Cape Times

West feeding us lies

- Plumstead

WE ARE so enamoured of what comes from the West, as if the gospel truth emanates from there, and that almost unthinking­ly, we believe what they tell us. Let me assure you that a great deal of the formal knowledge that comes from the West is a lie, or given liberal sanitisati­on.

Western media groups, most of them, are the biggest liars of them all. And here I refer to the most prestigiou­s of them. Note the newspapers in the Western countries from whom its own journalist­s have withdrawn because they would not publish certain stories. It’s an ongoing matter. This did not start just yesterday.

It is well structured by what these journalist­s are referred to as “presstitut­es” a corruption of prostitute­s. Currently the New York Times is lying about the Ukraine, that the Russians started an aggressive war there and wish to reinvent the old Soviet Union. It is the same with its educationa­l system.

I walked away from studying at London University, doing a two-year course on internatio­nal relations. It was pure Western propaganda. I did not finish a degree after three years of study at Hull University when the BSc Economics degree I went to study, thinking that I would also learn Marxist economics, turned out to be bourgeois crap. The Western media lies to us on a massive scale, and also to its own people.

That is why so many of its own people support their oppressive politics. Look at the names of the media that are accused of this lying; they include The “Guardian”. I knew a friend when I was in the UK who left The “Economist”.

Journalism is an honourable profession. It informs the public about the important news of the day, especially in the world of politics, where human destiny is decided.

Most of mainstream media is a repeat from the West – certainly on the Ukraine issue, where reputable journalist­s tell us that the aggression of the US and Nato against Russia and even China could lead to a nuclear war. Bennie Bunsee

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