On another note, in today's Northwestern Dr. Ann Frisch does an excellent job of cutting through the crap in the mainstream press coverage of Venezuela's failed referendum. Excerpt:
The propaganda machine calls Chavez a dictator, but dictators don't lose elections.
This was evidence of participatory democracy.
I am, however, ashamed that the U.S. government has allegedly been using our tax money to destabilize a democratically-elected government, artificially creating some of the opposition. The CIA's alleged "Operation Pliers" plan was to foment rebellion among the armed forces by creating phony polls to show the "No" vote would prevail, releasing phony early reports that the "No" vote was winning, all against election rules. T-shirts with "fraud" had already been printed. Opposition advertising claimed that if the referendum passed, children would be taken away from their parents and businesses would be seized.
The media propaganda has not been limited to Venezuela. We have been drowning in assertions that are false and misleading.
The full opinion piece can be found here.
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Yes I listened to you and Blaska. I could no longer listen after the following quote from Blaska, "why does Iran need a nuclear program, they have plenty of oil, they could get it for free, therefore Iran must be up to no good". Blaska went on to say, “Obama thinks no options should be off the table”. By now I am thinking to myself WTF. No response from Joy, not that I expected any. According to Mearschimer/Walt, what country in the Middle East has nuclear weapons? Come now people, I will give you three guesses. If certain mystery Middle Eastern country-which we cannot name for fear of being called something-has nukes, and is very aggressive, other countries will want nukes to defend themselves. I realize that my comments are usually polemic in nature, but we need to realize that now is not the time to be timid. The times we live in are very dangerous and what we decide today will effect our kids for generations to come. I think that people who have the ear of the media need to get called on their ignorance, and be held responsible for what they say. Most importantly people need to be held responsible for who and what they support.
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