Swedish Authorities & Media Suppress MOB RAPE Stockholm - Blame Putin & Suppress the Reporting Media

ꕤ Article SOURCE English Translation https://archive.is/gELtv#selection-2013.25-2086.0 In Summary Background: Sweden police cover up mob sex attacks committed by migrant men at youth festival in Stockholm since 2014 Whistleblower approaches Dagens Nyheter newspaper & discloses Sweden police cover-up. Dagens Nyheter (who, along with their other Swedish mainstream media colleagues, are coincidentally active press participants in smearing Australian journalist, Julian Assange, the victim of Sweden authorities 'rape' allegations & Sweden-UK-USA political persecution following revelation of US & Western government misconduct & war crimes) Picture this: Sweden a 'bastion' of 'feminism' with its very own shiny, new 'feminist foreign policy' that's proudly trotted out by Swedish politicians and press ... The same Sweden that has ... permitted Swedish women to be raped, gang raped & violently beaten by immigrants for DECADES (and now, apparently, mob sex attacked / raped, as well) ... while suppressing disclosure, attention and discussion,  re these crimes & thus attention on & discussion of policies which have resulted in this orgy of sexual assault by foreigner,  that may well require review given that:  feminist fantasy Sweden does not fit UGLY REALITY Sweden. Swedish politicians get away with this because their agenda is supported by the mainstream Swedish press, who keep obedient and quiet regarding the issues. Dagens Nyheter bastion of feminism that it is proceeds to SUPPRESS the migrant mob rape of Swedish women whistleblower disclosure story re Swedish police suppression of mob rape scenario since 2014 & does so for 6 months Nyheter Idag (as I understand) subsequently reports on suppression of mob sex attacks by both: 1.  Sweden police. 2.  Dagens Nyheter newspaper. Subsequently,  in a debate on Norwegian TV Martin Aagård journalist Aftonbladet champions PRESS SUPPRESSION LEGISLATION in Sweden that would effectively SILENCE Nyheter Idag the very newspaper that disclosed: 1.  Sweden police suppression of mob rapes. 2.  Sweden press suppression of mob rapes. Martin Aagård Aftonbladet Journalist considers publications such as Nyheter Idag as a 'defeat' of what he refers to as the 'real' media ie the corporate media that suppressed  SWEDEN POLICE SUPPRESSION of mob rape information   It is reasonable to assume that this is also the same Swedish media that in all probability: continues to suppresses other information Martin Aagård Aftonbladet Journalist holds out that he does not make this appeal on behalf of Aftonbladet / which he describes as 'Scandinavia's largest site' Instead, clever boy Martin Aagård, is relying upon ETHICAL RULES and consideration. Excuse me while I pick myself up off the floor, having pissed myself laughing.   The mainstream media guy wants to exploit 'ethics' to protect an unethical mainstream press, unethical law enforcement and unethical Swedish politician SUPPRESSION of information, news, facts, political suppression, sex assault / rapes suppression and so on. Ethical rules? Are we talking about the same press/media that is: ON RECORD FOR HAVING SUPPRESSED NEWS OF SWEDEN POLICE SUPPRESSION OF MOB SEX ATTACKS BY IMMIGRANTS IN STOCKHOLM SINCE 2014? SWEDEN WENT DOWN THE TUBES COMMENCING 1960s Apparently, way back in the bad old days in 1960s Sweden, the press was FREE (or freer?) -- and it was ruthless So the Swedish press was reined in via a 'press ethics system' and threat of regulatory consequences (I think) HOWEVER the newspaper targeted, Nyheter Idag, began publishing in 2014 and has voluntarily joined such Swedish 'press ethics system' press group in 2014. Nyheter Idag newspaper which disclosed Sweden police & press SUPPRESSION has abided by press ethics rules in its reporting of DN's censorship NONETHELESS Martin Aagård, Aftonbladet journalist, proposes legislative action against news sites such as Nyheter Idag. THE DUCKS ARE PECKING Meanwhile, in Sweden: SEVERAL SWEDISH NEWSPAPERS are nastily pecking at Nyheter Idag for 'breaking rank' by PUBLISHING NEWS ... and the TRUTH Nyheter Idag is getting ATTACKED as: working for Sweden Democrats (anti-immigration party) working for Russian state interests (blame Putin) Martin Aagård Aftonbladet Journalist claimed that Nyheter Idag is owned & run by Sweden Democrats (anti-immigration party) DESPITE THE FACT that the Nyheter Idag site is owned by a member of the PIRATE PARTY  (liberties focus:   to protect civil & digital liberties) SOURCE English Translation