Atrocities Then And Now

While reading through one of the Marshall Cavendish Encyclopedia of WWI volumes I happened across an article on the British propaganda effort to demonize the German Empire through atrocity stories in the press. You've probably heard some of them before; the hacking off of Belgian children's hands, the hacking off of Belgian women's breasts, the crucifying of Canadian soldiers, etc, etc. The author of the article gave the Germans rather too much of the benefit of the doubt in my opinion, but that wasn't what struck me about subject. What struck me was how the British press seems to have reinvented the atrocity campaign anew and aimed it at the United States. Guantamino Bay, Abu Gharib, secret prisons, torture, they seem to be willing to believe the worst about the US and not only that they report it with an almost gleeful relish.

Oh, the name of the article is the "Campaign of Hate."