“In my lifetime, the United States has overthrown or attempted to overthrow more than 50 governments, mostly democracies.
It has interfered in democratic elections in 30 countries.
It has dropped bombs on the people of 30 countries, most of them poor and defenseless.
It has attempted to murder the leaders of 50 countries.
It has fought to suppress liberation movements in 20 countries.
The extent and scale of this carnage is largely unreported, unrecognized, and those responsible continue to dominate Anglo-American political life.” John Pilger
We live in an era that has been called the “information age,” and to a degree, this is true. We are bombarded and saturated with “information,” but is it factual, and is it beneficial to humanity? I say no. I echo Malcolm X, aka El Malik El Shabazz, who told a Harlem crowd in a speech, “You’ve been duped, you’ve been had, hoodwinked, and you’ve been bamboozled.”
And we have been and are being duped and bamboozled daily. The media is a mind control machine. Propaganda, advertising, and public relations are all fingers on the glove of psychological domination and manipulation. Today more than ever, the corporate media, which is owned by a handful of entities, speak in a singular voice. “There’s been a lot of consolidation in the media industry in recent years, leaving just six big media companies in charge of most of mass media consumption and distribution. Some estimates claim as much as 90% of U.S. media is controlled by just six companies. The big six media companies right now are Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA), Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS), AT&T (NYSE:T), Paramount Global (NASDAQ:PARA), Sony (NYSE:SONY), and Fox (NASDAQ:FOXA) (NASDAQ:FOX).” Oh they strive to present the illusion there are differences and diversity but all in all, they represent the views, world view, and “reality” of the ruling oligarchs, the only difference is the faces and hairstyles of the talking heads who read the scripts and propaganda they feed us. The content may vary slightly, but for the most part, the messaging is uniform! It smacks of collusion among governments, the corporate, and digital media. In other words, we live in a fascist system or, more correctly, a neo-feudal technocracy run by psychopaths and megalomaniacs.
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