Joe Emersberger, Author at BSNEWS

Assange’s ‘Conspiracy’ to Expose War Crimes Has Already Been Punished

Joe Emersberger — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 14:57:13 +0000

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should never have been punished for working with a whistleblower to expose war crimes. Chelsea Manning, the whistleblower, has done more time in prison, under harsher conditions, than William Calley, a key perpetrator of the My Lai massacre. Remarkably, Manning is in jail again, failed by organizations that should unreservedly defend her, as the US tries to coerce her into helping inflict more punishment on Assange.

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Facts Don’t Interfere With Propaganda Blitz Against Venezuela’s Elected President

Joe Emersberger — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 00:34:43 +0000

he constitutional argument that Trump and his accomplices have used to “recognize” Guaidó rests on the preposterous claim that Maduro has “abandoned” the presidency by soundly beating Falcón in the election.

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The Observer Exposed Over Venezuela ‘News’ Article

Joe Emersberger — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 13:23:37 +0000

From The Observer: President Maduro strips Venezuela’s parliament of power Legislative powers taken from opposition-led parliament, as country’s fugitive attorney general alleges Maduro corruption links Dear Mr. Pritchard (Observer readers’ editor) First of all, article’s headline is false as even the article itself reveals. Venezuela’s constituent assembly (ANC), not President Maduro, took over various National Assembly functions. Nowhere does the article inform readers that […]

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Don’t Rely on Amnesty to Judge Amnesty Law in Venezuela

Joe Emersberger — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 19:11:30 +0000

NGOs like Amnesty end up providing a kind of “idea laundering” for the U.S. government and its allies. Many years ago, that’s how Canadian writer Linda McQuaig described the function of corporate funded think tanks in debates about domestic policy. Not everybody will be happy to believe what the U.S. government or corporate journalists say. It’s useful to have “independent”, and preferably liberal, organizations like Amnesty promote the required assumptions and deceit.

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Debating Amnesty About Syria and Double Standards

Joe Emersberger — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 18:21:51 +0000

Long before this recent Syria report, it's been clear that Amnesty's priorities and standards for evidence are biased in favor of the world's most powerful and criminal states.

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Public Ignorance about Iraq War deaths is Imposed by the Corporate Media

Joe Emersberger — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 11:30:07 +0000

George W Bush was mocked for his “Mission Accomplished” stunt in which he tried to declare the war over as it began, but we can’t mock the corporate media for what it accomplished. Disappearing hundreds of thousands of deaths that resulted from a very recent and extensively covered war is quite a feat. We should fear what the “free press” could easily accomplish in the future.

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