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The "Free Press" of Most Countries during Wartime According to George Orwell

The "Free Press" of Most Countries during Wartime According to George Orwell

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Robert Lindsay
Jan 30, 2024
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I'm not sure about everywhere but it's certainly true here in the West. Oddly, we don't see nearly as much of this in the Global South. The West owns the world's media, so with a death grip on information, they can easily brainwash the world with fakes and lies.

Also the proxies of the West - the Genocide Jews in Israel, Nazis in Ukraine, ISIS and Al Qaeda headchoppers in the Muslim World - are so utterly diabolical that it's quite unnecessarily to make up lies about them.

Just telling the truth is generally horrible enough. Further, I haven't noticed Pakistan, the Taliban, Armenia, Russia, Iran, the Palestinians, Hezbollah, the Houthis, or the Arab World in general doing this either.

I don't regard the faked Israeli death and wounded reports coming from the Palestinian resistance as part of this fakery. It's common for each side to exaggerate their opponent's losses in wartime.

At the moment the Genocide Jews in Israel and the Nazis in Ukraine seem to be the worst liars of all. That le…

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