Truest statement of the week

Meanwhile the corporate media in this country spin lies for public consumption. They work with the political duopoly to create the worst kind of fake news. It is nothing but war propaganda which paints Syria and its allies as villains. They say nothing about America’s actions which killed and displaced millions of people and set the stage for a much wider conflict.
Only a handful of U.S. politicians have spoken in opposition to regime change interventionist policies. Republican Ron Paul and Democrat Tulsi Gabbard raise questions to varying degrees. The most outspoken critic is a Virginia State Senator Richard Black, a right winger who despite holding only local office has traveled to Syria and returned advising an end to American involvement. As Black Agenda Report has pointed out, even most “progressive” congressional candidates don’t mention foreign policyissues in their campaigns for office.
The result is a public being force-fed dangerous lies while useful information that counters the prevailing narrative is deliberately withheld from them. The parallels to other wars are eerie and ever present as yellow journalism and dirty deals bring the world closer to a conflictbetween nuclear powers.

-- Margaret Kimberley, "Freedom Rider: World War Dangers in Syria" (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).