{"id":351021,"date":"2018-03-06T14:34:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T13:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=351021"},"modified":"2018-03-06T17:50:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T16:50:39","slug":"liars-u-s-news-media-build-lies-u-s-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/liars-u-s-news-media-build-lies-u-s-news\/","title":{"rendered":"How Liars in U.S. ‘News’-Media Build on Lies in U.S. ‘News’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse (originally published abridged by Strategic Culture Foundation<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

The means by which the vast majority of Americans are deceived to believe fake \u2018news\u2019 that\u2019s based on fake \u2018history\u2019, will be described here, so as to enable America to be understood correctly, as a fake \u2018democracy\u2019<\/span><\/a>, the perpetual-war-for-perpetual-peace nation that the entire world considers to be by far the most dangerous nation, the biggest threat to world peace,<\/span><\/a> anywhere on this planet. The system<\/i> of mass-deceit in America, will be the subject,<\/i> and examples will be cited here as embodiments displaying this system<\/i> of mass-deceit \u2014 the mass-deceit that enables the U.S. Government to be the world\u2019s most aggressive, most destructive, not only in Iraq, and in Yemen, but shamelessly, and repeatedly, destroying worldwide, with no respect for international laws that this Government blatantly violates, and is never held accountable for having violated. How is this mass-deceit, and total impunity, to be understood correctly, truthfully? That\u2019s the question addressed here.<\/span><\/p>\n

TIME<\/i> magazine\u2019s cover-story, \u201cVOICES FROM THE RUBBLE: Syrians on living in the line of fire\u201d<\/span><\/a>, issue-date 12 March 2018, was co-authored by Wendy Pearlman, who recently published a book of narratives from many Syrian-war victims who blame Bashar al-Assad (whom the U.S. Government wants to overthrow) for the miseries they\u2019ve suffered since the \u201cArab Spring\u201d started in 2011. Her co-authored article in TIME<\/i> reads like a brief version of her sole-authored book. To read either the book or the article is to receive the impression that Assad<\/span><\/a> must be a monster, and that he certainly is an extremely unpopular person in Syria. However, both impressions are demonstrably false. This isn\u2019t necessarily to assert that Pearlman doesn\u2019t believe what she writes, but only that there\u2019s a great willingness on the part of U.S.-and-allied \u2018news\u2019-media to spread (i.e., to hire and publish propagandists who write such) extremely one-sided accounts that support the U.S. Government\u2019s regime-change story-line (in today\u2019s Syria, just the same as it was in 2003 Iraq \u2014 but then it was against Saddam Hussein), so that America\u2019s \u2018news\u2019media might as well be controlled by the very same people who control America\u2019s invasion-craving international corporations, like Lockheed Martin and ExxonMobil. Accounts from the other side of this war \u2014 the side that will here be documented to be the truth, namely that Bashar al-Assad is overwhelmingly popular amongst the Syrian people<\/i> \u2014 have been published online-only, by terrific investigative journalists such as Vanessa Beeley<\/span><\/a>, and Eva Bartlett<\/span><\/a>, among others; but, none of those high-quality journalists have been accepted for publication by mainstream members of the U.S. and allied \u2018news\u2019-media. That side regarding this war<\/span><\/a>, the \u201cinconvenient\u201d truth about it, is instead blacked-out, by the mainstream \u2018news\u2019 media \u2014 the U.S. regime\u2019s PR mouthpieces.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps what\u2019s even worse is that \u2018alternative-news\u2019 media in the U.S. and its allies, have, likewise, almost universally, given voice only (or, in other cases, mainly) to the anti<\/i>-Assad side of this war. Are they, too<\/i>, controlled by the U.S. aristocracy? <\/span><\/p>\n

After all, in any country (such as Syria), there are people who loathe the existing government; \u2018journalists\u2019 can be guided (by media-management) to interview them; and, so, propaganda-vehicles such as TIME<\/i> can select such individuals to interview, in order to stir, amongst the mass of Americans, invasion-and-occupation fever, and thus to boost the stock-market valuations of corporations such as United Technologies and Halliburton.<\/span><\/p>\n

The example that will be examined in detail here, will be from a recent alt-news TV-and-radio program, in which Wendy Pearlman and two other anti-Assad journalists were interviewed about the Syrian War. That program was broadcast on February 22nd, as an installment of \u201cDemocracy Now!\u201d an allegedly \u2018progressive\u2019 news-and-commentary program, which, as will be documented here, relies upon American billionaires, for its very existence as a medium that possesses the resources to be able to reach a large audience in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

