Here is an excellent interview for a general overview of crisis
capitalism and the debt ceiling charade playing out in the corporate
media machine.
I would add to Wolff's analysis, that Republican/Democrat politicians
are not merely controlled by election money and reelection. If they
obey the corporate masters they all get high paying lobbyist positions
for those same masters, whether they are reelected or not.
It's a second way that enormous amounts of money buys power over the
lawyer millionaires in the executive and legislative branches of
government. If people recognize that fact, they will be better able to
understand the goals of the charades played out between Democrats and
Republicans. (Health care reform was a similar charade by corporations
acting as bipartisan puppet masters.)
Wolff's analysis of our lack of organization in the US is right on!
Chris Hedges covers the death of our "liberal institutions" which once
nudged society toward justice. That's a big part of our collapsing
society.
And here in the district, I saw how the manipulation of consumers over
decades, and the loss of human values and civic literacy, had opened the
door to a corporate "fascist shift." It doomed Clark Park to
privatization. (Fascist shift as outlined by Naomi Wolf in End of America)
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/28/richard_wolff_debt_showdown_is_political
Other News the corporate media won't cover: A fascist takeover of
Detroit is imminent. (link provided)
I believe the people of West Philly understand where Philadelphia
will be divided in coming years. The early signs of this New Orleans
style cleansing of cities started here over ten years ago. Detroit is
the first to officially follow New Orleans and this paradigm is in the
future of Philadelphia unless there is a national revolution.
http://wsws.org/articles/2011/jul2011/detr-j29.shtml
Here is the corporate coverage of the Detroit Shift. Those people
who've been here for the Penn gentrification can recognize the language
marketing the "vision" which also succeeded here.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1973274,00.html
Glenn, citizen journalist
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