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Friday, May 20, 2016
Policy Matters: The Drug War Must (and It Can) End The decades-old "drug war" inaugurated under Richard Nixon has been a complete and utter social calamity. Originally riding a blunt conservative backlash against the 1960s "permissive hippie culture," it has ruined millions of lives, injected a pretext for the massive incarceration of minorities and people of limited economic means (thereby creating a thriving prison industry).
Friday, May 20, 2016Policy Matters: The Drug War Must (and It Can) End The decades-old "drug war" inaugurated under Richard Nixon has been a complete and utter social calamity. Originally riding a blunt conservative backlash against the 1960s "permissive hippie culture," it has ruined millions of lives, injected a pretext for the massive incarceration of minorities and people of limited economic means (thereby creating a thriving prison industry).
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Thursday, July 30, 2015
The legalised murder of Cecil the Lion The murder of Cecil the Lion by an American dentist who fancies himself a big trophy hunter has provoked a justifiable storm of revulsion and condemnation. But there's more to this issue than just that.
Thursday, July 30, 2015The legalised murder of Cecil the Lion The murder of Cecil the Lion by an American dentist who fancies himself a big trophy hunter has provoked a justifiable storm of revulsion and condemnation. But there's more to this issue than just that.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015
"Russian aggression"--CBS provides a perfect example of imperial disinformation The American disinformation machine has been working double shift for some time now to demonize Russia, but the threat of war comes from NATO and its Frankenstein, Ukraine, and Washington's constant warmongering against Russia right on her doorstep.
Tuesday, June 23, 2015"Russian aggression"--CBS provides a perfect example of imperial disinformation The American disinformation machine has been working double shift for some time now to demonize Russia, but the threat of war comes from NATO and its Frankenstein, Ukraine, and Washington's constant warmongering against Russia right on her doorstep.
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Monday, February 16, 2015
Bill Maher's flaccid denunciation of corporate news Bill Maher's satire and criticism of Brian Williams and network news quickly dissolves into superficial commentary, ignoring the real crimes of the corporate media as shills for the empire.
Monday, February 16, 2015Bill Maher's flaccid denunciation of corporate news Bill Maher's satire and criticism of Brian Williams and network news quickly dissolves into superficial commentary, ignoring the real crimes of the corporate media as shills for the empire.
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Sunday, January 25, 2015
Et Tu, Frontline? Frontline joins the pack of anti-Russian demonizers with this transparently dishonest piece of journalism that far from presenting a reliable portrait of President Putin injects the viewer with a multitude of prejudices guaranteeing his or her condemnation of the Russian leader.
Sunday, January 25, 2015Et Tu, Frontline? Frontline joins the pack of anti-Russian demonizers with this transparently dishonest piece of journalism that far from presenting a reliable portrait of President Putin injects the viewer with a multitude of prejudices guaranteeing his or her condemnation of the Russian leader.
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Robin Williams and George Carlin--comedic genius with different twists A cultural comparison of two of the greatest comedians in recent memory, from the perspective of their contributions to humor and social and political commentary.
Wednesday, August 13, 2014Robin Williams and George Carlin--comedic genius with different twists A cultural comparison of two of the greatest comedians in recent memory, from the perspective of their contributions to humor and social and political commentary.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Malaysian liner down--cui bono? The American media is already accusing Russia and the Ukrainian rebels for the shooting down of the Malaysian airliner, and the mass public is likely to buy into that view of events. But this incident is just beginning to show its ultimate truth and we should look at the event in broader terms.
Tuesday, July 22, 2014Malaysian liner down--cui bono? The American media is already accusing Russia and the Ukrainian rebels for the shooting down of the Malaysian airliner, and the mass public is likely to buy into that view of events. But this incident is just beginning to show its ultimate truth and we should look at the event in broader terms.
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Friday, June 20, 2014
Plutocracy detests a well informed public (duh!) Total media control by the corporate rich has utterly corrupted the nation's political system and now stands as its chief obstacle to reform.
Friday, June 20, 2014Plutocracy detests a well informed public (duh!) Total media control by the corporate rich has utterly corrupted the nation's political system and now stands as its chief obstacle to reform.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014
American PR War Against Russia and China Accelerating in Asia An interview with Andre Vltchek on the American effort to propagandize Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Japan, and other nations in the Far East against China. The US is also--as usual--actively promoting an arms race in the region and pushing Japan to rearm, a move with grave consequences.
