In what sense? You mistrust the documentary record? Or the reconstructions of mainstream historians? Or you believe that the whole thing has been driven by secret cabals and plots?
The media has been largely controlled for over a century. This is from a quick internet search I just did up. I won't vouch for the site, but the content I was looking for is commonly known. It is actually part of a congressional record.
https://thementalmilitia.net/index-p1818.html
J. P. Morgan like many of his progressive friends was a “Monopoly Capitalist” and held divided loyalties between fidelity to America and homage to the one-world government plans of the Rhodes Round Table groups. With the Wall Street complicity in having got Woodrow Wilson seated in the White House two years earlier, J. P. Morgan knew, as did others such as Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Ford, that America would be drawn (by design) into World War I.
To prepare the American public would be a huge undertaking, and Morgan figured on using the American press to spread a pro-war message, subtly disguised of course, as needed defense spending.
With a grateful salute to Mindfully, here is a passage from the 1917 Congressional Record detailing how Morgan took over the propaganda aspects of the American press.
J.P. Morgan Interests Buy 25 of America’s Leading Newspapers and Insert Editors
U.S. Congressional Record February 9, 1917, page 2947
Congressman Calloway announced that the J.P. Morgan interests bought 25 of America’s leading newspapers, and
inserted their own editors, in order to control the media.
I'll give some personal favorite examples.
Katyn Forest Massacre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD ("People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs", the Soviet secret police) in April and May 1940. Though the killings also occurred in the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons and elsewhere, the massacre is named after the Katyn Forest, where some of the mass graves were first discovered.
German military came upon the massacre and had an international team of investigators come to witness the scene. So, the world knew the truth. Europe, US, everybody.
The thing is, the media claimed that Germany carried out the massacre. The truth was not admitted until 1993. 53 years!
WW 1 War Propaganda
International zionism despised Russia and was friendly with Germany. But, a couple things changed. They overthrew Russia. At a certain point, Germany had the war won. Not a single foreign soldier was in German territory. Germany with its submarines even controlled the seas. Germany made a magnanimous offer. Call off the war and resume pre-war borders.
Britain was about to agree when international zionists urged Britain not to. They claimed they would get the US into the war and in return, they required Britain to formally advocate a Palestinian homeland for the Jewish people. Britain refused Germany's offer and provided The Balfour Declaration.
Foreign Office
November 2nd, 1917
Dear Lord Rothschild,
I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.
His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.
I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.
Yours sincerely,
Arthur James Balfour
Overnight, there were reports of German ghouls bayoneting Belgian babies. 100% fabrication.
Moreover, a ship called The Lusitania, was a registered military vessel. However, it also transported civilians. So, Germany tried to run ads in several US newspapers. Please do not board the Lusitania.
Every US newspaper, save one, refused to run the ad! The Des Moines Register ran the ad and an image of the ad can be accessed. The Lusitania was sunk on purpose and it delivered exactly what was desired. Sufficient US outrage to influence them to enter the war, something the American people were dead set against.
Now we're talking the purposeful loss of thousands of American and other lives. Not to mention the atrocity done to Germany.
I could go on and on.
Going back to what you wrote:
Yes, I 100% mistrust the documentary record.
I distrust the reconstructions though I acquiesce that the media will tell the truth once it is more inconvenient not to.
Yes, the whole thing has been driven by cabals and plots. Of course. That is painfully obvious.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
"The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.
- Thomas Jefferson
To think otherwise is astonishingly naive.
Quick sidenote. Do I ever love Jefferson. Kennedy once said there was never more intelligence in the White House then when Jefferson was there alone.
