From that moment, the CIA planned to destroy the government of Syria with jihadist fanatics -- the same fanatics currently holding the people of Mosul and eastern Aleppo hostage.
Why is this not news? The former British Foreign Office official Carne Ross, who was responsible for operating sanctions against Iraq, told me: "We would feed journalists factoids of sanitized intelligence, or we would freeze them out. That is how it worked."
The West's medieval client, Saudi Arabia -- to which the US and Britain sell billions of dollars' worth of arms -- is at present destroying Yemen, a country so poor that in the best of times, half the children are malnourished.
Look on YouTube and you will see the kind of massive bombs -- "our" bombs -- that the Saudis use against dirt-poor villages, and against weddings, and funerals.
The explosions look like small atomic bombs. The bomb aimers in Saudi Arabia work side-by-side with British officers. This fact is not on the evening news.
Propaganda is most effective when our consent is engineered by those with a fine education -- Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Columbia -- and with careers on the BBC, the Guardia n, the New York Times, the Washington Post.
These organizations are known as the liberal media. They present themselves as enlightened, progressive tribunes of the moral zeitgeist. They are anti-racist, pro-feminist and pro-LGBT.
And they love war.
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