https://archive.is/gELtv#selection-2013.25-2086.0 After the DN-revelation: Now flagging Aftonbladet Aagård for legislation against Nyheter Idag Published:  18-01-1916  19:27 STOCKHOLM After Nyheter Idag revealed how the newspaper Dagens Nyheter deliberately chose not to report on sexövergreppen [comment:  'sex assaults'] in the Kungsträdgården [Royal Garden] last year, the criticism of Nyheter Idag has been great. Now flagging Aftonbladet journalist Martin Aagård that it may come legislation to stop Nyheter Idag. The news that the newspaper Dagens Nyheter deliberately chose not to tell us about the great amount of sexual assault that hit the young girls in the Kungsträdgården [Royal Garden] last year has hit like a bomb.  EDIT trans:  After [whistleblower] unveiling [to the newspaper paper] Dagens Nyheter (DN), instead of choosing to publish a major article [disclosing the mob sexual assaults covered up by Sweden police], DN chose to suppress news that police mörkat [had concealed] events. [Edit:  NYHETER IDAG - Doing Its Job Informing the Public - Subsquently ATTACKED by Stalinist Swedish Press Publication Peers ] Several newspapers in Sweden published articles with allegations that Nyheter Idag [EDIT: newspaper that broke the mob sex assaults cover-up by Swedish authorities story] is working on assignments for the Sweden Democrats. It has also published other claims, such as Nyheter Idag in fact working on behalf of the Russian state interests. But despite the accusations, the Norwegian trade magazine journalist confirmed the story Nyheter Idag revealed that DN darkened [EDIT censored/suppressed mob sex assaults] sexövergreppen. In a debate between the Norwegian writer Elin Ørjasæter and Aftonbladet journalist Martin Aagård came the matter was discussed in the Norwegian television channel TV2. "A defeat for us in the real media" In the live debate, Aagård claimed that Nyheter Idag is owned and run by the party Sweden Democrats, despite the fact that the site is clear that the site at all times owned by a member of the Pirate Party. Furthermore Aagård very critical of media  Nyheter Idag scrutinized. - It is a defeat for us in the real media if people turn away from us. It is not an Aftonbladet problem, we are still Scandinavia's largest site, if I get the opportunity to brag a little here. But you can, of course, attract readers in every way, there are other sites that post images of rape victims, who outsource everything, everything. Who do not have any ethical rules, explained Aagård in the box. Furthermore, Aagård [saw] fit to draw a parallel with what it previously looked like in Sweden when the media perceived as ruthless. One consequence of this was to become the press ethics system where all printed newspapers are automatically members and which Internet sites can voluntarily join. Nyheter Idag is a site voluntarily been connected to the particular press ethics system since 2014. - The press behaved similarly in Sweden in the 60s, it was very uninhibited. When threatened it with legislation, it would be stopped by regulators and then introduced to a pressure ethical system, then we got the current rules. But despite, or perhaps because of, the Nyheter Idag followed regarding press ethics rules in their review of Dagens Nyheter flagged Martin Aagård to the legislature should take action against sites like the one you're reading now. - I suspect that something similar will happen with these sites and Nyheter Idag, as I said a political body and not a journalistic, he declared before the debate in the Norwegian TV2 was over. English Translation https://archive.is/gELtv#selection-2013.25-2086.0 Norwegian Trade Journal Norwegian trade magazine journalist examines the Dagens Nyheter blackout 14-01-2016 17:18 OSLO Norwegian Journalists newspaper journalist has a probing article noted Dagens Nyheter's cover-up of sex crimes in Kungsträdgården in Stockholm during the festival "We are Sthlm". Swedish Journalists' counterpart has instead taken the DN of the defense and would not comment on the Norwegian article.  - Unfortunately I do not have time to talk to you, says the magazine's editor in chief Helena Giertta to Nyheter Idag. [ CONTINUED AT SOURCE .. ] https://archive.is/E2I2D#selection-2203.0-2230.0 ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT This is a demonstration of EXACTLY how information, news, public debate, and political activity, discussion of REALITY etc, as well as dissent, is being suppressed and otherwise hijacked in Sweden. Norwegian trade article sounds interesting.  No time to look now.  Must do dishes and shower.  lol ꕤ

