Dear CCI Friends,
The New York Times (formerly considered America’s “Paper of Record”) has come out with yet another piece of propaganda which is unfounded, unverifiable, unsubstantiated by facts … and they assume that we, their readership, will believe them!
AMAZING!
Please email them yourself, “NYTimes. com” <nytimes@e.newyorktimes.com>,and let them know we need them to return to their original excellent reporting and stop putting these types of made-up stories in the minds of unthinking American people. It is not only fallacious, it is dangerous to demonize a country with similar numbers of nuclear weapons.
We in America should be agreeing to sign Nuclear Weapons Treaties and practicing diplomacy with Russia rather than releasing such propaganda.
Sharon Tennison
Center for Citizen Initiatives
This Russia-Afghanistan Story Is Western Propaganda At Its Most Vile
June 28, 2020
By Caitlin Johnstone
All western mass media outlets are now shrieking about the story The New York Times first reported, citing zero evidence and naming zero sources, claiming intelligence says Russia paid out bounties to Taliban-linked fighters in Afghanistan for attacking the occupying forces of the US and its allies in Afghanistan. As of this writing, and probably forevermore, there have still been zero intelligence sources named and zero evidence provided for this claim.
As we discussed yesterday, the only correct response to unsubstantiated claims by anonymous spooks in a post-Iraq invasion world is to assume that they are lying until you’ve been provided with a mountain of hard, independently verifiable evidence to the contrary. The fact that The New York Times instead chose to uncritically parrot these evidence-free claims made by operatives within intelligence agencies with a known track record of lying about exactly these things is nothing short of journalistic malpractice. The fact that western media outlets are now unanimously regurgitating these still 100 percent baseless assertions is nothing short of state propaganda.
The consensus-manufacturing, Overton window-shrinking western propaganda apparatus has been in full swing with mass media outlets claiming on literally no basis whatsoever that they have confirmed one another’s “great reporting” on this completely unsubstantiated story.