The following report exposes one faux-\u2018progressive\u2019 war-monger and propagandist for U.S. invasions of countries that never invaded nor even threatened the U.S.: Amy Goodman, and her \u201cDemocracy Now!\u201d \u2018alternative\u2019 \u2019news\u2019 media for Democratic Party billionaires\u2019 international operations (such as for regime-change in Syria). These propaganda-operations (just like the acknowledgedly mainstream ones, such as TIME<\/i>) promote using U.S. taxpayers\u2019 money (the U.S. military, which is the most respected institution amongst Americans<\/span><\/a> and thus receives \u201cthe benefit of the doubt\u201d regarding any atrocities it may perpetrate \u2014 such as its having poisoned Iraq with depleted uranium<\/span><\/a>, for example) \u2014 using taxpayers\u2019 money for so-called \u2018humanitarian\u2019 reasons that are actually just sales-angles for American billionaires\u2019 bloody conquests of resistant foreign countries (in this case, Syria). This propaganda is aimed at fooling liberals, or even \u201cpeaceniks,\u201d into supporting what are actually hidden financial benefits for these behind-the-scenes billionaires, benefits which they can win only by means of U.S. military operations that are based on lies \u2014 lies promoted by these fake-progressive, warmongering, \u2018news\u2019-media, both mainstream (like TIME<\/i>) and \u2018alt-news\u2019 (like \u201cDemocracy Now!\u201d). This isn\u2019t to deny that almost all right-wing \u2018news\u2019 media also<\/i> are neoconservative, but simply to demonstrate that most left-wing ones are neoconservative \u2014 that neoconservatism (which used to be called, instead, by the term \u201cimperialism\u201d) dominates America\u2019s \u2018news\u2019-media, all the way from the \u201cfar right,\u201d to the \u201cfar left.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Exposed here will be the depths that hypocrisy and psychopathy (both of which are pervasive at the very top of society, amongst the aristocrats and their retainers<\/span><\/a>) plunge down to, in American \u2018news\u2019. This type of operation can be done only by taking advantage, especially, of well-intentioned Democrats, in order for billionaires to become enabled to use taxpayers\u2019 money, to boost actually the private wealth not only of Democratic Party billionaires, but even of Republican Party billionaires<\/i> \u2014 even of \u2018the political opposition.\u2019 The example that will be presented in detail here, typifies a depraved scheme for the warfare-state (not the welfare<\/i>-state, which instead becomes proportionately reduced as the warfare-state becomes increased), a scheme (support of the military-industrial complex, or \u201cMIC,\u201d and its permanent-war-for-permanent-peace economy) which largely controls America, in order to build and maintain the public\u2019s support for obscenely high \u2018defense\u2019 spending and billionaires\u2019 \u2018defense\u2019 profits, which government-spending (for the welfare of those billionaires instead of the public) produces catastrophes for the victim-nations, such as Iraq 2003, Libya 2011, and Syria 2012-, all of which invasions are especially profitable for the owners of America\u2019s \u2018defense\u2019 contractors such as General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin, which depend upon war in order to funnel money from the domestic masses, to the domestic classes, via taxes. And, of course, American resource-extraction corporations, such as oil-and-gas giants, also benefit handsomely from it, by grabbing foreign resources. Megabanks benefit, too. After all: it\u2019s the U.S. aristocracy that\u2019s behind this, the ultimate paymasters for these propaganda-operations (and some details of this fact of aristocratic sponsorship will be documented here).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Goodman opened her February 23rd youtube, <\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2yXSAYhE0sY<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

As Death Toll Rises in Eastern Ghouta, Has International Community Abandoned the Syrian People?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Democracy Now! 23 February 2018<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA \u2018monstrous campaign of annihilation\u2019 \u2014 that\u2019s how the United Nations is describing the Syrian Government\u2019s recent barrage of air strikes and artillery fire against the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

and she introduced there what were actually her carefully vetted neoconservative-neoliberal three guests, to discuss why Syria\u2019s Government is (supposedly) the enemy of the Syrian people, and thereby, also supposedly, America\u2019s enemy (though it\u2019s actually neither \u2014 but it is instead the enemy of American, Saudi, and Qatari, billionaires): <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201dOn Thursday [February 22nd], we hosted an extended web-only conversation with <\/i>Rawya Rageh of Amnesty International<\/i><\/b>, Syrian-American <\/i>journalist Alia Malek <\/i><\/b>and <\/i>Wendy Pearlman<\/i><\/b>, author of ‘We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria’.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The first thing that was hidden from her viewers was that all three guests are propagandists whose careers are heavily dependent upon their having won approval from U.S. billionaires and centi-millionaires, and from those individuals\u2019 foreign colleagues.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Wikipedia article about Raya Rageh<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span> lists the numerous employers and sponsors of her career, such as Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and Al Jazeera<\/span><\/a> \u2014 the broadcast network controlled by the royal Thani family, who own gas-rich Qatar (and who want a gas-pipeline to be built through Syria into the European Union), and whose media-strategy (since they’re allies of U.S. billionaires) is to broadcast pro-jihadist propaganda inside the country that they own (Qatar), in its Arabic language, which few Westerners can understand, but to broadcast anti<\/i>-jihadist propaganda in Western languages in Western and anti-jihadist countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alia Malek<\/b><\/a><\/span> received the 2016 Hiett Prize award<\/span><\/a> from The Dallas Institute, which was founded by Margaret McDermott<\/span><\/a>, the former society-page editor of the Dallas Morning News<\/i>, and the widow of Geophysical Service Inc. co-founder Eugene McDermott<\/span><\/a>, whose company developed technology for finding oil-and-gas deposits<\/span><\/a>, such as in Qatar. Malek was a senior writer for the Thanis\u2019 Al Jazeera America, and has also been published in New Yorker<\/i>, New York Times<\/i>, and The Nation<\/i>. Her popularly selling 2017 book blaming Bashar al-Assad for the war in Syria, The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria<\/i><\/span><\/a>, describes the \u201coppression that exists in a dictatorship,\u201d and makes no mention, at all, of the 2014 elections in Syria<\/span><\/a>, which were internationally monitored since there was a war going on, and in which, Syrians, not only inside Syria but who had escaped the war and lived abroad, voted, and in which the sitting President, Assad, won 89% of the total votes cast. <\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore, the British polling firm Orb International\u2019s 2014 nationwide Syrian poll found (page 10) 35% support for “The Assad Government” and only 21% support for “Political Opposition” and 14% support for “Moderate armed opposition” plus 13% support for “Violent extremist religious groups”<\/span><\/a>; so, clearly, the existing Government was far preferred over the political opposition, and was even more preferred than that, above the mercenaries (the latter two categories) that the U.S. and its allies were using as boots-on-the-ground proxy fighters to overthrow Assad. This poll also found (p. 11) 20% wanting the next Government to be \u201cCurrent regime\u201d and 15% wanting it to be \u201cBashar Al Assad\u201d but found (p. 12) that \u201cPolitical Opposition\u201d was preferred over \u201cThe Assad Government\u201d in 4 of the country\u2019s 12 regions \u2014 Daraa, Idlib, Hasakah, and Raqqa \u2014 and these were precisely the regions where the forces to overthrow Assad were strong. The U.S. Government used Al Qaeda to train the jihadist groups in Daraa, Idlib, and Hasakah, but only infrequently armed or otherwise supported ISIS, which controlled Raqqa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A year later, Orb polled again, and found<\/span><\/a> (\u201cTable 3\u201d) that 47% of Syrians said that Assad had a \u201cpositive\u201d effect on the country (this question hadn\u2019t been asked in the year-earlier, 2014, poll); 37% said \u201cArab Gulf Countries\u201d (the U.S. Government\u2019s allies) did; 36% said \u201cFree Syrian Army\u201d (America\u2019s proxies or boots-on-the-ground fighting against Assad) did; 25% said \u201cNusra Front\u201d (Al Qaeda in Syria, which trained and led the Free Syrian Army<\/span><\/a>) did; and 21% said \u201cIslamic State\u201d (ISIS or ISIL) did. 76% said ISIL had a \u201cnegative effect\u201d on Syria. ISIL was hated; but, apparently not as much as U.S.: When asked to \u201cexplain the presence of ISIL in Iraq\/Syria,\u201d a full 82% of Syrians answered (Table 26) \u201cISIL is produced by the United States.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

