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Omitting facts and real analysis, he expressed hateful anti-Gaddafi propaganda, calling NATO imperialism "a popular uprising." Nor did he explain that SC Resolution 1973 authorizing a no-fly zone assured war, what a Pentagon commander openly admitted before it passed. Yet he shamelessly wrote on March 30, "If NATO needs me, I'm there."
On August 22, he again appeared on DN, supporting NATO's imperial lawlessness, displaying a profound ignorance and disdain for international law and right of sovereign people to govern their own affairs, free from imperial interlopers.
Instead he said "Libya, in a way, has reignited the flame of liberty in the Arab world. It's given new hope, a new charge to people in Cairo, in Tunis, and certainly in Syria." In fact, what's ongoing is mirror opposite, an affront to people everywhere yearning to be free.
Shamelessly, Cole is like many other disreputable academics. However, being an alleged liberal intellectual makes it worse. It's exacerbated by DN giving him air time in place of honest analysts viewers and listeners deserve.
So do consumers of all media, corporate or otherwise. Deserving and getting, however, diverge greatly at all times. Thankfully growing numbers understand and choose wisely. Maybe some day everyone will, or at least a majority large enough to matter.
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