{"id":117538,"date":"2019-02-26T08:25:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T12:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=117538"},"modified":"2019-02-26T08:25:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T12:25:10","slug":"mainstream-media-fake-news-proves-networks-are-high-paid-war-propagandists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=117538","title":{"rendered":"Mainstream Media &#8220;Fake News&#8221; Proves Networks Are High Paid War Propagandists"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Max Blumental Proves Western Media A Propagandist For War Criminals<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->Paul Craig Roberts<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Max Blumental Proves Western Media A Propagandist For War Criminals<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">There is not an ounce of integrity anywhere in the Western print and TV media<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>\u201cGrocery shelves lie empty as food becomes increasingly scarce\u201d<\/i> in Venezuela, the UK Independent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/venezuela-crisis-food-inflation-refugees-life-people-maduro-a8762311.html\"><span class=\"s2\">weeps<\/span><\/a>. The country\u2019s shops remain open but <i>\u201csparsely stocked,\u201d<\/i> The Guardian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jan\/24\/venezuela-news-latest-what-happened-after-day-drama\"><span class=\"s2\">laments<\/span><\/a>. Even <i>\u201cbasic commodities\u201d<\/i> such as toothbrushes aren\u2019t available for purchase, CNN bemoans. <i>\u201cHungry\u201d<\/i> Venezuelans must choose between <i>\u201ctorture or starvation,\u201d<\/i> Bloomberg grimly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-01-23\/what-s-worse-torture-or-starvation-venezuelans-to-answer-today\"><span class=\"s2\">concludes<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mainstream media coverage of Venezuela gives the impression that President Nicolas Maduro is slowly starving his own people \u2013 a narrative which, as journalist Max Blumenthal found after surveying a massive supermarket in Caracas, is wildly deceptive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Read the story and watch the video of Blumenthal in the Caracas supermarket jammed with all the allegedly unobtainable foods and products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The reason Washington wants to shut down the English language Russian news organizations is that, unlike the US, UK, and European media, the Russian news organizations report truthfully, thus undermining Washington\u2019s attempt to control all explantions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The dumbshit Westerners who rely on the Western presstitutes are brainwashed to the point that they are useless for the cause of freedom and democracy.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Indeed, they are dangerous to freedom and democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/452158-blumenthal-venezuela-supermarket-shelves\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/452158-blumenthal-venezuela-supermarket-shelves\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2019\/02\/22\/max-blumental-proves-western-media-a-propagandist-for-war-criminals\/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=max_blumental_proves_western_media_a_propagandist_for_war_criminals&amp;utm_term=2019-02-24\">https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2019\/02\/22\/max-blumental-proves-western-media-a-propagandist-for-war-criminals\/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=max_blumental_proves_western_media_a_propagandist_for_war_criminals&amp;utm_term=2019-02-24<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Blumental Proves Western Media A Propagandist For War Criminals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}