In
het hieronder opgenomen artikel van Caitlin Johnstone, o.a.
gepubliceerd op Medium(.com) en Anti-Media, stelt zij dat de
reguliere (massa-) media van de VS eindelijk wakker zijn geworden en
aandacht besteden aan de vreselijke oorlog van de Saoedische
coalitie (inclusief de steun en onmisbare hulp van de VS en GB) tegen
de sjiitische bevolking van Jemen….. Een bevolking die ‘godzijdank’ worden gesteund
door de de Houthi’s, een uiterst functionele strijdgroep, die ingreep
nadat IS en Al Qaida de sjiitische bevolking aanvielen, zelfs in
moskeeën……. Deze 2 extreme terreurgroepen kregen in Jemen van de
opgestapte president (onder druk van Saoedi-Arabië weer president)
al-Hadi onderdak aangeboden…….
Jammer
dat Johnstone het woord ‘genocide’ uit de weg gaat, immers daar is op
zeker sprake van, een genocide waar de wereld voor het overgrote deel
alweer geen aandacht aan schenkt, althans totdat de Saoedische
coalitie toegaf een bus met kinderen onder vuur te hebben genomen, om
wraak te nemen voor een Saoedische man die omkwam bij een raketaanval
van de Houthi’s……. Al spreken ook die media niet over een genocide, ondanks alle bombardementen, honger, cholera en difterie (allen oorzaak van de Saoedische terreur), die al aan duizenden het leven heeft gekost……
Nu
is de verontwaardiging groot, zelfs bij MSNBC, die zoals Johnstone in
haar vorig artikel stelde in 1 jaar tijd niet één keer aandacht
schonk aan de smerige, door de VS gesteunde en gefaciliteerde oorlog tegen het Jemenitische volk, maar wel
455 keer aan Stormy Daniels……* Zonder steun van de VS en GB zou
Saoedi-Arabië de oorlog tegen de Houthi’s niet kunnen voeren, zo doet
de VS de coördinatie van de bombardementen, tankt het de straaljagers en bommenwerpers van de Saoedische terreurcoalitie (inclusief Marokko**) in de lucht af, zodat
ze zo ‘efficiënt’ mogelijk kunnen bombarderen…..
Doelen
van deze moorddadige coalitie: huizenblokken, ziekenhuizen, scholen,
energiecentrales, waterbedrijven, huwelijks- en begrafenisceremonies
en de infrastructuur inclusief de riolering….. Door het laatst genoemde is er zelfs de eerdere genoemde grote cholera uitbraak ontstaan in Jemen, die nog maandelijks honderden
doden eist….. Zelfs
een ziekenhuis van Artsen Zonder Grenzen (MSF) speciaal voor cholerapatiënten werd door de Saoedische coalitie plat
gebombardeerd, voordat de eerste patiënten konden worden
behandeld………. (hoeveel bewijs wil je nog hebben dat de Saoedische terreurcoalitie, inclusief de VS en GB, bezig is met een genocide??)
Intussen
is er ook de al eerder genoemde difterie uitbraak in Jemen, dit nog naast de hongersnood die intussen al meer dan 2 jaar aanhoudt en waarvoor vorig jaar nog een actie
werd gevoerd in Nederland……..
Over Nederland gesproken, ik moet zeggen dat de media hier wel behoorlijk lauw hebben gereageerd op de
Saoedische aanval tegen een schoolbus en dat op een drukke
markt……. Als Assad iets dergelijks had gedaan had het land op z’n
kop gestaan en waren er al vragen gesteld in de Kamer……. Terwijl
de keren dat de hysterie toeslaat over het gedrag ‘van Assad’, die opwinding keer op keer onterecht blijkt te zijn, zoals zelfs bevestigd door VN onderzoek, echter dit verandert niets aan de hysterie, men blijft ‘gewoon’ volhouden dat
Assad zijn eigen volk afslacht, zonder ook maar een greintje aan
bewijs te leveren……..
In
de VS begint men wakker te worden nu nog Nederland en de EU!!
Mainstream
Media Finally Concedes Defeat on Yemen, Ends Blackout Of Coverage
August
20, 2018 at 9:45 am
Written
by Caitlin
Johnstone
(CJ Opinion) — Last
month, an article
by Fair.org went
viral in republications by popular alternative media outlets ranging
from Salon to Zero
Hedge to Alternet to Truthdig,
among many others. The article was initially titled “ACTION ALERT:
It’s Been Over a Year Since MSNBC Has Mentioned US War in Yemen”,
but many subsequent republications went with variations on the more
attention-grabbing headline, “MSNBC has done 455 Stormy Daniels
segments in the last year — but none on U.S. war in Yemen”.
The
centerpiece of the article was the following graphic, which I saw
shared on its own many times in my social media feeds:
That’s
about as in your face as it gets, isn’t it?
