One of the most powerful tools in the global propaganda architecture is the concept of "the international community."
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One of the most powerful tools in the global propaganda architecture is the concept of "the international community."
The international community is concerned.
The international community condemns.
The international community calls for restraint.
Who is this community?
In practice: the United States, Western Europe, and whichever governments are sufficiently dependent on Western financial institutions that they vote accordingly in international bodies.
China is not the international community.
Russia is not the international community.
The Global South, representing the majority of the world's population, is not the international community when its positions conflict with Washington's.
The international community is a rhetorical construction that presents a partial coalition of wealthy states as the voice of humanity.
And this construction is accepted, reproduced, repeated, used without irony, by journalists and analysts across Asia, Africa, and Latin America who have absorbed the Western news framework so completely that they cannot see the construction.
They type "international community" and mean it.
The invisible quotation marks around it are the measure of how deep the system goes.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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