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profiteering corporate news monopoly to demonize Hugo Chavez. They all use the same phrases like "self-styled leftist," "self-styled populist," "Increasingly authoritarian," "increasingly dictatorial," and "allied with Castro's Cuba," over and over and over and over and over and over again, to create a smeary, bleary, impressionistic negative image associated with gun-toting leftist revolutionaries. The New York Times, the London Times, AP, WaPo--all of them--over and over and over and over and over again. They then create negative little flurries in the "news"--like his supposed anti-Jewish remark--and NEVER CORRECT THE BLATANTLY WRONG INFORMATION that has been added to the negative picture they are trying to create.
We--the US Left--really, really need to understand what is being done to us (and to others) by this news MONOPOLY. But let's start with us. We, the smart. We, the well informed. We, who think we know what's going on. WE. Are. Being. Brainwashed.
In order to expel the brainwashing from our brains, we need to become much more alert and much more analytical about what we read, hear and see from the war profiteering corporate news monopolies. We also need to LEARN FROM EXPERIENCE. The leadup to the Iraq War should be a blatant enough example of concerted, scheming, conspiratorial, pervasive LYING by all of the corporate "news" organizations, acting in concert, to ALERT us to their methods, and to the danger of accepting--not just their words, not just their lies--but their "MATRIX," their ILLUSION, their FALSE REALITY--that we would never be fooled again. But we really don't get the insidiousness of the "news" MONOPOLY.
Here's another example: the corporate news monopolies acted as one and hired ONE exit pollster for the 2004 election. First, they BLACK-HOLED all information about WHO had gained control of the 'counting' of all of the nation's votes, during the 2002-2004 period, and HOW the votes would be 'counted.' (WHO: Two brethren corporations--Diebold and ES&S--with very close ties to the Bush junta and far rightwing causes. HOW: With 'TRADE SECRET," PROPRIETARY programming code, and virtually no audit/recount controls, in the new and extremely insecure, unreliable and hackable electronic voting machines and central tabulators, forced upon the states by a $4 billion electronic voting boondoggle, engineered by the two biggest crooks in Congress, Tom Delay and Bob Ney.) Then, when the corporate news monopoly exit polls showed a Kerry win, they shut down the reporting system on election night, and DOCTORED the exit polls to make them FIT the results of Diebold/ES&S's SECRET vote tabulation formulae.
Exit polls are used worldwide to verify elections and check for fraud. They are the standard tool for keeping elections clean and aboveboard. Not here. Here, instead of COMPARING the different results, and crying foul, they FORCED their exit polls to FIT the "official results" of an entirely NON-TRANSPARENT voting counting system.
The FRAUDULENCE of what they did is mind-boggling. But most of us DON'T SEE IT. We think there is still SOME TRUTH in the reality that they create.
That truth is gone. It's GONE! When they want to accomplish something in the interest of major profits, they LIE THROUGH THEIR TEETH.
Chavez is president of a country that is sitting on one of the biggest oil "pots of gold" on earth. Our war profiteering corporations want to move against his country NEXT. It drives them bonkers that he won't play their game. He is HONEST. He is a genuine--NOT a "self-styled," a GENUINE--populist, repeatedly endorsed by his countrymen in TRANSPARENT elections. They can't manipulate him. They can't buy him. They can't bully him. So they are trying to plant the seeds of his destruction, and destruction of the GENUINE populist movement that supports him, by convincing Americans that he is somehow BAD, so that when the Bush junta moves against him (openly or by stealth), WE, you and me--the smart, the well informed, the U.S. Left (i.e., the true U.S. mainstream)--will be confused enough about who he is, about what Venezuelans and other South Americans want, and about the facts of the situation, that we WILL BUY THEIR BULLSHIT NARRATIVE of events.
I am not going to refute "self-styled leftist," "self-styled populist," "Increasingly authoritarian," "increasingly dictatorial," and "allied with Castro's Cuba," nor explain just how inaccurate or propagandistic these phrases are. I am just going to ask you to think about it for yourselves--how this "bad impression" of Chavez that you have, may have been formed in your brain by unavoidable exposure to our war profiteering corporate news monopoly "matrix" (their false reality).
They are also telling a false story about Ollanta Humala and the presidential race that Garcia just won. The truth is that Humala came out of nowhere--a 100% indigenous Indian, representative of the resurgent true Left (as opposed to the very corrupt Garcia "free trade" Left), and won an amazing 30% of the votes in the preliminary election round, bumping the rightwing candidate out of the race. Humala surprised everybody. He zoomed from 0% to 30% over a very short period (a few months), winning a runoff with the "free trade" candidate Garcia, and then went on the win 45% of the vote in the runoff election, to Garcia's 55%, against overwhelming odds (all corporate money and Bush junta support in favor of Garcia). Humala is the FUTURE. He will be back after Garcia destroys Peru's economy like similar politicians destroyed the economy of Argentina. South America is undergoing an amazing peaceful, democratic, Leftist revolution that is sweeping the continent--with Leftist governments in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela and Bolivia, and Leftist candidates and voters coming forward even in Columbia! (They didn't win in that extremely corrupt and brutal state, but they are getting organized). The "free trade" model is DEAD. South Americans have overwhelmingly rejected it, as not in their interests, and are creating mixed socialist/capitalist economies based on self-determination. Chavez is the most visible and colorful spokesman of this movement, but the movement itself is huge, supported by billions of South Americans. It is not going to go away--and one of the primary reasons for its profound impact is that it is based on TRANSPARENT elections--the election of true representatives of the people (the result of long hard work by the OAS, the Carter Center, EU election monitoring groups, and local civic groups throughout Latin America.). This movement is coming north as well--Mexico City's Leftist mayor is running about 50/50 in the pre-election polls for president (against a "free tradist," i.e., suckup to big U.S. financial interests and the super-rich).
The Bush junta LOVES corrupt Leftists. (Just look at OUR country--and the complicity of the Democrats!). But think about the irony of the Bush junta celebrating the victory of Leftist Garcia! Humala bumped off the fascist! That's what happened. And the Bush junta had to SETTLE FOR a corrupt Leftist, who will let global corporate predators and the super-rich continue to loot Peru's economy until it collapses (just as they are doing HERE in the U.S.) Chavez and Humala--and Evo Morales in Bolivia--represent the non-corrupt Left. That's why they hate Chavez. And that's why Humala and the indigenous/Leftist movement will be back. It is part of a much larger movement that represents the future for South America--a future of self-determination, regional cooperation (the Bolivarian dream), and equity and justice, after decades and centuries of oppression.
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