Ever
since the Saudi-led assault on Yemen began in March of 2015,
alternative media outlets everywhere have
been repeatedly and aggressively decrying the
mainstream media in
the US and
UK for
their spectacular
failure to
adequately and accurately
cover the violence and humanitarian
disaster with appropriate
reporting on who is responsible for it.
After the 2016 US election, journalist Michael Tracey wrote
an essay documenting
how throughout the entire year and a half that Americans were
pummeled with updates from the mass media about candidates and their
campaigns, not one single question about Yemen was ever asked by any
mainstream outlet of any candidate.
This
is of course outrageous, but because of how media coverage works,
mainstream attention was never drawn to the problem. It hasn’t been
a total media
blackout, but because it only turns up in mainstream media reports
every once in a while with little if any emphasis being placed on who
is behind the devastation, it occupies a very peripheral place in
western consciousness. The average American would probably be able to
tell you that some parts of their government appear to be concerned
about Russia, Syria, Iran and North Korea, because those rival
nations have been the subject of intense mass media coverage, but if
you asked them about Yemen you’d likely be told something like “I
think there’s some kind of humanitarian crisis there?”, if
anything.
This
has all changed in the last few days. Suddenly, the atrocities being
inflicted upon the people of Yemen are being pushed into mainstream
attention by the mass media outlets which have been ignoring them for
more than three years. The Washington
Post (WaPo) editorial
board published
an op-ed titled
“End U.S. support for this misbegotten and unwinnable war”. CNN
did some actual, real journalism for a change with a viral
exclusive documenting
which American war profiteers were behind some of the more
devastating Saudi bombings. And yes, MSNBC finally did cover the
violence in Yemen, breaking its year-long silence to report
on a US-supplied bomb which
killed 40 children with such urgent condemnation of those responsible
you’d never know they’d been consistently ignoring such incidents
which have been going on for years.
Now politicians and celebrities everywhere
are shoving the horror of their government facilitating the slaughter
of innocents into mainstream attention.
Astonishing graphic from @CNN, identifying civilian massacres in Yemen with the bomb makers – Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics. This should be standard in war reporting. Searing images. cnn.com/2018/08/17/mid…
You know the world has been turned upside down when the Washington Post editorial board opposes a US military intervention washingtonpost.com/opinions/globa…
What’s
interesting here is that nothing at all has changed except for the
coverage. US-supplied bombs have been dropping
on marketplaces, hospitals and funerals and slaughtering
civilians in
far more deadly incidents for years, and the US has also
been providing
extensive assistance to
Saudi airstrikes, as well as attacking Yemeni
targets directly.
The only thing that has changed is that now it’s being reported
with an urgency and volume that is appropriate for such a horrific
incident instead of an occasional low-profile mention with little or
no mention of responsibility.
Nobody
with their eyes open believes that the mainstream media have just
suddenly developed a conscience and now deeply care about the mass
murder of Middle Eastern civilians. So why the change? If you ask
some of the Trump supporters I’ve seen responding to the shift,
it’s because their president can now be unfairly blamed for a
military campaign which began long before he took office. But that
doesn’t really hold water, does it? I mean, the aforementioned year
in which MSNBC didn’t cover Yemen took place entirely during this
administration, and every American with cable TV knows that MSNBC
markets itself as the anti-Trump network. If they’d wanted to use
Yemen as another angle from which to criticize this administration
they would have done so, instead of not doing so at all. The entirety
of mainstream media have been grossly neglecting this issue up until
the last week despite having every opportunity to condemn Trump for
it.
For
the record, while we’re on the subject, I personally don’t much
care if Trump gets all the blame for the Yemen catastrophe at this
point. I’ve spent 2017 and 2018 fighting the insane corporate
liberal notion that all American depravity began in January of last
year, but at this point I’m happy with literally anything that just
ends the death and devastation. A year into the war, the 30-year CIA
veteran Bruce Riedel said that
“if the United States of America and the United Kingdom tonight
told King Salman that this war has to end, it would end tomorrow,
because the Royal Saudi Air Force cannot operate without American and
British support.” If using this as an opportunity to attack Trump
creates the necessary political pressure to end the bombings,
blockades, starvation and disease that is killing untold thousands of
Yemeni civilians, then fine, whatever, I’m all for it.
But
again, from what I’m seeing right now I don’t believe that this
is about Trump. Not directly anyway. From what I can see right now, I
think what we are witnessing is a clear instance in which alternative
media successfully caused the establishment to lose control of the
narrative on an important issue.
In
the US, criticism of Saudi Arabia is nearly as taboo as criticism of
Israel. As we saw explained in a leaked
State Department memo last
year, it is standard US policy to use human rights abuses as a
bludgeon with which to attack rival governments, while sweeping the
atrocities committed by allies under the rug. Because of
its lucrative
petrodollar deal with
the US, and because its opaque and unaccountable monarchy makes it
capable of nefarious maneuvers to advance geopolitical agendas that
an ostensible democracy would have a hard time getting away with, the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is one of America’s most important allies.
