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Aggressive wars are called liberating ones. Public opinion is manipulated accordingly. Fabricated reality substitutes for events on the ground. Issues at stake are concealed. Fake ones are promoted. Intense campaigns try to convince people that black is white and vice versa.
Enemies face false charges. Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International (AI), the Human Rights Council (HRC), and broadcasters like BBC, CBC, PBS, NPR, and Democracy Now (DN) support Western imperialism. So do quasi-progressive print publications like Nation magazine, Mother Jones and others.
CIA/CFR/Trilateral Commission-connected corporate foundations provide funding. Well-known ones include Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Soros, and MacArthur. Money from these sources is tainted. It expects services rendered in return. Conflicts of interest are rife.
Sources viewers, listeners and readers believe are reliable operate often like their major media counterparts. They do it deceptively by delivering quasi-real reports on issues less important than war and peace and imperial dominance.
NGOs like HRW and AI are imperial agents. From its 1978 beginnings, HRW delivered pro-Western/anti-Soviet propaganda. It's a reliable Western propaganda instrument.
Executive Director Kenneth Roth is a former federal prosecutor. Former HRW head Aryeh Neier hired him. He left to become president of Soros' Open Society Institute.
Deputy Executive Director for External Relations Carrol Bogert served as Newsweek's editor, correspondent and bureau chief. Other past and present members have ties to sources representing US foreign policy interests.
AI operates the same way. According to Francis Boyle :
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