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

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

A tale of two reports: Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian

Click here to access article from the blogger at Interventions Watch.

This is another illustration of how corporate media function to support the interests of the One Percent's Empire by managing information and analysis. The blogger looks at the contradictions and inconsistencies from corporate media when reporting the same crimes:
  • When reports are published alleging crimes by states who are our [the Empire's] Official Enemies, the background of the people who commissioned the report is irrelevant in judging its veracity and objectivity, and it should cause ‘global outrage’ against the accused and their international backers. 
  • When (arguably more credible) reports are published alleging crimes by states who are our [the Empire's] Official Allies, the background of the people who commissioned the report is relevant in judging its veracity and objectivity, and we must question why this state, but not others, is being singled out.
The moral of this article and similar ones is...read/view corporate media reports critically! 
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