"SOS: A Plea for Freedom From Misleading Media Narratives on Cuba.
Since the beginning of protests in Cuba, the U.S. corporate media have been peddling false narratives and outright lies about the country.
In the wake of this month's protests in Cuba over food and medicine shortages and other complaints, the New York-based magazine Travel + Leisure ran an item titled '4 Ways to Help the People of Cuba Right Now.' First on the list is 'asking the US for humanitarian intervention' in order to 'help alleviate the dire situation citizens are in.' Never mind that Cuba's dire situation has just about everything to do with United States interference in the first place—particularly the six-decades-long blockade that, under international law, technically qualifies as an act of war—or that magazines called Travel + Leisure should perhaps stick to the subjects at hand rather than serving as conduits for imperial propaganda. ...
But the problem extends far beyond Travel + Leisure. The US corporate media as a whole have been less than serious in their coverage of recent events in Cuba—to the extent that many outlets have deceitfully published images of pro-government demonstrations cast as the opposite."
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/30/sos-plea-freedom-misleading-media-narratives-cuba
-->If you want proof of how propagandistic our media has become, just read some of the coverage on Cuba. It is the media pushing for war again, which seems to be the consensus of both parties as well as the military industrial complex. War is money in the US empire.
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Common Dreams:
"The case of an American human rights attorney who won a multibillion-dollar judgment against one of the world's largest oil companies and has spent the past two years on house arrest led a pair of Democratic U.S. senators on Thursday to raise questions and concerns about the use of private prosecutors in the federal court system.
Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) revealed Friday that they sent a letter (pdf) to Judge Roslynn R. Mauskopf, director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, with inquiries about the practice and federal rules of criminal procedure
'Recently, the case of environmental lawyer Steven Donziger has garnered significant attention and shined a spotlight on private prosecutions of criminal contempt charges,' the pair wrote. 'These prosecutions are highly unusual and can raise concerning questions of fundamental fairness in our criminal justice system.' "
-->Yes, the imprisonment of Steven Donziger for winning a case against Texaco-Chevron for its massive environmental destruction in Ecuador is startling. Even worse, we learn that the prosecution of Donziger in federal court is being handled by Chevron lawyers. Do a search on Donziger in the NYT and you will discover how deep this corporate rot is in our mainstream media.
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Mondoweiss:
"So much bad news is hitting Israel’s leaders, so fast, these days, that they may have overlooked warnings by the American Jewish Committee (AJC), among others, that the United Church of Christ General Synod was considering becoming the first major U.S. denomination to label Israel an apartheid state. The Zionist shock and outrage didn’t have the intensity of the meltdown over the Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream affair, which came at the same time, but the UCC’s condemnation of Israeli treatment of the Palestinians is sure to resonate with the other mainline American churches — and their millions of members. ...
Moreover, the UCC resolution is likely to be only the first blow among many from other mainline denominations, including the Presbyterians, Methodists, Lutherans, Episcopalians, Unitarians, Quakers and others who will follow the UCC lead in denouncing Israel’s “continued oppression of the Palestinian people” and calling on the U.S. government to support full equal rights for Palestinians."
-->The NYT didn't cover this story. Despite some recent changes, our newspaper of record still tries to eliminate stores critical of the apartheid state of Israel.