Sweden - Mayhem, Rape & Cover-Up Capital of the World

ꕤ SWEDEN Mayhem, Rape & Cover-Up Capital of the World Cover Up by Swedish Authorities Asylum Seeker Rape of 3 Year Old Sweden - Tingsryd, Kronoberg County The government cover-up in Sweden is disgusting, particularly when the Swedish Immigration Agency is: headed by, Anders Danielsson, the former head of Sapo (Swedish security police). People need to know what they're being exposed to by their governments. LINK | here TRANSCRIPT 'The Rape of Sweden' - Swedish Migration Agency (Migrationsverket) Cover-up & Media Suppression SWEDISH MIGRATION AGENCY LINK | here More on Sweden Migration Board (SAPO) guy: Anders Danielsson is a lawyer and was Director General of the Security Police (SAPO), from June 2007 to April 2012, when he became director of the then Swedish Migration Board. LINK | here Twitter on Anders Danielsson Swedish Migration Agency LINK | here Sweden:  Rape & Inaction Capital of the World  ... & AFP French Government Propaganda LINK | here Aquittal Sweden: Älvsjö Gang Rape - 3 Accused Somalians & other Prosecutor Does Not Share View on 'Ambiguities' LINK | here Swedes Butchered in Ikea by African 'Asylum seekers' & Down Syndrome Victim Raped in Cafe by 20-Year-Old, Assault-Convicted, African  Denied Asylum Sweden, Skellefteå, Västerbotten County LINK | here Also worth considering: Sweden - Armed Gang Violence Escalates 5 Times Greater In Major Cities Sweden LINK | here ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Various that caught my eye. ꕤ