Wednesday, June 11, 2014American PR War Against Russia and China Accelerating in Asia An interview with Andre Vltchek on the American effort to propagandize Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Japan, and other nations in the Far East against China. The US is also--as usual--actively promoting an arms race in the region and pushing Japan to rearm, a move with grave consequences.
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Monday, May 19, 2014
Texas in Drought: When religiosity trumps science (and there's hell to pay) Texas is one of the biggest and most influential states in the Union, but it's also one of the most corrupt and backward in its political and social culture. Texas is now paying the price for this barbarism as it faces a massive drought and yet continues to deny the reality of climate change and its effects as a result of human actions.
Monday, May 19, 2014Texas in Drought: When religiosity trumps science (and there's hell to pay) Texas is one of the biggest and most influential states in the Union, but it's also one of the most corrupt and backward in its political and social culture. Texas is now paying the price for this barbarism as it faces a massive drought and yet continues to deny the reality of climate change and its effects as a result of human actions.
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Saturday, April 12, 2014
Whitewashing the Ugly Face of Capitalism The real ugly face of capitalism—and its offshoot, imperialism—are carefully hidden behind an elaborate and pervasive curtain of lies and falsifications. This essay provides a simple map to avoid most of the lies in this minefield of deception.
Saturday, April 12, 2014Whitewashing the Ugly Face of Capitalism The real ugly face of capitalism—and its offshoot, imperialism—are carefully hidden behind an elaborate and pervasive curtain of lies and falsifications. This essay provides a simple map to avoid most of the lies in this minefield of deception.
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Sunday, March 9, 2014
Abby Martin & Cenk Uygur discuss corporate censorship, sort of Was RT's Abby Martin right in attacking Putin's policies in the Ukraine and especially the Crimea? The author thinks not, and explains why Martin's actions, while not the same as Liz Wahl's opportunistic denunciation of Moscow's position, also demands that we look at her criticism of the American and Russian media system as a "plague on both your houses" may not be an apt equivalence at all.
Sunday, March 9, 2014Abby Martin & Cenk Uygur discuss corporate censorship, sort of Was RT's Abby Martin right in attacking Putin's policies in the Ukraine and especially the Crimea? The author thinks not, and explains why Martin's actions, while not the same as Liz Wahl's opportunistic denunciation of Moscow's position, also demands that we look at her criticism of the American and Russian media system as a "plague on both your houses" may not be an apt equivalence at all.
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014
American propaganda stokes the fire of Ukrainian disintegration Manufacturing opposition movements appears to be the latest destabilization technique being employed by the West to topple any "inconvenient" regime with independent ideas. While not exactly a new technique , it has been polished into an art for a 21st Century deployment.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014American propaganda stokes the fire of Ukrainian disintegration Manufacturing opposition movements appears to be the latest destabilization technique being employed by the West to topple any "inconvenient" regime with independent ideas. While not exactly a new technique , it has been polished into an art for a 21st Century deployment.
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Media Annals: Trotting out human filth and criminals as opinion shapers The destruction of the power of the corporate media should be a top priority for real progressives in the US and around the world. Bold creativity must be exercised to discredit, circumvent and eventually bury the monstrous power of US-style propaganda. It's either that, or the death of the world as we know it.
Wednesday, October 2, 2013Media Annals: Trotting out human filth and criminals as opinion shapers The destruction of the power of the corporate media should be a top priority for real progressives in the US and around the world. Bold creativity must be exercised to discredit, circumvent and eventually bury the monstrous power of US-style propaganda. It's either that, or the death of the world as we know it.
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Friday, March 29, 2013
NBC's "The New Normal" is abnormally unfunny Despite the promotional noise, NBC's new show "The New Normal" is hopelessly unfunny. Weighted down with tedious clichés and unrelenting frivolity it may actually harm the image of gay people.
Friday, March 29, 2013NBC's "The New Normal" is abnormally unfunny Despite the promotional noise, NBC's new show "The New Normal" is hopelessly unfunny. Weighted down with tedious clichés and unrelenting frivolity it may actually harm the image of gay people.
