Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Michael Brown, According to the New York Times

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, August 27, 2014

Michael Brown, According to the New York Times

Click here to access article by Peter Hart from Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting.

The ruling One Percent's media directors are already at work managing the minds of the Ninety-Nine Percent regarding the execution of Michael Brown by their enforcers. Actually this started within days of the execution when video footage was conveniently "leaked" to their media showing someone looking like Brown shoplifting. In the days ahead we can only expect a heighten effort to portray Brown as deserving what he got.

Meanwhile, it appears that efforts are now being made by corporate media directors to make white Americans comfortable with the way things are, that is, with well-indoctrinated police forces who are trained to treat citizens differently according to racial and ethnic profiling.