U.S. & Fox News Propaganda operation revealed

The syncronicities between life in the U.S. right now and countless dystopian police-state fiction stories keeps growing faster every day. I’m beginning to feel like I’m living in Orwell’s 1984. On bad days. On better days it feels more like Starship Troopers.

Today, Glenn Greenwalt writes about the collusion of Fox News and the US Army in obscuring the deaths of Afghani civilians in a series of US bombing missions.

The collusion is so blatant and clumsy that one begins to wonder if they even care we can see what they’re doing.

In short, the US conducted a massive night airstrike on the village of Azizabad, killing many unarmed citizens - many of them women and children. Apprarently they were acting on bad information from an informant who said the Taliban were holding meetings there at that time.

Instead of apologizing and making reparations, which is what you’d expect from ‘the good guys’, the US Army began a campaign of lying and deceit using Fox News as a key tool in the coverup. Both the Pentagon and Fox news denied civilian deaths in the airstrikes, accusing the villagers of lying and the UN inspectors of being duped.

Later, they conducted an investigation with an ‘independant reporter’ which claimed that there were large numbers of Taliban among the dead. However, it was revealed that:

The US military said that its findings were corroborated by an independent journalist embedded with the US force. He was named as the Fox News correspondent Oliver North, who came to prominence in the 1980s Iran-Contra affair, when he was a[ Marine] colonel.

How about that?