Propaganda

Leading Israeli Newspaper Blames October 7 Deaths on Zionist Military

July 17, 2024 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Genocide, Imperial Wars, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Journalism, Palestine, Propaganda

by Betsy Piette, published on Workers World, July 15, 2024 On July 8, Haaretz, considered Israel’s most influential daily newspaper, published the results of its thorough, in-depth investigation into what actually took place when Hamas attacked Israeli settlements just outside of Gaza on October 7. Their long report concluded that on that date, Israel’s army employed the “Hannibal Directive” —[…]

Inside China-Focused Congressional Hearings, Panic, Paranoia, and Hypocrisy Reign

July 13, 2024 UNAC Editor China, Propaganda, Racism, Socialism, US Politics, War and Peace

by Megan Russell, published on Countercurrents, July 9, 2024 Good to know we have some educated people keeping an eye on our decidedly uneducated congress. [jb] On June 26th, the Committee on Oversight and Accountability sat down for a Congressional Hearing titled, “Defending America from the Chinese Communist Party’s Political Warfare.” This was one of many Congressional hearings aimed at[…]

Reuters Exposes Washington’s Global Disinformation Campaign: The Rest of the Story

June 30, 2024 UNAC Editor Press Freedom, Propaganda, Soft Power Imperialism, Thailand, The Philippines

by Brian Berletic, published on The Struggle/La Lucha, June 18, 2024 In a recent article, Reuters confirms what many knew for years, that the United States government and its various departments and agencies have been conducting global disinformation campaigns targeting nations it seeks to undermine, and whose governments it seeks to overthrow. Washington was Deliberately Harming American “Allies” The article titled, “Pentagon[…]

Indeed, There Is No Comparison. Israel’s Crimes Are Far Worse Than Hamas’.

June 5, 2024 UNAC Editor Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, Propaganda

by Jonathan Cook, published on Global Research, May 21, 2004 There is one thing we should all be able to agree with Benjamin Netanyahu on: Any comparison between Israel’s war crimes and those of Hamas is, as the Israeli prime minister put it, “absurd and false” and a “distortion of reality”. Here’s why: Israeli war crimes have been ongoing for[…]

The U.S. Did Not Fail To Intervene in Rwanda

May 5, 2024 UNAC Editor Africa, Book Review, Neocolonialism, Propaganda, Rwanda

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, April 17, 2024 The U.S. kept the U.N. Security Council from sending in troops to stop the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. The most widespread and pernicious myth about the Rwandan Genocide may be that the US stood by and let it happen, but nothing could be further from the truth. The US in[…]

Rebuttals to NYTimes and Tom Friedman’s Racism and Ignorance

February 4, 2024 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, Censorship and Propaganda, Cold War, Imperial Lies and Liars, Imperialism, Indigenous peoples, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Propaganda

Rebuttal #1 (Racism): Tweet from Ahmed Eldin, a response to “Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom” by Thomas L. Friedman, February 2, 2024, New York Times pic.twitter.com/iPi5IwaETP — AHMED | أحمد (@ASE) February 4, 2024 Rebuttal #2 (Ignorance): by Richard Rubenstein, published on Counterpunch, February 2, 2024, in Response to “A Titanic Geopolitical Struggle Is Underway” by Thomas[…]

Book Review: Dissecting Israel’s Big Lie(s) “The Hundred Years War on Palestine” By Rashid Khalidi

January 13, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Book Review, Censorship and Propaganda, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Propaganda, Zionism

by Marty Goodman, published on Socialist Action, January 5, 2023 Book Review: “The Hundred Years War on Palestine,” A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance 1917-1921 by Rashid Khalidi, Picador 2020 “There were no such thing as Palestinians…they did not exist. ” Former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, 1969. I was raised in a working-class Jewish home in South Florida[…]

Scott Ritter Debunks Israeli Lies About the Hamas Military Raid on October 7

December 5, 2023 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Propaganda, War and Weapons

by Scott Ritter, published on Socialist Action, December 4, 2023 There is a truism that I often cite when discussing the various analytical approaches to assessing the wide variety of geopolitical problems facing the world today—you can’t solve a problem unless you first properly define it. The gist of the argument is quite simple—any solution which has nothing to do[…]

Israeli War Crimes and Propaganda Follow US Blueprint

November 14, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Anti-Imperialism, Fascism, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Propaganda, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy, Zionism

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, November 13, 2023 We have both been reporting on and protesting against U.S. war crimes for many years, and against identical crimes committed by U.S. allies and proxies like Israel and Saudi Arabia: illegal uses of military force to try to remove enemy governments or “regimes”; hostile military occupations; disproportionate military violence[…]

The Palestinian Youth Movement in a Time of War

November 3, 2023 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Police Brutality, Police Corruption, Political Analysis, Propaganda, White Supremacy

by Susie Day, published on Socialist Action, October 30, 2023 – An Interview with Kaleem Hawla Kaleem Hawa [photo above] is a young Palestinian writer who has contributed eloquent pieces on art and film to such publications as The New York Review of Books and Art forum. But he has no time for this now. He and his comrades in the Palestinian Youth Movement[…]