The left is faced with the grim reality that the problem is so huge that only a massive paradigm shift in the thinking and behavior of the people can change anything. They probably (the smart ones) realize that advocating a revolution (violent) is treason or will get them locked away forever. They also realize that the system is so corrupt that there are no normal channels to reverse the fascism that has taken over and has a fig leaf called democracy as cover.
There is a huge effort to hide the truth from the people... in all manner from simply PR and lies and false stories.. to classifying everything as secret and recording ALL communications of EVERYONE and using software to find any activity that can be called criminal... and using this against someone... or creating it out of whole cloth.
The left DID believe that a democracy can support the people's interests. That the many's interests would prevail over the few's interests. They learned that this simply is not the case.. the democracy has been bought and sold and the people have been left out and rendered to serfs to do the dirty work. It's an order.. a nasty order. But those who control and benefit and live large don't want it to change and they will do anything it seems to keep things the way they are.
Whatever left there is... they haven't a clue how to get *us* out of this mess. They do understand that it has to be a mass movement... but they can't figure out how to make that happen. And they most certainly will not advocate the over throw of the US government or go even close..
There are, in fact, groups who are fighting back. They realize they have nothing left to lose and no other means than any sort of armed struggle... including terrorism. And using such approach plays right into the narrative of the state... it now has the excuse for it's own fascism and militarism. It can create false flags... or it can simply allow or even be caught off guard by terrorism.. all three fit the narrative and have the same response... more power to the state... more control and more oppression of the people.
Thanks for sharing.
I narrowed the quotes down in the interest of staying on point.
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The use of the term "Left" has many broad usages esp. in terms of the media. I once read an article about how many "journalists" at the BBC like to read and Guardian UK, and were "Lefties. Olberman has been called a "Lefty". But NBC and the BBC are the worst offenders when it comes to being megaphones for the National Security State. Today, I scanned the first 4 pages of Blacklisted News and read about 10 articles. My browser got stuck with 80 tracking cookies! All of the articles contained hefty amounts of speculation, while others vomited up lamestream media/ govmnt talking points. Then there is the tabloid junk, the distractions from hard news. In terms of the "Left" broadcasters, this takes up 80% of their air time. The fluff, the NGO press releases, (think ***** Riot) the talking points the government and conglomerates want you concentrating on, or on internet, the false conspiracies and limited hangouts cointelpro bloggers want you focused on.
Conclusions and Consensus, Reached Thusfar Part XXX
9/11, the War on Terror, and the Media
The first thing these "Left" or "Alternative" media morons can do to help the peace/justice movement forward is to report accurately.
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Examples:
Ed Schultz - "Quaddafi was resposible for Lockerbie Bombing"...LIAR!
Alex Jones - "Andrew Breitbart was murdered"...LIAR
Pepe Escobar - "Syria /Libya are Sectarian Conflicts"...LIAR!
NPR - "Syria is a popular uprising against Assad"...LIAR!
Mike Malloy - "Obama only killed a few hundred people with drones, compared to George W. Bushs 1.5 million in Iraq"...LIAR!
Thom Hartman - "Obama does not torture" and "Sometimes those callers are Republican plants" (in response to a listener criticism of Obamas re-signed Patriot Act)...LIAR!
Webster Tarpley - "Occupy Wall Street are the useful idiots"...LIAR!
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Again, these bloggers I thanked, kudos to them for the tireless efforts of updating their huge sites with articles over the years with indespensible reporting on Iraq when the pro-war, Pentagon PR machinery of the corporate press had everyone reading crap about Saddams "nuclear threat" and Judith Millers fabrications. (But why the holocaust denier stuff
Michael Rivero of What Really Happened?) But the future of alternative media looks bleak, not because of the points already mentioned in previous posts, but because the good commentators are locked in
Limited Hangouts, like Abby Martin at Russia Today or at PressTV (sorry folks those networks arent real) the complete lack of facts, coverage and quality content. The shows are opinion or pitting sources against one another, "us versus them" games of wac-a-mole waste time. (Fox, Rush Limbaugh, or CNN lies? Oh, no s__t, aye, what a revelation!) FAIR will waste your time with the almost dead, but still working as a shill,Tom Brokaw sucks story, arent we glad
George Soros funds that Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting mess? Who gives a rip! "In Context" (CT public radio) hosted by Army guys, mentioned some things, but only what 20 months later, and obfuscated the truth with all manner of Establishment narrative horsecrud including Irans "nuclear ambitions,". Almost no one reported the fact that U.S. drones were being used over Syria, for example. Why? Because that would prove beyond a doubt that the war in Syria was planned and led by Washington the entire time. Literally one glaring omission missing from the 99% of NPR/Pacifica/Liberal Talk Radio coverage is that Syria and Libya were led and planned by the United States and would NEVER have happened had AMERICA not been the main aggressor. That other Western parties are involved in purely minimal, circumstantial, or logistical. Similarly, some people aren't real. They are just not real people, you know what I mean? They are a front, they are agents, they are deep cover, they are FBI. I mean, if you read the Bob Feldman (as well as other writers) stuff about
the Ford Foundation, Chomsky it would appear that the
entire Progressive Genre was created by the CIA. Or you would read these things about socialist cliques where 85% of the group were agents. Look at
Pacifica Radio today. Its classic
COINTELPRO like
Democracy Now has become, (or was it always?) as you have what I call the
Laundry List Liberalism: a half hour of new age spiritualism, a half hour of environmental, a half hour of
Al Jazeera English "World News" (American "war on terror" invasion justifications), even in years past they had Taliban abuse of women segments as reasons to justify U.S. aggressions,a typical NGO tactic, the plight of native people, or in other cases, endless pseudo-intellectualizing of irrelevant historical reference points, is always the public radio, subject changing, to trick the audience away from the present issue of facts about, U.S. government corruption and illegalities, and ends up moving away from the necessary conclusion to the story, or solution to the problem. The Pacifica Radio model is indeed as resprehensible as NPR in deluding its audience about the myth that the United States as a people are democratic and having their position represented in Congress. (using the visages of MLK, Ghandi, Mother Theresa for its KPFK.org website banner, etc.)I'm sure MLK would be very approving of Preznit Obombers war in Syria and Libya when Amy Goodman has to justify them to her mass of brainwashed followers, with her guests from the NGOs, U.S. govmnt, the Ford Foundation and the CIA, whether its falsified casualty figures from the Doctors Without Borders or false embedded reporting from Reporters Without Borders. Pacifica Radio always use their perception management to give the appearance of free speech, the fight for justice, equality and human rights, but are using every resource available to stifle those exact issues.
