ED CURTIN—That this is the approach of the mainstream corporate media (MSM) should not be surprising, for they are mouthpieces for official government lies. But when the same position is taken by so many liberal and progressive intellectuals and publications who are otherwise severely critical of the MSM for their propaganda in the service of empire, it gives pause.
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PATRICK MARTIN—The Times has been doing its best to promote racialism for a number of years.…
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PATRICE GREANVILLE—Despite its currency, the idea that capitalism is synonymous with “Americanness” is as spurious as the equally widespread delusion that capitalism equals human nature, another fraud, we should hasten to point, bandied about by pretty much the same crowd of conservatives and free marketers. It is surely anticlimactic to state it, but these myths have been deliberately injected into the American political consciousness by the system’s mind managers. Alex Carey, Herbert Schiller, Noam Chomsky, Ed Herman, Bob McChesney, and Michael Parenti, among other leading political scientists, have amply documented that such notions do not materialize out of thin air, that they are deliberately manufactured, and that a huge apparatus of propaganda is used to keep them in circulation.
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I hear the counter-arguments. We must fight them at every turn. Donald Trump’s true…
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“…the report of the ‘human rights’ organization was fabricated in London using a technology…