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It's only 3 minutes.
Gaugamela
(3,470 posts)Pluvious
(5,369 posts)doublethink
(7,323 posts)If anyone interested ... To post youtube shorts replace shorts/ with
watch?v= in the script. Peace.
Mr. Evil
(3,457 posts)doublethink
(7,323 posts)you posted. Thank you!
jfz9580m
(16,895 posts)Pretty succinct..
Timeflyer
(3,739 posts)Mr. Evil
(3,457 posts)to death and treated like turnips that they can squeeze actual blood from.
Prairie_Seagull
(4,646 posts)Well placed gut punch.
Kid Berwyn
(24,086 posts)
Additional important history to know...
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 And, in his manuscript, unpublished during his life time, he described that history, going back to World War I and ending with the Reagan era.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: TUC Radio
Part 1: https://tucradio.org/podcasts/newest-podcasts/alex-carey-corporations-and-propaganda-part-one-of-two/
Part 2: https://tucradio.org/podcasts/newest-podcasts/alex-carey-corporations-and-propaganda-part-two-of-two/
Gore Vidal on what Americans read, see and hear via Corporate McPravda:
"A writer must always tell the truth, unless he is a journalist."
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please.
Heres an observation from me, back in 2024 when SCROTUS birthed King Taco:
What hasnt gotten enough mention in the coverage of Trumps Imperial Immunity and discussion of what constitutes official and unofficial conduct on ABCNNBCBSFoxNutz is what the ruling really means: SCOTUS just used a Sharpie on the Constitution to write in Donald J Trump where it used to read We the People.
Wild blueberry
(8,245 posts)Will look into this. Appreciate your post!
Kid Berwyn
(24,086 posts)TUC Radio replays the Alex Carey pieces every year because they need to be heard, remembered and shared by as many people as possible
chia
(2,797 posts)Russian? Slavic, maybe? I don't know but, he's right on. The powermad leaders and their billionaire benefactors (along with their warped power fantasies) are killing us all.
1WorldHope
(2,006 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(10,965 posts)Good on him.
popsdenver
(2,162 posts)along with many Dems, when during a debate with Trump.... Hillary Clinton stated:
"There is a giant Republican, Right Wing Conspiracy"
And people all continued walking down the jungle path, swatting at Mosquitoes, and remained oblivious to the herd of charging elephants.....................???????????????????
sarchasm
(1,304 posts)very well stated ...
KPN
(17,318 posts)At the same time, the argument does seem fairly sound to me. The one exception is that not all American people belong in the heroes category. There are plenty who applaud the "corporatization" of our country and government; plenty who aspire to wealth and joining the 1% or better - the .1%; plenty even though, for some, their chance of doing so is almost non--existent.
I had the same concern. I always research things I read online, and would love to know more about this fellow. His accent raised red flags...
His words hit the bullseye for me, though. Well-thought out and succinct. I agree with every word.
That doesn't preclude a Russian origin.
Anything to destabilize America is their aim.
betsuni
(28,992 posts)brakester
(582 posts)Can you give us some background on that video?
I agree with everything he said!
His accent, for me, raised some questions.
Mr. Evil
(3,457 posts)That's the only time I've seen it. It was posted by a 'Nyberg Peggy' who happens to be an older lady that makes cloth dolls. I'm guessing she shared it from somewhere else. Sorry, that's about all I know.
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Humanityfirst
(11 posts)Please let us know.
sl8
(17,109 posts)Hotler
(13,747 posts)RetiredParatrooper
(151 posts)The divide isn't entirely Left/Right, it is Top/Bottom.
By design.
Ask 'Who Profits?' from all this chaos.