So, Amy Goodman\u2019s propaganda in \u201cDemocracy Now!\u201d regarding Syria, was actually against any democracy at all, in Syria; because, clearly, democracy would retain the existing Syrian President in office. Her position was thus identical to former U.S. President Barack Obama\u2019s position, against democracy in Syria<\/span><\/a>, and for Al Qaeda in Syria<\/span><\/a>. U.S. President Donald Trump continues that policy<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, even in some Western countries that are allied with the U.S. Government, the lies by U.S. \u2019news\u2019media on this matter, are evidently well-recognized: The French Le Figaro<\/i> headlined on 29 October 2015, “Les grandes puissances doivent-elles exiger le d\u00e9part de Bachar el-Assad?\u201d<\/span><\/a> (Should the great powers demand the departure of Bashar al-Assad?) and 72% of its 21,000+ responding readers chose \u201cNon\u201d. But, on \u201cDemocracy Now!\u201d there\u2019s no real support, at all, for democracy in Syria (since that would result in continuation of the Assad Government). Instead, there\u2019s deception by show-guests such as these, who are selected because these people actually despise the majority of Syrians.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is what Goodman\u2019s guest Wendy Pearlman<\/b><\/span><\/a> had written in Huffington Post, on 23 April 2014, under the headline \u201cThe Argument Against U.S. Intervention in Syria… And Why It\u2019s Wrong\u201d<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Jihadist groups became powerful in Syria because blood flowed for months while the opposition\u2019s cries for assistance went ignored. Had the international community acted earlier, these extremists might never have emerged on the scene. Most Syrians view al-Qaeda as another form of tyranny. Many have risked their lives to protest agianst<\/i> [against] it. It is a cruel irony that the United States, which championed the \u201cwar on terror,\u201d now leaves besieged civilians to fight al-Qaeda on their own. \u2026<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

In Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. imposed regime change from the outside. In Syria, an anti-regime struggle emerged from the grassroots. \u2026<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The reality (quite the opposite of Pearlman\u2019s \u201cIt is a cruel irony that the United States, which championed the \u2018war on terror,\u2019 now leaves besieged civilians to fight al-Qaeda on their own\u201d) is that ever since 2012 the U.S. regime has actually been supporting and supplying arms to Al Qaeda in Syria so as to overthrow the secular, non-sectarian, Government of Syria \u2014 which Assad heads \u2014 and to replace it by a fundamentalist-Sunni theocratic one<\/span><\/a>, which will cooperate with Qatar and Saudi Arabia to allow U.S. oil-and-gas pipelines to be built through Syria.<\/span><\/a> The reality is also that U.S. President Barack Obama entered office in 2009 hoping to do this<\/span><\/a>, and that the entire \u201cArab Spring\u201d movement was aimed at achieving the Thanis\u2019 will throughout the region: The Thanis are the main financial supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood<\/span><\/a> (which briefly took over in Egypt after the \u201cArab Spring\u201d), but they also back Al Qaeda<\/span><\/a> when America\u2019s White House does (such as in Syria). And the U.S. Government had long been preparing the \u201cArab Spring\u201d movement<\/span><\/a> \u2014 by no means was it only<\/i> the Thanis. (In fact, Obama came into office hoping for something like that<\/span><\/a>; and, by 2011, his Administration was actively planning to exploit it specifically so as to overthrow Bashar al-Assad<\/span><\/a>; and, by 2012, the U.S. Government became committed to Al Qaeda in Syria so as to achieve the overthrow<\/span><\/a>.) On 25 February 2016, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted a superb article, \u201cSyria: Another Pipeline War\u201d<\/span><\/a>, and some of it was based upon Kennedy family records. To ignore the billionaires who were behind this invasion, of Syria, by tens of thousands of foreign jihadists whom allies of the U.S. Government recruited and armed to overthrow Assad, is journalistic malfeasance, and propagandistic mastery \u2014 and that\u2019s virtually all U.S. \u2018news\u2019-reporting about this war. That\u2019s done so as to deceive the American public, in the way that America\u2019s billionaires want.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pearlman\u2019s article blamed Syria\u2019s allies, Iran and Russia, for the Syrian war, instead of blaming the U.S.-Qatar-Saudi-Israeli-Turkish-backed-and-armed Al-Qaeda-led invasion by imported jihadist mercenaries from all over the Sunni-Muslim world into Syria. She especially blamed Assad\u2019s Government for the \u201cstarvation\u201d of Syrians, and didn\u2019t mention the all-time record 2006-2010 drought there<\/span><\/a>, which greatly exacerbated the \u201cArab Spring\u201d in Syria, and Assad\u2019s having been pleading, since 2008, for help against the drought and starvation, from the U.N., and from the U.S. and other governments \u2014 pleas that Barack Obama\u2019s Administration simply ignored<\/span><\/a>. For backup on Pearlman\u2019s claim that Assad was to blame, she linked to an article in the notorious neoconservative Democratic Party magazine The New Republic<\/i>, titled \u201cThe War on Bread: How the Syrian regime is using starvation as a weapon\u201d<\/span><\/a>, which alleged (but provided no evidence) that the mass-starvation was the Assad Government\u2019s intentional punishment against a rebelling population. Hearing Pearlman on \u201cDemocracy Now!\u201d one didn\u2019t know what her sources were, but in an online article, where they\u2019re easy to identify, they turn out to be virtually all neoconservative and (as is usual for such) oblivious to crucial realities, which, obviously, she wishes to ignore \u2014 and builds a successful career on ignoring.<\/span><\/p>\n

