by Caitlin J

 Joe Lauria has a new article out with Consortium News on the various pressures that Patel is being faced with from both sides of this history-making issue at this crucial time.

And I can't stop thinking, as this situation comes to a boil, about how absurd it is that the US empire is working to set a precedent which essentially outlaws information-sharing that the US doesn't like at the same time western news media are full of hand-wringing headlines about the dangerous threat of "disinformation".

Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) has an article out titled "'Disinformation' Label Serves to Marginalize Crucial Ukraine Facts" about the way the mass media have been spinning that label to mean not merely the knowing distribution of false information but also of information that is true but inconvenient to imperial narrative-weaving.

"In defense of the US narrative, corporate media have increasingly taken to branding realities inconvenient to US information goals as 'disinformation' spread by Russia or its proxies," writes FAIR's Luca Goldmansour.

FAIR @FAIRmediawatch

'Disinformation' Label Serves to Marginalize Crucial Ukraine Facts ‘Disinformation’ Label Serves to Marginalize Crucial Ukraine Facts - FAIRCorporate media have increasingly taken to branding realities inconvenient to US information goals as “disinformation” spread by Russia.fair.org

May 18th 2022

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