Featured Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault

War propaganda is the father of those lies. I have long felt it most important to oppose and debunk war propaganda, perhaps even more vigorously than war itself. When the bombs fall, voices of opposition can be often counted to speak out. But when the propaganda offensive that leads to war is in overdrive, many seem to lose their voice.

But the war propagandists are not satisfied with the Middle East. They have their sights set on a US war with Russia and they are pulling out all stops. Their brigades are well-organized in the social media that State Department spokespersons so strongly encourage us to visit. Daily we see postings on Twitter from such dubious sources as “Ukraine Reporter” that yet another Russian invasion of Ukraine has taken place. Mainstream media reporters also make these claims on a daily basis, but strangely they never have their cameras handy when these invasions take place.

Even a former US ambassador gets in on the war propaganda action.

I think it is important to challenge these dubious assertions, because they are designed to inflame US opinion in favor of conflict with Russia over the completely unimportant matter of whether people in eastern Ukraine want to be ruled by Kiev or want to rule themselves. Even if Russia were assisting those in east Ukraine who are seeking independence from Kiev it should be of absolutely no concern to the United States. Particularly a United States which has bombed Libya into Somalia to dictate how they should be ruled; which has armed groups in Syria to overthrow that government that are so evil that US Defense Secretary Hagel calls them a threat “beyond anything we have seen.”

What happens to those who oppose war propaganda? They are accused of working for the other side! Eugene Debs is perhaps a fitting example of what happens to those who oppose the state’s war propaganda.

These days, to oppose the propaganda of those pushing a US war on Russia is to be in the employ of Putin. A traitor every bit as much as Debs. Organized Twitter brigades attack opponents of this war propaganda, in my own case using hashtags intending to be ominous such as #staysafeDaniel.

Oppose war, but most of all oppose war propaganda!

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/war-propaganda-the-root-of-evil/

Don't you get tired of using the same old "Guilt By Association Trick" over and over and over again?

Sheesh, you sound like a broken record. Can't find any evidence to prove your allegations? No problem just toss out the "Goering argument"*, again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again . . .

Goering and Goebbels would hire you as a war propagandist in a New York minute! :thumbsup:

So uh, which one of these "critical thinking twitterers" is you CMG?

https://twitter.com/djp3tros/status/504761184575176704

*Guilt by Association

Alias:

Bad Company Fallacy, The Company that You Keep Fallacy

Taxonomy: Logical Fallacy >Informal Fallacy > Red Herring > Guilt by Association > The Hitler Card (Or the Goering argument as I call it which CMG is becoming quite famous for using against anyone that disagrees with him.)

Guilt by association is the attempt to discredit an idea based upon disfavored people or groups associated with it. This is the reverse of an appeal to misleading Authority, which argues in favor of an idea based upon associating a favored person or group with the idea, whereas guilt by association argues against an idea based upon associating it with a disfavored person or group.

http://www.fallacyfiles.org/guiltbya.html

CMG and the Baptist Board neocons have just about worked this fallacy to death. But they still haven't proven their allegations are true.

What do you say there CMG old buddy how about repeating this fallacy a few thousand more times? C'mon everyone else is doing it. You wouldn't want to be thought of as not being conformed to this old world would ya?