My Take | Forever misled by Western propaganda
- Thanks to editorial selectivity of mainstream news and political issues surrounding them, some very bad things being done right under our noses are not even reported on
The editorial selectivity of Western mainstream news and the political issues that Western politicians like to shout out to the world is truly astounding. Let’s consider some very bad things that are being done right under our noses. No, it’s not about China, since you are likely to have already been bombarded with those stories on a daily if not hourly basis.
Qatar will host the Fifa World Cup next year. In the past 10 years, more than 6,500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have died, many likely having worked on projects tied to a massive infrastructure programme for the World Cup.
That’s according to The Guardian newspaper and FairSquare Projects, a labour rights group in the Gulf. The numbers do not include those seriously injured or maimed. There won’t be any call, though, for a boycott of the football matches in Doha.
Has the genocidal war in Yemen, led by the Saudis and supported by Washington, ended or at least died down? No, but most corporate Western media have stopped reporting on it.
According to a report released last month by the United Nations Development Programme, the death toll from Yemen’s war will reach 377,000 by the end of this year, 70 per cent of those killed will be children under the age of five.