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manufacturing consent

BooksCan't You ReadmediaPolice State

Blog: the Panopticon, Public Trust, and “Fake News”

A medium length blog post exploring why government lies about mass surveillance have had unintended consequences in the fight against “fake news.”

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Can't You ReadClimate CrisisMedia Madness

Greta is not the Problem: Climate Crisis and the Culture War

Two blog posts about what the media furor over Greta Thunberg’s visit to the UN means and why rich people aren’t listening to her.

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EssaysNewsPatreonSocial Media

Odds and Ends: A Skinny Week and Malcolm Tucker Goes to War

A link to all my offsite pieces in an extremely busy week of blogging on Patreon and Can’t You Read.

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BlogClimate CrisismediaPatreonPolitics

The Skinny: Vote Pledging, Untrustworthy Media, and the Urgency of Climate Catastrophe

A collection of my informal writing from late September 2019, including vote pledges, declining trust in media, and why the capitalist solution to climate catastrophe is to kill us all.

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BlogFascismPatreonPolice StatePolitics

The Skinny: Fascism, Tyranny and the Smear Machine

In this edition of The Skinny on Patreon, we look at why normalizing fascism and othering leftism is a recipe for a reactionary nightmare.

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FascismmediaMedia MadnessPolitics

Active Measures on Media Madness

A longer essay on Media Madness about GOP racialized voter suppression, elite liberal complicity and the need for a united antifascist front on the left.

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EssaysNewsPoliticsWar

Six Things I Think: Eve of Destruction Edition

A look at the unfolding nightmare that is American foreign policy under Downmarket Mussolini, his State Department minions and the Witch King of Turtle Bay.

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EssaysmediaPatreonTheory

Essay: Lying Without Lying (Link)

A link to a 2018 Media Theory essay on Patreon that I wrote about the manipulation of framing, context & depth to lie without lying in the media.

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EssaysmediaMemesNewsWar

Fear and Droning: Manufacturing Consent for War as a Public-Private Partnership

After finally finishing a protracted move, I’m back with a thorough study of the US perpetual war machine and why the elite class in western democracies are always manufacturing consent for conflict

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EssaysPoliticsRussiagateWar

Bipartisan Support: Russiagate, Foreign Policy & the Coming Forever War – Part Two

As news comes out of Iran faster than I can write about it, we take a look at mounting evidence of a coming storm and proof that regime change in Iran is a bipartisan issue for the bloodthirsty US political establishment

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