Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Deceptive Economic Statistics: While Economists Lied the US Economy Died...

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

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Deceptive Economic Statistics: While Economists Lied the US Economy Died...

by Paul Craig Roberts from Global Research.

The author surveys a number of current lies that government employees (Obama, Congressional and federal agency spokespeople) of the ruling class spread through the latter's media to manage the minds of the American people.

The only solution is to either take back the media and make them truly public airways or build alternative media. The internet has supplied some opportunities for independent sources of information, but the ruling class is rapidly trying to shut that door by giving the big telecommunication companies such as Comcast the right to marginalize such access. See this and this.