LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports from the one of 2,700 protests against the Trump government’s power grabs, on a day when seven million people defied fear-mongering in a outpouring of joy and hope in what might be the biggest protest in US history

THE Israeli government is pumping out crude propaganda and fake stories to justify its wildly destructive war in Gaza — just as Britain and the US promoted fake tales to get the Iraq and Afghan wars going.
And just like the Iraq war, while some reporters have done a great job exposing this, a substantial and larger section of the press and TV news have actually transmitted the fake stories or even added to them.
Take the Israeli army (IDF) and its war on hospitals in Gaza. The IDF is systematically, surrounding, firing upon, invading and closing down Gaza’s hospitals and arresting key medical staff. It has made this shocking tactic seem normal with some pretty crass propaganda.

SOLOMON HUGHES highlights a 1995 Sunday Times story about the disappearance of ‘defecting Iraqi nuclear scientist.’ Even though the story was debunked, it was widely repeated across the mainstream press, creating the false – and deadly – narrative of Iraqi WMD that eventually led to war
