VOICE OF THE CIA (National Geographic)

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Product:	National Geographic
Date:	02/11/04 (335 review reads)
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Advantages: Occasional mildly interesting article

Disadvantages: CIA propaganda. Little real geography.

Voice of the CIA

Pics of naked people used to make it interesting. But in today's fascist, fundamentalist USA, naked pics are no longer allowed in the National Geographic.

The National Geographic appears to have become the mouthpiece of the CIA.

Just before 9 11, the National geographic was preparing maps and an article on Afghanistan.
If you want to know which countries the Pentagon is about to invade, look at the National Geographic.

The latest edition of the magazine, dated November 2004, has an article on the Geography of Terror. The article, written by Walter Laqueur who recently retired from the Kissinger Chair at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, seems full of obvious disinformation.

The article refers to a number of countries:

Ireland - the article fails to mention US financing of terror groups, and the allegation that most of the worst incidents were the work of the UK security services.

Europe - the article fails to mention the CIA links to the terror which hit Italy in the 1980s. Remember the bombs in railway stations that 'were the work of fascist groups with CIA connections'.

Indonesia - the article fails to mention (1) the CIA terror used to topple President Sukarno and then President Suharto (2) the US training of the generals who have been associated with terror in East Timor, the Spice Islands and elsewhere (3) the links between the US trained Indonesian military and 'Moslem' terror groups such as Laskar Jihad (4) the alleged involvement of the Indonesian military in the Bali bomb.

Palestine - the article does not make it clear that (1) the Palestinians were driven from their land by Jewish terrorist groups (2) the Israelis initially aided Hamas in order to weaken Arafat (3) the USA supports Israel in its occupation of Palestinian land and defiance of UN resolutions and in its possession of weapons of mass destruction.

Iraq - the article fails to mention the body of evidence that Saddam was a CIA agent and was put into power by the USA.

Al Qaeda - the article promotes the myth of al Qaeda. It fails to mention (1) the bin Laden links to the Bush family (2) bin Laden's Jewish mother (3) bin Laden's death in December 2001 (4) the controlled explosions that brought down the Twin Towers on 9 11 (5) the training of the alleged hijackers at US military bases.

The National Geographic is supposed to be about geography. But what do we get? We get endless stuff about:

Archaeology - particularly in the Mayan world.

History.

Biology - particularly fish and apes.

Astronomy

The articles are written in a strange style. The authors like to sound clever and literary but often they simply obscure the meaning of what they are trying to say.

The layout of text and photos also tries to be clever, but ends up being clumsy, like an american automobile.

Who advertises in the National Geographic? We get adverts for the sort of posh watches and posh cars which I could never afford.

Is the National Geographic worth buying? Just occasionally there is a mildly interesting article.

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