| | #In the same article, conspiracy theories about the US role in the killings are also hysterically strewn about, with even less credibility: “The US also provided "arms" of both US and non-US origin, requested specifically to "arm Moslem and nationalist youths in Central Java for use against the PKI [Communists]."<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_killings_of_1965%E2%80%931966#U.S._involvement_and_reaction</ref> The sources Wikipedia cites in this instance, as was the case above, actually say the exact opposite of what Wikipedia says they say, which can be explained by the fact that Noam Chomsky invented this talking point,<ref>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/200chomskylies.pdf</ref> and this is his famed method of propaganda and deceit. Indonesia did ''request'' "communications equipment and small arms to arm Moslem and nationalist youths in Central Java for use against the PKI," but the US stonewalled the request. Embassy staff reported Indonesia’s request and sought "more explicit guidance as to how this matter is to be handled here." The State Department replied: "There was to be no implication of providing anything more than medical supplies already authorized, but the US officials could ask questions to clarify any Indonesia requests for additional aid."<ref>Telegram From Embassy in Thailand to Department of State, November 5, 1965; reply, November 6, 1965; available at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/johnsonlb/xxvi/4446.htm</ref> | | #In the same article, conspiracy theories about the US role in the killings are also hysterically strewn about, with even less credibility: “The US also provided "arms" of both US and non-US origin, requested specifically to "arm Moslem and nationalist youths in Central Java for use against the PKI [Communists]."<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_killings_of_1965%E2%80%931966#U.S._involvement_and_reaction</ref> The sources Wikipedia cites in this instance, as was the case above, actually say the exact opposite of what Wikipedia says they say, which can be explained by the fact that Noam Chomsky invented this talking point,<ref>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/200chomskylies.pdf</ref> and this is his famed method of propaganda and deceit. Indonesia did ''request'' "communications equipment and small arms to arm Moslem and nationalist youths in Central Java for use against the PKI," but the US stonewalled the request. Embassy staff reported Indonesia’s request and sought "more explicit guidance as to how this matter is to be handled here." The State Department replied: "There was to be no implication of providing anything more than medical supplies already authorized, but the US officials could ask questions to clarify any Indonesia requests for additional aid."<ref>Telegram From Embassy in Thailand to Department of State, November 5, 1965; reply, November 6, 1965; available at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/johnsonlb/xxvi/4446.htm</ref> |
| | #Wikipedia (like Chomsky) cites inaccurate quotes from media outlets like those mentioned above on Indonesia to imply that a ''right-wing'' bias exists in the American media. Hence, while it happily cites the New York Times when it (allegedly) celebrates the mass killing of Communists in Indonesia; Wikipedia never mentions that in 1978 the New York Times published an editorial by a devoted Communist and Maoist explicitly denying the Cambodian genocide.<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/chomsky.htm</ref> | | #Wikipedia (like Chomsky) cites inaccurate quotes from media outlets like those mentioned above on Indonesia to imply that a ''right-wing'' bias exists in the American media. Hence, while it happily cites the New York Times when it (allegedly) celebrates the mass killing of Communists in Indonesia; Wikipedia never mentions that in 1978 the New York Times published an editorial by a devoted Communist and Maoist explicitly denying the Cambodian genocide.<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/chomsky.htm</ref> |
| | + | #The only article on Wikipedia that gets the death toll from the Khmer Rouge correct is Wikipedia's Pol Pot biography, which states 1.7 to 2.5 million were killed. This really does accurately state both the minimum and maximum plausible estimates. Even so, it feels sociopathically compelled to lie for Pol Pot (the greatest mass murderer in history). For example, it writes that "only 80,000 to 100,000 of these were directly killed."<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot</ref> This claim is not just jaw-droppingly stupid; anyone who knows a thing or two about Cambodia might well laugh out loud reading it. As mentioned above, genocide investigators have proven that at least ten times this number were violently executed. |