Thursday, September 26, 2024

Antiwar

As the U.S. keeps up its military operations in various corners of the world, it is incredible how antiwar voices are mostly absent in the contemporary mainstream media. Websites like Antiwar.com and The American Conservative feature and defend very forceful opinions against war, but those are few and far between when it comes to general conversation. So why are people seeking out these voices on lesser-known platforms? Why aren't these views in the mainstream media, and why do people have to look for them?


There is an explanation for this. It is based on the ownership and structure of the audience. Most of the most extensive media houses are run by companies with a direct interest in dealing with the government, strong defense enterprises, or other sources of income related to war. Thus, any dissenting opinion or coverage that may appear offensive to the foreign policy of the U.S. or its military operations is swept under. Instead, dominant political discourse in the media treats military action as operationally unavoidable, emphasizing tactical aspects and avoiding broader ethical or political contexts.

The article "With Attack on Yemen, the U.S. Is Shameless" from Antiwar.com sharply criticizes the United States for its ongoing support of Saudi Arabia's military actions in Yemen. It highlights the U.S. government's hypocrisy in promoting human rights while continuing to provide arms and logistical support to a brutal military campaign that has devastated Yemen, causing widespread civilian suffering, famine, and death. The article points out that while mainstream media largely ignores or downplays U.S. complicity in the humanitarian crisis, antiwar voices must work to bring attention to this gross contradiction in U.S. foreign policy.


Likewise, The American Conservative has a critical approach to the American Empire and its policies of overseas intervention, seeking to convince those who do not align with the neocon's expansionist ideology. There is also an article entitled!. "Why Are You Still There, when the author calls ok in India and retuning the Society in pain?" there seems to be no explanation as to how and why the conventional army has not been pulled out of no victories cyber wars. The article notes that these issues, if discussed in the American print media, are rarely treated in the American press, however, out of politics, to sound reform-oriented.

Stereotypical views of the conflict and even dissent are held because a lack or absence of antiwar voices characterizes the issues raised by the media. Such audiences have to go to non-mainstream sites like Antiwar.com or The American Conservative to engage in loam critiques of U.S. interventionism. Just as people argue about media pluralism, it is a fact that these anti-war voices are marginalized in mass media.

All in all, the primary strike against American terrorism is suffered from the absence of anti-American terrorism ideology from the American public sphere. Mainstream solutions center on arms and strategy and the prevailing political consensus, while outside the box invites consideration of why America is even doing it in the first place. To have a complete citizenry whose perspectives are less partial to the broadest segments of society, such perspectives should not only remain on the peripheries in any strategic debate.

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Antiwar

As the U.S. keeps up its military operations in various corners of the world, it is incredible how antiwar voices are mostly absent in the c...