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<mark>Fifty years ago, the CIA used the term "conspiracy theory" as a weapon to dismiss the truths expressed by critics of its murder of President Kennedy, and those of Malcom X, JLK, and RFK</mark>. All the media <mark>echoed the CIA line</mark>. While the term is <mark>still used to dismiss and denounce</mark>, control of the mainstream media is so complete today that every evil government action is immediately seconded, whether it be the lies about the attacks of September 11, 2001, the wars against Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, etc., the coups disguised as color revolutions in <mark>Ukraine</mark>, Venezuela, Hong Kong, the downing of the Malaysian jetliner, drone murders, the Iranian "threat," the looting of the American people by the elites, the alleged sarin gas attacks in Syria, the Putin bashing and the Russia-gate farce, the "criminals" Assange, Manning, Snowden—everything. ''The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian,'' Fox News, the ''Washington Post'', CNN, NPR, etc.—all are stenographers for the deep state. | <mark>Fifty years ago, the CIA used the term "conspiracy theory" as a weapon to dismiss the truths expressed by critics of its murder of President Kennedy, and those of Malcom X, JLK, and RFK</mark>. All the media <mark>echoed the CIA line</mark>. While the term is <mark>still used to dismiss and denounce</mark>, control of the mainstream media is so complete today that every evil government action is immediately seconded, whether it be the lies about the attacks of September 11, 2001, the wars against Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, etc., the coups disguised as color revolutions in <mark>Ukraine</mark>, Venezuela, Hong Kong, the downing of the Malaysian jetliner, drone murders, the Iranian "threat," the looting of the American people by the elites, the alleged sarin gas attacks in Syria, the Putin bashing and the Russia-gate farce, the "criminals" Assange, Manning, Snowden—everything. ''The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian,'' Fox News, the ''Washington Post'', CNN, NPR, etc.—all are stenographers for the deep state. | ||
— [http://edwardcurtin.com/about/ Edwin Curtin], [https://www.claritypress.com/product/seeking-truth-in-a-country-of-lies/ ''Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies''] | — [http://edwardcurtin.com/about/ Edwin Curtin], [https://www.claritypress.com/product/seeking-truth-in-a-country-of-lies/ ''Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies''] | ||
==Gary Webb== | |||
<span style="font-family:sans-serif; font-size:120%;">[https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/12/10/eighteen-years-ago-today-journalist-gary-webb-was-murdered-after-exposing-cia-drug-trafficking/?mc_cid=5902366572&mc_eid=04b031e058 Eighteen Years Ago Today, Journalist Gary Webb Was Murdered After Exposing CIA Drug Trafficking]</span> | |||
Robert Parry, the founder of Consortium News, wrote that Webb’s death marked “an exclamation point” on a “sorry era of journalism that began with the rise of Ronald Reagan and saw the gradual retreat—under right-wing fire—of what had once been Washington’s Watergate/Pentagon Papers watchdog press corps.” | |||
==Adam Curtis== | ==Adam Curtis== | ||