Neocon US Colonel Calls for Military Attacks on "Partisan Media"
Col. Ralph Peters pens an outrageous essay, writing that journalists "have positioned themselves as protected-species combatants."
A new report for a leading neoconservative group which pushes a belligerent “Israel first” agenda of conquest in the Middle East suggests that in future wars the US should make censorship of media official policy and advocates “military attacks on the partisan media.” (H/T MuzzleWatch) The report for JINSA, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, was authored by retired US Army Colonel Ralph Peters. It appears in JINSA’s “flagship ... Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
The protection of an independent press is essential to peace and democracy. Proponents of military attacks upon the press should be discredited and removed from power.