Surviving Capitalism (Not) : A Progressive Agenda to Remake Washington [a propaganda piece]

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Saturday, May 22, 2010

A Progressive Agenda to Remake Washington [a propaganda piece]

from the NY Times.

Our nation's "newspaper of record" gives you a piece of pure propaganda selling the virtues of the Obama administration. Notice that the article is not presented as an editorial or commentary. It has all the appearance of being written by a propaganda minister of an Orwellian state. It is quite astonishing even for my jaded eyes. This piece confirms my contention that Obama is the perfect presidential representative for the US ruling class in their drive to "structurally adjust" (slashing funding of all public programs) the American people while further encroaching upon civil rights and promoting never-ending wars.