America’s Lamestream Media

Paul Sheldon Foote

http://paulsheldonfoote.blogspot.com

http://paulsheldonfoote.wordpress.com

January 19, 2012

The American mainstream media has become so bad that many people refer to it as the lamestream media.

http://www.conservapedia.com/Mainstream_media

As an American who has lived and worked in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and in Asia, I have years of experience with being able to compare what Americans were learning about foreign countries from the American media with what was really happening in those countries. Unfortunately, millions of Americans who have not lived and worked overseas continue to rely upon America’s mainstream media. Their beliefs in lies results in endless wars, deaths, and in the economic decline of America. Everyone is responsible for seeking the most accurate sources of information. No one should be consuming the slop of lies served at the troughs of the American mainstream media.

Accuracy In Media (AIM) and Kenneth R. Timmerman

Even worse, there are television programs and websites claiming to monitor the accuracy of American media. For example, Accuracy In Media (AIM) has published on January 9, 2012: “Tehran TV Loves Ron Paul” by Kenneth R. Timmerman. This should become a case study in future books and courses on the inaccuracies of America’s lamestream media and of media watchdogs.

http://www.aim.org/special-report/tehran-tv-loves-ron-paul/

Timmerman has attacked Press TV (http://www.presstv.ir) for its use of American politicians, self-declared political analysts, and experts. Timmerman failed to note my academic credentials, my position as a professor, and my international working experiences. He failed to note, also, my appearances in media other than Press TV: China Radio International (CRI) (http://english.cri.cn/) and RT (Russia Today Television) (http://rt.com/). How can I be an expert on CRI and on RT but not on Press TV? I have lived and worked in Iran, including working at the American Embassy in Tehran. My wife of 43 years is an Iranian. How dare Timmerman question the credentials of the guests on Press TV? Has Timmerman ever visited Iran? Why should anyone believe anything that Timmerman writes about Iran or about the Middle East? I am a professor with degrees from The University of Michigan, Harvard Business School, and from Michigan State University. I studied Persian at Harvard University. For Timmerman’s academic credentials, see the links below.

Who says that Timmerman is an expert on any subject? The Israel Unity Coalition says so:

“In 1982, Timmerman was taken hostage by terrorists in Lebanon, and spent 24 days in an underground cell under constant aerial and artillery bombardment.”

http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/sbureau/ktimmerman.php

While the Israel Unity Coalition claims that Timmerman has been an investigative reporter, the organization does not reveal employers or other sources of income.

For better reviews of Timmerman’s credentials and writings, see:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kenneth_R._Timmerman

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Timmerman_Kenneth

http://dotandcalm.com/calm-archive/index/t-16590.html

Neo-Conservative (Neo-Trotskyite) Chickenhawks

Has Timmerman ever visited Iran? Does he speak Persian? Why does Timmerman have no military service?

For a list of many American politicians who are chickenhawks, see:

http://www.nhgazette.com/chickenhawks/

Why do the neo-conservatives (neo-Trotskyites) support endless wars, the bankrupting of America, and the deaths of American soldiers but not serve in the military?

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/article/2003/mar/24/00007/

While I was an officer in the American Army in Vietnam, I would not recommend any American family to send sons and daughters to die in endless Zionist wars. America’s worst enemies are in America: Zionists, Christian Zionists, and Neo-Conservatives (Neo-Trotskyites).

Ron Paul

Press TV does interview many guests who are Ron Paul supporters.

In July 2003, Congressman Ron Paul (Republican—Texas) warned about the neo-Conservatives (neo-Trotskyites) with “We’ve Been Neo-Conned”.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul110.html

Americans who trust America’s lamestream media have paid with lives and money for their ignorant support of Zionist wars.

In Ron Paul’s 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns, I have supported and contributed to the campaigns. As a lifelong Republican, I shall vote for only Ron Paul in 2012. The other Republican candidates are not real Republicans. As a student at The University of Michigan in the 1960’s, I worked on the campaign for governor of Governor George Romney. Today, I cannot support Mitt Romney.

