NYT, WaPo Fake News Still Bringing Real Guns to Iraq, Killing Thousands
NOVABEWS
By Robert Barsocchini
Fake news propagated by the US government and collaborating organizations such as the New York Times and Washington Posthelped create an environment in which the US was able to illegally invade Iraq in 2003, killing at least one million and possibly upwards of two million people, including the deaths of some 4,500 US soldiers, according to a meta-study by Nobel-winning Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Just this November, nearly 6,000 people were killed in Iraq thanks to the conflicts that are still raging due to the invasion (which is ongoing), and it was not an atypical month – even more were killed in October.
Regarding the fake news that laid the groundwork for the US war of aggression, award-winning journalist Robert Parry notes that, for example...
