[news] Mediated Terrorism in the Middle East

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

Once again, the U.S. is presiding over a major global human rights catastrophe, although one wouldn't know this by following American media or political commentary. As the U.S. announces plans for increasing military aid to despotic allies in the Middle East, media elites have resorted to some of the worst manipulation and misinformation in justifying funding...While media reports dogmatically repeat official statements about the need to prop up "moderate" governments in the Middle East, the aim of U.S. policy is really the opposite. Far from reinforcing democracy, the only thing that U.S. aid is "stabilizing" in Egypt and Saudi Arabia is continued government repression and terror. 

  


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