Mainstream News And USA's Heroics In Vietnam
Why The Silence About The 7 Million Dead?
Janson, Jay
http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/02/14/mainstream-news-and-usas-heroics-in-vietnam-why-the-silence-about-the-7-million-dead/
Date Written: 2017-02-14
Publisher: Countercurrents
Year Published: 2017
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX20395
An account of the media's role in suppressing information about US military actions in Indochina from the 1940s and onward, and how the same tactics persist in the present.
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What mastery of fake news, blacked out news, selected news and outrageously sleazy news discussion, to have been able to continue get a near majority of Americans to accept as heroes, any American who participated in this mega enormous crime against humanity of holocaust proportions visited upon the Buddhist populations of largely famers in three French colonies seeking independence.
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Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark feels the if the earlier US genocidal destruction of Korea and corporate media role in portraying it as noble and necessary had been investigated, there is good chance that America's second and greater genocidal destruction in Vietnam might not have been unable to have been pulled off.
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