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Fake News: the Unravelling of US Empire From Within
McMurtry, John
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/28/fake-news-the-unravelling-of-us-empire-from-within/Date Written: 2017-03-28 Publisher: Counter Punch Year Published: 2017 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX20543 A war of opposing certitudes and denunciations is waged day to day between the long-ruling US corporate media and the White House. Both continuously proclaim ringing recriminations of the other's 'fake news'. Over months they both portray each other as malevolent liars. Abstract: - Excerpt: False news allows every step. Even the happy-face Trudeau regime is taken aback by the tidal shift to national priorities. Its ministers scuttle around the US in near panic to find common cause for restoring the unaccountable regime. Multiplying carbon, disemployment and ecological plunder are ignored throughout in the longest standing fake news of all -- "economic growth". In fact, there is no real economic growth in universal life necessities or reduction of waste. The only growth is of volumes and velocities of transnational money exchanges, foreign commodities, and private profits to the top. Subject Headings |