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Don't worry, Michael Parenti only defended GOOD genocidaires, like Slobodan Milošević!
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Don't worry, Michael Parenti only defended GOOD genocidaires, like Slobodan Milošević!
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Don't worry, Michael Parenti only defended GOOD genocidaires, like Slobodan Milošević!
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Don't worry, Michael Parenti only defended GOOD genocidaires, like Slobodan Milošević!
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Don't worry, Michael Parenti only defended GOOD genocidaires, like Slobodan Milošević!
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What Was The Point of October 7th? How the US-Israeli War Against Iran Was All Part of the Plan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYudVjjt2E8 What did Yahya Sinwar and the other leaders of Hamas expect to gain in the long run from the Al-Aqsa Flood in October of 2023? Most media in the US and UK have overlooked this question over the two and a half years since the flood began. So it's no surprise that those same media outlets have been blindsided by the US and Israel's War against Iran and the massive geopolitical quagmire they've created as a result, but when we consider what Sinwar […] -
What Was The Point of October 7th? How the US-Israeli War Against Iran Was All Part of the Plan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYudVjjt2E8 What did Yahya Sinwar and the other leaders of Hamas expect to gain in the long run from the Al-Aqsa Flood in October of 2023? Most media in the US and UK have overlooked this question over the two and a half years since the flood began. So it's no surprise that those same media outlets have been blindsided by the US and Israel's War against Iran and the massive geopolitical quagmire they've created as a result, but when we consider what Sinwar […] -
What Was The Point of October 7th? How the US-Israeli War Against Iran Was All Part of the Plan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYudVjjt2E8 What did Yahya Sinwar and the other leaders of Hamas expect to gain in the long run from the Al-Aqsa Flood in October of 2023? Most media in the US and UK have overlooked this question over the two and a half years since the flood began. So it's no surprise that those same media outlets have been blindsided by the US and Israel's War against Iran and the massive geopolitical quagmire they've created as a result, but when we consider what Sinwar […] -
What Was The Point of October 7th? How the US-Israeli War Against Iran Was All Part of the Plan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYudVjjt2E8 What did Yahya Sinwar and the other leaders of Hamas expect to gain in the long run from the Al-Aqsa Flood in October of 2023? Most media in the US and UK have overlooked this question over the two and a half years since the flood began. So it's no surprise that those same media outlets have been blindsided by the US and Israel's War against Iran and the massive geopolitical quagmire they've created as a result, but when we consider what Sinwar […] -
What Was The Point of October 7th? How the US-Israeli War Against Iran Was All Part of the Plan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYudVjjt2E8 What did Yahya Sinwar and the other leaders of Hamas expect to gain in the long run from the Al-Aqsa Flood in October of 2023? Most media in the US and UK have overlooked this question over the two and a half years since the flood began. So it's no surprise that those same media outlets have been blindsided by the US and Israel's War against Iran and the massive geopolitical quagmire they've created as a result, but when we consider what Sinwar […] -
Astounding in consistency
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/1950335/astounding-in-consistency
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Book Report: Blackshirts & Reds by Parenti
Blackshirts: Fascists / Nazis
Reds: Socialists / CommunistsThis is the first book by Michael Parenti that I've ever read, and I really enjoyed it. It has many facts and references, and covers the rise of the popularity of capitalism within the USSR, the propaganda about the USSR, including stories about gulags, and addresses problems with the USSR, including problems in resource allocation planning. It covers the effects of the fall of the USSR on Eastern European countries when the capitalists took over, including devastating wealth inequality and poverty.
I've ordered "Against Empire" as my next book from Parenti because I enjoyed this book so much.
https://www.michael-parenti.org/book-blackshirts-and-reds
#socialism #communism #capitalism #fascism #nazi #easterneurope #parenti #michaelparenti #blackshirts #blackshirtsandreds #againstempire
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Book Report: Blackshirts & Reds by Parenti
Blackshirts: Fascists / Nazis
Reds: Socialists / CommunistsThis is the first book by Michael Parenti that I've ever read, and I really enjoyed it. It has many facts and references, and covers the rise of the popularity of capitalism within the USSR, the propaganda about the USSR, including stories about gulags, and addresses problems with the USSR, including problems in resource allocation planning. It covers the effects of the fall of the USSR on Eastern European countries when the capitalists took over, including devastating wealth inequality and poverty.
