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Since early 2011, Obama's been waging proxy war on Syria. Imported death squads masquerade as freedom fighters. The scheme's familiar. It repeats. It reflects US imperialism's dark side. In the 1980s, CIA-recruited mujahideen fighters battled Afghanistan's Soviet occupiers. Ronald Reagan called them "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers." He characterized Contra killers the same way. —Stephen LendmanFor over a century now US ambassadors have acted as fifth columns in the nations they are embedded in, their role chiefly to foster corporate and plutocratic power and coordinate machinations against any truly pro-democratic government.•••••"The dead end identity politics of SF Pride, which sells out a peace hero like Bradley Manning to curry favor with the American ruling class, is what I had in mind. The empire loves your tameness, irrelevance and cowardice, SF Pride. You don’t bother the American ruling class — a five foot two, 105 pound soldier does because he has a conscience and because he didn’t make comfort the guiding principle of his life...." —Randy Shields

PBS Killed Wisconsin Uprising Documentary “Citizen Koch” To Appease Koch Brothers

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May 222013
 
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By Brendan Fischer, PRWatch | Report

(Photo: Elsewhere Films)

(Photo: Elsewhere Films)

“Citizen Koch,” a documentary about money in politics focused on the Wisconsin uprising, was shunned by PBS for fear of offending billionaire industrialist David Koch, who has given $23 million to public television, according to Jane Mayer of the New Yorker. The dispute highlights the increasing role of private money in “public” television and raises even further concerns about the Kochs potentially purchasing eight major daily newspapers.

The film from Academy Award-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin documents how the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision helped pave the way for secret political spending by players like the Kochs, who contributed directly and indirectly to the election of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker in 2010 and came to his aid again when the battle broke out over his effort to limit collective bargaining. Continue reading »

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Obama’s War on Free Expression

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May 222013
 
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by Stephen Lendman

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It’s the most fundamental right. Without it all others are endangered. Obama’s waging war to destroy it. He’s done so throughout his tenure.  He targeted AP. He did so unjustifiably. A previous article discussed it. Continue reading »

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The major sea change in media discussions of Obama and civil liberties

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May 222013
 
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The controversies over the IRS and especially the AP phone records appear to have long-lasting effects

By ,  guardian.co.uk 

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Due to the controversies over the IRS and (especially) the DOJ’s attack on AP’s news gathering process, media outlets have suddenly decided that President Obama has a very poor record on civil liberties, transparency, press freedoms, and a whole variety of other issues on which he based his first campaign. The first two paragraphs of this Washington Post article from yesterday, expressed in tones of recent epiphany, made me laugh audibly:

“President Obama, a former constitutional law lecturer who came to office pledging renewed respect for civil liberties, is today running an administration at odds with his résumé and preelection promises.

“The Justice Department’s collection of journalists’ phone records and the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups have challenged Obama’s credibility as a champion of civil liberties – and as a president who would heal the country from damage done by his predecessor.” Continue reading »

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Red State Hypocrites: Inhofe and Coburn

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May 212013
 
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Oklahoma's James Inhofe: climate change denier and a poster boy for political corruption,and rightwing meanness, this man should be in jail, not presiding over the destiny of a great nation.

Oklahoma’s James Inhofe: climate change denier and poster boy for political corruption and rightwing meanness, this abject bastard should be in jail, not presiding over the destiny of a great nation. 

Just a week ago, Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe suggested that President Obama might be impeached over the Benghazi non-scandal. Now, Inhofe must watch as Obama declares Inhofe’s state a disaster area and promises Oklahomans “all the resources they need at their disposal.” Continue reading »

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Michel Chossudovsky: Time for a counterpropaganda front

 AMERICAN STUDIES, CITIZENS' MEDIA, CORPORATE CRIMINALITY, CORPORATE MENTALITY, CORPORATE TELEVISION, IDEOLOGICAL STRUGGLE, IDIOTIZED PUBLICS, IMPERIAL APOLOGISTS & COLLABOS, MEDIA CRITICISM, MEDIA TURDS  No Responses »
May 212013
 
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Chuck Todd and David Gregory, two clowns representing the mediocrity of corporate television. On a similarly useless program, Meet the Press.

Chuck Todd and David Gregory, two overpaid clowns representing the awful mediocrity of corporate television. Exchanging inanities on a similarly useless program, Meet the Press.

Editor’s Note: The Western left, and the American left in particular, have been scandalously myopic and inadequate in organizing against the corporate media.  The goal from the start should have been to neutralize the effects of the corporate media, since without that the great battles to win over the American majorities would be impossible.  This of course required the patient building of a parallel and powerful structure entirely controlled by progressive organizations. What passes for leadership on the American left thought otherwise. Without heeding the obvious truth that you should not seek battle unarmed, it has wasted its time in scores of campaigns whose triumph ultimately depended on the grudging sympathy of the corporate media. Those who blackballed the notion of building our own media should have realized that media power is today inherent in the dialectics of class struggle. Without media power any type of mass organizing becomes ten, a hundred times more difficult, and later, any kind of popular action—be it a strike or huge demonstrations— can be disfigured and slandered by the corporate propagandists at their pleasure, to the point of almost complete criminalization.  Friendly media power is in effect a key aid in the birthing of radical movements and a protector of their development. More so in the age of expertly manipulated societies.  Continue reading »

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What the Syrian Constitution says about Assad and the Rebels

 ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, ANTIWAR, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CORPORATE CRIMINALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CORPORATE TELEVISION, COUPS & CIVIL WAR, FALSE FLAGS & PROVOCATIONS, GREAT HYPOCRISY, IMPERIALISM, MEDIA SCUM, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA, WAR CRIMES & CRIMINALS  No Responses »
May 212013
 
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By Stephen Gowans, What’s Left

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A fundamentalist rebellion abetted by the unholy alliance of reactionary Arab regimes such as Saudi Arabia, the NATO bloc, and al-Qaeda fanatics has plunged Syria into a bloodbath.

The idea that the uprising against the Syrian government is inspired by a grassroots movement thirsting for a pluralist, democratic state is a fiction. The opposition’s chief elements are Islamists who seek to establish a Sunni-dominated Islamic state in place of a Syrian government they revile for being secular and dominated by Alawi “heretics.” “Al Qaeda-linked groups…dominate rebel ranks,” notes The Wall Street Journal. [1] “There is frustration with the West’s inability to help nurture a secular military or political opposition to replace Mr. Assad,” echoes The New York Times. [2] “Islamic forces seem to be ascendant within the opposition,” observes Gerald F. Seib. [3] Continue reading »

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