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Everyone should see this. (Original Post) Mr. Evil Dec 2025 OP
Rec. Gaugamela Dec 2025 #1
He's nailed it Pluvious Dec 2025 #2
here: ret5hd Dec 2025 #3
.... doublethink Dec 2025 #4
Thanx so much for that tip! Mr. Evil Dec 2025 #5
No problem, that was an excelent video ... doublethink Dec 2025 #29
That was actually pretty decent jfz9580m Dec 2025 #6
Whoa...thanks for posting! Timeflyer Dec 2025 #7
We are literally being gaslighted Mr. Evil Dec 2025 #8
"Entertained into sedation." Prairie_Seagull Dec 2025 #9
"More on" Corporate McPravda Kid Berwyn Dec 2025 #10
Thank you Wild blueberry Dec 2025 #11
You are most welcome! Kid Berwyn Dec 2025 #13
Who is the speaker in the video? chia Dec 2025 #12
I wonder. Mr. Evil Dec 2025 #14
This is great! I'm spreading it and reccing it 1WorldHope Dec 2025 #15
I could have written this. OldBaldy1701E Dec 2025 #16
The Republicans literally laughed popsdenver Dec 2025 #17
"...living in the mouth of the dragon." indeed. sarchasm Dec 2025 #18
Impressive video. But I wonder, who is that guy? I could find no info about him ... that always makes me a bit uneasy. KPN Dec 2025 #19
KPN, brakester Dec 2025 #20
America bad both sides parasite-corporation machine conspiracy theory with a dragon's head tattoo. betsuni Dec 2025 #21
Mr. EVIL, brakester Dec 2025 #22
It just showed up in my feed earlier today. Mr. Evil Dec 2025 #24
This message was self-deleted by its author jfz9580m Dec 2025 #23
Who is he? Humanityfirst Dec 2025 #25
I think it's Paul Niculita. sl8 Dec 2025 #26
kicking.... nt Hotler Dec 2025 #27
He's not wrong RetiredParatrooper Dec 2025 #28

doublethink

(7,323 posts)
4. ....
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 12:56 PM
Dec 2025


If anyone interested ... To post youtube shorts replace shorts/ with

watch?v= in the script. Peace.

Mr. Evil

(3,457 posts)
8. We are literally being gaslighted
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 01:43 PM
Dec 2025

to death and treated like turnips that they can squeeze actual blood from.

Kid Berwyn

(24,086 posts)
10. "More on" Corporate McPravda
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 01:55 PM
Dec 2025
The Lewis Powell Memo: A Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy



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.”

Here’s an observation from me, back in 2024 when SCROTUS birthed King Taco:

What hasn’t gotten enough mention in the coverage of Trump’s 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.”

Kid Berwyn

(24,086 posts)
13. You are most welcome!
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 02:23 PM
Dec 2025

TUC Radio replays the Alex Carey pieces every year because they need to be heard, remembered and shared by as many people as possible

Mr. Evil

(3,457 posts)
14. I wonder.
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 02:30 PM
Dec 2025

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.

popsdenver

(2,162 posts)
17. The Republicans literally laughed
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 02:50 PM
Dec 2025

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.....................???????????????????

KPN

(17,318 posts)
19. Impressive video. But I wonder, who is that guy? I could find no info about him ... that always makes me a bit uneasy.
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 03:07 PM
Dec 2025

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.

brakester

(582 posts)
20. KPN,
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 04:16 PM
Dec 2025

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)
21. America bad both sides parasite-corporation machine conspiracy theory with a dragon's head tattoo.
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 04:47 PM
Dec 2025

brakester

(582 posts)
22. Mr. EVIL,
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 06:44 PM
Dec 2025

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)
24. It just showed up in my feed earlier today.
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 01:58 AM
Dec 2025

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.

Response to Mr. Evil (Original post)

RetiredParatrooper

(151 posts)
28. He's not wrong
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 11:15 AM
Dec 2025

The divide isn't entirely Left/Right, it is Top/Bottom.

By design.

Ask 'Who Profits?' from all this chaos.


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