One good summary source about the corruptness of \u201cDemocracy Now!\u201d as a conveyance of \u2018news\u2019, is provided by the disillusioned former Marxist David Horowitz<\/span><\/a>\u2019s site, which is funded by right-wing billionaires, and here is that summary<\/span><\/a>, but it makes no reasonable sense, because it\u2019s just Republican billionaires\u2019 propaganda against Democratic billionaires propaganda \u2014 a spat amongst agents for contending mutually opposed U.S. aristocratic factions \u2014 and the only reason I even link to it here is that nothing in that article is false; so, it\u2019s not the deceptive, pernicious, type of propaganda that is encountered at, for example, \u201cDemocracy Now!\u201d itself. That summary-article about \u201cDemocracy Now!\u201d at Horowitz\u2019s site, was called by Sibel Edmonds a \u201cwell-documented and sourced information on Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, and the stage called Democracy Now!\u201d but Edmonds admitted there, that \u201cIf you are one of those confused readers don\u2019t be hard on yourself, the story is designed to confuse and not make any sense. You are not alone.\u201d The title of her confusing article was \u201cBFP Expos\u00e9: CIA-Obama-George Soros Coordinated Misinformation Campaign Targets Russia\u201d<\/span><\/a>. She seems unfortunately not to have read Bob Feldman\u2019s articles about \u201cDemocracy Now!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Feldman is the great investigative historian of American billionaires\u2019 control over America\u2019s Democratic Party \u2018news\u2019 media \u2014 the so-called \u2018liberal\u2019 news media in the United States. He has done many articles about most of the mainstream, and also of the major \u2018alternative news\u2019, U.S. \u2018news\u2019 media, including \u201cDemocracy Now!\u201d These articles un-confuse readers, about what\u2019s behind \u201cDemocracy Now!\u201d and about how it works. Here are links to, and excerpts from, several he\u2019s done recently, about \u201cDemocracy Now!\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n

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http:\/\/wherechangeobama.blogspot.com\/2018\/02\/in-pay-of-foundations-how-us-power.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n

In The Pay of Foundations: How U.S. power elite foundations fund a \u2018parallel left\u2019 media network<\/b>\u2014Part 1<\/span><\/p>\n

[photo] Carnegie Corp. of NY President Gregorian, Afghan President Karzai, James Billington in Jan. 2013 with then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2013<\/span><\/p>\n

In The Pay of Foundations<\/span><\/p>\n

How U.S. power elite and liberal establishment foundations fund a \u201cparallel left\u201d media network of left media journalists and gatekeepers.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you check out many of the left alternative media radio\/tv shows, publications, websites or blogs that receive grants from the U.S. power elite\u2019s liberal foundations, you’ll notice that they rarely provide their listeners, viewers or readers with much critical news reporting or unflattering historical information about their foundation funders; and they generally also block U.S. left-wing grassroots anti-war activist viewpoints that are not within the parameters approved by the establishment liberal board members and program managers of their foundation funders from being heard on their shows, printed in their publications or featured on their websites or blogs very often.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet as long ago as 1915, a Colorado miners\u2019 representative, John R. Lawson, in a statement before the U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations, noted that a \u201cskillful attempt\u201d was \u201cbeing made to substitute Philanthropy for Justice\u201d and there was \u201cnot one of these foundations, now spreading their millions over the world in showy generosity, that does not draw these millions from some form of industrial injustice,\u201d since their millions represented \u201cthe withheld wages of the\u2026working-class.\u201d \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

By 1995, billionaire speculator George Soros’ Open Society Institute foundation had given the Pacifica Foundation\u2019s KPFA radio station in Berkeley, California a $40,000 [equivalent to over $64,000 in 2018] grant. And in 1996, the Carnegie Corporation of New York foundation gave Pacifica a $25,000 [equivalent to over $40,000 in 2018] grant to launch a daily radio news show, Democracy Now<\/b>!, hosted and produced by long-time WBAI Evening News producer Amy Goodman, that was initially broadcast from Pacifica\u2019s New York City area WBAI radio station in Manhattan on February 19, 1996.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sitting on the board of trustees of the Carnegie Corporation of New York (whose assets had increased to $3.3 billion by 2017) in 1996, when it provided Democracy Now<\/b>! with its initial foundation funding, were U.S. power elite-connected Establishment folks like then-Chevron board member and future Bush II administration National Security Advisor and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the managing editor of the Time Warner mainstream media conglomerate\u2019s Time magazine, Henry Muller, and the multi-millionaire wife of then-U.S. Senator and future 2004 Democratic presidential candidate and Obama administration Secretary of State John Kerry, Teresa Heinz.<\/span><\/p>\n