I've ordered "Against Empire" as my next book from Parenti because I enjoyed this book so much.
https://www.michael-parenti.org/book-blackshirts-and-reds
#socialism #communism #capitalism #fascism #nazi #easterneurope #parenti #michaelparenti #blackshirts #blackshirtsandreds #againstempire
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Book Report: Blackshirts & Reds by Parenti
Blackshirts: Fascists / Nazis
Reds: Socialists / CommunistsThis is the first book by Michael Parenti that I've ever read, and I really enjoyed it. It has many facts and references, and covers the rise of the popularity of capitalism within the USSR, the propaganda about the USSR, including stories about gulags, and addresses problems with the USSR, including problems in resource allocation planning. It covers the effects of the fall of the USSR on Eastern European countries when the capitalists took over, including devastating wealth inequality and poverty.
I've ordered "Against Empire" as my next book from Parenti because I enjoyed this book so much.
https://www.michael-parenti.org/book-blackshirts-and-reds
#socialism #communism #capitalism #fascism #nazi #easterneurope #parenti #michaelparenti #blackshirts #blackshirtsandreds #againstempire
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Book Report: Blackshirts & Reds by Parenti
Blackshirts: Fascists / Nazis
Reds: Socialists / CommunistsThis is the first book by Michael Parenti that I've ever read, and I really enjoyed it. It has many facts and references, and covers the rise of the popularity of capitalism within the USSR, the propaganda about the USSR, including stories about gulags, and addresses problems with the USSR, including problems in resource allocation planning. It covers the effects of the fall of the USSR on Eastern European countries when the capitalists took over, including devastating wealth inequality and poverty.
I've ordered "Against Empire" as my next book from Parenti because I enjoyed this book so much.
https://www.michael-parenti.org/book-blackshirts-and-reds
#socialism #communism #capitalism #fascism #nazi #easterneurope #parenti #michaelparenti #blackshirts #blackshirtsandreds #againstempire
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Book Report: Blackshirts & Reds by Parenti
Blackshirts: Fascists / Nazis
Reds: Socialists / CommunistsThis is the first book by Michael Parenti that I've ever read, and I really enjoyed it. It has many facts and references, and covers the rise of the popularity of capitalism within the USSR, the propaganda about the USSR, including stories about gulags, and addresses problems with the USSR, including problems in resource allocation planning. It covers the effects of the fall of the USSR on Eastern European countries when the capitalists took over, including devastating wealth inequality and poverty.
I've ordered "Against Empire" as my next book from Parenti because I enjoyed this book so much.
https://www.michael-parenti.org/book-blackshirts-and-reds
#socialism #communism #capitalism #fascism #nazi #easterneurope #parenti #michaelparenti #blackshirts #blackshirtsandreds #againstempire
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Hommage au chercheur marxiste Michael Parenti – Compilation d’entretiens
https://www.les-crises.fr/hommage-au-chercheur-marxiste-michael-parenti-compilation-d-entretiens/
Le chercheur marxiste, analyste politique, historien et auteur Michael Parenti est décédé à l’âge de 92 ans. Critique virulent du capitalisme, de l’impérialisme et des inégalités de classe, ses travaux intellectuels sont reconnus dans le monde entier. Il est l’auteur de plus de 20 livres, dont « Democracy for the Few » (La démocratie réservée […]
#Politique #Capiyalisme #Marxisme #MichaelParenti -
@comunismo Outro, na mesma pegada do Petras, o Michael Parenti. https://www.marxists.org/archive/parenti/index.htm
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Michael Parenti Was Far Better Than Noam Chomsky
#iMiXWHATiLiKE! w/ #JaredBell #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #Neooliberalism #Liberalism #Leftist #MichaelParenti #NoamChomsky #RobertMcChesney
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Michael Parenti Was Far Better Than Noam Chomsky
#iMiXWHATiLiKE! w/ #JaredBell #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #Neooliberalism #Liberalism #Leftist #MichaelParenti #NoamChomsky #RobertMcChesney
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Michael Parenti Was Far Better Than Noam Chomsky
#iMiXWHATiLiKE! w/ #JaredBell #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #Neooliberalism #Liberalism #Leftist #MichaelParenti #NoamChomsky #RobertMcChesney
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Michael Parenti Was Far Better Than Noam Chomsky
#iMiXWHATiLiKE! w/ #JaredBell #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #Neooliberalism #Liberalism #Leftist #MichaelParenti #NoamChomsky #RobertMcChesney
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Michael Parenti Was Far Better Than Noam Chomsky
#iMiXWHATiLiKE! w/ #JaredBell #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #Neooliberalism #Liberalism #Leftist #MichaelParenti #NoamChomsky #RobertMcChesney
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"Globalization and Democracy: Some Basics"
The goal of the transnational corporation is to become truly transnational, poised above the sovereign power of any particular nation, while being served by the sovereign powers of all nations. Cyril Siewert, chief financial officer of Colgate Palmolive Company, could have been speaking for all transnationals when he remarked, "The United States doesn't have an automatic call on our [corporation's] resources. There is no mindset that puts this country first."
