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When money speaks truth is silent.
You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows.
- Bob Dylan
One of the most potent [American journalist] assumptions is that the world should be seen in terms of its usefulness to the West, not humanity. [Let alone life on Earth.] ... Journalists [are making the] distinction between people who matter and people who don't matter. ... The people who died in the Twin Towers in that terrible crime mattered. The people who were bombed to death in dusty villages in Afghanistan didn't matter, even though it now seems that their numbers were greater. The people who will die in Iraq don't matter. Iraq has been successfully demonized as if everybody who lives there is Saddam Hussein. ... It's only when journalists understand the role they play in this propaganda, it's only when they realize they can't be both independent, honest journalists and agents of power, that things will begin to change.
- John Pilger, interview with The Progressive magazine
More interesting statistics from the movie and book Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky And The Media (1992):
In North America there are: 7 major movie studios and more than 1,800 daily newspapers, 11,000 magazines, 11,000 radio stations, 2,000 TV stations, 2,500 book publishers. 23 corporations own and control over 50% of the business in each medium. In some cases they have a virtual monopoly.
Brainwash anyone?
Why should Americans be any less succeptable to propaganda than Russians with Pravda?
Governments can lie. History repeats. Blind faith in pure power is purely naive.
America By The Numbers - the US is sliding.
Every American should read these very interesting numbers that defy the propaganda that the US is #1:
http://citypages.com/databank/26/1264/article12985.asp
Andy Roony, CBS News correspondent, weekly commentary - writing President Bush's speech:
Andy Rooney
Funny how this appears nowhere in the American press:
http://www.Broadband.Rogers.com/news/iraq_war/story.jsp?cid=7041837AU
Oil Empire addresses 9-11 amongst other important issues:
http://www.OilEmpire.us/
We're above nations. We control the control. I'll eat you all in the end.
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, on America
A very dangerous assumtion: If the enemy is evil then your side must be good.
- Howard Zinn
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