Reddit user topd0g: In 1967, Guy Debord wrote his seminal work, The Society of the Spectacle[1] , in which he described how the majority of society has become alienated from their own lived experiences: "The spectacle is not a series of images but a social relation among people, mediated by images." Basically, in the modern day it has become possible to manufacture the narrative that the average person uses as a lens to interpret the going-ons of daily life. The manufacturing process is some combination of mass media, socialization, careful PR management, biases, etc. in different proportions. I contend that it is much more enlightening to understand Ferguson, Missouri through Debord's theory of Spectacle. read more
perhaps nobody consciously intended to set the world on fire, but we're on guard for ebola-carrying islamists nonetheless.
The utter lack of interest in what possible legal authority Obama has to bomb Syria is telling indeed: Empires bomb who they want, when they want, for whatever reason (indeed, recall that Obama bombed Libya even after Congress explicitly voted against authorization to use force, and very few people seemed to mind that abject act of lawlessness; constitutional constraints are not for warriors and emperors)...
Continuously creating and strengthening enemies is a feature, not a bug. It is what justifies the ongoing greasing of the profitable and power-vesting machine of Endless War.
For sheer infantilisme the French word captures it best I dare readers to wade through the following claptrap without a snort of disbelief...
Most immediately shocking was the Obama fantasy world which Kerry, in his clod-hopping, schoolboy way, represented. Anyone who has studied Syria from afar, let alone those who go there, know that the fictional "moderate opposition" supposedly deserters from the Syrian government army does not exist.
"Procter & Gamble Co. is getting back into a business it exited more than a decade ago -- making products for adults suffering from incontinence -- as it takes aim at the growing ranks of aging Americans. read more
here's a better source than the mouthpiece media for keeping track of what's happening on the ground in ukraine:
http://romaninukraine.com/
his blog is an aesthetic eyesore, but the quality of information he provides is second to none.
also, he writes awesome articles like the following:
putin's libertarians, hosted by none other than the daily anarchist.
hopefully that will be good for at least a few exploding heads.
"major American media outlet[s]" are placed upon a pedestal unwarranted by their past performance.
The NY Times, in particular, kowtowed to the W. administration, just like it has to the Obama administration.
however, it's irrelevant to get bogged down in the false dichotomy of "team blue" vs "team red".
CIA infiltration of the establishment media is widely acknowledged, as evinced by the following wikipedia link, under the banner of operation mockingbird. More likely than not, similar programs continue to this day, albeit of a more sophisticated nature.
Just to head off the inevitable criticism: no, I am certainly not a fan of Vlad (shirtless or otherwise), but I also do not buy into false dichotomies.
probably the same camps where we were formerly training or arming "moderate" islamists.