As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared to the wall of peace activist, Cindy Sheehan, and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…
“Iran wants war – look how close they put their country to our military bases”
My Commentary: Who do they think they’re fooling?
I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…
Congressmen Seek To Lift Propaganda Ban:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mhastings/congressmen-seek-to-lift-propaganda-ban
An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest defense authorization bill, BuzzFeed has learned.
The amendment would “strike the current ban on domestic dissemination” of propaganda material produced by the State Department and the independent Broadcasting Board of Governors, according to the summary of the law at the House Rules Committee’s official website.
The tweak to the bill would essentially neutralize two previous acts—the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and Foreign Relations Authorization Act in 1987—that had been passed to protect U.S. audiences from our own government’s misinformation campaigns.
My Commentary: War-criminal traitor scum.
The following correspondence originally took place on my Facebook wall, upon my post, “When it Comes to War, Life is Top-Heavy With Hypocrites“…
Rayn: Sad… Life is top-heavy with hypocrites.
“Anti-War Movement: 2007, 2012”
Mehrdad S.: Terribly sad! We should ponder as to what happened during those 5 years.
Rayn: Obama happened. He filled the Anti-War movement with so much hope, they decided to take a four-year nap!
Mehrdad S.: To reach their ends, the politicians and the profiteers have brought the media under their control, which is no longer the “Mass Media”. It has been bought up and turned into Corporate Media at the service of what is no longer a “Democracy”, but a Corporatocarcy, a main element of which is the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex (and you rightly incorporated “Knowledge” into that). In 1983, 50 corporations controlled the majority of the news media in the US. Even then, this was considered a Media Monopoly. In 2004, only 5 corporations controlled the lion share of the US media industry (Now, I presume it might be even less). And the corporate media has been constantly at work, “Manufacturing Consent” of the people for the corporatocracy’s bloody projects of wars and suppression overseas, coupled with abolishing the hard-gained Civil Rights in the US itself. That might partly explain the big difference between now and 2007.
Rayn: Indeed, Mehrdad! The Mainstream Media Monopoly most definitely manufactures the consent of the governed! And, they typically utilize the Hegelian Dialectic of PROBLEM-REACTION-SOLUTION to do it… It’s sad, really… to know just how predictably herd-like the majority becomes in the face of “danger” and in the name of “safety”…
Mehrdad S.: True. They have a great number of psychiatrists and “academics” at their service who give them advice in their projects of horror mongering. There should always be something to horrify the ordinary people. Otherwise, what would be the future of the military-security-industrial complex ?
As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by the page, “End U.S. Wars and Occupations,” and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…
“You go die in a war… we’ll stay here.”
My Commentary: Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight. Same song and dance…
As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by the page, “End U.S. Wars and Occupations,” and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…
“Anti-War Movement: 2007, 2012”
My Commentary: Sad… Life is top-heavy with hypocrites.
