The Prophets didn't work for the Associated press

Rebirth of a Realist

The prophets didn’t work for the Associated Press.
Many years ago, my father once told me that if the story by- line is the Associated Press, read it with a smile because it is usually just propaganda disguised as news. If it says, "combined wire services," don’t bother reading it all because it is usually just a state department handout."
My father collected outrageous media propaganda pieces. I remember one that told the story of the Finnish soldiers who hid in trees with can openers and when the " rickety Russian tanks" went by they would drop down from the trees, open the tanks with can openers and blow them up. When the Red army drove the Nazi out of Stalingrad with the most efficient tanks of the entire war, my father would wave the clipping and say, "Stupid Nazis forgot their can openers."
There is a piece by the Associated Press in a December 15 Connecticut newspaper that tells the story of Soviet soldiers killing 16000 Polish troops by shooting them all in the back of the head. "Their guns got so hot young officers had to bring them fresh guns," the story said. I think that one would make old red baiter Randolph Hearst smile. The story rants on about Soviet atrocities and how Yale University press has discovered the atrocities and also Soviet espionage during the cold war. Could there have been American espionage and could there be any today?
The story does not mention the fourteen or more times that highly financed mercenary armies tried to create a counter revolution in Russia or the fact that US Marines invaded Russia. US sent 15,000 troops to Murmansk, Archangel, and Vladivostok as part of an Allied force in opposition to the Bolsheviks.
Unknown to most Americans and little noted by historians is the fact that 11,000 U.S. troops invaded Russia in 1918 to assist the Czar's White Army opposing the Communist takeover. 7,000 U.S. Marines had landed at the port city of Vladivostok on the coast of Siberia. Another 4,000 troops were dispatched to the far north of Russia to join British soldiers already fighting there. Young Americans know nothing about our support of the counter revolutionaries or of the atrocities committed by our man Admiral Kolchak who we set up as the new Russian Czar.
Not only does that not appear in our history books but little is mentioned of the fact that young America from 1898-2006 has invaded other countries or been at war no less than 36 times and our troops are stationed in every part of the planet.
The new wave of anti Communist propaganda is a result of the shrill attempt by the US media to head off any sympathy for the world wide pro socialist and anti American movements now spreading like wild fire.
"From early times, the prophets preceding you and me have prophesied war, disaster and plague against many great nations and kingdoms. But the prophet who prophesies peace will be recognized as one truly sent by the Lord only if his word comes to pass."
Jeremiah (28:8-9):