Propaganda Campaign Exposed by WSWS

[MrSoundAndVision]

This is a link to a World Socialist Website article that is very important.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/nov2003/nyt-n04.shtml

People need to understand the propaganda campaign underway right now. You should disseminate this article to fiends and collegues.

[DUreader]

1. If you edit your headline to match the article this won't get locked

Also you can post 3 or 4 paragraphs

[ithacan]

2. excellent piece!!

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Moral indignation—when expedient

In his moral outrage over the bombing of the Red Cross in Baghdad, Friedman exhibits a remarkable capacity for selective indignation. Just short of two years ago, during the US invasion of Afghanistan, American war planes bombed a Red Cross warehouse in Kabul. The International Committee of the Red Cross rejected US claims that the bombing was unintentional, pointing out that the warehouse was clearly marked with a large red cross on its roof. The American response to the Red Cross’ protests was to bomb the warehouse a second time.

The US also bombed a United Nations de-mining agency in Kabul. Needless to say, such actions did not, according to Friedman’s moral compass, place the United States beyond the pale of civilized peoples. Nor did a host of other recent US attacks on civilian targets, including the bombing of the air raid shelter in the Al-Amariya residential district of Baghdad during Persian Gulf War, which killed 288 innocents, including 91 children. Or the bombing of the Belgrade television station and the Chinese Embassy during the Kosovo War of 1999, or the attack on the Al-Jazeera television station in Kabul in November of 2001, or the bombing of the Al-Jazeera TV offices in Baghdad last April.

Nor is the US to be condemned for its liberal use of concussion bombs, daisy cutters, cluster bombs and depleted uranium weapons in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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[VolcanoJen]

3. Not LBN... locking.

This is an analysis/opinion piece, and doesn't meet the criteria for posting in the Latest Breaking News Forum.

Also, the subject line should reflect the title of the article, which is "The New York Times’ Friedman libels the Iraqi resistance."

Please feel free to repost this article in the General Discussion or Editorials & Other Articles Forum.

Thanks!
VolcanoJen
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