Neo-Conservatives are Neo-Troskyites

Timmerman fails to explain to persons who claim to be conservatives that Neo-Conservatives are Neo-Trotskyites. The term neo-conservative is a derogatory term created by communists who understood how the admirers of Trotsky were infiltrating the Democratic and Republican parties by pretending to be anti-communists. Admirers of Trotsky are anti-Stalin, not anti-communist. For details, read:

The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel by Stephen J. Sniegoski

http://www.amazon.com/Transparent-Cabal-Neoconservative-National-Interest/dp/1932528172

You may listen to Justin Raimondo explaining how communists became Republicans at:

http://antiwar.com/horton/?articleid=5817

Anyone who claims to be a Republican who supports neo-Conservatives is an example of the success of America’s lamestream media.

See, also, the film Idiocracy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBvIweCIgwk

Iran is not an existential threat to Israel

Even half-truths are lies. Timmerman’s highly selective quotations are extremely dishonest. Tamir Pardo, Mossad chief, in the Israeli publication Haaretz, disagrees with Timmerman’s views.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/mossad-chief-nuclear-iran-not-necessarily-existential-threat-to-israel-1.404227

Rick Santorum and the Iranian Communist MEK Terrorists

Timmerman noted that Press TV was critical of Rick Santorum. Timmerman failed to disclose that for years he was a very prolific writer of articles attacking the Iranian Communist MEK (MKO, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi Cult, or Pol Pot of Iran) terrorists. For example, on January 24, 2003, he criticized the New York Times for running a full-page advertisement supporting these communist terrorists. Timmerman noted:

“The ad included photographs of six of the 150 members of Congress who allegedly had signed a recent statement of support for the MEK. Top billing went to Florida Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who circulated the pro-MEK letter among her congressional colleagues. She and others have signed previous letters of support for the group.”

“Also appearing were Reps. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), Bob Filner (D-Calif.), Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) and Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.).”

'Gray Lady' Runs Ad for Terrorists

Daily Insight - Jan. 24, 2003

http://www.kentimmerman.com/news/mek_nytimes_ad.htm

Timmerman failed to disclose that he knows me. In the past, I have exchanged emails and telephone calls with Timmerman about the MEK terrorists. At my request, Timmerman met with Michael Giorgino, a Republican candidate for Congress opposing Congressman Bob Filner (Democrat—California, MEK supporter, and son of a communist party candidate for Congress).

In one telephone conversation, I asked Timmerman why he had reduced the number of articles he was writing about the MEK. I told him that there had been numerous opportunities to write articles since American and coalition forces attacked Camp Ashraf, Iraq in March 2003. He claimed that editors were not interested in the MEK anymore.

In September 2005, Timmerman spoke at an Iranian monarchist demonstration in New York City. He wrote an article explaining how the MEK pays large amounts of money for demonstrators.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=9222

To my shock, Timmerman started writing in support of the Iran Freedom Support Act (sponsored by Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, MEK supporter). In addition, he wrote approvingly of Senator Rick Santorum, an MEK supporter who wanted to provide funding for Iranian “pro-democracy” groups. There is nothing democratic about the Pol Pot of Iran.

http://www.kentimmerman.com/news/2006_02_23-iran-plan-wt

For details about the MEK, see:

http://iran-interlink.org/

http://nejatngo.org/en/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/traitorsusa/

Timmerman should have been writing articles condemning Santorum as a traitor for supporting the MEK. Instead, Timmerman is critical of Press TV for negative reporting about Santorum.

How many Americans have even heard of the MEK in America’s lamestream media? How many Americans know that America’s State Department placed the MEK on the terrorist list during the administration of former President Bill Clinton? How many Americans know that American soldiers have died taking these communist terrorists on shopping trips from Camp Ashraf, Iraq to Baghdad? How many Americans know that the American government uses the MEK and other terrorist organizations to commit terrorist activities?

