Take for example ...
Tiananmen "Massacre" -
Spanish ambassador to Beijing,
"Eugenio Bregolat, notes that Spain’s TVE channel had a television crew in the square at the time, and if there had been a massacre, they would have been the first to see it and record it." - but in fact there was nothing in the square -
"He points out angrily that most of the reports of an alleged massacre were made by journalists hunkered down in the safe haven of the Beijing Hotel, some distance from the square."
"Graham Earnshaw, a down-to-earth Reuters correspondent who spent the night of June 3-4 at the alleged site of the massacre — at the center of Tiananmen Square — interviewing students in detail until the troops finally arrived in the early dawn. He too failed to see any massacre. As he writes in his memoirs, I was probably the only foreigner who saw the clearing of the square from the square itself.”
Kuwaiti Incubators -
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Western media follow a depressingly familiar formula when it comes to the preparation of a nation for conflict
Take the Kuwaiti babies story. Its origins go back to the first world war when British propaganda accused the Germans of tossing Belgian babies into the air and catching them on their bayonets. Dusted off and updated for the Gulf war, this version had Iraqi soldiers bursting into a modern Kuwaiti hospital, finding the premature babies ward and then tossing the babies out of incubators so that the incubators could be sent back to Iraq.
In the Senate debate whether to approve military action to force Saddam out of Kuwait, seven senators specifically mentioned the incubator babies atrocity and the final margin in favour of war was just five votes. John R Macarthur's study of propaganda in the war says that the babies atrocity was a definitive moment in the campaign to prepare the American public for the need to go to war.
It was not until nearly two years later that the truth emerged. The story was a fabrication and a myth, and Nayirah, the teenage Kuwaiti girl, coached and rehearsed by Hill & Knowlton for her appearance before the Congressional Committee, was in fact the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. By the time Macarthur revealed this, the war was won and over and it did not matter any more.
Shall we go on ... ?
or do you get the picture?
(ie. fake "witness" accounts that colour the narrative)
It goes without saying that you were not there either?
Given the propensity of all governments to propagandise and spread disinformation (yes,
including western govt and complicit western msm), it's only fair that any narrative is called to question. It may show more maturity to question a counter assertion and ask for substantiation than to resort to ad hominem and claim some absent moral high ground.
I think subsequent posters have offered a more nuanced view of the event.
