The media’s role is to draw attention away from what the students are protesting – complicity in genocide – and engineer a moral panic to leave the genocide undisturbed
"When Gaza has made the news, it is invariably through a lens unrelated to the slaughter and starvation." So much tragedy, with the mainstream media and so many politicians implicit in carnage, genocide, and sheer incomprensible evil. it's difficult to know how it will all end. thank god for the students.
Hurrah for the students. It's important to join our own efforts to theirs by, among other things, calling out media outlets who refuse to speak truth to power.
You are so right. A friend actually admitted that she wanted to be a happy idiot. I think the days of being a "happy" idiot may be coming to an end.
We are likely the most brainwashed culture in the history of the planet. People are hypnotized and put in an alternative reality by TV and other screens. The movie set reality is MUCH different from the actual world. They do not wish to be disturbed from their happy dream.
People are encouraged to fight with each other over wedge issues while the country is being taken over by big money. Much of the money may be from foreign sources. It appears that the U.S. is taking orders from Israel.
Whoever it is that is running the show wants full spectrum dominance, at whatever the cost. Is there any chance that the sleeping public will wake up and take the reigns of democratic control before it is too late? I have been asking that question for decades and time is really short.
My guess is no the American empire has been used up and is being dismantled They are killing humanity and the only rule that matters is the law of the jungle Do what you must to survive and defend humanity politics are a no sum game at this point in my opinion
I have been trying for 1year now to ask people IF they read the NYTimes or Washington Post go on there and refute these miserable comments and send them to substack.
I have been called all sorts of names: Putin troll/anti Biden troll/Trump voter etc. I seriously don't give a f--ck.
I watch my profile every week on the WAPO and none of my comments have been taken off.
tho' jonathan cook would not likely agree w/ me, it would be a relief for the surviving children of gaza and the west bank to be shot-in-the-head dead or euthanized. they have been so egregiously traumatized, so severely damaged mentally and physically, that there isn't a snowball's chance in hades that they will be able to reach adulthood and carry on leading normal, productive, or even quaesi-fulfilling lives. nor will there be anyone available to help them adjust to those abnormal lives, to untwist their savagely mangled cortical machinery. the US, israel, the UK and other european countries are responsible for these inhumane depredations and the annihilations of these children's salubrious futures. the leaders of said-countries are war criminals 'ne plus ultra'.
Absolutely they are war criminals. BUT have you ever met a mother who would kill their own child?
I lost a child to a 'crib death' before my 3rd child arrived.
I totally understand where your head is at this moment........a child born without limbs/traumatised .....yes I would kill my child. There is no doubt in my mind.
ALL these kids you see running around in Palestine, their mothers hoping that the trauma they have experienced will not alter them. It's not going to happen BUT we are NOT Palestinians and the empathy in the west for their own children is non-existent.
Sometimes the 'west' has NO idea how other people in the world exist.
Everyone looks from a western (USA) position.
IF I were a Palestinian I have NO idea how I would behave.
Look again to the supposedly disbanded mis-information bureau that Biden appointed Nina Jankowitz to. It's NOT disbanded. They are simply working underground to disseminate all the coordinated lies, such as:
- "unprovoked full scale invasion" (actually it was deliberately provoked for a decade)
- "Putin, Putin, Putin" (its not about one man, its about western attempts to roll over a country and vassalize it)
- "Israel has a right to defend itsefl" (no, illegal occupiers and practicers of apartheid are not victims - they are criminals. Its the subjects of apartheid and illegal occupation that have a right to defend themselves)
- "protesters are antisemitic" (no - they're anti-genocide - "never again" applies to every human being)
Thanks for the great article, Jonathan. We're on the same wavelength about this subject.
"Biden strove to strike a moderate — dare I say populist — tone, reaching for the language of law and order. His impatient-father-figure delivery did not disguise the fact that he was trampling all over speech rights and blurring the distinction between illegal activity and protected speech and protest. This was not an accident — he blurred repeatedly. So he had a design. And he left the college students totally besmirched."
