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The Dumbing Down of America

Conventional wisdom holds that propaganda and indoctrination are the main instruments for social control employed within totalitarian regimes while citizens of democratic societies are free to make up their own minds. The opposite is in fact true.

Paul Wolfowitz was one of the main architects of the Iraq war and a leading purveyor of the false intelligence used to prepare it. This fanatic, who should be indicted and tried for war crimes, is now recycled as an expert on the Iranian ?threat.?

Ahmadinejad is the latest in a long line of western bogeymen: Libya's Colonel Gadafy, Panama's Manuel Noriega, Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic, Iraq's Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, to name but a few. You can rely on the media to pump up the volume.

The media bow down before a self-created holy creed, never tiring of trumpeting supposed virtues, holding them up as the highest good. They are blind to their glaring inadequacies and mounting irrelevance. In a time cultural change, they are dying.

American propaganda accused Iran in 2002 of being a member of the "Axis of Evil". It was [and is] condemned for pursuing weapons of mass destruction and exporting terrorism, "while an unelected few repress the Iranian people's hope for freedom."

The British establishment and media are waging a propaganda campaign to exploit the wave of combat deaths to manufacture popular support for stepping up the Aghan war. Growing unemployment will force more young men to become cannon fodder.

Cronkite’s life was as valuable as a used car salesman. As an old deceitful con man he was obviously proud of all the falsehoods he spread as a news anchor. He was a a primary disseminator of American 'values.' His was the voice of 'decency.'

We see the decay of American "freedom" in the way its media line up behind phony “color revolutions” against "enemy" regimes but flagrantly ignores antidemocratic measures by regimes backed by the CIA, the military and the State Department.

It's become increasingly difficult to swallow the Washington Post every morning. What I notice most about this paper is its unabashed support for war and it twisted logic of empire. The paper still persists in promulgating the neoconservative line.

The western mass media in the west did their propaganda best. They showed the power of the Big Lie—two Big Lies in this case, where an omnipresent media machine gives the impression that everyone believes something and therefore it must be true.

Why is corporate media so eager to cover the so-called people's movement in Iran, but unwilling to cover the anti-war movement here? In particular, cable/satellite "news," and CNN's near non-stop coverage of the 'revolution' in Iran.

Ignoring Jackson’s philanthropic pursuits and contributions to forty charities, on the Today Show it was about what happened to the nigger’s money and did he die from too many drugs and what’ll happen to his children. The media vultures circle.

Big Brother Obama, following in the tradition of Big Brothers Bush and Cheney, declared that America and the "entire world" are "appalled and outraged" by Iran's violent efforts to crush protests organized by US interference in Iran's election.

The world, as defined by US Corporate media, turned its head when 1,400 Gazans were killed so that Israel might inflict collective punishment on a civilian population. The US Feigns great concern for the human rights of Iranians, yet threatens a mili

There is not even a semblance of objectivity in the media coverage, which parrots the charges of the opposition headed by defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi as fact and dismisses the government’s claims as lies.

The question is: If an American or British newspaper or TV network's agenda begins to eerily resemble that of the CIA or MI6 [the Am-Brit enterprise], does this mean that these custodians of media independence are actually government mouthpieces?

How did the progressive media get it so wrong about Iran? Their stance was indistinguishable from mass-media pro-Mousavi propaganda. We analyze in detail the response of The Nation, the self-styled voice of progressive politics.

The claim is made that Ahmadinejad stole the election because the outcome was declared too soon after the polls closed for all the votes to have been counted. However, Mousavi declared his victory several hours before the polls closed.

After being victims of multiple false and media propaganda campaigns one would think that we would be able to read between the lines when our mainstream media sources act in lockstep with one another in marketing the agenda du jour.

Most Western opinionators and reporters based in Tehran extrapolated their projections from their observations in the capital – few venture into the provinces, small and medium size cities and villages where Ahmadinejad has his mass base of support.

Some western media, led by the New York Times and cable news outlets, went even further, suggesting that the Cairo address by President Barack Obama was what made the difference, tilting the elections in favor of the pro-Western governing coalition.