News is 'news' in our corporatacracy. Currently, for example, we have the Israeli-Warmongers-Only-Perspective 'News'. See below for how the release of a UN report on the war criminal conduct on both sides of the Gaza war is widely headlined in the mainstream news (to see how news of 320 dead Gazan children in that massacre is handled (hint: 'not at all'), see NPR's Linda Gradstein):
Where the Iranian spokesperson is allowed to dispel the headline's glaring implication in paragraph 20:
Javanfekr said Iran is ready to face the six powers and "during the talks we will definitely speak of banning nuclear arms globally because it is not a problem for us as we do not possess any nuclear arms."
So, obviously 'nuclear power' means 'nuclear power power'. Some of you got your war on before you realized that, right? That was the intent.
Meanwhile, McClatchy continues to be a source of news. Here it provides some reality on the domestic side, first the real health care catastrophe:
The news article, being news, appropriately doesn't tell us that Obama's health care proposal will do nothing about health care's skyrocketing cost, since doing something would bother the profits of heavy campaign contributors like the insurance and hospital industries. Hey, it would be nice if there were more of that from the mainstream liberal punditocracy or even from obscure blue blogs, but that is where Obamalove generally continues to reign.
Politicians are able to "fix" things if they are not bought off by corporations. Our government is becoming less and less democratic and more and more resembling an corportocracy-oligarchy. We are allowing the following discourse to prevail: he who makes the most noise wins. Willing ignorance of facts, lack of civil discourse, collective paranoia, and a prevalence of fear of the"other" are destroying our government and society. We appear to be willing dupes as corporations as well as a bought and paid for governmental structure dismantle our society in the name of profits from low wages, outsourcing jobs, little or no regulation governing business practices, and destruction of the environment.
Keeping our eye on the prize, ending corporate control of our 'democracy', is easy when the real news is as bad as it is, and never has it contrasted more sharply with the 'news'.
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