By MediaLens – Entitled: No Spirit Of Liberty – The Salisbury Case, Corbyn And The Need For Dissent
Fifteen years ago this month, the US-led ‘Shock and Awe’
offensive began against Iraq, supposedly to disarm the country of its
‘weapons of mass destruction’. The illegal invasion and subsequent
brutal occupation led to the loss of around one million lives, created millions of refugees, destroyed the infrastructure of a country already ravaged by over a decade of cruel UN sanctions,
and contributed significantly to the rise of Islamic State. All of this
might never have happened were it not for an intense campaign of
propaganda and deception in which the so-called ‘mainstream’ media,
including ‘impartial’ BBC News, were enthusiastic participants.
