Suppressing Truth and Promoting War: A New York Times Tradition

Bob McChesney

By Stephen Lendman
A LENDMAN DISPATCH

Claiming this will avoid civilian casualties, Times reasoning ignores the historic record that democratic and authoritarian governments willfully kill large numbers of civilians strategically to win wars at all cost, especially imperial ones to colonize conquered foes, control their resources, and exploit their people ruthlessly for profit.

During and since WW II alone, America killed millions of mostly civilian Japanese, Germans, Italians, Koreans, Southeast Asians, Central Americans, Africans, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis, and now Libyans.

To remove Gaddafi and control the entire Mediterranean Basin, expect a future Times editorial to endorse ground troops, suggested by General Ham before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.

Asked if deploying them was planned, he said:

Unmentioned was UN Resolution 1973 prohibiting their use, besides Obama and Defense Secretary Gates repeatedly saying no ground forces will be used. Nonetheless, credible information revealed that US and UK Special forces, as well as CIA and MI 6 intelligence operatives have been there for weeks or months as well as Egyptian commandos, arming and training so-called rebels.

They include elements of popular resistance, Gaddafi defectors (perhaps bribed and/or intimidated to switch sides), and violent Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) insurgents, the same or latter day ones who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan and Americans in Iraq, ideologically allied with Al Qaeda (in fact, a CIA creation).

The State Department also said they were responsible for a 1996 failed Gaddafi assassination attempt, and during the 1990s clashed with Libyan security forces.

Nonetheless, since the March 11 earthquake/tsunami caused it, Times reports and editorials supported the notion that damage is contained and Americans face no threat when, in fact, quite the opposite is true.

False and Times management knows it, willfully lying to readers to support a dangerous technology and nuclear proliferation previous articles called ticking time bombs, assuring inevitable new Fukushimas or worse.

Instead, The Times said:

A Final Comment

Times reporters and management represent wealth and power, willfully lying to suppress vital information detrimental to their interests, no matter the harm to readers who rely on journalism for truth.

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