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Monday, February 4, 2013
SEAL sniper killed--not exactly an eulogy Like most of today's Death Star troopers serving the American juggernaut, Chris Kyle, "America's deadliest sniper," never understood what he was doing overseas. Soaked from the cradle in the chauvinist Texas cultural DNA, he was thoroughly indoctrinated to believe in all the dense mythologies comprising the self-righteous national propaganda canon, especially as it relates to foreign adventures.
Monday, February 4, 2013SEAL sniper killed--not exactly an eulogy Like most of today's Death Star troopers serving the American juggernaut, Chris Kyle, "America's deadliest sniper," never understood what he was doing overseas. Soaked from the cradle in the chauvinist Texas cultural DNA, he was thoroughly indoctrinated to believe in all the dense mythologies comprising the self-righteous national propaganda canon, especially as it relates to foreign adventures.
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
ZERO DARK THIRTY--More "Patriotic" Offal from Hollywood: Bigelow Strikes Again Kathryn Bigelow, director of THE HURT LOCKER and now ZERO DARK THIRTY, an actioner devoted to the glorification of our pursuit and assassination of Osama bin Laden (if that is to be believed) marks Ms. Bigelow as our own Leni Riefenstahl.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012ZERO DARK THIRTY--More "Patriotic" Offal from Hollywood: Bigelow Strikes Again Kathryn Bigelow, director of THE HURT LOCKER and now ZERO DARK THIRTY, an actioner devoted to the glorification of our pursuit and assassination of Osama bin Laden (if that is to be believed) marks Ms. Bigelow as our own Leni Riefenstahl.
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012
ARGO: Ben Affleck's Accidental Paean to CIA Exploits? Ben Affleck's latest actioner using the Iran hostage crisis as a backdrop may hit the mark as a thriller but misses the target big time by serving as a propaganda vehicle for US war in that region.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012ARGO: Ben Affleck's Accidental Paean to CIA Exploits? Ben Affleck's latest actioner using the Iran hostage crisis as a backdrop may hit the mark as a thriller but misses the target big time by serving as a propaganda vehicle for US war in that region.
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Friday, September 14, 2012
Curry-Jolie: Neatly packaged warmongering duo Angelina Jolie and NBC's Ann Curry lend their talents to one more instance of notorious disinformation on the Syrian conflict, softening the American public for a more open and serious American intervention.
Friday, September 14, 2012Curry-Jolie: Neatly packaged warmongering duo Angelina Jolie and NBC's Ann Curry lend their talents to one more instance of notorious disinformation on the Syrian conflict, softening the American public for a more open and serious American intervention.
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Sunday, June 17, 2012
Beware the corporate media: indispensable midwife to imperial assaults The corporate media shamelessly sold us the Iraq war, Afghanistan, Libya, and is now busy selling us again Syria and soon enough Iran. The question before us is: how do we make them stop?
Sunday, June 17, 2012Beware the corporate media: indispensable midwife to imperial assaults The corporate media shamelessly sold us the Iraq war, Afghanistan, Libya, and is now busy selling us again Syria and soon enough Iran. The question before us is: how do we make them stop?
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
SYRIA : Media Lies Historically Leading Us To (another) War. The M.O. of the Syrian insurrection bears the stamp of a Western-supported and planned false flag operation. If so, it won't be the first time that the US and its NATO allies and Tel-Aviv engage in murderous deceit to accomplish "regime change." The playbook has been used before many times, including in Latin America. The overthrow of Dr. Salvador Allende in 1973, the legally elected president of Chile is a case in point.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012SYRIA : Media Lies Historically Leading Us To (another) War. The M.O. of the Syrian insurrection bears the stamp of a Western-supported and planned false flag operation. If so, it won't be the first time that the US and its NATO allies and Tel-Aviv engage in murderous deceit to accomplish "regime change." The playbook has been used before many times, including in Latin America. The overthrow of Dr. Salvador Allende in 1973, the legally elected president of Chile is a case in point.
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Jefferson, that commie rat (redux) How would the Founding Fathers be seen today by the watchdogs of orthodoxy? Would Jefferson be regarded as an incurable subversive? These and similar question come to mind when we look at history without fear and open eyes.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012Jefferson, that commie rat (redux) How would the Founding Fathers be seen today by the watchdogs of orthodoxy? Would Jefferson be regarded as an incurable subversive? These and similar question come to mind when we look at history without fear and open eyes.
