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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

Can Capitalism Tolerate a Democratic Internet? An Interview With Media Expert Robert McChesney

 AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, CITIZENS' MEDIA, CORPORATE MENTALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, FALSE DEMOCRACY, GREAT HYPOCRISY, PROPAGANDA, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA  Comments Off
Apr 182013
 
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By Anne Elizabeth Moore, Truthout | Interview

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The thing you forget about the man with 23 books to his name, books that have been translated into 30 languages, the man who cofounded the Free Press – one of the most important media reform organizations in the country – is that he has kind of crazy hair. Despite that, he’s also one of the most respected scholars of the history and political economy of communication in the United States. Robert W. McChesney got started in the same way I did in media – in the punk-rock trenches of independent print publishing. As founding publisher of The Rocket, the underground cultural rag in Seattle that fostered an enduring music scene that still helps define American culture, McChesney has thoroughly tested the enduring impact of independent media. Continue reading »

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HOW THE MEDIA WHITEWASH THE FACE OF CAPITALISM

 AMERICAN STUDIES, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CITIZEN TOOLS, CITIZENS' MEDIA, CORPORATE CRIMINALITY, CORPORATE MENTALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CORPORATE TELEVISION, GREAT HYPOCRISY, HUMBUG CENTRAL, IDEOLOGICAL STRUGGLE, IDIOTIZED PUBLICS, PROPAGANDA, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA  Comments Off
Apr 172013
 
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Wherein we present a quick overview of some major deliberate lies and distortions disseminated by the capitalist system’s propaganda organs.

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ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY CYRANO’S JOURNAL (premier edition, 1982). 

[POF] Capitalism = human nature

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This propaganda equation is one of the oldest and most effective ideological weapons utilized in defense of capitalism. It pays off handsomely in a number of important ways. First, if capitalism is congruent with “human nature,” then the capitalist system must be the most “natural” and “logical” form of social organization, as people will have a built-in tendency to observe its basic rules. Second, “human nature,” as defined in bourgeois terms (which the press of course follows) is characterized by two significant traits: immutability and unalterable egoism. Continue reading »

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OpEds: The brutal face of neocolonialism in Afghanistan

 ABOMINATIONS, AMERICAN STUDIES, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CITIZENS' MEDIA, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CORPORATE TELEVISION, CULTURE & CRITICISM, GOVERNMENT CRIMES, GREAT HYPOCRISY, IMPERIALISM, PROPAGANDA, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA  Comments Off
Apr 102013
 
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By Bill Van Auken, wsws.org

Anne Smedinghoff: a victim f misguided idealism, and cynically exploited to score propaganda points.

Anne Smedinghoff: a victim of misguided idealism, she bought the whole brainwash, and is now cynically exploited to score propaganda points.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has made a series of public statements ostensibly in mourning for the 25-year-old Foreign Service officer Anne Smedinghoff—one of five Americans, including three soldiers, killed in a Taliban car bomb attack in Afghanistan’s southern province of Zabul on Saturday. Continue reading »

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Exploiting Holocaust Remembrance Day

 ANTIWAR, ARCHIVES, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CORPORATE TELEVISION, CULTURE & CRITICISM, DEMAGOGUERY, FASCISM, GREAT HYPOCRISY, HISTORY, IDIOTIZED PUBLICS, ISRAEL, MEDIA CRITICISM, MEDIA TURDS, PALESTINIANS, POLEMICS, PROPAGANDA, WAR CRIMES & CRIMINALS, Zionist Occupation  Comments Off
Apr 092013
 
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by Stephen Lendman

The Warsaw Ghetto

The Warsaw Ghetto: indelible images. How could the Israelis—of all people— forget what oppression is like?

Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Remembrance Day is commemorated annually. It runs from sundown April 7 to sunset April 8. This year’s theme is “Defiance and Rebellion during the Holocaust: 70 years Since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.” 

Sunday night Warsaw and Jerusalem ceremonies included government officials, dignitaries and holocaust survivors.  At 10AM Monday morning, a two-minute siren echoed across Israel. It marked the beginning of other ceremonies that followed. Continue reading »

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North Korea or the United States: Who is a Threat to Global Security?

 AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTIWAR, ASIA AFFAIRS, COUPS & CIVIL WAR, PROPAGANDA, PUTRID CORPOMEDIA, US Foreign Policy, US Military  1 Response »
Apr 052013
 
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North Korea lost thirty percent of its population as a result of US led bombings in the 1950s.

It so happens that North Korea is —on the surface—a central casting "villain" for the American propaganda mills.

North Korea and her “cartoonish” leaders are—on the surface—a central casting villain for the American propaganda mills. Insular, incomprehensible to most, ostensibly bellicose, North Korea unwittingly plays into the hands of our master manipulators and warmongers.

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, April 05, 2013
Theme: Crimes against Humanity / In-depth Report: NORTH KOREA

Most people in America consider North Korea as an inherently aggressive nation and a threat to global security. Media disinformation sustains North Korea as a “rogue state”. The history of the Korean war and its devastating consequences are rarely mentioned. America is portrayed as the victim rather than the aggressor.

North Korea lost thirty percent of its population as a result of US led bombings in the 1950s.  Continue reading »

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How Digital Technology Has Helped Unleash a Devastating New Era of Propaganda

 AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTIWAR, ARTS & FILM, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, CORPORATE MENTALITY, GREAT HYPOCRISY, IMPERIAL APOLOGISTS & COLLABOS, IMPERIALISM, INDECENT SLIMEBALLS, LIBERAL BETRAYALS, MEDIA SCUM, PROPAGANDA, THE PENTAGON-MEDIA COMPLEX  Comments Off
Apr 052013
 
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The New Statesman / By John Pilger [1]
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triumphOfWillWhat is modern propaganda? For many, it is the lies of a totalitarian state. In the 1970s, I met Leni Riefenstahl and asked her about her epic films that glorified the Nazis. Using revolutionary camera and lighting techniques, she produced a documentary form that mesmerised Germans; her Triumph of the Will cast Hitler’s spell.
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