glen greenwald in this piece explores the installation of the empire's propaganda about venezuela and how it proceeded with sidebars about those who attempted to tell the rest of us what really happened;
Every major U.S. war
of the last several decades has begun the same way: the U.S. Government
fabricates an inflammatory, emotionally provocative lie which large
U.S. media outlets uncritically treat as truth while refusing at air
questioning or dissent, thus inflaming primal anger against the country
the U.S. wants to attack. That’s how we got the Vietnam War (North Vietnam attacks U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin); the Gulf War (Saddam ripped babies from incubators); and, of course, the war in Iraq (Saddam had WMDs and formed an alliance with Al Qaeda).
This was exactly the tactic used on February 23, when the narrative
shifted radically in favor of those U.S. officials who want regime
change operations in Venezuela. That’s because images were broadcast all
over the world of trucks carrying humanitarian aid burning in Colombia
on the Venezuela border. U.S. officials who have been agitating for a
regime change war in Venezuela – Marco Rubio, John Bolton, Mike Pompeo,
the head of USAid Mark Green – used Twitter to spread classic Fake News:
they vehemently stated that the trucks were set on fire, on purpose, by
President Nicolas Maduro’s forces.........https://theintercept.com/2019/03/10/nyts-expose-on-the-lies-about-burning-humanitarian-trucks-in-venezuela-shows-how-us-govt-and-media-spread-fake-news/
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