Hitler's coming to power in January 1933 was welcomed by the Tory media in Britain for the first victims of the fascist regime were the communist followed by the unions and moderate socialists of the SPD. By the summer of 1934 over 100,000 communists, trade unionists and socialists were in concentration camps. There was not a peep of protest from the British state or tory media. Instead there was praise for Hitler.
On the other hand, the Nazis greatly admired British propaganda in WW1 and Goebbels used it as a model.
***
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
"Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty."
"Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will."
At least the Guardian had the "candor" to just say they were "strikes" and sloughed off the rest as "WSJ and other outlets described the attacks as defensive in nature". Then they tried to tell us that Vance was "optimistic that diplomatic efforts were moving in the right direction".
Western Media: You get to pick and choose which flavor of lie most appeals to you on a given morning!
Erm... Western media? All western media are sanctioned or controlled by the Associated Press. Excerpts from a well laundered and bleached definition via Wikipedia:
"The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a *cooperative, unincorporated association*, and produces news reports that are distributed to its members, major U.S. daily newspapers and radio and television broadcasters." [Asterisks mine]
Also: "In 2016, news collected by the AP was published and republished by more than 1,300 newspapers and broadcasters.
The AP operates 235 news bureaus in 94 countries, and publishes in English, Spanish, and Arabic.[6] It also operates the AP Radio Network, which provides twice hourly newscasts and daily sportscasts for broadcast and satellite radio and television stations. Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, paying a fee to use AP material without being contributing members of the cooperative."
Even worse! They pay for lies from the AP, then creatively spin their own superstructure of lies upon that mendacious base. And it's not simply additive or multiplicative, but rather exponential
Majority of the World does NOT want a Global Depression and Western People do NOTHING while Their Z10-Pedoe Protecting Govts push either a full frontal War with Russia and/or War for the GreaterIsraelProject. NO ONE in the US Congress OR the US Military gives a sh!t about the Consitution, Bill of Rights OR some fantasy "Rule of Law." They are TRAITORS. It is TREASON to put Another Country's desires above your own people's.
We type and the Billionaire Z10s are getting ready for LOCKDOWNS. If Trump drops a nuke (in the USA as a False Flag or on Iran) after the Midterms.... watch the Technofascists start closing the TRAP, while We The People of Earth stand around waiting for the Bulldozers.
What happened to the big Dockworkers strike around the world, that was suppose to stop shipping arms ro Mizz Izzy? Haven't heard a peep. Is it over already?
Feels like we are all waiting in line for Our Extermination at the hands of "Men" who sacrifice children and think they're geniuses because they have more money than they can ever hope to spend. I want to know where the REAL Men & Women are? Too busy?
The Rothschilds-Epstein Class is building Our CAGE and Their new workforce
"The Ellisons have responded to Israel’s genocide-induced PR crisis by frenetically buying up control over major platforms like CBS, CNN, HBO Max, Warner Bros and TikTok in order to drum up support for US-Israeli military agendas."
So walk, so talk, the current Kings of the Earth.
Way past time to put all such morally bankrupt bloodsuckers down.
Just stop funding them. What's so hard about that? If so many are pissed with them, it shouldn't be difficult to do it in large numbers. Taking them down only adds to the death cult energy. I wish people would see that. You can't anyway because they know how to deal with that, they are fully prepared. What needs to be thought of is how would we do things without them and start doing it now as though they don't exist.
Yes but that hasn't even started. It's really demoralizing that people are not even talking about the war in everyday life. Boycotting is for sure a good way at least for starters, and I've been boycotting for years as have other individuals but it needs to be on a large scale. That's the rub, how can people do things on a large scale? It starts with talking about it then deciding.
The vast majority of the population are selfish consumers.
So long as they can enjoy McMansions, SUVs, and screens without much interference they will stay with the system.
Americans in particular have never cared what their so-called government does overseas if it makes bananas cheaper while the total human and environmental costs are hidden.
