of Marco Santopadre - Radio Città Aperta .
What country we speak in quotes from two major Italian newspapers?
"... Yesterday came confirmation of other events Saturday and Sunday rocked the city and * that were bloodily suppressed by the police with the support of the army" ( Corriere della Sera ** /**/****) and still "... sources of domestic opposition talk of violent clashes and 300 deaths ..." ( The Republic).
Simple answer you. Libya! In recent days, reports of massacres, bombing of the protesters and unarmed civilians, of possible use of chemical weapons against the population which opposes the regime of Gaddafi, of massacres of doctors and injured in hospitals, columns of thousands of refugees fleeing the fighting and bombing massacres by the Western public opinion and, therefore, also Italian.
Back to the quote above: do not refer to what is happening in Libya, but to what was - according to the international media - going on in Timisoara and Arad in the days of riots against Ceaucescu in 1989. The episode that had the most impact on public opinion was the Italian and western 'Timisoara massacre' of Christmas 1989. For days there was talk of a real massacre claimed the thousands of defenseless civilians in the past for weapons from the militias of the cruel regime in the city of Romania, and the images of 'thousands' of dead bodies buried in a 'mass grave' became more times around the world, becoming the symbol of what happened in one of Eastern Europe that was free from hatred of Soviet-style communism. At one point appeared in a movie that showed the first exhumed bodies with obvious traces of "hideous torture", the corpses were badly stitched together a cut that went from the neck to the groin ...
The alleged massacre of Christmas 1989 in Timisoara, 'unquestionably true' as recounted by TV and newspapers around the world with 'detailed evidence' and a profusion of images in a few weeks was exposed and became one of the most disturbing hoaxes in the history of journalism. The corpses were
portraits only 13 and died a natural death. The signs of torture were in fact a result of the autopsies carried out by a coroner. No murders, no mass graves. On 24 January 1990, a German TV and Agence France Presse sued the staging: "Three doctors Timisoara claimed that the bodies of deceased persons naturally were taken from the hospital and forensic institute to be exposed to cameras as victims of the Securitate. "
But the international industry of buffalo did not give up won, having experienced the ease with which some news agency and some photographers can all of a sudden, in the absence of evidence and cross-confirmation, create a case and mobilize public opinion. And then provide the governments and the staffs in Washington and across the European Union in order to embark on humanitarian bombing , preventive invasions, occupations democratic . Paradoxically, the complaint, the verve of news and propaganda seemed typical of the average amateur in the country targeted by the 'disinformatia' help to give credibility to the exaggerations and inventions produced by the international professional skill of lying. Frederick writes
Povoleri in a piece dedicated to the mechanisms of disinformation:
"Things to consider in this story are both important and almost incredibleThe model, successfully tested in Romania, it was used again, and in style to other quadrants of the globe where the thirst for oil and territories to be conquered and imposed sanctions before military action then. Do you remember the
1) The ability to achieve a target of disinformation in full international ;
2) The uncritical acceptance by the public of news sources lacked reliable and credible;
3) The incredible ability to penetrate the news that grew out of proportion by news media and false legends;
4) The demonstration to what information can be manipulated to transform or even constructing reality. "
weapons of mass destruction of Saddam Hussein , with the papers that reveal a sale of radioactive material with a small, unknown country in Africa that never took place? Established journalists claimed that Iraqi troops occupied Kuwait in the service of Saddam Hussein were killing babies in incubators
Before ... even the factories had operated well of lies to justify the bombing of Serbia and the invasion of the province of Kosovo. He began to describe in detail the executions, the columns of refugees from fighters bombed (this really happened, only that the fighters were scrambled from those of NATO military bases Italian ...), mass rapes against women in Kosovo , the villages destroyed.
