Joining me today is Dr. Bruce Baird, former engineer, college professor, and high school history teacher; present-day researcher, writer, and activist, here on the anniversary of September 11th, 2001, to discuss how this event was used and is still being used to control the population. We also discuss events before and after this major inflection Read More...
Today, war by media is a key task of so-called mainstream journalism, reminiscent of that described by a Nuremberg prosecutor in 1945: 'Before each major aggression[...] they initiated a press campaign calculated to[...] prepare the people psychologically[...]"
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Joining me today Sam Tripoli, here to discuss the current state of the world, and the engineered crises that have been used to drive us here.
Caitlin Johnstone
One of the weirdest things about the post-Iraq invasion world is how the mass media has actually gotten less accountable instead of more accountable for its reporting since that time.
The great Ed Herman has died. As someone said on Twitter: 'The world is a dumber, more dangerous place. Unless everyone goes back and reads his writing now.'
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Noam Chomsky characterizes the Revolutionary War period as engendering the “vicious repression of dissident opinion.” The repressive measures to which Chomsky alludes have become portents of the myriad repressive policies and suppressions of dissidence that bleed out of Revolutionary times and spill well into the present. The late Howard Zinn corroborated Chomsky’s observation with stressing that, only “seven years after the First Amendment became part of the Constitution, Congress passed a law very clearly abridging the freedom of speech” in America—the Sedition Act of 1798.
