Nation of Sheep
In 1960, William J Lederer wrote in “Nation of Sheep” that the chief cause of most of our international problems was: “overwhelming national ignorance of the facts about the rest of the world.”
The average American doesn’t recognize they’re ignorance, because, they’re too busy working hard trying to pay off their homes, credit cards and debt. They don’t have the time to spend hours everyday researching issues that the mainstream media doesn’t even mention.
The the vast majority of media companies are controlled by a handful of the world’s most powerful interrelated corporate interests. We don’t realize that over the past 25 years we have experienced a scandalous concentration in media ownership and an all out attack on public TV and radio. The number of corporations dominating the US mainstream media in 1983 was fifty. Today, it’s five.
National president of the Canadian Islamic Congress, Mohamed Elmasry has written: “Nearly five years after the American invasion, more than 20 per cent of Iraqis have been killed, wounded, displaced within their own country, exiled as refuges abroad, or have lost one or more next-of-kin. The rest of Iraq’s population exists with little or no security, clean water, electricity, or accessible education for their children. But, their oil is looted every day by the Americans. In the meantime, the Americans are busy preparing to attack yet another country, spreading more looting, more death, more suffering, and more destruction next door in Iran.”
With the exception of Ron Paul, every Republican candidate for president adheres to a doctrine identical to early colonialism, whereby looting-for-profit, death, suffering and destruction are all justifiable. Any measure of lying is also acceptable, along with the despicable tools of propaganda, distorted religion, war-mongering and hate speech that these criminals wield to lure a misinformed public to their side.
The average American doesn’t recognize they’re ignorance, because, they’re too busy working hard trying to pay off their homes, credit cards and debt. They don’t have the time to spend hours everyday researching issues that the mainstream media doesn’t even mention.
The the vast majority of media companies are controlled by a handful of the world’s most powerful interrelated corporate interests. We don’t realize that over the past 25 years we have experienced a scandalous concentration in media ownership and an all out attack on public TV and radio. The number of corporations dominating the US mainstream media in 1983 was fifty. Today, it’s five.
National president of the Canadian Islamic Congress, Mohamed Elmasry has written: “Nearly five years after the American invasion, more than 20 per cent of Iraqis have been killed, wounded, displaced within their own country, exiled as refuges abroad, or have lost one or more next-of-kin. The rest of Iraq’s population exists with little or no security, clean water, electricity, or accessible education for their children. But, their oil is looted every day by the Americans. In the meantime, the Americans are busy preparing to attack yet another country, spreading more looting, more death, more suffering, and more destruction next door in Iran.”
With the exception of Ron Paul, every Republican candidate for president adheres to a doctrine identical to early colonialism, whereby looting-for-profit, death, suffering and destruction are all justifiable. Any measure of lying is also acceptable, along with the despicable tools of propaganda, distorted religion, war-mongering and hate speech that these criminals wield to lure a misinformed public to their side.
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