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The revolution is in your mind
All governments employ propaganda because even the most despotic requires a modicum of consent. Perversely, democratic governments employ the most propaganda because their utilization of force is limited. Which brings us to the US, with the most sophisticated propaganda apparatus … Continue reading →
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Tagged Manufacturing Consent, propaganda, Russia, The Matrix, Ukraine
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Opaque
I’m re-reading Matt Taibbi’s, Hate Inc., and enjoying it even more than the first time. Written as an update to the classic–Manufacturing Consent–it’s a great primer on media malfeasance and how we came to have a con-man as our president. … Continue reading →
Posted in neoliberalism
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Tagged financial, Manufacturing Consent, matt taibbi, neoliberalism, New Deal, Wall Street
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In the news
We can hold our politicians accountable through elections but how do we hold the corporate media accountable? I ask this in the wake of the invasion of Iraq, Russia-gate, and now the Ukraine-gate, impeachment circus, where the actions of … Continue reading →
Manufacturing Representation
The United States is nominally a democratic republic, where we have congressional members and senators who represent us, but I’ve come to understand that it’s more like a managed democracy. In Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, published … Continue reading →
Posted in propaganda
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Tagged Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Congress, Edward Herman, Manufacturing Consent, Noam Chomsky, propaganda model
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Two Camps
There are two camps in America that hold completely different viewpoints. One camp, let’s call them the establishment, still believes that we live in a meritocracy, where if you get an education and work hard you can succeed in … Continue reading →
Mittens ‘R’ Us
I wrote a letter to the editor of the local newspaper expressing my surprise that they haven’t connected the bankruptcy of Toys ‘R’ Us with Mitt Romney, the man who’s poised to become our next senator. Mittens, as I like to … Continue reading →
Crackpot Centrism
I’m smitten. Caitlin Johnstone is my new favorite blogger. She’s smart, funny and absolutely fearless. She also writes about the things I’m most interested in–political/economy, foreign policy, and media manipulation. Perhaps because she’s Australian, Johnstone deftly deconstructs US propaganda, following … Continue reading →
Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals
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Tagged Alex Carrey, C. Wright Mills, Caitlin Johnstone, corporate media, corporate propaganda, crackpot centrism, crackpot realism, deep state, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Manufacturing Consent, Noam Chomsky, propaganda, Republican Party, Russia, Russia-gate, Taking the Risk Out of Democracy, Vladimir Putin
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All the fake news that’s fit to print
The corporate-media is still freaking-out over fake news. Their concern would have a lot more credibility and sympathy if these so-called respectable news outlets hadn’t been responsible for so much propaganda. Does anyone remember mushroom clouds, aluminum tubes, and weapons … Continue reading →
Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism
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Tagged 1984, Al-Qaeda, armchair warriors, beautiful, chemical attack, CNN, corporate media, cruise missile diplomacy, Die Welt, Donald Trump, fake news, false-flag, George Orwell, Manufacturing Consent, new Cold War, new york times, New Yorker, Noam Chomsky, propaganda, Russia, sarin, seymour hersh, Syria, Tomahawks, US intelligence agencies, war is the health of the state, WWIII
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The Other Ratchet
I’ve written before about how our political process is like a ratchet, where the Republicans apply rightward force, while the Democrats allow this rightward movement but whenever there’s a lull, they lock into place and prevent any movement back … Continue reading →
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Tagged Bernie Sanders, conservative media, corporate media, deep state, Democrats, DNC, Donald Trump, flak, liberal media, Manufacturing Consent, McCarthyism, new Cold War, new york times, NPR, Republicans, Russia, Syria, the pawl, the ratchet, Ukraine, washington post, wikileaks
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Manufacturing Consent
While our neoliberal elite have been more than willing to offshore traditional manufacturing, they’ve kept the manufacturing of consent right here in America. Though western countries claim to be democracies, they all suffer from income and wealth inequality, with many … Continue reading →
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Tagged advertising, Alex Carey, bull-shit, corporate media, corporate propaganda, Donald Trump, Edward Bernays, Edward Herman, fake news, Hillary Clinton, inequality, Manufacturing Consent, neoliberalism, Noam Chomsky, plutocracy, propaganda model, public relations, Russia, Taking the Risk Out of Democracy, think tanks, Walter Lippmann
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