By Johan Galtung*
2 April 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service

Johan Galtung
As usual, many truths emerge, very much worth knowing.
Thus, Paul Street “Notes on Terminology” (CounterPunch 13 Mar 2018) demands frank, not sanitized use of words: climate crisis, not “change” (like opioid crisis, not change); corporate-capitalist-state media, not “mainstream media”, reminiscent of us calling Pravda and Izvestia Soviet-state media.
A key difference: they acknowledged official censors; US media pretend to be free (meaning self-censored?).
School “massacres” not “shootings”. Oil “Spill” understates, how about Oil Spew–? “US War in Vietnam” was “US war in Southeast Asia,” not only in one country.
1776 against London was not an “American Revolution” but a “Counter-Revolution” against slave liberation and indigenous power in their own lands.
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