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Epistemic Enclosure
Liberal intellectuals are going to have stop snickering at Fox News watching conservatives with the release of the Mueller Report. The term “epistemic closure” has been used to refer to the claim that political belief systems can be closed … Continue reading
The target audience
Lately I’ve come to the conclusion that the really good propaganda is aimed at a liberal audience, because conservatives already (generally) agree with the message being promulgated by the corporate-media, that of favoring the interests of capital over labor, a … Continue reading
Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals, propaganda
Tagged corporate media, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, narrative, new york times, NPR, propaganda, Russia-gate
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The Gatekeepers
When they silenced Alex Jones, I was certain that that wouldn’t be the end of the online censorship. And, now the other shoe has dropped with Facebook’s and Twitter’s recent purging of alternative sites and accounts that challenge conventional … Continue reading
Kayfabe
The resistance to President Trump leaves much to be desired. While it’s true that substantial numbers of Americans oppose Trump, the #Resistance, led by establishment Democrats is anything but resistance. More like kayfabe. The recent Defense spending bill is … Continue reading
Posted in propaganda
Tagged corporate media, deep state, Donald Trump, Kayfabe, propaganda, resistance
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Manufacturing Dissent
The US has an oligarchic system of government in the wake of the Citizens/United Supreme Court ruling that legalized political bribery. It turns out that all that stuff we learned in school about representative democracy was a pleasant fairy tale for children. The … Continue reading
No mercy in this land
There is no mercy in this land. We have one political party that makes no bones about its support for plutocratic rule and another that pretends to support democracy while surreptitiously aiding the wealthy and powerful at every opportunity. … Continue reading
Posted in neoconservatives
Tagged Chuck Schumer, corporate media, Democrats, Deterring Democracy, Donald Trump, Gaza, Israel, McResistance, Noam Chomsky, Palestinians, propaganda, Republicans, secular Arab nationalism, Steny Hoyer, trans-national plutocrats, US foreign policies, war of terror
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War is a Product
Fifteen years ago our neocon-foreign-policy elite sold us a war based on fraudulent intelligence. They acquired much of this intelligence through torture. Saddam Hussein was accused of having weapons of mass destruction. He had none. Iraq was illegally attacked and … Continue reading
Posted in neoconservatives
Tagged Al-Qaeda, Andrew Card, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, Dixie Chicks, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, invasion of Iraq, Iran, Jeffrey St. Clair, Lindsey Graham, neocon-foreign-policy elite, neocons, propaganda, Russia-gate, Saddam Hussein, war crime, war is a product, WMD
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Surveillance is the business model
In Surveillance Valley, Yasha Levine, challenges conventional wisdom and says that the Internet was actually founded by the US government as part of their counterinsurgency program in Vietnam. The US government wanted to build a connected computer system that … Continue reading
Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals
Tagged Cold War, control, corporate censorship is government censorship, counterinsurgency, cryptography, fake news, gig economy, Gil-Scott Herron, Internet, One Market Under God, precariat, privacy apps, propaganda, Signal, Silicon Valley, social media, surveillance, Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet, The Phoenix Program, The Revolution Will not be Televised, Thomas Frank, Tor, Vietnam, Yasha Levine
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