[Infowarrior] - The Key War on Terror Propaganda Tool: Only Western Victims Are Acknowledged

[Richard Forno]

The Key War on Terror Propaganda Tool: Only Western Victims Are Acknowledged

By Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
Today at 11:08 AM

In all the years I’ve been writing about Obama’s drone killings, yesterday featured by far the most widespread critical discussion in U.S. establishment journalism circles. This long-suppressed but crucial fact about drones was actually trumpeted as the lead headline on the front page of The New York Times yesterday:

The reason for the unusually intense, largely critical coverage of drone killings yesterday is obvious: the victims of this strike were Western and non-Muslim, and therefore were seen as actually human.

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https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/24/central-war-terror-propaganda-tool-western-victims-acknowledged/


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