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2007/05/25/globalization-and-democracy-some-basics
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"Globalization and Democracy: Some Basics"
The goal of the transnational corporation is to become truly transnational, poised above the sovereign power of any particular nation, while being served by the sovereign powers of all nations. Cyril Siewert, chief financial officer of Colgate Palmolive Company, could have been speaking for all transnationals when he remarked, "The United States doesn't have an automatic call on our [corporation's] resources. There is no mindset that puts this country first."
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2007/05/25/globalization-and-democracy-some-basics
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"Globalization and Democracy: Some Basics"
The goal of the transnational corporation is to become truly transnational, poised above the sovereign power of any particular nation, while being served by the sovereign powers of all nations. Cyril Siewert, chief financial officer of Colgate Palmolive Company, could have been speaking for all transnationals when he remarked, "The United States doesn't have an automatic call on our [corporation's] resources. There is no mindset that puts this country first."
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2007/05/25/globalization-and-democracy-some-basics
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"Globalization and Democracy: Some Basics"
The goal of the transnational corporation is to become truly transnational, poised above the sovereign power of any particular nation, while being served by the sovereign powers of all nations. Cyril Siewert, chief financial officer of Colgate Palmolive Company, could have been speaking for all transnationals when he remarked, "The United States doesn't have an automatic call on our [corporation's] resources. There is no mindset that puts this country first."
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2007/05/25/globalization-and-democracy-some-basics
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It's obvious enough why the #Trump administration and #capitalist ruling class are doing what they're doing in and to #Venezuela, but it helps to have a deeper understanding of the bigger picture, of which Venezuela is but a tiny fraction of the whole. With that in mind, it's worth revisiting the lecture below by the recently deceased and brilliant #MichaelParenti on #empire, given in the early 2000s.
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RIP Michael Parenti
Go read and watch Parenti.
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RiP to Michael John Parenti (September 30, 1933 - January 24, 2026). 🪦
We need more people to challenge the political structure of this nation and world like he did. A paradigm shift starts with one who affects the minds and lives of many for good. He will be missed. 🥲
https://www.michael-parenti.org/
#michaelparenti #rip #Saturday #ScreenshotSaturday #SilentSunday #socialist #socialism #SocialistSunday #Remembrance #sociology #political #author #historian #activist #philosophical #philosophy #peace
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https://youtu.be/xi24nPMMuFI – Listening to Christian Parenti* interviewed by Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky
*yes, he's the son of the 92 and still alive Michael Parenti
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WE?
"We got to stop saying 'we'"
- Michael ParentiFull speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6HMCq5dosw
the trouble with saying "we" is you are creating a community of interest between these policy makers, the U.S. leaders, and us. that's just what they want.
#MichaelParenti #IntellectualDishonesty #FalseCommunityOfInterest #USLeaders #BillionaireAgendas #GlobalLooting
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WE?
"We got to stop saying 'we'"
- Michael ParentiFull speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6HMCq5dosw
the trouble with saying "we" is you are creating a community of interest between these policy makers, the U.S. leaders, and us. that's just what they want.
#MichaelParenti #IntellectualDishonesty #FalseCommunityOfInterest #USLeaders #BillionaireAgendas #GlobalLooting
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WE?
