Title: The Corporate Oligarchy Sustains Itself By Making Ignorance An Equal Strength ~
Headings: The Corporate Oligarchy Sustains Itself By Making Ignorance An Equal Strength
The Corporate Oligarchy Sustains Itself By Making Ignorance An Equal Strength
Rainer Shea
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Content: During this springs’ debate over whether Trump should talk with North Korea over a potential peace deal, media reactions to the idea of detente were overwhelmingly negative. This was partly because the Atlantic Council and other think tanks had supplied narratives among the news networks which reinforced this hostility to ending the nuclear tensions. Then this September, the Western media unquestioningly reported the claim from Bellingcat that the Skripal poisoning suspects are Russian intelligence operatives, despite the extremely inadequate methodology that Bellingcat used to come to this conclusion. ( Bellingcat’s operator Eliot Higgins, unsurprisingly, is tied to the Atlantic Council). These are among countless pieces of propaganda that the state constantly exposes Americans to. It’s a perpetual addition and revision to the story that the corporate oligarchy wants the world to believe. The effort to manufacture consent needs to be frequently engaged in and (at least usually) consistent, because these messaging practices make people loyal to the narratives of the state. This endless piling-on of propaganda is shown in the anti-Russia campaign of recent years, which has consisted of frequent media sensations around claims about Russia that intelligence operatives “leak” to compliant media outlets. The latest Russia “bombshell” exemplifies this pattern of Western cold war propaganda; the two reports about “Russian interference” that were recently submitted to the Senate Intelligence Committee are both based in dubious claims which lack substantiation, and which come from the intelligence community-tied organizations New Knowledge and Graphika.