And the plutocrat-owned media, whose controllers have a vested
interest in protecting the establishment upon which their kingdoms
are built, consistently fall right in line with that same State
Department policy.
This,
and the fact that the control
of a key strategic region is
at stake, is why we’ve been seeing the Saudi war crimes in Yemen
and the US facilitation thereof downplayed for years by the mass
media. And they would surely remain downplayed indefinitely were it
possible.
But
it wasn’t possible. The story kept getting pushed toward mainstream
consciousness year after year, and eventually the fact that an outlet
which upholds itself as the flag bearer of Trump’s opposition has
been completely ignoring this administration’s facilitation of war
crimes was made viral. At a certain point a Dem-voting audience which
is being told day in and day out that Trump presents a unique and
unprecedented level of danger to the world will lose trust in the
outlets which market themselves to that demographic if they refuse to
make a big deal about the fact that this administration is helping
tyrants murder busloads of children.
40 innocent children killed on a bus in Yemen.
Our ally.
Our missile.
Our crime.
For
this reason, western mainstream media have been forced to finally
report on the cruelty being inflicted upon the people of Yemen by
Saudi Arabia and its allies in order to avoid losing credibility. The
story got out, and the story about their lack of coverage of that
story got out, and now they’re all reporting on it like they’ve
been doing so this entire time. Which, if it continues, will make it
very difficult for the US/UK/Saudi war machine to retain the consent
of the governed for its mass slaughter.
In
my opinion, we can safely call this a win for alternative media. The
voices who aren’t beholden to the empire and its geopolitical
agendas refused to let this story die, and eventually succeeded in
overtaking the dominant narrative. Not because media-controlling
oligarchs like Brian L Roberts and Jeff Bezos gave them permission
to, but because unauthorized truth was spoken and carried by many
ordinary people into mainstream consciousness via Facebook shares,
Twitter retweets and speaking out loud and proud wherever possible. A
people’s information battle was fought and won by the people.
If
things go as I am hoping they will go, we will see more and more such
populist hijackings of dominant narratives in the future, and
ultimately a failure of the oligarchs to continue manufacturing
consent for their omnicidal, ecocidal, Orwellian agendas. We will
have to be aggressive, we will have to be creative, and we will have
to be interesting enough to catch the eye of the casual citizenry,
but the fact that trust in the mass media is at an all-time low and
our ability to network and share information is at an all-time high
combines with the fact that we have truth on our side to create some
very exciting possibilities. I find this all very encouraging.
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Opinion
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Republished with permission / Medium / Report
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** Marokko zou deel uitmaken van de coalitie, ook volgens de alternatieve
media, echter de laatste 6 maanden heb ik die bewering niet één keer teruggezien, tot Johnstone het weer noemde in haar artikel. Enig onderzoek toont aan dat dit inderdaad zo is. Verder bestaat de Saoedische terreurcoalitie uit de Verenigde
Arabische Emiraten, Egypte en uiteraard S-A. ‘Leuk’ voor de Marokkanen die straks weer met dienstplicht te maken krijgen, waarna ze mee mogen doen aan de genocide die in Jemen plaatsvindt……. (deze smerige oorlog zal voorlopig nog doorgaan…..)
Zie ook:
‘Jemen: genocide en oorlog hebben tot nu toe al rond de 200.000 mensenlevens geëist…..‘
‘Jemen: VS politici roepen uiterst hypocriet om een onmiddellijk eind aan de ‘oorlog……’‘
‘Saoedische aanval op schoolbus in Jemen: 43 kinderen vermoord……‘
‘Bom waarmee schoolbus in Jemen werd getroffen is van VS makelij‘
‘8 miljoen Jemenieten, inclusief een groot aantal kinderen, dreigen te sterven van de honger……..‘
‘Door VS geregisseerd bombardement op ziekenhuis Hodeida >> 50 doden……‘
‘Jemen: de vergeten genocide en haar kinderslachtoffers………‘
‘Saoedi-Arabië geeft toe in Jemen gruwelijke oorlogsmisdaden te hebben begaan…. ‘ (en daarmee is ten overvloede nog eens duidelijk gemaakt dat ook de VS meewerkt aan oorlogsmisdaden en die genocide in Jemen…..)
‘Congres VS geeft akkoord voor verdere steun aan de Saoedische genocide in Jemen……‘
‘VS vecht in Jemen, Pentagon loog weer eens >> Congres eindelijk ‘wakker’‘
‘Saoedi-Arabië vermoordde minstens 20 bruiloftsgangers in Jemen‘
‘VS doet planning van de Saoedische genocide in Jemen…..‘
‘Jemen: BBC propaganda voor genocide door Saoedische coalitie……..‘
‘Mike Pompeo (ex-CIA, VS min. van BuZa en ‘christen’) liegt openlijk over genocide in Jemen‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht)