[Media-watch]

[james doleman]

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com

Is a slightly better site (IMHO) than that one, you still have to be careful 
of the US right's sometimes anti-semitic agenda though





From: "YvonneMarshall" <Brotherhoods at stevenston4.fsnet.co.uk>
To: <media-watch at lists.stir.ac.uk>
Subject: [Media-watch]
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 03:02:56 +0100

Dear List-members,

Another quiet night on Media-Watch. Perhaps folk are just now so war-weary 
and scunnered that they can't see the point any more, or maybe the sheer 
weight and relentlessness of the propaganda makes it almost impossible to 
highlight which nuggets of twisted filth to bring to the attention of 
others.

It might provide some 'relief' to get away from the here and now, to examine 
one of the main reasons used to justify the destruction of the civilisation 
in which literacy itself was developed.

The Sep 11th attacks remain the fundamental 'justification' for the US's 
current behaviour.  There remain hundreds - literally hundreds - of 
unanswered questions regarding what happened on that day. There still has 
been no official inquiry or report into what happened.

The tacit, media-peddled  'official' version of what happened (although it 
has never been formally published, collated, researched, authored etc etc) 
is flatly impossible for any sane person to believe, and yet, in this 
country - the UK - with its fine reputation for investigative reporting, 
documentary-making etc, not one mainstream broadcaster - not a single one - 
has dared to raise any of the glaring errors, mistruths and outright lies 
which masquerade unchallenged as 'the truth' of what happened on that 
terrible day.

For many, the very notion that Sep 11th was anything but a spectacular and 
audacious attack on the US and Capitalism by Big-Beard Bin Laden is simply 
not credible. Yes, it was Al-Qaeda, Bin-Laden. (Bin-Laden said on Sep 12th 
that he was right into it, thought it was great, but had nothing to do with 
it. Maybe his PR boys had a wee word and told him to shut-it.) Then, of 
course, we have to take into account that the majority of the US public 
believe that Iraq was behind the attacks. An alarmingly high percentage of 
Americans also believe (and this is according to the pollsters) that Saddam 
Hussein and Osama bin Laden ARE THE SAME PERSON !! It might be instructive 
to see figures by these pollsters regarding what percentage of the US public 
actually believe the cobblers published by the pollsters, but such data is 
not easily available.


Polls aside - to deny the 'official' version of events on Sep 11th is to 
open a Pandora's Box which exposes our own innocence and naivete as much as 
it exposes the sheer evil behind the attacks.  Were the moon-landings faked 
? That question guarantees the speaker a black-eye in many bars all over the 
world, not only in the US, and we are fast approaching the point where 
similar queries regarding the events of Sep 11th 2001 will draw similarly 
violent denial - and this is before the question has even been addressed or 
any evidence has been surveyed. As the asking of certain questions becomes 
forbidden, albeit voluntarily,  so self-censorship and denial becomes 
endemic, irreversible. Then, inevitably, there is no such thing as 'truth' 
because facts (dem pesky thangs) just don't matter any more. Crucial, right 
now, is to ask those hard questions, and wonder whether or not they could be 
raised in 'decent' company, and if not, why not ? (Germans, in 1936, 37 etc, 
being entertained by close Jewish friends and associates must've, at some 
point, asked the same questions of themselves, pondered the same awkwardness 
as things got worse. Maybe most of them never said anything, would've denied 
even asking themselves the questions at all ?)

So, if you're still bearing with me, my point is this - media-watch, and 
many other on-line projects, were set-up to address what we all knew would 
be the inevitable tide of propaganda. Now, we're up to our necks in  it, but 
unlike a normal 'tide', it is not going to recede. The 'war', as Robert 
Fisk's latest reports from Iraq suggest, is really just beginning. None of 
us knows where it will end. But we can do our best to find out why it 
started, what sparked it, where and when the Neo-cons and their pliant 
mass-media buddies knew that the time was right to forge ahead with 'the 
project'.

Maybe history is now moving so fast that none of us can reasonably expect to 
learn from it, but we can certainly use what is within our collective 
memory, backed up by the efforts of many independent writers, researchers 
and journalists worldwide who continue to do their thankless work despite 
being constantly pilloried as cranks, conspiracy-theorists etc etc.

If you, or anyone close to you, really believes the 'official' explanation 
of the Sep 11th attacks, please go to propagandamatrix.com. (I've no 
connection with the site at all, and there are many others featuring similar 
material, but it's one of the most comprehensive I've seen.) You'll find a 
short list of links on the left-hand side of the page, one of which is 
'September 11th'. If you do decide to click on it, be prepared - there are 
maybe 600 or so links to features by writers all over the world written in 
the past 18-months or so, and each and every one of them - even from the 
titles alone - raises deeply troubling questions about what happened on that 
day. Taken together, they constitute a compelling case for the immediate 
impeachment of G W Bush and his wee pal Tony.  (Don't try to read every 
feature from the top-down - best to scan right down to see the various 
headings - it really is a huge site)

Thank you for reading this far.

At the time of writing,  the US  and UK troops have encouraged the looting 
of Baghdad and all other significant Iraqi cities, overseen the destruction 
of ancient artefacts, priceless irreplacable copies of the Koran, civil 
infrasturcture of all forms, and continue to suppress the innocent civilian 
population while they 'busy' themselves guarding oil-wells and the Oil 
Ministry. Disease festers in corpses on the streets and babies die for want 
of water. It's happening right now, and will be for months if not years. We 
are citizens of the 'democratic' country which helped make it happen and 
continues to justify it. In the eyes of the whole world, and  - if we're 
brave enough to admit it - in our own country,  we are all guilty, each and 
every one of us. Okay, maybe we couldn't and can't stop it, but surely the 
very least we can do now is make an effort to educate ourselves, try to find 
out why it's happening.

People all over the planet are asking 'why ?'.  We can find out if we look 
at the time-lines, the major players, the evidence that is there at the 
click of a mouse. It's there, but you have to look for it. List-members will 
be aware of this, but so many many people are not - the BBC, ITN, AP, 
Reuters or any other media-outfit, mainstream or otherwise, do not have any 
monopoly on 'truth'. They re-present various truths in the form which best 
suits their purposes at the time. Who decides what their purposes might be 
is not for us 'mere mortals' to know. But we can take the whole, examine it, 
swap notes, and reach reasoned, logical  conclusions. I hope that's what the 
List is about. (Does it close tomorrow if Tony says 'officially' that the 
war is over ?)

Please do check the propagandamatrix.com site. If you read even a fraction 
of what is there and measure it against the coverage you have seen on 
'normal', 'mainstream' media over the past 18 months, it should very quickly 
become clear that the 'War on Terrorism', the 'War on Iraq'  - and 
'The-War-Against-God-Only-Knows-Who's-Next'  - was only 'justifiable' if 
popular US rage and revenge was keen enough. Sep 11th was the 'new Pearl 
Harbor' the Neo-cons and the Project for the New American Century yearned 
for. How convenient it happened so soon after Dubya was installed !!

Read it and weep. Then tell your pals, argue about it in the kitchen with 
your folks. They won't like it. No-one does. But hey, when it comes right 
down to it, they can't shoot the messenger.

Can they ?

Best regards to all,

Ian Brotherhood


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