His agenda toward Israel is the same as it has been from the start of this conflagration. We're in agreement.
Biden went for tone, not substance, and he was specifically speaking in this press conference about the protests, not about his policy toward Israel per se. Very different contexts. But, as I said, he's going for tone. He's communicating a _stance_.
We are in a pivotal moment in American history. I think it was Jefferson that said "we have given them a democracy, now let's see if they can keep it."
Democracy has been very thin for a long time. The corporate owners determine who gets elected, by funding campaign propaganda for their preferred agents. Therefore, Western governments are run by corporate shills.
Our watchdog agencies are captured by corporate money, pressure and the revolving door policy.
As we can see in the case of the present genocide, we citizens have little or no say in the operations of our governments.
"As we can see in the case of the present genocide, we citizens have little or no say in the operations of our Governments."
Why?
For decades you illitrate citizens could give a dam where YOUR Govt. was making wars in the name of Democracy. You did not vote after Reagan/you could have cared less about what your country was doing all over the world as long as you had your toys and could keep shopping. I was there for 23yrs and my daughters education was SHIT
Happily we left when GWB got in.
The citizens of this awesome Global Empire were asleep.
I watched as a child in Sri Lanka (as a British Colonial kid) the destruction and ruin of one of the most beautiful countries in the world in the name of British Colonialism.
Thank you Jonathan.
"When Gaza has made the news, it is invariably through a lens unrelated to the slaughter and starvation." So much tragedy, with the mainstream media and so many politicians implicit in carnage, genocide, and sheer incomprensible evil. it's difficult to know how it will all end. thank god for the students.
Excellent analysis of an alarming trend.
Hurrah for the students. It's important to join our own efforts to theirs by, among other things, calling out media outlets who refuse to speak truth to power.
How to dig ourselves out of this hole of moral turpitude without even more violence?
Evil bloodied face 👹🩸💀🩸☠️‼️👊🏼‼️
Fuck Biden
yes, i have, jennystokes, in papua new guinea, sierra leone, and nepal. but each mother took herself w/ her child to their permanent sleep.
You are so right. A friend actually admitted that she wanted to be a happy idiot. I think the days of being a "happy" idiot may be coming to an end.
We are likely the most brainwashed culture in the history of the planet. People are hypnotized and put in an alternative reality by TV and other screens. The movie set reality is MUCH different from the actual world. They do not wish to be disturbed from their happy dream.
People are encouraged to fight with each other over wedge issues while the country is being taken over by big money. Much of the money may be from foreign sources. It appears that the U.S. is taking orders from Israel.
Whoever it is that is running the show wants full spectrum dominance, at whatever the cost. Is there any chance that the sleeping public will wake up and take the reigns of democratic control before it is too late? I have been asking that question for decades and time is really short.
My guess is no the American empire has been used up and is being dismantled They are killing humanity and the only rule that matters is the law of the jungle Do what you must to survive and defend humanity politics are a no sum game at this point in my opinion
I have been trying for 1year now to ask people IF they read the NYTimes or Washington Post go on there and refute these miserable comments and send them to substack.
I have been called all sorts of names: Putin troll/anti Biden troll/Trump voter etc. I seriously don't give a f--ck.
I watch my profile every week on the WAPO and none of my comments have been taken off.
Fight fire with fire.
tnx for the approbation, gnuneo.
tho' jonathan cook would not likely agree w/ me, it would be a relief for the surviving children of gaza and the west bank to be shot-in-the-head dead or euthanized. they have been so egregiously traumatized, so severely damaged mentally and physically, that there isn't a snowball's chance in hades that they will be able to reach adulthood and carry on leading normal, productive, or even quaesi-fulfilling lives. nor will there be anyone available to help them adjust to those abnormal lives, to untwist their savagely mangled cortical machinery. the US, israel, the UK and other european countries are responsible for these inhumane depredations and the annihilations of these children's salubrious futures. the leaders of said-countries are war criminals 'ne plus ultra'.
Absolutely they are war criminals. BUT have you ever met a mother who would kill their own child?