Sweden Conceals Mass Rapes - Illegally Releases Assange Info to Media

ꕤ    SWEDEN Authorities & Press CONCEALED MASS RAPES Sweden Authorities Illegally Released Assange Info to Media LINK | SOURCE [CLICK image for clarity / enlargement] ꕤ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. POLITICAL PERSECUTION POLITICAL PERSECUTION LINK | SOURCE RIGHT-CLICK IMAGE Select:  'Open Link in New TAB' Use Magnifier tool for FULL ENLARGEMENT ꕤ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. POLITICAL PERSECUTION RIGHT-CLICK IMAGE Select:  'Open Link in New TAB' Use Magnifier tool for FULL ENLARGEMENT ꕤ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. POLITICAL PERSECUTION NOTE:  same journalist & Swedish daily newspaper associated with the Sweden press cover-up of MASS SEXUAL ASSAULT / RAPE of SWEDISH young women & girls, a vocal and persistent critic of ASSANGE, WikiLeaks publisher-journalist, DETAINED OVER 5 YEARS, NO CHARGE), as American State Department & law enforcement TARGET NO. 1 -- despite damning evidence against Sweden's extradition-seeking allegations. POLITICAL PERSECUTION Meanwhile, Sweden's REFUSAL to interview ASSANGE (detained Britain over 5 years, NO CHARGE), in line with British Crown Prosecution Service strategic advice NOT to INTERVIEW ASSANGE in UK, and therefore to DENY ASSANGE opportunity to DEFEND & to DEFEND against EXTRADITION to Sweden, SPEAKS VOLUMES re: CONFIRMED US Grand Jury Sealed Indictment (confirmed Jan. 2011 - LINK | HERE) that would undoubtedly see US seek to assert political influence (and exert considerable political pressure, if need be) to have ASSANGE extradited to USA on capital (potentially death penalty) American-devised attempt to redefine journalism 'charges' for 'espionage'  ... POLITICAL PERSECUTION POLITICAL PERSECUTION A S S A N G E Hanne Kjöller Swedish daily  DAGENS NYHETER Sweden Press PERSECUTION & SMEAR By same Cover-Up Press LINK | SOURCE RIGHT-CLICK IMAGE Select:  'Open Link in New TAB' Use Magnifier tool for FULL ENLARGEMENT ꕤ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- SUPPORT Australian Journalist JULIAN ASSANGE @WikiLeaks justice4assange ꕤ

WikiLeaks - The New York Times - US Government Mediated News & Other 'Free Press' Shockers

ꕤ Media Selling Unicorns❄ Corporate-Serving Media In Service of Aggressive Neoliberal Foreign Policy |  Manufacturing Consent Bias.  Compliance.  Censorship. Disinformation.  Distraction.  Diversion.  Suppression.  Smear. censorship & disinformation is denial of informed consent Dishonourable Mentions The New York Times The New Yorker The Washington Post LINK to other Media Bad Boys | here WikiLeaks The New York Times more WikiLeaks The New York Times  US government mediates its WikiLeaks redacted stories freedom of information documents show Source | WikiLeaks | here USG FOI | Emails PDF |  here other The New York Times published military “expert” C.J. Chivers report purportedly based on rocket trajectories etc & asserting gas shells could only have been fired by Syrian army positions --> Ghouta attack "became the pretext for a warmongering campaign by the White House and the US and European media" --> Obama "threatened immediate air strikes" “Obama’s change of mind had its origins at Porton Down, the defence laboratory in Wiltshire ... sample of the sarin used in the 21 August attack and analysis demonstrated that the gas used didn’t match the batches known to exist in the Syrian army’s chemical weapons arsenal." *** "US military leadership also knew that White House claims that there could be no other source for the sarin gas than the Syrian army were false" https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/04/07/syri-a07.html American Media Refusals to publish Journalist Seymour Hersh The New Yorker The Washington Post refused to publish Seymour Hersh first report on Ghouta gas attack US press largely silent re Hersh report US press as at July 2014 "blacked out latest exposure" https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/04/07/syri-a07.html The Washington Post The New Yorker Refused to Publish an Article on Obama Admin Syria Lies Michael Krieger | Posted Monday Dec 9, 2013 at 11:00 am https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2013/12/09/how-the-washington-post-and-the-new-yorker-refused-to-publish-article-on-obama-admin-syria-lies/ LINK to other Media Bad Boys | here ꕤ

Video - Immgration - Sweden & Europe

EUROPE ABSORBING CONSEQUENCES OF AMERICA'S WARS AFGHANISTAN. IRAQ. LIBYA. SYRIA. 14 Years Afghanistan War Alone Swedish TV Report Left Wing Violence Pub May 2014 SOURCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ55KyNrO6A&feature=youtu.be Soviet Sweden? Model Nation Sliding to Third World  Pub Apr 2014 SOURCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk4uDNSPlXE&feature=youtu.be Help Sweden Pub Jul 2012 SOURCE Ode To A Dying People "Falling down towards the abyss, the abyss The reaper embraces me with his kiss It makes me want to refuse to care, refuse to care To watch this all unfold too much to bear" Lyrics | Saga |  here   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTAH86qg4l8 Lengthy - 2:47:01 Documentary Immigration - Europe Pub 25 Sep 2015 SOURCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky3ZresFd2k Somebody, wake the driver ... Dispatch International English http://tiny.cc/7j6a6x Swedish http://www.d-intl.com/  ꕤ

