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In reply to the discussion: Trump and Kushner must be prosecuted for crimes against humanity [View all]Kid Berwyn
(14,907 posts)25. Must avoid anything that upsets the monster and one's place in the pecking order.
Be real quiet about their secrets and they might let you into the fort before din-din.
American mass media are tools of propaganda for the State (read: Ownership Class)
To help spread light, Maria Galardin's TUC (Time of Useful Consciousness) Radio, brought to our attention the work of the late Alex Carey...
Alex Carey: Corporations and Propaganda
The Attack on Democracy
The 20th century, said Carey, is marked by three historic developments: the growth of democracy via the expansion of the franchise, the growth of corporations, and the growth of propaganda to protect corporations from democracy. Carey wrote that the people of the US have been subjected to an unparalleled, expensive, 3/4 century long propaganda effort designed to expand corporate rights by undermining democracy and destroying the unions. And, in his manuscript, unpublished during his life time, he described that history, going back to World War I and ending with the Reagan era. Carey covers the little known role of the US Chamber of Commerce in the McCarthy witch hunts of post WWII and shows how the continued campaign against "Big Government" plays an important role in bringing Reagan to power.
John Pilger called Carey "a second Orwell", Noam Chomsky dedicated his book, Manufacturing Consent, to him. And even though TUC Radio runs our documentary based on Carey's manuscript at least every two years and draws a huge response each time, Alex Carey is still unknown.
Given today's spotlight on corporations that may change. It is not only the Occupy movement that inspired me to present this program again at this time. By an amazing historic coincidence Bill Moyers and Charlie Cray of Greenpeace have just added the missing chapter to Carey's analysis. Carey's manuscript ends in 1988 when he committed suicide. Moyers and Cray begin with 1971 and bring the corporate propaganda project up to date.
This is a fairly complex production with many voices, historic sound clips, and source material. The program has been used by writers and students of history and propaganda. Alex Carey: Taking the Risk out of Democracy, Corporate Propaganda VS Freedom and Liberty with a foreword by Noam Chomsky was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1995.
SOURCE: https://tucradio.org/?s=Alex+Carey&submit=Search
Helps explain how we got here and what we need to do to move forward, starting with putting the "Public" into Airwaves again, such as their once-Constitutional obligation required. Also help us with all that needs to be done to Recover.
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Reactivate the Independent Prosecutor law and prosecute them all, Nuremberg tribunals for all
Fiendish Thingy
Aug 2020
#2
Yes! We do not know who is embedded in the gov't now and it will take major investigators to root
Hestia
Aug 2020
#11
Must avoid anything that upsets the monster and one's place in the pecking order.
Kid Berwyn
Aug 2020
#25
As usual, their incompetence resulted in more red state deaths than blue state ones.
Nitram
Aug 2020
#17
nevermind that trump is in the white house, the only reason they think they can
certainot
Aug 2020
#23