And in 2017, the Carnegie Corporation of New York board of trustees included former New Jersey Governor and 9\/11 Commission Report Chair Thomas Kean, former New York Times Company CEO and president Janet Robinson, PBS NewsHour Co-Anchor\/Managing Editor and Duke Endowment Chairperson Judy Woodruff and the former Commander of U.S. Central Command [CENTCOM) from 2013 to 2016, (Ret.) Genaral Lloyd Austin III, who \u201cwas responsible for military strategy and joint operations throughout the Middle East and Central and South Asia\u201d during the Obama administration, according to the Carnegie Corporation website. The same website also noted that Carnegie Corporation of New York trustee Austin helped \u201cto spearhead the 2003 invasion of Iraq as the assistant division commander for the 3rd Infantry Division\u201d and in 2008 \u201creturned to Iraq as the commanding general of the Multi-National Corps-Iraq during the period when the surge forces were drawing down under Operation Iraqi Freedom.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But the Democracy Now<\/b>! Productions show, not surprisingly, has apparently never been very eager to provide its viewers, listeners or website readers with much news reporting that examines how the Carnegie Corporation of New York which initially funded it has, historically and currently, been controlled by members of the U.S. power elite, undemocratically concentrates institutional economic power and accumulates wealth from an economic system that exploits workers and middle-class consumers, and works to perpetuate a militaristic, plutocratic, politically undemocratic society in the United States. (end of part 1)<\/span><\/p>\n

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http:\/\/wherechangeobama.blogspot.com\/2018\/02\/in-pay-of-foundations-how-us-power_10.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n

In The Pay of Foundations: How U.S. power elite foundations fund a \u2018parallel left\u2019 media network\u2014Part 2<\/span><\/p>\n

In The Pay of Foundations\u2014Part 2<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

How U.S. power elite and liberal establishment foundations fund a \u201cparallel left\u201d media network of left media journalists and gatekeepers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Within New Left Movement anti-war activist circles in New York City prior to the 1980s, it was considered morally and politically contradictory and hypocritical for individuals on the U.S. left, who claimed to be working to build a grassroots-based U.S. left anti-war movement in political opposition to the U.S. power elite, to rely on grant money from foundations\u2014like the Carnegie Corporation and the Ford Foundation\u2014of this same U.S. power elite to fund their \u201cMovement\u201d [allegedly grassroots] work projects. In addition, individuals on the U.S. left who were into middle-class professional \u201cMovement careerism,\u201d left celebrity\/\u201dMovement media super-star\u201d status-seeking, individual monopolization of radio-tv media and left-wing microphone access, censorship or exclusion of dissident grassroots anti-war New Left viewpoints or individual \u201cMovement empire-building\u201d entrepreneurial work projects and \u201cMovement profiteering, were generally seen as acting in an undemocratic and politically contradictory way.\u00a0 <\/span>As the radical feminist journal Women In Revolution<\/i> reported in its Summer 1970 issue, the Class Workshop was formed \u201cas a reaction to the oppression working-class women experienced in the Movement\u201d and proposed a radical feminist media strategy \u201cin the interests of most women, not in the interests of the privileged few who want to make it on our backs.\u201d Among the media strategy proposals made by the Class Workshop in 1970, for example were the following:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone who appears in the media is to be drawn by lot from her group. No one is to participate in the media alone\u2026No member of a group can appear as an independent feminist\u2026No individual or group can earn a living by writing or speaking about women\u2019s liberation\u2026Anyone who wants to write should write for the Movement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet for over 20 years, Democracy Now<\/b>! accepted foundation money from U.S. power elite foundations and was mainly hosted and produced by just two professional upper middle-class journalists: Amy Goodman and a columnist of the New York Daily News mainstream newspaper\u00a0 <\/span>(and formerPhiladelphia Daily News mainstream newspaper columnist), Juan Gonzalez. \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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http:\/\/wherechangeobama.blogspot.com\/2018\/02\/in-pay-of-foundations-how-us-power_12.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n

In The Pay of Foundations: How U.S. power elite foundations fund a \u2018parallel left\u2019 media network\u2014Part 3<\/span><\/p>\n

In The Pay of Foundations\u2014Part 3<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

How U.S. power elite and liberal establishment foundations fund a \u201cparallel left\u201d media network of left media journalists and gatekeepers.<\/span><\/p>\n

In its 1991 edition, Louis Rukeyser\u2019s Business Almanac estimated that \u201cthe duPonts are the wealthiest and most powerful dynasty in the United States.\u201d As Gerard Colby also observed in the 1984 edition of his DuPont Dynasty: Behind The Nylon Curtain<\/i> book:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNo family in America has been richer longer than duPonts\u2026The family has developed many ruses for avoiding any public control over its wealth. Besides their 11 personal trusts, the duPonts have established 37 tax-free foundations\u2026Most of the duPonts, plus the first line of their in-laws and a few of the second line, make up the 250 \u2018big\u2019 duPonts\u2026These are the duPonts who comprise the richest family in the world\u2026These are the duPonts who own more estates, more thoroughbred horses, more yachts, more servants than the Queen of England and the royal family\u2026It has been precisely by \u2018hard bargaining,\u2019 by exploitation of labor at home and abroad, by fat government contracts, that the duPonts amassed their $10 billion [equivalent to over $23.7 billion in 2018 dollars] fortune.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet since the 1996, Democracy Now<\/b>! has not seemed eager to produce many radio or tv news show segments that critically examine how the super-rich duPont dynasty members specifically obtained their wealth, historically, and have, specifically, retained their individual wealth since 1996. One reason might be because a Columbia University School of Journalism-administered program funded by the Alfred I. duPont Awards Foundation gave the Pacifica Foundation\u2019s WBAI station a \u201csilver baton\u201d Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award in Broadcast Journalism, for the MacArthur foundation grant-subsidized 1991 \u201cradio documentary on East Timor\u201d that Democracy Now<\/b>! Productions president Goodman produced; which she personally accepted, at a Jan. 27, 1994 ceremony in Columbia\u2019s Low Library, from corporate media journalist Mike Wallace of CBS News, who was the event\u2019s MC.<\/span><\/p>\n

