OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #217,
FEBRUARY 19, 2025. Compiled by Dick
Bennett
Origins of Wars:
Walter Karp. Indispensable
Enemies: leaders’ desire for power.
Herman and Chomsky. Manufacturing
Consent: media support of ruling power.
Monthly Review: failure to abide by international weapons treaties.
Leaders’ Desire for Power
Walter Karp, Indispensable Enemies: The Politics of
Misrule in America. Saturday Review
P, 1973.
“In prosecuting an aggressive foreign
policy, the party oligarchs have been driven by no cause or interest
external to themselves: by no fundamental economic interest, by no genuine
threat to the security of the Republic, by no irresistible poplar demand. Except in the post-World War I period [v.
“Wilson’s war”], American foreign policy has been gratuitously aggressive since
1898, a policy carried out for no compelling reason except the oligarchs’ wish
to prosecute an aggressive foreign policy.
Their reason for wanting such a policy, however, is scarcely mysterious
and certainly not irrational. An
aggressive foreign policy safeguards the power of the power wielders and
strengthens their control over those whom they rule” (248).
Control of Media by Ruling Oligarchs
and Groups
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass
Media.
1st ed. 1988.
Paperback, 2nd ed. January 15, 2002 by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky.
Publisher’s description
In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that,
contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and
ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual
practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the
privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global
order.
Based on a series of case studies—including the media’s dichotomous
treatment of “worthy” versus “unworthy” victims, “legitimizing” and
“meaningless” Third World elections, and devastating critiques of media
coverage of the U.S. wars against Indochina—Herman and Chomsky draw on decades
of criticism and research to propose a Propaganda Model to explain the
media’s behavior and performance.
Their new introduction updates the Propaganda Model and the earlier case
studies, and it discusses several other applications. These include the
manner in which the media covered the passage of the North American Free Trade
Agreement and subsequent Mexican financial meltdown of 1994-1995, the media’s
handling of the protests against the World Trade Organization, World Bank, and
International Monetary Fund in 1999 and 2000, and the media’s treatment of the
chemical industry and its regulation. What emerges from this work is a powerful
assessment of how propagandistic the U.S. mass media are, how they
systematically fail to live up to their self-image as providers of the kind of
information that people need to make sense of the world, and how we can
understand their function in a radically new way.
Failure to abide by International weapons
treaties About Manufacturing Consent
A “compelling indictment of the news media’s role in covering up errors
and deceptions” (The New York Times Book Review) due to
the underlying economics of publishing—from famed scholars Edward
S. Herman and Noam Chomsky. With a new introduction.
In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary
to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous
in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they
defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups
that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order.
Based on a series of case studies—including the media’s dichotomous treatment
of “worthy” versus “unworthy” victims, “legitimizing” and “meaningless” Third
World elections, and devastating critiques of media coverage of the U.S. wars
against Indochina—Herman and Chomsky draw on decades of criticism and research
to propose a Propaganda Model to explain the media’s behavior and performance.
Their new introduction updates the Propaganda Model and the earlier case
studies, and it discusses several other applications. These include the manner
in which the media covered the passage of the North American Free Trade
Agreement and subsequent Mexican financial meltdown of 1994-1995, the media’s
handling of the protests against the World Trade Organization, World Bank, and
International Monetary Fund in 1999 and 2000, and the media’s treatment of the
chemical industry and its regulation. What emerges from this work is a powerful
assessment of how propagandistic the U.S. mass media are, how they
systematically fail to live up to their self-image as providers of the kind of
information that people need to make sense of the world, and how we can
understand their function in a radically new way.
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About Manufacturing
Consent
A “compelling indictment of the news media’s role in covering up errors
and deceptions” (The New York Times Book Review) due to
the underlying economics of publishing—from famed scholars Edward
S. Herman and Noam Chomsky. With a new introduction.
In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that,
contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and
ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual
practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the
privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global
order.
Based on a series of case studies—including the media’s dichotomous treatment
of “worthy” versus “unworthy” victims, “legitimizing” and “meaningless” Third
World elections, and devastating critiques of media coverage of the U.S. wars
against Indochina—Herman and Chomsky draw on decades of criticism and research
to propose a Propaganda Model to explain the media’s behavior and performance.
Their new introduction updates the Propaganda Model and the earlier case
studies, and it discusses several other applications. These include the manner
in which the media covered the passage of the North American Free Trade
Agreement and subsequent Mexican financial meltdown of 1994-1995, the media’s
handling of the protests against the World Trade Organization, World Bank, and
International Monetary Fund in 1999 and 2000, and the media’s treatment of the
chemical industry and its regulation. What emerges from this work is a powerful
assessment of how propagandistic the U.S. mass media are, how they
systematically fail to live up to their self-image as providers of the kind of
information that people need to make sense of the world, and how we can
understand their function in a radically new way.
See Less
U.S. preparations for
“prolonged and limited” nuclear war and
repeated refusal to abide by international agreements.
“Notes from the
Editors.” Monthly Review (September
2024 Volume 76, Number 4). This month’s “Notes from the Editors” recounts the history
of U.S. preparations for “prolonged and limited” nuclear war and Washington’s
repeated refusal to abide by international agreements regarding nuclear
weaponry. With the recent announcement that the United States will be
stationing nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles on German soil—within minutes’
striking distance of Moscow—this history is now, troublingly, more relevant
than ever. | more… Source
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