Mass Media Hasten To Help Pentagon Exonerate Itself In Afghan Airstrike by Caitlin Johnstone

The world is dominated by opaque and unaccountable government agencies who are legitimized and normalized by the mass media. The Pentagon killed ten people, none of whom were combatants and seven of whom were children, tried to lie about it, got exposed, investigated itself and found that those who perpetrated the attack were not even guilty of so much as negligence, then classified the report and called it a day. And then the mass media legitimized this by calling it an "independent" investigation conducted by a "watchdog".

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Article with links and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/mass-media-hasten-to-help-pentagon