Media help launder US military PR on joint drills with Israel
Three separate reports from CNN, NBC News, and Reuters were almost identical in repeating official talking points and ignoring criticism.
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Three separate reports from CNN, NBC News, and Reuters were almost identical in repeating official talking points and ignoring criticism.
Boris Johnson pulled back from a previous maximalist stance signaling that perhaps what’s said in private will become more public.
The expedited measure would end the US role in the conflict and alter Washington’s relationship with Saudi Arabia.
The event’s sponsors were given a prominent platform to sell the military industrial complex without any official scrutiny.