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Last year, Libyan TV was blocked. Meetings were held to discuss disinformation campaigns. Attending were "PSYOP officers, embedded in the satellite TV channels of Al-Arabiya, Al-Jazeera, BBC, CNN, Fox, France 24, Future TV and MTV."
CNN collaborates with US Army PSYOP activities. So do other Western media.
Reports are pre-scripted. Videos are fake. Major broadcasters and cable channels pretend they're real.
"During the past weeks, studios in Saudi Arabia have been set up to build replicas of the two presidential palaces in Syria and the main squares of Damascus, Aleppo and Homs.""Studios of this type already exist in Doha (Qatar), but they are not sufficient."
Planning began months ago. At issue is flooding airwaves with fabricated information and images to enlist public support for intervention.
Fabricating information to facilitate war violates the letter and spirit of international law.
General Assembly Resolution 110 (November 1947) "(c)ondems all forms of propaganda, in whatsoever coutry conducted, which is either designed or likely to provoque or encourage any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression...."GA Resolution 181 (November 1950) condemns propaganda "(i)ncitement to conflicts or acts of aggression, (and) (m)easures tending to isolate the peoples from any contact with the outside world, by preventing the Press, radio and other media of communication from reporting international events, and thus hindering mutual comprehension and understanding between peoples...."
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