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In reply to the discussion: Democratic Party Handed Polling Blow [View all]
Kid Berwyn
(24,438 posts)37. News Media toil for the slave masters
Time of Useful Consciousness explains monetized mass propaganda and its impact - now more than a century in action...
Alex Carey said 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. Carey’s unique view of US history goes back to World War I and ends with the Reagan era.
https://tucradio.org/podcasts/newest-podcasts/alex-carey-corporations-and-propaganda-part-one-of-two/
And Part the 2nd:
https://tucradio.org/podcasts/newest-podcasts/alex-carey-corporations-and-propaganda-part-two-of-two/
The rich get richer, the middle class evaporates into poverty, where the poor get poorer, and democracy vanishes down the Memory Hole.
Alex Carey said 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. Carey’s unique view of US history goes back to World War I and ends with the Reagan era.
https://tucradio.org/podcasts/newest-podcasts/alex-carey-corporations-and-propaganda-part-one-of-two/
And Part the 2nd:
https://tucradio.org/podcasts/newest-podcasts/alex-carey-corporations-and-propaganda-part-two-of-two/
The rich get richer, the middle class evaporates into poverty, where the poor get poorer, and democracy vanishes down the Memory Hole.
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