Immigration - Europe: Media Suppression, Media Propaganda, Media Harassment, Media Blackout

ꕤ Media Selling Unicorns❄ Corporate-Serving Media In Service of Aggressive Neoliberal Foreign Policy |  Manufacturing Consent Bias.  Compliance.  Censorship. Disinformation.  Distraction.  Diversion.  Suppression.  Smear. censorship & disinformation is denial of informed consent Dishonourable Mentions The Huffington Post harassing ordinary Germans opposed to foreign invasion by immigration & Islamisation of Germany / suppression freedom of speech & expression of political dissent / by abuse of media position Link  |  here ZDF Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen taxpayer funded German broadcaster caught covering up rapes by migrants so as not to 'legitimise' critics of mass immigration  Link |  here (as above) Nordic Media Cover-ups Article #2 (in series of articles examined) Disastrous Consequences of Immigration & Rapes Suppressed "Swedish newspapers such as Aftonbladet systematically conceal the ethnic identity of the perpetrators in cases involving immigrants, though, and only show photos featuring white criminals." Link  |  here Bloomberg View Economist for promoting the destruction of Europe & painting political dissenter group Pegida as a 'noxious' and 'xenophobic' / as if Germany & the nations of Europe ought to embrace alien invasion by immigration & resulting ethnic, cultural and national self-destruction as an obligatory 'moral' duty / Whose interests do you think Bloomberg & Economist serve? Link  |  here Media Blackout PEGIDA Dresden, Saxony, Germany 28.09.2015 Over 20,000 protest against Islamisation of West (Video) Link  |  here Sweden Tino Sanandaji Interview Swedish political elite & MEDIA SUPPRESSION re negative facts of immigration / speech oppression Link  |  here ꕤ

Germany: Totalitarian State & Totalitarian Press

ꕤ Article SOURCE http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=63c_1443826634#comment_page=2 The Huffington Post Germany Abusing Media Position & Harassing Ordinary Germans who exercise freedom of speech ENGLISH TRANSLATION Link | here 17 Dec 2014 Anti-Islamist Riots in Germany: Hooligans Against Salafists 23 Aug 2015 Anti-refugee protest turns violent in Heidanau, Germany 3 Oct 2015 Riots in a refugee camp in Kassel / Germany Published on 3 Oct 2015 The European Migrant Crisis: Riots in a refugee camp in Kassel / Germany (State of Hesse) 26 Sep 2015 Immigrants already causing trouble in German MEDIA COVER UP - ZDF 23 Sep 2015 German Media Caught Covering Up Rapes By Migrants 23 Sep 2015 "Paul Watson and guest, Alex Benesch, reveal why Germany cannot handle the number of refugees they are taking in and how the local media is covering up reports of rapes at the hands of Muslims." InfoWars Video:  Transript Alex Benesch talks complete sh*t, discrediting this video Link  |  here ꕤ

'NYT Erases CIA’s Efforts to Overthrow Syria’s Government' (Adam Johnson)