I agree: the best way to end capitalism is by making it irrelevant. Don't try to reform it; capitalism will co-opt the reforms. Don't oppose it directly, because it will adapt to the opposition.
The challenge, of course, is that most of us are looped-in to a capitalist system. There are pathways out of it, e.g., through direct exchange and barter. And most importantly, through mutual aid and rebuilding community.
Hello M F. You mention "bloodsuckers". I have a similar definition: Fascists: Fascism isn't just any sort of authoritarian rule. It is a *specific form* of dictatorship which has private capitalists and workers forced by State law to collaborate in what Mussolini called "corporations". No one wishes to denounce corporate/capitalism because they're all sucking handsomely from the corporate tit...
Well, the problem already existed when one considers corrupt, lying, and cheating propaganda from "major platforms" like CNN, Fox, MSNBC, CBS, AP, Reuters, etc., since late 1980s. The propaganda and lies were even then so obvious, but many lived in a bubble. Just like oblivious Roman citizens toasting and boasting of eternal "greatness and exceptionalism", night before the final fall of totally corrupt and sick Rome in 476 AD.
Major news outlets that misinform us include - NPR, PBS, BBC. I mention these because too many believe they are the good guys. I abandoned them long ago.
If US Bombing of IRAN is Defensive ,what is both tthe US and ISRAELS unprovoked attacks on IRAN that started this war?
How in a Sane World can people who launches a unprovoked attacks on IRAN, then caught IRAN off guard two more times while they were negotiating a ceasefire can call it DEFENSIVE or 'DEFENDING THEMSELVES?
Well these two are are obviously above all international laws and norms ,they said so themselves and they believe it, because there is no one put these two rogue states in check .
The search for justice never ends! The Hind Rajab Foundation is tracking down Israeli criminals, and bringing them to justice. This is vital in the effort to hold Israel accountable. May they also turn their sights on the criminal leaders of the countries of the west who are co-perpetrators of these crimes.
أحسنت النشر والقول – سلام غزة و القدس عليكم - العزة والنصر حليف محورالمقاومة وحلفاءها والذلة والعار لمحور الشر وجماعة أبستين (امريكا و بريطانيا وفرنسا وتركيا والسعودية وقطر والامارات و دول الناتو والنازية الجديدة والماسونية والصهيونية و أسرائيل) وحلفاءه
The media (which is in the hands and control of a very few and mainly Jewish) is given a word to employ and it's mandatory to include it. "Defensive" is the latest edition.
"Unprovoked attack by Russia" was used a million times.
"Greatest ally"
"Protecting (defending) Democracy".
Propaganda is used because it WORKS on non-thinking people- which seems to be most people. Obviously, that's why people who tell the truth are made to shut up or else.
Iran has threatened NO country. The USA and Israel attacked Iran and its citizens. CLEARLY instigated by the USA/Israel if one follows the timeline. Yemen threatened no country until it was itself attacked. Russia threatened no country but responded to NATO threats and grievous harm done to those of Russian ethnicity in the Donbass.
Once you see the prop over and over; you know. It's an old game and I'm sick of it.
It's unbelievable that Americans still go and fight these wars. Oh what one will do for a paycheck. They've got everyone running their tune because of the money system and yet no one seems to notice - it's the money system. And the belief, the most ridiculous belief in authority over oneself. Till those beliefs change I don't see how anything could be different.
As both you and I are both “westerners” this is hardly the wild wild west. This is the Middle East and we are defending their oil for our profit and their destruction. But defensive??
The Iranians are the ones playing defense. It’s the same with sporting events - the home team is the one playing defense, which is why the home team in a baseball game bats at the bottom of an inning, the only difference here is that there is death and destruction and, of course, the theft of oil or the destruction of those reserves so the home team cannot sell oil to their allies at the top of the Multi-polar league, which in the western sports analogy given is the winning of the World Series.
Western propaganda is so psychologically f*ckd up, that even the f*ckrs don't know what is so psycholically disturbing about all this. Their criminality and/or depraved morality doesn't help the situation(s).