If you know these details, it is unlikely that you learned this from America’s lamestream media. Sometimes, you can find the truth in America’s lamestream media:

The Cult of Rajavi

By ELIZABETH RUBIN

Published: July 13, 2003

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/13/magazine/13MUJAHADEEN.html?pagewanted=all

Holocaust and Genocide Denial Laws

Timmerman claimed that I promote Holocaust deniers. Anyone who wants to monitor the accuracy of Timmerman’s claims may request being my friend at Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/paulsheldonfoote

I do post articles relating to Holocaust and genocide denial laws. I am opposed to totalitarian thought police laws and penalties.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_against_Holocaust_denial

http://www.ihr.org/leaflets/denial.shtml

Sir Gerald Kaufman, a Jewish member of the British parliament and Zionist who lost relatives in the Holocaust, has described Israel as acting like Nazis in Gaza.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGuYjt6CP8

See, also, the writings of True Torah Jews who have lost relatives in the Holocaust but who oppose Zionism and who have met with political leaders in Iran.

http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/

Instead of denying holocausts and genocides, there should be more research. For example, who was responsible for the Armenian genocide in Turkey?

THE JEWISH GENOCIDE OF ARMENIAN CHRISTIANS

By Christopher Jon Bjerknes

Enlarged Second Edition

Complete 575 page book is available

by clicking here for the free PDF file (3.8 MB)

http://jewishracism.com/JewishGenocide.htm

Who was responsible for the murders of tens of millions of Christians in the Soviet Union?

Sever Plocker

Stalin's Jews

We mustn't forget that some of greatest murderers of modern times were Jewish

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3342999,00.html

Everyone needs to know more about genocides, not less.

Zionism is Communism

Zionist writers fail to disclose that Zionism is Communism. Moses Hess, nicknamed the Communist Rabbi by early Marxists, helped Karl Marx write The Communist Manifesto. Hess wrote a book proposing Zionism: Rome and Jerusalem. Free copies of this 1862 book are available online:

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rome_and_Jerusalem

For an analysis of Zionism and Communism, read:

Moses Hess: Prophet of Communism and Zionism [Paperback]

Shlomo Avineri (Author)

http://www.amazon.com/Moses-Hess-Prophet-Communism-Zionism/dp/0814705871/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327019770&sr=8-1

For the truth about Christian Zionism, see:

http://whtt.org/newwhtt/

American Demons

Paul Sheldon Foote

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November 13, 2011

In 2003, at the start of the Iraq War, Anne Singleton published Saddam’s Private Army, a book warning the world about the Iranian MEK (MKO, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi Cult, or Pol Pot of Iran) terrorists at Camp Ashraf, Iraq. In 2011, as the deadline for the departure of American military forces approaches, Anne Singleton and her husband, Massoud Khodabandeh, have published The Life of Camp Ashraf, a book warning that there could be a tragic ending, similar to the Jonestown, Guyana mass suicides in 1978 or the Waco, Texas massacre in 1993, for thousands of cult members who want to leave the cult.

As former MEK members, the authors have spent years attempting to rescue the thousands of members trying to escape from Camp Ashraf, Iraq. They have visited Iraq and have helped the Nejat Society, the Sahar Family Foundation, and individuals who have escaped from Camp Ashraf.

Founded in 1965, the original purpose of the MEK was to use Marxist liberation theology to overthrow the Shah of Iran. After the Shah killed the founders, Massoud Rajavi took control of the terrorist organization. Shortly before the Shah fled from Iran, Massoud Khodabandeh met Ayatollah Khomeini in France to pledge the MEK’s support for the Iranian Revolution. During the American hostage crisis, the MEK participated and called for the executions of the Americans. Rajavi is anti-American, anti-imperialist, and anti-capitalist. His aim is to become the Pol Pot of Iran, even if the MEK must become a tool of the American government to achieve his aim. After Rajavi failed in a counter-revolution attempt against Ayatollah Khomeini, Rajavi fled to France. Massoud Khodabandeh attended a meeting between the CIA and Rajavi in France. The French government provided land, buildings, equipment, and approximately 200 free telephone lines for the terrorists. The MEK continues to operate a headquarters in France.

