What Have We Wrought: thoughts on freedom, taxes, capitalism and democracy Part IV: Media and Propaganda With a mainstream corporate media that is bought and sold by the likes of Rupert Murdoch, with Clear Channel's and other right-wing owners control of local radio around the country, how do we reach these relatives and neighbors? Every More
America in Decline by Noam Chomsky Nation of Change OpEd Published: Friday 5 August 2011 “What remains of political democracy has been undermined further as both parties have turned to auctioning congressional leadership positions.” “It is a common theme” that the United States, which “only a few years ago was hailed to stride the world More
Dealing with the Corporate Media By Kevin Zeese - Posted on 25 July 2011 October2011.org October2011.org believes that along with an independent political movement we need independent media. The Neiman Watchdog column below explains our doubts about corporate media coverage generally as well as for October2011.org. In the media critique column by John Hanrahan, a former reporter More
"This takes the cake ..." Commentary by Diane Steen-Hinderlie To default on the national debt reflects what's happened over the last generation: defaulting on the social contract of having high individual pay results in correspondingly higher revenues for the public good. Since the latter '80s I've expressed concern about out-of-control CEOpay (with the rest left More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDjQ1Zu4uHQ&w=425&h=349] "Billionaires" thank Minnesota state legislators for pushing the ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) agenda - putting the needs of the wealthy and the corporations before those of the common folk. State Senator Dan Hall asks them to leave when he is questioned about ALEC. WAMM (Women Against Military Madness) are the activists talking More
Counterpunch Weekend Edition July 22 / 24, 2011 If They're Not Loyal to Us, Why Should We be Loyal to Them? Whatever Happened to Corporate Patriotism? By RALPH NADER The fireworks and celebrations that mark Independence Day are over. But the need for a national conversation on corporate patriotism has never been more More
The Guardian / By Dean Baker July 11, 2011 | From Alternet.com Stealing from Social Security Is NOT a Debt Solution -- Why Do the Media Promote This Dangerous Myth? Pursuing a plan to kill social security, politicians are relying on a credulous public and compliant media to ramp up debt panic. The conventional wisdom More
Rupert Is Not Above the Law He's Not Above the Law. Tell Congress to Investigate. Rupert Murdoch and other News Corporation executives are at the center of a shocking British media scandal that involves spying, bribery, corruption, a corporate cover-up and even murder. We need to know if this media giant’s potential criminal behavior has crossed the More
Billionaires Told Off!!! [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOYy03yVfFs&w=425&h=349] WAMM "Billionaires" met this remarkable women when we were talking with passersby in downtown Minneapolis. WAMM (Women Against Military Madness) members were satirizing the outrageous situation where the Legislature had shut down the state government rather than modestly raise the taxes of the wealthiest.
There Are Some People Who Don't Like Change; For Everyone Else There's Wikileaks from WarIsACrime.org David Swanson's Blog Wikileaks brillant MasterCard Commercial Parody [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uk_jVuJD5w&w=560&h=349]
Amid Scandal, Murdoch Kills Off News Of The World by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Posted as published by National Public Radio NPR.org LONDON July 7, 2011, 03:15 pm ET The Murdoch media empire unexpectedly killed off the muckraking News of the World tabloid Thursday after a public backlash over the illegal guerrilla tactics it used to expose More
Are We Giant Suckers? While the US Blows Money on the Military, Europe Spends Dough on Social Programs Hawks simultaneously argue that lavish U.S. military spending subsidizes Europe’s social welfare programs, and that we’re the smarter party in this deal. AlterNet / By Joshua Holland June 17, 2011 | Last week, during his final European visit before retiring, More