DuPont Awards Foundation \u201csilver baton\u201d awards were also distributed to the news departments and professional journalists of mainstream corporate media organizations like ABC, NBC, CNN and PBS-affiliated television stations at this same ceremony, which was broadcast nationally by PBS-affiliated stations. According to the Jan. 28, 1994 issue of Columbia Daily Spectator<\/i>, \u201chundreds of radio and television news professionals\u201d from the U.S. mainstream corporate media world \u201cgathered in the rotunda of Low Library\u201d for this annual self-promotional event to celebrate the reporting of mainly Establishment media journalists. <\/span><\/p>\n

Created in the early 1940s by Jessie Ball duPont in memory of her deceased husband, Alfred I. DuPont, the Alfred I. duPont \u2013 Columbia University Awards in Broadcast Journalism, which Columbia University\u2019s School of Journalism has administered since 1968, is funded by the Alfred I. DuPont Awards Foundation that, in turn, receives grants from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund. For example, between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2016, the Alfred I. duPont Awards Foundation gave Columbia University\u2019s School of Journalism 3 grants, totalling $1,220,000, to fund the duPont awards program; and the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, whose assets exceeded $291 million in 2013, in turn, gave 3 grants, totalling $807,000, to the Alfred I. duPont Awards Foundation. And one year before Goodman was presented with her \u201csilver baton\u201d duPont-Columbia award, Columbia\u2019s Graduate School of Journalism, itself, was directly given a $1.25 million gift in January 1993 by the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, to continue the Alfred I. duPont Columbia University Awards and other duPont awards program-related activities at Columbia. \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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http:\/\/wherechangeobama.blogspot.com\/2018\/02\/in-pay-of-foundations-how-us-power_13.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n

In The Pay of Foundations: How U.S. power elite foundations fund a \u2018parallel left\u2019 media network\u2014Part 4<\/span><\/p>\n

[photo] LBJ with 1992 duPont-Columbia award winner Bill Moyers in White House in late 1963.<\/span><\/p>\n

In The Pay of Foundations\u2014Part 4<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

How U.S. power elite and liberal establishment foundations fund a \u201cparallel left\u201d media network of left media journalists and gatekeepers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Between 1984 and the year before the future Democracy Now<\/b>! co-host, Amy Goodman, accepted her duPont-Columbia \u201csilver baton\u201d award at the 1994 Low Library ceremony on Columbia University\u2019s campus, the former president of the CBS News corporate media organization, Bill Leonard, was the director of the\u00a0 <\/span>Alfred I duPont\u2014Columbia University Awards in Broadcasting Journalism program.<\/span><\/p>\n

A CBS News radio and television show producer during the McCarthy era, Leonard apparently participated in the blacklisting and exclusion from the radio airwaves and tv screens of anti-war leftist U.S. citizens in the 1950s by the CBS mass media conglomerate, on whose board of directors sat former Columbia University trustees William Paley and William A.M. Burden. As the former Alfred I. duPont\u2014Columbia University Awards in Broadcasting Journalism director recalled in his 1987 autobiography In The Storm of the Eye: A Lifetime At CBS:<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026We were all asked to sign what amounted to\u2014hell, what was\u2014a loyalty oath. CBS was the only network to require such an oath\u2026The paper did not say one would be fired for not signing. But\u2026I signed\u2026There was not only the loyalty oath but a system whereby every guest on my several programs had to be cleared in advance through an appointed CBS executive to make sure he or she was not on a blacklist\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n

In The Pay of Foundations: How U.S. power elite foundations fund a \u2018parallel left\u2019 media network\u2014Part 6<\/span><\/p>\n

Owned Philly Newspaper where Democracy Now<\/b>! Co-Host worked & funded NAHJ <\/span><\/p>\n

In The Pay of Foundations\u2014Part 6<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

How U.S. power elite and liberal establishment foundations fund a \u201cparallel left\u201d media network of left media journalists and gatekeepers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Democracy Now<\/b>! part-time co-host Juan Gonzalez\u2019s career as a professional journalist in the corporate media world began in 1979 after his journalism course instructor at Temple University, who was a moonlighting editor at the Philadelphia Daily News evening newspaper of the Knight-Ridder corporate media firm, that also owned the Philadelphia Inquirer<\/i> morning daily newspaper, encouraged Gonzalez to apply for a clerical job at the Philadelphia Daily News<\/i> in late 1978; and he was soon promoted to be a full-time reporter for the newspaper by early 1979.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prior to merging with the super-rich Ridder dynasty\u2019s newspaper chain in 1974, to create a newspaper chain of 35 daily and 25 Sunday newspapers that made Knight-Ridder the largest U.S. corporate newspaper chain at that time, the super-rich Knight dynasty had purchased its two Philadelphia newspapers from the super-rich Walter Annenberg\u2019s corporate media conglomerate for $55 million [equivalent to over $369 million in 2018] in 1969. When Gonzalez began working for the Knight-Ridder corporate media firm\u2019s Philadelphia Daily News<\/i> in 1979, John \u201cJack\u201d Knight and James \u201cJim\u201d Knight owned 30 percent of Knight-Ridder\u2019s stock, three Ridder dynasty members owned 7 percent of Knight-Ridder\u2019s stock, and the Knight-Ridder board of directors included John Knight, James Knight and the three Ridder dynasty members.<\/span><\/p>\n