Thank you for letting us know how widespread this deception has spread throughout corporate media. It's early morning where I am in California, and before seeing your post I had been reading my local newspaper, and came upon the same exact headline there about "defensive" bombings--from AP, a notorious propaganda machine. It immediately struck me as contradictory (since US aggression in Iran has been wholly offensive), and the article itself said nothing to explain the choice of this word. Of course many people simply scan headlines which can plant erroneous thoughts in their minds. Shame on AP and the rest of them!
"At no time is the assertion that US forces are “defending” themselves off the coast of Iran ever called into question by any of these outlets. At no time is the audience ever reminded that the US started this war of aggression without any provocation whatsoever. At no time is the audience ever encouraged to ask what the fuck the US military is doing “defending” itself thousands of miles from American shores."
My response (and no doubt what you are thinking) we NEVER will. Telling the truth and MSM never, ever, go together.
Hitler did say that America have the best propaganda. Fun fact too is that propaganda is LEGAL: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-art-of-theoretical-science
For the good of the country of course.
Hitler's coming to power in January 1933 was welcomed by the Tory media in Britain for the first victims of the fascist regime were the communist followed by the unions and moderate socialists of the SPD. By the summer of 1934 over 100,000 communists, trade unionists and socialists were in concentration camps. There was not a peep of protest from the British state or tory media. Instead there was praise for Hitler.
On the other hand, the Nazis greatly admired British propaganda in WW1 and Goebbels used it as a model.
***
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
"Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty."
"Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will."
-Joseph Goebbels
At least the Guardian had the "candor" to just say they were "strikes" and sloughed off the rest as "WSJ and other outlets described the attacks as defensive in nature". Then they tried to tell us that Vance was "optimistic that diplomatic efforts were moving in the right direction".
Western Media: You get to pick and choose which flavor of lie most appeals to you on a given morning!
Erm... Western media? All western media are sanctioned or controlled by the Associated Press. Excerpts from a well laundered and bleached definition via Wikipedia:
"The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a *cooperative, unincorporated association*, and produces news reports that are distributed to its members, major U.S. daily newspapers and radio and television broadcasters." [Asterisks mine]
Also: "In 2016, news collected by the AP was published and republished by more than 1,300 newspapers and broadcasters.
The AP operates 235 news bureaus in 94 countries, and publishes in English, Spanish, and Arabic.[6] It also operates the AP Radio Network, which provides twice hourly newscasts and daily sportscasts for broadcast and satellite radio and television stations. Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, paying a fee to use AP material without being contributing members of the cooperative."
What could possibly go wrong???
Even worse! They pay for lies from the AP, then creatively spin their own superstructure of lies upon that mendacious base. And it's not simply additive or multiplicative, but rather exponential
Lies squared.
Of course it was aggression
What does anyone propose to do about it?
Another "No Kings" protest?
Surely that will do the trick!
Democrats and liberals also will soon treat us to a repeat of 2006.
That is what I would like to know.
Majority of the World does NOT want a Global Depression and Western People do NOTHING while Their Z10-Pedoe Protecting Govts push either a full frontal War with Russia and/or War for the GreaterIsraelProject. NO ONE in the US Congress OR the US Military gives a sh!t about the Consitution, Bill of Rights OR some fantasy "Rule of Law." They are TRAITORS. It is TREASON to put Another Country's desires above your own people's.
We type and the Billionaire Z10s are getting ready for LOCKDOWNS. If Trump drops a nuke (in the USA as a False Flag or on Iran) after the Midterms.... watch the Technofascists start closing the TRAP, while We The People of Earth stand around waiting for the Bulldozers.
What happened to the big Dockworkers strike around the world, that was suppose to stop shipping arms ro Mizz Izzy? Haven't heard a peep. Is it over already?
Feels like we are all waiting in line for Our Extermination at the hands of "Men" who sacrifice children and think they're geniuses because they have more money than they can ever hope to spend. I want to know where the REAL Men & Women are? Too busy?
