Noam Chomsky in Eugene, April 20, 2011 (tags)
The religious faith that markets will sort everything out and are efficient (cf. Joseph Stiglitz) is overthrown.Like propaganda and public relations, business does not seek enlightened consumers making rational choices but unenlightened consumers making irrational choices.
"Governments far from being the cause or instrument of order often represent its destruction." Paine unmasked the strategy of governments of implanting hatred against other people in their subjects to wage war. mediation of a false misguided government system.
BTL:Former UN Weapons Inspector Charges Bush Launched Iraq War to... (tags)
...Pursue Agenda of 'Global Hegemony'. Interview with Scott Ritter, former U.S. Marine and U.N. weapons inspector, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
The social construction of consciousness (tags)
This paper gives a theoretical discussion of the source and methodology of the social construction of consciousness. The first section introduces the piece. The second establishes the relationship between "interests" and "consciousness." The third describes growing inequality in the US. The fourth develops the structural source of consciousness. The fifth details the interlocking nature of politics and economy in the US. The sixth section discusses how our consciousness can be constructed. The final section offers some solutions.