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Memorial Day: The Empire sheds crocodile tears Memorial Day has become a perverted holiday, a day for extravagant consumerism and ghastly chauvinism, a day to whitewash and revel in our wars of conquest and exploitation, against a backdrop of mawkish reverence for our fallen soldiers, victims of a propaganda system that will continue to spread its cynical lies until the people--finally awake-- tear it down.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012Memorial Day: The Empire sheds crocodile tears Memorial Day has become a perverted holiday, a day for extravagant consumerism and ghastly chauvinism, a day to whitewash and revel in our wars of conquest and exploitation, against a backdrop of mawkish reverence for our fallen soldiers, victims of a propaganda system that will continue to spread its cynical lies until the people--finally awake-- tear it down.
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
ECHOES OF MEMORIAL DAY: When the Empire sheds crocodile tears Nonstop propaganda keeps the vast majority of Americans in the dark about the true motives for our constant wars, including who really benefits. And the elevation of fallen soldiers to automatic heroes if not martyrs for "freedom & democracy," with the thick media and political adulation lavished on anything concerning our military help the system sell the idea that our wars are noble and necessary.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012ECHOES OF MEMORIAL DAY: When the Empire sheds crocodile tears Nonstop propaganda keeps the vast majority of Americans in the dark about the true motives for our constant wars, including who really benefits. And the elevation of fallen soldiers to automatic heroes if not martyrs for "freedom & democracy," with the thick media and political adulation lavished on anything concerning our military help the system sell the idea that our wars are noble and necessary.
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Sunday, May 27, 2012
The Prisoner of LOTE Republicans and millions of wingnuts across the nation paint Obama as a dangerous radical extremist, a Lenin in black face. In his show last night on HBO Bill Maher contradicted such insane and cynical notions by simply pointing out Obama's record, one of undiluted conservatism and treachery of the popular interest. Encouraging behavior for a man who just gave $1 million to Obama's campaign. A case of confused lesser evilism?
Sunday, May 27, 2012The Prisoner of LOTE Republicans and millions of wingnuts across the nation paint Obama as a dangerous radical extremist, a Lenin in black face. In his show last night on HBO Bill Maher contradicted such insane and cynical notions by simply pointing out Obama's record, one of undiluted conservatism and treachery of the popular interest. Encouraging behavior for a man who just gave $1 million to Obama's campaign. A case of confused lesser evilism?
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Friday, May 25, 2012
The Packaged Consciousness An indispensable article dissecting the syntax of capitalist "information"--the myths and frauds used ROUTINELY by the corporate media to inject lies into the public consciousness and keep them there. These are the lies that "keep the social peace" and lead us to war, all in the service of the business class which has practically eviscerated our democracy. A true primer on propaganda, US style.
Friday, May 25, 2012The Packaged Consciousness An indispensable article dissecting the syntax of capitalist "information"--the myths and frauds used ROUTINELY by the corporate media to inject lies into the public consciousness and keep them there. These are the lies that "keep the social peace" and lead us to war, all in the service of the business class which has practically eviscerated our democracy. A true primer on propaganda, US style.
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Remembering Herbert Schiller, pioneer in radical media analysis "How can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?" That's the question that Herbert Schiller, a pioneer in the study of corporate misinformation, set out to answer. In a world that is now truly Orwellian, his work is more pertinent today than ever before.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012Remembering Herbert Schiller, pioneer in radical media analysis "How can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?" That's the question that Herbert Schiller, a pioneer in the study of corporate misinformation, set out to answer. In a world that is now truly Orwellian, his work is more pertinent today than ever before.
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Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Redeeming the Dismal Science A review of Joel Magnuson's MINDFUL ECONOMICS allows P. Greanville the necessary topical platform to discuss the nature of contemporary capitalism and its main prop, false consciousness.
Tuesday, December 25, 2007Redeeming the Dismal Science A review of Joel Magnuson's MINDFUL ECONOMICS allows P. Greanville the necessary topical platform to discuss the nature of contemporary capitalism and its main prop, false consciousness.
