{"id":231569,"date":"2023-03-20T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=231569"},"modified":"2023-03-15T06:31:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T06:31:34","slug":"atrocity-fabrication-and-its-consequences-how-fake-news-shapes-world-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/03\/atrocity-fabrication-and-its-consequences-how-fake-news-shapes-world-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Atrocity Fabrication and Its Consequences: How Fake News Shapes World Order"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Atrocity fabrication \u2013 the invention and reporting of atrocities committed by an adversary without knowledge that they ever occurred \u2013 has a centuries-long history at the heart of propaganda and power politics as an effective means of moving public and international opinion. Its use can provide pretext for a range of hostile measures against its targets, transforming in the public eye wars of unprovoked aggression into wars of liberation of the oppressed, or turning blockades to starve enemy civilians into humane efforts to pressure abusive governments. As it plays a large and growing role in global conflict in the 21st century, understanding atrocity fabrication and how and why it has been used has become crucial to comprehending geopolitical events in the present day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This book elucidates the seldom explored but central role played by atrocity fabrication in eleven major conflicts from the 1950s to the present day: from Korea, Vietnam and Cuba during the Cold War to Iraq, Libya and the emerging Sino-U.S. cold war more recently. It highlights the many variations of atrocity fabrication, the strong consistencies in how atrocity fabrication is used, and the consequences it has for the populations of the targeted countries, The book demonstrates the roles played by media and both government and non-governmental organizations in misleading the public as to the actuality of these highly publicized events. The emerging trend towards this mode of action, and the deep implications this has for world order, make an understanding of its history particularly critical.<\/p>\n

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\u201cScholars, journalists and others with a serious interest in understanding international affairs will find this thought-provoking, ground-breaking analysis highly rewarding.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

— PETER FORD, Former British Ambassador to Syria<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cWith clinical precision, A.B. Abrams has delivered a devastating expose of the interventionist clique that has weaponized human rights in order to destabilize enemy nations and immiserate their populations.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

— MAX BLUMENTHAL, journalist, editor at The Grayz<\/em>one, and author of New York Times<\/em> bestseller Republican Gomorrah<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A.B. Abrams is the author of<\/em> Power and Primacy: A History of Western Intervention in the Asia-Pacific; Immovable Object: North Korea\u2019s 70 Years at War with American Power; and<\/em> World War in Syria. He has published widely on defense and international politics, and holds Masters Degrees in related subjects from the University of London. Abrams is proficient in several Asian languages including Arabic. He is based in London.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Atrocity fabrication, the invention and reporting of atrocities committed by an adversary, has a long history in propaganda and power politics as an effective means of moving public opinion. It provides pretext for hostile measures against targets, transforming wars of aggression into wars of liberation of the oppressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":231570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[922,2314,1138,1748,1284,234,870,1365,481,1160],"class_list":["post-231569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","tag-bias","tag-corporate-media","tag-fake-news","tag-fake-report","tag-false-flag","tag-media","tag-reviews","tag-war-journalism","tag-warfare","tag-world-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231571,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231569\/revisions\/231571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}