Tag Archives: Noam Chomsky

Manufacturing Acquiescence

We live in a second Gilded Age where fabulous wealth and grinding poverty exist uneasily. In this milieu, American elites have largely come to rely on advertising, public relations and propaganda, rather than force, as a means of controlling a restless … Continue reading

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Free Enterprise

In the United States the term free enterprise has been used as a key component of an organized propaganda program to concentrate corporate wealth and power. Political scientist, Alex Carey wrote that the “20th century has been characterized by 3 developments of … Continue reading

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Why we can’t have nice stuff

We’ve been talking a lot about foreign policy lately, but why does US foreign policy matter to the American public? It matters because our elite are committed to empire. Empire is their political economy.  Empire benefits them. Us, not so … Continue reading

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Critical Pedagogy

Is our children learning? Yeah. They’re learning to be passive, non-critical thinking consumers who don’t know anything about history. As radical intellectual Noam Chomsky, notes. “Our kids are being prepared for passive obedience, not creative, independent lives.” This is not … Continue reading

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The Empire Strikes Back

I discuss neo-feudalism at CK a fair amount. Okay, a lot. Going forward, I want to explore how Neo-feudalism came to be our reality. My decades of research have convinced me that this was no accident; shaped by benign, external forces. … Continue reading

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Why Liberalism Sucks Part-2 The “Veal Pen”

Jane Hamsher, editor of FireDogLake, has coined the term “Veal Pen” to describe the process by which the Democratic Party disciplines liberals. “The White House controls its left flank and maintains discipline,” so that they can carry out a “neoliberal agenda” … Continue reading

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