CNNization and Googlification of the Global South Must End

'James Bond-style Israeli attack' - How Western corporate media psychologically enslaves Global Majority through internalized pro-imperial racism.

Anti-Putin, anti-Palestinian, anti-Muslim, anti-China, anti-Iranian, anti-Venezuelan, anti-Cuban, anti-Syrian, anti-leftist, pro-Western, and pro-White propaganda is relentlessly broadcasted 24/7 across the world - including the Global South - meticulously crafted to manufacture consent for the imperial order.

The Western media establishment has reached disgraceful new depths - praising a “James Bond-style attack” from the “ingenious Mossad”. Indeed, the victims of Israel’s pager-exploding terrorist attack are brown, not white, while the perpetrators are largely (Ashkenazi) white, not brown. As someone who came of age amid the 9/11 aftermath, witnessing the tidal wave of racism, Islamophobia and anti-Arab hatred that ruptured societies worldwide, the loathing I feel for this evil propaganda machine is visceral. Even Chomsky's seminal "Manufacturing Consent" could not prepare us for the depravity we face today.

The West has cunningly recast one of the most peaceful and warm cultural groups that practice Islam into avatars of savagery and barbarianism in the popular psyche (did you experience any contradictory feelings upon reading that statement? If so, consider it a test of how successfully Western propaganda has shaped your psychology). At the same time, one of the most brutal groups in human history, the Zionists, has been recast as a civilized defender against the supposed barbarian hordes of the ‘Middle East’.

This indoctrination runs so deep that many across the world genuinely believe Muslims are violent, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, terrorism-supporting, anti-women's rights, anti-democratic, unhygienic and aggressive. The programming is so successful that entire policy frameworks have contorted around it - from terrorism prevention programs aimed at "de-radicalizing" minors deemed potentially extremist, to invasively strip-searching anyone who appears Muslim at airports.

State Terrorism as Self-Defense

The faintest perception of aggression emerging from Arab or Muslim populations, no matter how contrived by the media, erupts into an avalanche of fear-mongering and Islamophobic hysteria.

The New York Times deftly employs its dehumanizing language - never ascribing agency to Israel's numerous crimes, while always centering Palestinian agency, even for non-existent transgressions (e.g., “beheaded babies” and “mass systemic rapes”). Israeli victims are "killed" and "slaughtered" while Palestinians simply "perish" and "die" without any acknowledgment of perpetrators. This dichotomy perpetuates the core myth upholding Western supremacy - the inherently moral white savior subduing the brutish, irredeemable melanated “Other”. From the New York Times to CNN, the BBC to Google's algorithms, this assault on truth inoculates the psyche against recognizing imperial evil.

Alternative voices offering Palestinian viewpoints are systematically suppressed, garnering mere thousands of views, throttled by YouTube's algorithms. Meanwhile, pro-Zionist commentators like Ben Shapiro amass millions of views. Indeed, the West brazenly censors anti-imperialist content, underscoring this suppression yet again with its recent banning of the Africa Stream channel for exposing Western war crimes in Africa.

Subtle psychological indoctrination via Western media narratives inculcates the Global South's psyche with pro-imperial ideology on an unconscious level.

Intellectual Colonization

Beneath the veneer of objectivity, this industrial-scale propaganda machine is encoded into our devices and distributed globally with one singular aim - cementing Western supremacy through psychological subjugation.

In the Global South's former colonies, now falsely considered "sovereign" nation-states, entire populations have been culturally re-engineered, induced to internalize the very thought patterns entrenching their own oppression. As a scholar, I've witnessed professors from colonized lands bizarrely regurgitate Western xenophobia about immigrants - a visceral example of this induced inability to conceive of counter-narratives.

This global internalization of Western ignorance is perhaps the most existentially menacing aspect of imperialism, blinding people to the atrocities inflicted on the colonized while obstructing the mental pathways required for solidarity and rejecting racist supremacist dogmas.

Hypnosis of Ignorance

Which raises the pivotal question - why has the Global Majority failed to robustly build autonomous media infrastructures to preserve their narrative sovereignty? How have they ceded control of broadcasting their stories, histories and lived realities to the very forces subjugating them? Shockingly, beyond China, the Global South has done pitifully little to extricate itself from this psychological chokehold.

The observable power of Western propaganda hinges on this contradiction. Only by systematically shattering this “hypnosis of ignorance” through sustained counter-narratives can we clear the path to a liberated global consciousness.

The West's blatant crusade against dissenting voices - banning RT, jailing truth-tellers like Assange, arresting anti-imperialists like the Uhuru Tree, Richard Medhurst, and Scott Ritter - underscores how vital media dominance is to upholding its hegemony.

Seizing autonomous communication channels may be the foremost imperative for any true decolonization struggle. For as long as the world's Majority remain voiceless nodes caged by Western tech, education and media conglomerates, the ability to name and uproot human rights crimes by the Western imperial order will forever elude our grasp.

- Karim