DIE HARD III / Herman Tiu Laurel / March 12, 2014
Despite a severe attack of gout today, I am still exerting every effort to counter the onslaught of Western propaganda in every corner of the world. It’s my small contribution to the big pool of truth tellers about the black ops led by the US to subvert countries that oppose its hegemony, as well as to sustain the rest of the world’s efforts at completely turning back the resurgence of imperialism and expanding the multipolar world led by the Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) alliance.
The latest notable insertion of US black propaganda in the Philippine mainstream media (MSM) appeared on the Inquirer issue of March 11, which I read online. It reported an on-air resignation (with a lot of huffing and puffing) of Russia Today news anchor Liz Wahl, supposedly a Filipino-Hungarian-American, on the pretext of RT’s censorship of her interview with former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. When Paul was asked by independent sources how that interview went, he denied Wahl’s claims saying, “I listened to the replay of the whole thing, I didn’t think it was slanted in any way. I thought what they reported was exactly what I said.”
What the Inquirer won’t be reporting on, but which may be our provocation may compel it to, is what another presidential candidate in the last US election, Democrat Dennis Kucinich, squarely told arch media neocon Bill O’Reilly of Fox News about what Ukraine Kucinich said, “What I’d do is not have USaid (US Agency for International Development) and the National Endowment for Democracy working with US taxpayers’ money to knock off an elected government in Ukraine, which is what they did. I wouldn’t try to force the people of Ukraine into a deal with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) against their interest or into a deal with the European Union, which is against their economic interest.”
O’Reilly, who tried to be a smart ass, then countered, “So, it’s the USA’s fault that Putin rolled in? We made them do it?” That was what naturally led to this smackdown by Kucinich for the three point: “Bill O’Reilly, if you don’t believe in cause and effect, I don’t know what I can do for you.”
Western propaganda relies on short-circuiting its audience’s rationale minds by throwing out the laws of logical thinking where cause-and-effect don’t apply.
One way is by shortening the history of events and leaving out the real cause of a situation, like shifting the issue to Crimea, when the original outrage against lawlessness and injustice was the three months of violent destabilization that saw snipers funded by US-led NGOs in ousting a democratically-elected president.
Note that as the Agence France Presse (AFP) has been at the forefront in Philippine MSM, spewing half-truths about the evolving situation in Ukraine and Crimea, a Filipino priest-columnist in the Manila Standard Today follows on its wayward interpretation. Both have reported the “Russian invasion” because of “boots on the ground;” but what they are not touching on is that Ukraine and Russia have a treaty giving Russia basing rights, such as the naval facility at Sevastopol that allows up to 25,000 Russian troops in the region to “protect Russian interests” and ethnic Russians. That’s why Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are entirely correct in saying that their actions are entirely legal under a 2010 treaty that extends Russia’s lease until 2042.
If those who are tending to believe Western black propaganda would only step back a while and look at the Western leaders’ behavior, they will notice how shrill, manic, irrational, and provocative they are — the same way that Hillary Clinton made a fool of herself by comparing Putin to Hitler, which many have called the association fallacy of “Reductio ad Hitlerum,” an ad hominem appealing to emotion and not logic, similar to what BS Aquino did last month against China’s leaders.
The use of that fallacy is very extensive in the Philippines, especially by the Yellow media and pseudo-activists who employ “Reductio ad Marcosum” or “Reduction ad Eraptum” and, today, “Reductio ad Glorianum.”
When the US and Nato invoked “R2P” (or “Right-to-Protect”) on Libya in 2011, they were not even involving the right to protect its citizens or those ethnically related to them, as the “threats” from Muammar Gaddafi to his own people were also a fiction created by Western media.
Libya, before the R2P of the US and Nato, was a secure and orderly society that has deteriorated completely today. Even at the height of Western destabilization, it was the Western-backed rebels who took Filipino nurses hostage.
It’s about time Filipinos wake up to the truth about Western and Filipino MSM that when the critical need for accurate and fair information arises they are essentially purveyors of big lies, big disinformation and black propaganda.
(Tune in to “Sulo ng Pilipino” on 1098 AM, dwAD, Tuesday to Friday, 5 p.m.; catch GNN’s Talk News TV with HTL on Destiny Cable Channel 8, SkyCable Channel 213, and www.gnntv-asia.com, Saturday, 8:00 p.m. and replay Sunday, 8 a.m., this week on “Manila: Sunshine in the city”; visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com; and text reactions to 0917-8658664)
Despite a severe attack of gout today, I am still exerting every effort to counter the onslaught of Western propaganda in every corner of the world. It’s my small contribution to the big pool of truth tellers about the black ops led by the US to subvert countries that oppose its hegemony, as well as to sustain the rest of the world’s efforts at completely turning back the resurgence of imperialism and expanding the multipolar world led by the Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) alliance.
