‘Nearly Every War Has Been The Result Of Media Lies’
JVL Introduction
The one-sidedness of mainstream media reporting is the central theme of this Media Lens article, largely focussed on Julian Assange but also touching on reporting of the war in Ukraine.
It is particularly scathing about why it has taken the Guardian, NY Times etc so long to come out in support of Assange.
Above all it stresses that the pattern of the media calling for one war after another is persistent and abhorrent.
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Also a call from the US-based Assange Defence Committee, with guidance, for writing letters to the press, local and national.
This article was originally published by Media Lens on Wed 14 Dec 2022. Read the original here.
‘Nearly Every War Has Been The Result Of Media Lies’: Julian Assange, State-Corporate Media And Ukraine
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For a very good expose of the Guardian’s anti-Assange reporting over years, see Caitlin Johnstone “How The Guardian Can Help Assange: The most effective way for the paper to help end the publisher’s persecution is to publicly acknowledge the many bogus stories they published about him and correct the record”:
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/01/caitlin-johnstone-how-the-guardian-can-help-assange/
The Guardian’s role in this affair has been disgusting.
The analysis of The Guardian’s duplicity over Iraq and Assange is great. Thanks. But on Ukraine, no thanks. This is a war of imperial invasion, an invasion by an empire (albeit a weaker one than that of the US) of one of its former colonies. In the article, this is menioned, but skated over, and secondarily. It is the prime question. As for western intervention, well yes, there has been a desire in some countries of eastern Europe to join the EU and or NATO. But Ukraine hadn’t and there appeared to be little chance of it being admitted. But in any case, given its history of colonial oppression under both Czars and Stalinism, aren’t illusions in western democracy understandable? And don’t Ukrianians have a right to those illusions? As for talk of coups, well if you want to call hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating in Maidan against a corrupt leader, night after night in sub-zero temperatuures, a coup, well then we have different understandings of the word.
May I respectfully suggest Mr Davies seeks out and carefully watches Oliver Stones ‘Fire on Ukraine’, a comprehensive appraisal of the events which lead to the ‘Maidan Revolution’. He might ask in whose interest Victoria Nuland, an American Government representative in Ukraine, boasted of her country’s funding of that particular ‘colour’ revolution, to the tune of $5 billion, whereby a democratically elected government of a sovereign state, 1000s of miles from the USA, was couped in 2014.