Reply #13: I agree, jetphixer! And welcome to DU! [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

It's a great idea for a consortium of many ordinary citizens to buy the Miami Herald and turn it into an honest newspaper. I'm sure there are millions of Miamians and Floridians who would like an objective, truthful, honest, untwisted, unbiased, non-Bushwhack, non-fascist, useful, straightforward account of Latin American news. Honest news is useful to everyone including business people. This is why the WSJ's news pages used to be far superior to its editorial pages--business people NEED accurate news. And dishonest news leads to big trouble, indeed--war, financial ruin, vast mismanagement of the government and the economy, vast injustice, civil disorder. You name it, dishonest news is in cahoots with it.

Currently, the Miami Herald's psyops and disinformation about the peaceful, leftist democracy movement that has swept South America couldn't have been a greater disservice to the people of Florida and the U.S. The South Americans have formed their own "Common Market"--UNASUR--sans the US, and are preparing to introduce a new common currency, to get of the US dollar. In summary, the South Americans have had it with our global corporate predator rape and ruin, and with brutal US interference in their affairs. With long hard work on their democratic institutions, such as transparent vote counting (work we need to do), they have at last been able to elect leaders all over the continent who attend to interests of their people, their countries and their region. The South Americans have achieved democracy, yet shit-rags like the Miami Herald, and their pals in Washington, have painted democracy as "dictatorship." Their "Alice in Wonderland" upside down, inside out lies have deliberately denied our people the information they need to understand events in Latin America. The Miami Herald has further actively supported the worst, most anti-democratic, most fascist, most evil elements in Latin American society--mass murderers, torturers, drug lords, crime bosses, assassins and real terrorists. If ever there was a newspaper that deserved to go bankrupt for failing to do its job, it is the Miami Herald. It will greatly improve the McClatchy news service to be rid it.

Speaking of honest news, the "winter soldiers" are the most heroic and admirable of reporters on the truth of war, and on why war is never a good option, and should always be considered a last resort. The reports of our soldier-citizens on the realities of war fill the great void left by our warmongering corporate 'news' monopolies. Thank you for being the greatest of patriots! If we ever get there--if we ever restore democracy in this country--our solder truth-tellers are the ones most deserving of our medals. There should be a special medal for soldiers who tell the truth about war, and who oppose unjust war. It is a difficult and dangerous thing to do. It requires the highest form of courage: moral courage. Kudos and laurel wreaths to you, friend--and, some day, a Peoples' Medal of Honor!