Summoning the Humanitarian Pretext
The arch pragmatist Machiavelli once wrote that, “If you watch the ways of men, you will see that those who obtain great wealth and power do so either by force or fraud, and having got them they conceal under some honest name the foulness of their deeds.”
You couldn’t pen a better description of the relationship between the imperial corporate state and its supplicant media.
Once the…
Source: Demonize and Distract: Sanitizing Syria for the Masses