I lost a child to a 'crib death' before my 3rd child arrived.
I totally understand where your head is at this moment........a child born without limbs/traumatised .....yes I would kill my child. There is no doubt in my mind.
ALL these kids you see running around in Palestine, their mothers hoping that the trauma they have experienced will not alter them. It's not going to happen BUT we are NOT Palestinians and the empathy in the west for their own children is non-existent.
Sometimes the 'west' has NO idea how other people in the world exist.
Everyone looks from a western (USA) position.
IF I were a Palestinian I have NO idea how I would behave.
Precisely this is a mass gaslighting campaign.
Look again to the supposedly disbanded mis-information bureau that Biden appointed Nina Jankowitz to. It's NOT disbanded. They are simply working underground to disseminate all the coordinated lies, such as:
- "unprovoked full scale invasion" (actually it was deliberately provoked for a decade)
- "Putin, Putin, Putin" (its not about one man, its about western attempts to roll over a country and vassalize it)
- "Israel has a right to defend itsefl" (no, illegal occupiers and practicers of apartheid are not victims - they are criminals. Its the subjects of apartheid and illegal occupation that have a right to defend themselves)
- "protesters are antisemitic" (no - they're anti-genocide - "never again" applies to every human being)
Thanks for the great article, Jonathan. We're on the same wavelength about this subject.
"Biden strove to strike a moderate — dare I say populist — tone, reaching for the language of law and order. His impatient-father-figure delivery did not disguise the fact that he was trampling all over speech rights and blurring the distinction between illegal activity and protected speech and protest. This was not an accident — he blurred repeatedly. So he had a design. And he left the college students totally besmirched."
"Punking the protests for a putsch?"
https://novapsyche.substack.com/p/punking-the-protests-for-a-putsch
Please keep shedding light on this issue! It's of vital importance.
"Biden strove to strike a moderate........"
Biden knows he gave enough weapons to Israel so that he could 'step back' a little.
Please do NOT tell me that his agenda for Israel is not the same as it always has been.
This is about the US Elections nothing more!
His agenda toward Israel is the same as it has been from the start of this conflagration. We're in agreement.
Biden went for tone, not substance, and he was specifically speaking in this press conference about the protests, not about his policy toward Israel per se. Very different contexts. But, as I said, he's going for tone. He's communicating a _stance_.
Has there ever been any 'substance' in Govt. messaging?
Stance = posturing!
"Stance = posturing!"
Again, we're not disagreeing!
Sadly, you are Correct (Again)!
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We are in a pivotal moment in American history. I think it was Jefferson that said "we have given them a democracy, now let's see if they can keep it."
Democracy has been very thin for a long time. The corporate owners determine who gets elected, by funding campaign propaganda for their preferred agents. Therefore, Western governments are run by corporate shills.
Our watchdog agencies are captured by corporate money, pressure and the revolving door policy.
As we can see in the case of the present genocide, we citizens have little or no say in the operations of our governments.
Drake Chamberlin
Media & Communication Action Project
https://m-cap.org/
The most interesting sentence here to me is:
"As we can see in the case of the present genocide, we citizens have little or no say in the operations of our Governments."
Why?
For decades you illitrate citizens could give a dam where YOUR Govt. was making wars in the name of Democracy. You did not vote after Reagan/you could have cared less about what your country was doing all over the world as long as you had your toys and could keep shopping. I was there for 23yrs and my daughters education was SHIT
Happily we left when GWB got in.
The citizens of this awesome Global Empire were asleep.
I watched as a child in Sri Lanka (as a British Colonial kid) the destruction and ruin of one of the most beautiful countries in the world in the name of British Colonialism.
NOW you citizens better correct this!
Anyone who thinks America is a democracy isn’t paying attention.
Breaking:
Even the U.S. now says Israel is genociding.
Why do Jews continue to lie and genocide but want our kids to tour their “Never Forget stupid museums every year?
Talk about a hypocritical contradiction.
Christians don’t send your kids to fight for condo land and gas reserves.
Just say fuck no.