"We got to stop saying 'we'"
- Michael ParentiFull speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6HMCq5dosw
the trouble with saying "we" is you are creating a community of interest between these policy makers, the U.S. leaders, and us. that's just what they want.
#MichaelParenti #IntellectualDishonesty #FalseCommunityOfInterest #USLeaders #BillionaireAgendas #GlobalLooting
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WE?
"We got to stop saying 'we'"
- Michael ParentiFull speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6HMCq5dosw
the trouble with saying "we" is you are creating a community of interest between these policy makers, the U.S. leaders, and us. that's just what they want.
#MichaelParenti #IntellectualDishonesty #FalseCommunityOfInterest #USLeaders #BillionaireAgendas #GlobalLooting
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WE?
"We got to stop saying 'we'"
- Michael ParentiFull speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6HMCq5dosw
the trouble with saying "we" is you are creating a community of interest between these policy makers, the U.S. leaders, and us. that's just what they want.
#MichaelParenti #IntellectualDishonesty #FalseCommunityOfInterest #USLeaders #BillionaireAgendas #GlobalLooting
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#MichaelParenti on #BernieSanders (He parted ways with #Sanders since he always supports #war)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLNQEHbusSA -
#MichaelParenti: #FreeMarket #Pathology (54 seconds, and worth every bit of your time!)
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@SeanAloysiusOBrien "During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.
If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum."
*Parenti intensifies...*
#socialism #communism #anarchism #marxism #MichaelParenti #parenti #Chomsky #NoamChomsky #InventingReality #ManufacturingConsent
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@SeanAloysiusOBrien "During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.
If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum."
*Parenti intensifies...*
#socialism #communism #anarchism #marxism #MichaelParenti #parenti #Chomsky #NoamChomsky #InventingReality #ManufacturingConsent
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@SeanAloysiusOBrien "During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.
If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum."
*Parenti intensifies...*
#socialism #communism #anarchism #marxism #MichaelParenti #parenti #Chomsky #NoamChomsky #InventingReality #ManufacturingConsent
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@SeanAloysiusOBrien "During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.
If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum."
*Parenti intensifies...*
#socialism #communism #anarchism #marxism #MichaelParenti #parenti #Chomsky #NoamChomsky #InventingReality #ManufacturingConsent
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@SeanAloysiusOBrien "During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.
If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum."
*Parenti intensifies...*
#socialism #communism #anarchism #marxism #MichaelParenti #parenti #Chomsky #NoamChomsky #InventingReality #ManufacturingConsent
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#MarieLouiseVonFranz #svg #JacquesEllul #ÉlianeRadigue #etymology #htmx #MichaelParenti (read this good noob thing to do, so did)
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>With Trump soon back in the White House, and people like Orbán cheering him on from the sidelines, can the hard right bring the media to heel?
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>In the past the answer would have been a speedy no. The United States has major constitutional protections of First Amendment rights, and a strong commitment to freedom of the press.The "mainstream media" *is* right wing. All of it. Perhaps not as far right wing as Trump would like, but *all* of it is right wing. If I could choose only one book to require every American to read, it would be Inventing Reality by Michael Parenti.
#InventingReality #MichaelParenti #ManufacturingConsent #EdwardHerman #NoamChomsky
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>There will be people who say, “Hey, you work for a company and that company has the right to expect employees to adhere to what’s good for the company”. That’s true except we’re talking about news organizations that have public obligations and who are obliged to nurture a free press in a democracy. Owners of such press organizations are responsible for safeguarding that free press— and trying to get in the good graces of an autocrat-in-waiting will only result in undermining that free press.
Under capitalism, news organizations have no such "public obligations" and are absolutely not "obliged to nurture a free press in a democracy." They are doing what they are designed to do: Invent Reality (or, if you prefer, Manufacture Consent).
I honestly think that reading Inventing Reality, by Michael Parenti, should be a prerequisite to working in journalism:
#capitalism #socialism #communism #marxism #MichaelParenti #InventingReality #EdwardHerman #NoamChomsky #ManufacturingConsent #MainstreamMedia #wapo #WashingtonPost #Disney #Bezos #Amazon
