Lydia Conwell :mastodon:<p><a href="https://todon.nl/tags/MediaLens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MediaLens</span></a> | Orange Peace</p><p>"It is the influence of this war machine that causes virtually every media organisation to support virtually every US-UK war of aggression in Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. It seeks out or stokes lucrative bloodbaths in Ukraine and Gaza. It smears and denounces anyone calling for non-violent alternatives as ‘useful idiots’, de facto ‘traitors’, siding with Milosevic, Saddam Hussein, Qaddafi, Assad and Putin."</p><p>"Remarkably, given that they stand at opposite ends of the political spectrum, there are parallels between this media treatment of <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Corbyn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corbyn</span></a> and that afforded to US president Donald <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> ... This is not a Trumpian echo of Gandhi’s principled, satyagraha ethic of non-violence. Rather, if ‘war is the continuation of politics by other means’, Trump’s anti-war stance is the continuation of <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> by other means." </p><p><a href="https://medialens.substack.com/p/orange-peace" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medialens.substack.com/p/orang</span><span class="invisible">e-peace</span></a><br> <br><a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Media</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Journalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Journalists</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/War" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>War</span></a></p>