The author argues that social media is a two-way street: one direction heads toward greater social connection and participation, but the other direction heads toward more manipulation by the One Percent.
Present campaigns to militarily intervene in Syria and attack Iran are stress signs in a global economy wildly enriching fewer people while reducing greater majorities to indebtedness, warfare and poverty. Popular confusion is not only due to major corporate media but also to weapons of mass disinformation that can be sent directly into our heads by the new social media. And whether in the Middle East or the Middle West, suffering increases for many so that a few can live in luxury.Thus, critical thinking and alternative media are now more urgent than ever.