After John \u201cJack\u201d Knight died two years later, much of the $200 million [equivalent to over $542 million in 2018] worth of Knight-Ridder\/Philadelphia Daily News stock which he owned in 1981 was left to the \u201cnon-profit\u201d Knight Foundation, to avoid payment of heavy estate taxes. As the Knight Foundation\u2019s 1995 Annual Report noted:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen John S. Knight died in 1981, he left to the Foundation most of his holdings in Knight-Ridder\u2026James L. Knight succeeded his brother as chairman, and Lee Hills, former Knight-Ridder chief executive officer, was put in charge of planning the transition from a small foundation to one of the largest in the United States\u2026The number of trustees was increased to 13, including two of James Knight\u2019s daughters\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n

In The Pay of Foundations: How the U.S. power elite funds a \u2018parallel left\u2019 media network\u2014Part 8<\/span><\/p>\n

Gave Pacifica $23,000 To Help Fund Democracy Now<\/b>! in 1990s<\/span><\/p>\n

In The Pay of Foundations\u2014Part 8<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

How U.S. power elite and liberal establishment foundations fund a \u201cparallel left\u201d media network of left media journalists and gatekeepers.<\/span><\/p>\n

After the then-NY Daily News<\/i> owner who employed one of the Democracy Now<\/b>! show\u2019s co-hosts for over two decades expressed his support, in a late 2008 television interview, for using public funds to bail out the Wall Street banks, whose involvement in unethical subprime mortgage lending helped trigger the Great Recession of 2008, Wayne Barrett noted, in a Nov. 25, 2008 Village Voice article<\/span><\/a>, that \u201cwhen Zuckerman isn\u2019t running his media properties\u2026he\u2019s the chairman of Boston Properties, the largest office real estate company in the country;\u201d and \u201cthat Citigroup rents more than a million square feet from Zuckerman\u2019s company \u2014 trailing only the federal government and Lockheed Martin on its list of top 20 tenants.\u201d So one reason Mort Zuckerman argued on television that \u201cwe cannot allow a major institution like\u201d Citigroup \u201cto collapse,\u201d and his NY Daily News<\/i> newspaper argued in an a November 2008 editorial that the U.S. government should \u201cprevent major banking houses like Citigroup from collapsing,\u201d was apparently because the commercial rental income that Zuckerman\u2019s real estate dealmaking firm gained from its Citigroup tenant would be lost if Citigroup, despite having made $300 billion in unethical \u201ctoxic\u201d subprime mortgage-related loans, was allowed to collapse, according to Barrett\u2019s Voice<\/i> article.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Zuckerman had purchased his NY Daily News<\/i> newspaper in 1993 for $36.3 million [equal to over $64 million in 2018], his personal worth was then $265 million [equal to over $468 million in 2018]. And during the 20 years that the weekly salary of the part-time co-host of the \u201cparallel left\u201d Democracy Now<\/b>! show was being provided by Zuckeman\u2019s tabloid corporate newspaper, Zuckerman\u2019s personal wealth increased to around $2.8 billion by early 2018. But, not surprisingly, not many news segments examining how Zuckerman, who also sat on the board of trustees of both NYU and New York City\u2019s WNET-TV affiliate of PBS during these two decades, was accumulating more personal wealth through his commercial real estate dealmaking firm while the gentrification of the Big Apple intensified, were apparently aired or broadcast on a sustained, regular basis by the Democracy Now<\/b>! producers during these two decades. Yet in just the one year alone of 1999, the gross profits of the NY Daily News<\/i> owner\u2019s Boston Properties\u2019 firm jumped by 50 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n

After moving into his NY Daily News<\/i> office in early 1993, Zuckerman immediately \u201cfired 180 out of 540 members of the Newspaper Guild\u201d at the NY Daily News<\/i>, \u201caxed two-thirds of the African-American reporters, including all Black males,\u201d and \u201cdismissed [the now-deceased] veteran reporter Dave Hardy, who was one of the Black journalists who won a racial discrimination suit against the newspaper in 1987\u201d when it was still owned by the Tribune media conglomerate, according to the Daily News Workers Campaign for Justice. So, not surprisingly, the Daily News Workers Campaign for Justice then urged people in New York City to boycott Zuckerman\u2019s NY Daily News<\/i> in 1993. Yet one of the \u201cparallel left\u201d Democracy Now<\/b>! show\u2019s co-hosts continued to work as a columnist for Zuckerman\u2019s newspaper until 2016; in the year before Zuckerman, a Canadian immigrant, who didn\u2019t become a U.S. citizen until he reached the age of 40 in 1977, finally sold the NY Daily News<\/i> in September 2017, while still continuing to own his U.S. News & World Report<\/i> corporate media outlet.<\/span><\/p>\n

A year after the Carnegie Corporation of New York gave Pacifica the $25,000 grant in 1996 to launch the Democracy Now<\/b>! show, the J.M. Kaplan Fund foundation, in 1997, gave Pacifica a $13,000 [equal to over $20,000 in 2018] to \u201csupport Democracy Now<\/b>! show;\u201d and in 1998 an additional $10,000 [equal to over $15,000 in 2018] grant to help fund Democracy Now<\/b>! was given to Pacifica by the J.M. Kaplan Fund foundation. And, not surprisingly, few radio or cable tv segments examining either how the J.M. Kaplan Fund\u2019s founder obtained the money he needed to establish his foundation or how the J.M. Kaplan Fund historically acted as a conduit for the Central Intelligence Agency [C.I.A.] during the Cold War era were aired by Democracy Now<\/b>! during the last two decades.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a gold-mine of earlier findings, by this great historian, Feldman:<\/span><\/p>\n

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http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050209102308\/http:\/\/www.questionsquestions.net\/gatekeepers.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

ALTERNATIVE MEDIA CENSORSHIP: <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

