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Kid Berwyn

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25. Must avoid anything that upsets the monster and one's place in the pecking order.
Sat Aug 1, 2020, 12:25 PM
Aug 2020

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 And, in his manuscript, unpublished during his life time, he described that history, going back to World War I and ending with the Reagan era.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.

Kick dalton99a Aug 2020 #1
Thanks, dalton99a! Jared turned to Facebook for expertise... Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #10
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
Independent being the operative term. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #14
There's one additional point that would need to be addressed... JHB Aug 2020 #33
+1000,000!! ancianita Aug 2020 #26
Depraved indifference. blm Aug 2020 #3
Blueprints Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #20
We need media willing to call this what it is. blm Aug 2020 #21
+100 Duppers Aug 2020 #34
THIS malaise Aug 2020 #40
Genoside came to my mind. BigmanPigman Aug 2020 #29
+1. dchill Aug 2020 #32
THIS! Zoonart Aug 2020 #4
No kidding. From this to the bounties Trump should be lead away underpants Aug 2020 #6
Yes. Zoonart Aug 2020 #7
Must avoid anything that upsets the monster and one's place in the pecking order. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #25
That was part of my take when I read it the other night underpants Aug 2020 #5
"Politically Advantageous" Depravity merits prosecution to the fullest. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #35
Master of incompetence underpants Aug 2020 #42
Lock them up! malaise Aug 2020 #8
It's like destiny. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #38
This is a kakistocracy on steroids malaise Aug 2020 #39
Absolute thieves. Plus, they're incompetent. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #41
Agreed. We will never regain standing in the world as a nation if we allow crickets Aug 2020 #9
We had a plan. Dump did the opposite. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #43
At The Hague? 2naSalit Aug 2020 #12
Dump must be held to account for all of it. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #44
I've been saying we need a new Nuremburg CanonRay Aug 2020 #13
I misread "prosecuted" as a much harsher word. Works for me. niyad Aug 2020 #15
Genocide. It's genocide. CaptainTruth Aug 2020 #16
As usual, their incompetence resulted in more red state deaths than blue state ones. Nitram Aug 2020 #17
This one is simple. They need to be in jail.!!!! ashredux Aug 2020 #18
kick miyazaki Aug 2020 #19
I agree to the fullest. NNadir Aug 2020 #22
nevermind that trump is in the white house, the only reason they think they can certainot Aug 2020 #23
And conservative voters are complicit with it. They are sick. ffr Aug 2020 #24
My former BFF of 36 years is a MAGAt whose father was an official at the Nuremberg trials. Go figure OMGWTF Aug 2020 #31
Negligent Genocide RealityBasedNewYorkr Aug 2020 #27
Recommended. H2O Man Aug 2020 #28
Indeed they must. PatrickforO Aug 2020 #30
Kushner torpedoed the plan because Trump told him to do it Lasher Aug 2020 #36
K&R smirkymonkey Aug 2020 #37
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