ꕤ Article SOURCE http://fair.org/home/down-the-memory-hole-nyt-erases-cias-efforts-to-overthrow-syrias-government/ Down the Memory Hole: NYT Erases CIA’s Efforts to Overthrow Syria’s Government  By Adam Johnson 20 September 2015 The New York Times depicts a sad Obama to accompany its story claiming that he trained Syrian rebels against his better judgment. (photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP) FAIR has noted before how America’s well-documented clandestine activities in Syria have been routinely ignored when the corporate media discuss the Obama administration’s “hands-off” approach to the four-and-a-half-year-long conflict.  This past week, two pieces—one in the New York Times detailing the “finger pointing” over Obama’s “failed” Syria policy, and a Vox “explainer” of the Syrian civil war—did one better: They didn’t just omit the fact that the CIA has been arming, training and funding rebels since 2012, they heavily implied they had never done so. First, let’s establish what we do know. Based on multiple reports over the past three-and-a-half years, we know that the Central Intelligence Agency set up a secret program of arming, funding and training anti-Assad forces. This has been reported by major outlets, including the New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel and, most recently, the Washington Post, which—partly thanks to the Snowden revelations—detailed a program that trained approximately 10,000 rebel fighters at a cost of $1 billion a year, or roughly 1/15th of the CIA’s official annual budget. In addition to the CIA’s efforts, there is a much more scrutinized and far more publicized program by the Department of Defense to train “moderate rebels,” of which only a few dozen actually saw battle. The Pentagon program, which began earlier this year and is charged with fighting ISIS (rather than Syrian government forces), is separate from the covert CIA operation. It has, by all accounts, been an abysmal failure. One thing the DoD’s rebel training program hasn’t been a failure at, however, is helping credulous reporters rewrite history by treating the Pentagon program as the only US effort to train Syrian rebels–now or in the past. As the US’s strategy in Syria is publicly debated, the CIA’s years-long program has vanished from many popular accounts, giving the average reader the impression the US has sat idly by while foreign actors, Iranian and Russian, have interfered in the internal matters of Syria. While the White House, Congress and the Pentagon can’t legally acknowledge the CIA training program, because it’s still technically classified, there’s little reason why our media need to entertain a similar charade. Let’s start with Peter Baker’s New York Times piece from September 17 and some of its improbable claims:     Finger-Pointing, but Few Answers, After a Syria Solution Fails     By any measure, President Obama’s effort to train a Syrian opposition army to fight the Islamic State on the ground has been an abysmal failure. The military acknowledged this week that just four or five American-trained fighters are actually fighting. Notice the sleight-of-hand. There may only be “four or five American-trained fighters…fighting” expressly against ISIS, but there is no doubt thousands more American-trained fighters are fighting in Syria. The DoD’s statement is manifestly false, but because the New York Times is simply quoting “the military”—which, again, cannot not legally acknowledge the CIA program—it is left entirely unchallenged. This is the worst type of “officials say” journalism. The premise, while ostensibly critical of US foreign policy, is actually helping advance its larger goal of rewriting US involvement in the Syrian civil war. A four-year-long deliberate strategy of backing anti-Assad forces–which has helped fuel the bloody civil war and paved the way for the rise of ISIS–is reduced to a cheesy “bumbling bureaucrat” narrative. Baker went on:     But the White House says it is not to blame. The finger, it says, should be pointed not at Mr. Obama but at those who pressed him to attempt training Syrian rebels in the first place — a group that, in addition to congressional Republicans, happened to include former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.     At briefings this week after the disclosure of the paltry results, Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, repeatedly noted that Mr. Obama always had been a skeptic of training Syrian rebels. The military was correct in concluding that “this was a more difficult endeavor than we assumed and that we need to make some changes to that program,” Mr. Earnest said. “But I think it’s also time for our critics to ‘fess up in this regard as well. They were wrong.”     