Since public opinion is still proving too warm against a military intervention of land, there was talk of million refugees in danger of life of indiscriminate killings, ethnic cleansing of . A completed invasion le squadre forensi della FBI e della Polizia spagnola, inviate in Kosovo a caccia delle fosse comuni dove sarebbero stati sepolti decine di migliaia di civili kosovari, non ne trovarono, ma si imbatterono nei campi di prigionia e nelle sale della tortura allestite dai ‘liberatori’ dell’UCK, riconvertitisi nel frattempo nei nuovi padroni della provincia sottratta a Belgrado. (Vi consigliamo la lettura dell’articolo ‘La bufala delle fosse comuni in Kosovo. Assordante silenzio degli invasori ‘umanitari’ , di John Pilger).
A quanto pare le smentite e le prove della manipolazione delle opinioni pubbliche da parte dell’industria della guerra non sono servite a molto. Oggi, di opposite to what is happening in Tripoli, the mechanism at work is always the same and public opinion - especially those most sensitive to humanitarian issues and aimed at the 'left' - seem to accept the various 'information' in the media without asking specific questions about their veracity.
That most of these are preceded by 'it seems that ...', '...', it is said that witnesses who want to remain anonymous say that ...' does not matter. The emotional mechanism takes over and makes it very easy for Western governments to justify military operations presented as being designed to protect populations when in fact seek to intervene in the territories from which the interests of imperialism had been excluded or limited in part. Paradoxically
are often naive (or sometimes hired) NGOs and mass organizations to pressure the governments to take action as soon as possible with sanctions or military intervention against regimes responsible for the massacres. In the case of Libya
militias armed to the teeth and well organized are described as 'unarmed demonstrators' and there are no columns of hundreds of thousands of refugees trying to flee to neighboring countries and yet the news media continue to bounce on the Italian and foreign , the figures of the dead - which obviously includes those part of government - grow hyperbolically that without it has no confirmation, and to justify that the roads are not paved with dead bodies as said in recent days by several 'eyewitnesses' on facebook or twitter away some newspapers said today that the mercenaries would downloaded the dead in the desert throwing them from planes ... But the first cracks in the mechanism of mass production of buffaloes of war begin to open. And not only on alternative media or critical of the dominant mechanism. Today
Il Manifesto reported this news:
"Upon our request that we witnessed the official denial of the ICC International that Mr. Sayed El-Hadi Al Shanuka or Shallouf not mention either as employees or as a responsible organ of the International Criminal Court. This is a serious incident because of misinformation from those individuals had been made to reach through the TV Al Arabiya news of 10 000 deaths and 50 000 wounded, " .The complaint, incredibly, comes from some members of the Radical Party, in the forefront in calling for decisive action against Gaddafi Europe ... Is it possible that nobody in RAI News 24, which has for two days in all of his victims on the news this figure , bothered to check its veracity? Very possible ... Even the much-ballyhooed
airstrikes on civilians in the districts of Tripoli and Benghazi, repeatedly denied by the Italians arrived in Italy from Libya in recent days and several witnesses - this time provided the name and surname - any doubt there has also The correspondent for La Repubblica . Also in the newspaper on newsstands now writes envoy to Tripoli Salvatore Nigro, "A Libyan (...) looking at photos of the pits in which were buried some of the victims said:" It is not a common grave, is one of the cemeteries Tripoli near the ocean, you can also see the oldest graves in the background. " But now is clear: the war against Gaddafi there are widespread reports out of control, raise and processed in real facts "...
saying this we do not want at all to deny the seriousness of what is happening in Tripoli in Libya are ongoing bloody fighting between two factions of the ruling classes in a tribal system that Gaddafi's revolution, degradatasi years in personal and family dictatorship, failed to unseat.
As often happens in war zones are the first civilians to make the costs of violence.
The problem is not working, as they say in these cases, the 'King of Prussia', endorsing military action against the Libyan people and neocolonial - Masked from humanitarian operation - which is exactly the opposite to those aspirations for freedom, democracy and social justice that are enlivening the uprising of peoples and workers throughout the Maghreb and the Arabian peninsula.
Source: http://www.radiocittaperta.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5985&Itemid=9 .