In 1983, Donald Rumsfeld, President Ronald Reagan’s envoy to Saddam Hussein arranged to move the MEK to Iraq. In the isolation of Camp Ashraf, Iraq, Rajavi turned the group into a cult. Some American feminists have promoted the MEK because Rajavi placed women in the leadership positions. The feminists fail to mention that candidates for the Leadership Council danced naked in front of Rajavi at “Freedom Dance” events and slept with Rajavi in the audition process. Feminists fail to mention also Rajavi’s cult practices of mandatory divorces, sending away children, prohibited contact with relatives, and arranged marriages.

After the Iran-Iraq War, the MEK hid more than 1,000 Iranian prisoners of war from the International Committee of the Red Cross to prevent the exchange of the Iranian prisoners.

In return for providing military camps and arms in Iraq, Saddam Hussein required the MEK to kill Iraqis. While Saddam Hussein’s Republican Guard forces trained by killing and eating innocent Iraqis, the MEK trained by killing and eating wild dogs. The MEK killed large numbers of unarmed Iraqi Kurd and Shiite civilians after the 1991 Gulf War. America did not attack MEK bases in Iraq. The West offered to move the MEK to Azerbaijan or to Pakistan.

In 2001, Massoud Rajavi rejoiced at the destruction of the World Trade Center.

At the start of the Iraq War, American and coalition forces killed some of the MEK. However, neo-conservatives (neo-Trotskyites) protected the MEK claiming falsely that the Fourth Geneva Convention applied to a terrorist group. The American military has been hiding and protecting Massoud Rajavi. The American government has prevented the inspection of a mass grave at Camp Ashraf (containing perhaps large numbers of Kuwaitis).

Contrary to lies of American military officers and to the American government’s claim of a war on terrorism, the American government has been using the MEK in terrorist activities in Iraq, Iran, and in Pakistan. The Iraqi government has proof in the form of MEK identifications issued by the American government found on the bodies of killed terrorists. The MEK has worked with other terrorist organizations in the region, including PJAK (or PEJAK) and Jundallah (or Jondollah).

In June 2003, after the French government arrested Maryam Rajavi, some MEK members burned themselves to death.

The mainstream American media has promoted the MEK even though the MEK has been on the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations since the administration of former President Bill Clinton. A surprising exception was Elizabeth Rubin’s “The Cult of Rajavi” in the New York Times Magazine, June 2003.

After the American government closed the office of the terrorist organization in Washington, DC, the Fox News Channel retained the head of the office as a foreign affairs analyst.

In 2005, Human Rights Watch published “No Exit”, a report warning that MEK members could not leave the cult. MEK leaders have tortured and have killed MEK members who attempted to leave Camp Ashraf, Iraq.

As of August 2009, at least 14 American soldiers have died and 60 have been wounded providing security for MEK shopping convoys to Baghdad.

The American government has funded the MEK via Saudi Arabia. The MEK has raised funds also by creating fake charities (Iran Aid and Muslim Iranian Students’ Society) by collecting donations at airports, and by telling their families that they need tens of thousands of dollars for life-saving surgeries. For example, the American Red Cross withdrew from a fake MEK charity fund raising event after the December 26, 2003 earthquake in Bam, Iran after learning the truth about the MEK. The Iran Policy Committee employs former CIA and military officers to promote the MEK. Hundreds of members of Congress (Democrats and Republicans) have signed statements supporting the MEK terrorists.

The MEK terrorists could not exist without the support of the American government and the ignorance of American voters.