{"id":318228,"date":"2022-09-26T03:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T07:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/?p=318228"},"modified":"2022-09-25T12:06:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T16:06:01","slug":"how-deceptive-u-s-and-allied-news-media-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/2022\/09\/how-deceptive-u-s-and-allied-news-media-are\/","title":{"rendered":"How Deceptive U.S.-and-Allied \u2019News\u2019-Media Are"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Eric Zuesse, The Duran<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"On September 18th, a columnist for\u00a0America\u2019s largest-circulation newspaper,\u00a0USA Today<\/i><\/span><\/a>, headlined\u00a0\u201cIf you care about your country and your rights, don\u2019t vote for any Republicans in 2022\u201d<\/span><\/a>. She said that \u201cthe Republican Party is on a dark path and should not hold power anywhere until it comes back into the light.\u201d She warned that \u201cIf there is just one more Republican than Democrat in the House or Senate, a power-obsessed party in thrall to election deniers and conspiracists will control committees, agendas, investigations and leadership positions.\u201d She pretended (in\u00a0contradiction<\/i>\u00a0of\u00a0the findings by the scientific empirical investigations by political scientists<\/span><\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0well<\/span><\/a>\u00a0as of\u00a0all other empirical indicators<\/span><\/a>\u00a0of whether the U.S. Government is, in actual\u00a0fact<\/i>, a democracy) that it IS a democracy (and will\u00a0remain<\/i>\u00a0one\u00a0unless<\/i>\u00a0the Republican Party wins control of both houses of the U.S. Congress in November\u2019s elections). She pretended that America\u2019s dictatorship isn\u2019t actually\u00a0bipartisan<\/i>\u00a0\u2014 imposed and enforced\u00a0by BOTH of the nation\u2019s political Parties and reflecting the collective will of both the billionaires who own the Republican Party, and the billionaires who own the Democratic Party<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u2014 in other words: the consensus of the billionaires\u2019 class, which contains around a thousand individuals \u2014\u00a0and NOT any\u00a0significant<\/i>\u00a0representation of the public (which contains around 330 million individuals)<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

TRUTH LIVES on at\u00a0https:\/\/sgtreport.tv\/<\/a><\/p>\n

She pretended that the partisan differences between the two Parties don\u2019t reflect the\u00a0partisan differences between conservative billionaires versus liberal billionaires<\/i>. (No<\/i>\u00a0billionaire is progressive, though a few\u00a0pretend<\/i>\u00a0to be but are actually\u00a0only liberals<\/i>.) There is\u00a0empirical proof<\/i>\u00a0that the U.S. Government does NOT represent the American public.<\/p>\n

For one particular incident of an example: during the lead-up to America\u2019s invasion and rape of Iraq in 2003, the congressional authorization to invade was voted for by\u00a0virtually all congressional Republicans and a clear majority of congressional Democrats<\/span><\/a>, but was\u00a0entirely based on lies that the Administration and all of the U.S. \u2018news\u2019-media spread about \u201cSaddam\u2019s WMD,\u201d which didn\u2019t actually exist<\/span><\/a>. None of those persons were prosecuted and executed, much less punished in any way, for their having done this \u2014 perpetrated this clear-cut international war-crime, which so profoundly harmed the world that followed.<\/p>\n

This was a declaration of war against Iraq \u2014 a country that had never threatened, much less invaded, the United States. However, ever since 17 June 1812 \u2014 the first U.S. declaration of war \u2014 there have been\u00a0a total of 11 declarations of war, and all of the latest 7 of them<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(unlike the entirely inexcusable one in Iraq) were unanimous in the U.S. Senate, starting with the 7 December 1917 declaration of war against the Austro-Hungarian Empire. However, many\u00a0other<\/i>\u00a0invasions by the U.S. Government were not Constitutionally declared; these invasions have\u00a0not<\/i>\u00a0been unanimous, not even in the Senate, which body some have\u00a0held to be the only house of Congress that clearly\u00a0needs<\/i>\u00a0to vote on such a matter<\/span><\/a>. The U.S. Constitution is entirely vague on\u00a0how<\/i>\u00a0\u201cThe Congress shall have the Power \u2026 To declare war.\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Ought the Constitutional process to require a\u00a0two-thirds vote in the Senate, like passing a treaty does<\/span><\/a>? Or, should merely a regular 50%+ vote be sufficient in order to \u201cdeclare war\u201d? The Constitution says\u00a0nothing at all<\/i>\u00a0about how it must be done. Can\u00a0that<\/i>\u00a0BE a \u201cdemocratic\u201d Constitution? How are the people \u2014 the public \u2014 supposed to be consulted about whether or not \u2018their\u2019 Government will go to war against another? Is this Constitution a contract between the people and \u2018their\u2019 Government? Is going to war a matter of only\u00a0regular<\/i>\u00a0importance, just an ordinary or even minor matter, or is it,\u00a0instead<\/i>, the most important matter for any authentically democratic Constitution\u00a0to deal with<\/i>? How can this nation be\u00a0intelligently<\/i>\u00a0and honestly\u00a0called<\/i>\u00a0a \u201cdemocracy,\u201d even in the purely Constitutional, formalistic, sense of that term? The columnist\u2019s article alleged that \u201cIf you care about the future of America, democracy and your own rights, don\u2019t vote for Republicans.\u201d Her\u00a0implication<\/i>\u00a0was: If you vote instead for Democrats, then \u201cdemocracy and your own rights\u201d will be protected. But democracy doesn\u2019t even\u00a0exist<\/i>\u00a0in today\u2019s America. How can something that dosn\u2019t exist be \u201cprotected\u201d? This was a column in America\u2019s widest-circulation \u2019news\u2019paper, and it was loaded with false assertions and \u2014 worse yet \u2014 false assumptions, which that \u2018news\u2019paper\u2019s editors and managers entirely failed to fact-check but instead allowed to be published, instead of that columnist\u2019s having been fired for violating the most elementary truth-requirements of actual journalism, and being instead producing and publishing blatant Democratic Party propaganda against the Republican Party \u2014 pretending to be about democracy while actually being mere propaganda hired for the benefit of Democratic Party billionaires against Republican Party billionaires. A democracy cannot be merely one faction of an aristocracy against another faction of the aristocracy. But that is what the scientific studies (such as\u00a0this<\/span><\/a>) have proven today\u2019s USA to be.<\/p>\n

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by Eric Zuesse, The Duran: On September 18th, a columnist for\u00a0America\u2019s largest-circulation newspaper,\u00a0USA Today, headlined\u00a0\u201cIf you care about your country and your rights, don\u2019t vote for any Republicans in 2022\u201d. She said that \u201cthe Republican Party is on a dark path and should not hold power anywhere until it comes back into the light.\u201d She […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[138636],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}