{"id":308974,"date":"2025-12-08T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=308974"},"modified":"2025-12-02T08:31:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T08:31:17","slug":"ah-good-old-war-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/12\/ah-good-old-war-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah, Good Old War Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The most common misconception about the free press of the western world is that it exists. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

2 Dec 2025\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0Just as the news breaks<\/a> that Trump has issued Maduro an ultimatum to leave Venezuela immediately if he wants to escape with his life, the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal has published an amazingly brazen war propaganda piece titled \u201cHow Venezuelan Gangs and African Jihadists Are Flooding Europe With Cocaine<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cVenezuela has become a major launchpad for huge volumes of cocaine shipped to West Africa, where jihadists are helping traffic it to Europe in record quantities,\u201d the article begins, going out of its way to note that \u201cthe Trump administration\u2019s pressure campaign against Venezuelan leader Nicol\u00e1s Maduro\u200a\u2014\u200awho it asserts is heavily involved in drug smuggling\u200a\u2014\u200ahas brought global attention to the country\u2019s role in the drug trade.\u201d<\/p>\n

The propaganda piece is plainly aimed at Europeans as well as Americans, emphasizing Secretary of State Marco Rubio\u2019s quip last month<\/a> that the Europeans \u201cshould be thanking us\u201d for blowing up alleged drug boats coming from Venezuela because he says some of those drugs are winding up in Europe.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s got everything. Whipping up international support for a regime change war. Fearmongering about \u201cjihadists\u201d. The evil, scary dictator. The whole war propaganda sales package.<\/p>\n

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