OutFoxed
Trump is losing the propaganda war
I am guessing that tens of million Americans - mostly over the age of fifty - get all their news from Fox. I’m sure most of them believe Will Cain and Sean Hannity when they says the war is almost over and America has won.
Unfortunately for Fox News and Donald Trump, the internet provides an abundance of alternative news sources. Here’s a few of my favourites:
Yves at Naked Capitalism has been providing a detailed daily summary of the war.
Former US intelligence officer Larry Johnson over at sonar21.com also provides regular updates, as does Bernard at moonofalabama.org.
Lena Petrova is doing a good job of laying out the economic implications of the Iran War, as does Sean Foo.
George Galloway’s Mother of All Talk Shows eviscerates Donald Trump twice a week. (Warning: it’s two hours long!)
Redacted often covers stories that others miss.
I have no idea who puts out Daily Reports. Wherever it comes from, the analysis is some of the best I’ve seen.
MAGA is fracturing. Judge Napolitano used to be a fervent Trump supporter. Now he interviews guests every day about Trump’s disastrous war. Former Trump allies Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly are eloquent in their opposition to the war.
There are dozens more good antidotes out there to the pro-war slop that Foxnews dishes up up every day. Please feel free to leave some of your favourite links in the Comments section.
In other parts of the world, the media is savaging Trump.
Here’s a very short video from the British news network LBC:
Here’s more:
This tells you everything you need to know about how America’s closest ally sees Donald Trump.
The rest of the world doesn’t have a government controlled press. Vantage is the the flagship show of India biggest English-language channel WION. Just listen to how Palki Sharma savages Donald Trump in this 9-minute video:
The WION piece is the tip of a very large iceberg. Much of the most stridently anti-Trump news coverage is not in English so it has limited visibility in the West; it is nonetheless galvanizing global opinion against America.
The entire world is paying a price for the gratuitous chaos that Trump has created - and they’re not happy about it. Whatever anti-American feeling existed in the world before this is now on steroids. Tariffs won’t matter if much of the world’s population spontaneously refuses to buy American products.
When Trump approached America’s allies for help in opening the Strait of Hormuz the silence was deafening: “You made this mess - you fix it”, was their tacit response.
Every day the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, the likelier it is that the whole world will slide into a deep recession.
Israeli’s have been huddling in bomb shelters for seventeen nights now. The Iron Dome is nearing depletion - more and more Iranian missiles are getting through. American bases across the Middle East are in ruins. A US carrier is retreating after catching fire.
If Israel continues to attack Iranian oilfields, I think we should assume Iran will attack oil infrastructure across the Gulf States. The Saudi and UAE pipelines across to Red Sea ports are particularly vulnerable - take out one pumping station on each and there is no alternative to the Strait of Hormuz. If that happens, there’s no avoiding a global recession, even if the Strait of Hormuz were to re-open immediately.
If Israel persists in attacking the Bushehr nuclear power station in Iran, the Dimona nuclear power station in Israel will undoubtedly also be hit - and the world could tomorrow be facing two Chernobyl-level nuclear disasters simultaneously.
If you’re only watching Fox pro-war propaganda you probably don’t know any of that. You’re cruising blind into an uncertain future. There are so many more reliable news sources available to you. The truth is out there.
P.S.: Foxnews will want to ignore the fact that this war is costing American taxpayers roughly a thousand million dollars every day.
By tomorrow the price tag will have hit 25,000 million dollars and counting:
PPS: There are those who say Russia isn’t doing anything to help Iran. This credible source says otherwise, and it will cause the US a world of hurt if true:
I offered this as a time for audience participation. I mean there are lots of good news sources I didn't mention - Breaking Points, the Young Turks, Gilbert Doctorow, Simplicius, Glen Diesen, Colonel MacGregor, Scott Ritter, Chris Hedges ... and that's just off the top of my head. What are your favourites?