Our UK media is hardly covering the stories that are flooding the US media at present. You may say it is hardly surprising since our Brexit is taking up a lot of our attention. However, news coverage of many issues on most mainstream media, both sides of the pond, inevitably only give a vague outline which often leaves us hungry to get the why's and wherefore's of what the issues really are, so that we can make an informed decision. There is no meat on the bones to chew on and they take the public for idiots. Nothing new of course. Everyone knows the mainstream media manipulates stories but we often just sit back and accept it without question. Watching the BBC and ITV News leaves me with a sense that I have been seriously short changed.
Regarding the US, we are seeing endless coverage on Internet sites, for example, of the corruption, both sexual and political, that the Clintons are being accused. We are seeing the odd mainstream refutation from Hillary Clinton, saying that 'Pizzagate', (the latest story in the US, concerning a possible child sex ring operated by the Clintons and her cohorts from a Pizza restaurant in Washington DC), is definitely 'fake news'. Fake news is a new term being coined now in the US, to discredit any stories the mainstream media don't wish to approve. The truth is that neither she or her campaign manager John Podesta who is named in Julian Assange's Wikileaks emails, as implicated in this, don't even attempt to give any explanation of the obvious code words used in the leaked emails regarding this story. That in itself should make us suspicious.
We live in a world where we really have to be suspicious of all media stories, so it is vitally important that we take in a balance of material, from both sides, so that we can discern as much truth as possible. Another example of the need to be balanced in our understanding, was watching John Pilger's expose on the United States' military actions in the South China Sea, in his so-called 'War With China' documentary. It certainly put out some incredible facts about the US' treatment of the poor Marshall Islanders, who have had to suffer the 'invasion' of US military, exploding Hydrogen Bombs on their soil during the 1950's on Bikini Atoll, leaving the place in a state that made the place virtually uninhabitable. This seems like an obvious human rights issue, but no one spoke in the documentary from the US Government, to even justify their actions. To the general public it only now comes up as new news, decades later!
Pilger also goes on to tell us that the US surrounds China with over 400 military bases, with weapons pointed at them and that President Obama's 'Pivot to Asia ' policy has been overseeing a further build up of hardware. From that we could naturally deduce that the US is the aggressor and the controller of the South China Sea, but is that the truth?
From one side we could assume the US wants war with China, on the other side, it can be said the US has had a large presence in the South China sea since the second World War for good reason and wishes to keep the balance of power...so is it a 'no-brainer?
Further confusion arises in the minds of the general public because they are told that Donald Trump musn't have any contact with Taiwan because the US must respect the 'One China' policy of regarding Taiwan as Chinese, so this gives the impression that China rules the roost down there.... there's another contradiction.
Pilger went on to explain that Mao Tse Tung wanted to be a friend to the US, but he omitted to tell us that Mao's revolution was responsible for the deaths of millions.
It is time we stopped just accepting mainstream news and start to make use of the alternative sources on the internet. Many contradict each other, but it is vital we start to think for ourselves more objectively. There is a battle on for our minds.
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