Posted on 03/25/2022 8:13:44 PM PDT by FarCenter
The war in Ukraine has been dominating headlines for more than a month, but it is still hard for most Americans to grasp what is going on. In part, that’s because most of what is coming out of Kyiv and Moscow is war propaganda. But it’s also because the US ruling class is once more waging information war—against domestic critics and internal enemies.
You can hardly blame the Ukrainians for inventing stories about fighter pilots who single-handedly downed scores of Russian aircraft. The country’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is trying to keep up morale on the home front while soliciting support from Western leaders to fend off Vladimir Putin’s onslaught. For those in power, lying is part of the logic of war.
What isn’t normal is the all-out effort to promote Ukraine’s cause in America—an effort grafted on to a long series of ongoing propaganda campaigns deployed by US institutions and industries against the same target: the American public. These campaigns have used the same methods, personnel, platforms, and even catchwords to deceive, harass, and punish working- and middle-class Americans to the benefit of the country’s increasingly powerful ruling oligarchy.
To help their chosen candidate, Joe Biden, unseat President Donald Trump, Silicon Valley giants blocked an October 2020 New York Post exposé about influence-peddling by Biden’s son Hunter. Fifty former top US intelligence officials characterized the Post’s reporting as Russian disinformation, a claim echoed unanimously and uncritically by prestige outlets. The New York Times repeatedly called the Hunter Files “unsubstantiated,” while National Public Radio’s managing editor for news, Terence Samuels, huffed that “we don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories.”
Even as the Times acknowledged last week that the Hunter emails uncovered by the Post were indeed authentic, the same tech firms are banning videos
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“Ruling Class” ?? I hate the ter. It implies we have an oligarchy in the USA.
nice
It implies we have an oligarchy in the USA.
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Well....yeah.
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Don't we?
In the words of the late, great George Carlin, "it's a big club and you ain't in it."
Did you forget the /s tag?
Chinese officials announced the seizure of assets controlled by the Chinese wife of American oligarch Mitch McConnell, with close ties to Joe Biden….
Is that what you’re saying? Lol. I agree!
“ Ruling Class” ?? I hate the ter. It implies we have an oligarchy in the USA.”
We have a “donor community”. It would be better to have an oligarchy.
“It implies we have an oligarchy in the USA.”
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“Well....yeah.”
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Yup - with many being in Big Tech; not just amazingly wealthy oligarchs, but oligarchs who also control much of what people are allowed to see & hear.
I don’t know how to break this to you, but we do.
Your mother and I were hoping to wait until you were older to tell you.
ROTFLMAO..... that right there is funny.
ROTFLMAO..... that right there is funny.
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Yup, pure gold.
Unfortunately, we do. Look at how aligned all of our institutions were against Trump, even the federal government itself.
Some decades ago, I was in a meeting with the head of public relations for a major corporation. I was struck then by his statement that they concentrated on reaching the 10,000 families that really mattered in influencing public opinion.
It has probably shrunk since.
And have you considered how people actually attain high office in the US -- the actual process of becoming a Senator or Governor, rather than the electoral fantasy taught in school civics.
The ruling class controls what’s on the media and tells the social media what to promote and what to suppress. They are very skilled at it. The narrative went from covid to Ukraine overnight.
Any time something dominates the headlines, there is an agenda at work and the narrative is a total fabrication.
think: Hollywood, Media Moguls, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, George Soros, Sacklers, you’ll be on the right track as to who counts here.
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