Everyone should see this.
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It's only 3 minutes.
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you posted. Thank you! 
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 And, in his manuscript, unpublished during his life time, he described that history, going back to World War I and ending with the Reagan era.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.”
very well stated ... 
Incidentally, I was just reading a journalist I respect and like a lot, Yasha Levine, who was talking about how Europeans made some of the best documentaries on the net..
(I didn’t agree with the specific examples he gave as I took an immediate and profound dislike to Adam Curtis. Dian Fossey was awesome and Curtis can go fuck himself..I agree with his self characterisation as some sort of creepy, family values neoconservative who attacks environmentalists using bullshit. The real colonization here is one species destroying an entire planet for every whim it has..He is the type of person I truly loathe.
I think Yasha is awesome and invariably agree with Yasha on most of what he dislikes…less so wrt anyone or anything he likes 
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But that’s okay..disagreement is allowed on the left unlike among the monarchists.
Left or right there is a strong dominion theology style “earth exists for humans to exploit” mentality in the species everywhere. Every trivial human superstition is accorded more weight than common decency to other lifeforms (and I don’t mean bloody ai). It is not surprising that something that rotten morphs into manipulation, exploitation, swindling and subjugation of one’s fellow humans eventually. Full credit to Nathan Robinson for addressing that.
It’s not surprising that environmentalists, feminists (not “lean in” etc), scientists (not the tech creeps) and atheists in combination are so unpopular - for full control over the material world and destruction of democracy those are all groups to “delete”.
I do worry separately though that the effect of the techno oligarchs will be to - in our species’ typical mindless backlash fashion - cause neoconservative hogging of the backlash to sell family values/pronatalism and other deeply regressive values, while attacking women’s rights/feminism/lgbtq rights & science. Iow narrowly focus only on working class values - syncretic bs..the environment has already been tacitly dumped as unimportant by both sides except in explicitly human centric terms. There is a tendency in that type of rot left/right to attack women’s rights as imperialist or some such bullshit. I see it with the creepy men’s rights types where I live all the time. I fight for privacy but thanks to the present environment while I think it can be won, in the interim I worry about poor data hygiene. I would definitely not want the types of meninists I see on my street to assume that sympathy for a different type of left means they are in any way cool.).
The broader point though is probably true. And Yasha is always cool.
The divide isn't entirely Left/Right, it is Top/Bottom.
By design.
Ask 'Who Profits?' from all this chaos.
