The
Prophets Didn’t Work
For The Associated Press
By David Truskoff
20 December, 2006
Countercurrents.org
Many
years ago, my father once told me that if the story by- line is the
Associated Press, read it with a smile because it is usually just propaganda
disguised as news. If it says, "combined wire services," don’t
bother reading it all because it is usually just a state department
handout."
My father collected outrageous
media propaganda pieces. I remember one that told the story of the Finnish
soldiers who hid in trees with can openers and when the " rickety
Russian tanks" went by they would drop down from the trees, open
the tanks with can openers and blow them up. When the Red army drove
the Nazi out of Stalingrad with the most efficient tanks of the entire
war, my father would wave the clipping and say, "Stupid Nazis forgot
their can openers."
There is a piece by the Associated
Press in a December 15 Connecticut newspaper that tells the story of
Soviet soldiers killing 16000 Polish troops by shooting them all in
the back of the head. "Their guns got so hot young officers had
to bring them fresh guns," the story said. I think that one would
make old red baiter Randolph Hearst smile. The story rants on about
Soviet atrocities and how Yale University press has discovered the atrocities
and also Soviet espionage during the cold war. Could there have been
American espionage and could there be any today?
The story does not mention
the fourteen or more times that highly financed mercenary armies tried
to create a counter revolution in Russia or the fact that US Marines
invaded Russia. US sent 15,000 troops to Murmansk, Archangel, and Vladivostok
as part of an Allied force in opposition to the Bolsheviks.
Unknown to most Americans
and little noted by historians is the fact that 11,000 U.S. troops invaded
Russia in 1918 to assist the Czar's White Army opposing the Communist
takeover. 7,000 U.S. Marines had landed at the port city of Vladivostok
on the coast of Siberia. Another 4,000 troops were dispatched to the
far north of Russia to join British soldiers already fighting there.
Young Americans know nothing about our support of the counter revolutionaries
or of the atrocities committed by our man Admiral Kolchak who we set
up as the new Russian Czar.
Not only does that not appear
in our history books but little is mentioned of the fact that young
America from 1898-2006 has invaded other countries or been at war no
less than 36 times and our troops are stationed in every part of the
planet.
The new wave of anti Communist
propaganda is a result of the shrill attempt by the US media to head
off any sympathy for the world wide pro socialist and anti American
movements now spreading like wild fire.
"From early times, the
prophets preceding you and me have prophesied war, disaster and plague
against many great nations and kingdoms. But the prophet who prophesies
peace will be recognized as one truly sent by the Lord only if his word
comes to pass."
Jeremiah (28:8-9):
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