Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Propaganda Reporting

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, June 23, 2013

Propaganda Reporting - Kerry's Failure in Qatar

Click here to access article by Bernhard from Moon of Alabama.

When the Empire crawls in bed with medieval regimes to pursue its interests, things can get rather messy as the author points out with well documented, and embarrassing (to Empire directors) evidence. However, Empire directors have no problem in preventing the embarrassing details from coming to the attention of its citizens: they simply direct their media managers to avoid any direct coverage of the messy details. Actually, I doubt that such directions are needed. Corporate media executives usually have already been trained to know what information to report and how to cover it.