Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Media Under Assault in America

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

Friday, June 22, 2012

Media Under Assault in America

Click here to access article by Wayne Madsen from Strategic Culture Foundation.

Although not news to most wide-awake people, the author provides evidence to support this argument:

The Fourth Estate has never been under as much pressure in the United States as it has been under the Obama administration.

Of course, Obama has nothing or little to do with it. He is merely the chief public relations officer hired by key decision makers of the One Percent--people like Jamie Dimon.

Yes, there are factions within the One Percent--basically two: liberals and conservatives. The former want to slowly turn up the heat on the 99 Percent so that they won't realize that they have been scalded to death (the old boiling frog routine), the latter want to throw the 99 Percent right into the boiling water.