The Rothschilds-Epstein Class is building Our CAGE and Their new workforce
🚫ALL DATA CENTERS ✌️
Nobody who matters cares what the people think or like or want.
Thank You Caitlin
"The Ellisons have responded to Israel’s genocide-induced PR crisis by frenetically buying up control over major platforms like CBS, CNN, HBO Max, Warner Bros and TikTok in order to drum up support for US-Israeli military agendas."
So walk, so talk, the current Kings of the Earth.
Way past time to put all such morally bankrupt bloodsuckers down.
Just stop funding them. What's so hard about that? If so many are pissed with them, it shouldn't be difficult to do it in large numbers. Taking them down only adds to the death cult energy. I wish people would see that. You can't anyway because they know how to deal with that, they are fully prepared. What needs to be thought of is how would we do things without them and start doing it now as though they don't exist.
By "taking them down" I was not advocating physical extinction.
Boycotts are certainly one action to take them down FROM THEIR THRONES.
Yes but that hasn't even started. It's really demoralizing that people are not even talking about the war in everyday life. Boycotting is for sure a good way at least for starters, and I've been boycotting for years as have other individuals but it needs to be on a large scale. That's the rub, how can people do things on a large scale? It starts with talking about it then deciding.
The vast majority of the population are selfish consumers.
So long as they can enjoy McMansions, SUVs, and screens without much interference they will stay with the system.
Americans in particular have never cared what their so-called government does overseas if it makes bananas cheaper while the total human and environmental costs are hidden.
Those consumers won't boycott themselves.
I agree: the best way to end capitalism is by making it irrelevant. Don't try to reform it; capitalism will co-opt the reforms. Don't oppose it directly, because it will adapt to the opposition.
The challenge, of course, is that most of us are looped-in to a capitalist system. There are pathways out of it, e.g., through direct exchange and barter. And most importantly, through mutual aid and rebuilding community.
Hello M F. You mention "bloodsuckers". I have a similar definition: Fascists: Fascism isn't just any sort of authoritarian rule. It is a *specific form* of dictatorship which has private capitalists and workers forced by State law to collaborate in what Mussolini called "corporations". No one wishes to denounce corporate/capitalism because they're all sucking handsomely from the corporate tit...
For sure.
Well, the problem already existed when one considers corrupt, lying, and cheating propaganda from "major platforms" like CNN, Fox, MSNBC, CBS, AP, Reuters, etc., since late 1980s. The propaganda and lies were even then so obvious, but many lived in a bubble. Just like oblivious Roman citizens toasting and boasting of eternal "greatness and exceptionalism", night before the final fall of totally corrupt and sick Rome in 476 AD.
Major news outlets that misinform us include - NPR, PBS, BBC. I mention these because too many believe they are the good guys. I abandoned them long ago.
YES.
Maybe critical mass was reached during W administration, though.
If US Bombing of IRAN is Defensive ,what is both tthe US and ISRAELS unprovoked attacks on IRAN that started this war?
How in a Sane World can people who launches a unprovoked attacks on IRAN, then caught IRAN off guard two more times while they were negotiating a ceasefire can call it DEFENSIVE or 'DEFENDING THEMSELVES?
Well these two are are obviously above all international laws and norms ,they said so themselves and they believe it, because there is no one put these two rogue states in check .
*TRUMP https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-unlimited-power-international-law
Stephen Prager-Jan 09, 2026
TRUMP‘I Don’t Need International Law,’ Trump Says, Adding That His ‘Power’ Is Limited Only By His ‘Morality’
“This is the mind of a fascist,” said a former official of the first Trump administration.
As he uses the military to extort Venezuela and threatens to wage war against half a dozen other nations, President Donald Trump stated plainly
this week that there are no restraints on his power to use force to dominate and subjugate any country on the planet besides his own will.
*Bezalel SMOTRICH Dec 2025.He Said
International Laws Does Not Apply to Jews. That's the Difference Between the Chosen People and the others.
I have been saying this for over 40 years and its good that the Zionist have came out and admitted it themselves.