In effect, Mr. Obama is arguing that he reluctantly went along with those who said it was the way to combat the Islamic State, but that he never wanted to do it and has now has been vindicated in his original judgment. The I-told-you-so argument, of course, assumes that the idea of training rebels itself was flawed and not that it was started too late and executed ineffectively, as critics maintain. The sleight-of-hand continues: The article presents the training of rebels as a “way to combat the Islamic State,” but repeatedly speaks in general of training Syrian rebels as something “Obama always had been a skeptic of”–which flies in the face of the fact that he did so, to the tune of $1 billion a year over four years, with 10,000 rebels trained. But the piece goes on to make clear that when it’s talking about “training Syrian rebels,” it’s referring not only to the anti-ISIS program but to efforts to overthrow Syria’s government as well:     The idea of bolstering Syrian rebels was debated from the early days of the civil war, which started in 2011. Mrs. Clinton, along with David H. Petraeus, then the CIA director, and Leon E. Panetta, then the Defense secretary, supported arming opposition forces, but the president worried about deep entanglement in someone else’s war after the bloody experience in Iraq.     In 2014, however, after the Islamic State had swept through parts of Syria and Iraq, Mr. Obama reversed course and initiated a $500 million program to train and arm rebels who had been vetted and were told to fight the Islamic State, not Mr. Assad’s government. This is outright false. These two paragraphs, while cleverly parsed, give the reader the impression Obama parted with the CIA and Mrs. Clinton on arming opposition forces, only to “reverse course” in 2014. But the president never “reversed course,” because he did exactly what the Panetta, Petraeus and Clinton urged him to do: He armed the opposition. Once again, the Pentagon’s Keystone Kop plan is being passed off by journalists who who should know better as the beginning and end of American involvement in the Syrian rebellion. Nowhere in this report is the CIA’s plan mentioned at all. The whitewashing would get even worse:     Some Syrian rebels who asked for American arms in 2011 and 2012 eventually gave up and allied themselves with more radical groups, analysts said, leaving fewer fighters who were friendly to the United States. But the US did get arms to Syrian rebels in 2012. In fact, Baker’s own publication reported this fact in 2012 (6/21/12):     CIA Said to Aid in Steering Arms to Syrian Opposition Indeed, according to a rather detailed New York Times infographic from 2013 (3/23/13), shipments began, at the latest, in January 2012: An Arms Pipeline to the Syrian Rebels: New York Times [graphic] Note that this map accompanied an article headlined “Arms Airlift to Syria Rebels Expands, With Aid From CIA.” The CIA’s program, when discussing a fraught foreign policy issue like Syria, is simply thrown down the memory hole. How can the public have an honest conversation about what the US should or shouldn’t do in Syria next when the most respected newspaper in the US can’t honestly acknowledge what we have done thus far? Vox depicts Free Syrian Army fighters–without acknowledging that the CIA helped to arm the rebels. (photo: STR/AFP/Getty Images) The New York Times wouldn’t be alone. Comcast-funded Vox would also ignore the CIA rebel training program in its almost 4,000-word overview of the Syrian civil war. Again, the Pentagon’s program would be the sole focus in regards to funding rebels, along with reports of Gulf states doing so as well. But the CIA funding, training and arming thousands of rebels since at least 2012? Nowhere to be found. Not mentioned or alluded to once. Reuters and the Washington Post’s reports on the US’s Syrian strategy revamp, while they didn’t fudge history as bad as the Times and Vox, also ignored any attempts by the CIA to back Syrian opposition rebels. This crucial piece of history is routinely omitted from mainstream public discourse. As the military build-up and posturing in Syria between Russia and the United States escalates, policy makers and influencers on this side of the Atlantic are urgently trying to portray the West’s involvement in Syria as either nonexistent or marked by good-faith incompetence. By whitewashing the West’s clandestine involvement in Syria, the media not only portrays Russia as the sole contributor to hostilities, it absolves Europe and the United States of their own guilt in helping create a refugee crisis and fuel a civil war that has devastated so many for so long. Adam Johnson is an associate editor at AlterNet and writes frequently for FAIR.org. http://fair.org/home/down-the-memory-hole-nyt-erases-cias-efforts-to-overthrow-syrias-government/ Assange Transnational Security Elite, Carving Up the World Using Your Tax Money London  OCT8 Antiwar Mass Assembly (2011) Link  |  here ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT Another good article. It's like watching a train wreck about to happen, in a nightmare where you're screaming but you can't be heard. ꕤ