Demonize and Distract: Sanitizing Syria for the Masses

Click here to access article by Jason Hirthler from CounterPunch.

Once the coffers of vulnerable nations are ransacked by American wars of aggression, it is the media that sweeps the crimes of state beneath a carpet of piety. The truth may come out in due time, although it is always ex post facto. Thanks to the the coordination between the corporate sector, the state, and the media, the American doctrinal system is largely a self-contained narrative. It comes complete with a smooth internal logic. Corporations set priorities, the state produces a storyline that rationalizes the pursuit of those priorities, and the media distributes and reifies the storyline until it is gospel. This is no surprise, since the corporations own the politicians and the presses.

I agree with all observations the author makes about the official tales regarding Syria; but, once again, I see a writer ascribing agency to a president (Hillary) when they function only as puppets of a deep state. It seems that even the possibility of a deep state functioning behind the scenes of the official government is too much of a threatening deception for critical people like Hirthler to accept--or even to consider.