The search for justice never ends! The Hind Rajab Foundation is tracking down Israeli criminals, and bringing them to justice. This is vital in the effort to hold Israel accountable. May they also turn their sights on the criminal leaders of the countries of the west who are co-perpetrators of these crimes.
Find out what they’re doing here:
https://www.hindrajabfoundation.org
The least we can do is donate to help them:
Support the Hind Rajab Foundation
https://donate.stripe.com/cN228hbY5g7jaM84gg
Genocide is defense.🥵
Good one Alan. Very straight forward. Thanks.
أحسنت النشر والقول – سلام غزة و القدس عليكم - العزة والنصر حليف محورالمقاومة وحلفاءها والذلة والعار لمحور الشر وجماعة أبستين (امريكا و بريطانيا وفرنسا وتركيا والسعودية وقطر والامارات و دول الناتو والنازية الجديدة والماسونية والصهيونية و أسرائيل) وحلفاءه
The media (which is in the hands and control of a very few and mainly Jewish) is given a word to employ and it's mandatory to include it. "Defensive" is the latest edition.
"Unprovoked attack by Russia" was used a million times.
"Greatest ally"
"Protecting (defending) Democracy".
Propaganda is used because it WORKS on non-thinking people- which seems to be most people. Obviously, that's why people who tell the truth are made to shut up or else.
Iran has threatened NO country. The USA and Israel attacked Iran and its citizens. CLEARLY instigated by the USA/Israel if one follows the timeline. Yemen threatened no country until it was itself attacked. Russia threatened no country but responded to NATO threats and grievous harm done to those of Russian ethnicity in the Donbass.
Once you see the prop over and over; you know. It's an old game and I'm sick of it.
“Westerners are more aggressively propagandized than any other population on earth.”
💯🎯
Our very own government is the biggest liar you will ever meet…just ask “Obama”(real name Barry) who legalized propaganda.
It's unbelievable that Americans still go and fight these wars. Oh what one will do for a paycheck. They've got everyone running their tune because of the money system and yet no one seems to notice - it's the money system. And the belief, the most ridiculous belief in authority over oneself. Till those beliefs change I don't see how anything could be different.
100% with you on this, THE MONEY SYSTEM IS THE PRIMARY AND THE SOLE PROBLEM NO DOUBT ABOUT IT, Thank you.
It's ZBS, no longer CBS.
Super article. Thanks Caitlin!
As both you and I are both “westerners” this is hardly the wild wild west. This is the Middle East and we are defending their oil for our profit and their destruction. But defensive??
The Iranians are the ones playing defense. It’s the same with sporting events - the home team is the one playing defense, which is why the home team in a baseball game bats at the bottom of an inning, the only difference here is that there is death and destruction and, of course, the theft of oil or the destruction of those reserves so the home team cannot sell oil to their allies at the top of the Multi-polar league, which in the western sports analogy given is the winning of the World Series.
Western propaganda is so psychologically f*ckd up, that even the f*ckrs don't know what is so psycholically disturbing about all this. Their criminality and/or depraved morality doesn't help the situation(s).
Thank you for letting us know how widespread this deception has spread throughout corporate media. It's early morning where I am in California, and before seeing your post I had been reading my local newspaper, and came upon the same exact headline there about "defensive" bombings--from AP, a notorious propaganda machine. It immediately struck me as contradictory (since US aggression in Iran has been wholly offensive), and the article itself said nothing to explain the choice of this word. Of course many people simply scan headlines which can plant erroneous thoughts in their minds. Shame on AP and the rest of them!
As you wrote Caitlin:
"At no time is the assertion that US forces are “defending” themselves off the coast of Iran ever called into question by any of these outlets. At no time is the audience ever reminded that the US started this war of aggression without any provocation whatsoever. At no time is the audience ever encouraged to ask what the fuck the US military is doing “defending” itself thousands of miles from American shores."
My response (and no doubt what you are thinking) we NEVER will. Telling the truth and MSM never, ever, go together.