The latest notable insertion of US black propaganda in the Philippine mainstream media (MSM) appeared on the Inquirer issue of March 11, which I read online. It reported an on-air resignation (with a lot of huffing and puffing) of Russia Today news anchor Liz Wahl, supposedly a Filipino-Hungarian-American, on the pretext of RT’s censorship of her interview with former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. When Paul was asked by independent sources how that interview went, he denied Wahl’s claims saying, “I listened to the replay of the whole thing, I didn’t think it was slanted in any way. I thought what they reported was exactly what I said.”
What the Inquirer won’t be reporting on, but which may be our provocation may compel it to, is what another presidential candidate in the last US election, Democrat Dennis Kucinich, squarely told arch media neocon Bill O’Reilly of Fox News about what Ukraine Kucinich said, “What I’d do is not have USaid (US Agency for International Development) and the National Endowment for Democracy working with US taxpayers’ money to knock off an elected government in Ukraine, which is what they did. I wouldn’t try to force the people of Ukraine into a deal with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) against their interest or into a deal with the European Union, which is against their economic interest.”
O’Reilly, who tried to be a smart ass, then countered, “So, it’s the USA’s fault that Putin rolled in? We made them do it?” That was what naturally led to this smackdown by Kucinich for the three point: “Bill O’Reilly, if you don’t believe in cause and effect, I don’t know what I can do for you.”
Western propaganda relies on short-circuiting its audience’s rationale minds by throwing out the laws of logical thinking where cause-and-effect don’t apply.
One way is by shortening the history of events and leaving out the real cause of a situation, like shifting the issue to Crimea, when the original outrage against lawlessness and injustice was the three months of violent destabilization that saw snipers funded by US-led NGOs in ousting a democratically-elected president.
Note that as the Agence France Presse (AFP) has been at the forefront in Philippine MSM, spewing half-truths about the evolving situation in Ukraine and Crimea, a Filipino priest-columnist in the Manila Standard Today follows on its wayward interpretation. Both have reported the “Russian invasion” because of “boots on the ground;” but what they are not touching on is that Ukraine and Russia have a treaty giving Russia basing rights, such as the naval facility at Sevastopol that allows up to 25,000 Russian troops in the region to “protect Russian interests” and ethnic Russians. That’s why Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are entirely correct in saying that their actions are entirely legal under a 2010 treaty that extends Russia’s lease until 2042.
If those who are tending to believe Western black propaganda would only step back a while and look at the Western leaders’ behavior, they will notice how shrill, manic, irrational, and provocative they are — the same way that Hillary Clinton made a fool of herself by comparing Putin to Hitler, which many have called the association fallacy of “Reductio ad Hitlerum,” an ad hominem appealing to emotion and not logic, similar to what BS Aquino did last month against China’s leaders.
The use of that fallacy is very extensive in the Philippines, especially by the Yellow media and pseudo-activists who employ “Reductio ad Marcosum” or “Reduction ad Eraptum” and, today, “Reductio ad Glorianum.”
When the US and Nato invoked “R2P” (or “Right-to-Protect”) on Libya in 2011, they were not even involving the right to protect its citizens or those ethnically related to them, as the “threats” from Muammar Gaddafi to his own people were also a fiction created by Western media.
Libya, before the R2P of the US and Nato, was a secure and orderly society that has deteriorated completely today. Even at the height of Western destabilization, it was the Western-backed rebels who took Filipino nurses hostage.
It’s about time Filipinos wake up to the truth about Western and Filipino MSM that when the critical need for accurate and fair information arises they are essentially purveyors of big lies, big disinformation and black propaganda.
(Tune in to “Sulo ng Pilipino” on 1098 AM, dwAD, Tuesday to Friday, 5 p.m.; catch GNN’s Talk News TV with HTL on Destiny Cable Channel 8, SkyCable Channel 213, and www.gnntv-asia.com, Saturday, 8:00 p.m. and replay Sunday, 8 a.m., this week on “Manila: Sunshine in the city”; visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com; and text reactions to 0917-8658664)
No comments:
Post a Comment
REMINDERS:
- Spamming is STRICTLY PROHIBITED
- Any other concerns other than the related article should be sent to generalkuno@gmail.com. Your privacy is guaranteed 100%.