De Commerciele Massamedia 18

CounterCurerents:

'The Prophets Didn’t Work For The Associated Press.
By David Truskoff.
20 December, 2006.

Many years ago, my father once told me that if the story by- line is
the Associated Press, read it with a smile because it is usually just
propaganda disguised as news. If it says, "combined wire services,"
don’t bother reading it all because it is usually just a state
department handout."
My father collected outrageous media propaganda pieces. I remember
one that told the story of the Finnish soldiers who hid in trees with
can openers and when the " rickety Russian tanks" went by they would
drop down from the trees, open the tanks with can openers and blow
them up. When the Red army drove the Nazi out of Stalingrad with the
most efficient tanks of the entire war, my father would wave the
clipping and say, "Stupid Nazis forgot their can openers."
There is a piece by the Associated Press in a December 15 Connecticut
newspaper that tells the story of Soviet soldiers killing 16000
Polish troops by shooting them all in the back of the head. "Their
guns got so hot young officers had to bring them fresh guns," the
story said. I think that one would make old red baiter Randolph
Hearst smile. The story rants on about Soviet atrocities and how Yale
University press has discovered the atrocities and also Soviet
espionage during the cold war. Could there have been American
espionage and could there be any today?
The story does not mention the fourteen or more times that highly
financed mercenary armies tried to create a counter revolution in
Russia or the fact that US Marines invaded Russia. US sent 15,000
troops to Murmansk, Archangel, and Vladivostok as part of an Allied
force in opposition to the Bolsheviks.
Unknown to most Americans and little noted by historians is the fact
that 11,000 U.S. troops invaded Russia in 1918 to assist the Czar's
White Army opposing the Communist takeover. 7,000 U.S. Marines had
landed at the port city of Vladivostok on the coast of Siberia.
Another 4,000 troops were dispatched to the far north of Russia to
join British soldiers already fighting there. Young Americans know
nothing about our support of the counter revolutionaries or of the
atrocities committed by our man Admiral Kolchak who we set up as the
new Russian Czar.
Not only does that not appear in our history books but little is
mentioned of the fact that young America from 1898-2006 has invaded
other countries or been at war no less than 36 times and our troops
are stationed in every part of the planet.
The new wave of anti Communist propaganda is a result of the shrill
attempt by the US media to head off any sympathy for the world wide
pro socialist and anti American movements now spreading like wild fire.
"From early times, the prophets preceding you and me have prophesied
war, disaster and plague against many great nations and kingdoms. But
the prophet who prophesies peace will be recognized as one truly sent
by the Lord only if his word comes to pass."
Jeremiah (28:8-9)

Zie: http://www.countercurrents.org/truskoff201206.htm