SPONSORED BY CIA’s FORD FOUNDATION?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

by bob feldman <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The mass-circulation weekly TEMPO accused Ford of having once played, at the urging of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, a covert role in Indonesian political affairs by consciously supporting the work of individuals who were deemed to be sympathetic to the anti-communist aims of American foreign policy.<\/i>
\n\u2014 Chronicle of Philanthropy, 12\/13\/01<\/span><\/p>\n

The Ford Foundation\u2019s history of collaboration and interlock with the CIA in pursuit of U.S. world hegemony is now a well-documented fact…The Ford Foundation has in some ways refined their style of collaboration with Washington’s attempt to produce world cultural domination, but retained the substance of that policy…The ties between the top officials of the Ford Foundation and the U.S. government are explicit and continuing.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014James Petras in “The Ford Foundation and the CIA: A documented case of philanthropic collaboration with the Secret Police<\/span><\/a>” on 12\/15\/2001<\/span><\/p>\n

The multi-billion dollar Ford Foundation\u2019s historic relationship to the Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] is rarely mentioned on Pacifica\u2019s DEMOCRACY NOW \/ Deep Dish TV show, on FAIR\u2019s COUNTERSPIN show, on the WORKING ASSETS RADIO show, on The Nation<\/i> Institute’s RADIO NATION show, on David Barsamian’s ALTERNATIVE RADIO show or in the pages of PROGRESSIVE<\/i>, MOTHER JONES<\/i> and Z<\/i> magazine. One reason may be because the Ford Foundation and other Establishment foundations subsidize the Establishment Left\u2019s alternative media gatekeepers \/ censors.<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20030202072116\/http:\/\/www.questionsquestions.net\/feldman\/soros.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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George Soros’ “Parallel Anti-War Media\/Movement”<\/b><\/a><\/span> by bob feldman<\/span><\/p>\n

Big Oil’s Foundation\/PBS Links<\/b><\/a><\/span> <\/b>by bob feldman<\/span><\/p>\n

Northwestern University’s CIA Connection<\/b><\/a><\/span> by bob feldman<\/span><\/p>\n

COUNTERPUNCH’s FERI\/Roosevelt Dynasty Connection? \u2014 part 1<\/b><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

More Nation Magazine \u2014 Big Oil Links<\/b><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Project Censored’s MacArthur Foundation Link<\/b><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Time For Ford Foundation & CFR To Divest?<\/b><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

THE NATION’s NED Connection \u2014 part 1<\/b><\/a><\/span> <\/b>\/ <\/b>part 2<\/b><\/span><\/a>
\nThe Nation<\/i> magazine\u2019s not-so-progressive connections to the National Endowment for Democracy and other private agencies with elite ties to the US foreign policy establishment. <\/span><\/p>\n

Part 1: <\/b>PACIFICA \/ DEMOCRACY NOW \/ DEEP DISH TV<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Part 2:<\/b> FAIR \/ COUNTERSPIN \/ INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ACCURACY \/ WORKING ASSETS RADIO<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Part 3:<\/b> THE NATION INSTITUTE \/ RADIO NATION \/ THE NATION MAGAZINE<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Part 4: <\/b>ALTERNATIVE RADIO \/ Z MAGAZINE \/ SOUTH END PRESS<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Part 5: <\/b>MOTHER JONES \/ FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL PROGRESS<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Part 6: <\/b>PROGRESSIVE<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Part 7: <\/b>FORD FOUNDATION, THE CIA & U.S. ESTABLISHMENT CONSPIRACY \u2014 part 1<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Part 8: <\/b>FORD FOUNDATION, THE CIA & U.S. ESTABLISHMENT CONSPIRACY \u2014 part 2<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Part 9: <\/b>FORD FOUNDATION, THE CIA & U.S. ESTABLISHMENT CONSPIRACY \u2014 part 3<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Part 10: <\/b>POLITICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATES’ EDELMAN-BUNDY CONNECTION <\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Ford Foundation’s Skull and Bones Link<\/b><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

“Alternative” media paymasters: Carlyle, Alcoa, Xerox, Coca Cola…?<\/b><\/a><\/span> <\/b>(Brian Salter, 29 Sep 2002)
\nA look at some connections of the Ford Foundation Board of Trustees. \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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So: \u201cDemocracy Now!\u201d represents not only the propaganda-entrepreneurs who founded and run it, but virtually the entirety of America\u2019s Democratic Party aristocracy; it represents the neoliberal-neoconservative viewpoint, including its many lies (historical and otherwise); and, in this regard, it\u2019s basically the same as other liberal \u2014 or neoliberal-neoconservative \u2014 \u2018news\u2019-media, such as TIME<\/i>, CNN and Washington Post<\/i>. That\u2019s some \u2018alternative\u2019 \u2018news\u2019, for gullible well-intentioned Americans, who think they live in a democracy<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

And this isn\u2019t to say that the \u2018news\u2019-media of the Republican Party\u2019s billionaires are any better; if anything, they\u2019re even worse, because they deny so much that\u2019s well-established in science.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse (originally published abridged by Strategic Culture Foundation) The means by which the vast majority of Americans are deceived to believe fake \u2018news\u2019 that\u2019s based on fake \u2018history\u2019, will be described here, so as to enable America to be understood correctly, as a fake \u2018democracy\u2019, the perpetual-war-for-perpetual-peace nation that the entire world considers to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":351022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,519],"tags":[1031,30,96,541,526,524,754,92,49,76,1024],"class_list":{"0":"post-351021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-newswire","9":"tag-amy-goodman","10":"tag-big-brother","11":"tag-cover-up","12":"tag-media","13":"tag-propaganda","14":"tag-russia","15":"tag-syria","16":"tag-terrorism","17":"tag-usa-news","18":"tag-warfare","19":"tag-ww3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}