Serb extermination camps'.

- WHAT WE'VE LEARNED LATER: Ruder Finn and Kouchner lied. Those camps were for war prisoners ready for exchange. Muslim Bosnian President Itzebegovic admitted it.

- REAL OBJECTIVE: To destroy...socialist Yugoslavia, its social [welfare] system, to submit the area [to] multinational control, to control strategic Danube river and Balkan roads.

- CONSEQUENCES: Four years of terrifying war for all nationalities (Bosnians, Serbs and Croats). Provoked by Berlin, prolonged by Washington.

7. YUGOSLAVIA (1999):

- MEDIA LIE: Kosovo's Albanians were [being subjected to]...genocide [by the] Serbs.

- WHAT WE'VE LEARNED LATER: Pure invention as admitted by Jamie Shea, official NATO speaker.

- REAL OBJECTIVE: To impose NATO control over the Balkans and its transformation as the World Wide Police Force and [to] install [a] US military base in Kosovo.

- CONSEQUENCES: 2000 victims of NATO bombing. Ethnic cleansing of Kosovo by [so-called] 'Kosovo Liberation Army' covered [up] by NATO.

8. AFGHANISTAN (2001):

- MEDIA LIE: Bush wanted to take revenge after 9/11 and to capture [Osama] Bin Laden.

- WHAT WE'VE LEARNED LATER: There is no proof of the existence of the Al-Qaida organisation. Anyway, [the] Taliban had proposed to extradite Bin Laden.

- REAL OBJECTIVE: To militar[ily] control this strategic Asian region, to build a pipe line across Afghanistan to control [the] energy supply of South Asia.

- CONSEQUENCES: Long term occupation and massive increase [in] opium production and [trafficking].

9. IRAQ (2003):

- MEDIA LIE: Saddam has dangerous [weapons of] [mass] destruction...stated Colin Powel at the [UN], test tube in his hand.

- WHAT WE'VE LEARNED LATER: White House imposed...its services to falsify [the] (Libby case) [and] to create false reports.

- REAL OBJECTIVE: [C]ontrol [of] all oil resources and possibilities to blackmail rivals: Europe, Japan, China...

- CONSEQUENCES: Iraq in chaos and civil war, women['s] conditions back to submission and obscurantism.

10. VENEZUELA - ECUADOR - (2008?):

- MEDIA LIE: [Hugo] Chavez supports terrorism, imports weapons, is a dictator (Final pretext has not been chosen yet).

- WHAT WE'VE ALREADY LEARNED: Many media lies have been already downplayed: Chavez shooting at his people, Chavez [as an] anti-Semite, Chavez [as] militarist... The game continues...

- REAL OBJECTIVE: US major companies want to keep control over the continental oil and other resources. They are afraid of the democratic and social liberation of Latin America.

- CONSEQUENCES: Washington leads a global war against the entire south continent: putsches, economic sabotage, blackmail, installation of US military bases next to...natural resources...

CONCLUSION:

Anyway, every war is preceded and justified by a massive media lie campaign. And our inventory is far [from] complete!

To impeach wars is to denounce those media [as]...[soon] as possible and in the largest way. Thanks for circulating this article, for translating it into other languages if possible (available in French, a Spanish version is coming soon) and sending us the translation. In the news war, you are the real force!

--MICHEL COLLON