NAFEEZ AHMED & ANDREW MARKELL—The commodification of information is part and parcel of the…
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DAVID WALSH—The Lauer firing immediately prompted a flurry of scurrilous articles in the media,…
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PATRICE GREANVILLE—Despite its currency, the idea that capitalism is synonymous with “Americanness” is as spurious as the equally widespread delusion that capitalism equals human nature, another fraud, we should hasten to point, bandied about by pretty much the same crowd of conservatives and free marketers. It is surely anticlimactic to state it, but these myths have been deliberately injected into the American political consciousness by the system’s mind managers. Alex Carey, Herbert Schiller, Noam Chomsky, Ed Herman, Bob McChesney, and Michael Parenti, among other leading political scientists, have amply documented that such notions do not materialize out of thin air, that they are deliberately manufactured, and that a huge apparatus of propaganda is used to keep them in circulation.
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GLEN FORD—The Democrats don’t hate oligarchs. How could they, when the United States is…
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—Trump lies because he’s a corrupt billionaire who knows he can get away…
