Fake News Empire: Unlearning the Lies at the Heart of American ideology. This Is Hell, Danny Haiphong, BAR contributor (Podcast)
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US foreign policy has always been about defending the interests of the propertied classes, and their instruments of enrichment and control. Despite the longstanding propaganda, morality, or concern for freedom or democracy has never really entered the picture. Massacres like El Mozote, in El Salvador, are the very signature of a sociopathic racist empire, its true ugly face constantly hidden by a prostituted media.
Black Agenda Report's Danny Haiphong examines the lies at the root of the story America tells itself - as the corporate media obscures the reality of social relations at the base of American power, our collective notions of exceptionalism and innocence mask the exploitation that occurs around us everyday, and the exploiting class at the top of American society.
Danny is author of the book American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News—From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror from Skyhorse Books.
Closing words
Like vampires fearing light, capitalists elites have always been afraid of the socialist demonstration effect. A huge and constant effort is aimed at "showing" that socialism doesn't work, that it is tyrannical, inefficient, etc. Thus sabotaging and killing socialism wherever it may arise —Russia, China, Korea, Venezuela, Chile—by any means necessary, no matter how brutal and dishonest, is therefore standing policy. But socialist solutions work. And Medicare for All would show everyone in America, the key capitalist fortress, that many of our nightmares can easily vanish under socialism. For the capitalists and their hanger-ons it would be a Pandora's box.—P. Greanville
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