I WAS BORN IN 1934 IN BOSTON, MA, raised in a modest middle income family, attended public schools, received a Harvard BA in 1956 and a Wharton MBA in 1960. After six years as a marketing research analyst, became part of a new small family business in 1967, remaining there until retiring in 1999. Have [...]
FROM OUR ARCHIVES C O R P O R A T E M E D I A —and even some alternative websites, are blaring with headlines about Cindy Sheehan “quitting” the anti-war movement. It is true that Sheehan has stepped down as the consummate symbol of the ordinary, salt-of-the-earth American mother crusading against the [...]
Few men have given rise to as many delusions, false expectations, and deliberate confusions as Barack Obama, a phenomenon fueled by both foes and supporters. I just don’t understand when I read stories like this from good reporters in the NYT: If passage of the financial regulatory overhaul on Thursday proves anything about President Obama, [...]
Partnered with NATO, America’s military/industrial/media collaborators misportray US wars as humanitarian, hiding their imperial purpose – state terrorism against millions, showing an utter disregard for the law, truth, humanity or justice. CALLING ITSELF “THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY OF THE PEOPLE, ” WikiLeaks is “a multi-juristidictional public service designed to protect whistleblowers, journalists and activists who have [...]
The constant manipulation of people’s fears (also deliberately manufactured) is the key to the success of worldwide plutocratic government. Only in America The coming years, like those of the present and the past, will see the continued spewing of fictionalized propaganda designed to manipulate the fears, hatreds, xenophobia and nationalistic tendencies of the population. BY [...]
Corporate Media Propaganda and its Weapons of Mass Distraction He who controls the media controls the masses. Today, America’s media is controlled exclusively by fewer than a dozen multinational conglomerates and their many interests. NewsCorp, AOL, Viacom, General Electric, Disney and others have formed a media oligarch that reaches into every American home and most [...]
The chaos and disorder in the world created by capitalism are increasing exponentially. That constitutes a very serious problem for the elites who till now have been able to stave off the inevitable loss of power by alternating so-called democratic regimes with more openly authoritarian ones in the mainstay of their homebase, the US, and [...]
Researchers discover a surprising threat to democracy: our brains Editor’s Note: The thesis advanced in this piece is fine as far as it goes but it misses a huge element in the equation: people are bound to hold erroneous opinions in great numbers when confusion reigns unchallenged and the mass media do little or nothing [...]
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ROWAN WOLF Editor
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