davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in Alexei Navalny was pronounced dead

When you look at what happened to Chile, you come to realize that neoclassical / neoliberal / Chicago School economics and neocolonialism are very closely related.

IMO, neoclassical economics is a wildly successful psyop, such that it has become hegemonic in all capitalist countries. It’s an absolute garbage theory and yet is canon at every university, outside of perhaps China and the few other socialist states. Marxist economist Michael Hudson has helped me unlearn a lot of junk economics.

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in Alexei Navalny was pronounced dead

same-picture

davel , 5 months ago to memes in Normal people at the pool

I’ll keep following @TaylorSwiftsJets until it takes a dive in the drink.

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in Alexei Navalny was pronounced dead

Not another neoliberal shock therapy revolution, like Atlantic Council / New American Century stans want, it doesn’t.

davel , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to worldnews in Alexei Navalny was pronounced dead

If you find Five Eyes hagiographic propaganda to be awesome, then sure.

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davel , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to news in Welcome to Dearborn, America’s Jihad Capital

Looks like racist War on Terror jingoism is back on the menu, boys!

davel , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to news in Welcome to Dearborn, America’s Jihad Capital

Wait who is being killed in their bunks? Are we talking about imperial core military that has no business being in Western Asia?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooMCvGlbbc4&t=19s

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in ‘Go Away’ - African Union Prevents Israeli Delegation from Entering Headquarters

They use Arabic numerals.

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in China demands Israel halt military operations in Rafah

I know that’s true in the US, specifically. The FCC abandoned the Fairness doctrine, and Citizens United v. FEC removed even the semblance of a barrier between the capitalist class and the political machine. Now most corporate media outlets pretty nakedly align themselves with one of the two political parties. But since both parties always ultimately answer to the capitalist class, these changes are largely cosmetic. It’s still a bunch of kayfabe in a rigged game.

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in China demands Israel halt military operations in Rafah

Not sure if post-edit CCs work, so upthread ⬆️ @brain_in_a_box @zephyreks @PolandIsAStateOfMind @PanArab @yogthos @nekandro @carl_marks_1312

davel , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to worldnews in China demands Israel halt military operations in Rafah

I think it’s a systemic issue that can’t be addressed in terms of individual mods.

Most instances are admined by Anglosphere labor aristocrats of the imperial core, who have little to no class consciousness.

They also have an underdeveloped media literacy while believing they have exemplary media literacy. Search for “media bias” and you’ll find tons of bullshit media horseshoe theory charts like the one below, which conflate enlightened centrism with factualness. Look at !world which uses Media Bias/Fact Check as their North star, which is run by a member of the Council on Foreign Relations [not the same person after all].

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/7dfc5791-c9a1-4952-a90c-b6c91314d0f7.jpeg

They subscribe to the new post-Trump, “post-truth” media literacy curriculum, a curriculum that was paid for and crafted by the US military-industrial complex: New Media Literacy Standards Aim to Combat ‘Truth Decay’

This week, the RAND Corporation released a new set of media literacy standards designed to support schools in this task.

The standards are part of RAND’s ongoing project on “truth decay”: a phenomenon that RAND researchers describe as “the diminishing role that facts, data, and analysis play in our political and civic discourse.”

Few of these people have read Inventing Reality or Manufacturing Consent. They tend to stay within the Global North corporate Overton window, not recognizing the bubble they’re in.

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in China demands Israel halt military operations in Rafah

wikipedia

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in Putin's suggestion of Ukraine ceasefire rejected by United States, sources say

If they choose to keep fighting

1. How may of them chose to fight in the first place, aside from the neo-Nazi ones? Many of them were conscripted and forced to fight.
2. How many of the women & children & old men want the fighting to continue? The Ukrainian government is a shit government; how committed even are they to its survival? This is a post-US coup government that has banned opposition parties and is auctioning the country off to foreign capitalists. All of the aid they’re getting is lend-lease, which they will be repaying for generations. This is going to be full-on neoliberal shock therapy.
3. To what extent does the Ukrainian government have a choice in whether to continue fighting, when the US clearly has a lot of say in the matter despite its claims to the contrary?

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in Putin's suggestion of Ukraine ceasefire rejected by United States, sources say

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davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in China demands Israel halt military operations in Rafah

Just because a massive organization made up of millions of people lied once

It seems you are unaware that these kinds of lies are rampant and have been documented for decades, to the point where reliable patterns have emerged:

• Michael Parenti, 1986: Inventing Reality: The Politics Of The Mass Media
• Edward Herman & Noam Chomsky, 1988: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media.
  A five minute primer: Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine

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Perhaps you’re unaware of many of the US’s atrocities, because many are hidden or distorted through the above methods. Nobody lies like the imperial core propaganda machine.