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

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Murdoch drums up “war” where propaganda collides with truth

by Stuart Littlewood from Redress. 

The author provides an antidote to Rupert Murdoch's rhetorical ass-kissing of a Zionist organization.
Stuart Littlewood analyses Rupert Murdoch’s speech to the US Zionist hate peddling Anti-Defamation League, in which the media magnate regurgitated Israel’s propaganda lines. He argues that Murdoch’s imaginary “war against the Jews” is “merely the flashpoint where propaganda lies finally collide with the sickening truth about Israel”.
It's a sad truth that Murdoch's Fox News media organization has a tremendous propaganda role in shaping ordinary American opinions about the Empire's wars in Eurasia, the economic collapse, and neo-liberalism.
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