The liberal press usually gets the basic narrative wrong on these issues because they rely almost exclusively on establishment sources, which helps keeps the discussion and debate well within the propaganda framework. The media's primary contributors are so called "experts" from establishment think tanks like the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Heritage Foundation, the Center for American Progress and so on. And of course the familiar "US officials said" spam. Here is Jon Alterman, the director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a very typical member of the National Security priesthood, writing in The New York Times about Egyptian elections (via Asad AbuKhali): meaning: ensuring the ability of the Egyptian military to prevent the countrys democratically elected leaders (Egypts new politicians) from implementing the will of the citizenry. Thus, Alterman announces, in Egypt we must avoid the "clarity" of democracy in favor of something "murkier." Glenn Greenwald: End of the Pro-Democracy Pretense [video=youtube_share;bHoYjUkBEYY]http://youtu.be/bHoYjUkBEYY[/video]
An excerpt from Greenwald's article: Here is Jon Alterman, the director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a very typical member of the National Security priesthood, writing in The New York Times about Egyptian elections (via As’ad AbuKhali):
