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Titolo: Grazie, industria dell'informazione

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"The American Media Empire of Managed News"  Dr. Peter Phillips.
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Propaganda model post 9/11 becomes deliberate disinformation;
consolidation of media and public relations groups; prison torture
across the US; domestic secret detention centers;
Operation FALCON type mass arrests;
suspension of habeas corpus by the Chief Executive;
US and NATO as protectors of global capital;
structure of inequality maintained by global capital and military
empire worldwide;
repression that addresses us all;
the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights.
Operation FALCON (Federal and Local Cops Organized Nationally) is the
name of several week-long dragnets organized by the United States
Marshals Service. FALCON I occurred between April 4 and April 10, 2005
(also Crime Victims' Rights Week), FALCON II during the week of April
17-23, 2006,
and FALCON III from October 22-28, 2006.
During FALCON I, a total of 10,340 federal fugitives were arrested in
all 50 U.S. states as well as Puerto Rico and Guam by some 3,000 to
10,000 law enforcement officers from such agencies as the ATF, the
FBI, the Secret Service, and the United States Department of Housing
and Urban Development.
FALCON 1 netted the largest number of arrests ever recorded during a
single operation. This included the arrests of 162 accused or
convicted of murder, 638 wanted for armed robbery, 553 wanted for rape
or sexual assault, 154 gang members, and 106 unregistered sex
offenders. The greatest category of arrests (4,291) was for narcotics
violations. Other large classes of wanted fugitives arrested included
1818 burglary suspects and 1727 assault suspects. In addition to the
arrests, 243 weapons, 30 kg of cocaine, 19 kg of heroin, 204 kg of
marijuana and $373,000 in cash was seized by Operation FALCON teams.
Although the Marshals Service provided coordination for the sweep,
most of the manpower for the arrests came from local law enforcement:
206 state law enforcement agencies, 302 county sheriffs' departments,
and 366 city police departments were involved, as well as 25 federal
agencies and all 83 districts of the U.S. Marshals Service, which
allocated about $900,000 to the operation.
La grande democrazia sta rendendosi conto di essere una dittatura di
fatto.
Da noi va anche peggio, neanche ci rendiamo conto.


“There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the
simple truth.”   –– Charles Dickens
We face what appears to be a military industrial media empire so
powerful and complex that truth is mostly absent or reported in
disconnected segments with little historical context.
A case in point: The London Times reported on June 5, 2010, that
American troops are now operating in 75 countries. Has President Obama
secretly sanctioned a huge increase in the number of US Special Forces
carrying out search-and-destroy missions against al-Qaeda around the
world? If so, this increase is far in excess of special-forces
operations under the Bush administration and reflects how aggressively
Obama is pursuing al-Qaeda behind his public rhetoric of global
engagement and diplomacy. Somehow this information didn’t make it into
the US media.
The US, in cooperation with NATO, is building global occupation forces
for the control of international resources in support of Trilaterialist
—US, Europe, Japan— corporate profits.
A New York Times report on the availability of a trillion dollars  in
mineral wealth in Afghanistan, on top of the need for an oil/gas
pipeline from the Caspian Sea, suggests other reasons for U.S
objectives in the region.
Jim Lobe of Inter Press Service writes on June 15, 2010, “The timing
of the publication of a major New York Times story on the vast
untapped mineral wealth that lies beneath Afghanistan's soil is
raising major questions about the intent of the Pentagon…Blake
Hounshell, managing editor at Foreign Policy magazine, says that the
US Geological Service (USGS) already published a comprehensive
inventory of Afghanistan's non-oil mineral resources on the Internet
in 2007, as did the British Geological Survey.
Much of their work was based on explorations and surveys undertaken by
the Soviet Union during its occupation of Afghanistan during the
1980s.”
Given the previous reports, there is nothing new about resources in
Afghanistan that the Pentagon and US multinational corporations didn’t
already know.
On the contrary, the public should consider whether  the surfacing of
this resource story is a managed-news press release being done at a
time of sensitive concerns regarding NATO’s mission in Afghanistan.
A deliberate news insertion such as the mineral wealth story is
designed to create support for a US/NATO global empire agenda.
Managed news includes both the release of specific stories intended to
build public support as well as the deliberate non-coverage of news
stories that may undermine US goals.
Have you been told  about the continuing privatization of this global
war? Independent journalist Jeremy Scahill, wrote in The Nation
magazine November 23, 2009, how Blackwater (Xe) operatives in the
Pakistani port city of Karachi are gathering intelligence and helping
to direct a secret US military drone bombing campaign in that country.
There has not  been much coverage of the report in Global Research,
May 27, 2010, regarding new US capabilities for cyber warfare,
announced recently by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates as the
activation of the Pentagon's first computer command and the world's
first comprehensive, multi-service military cyber operation. CYBERCOM
is based at Fort Meade, Maryland, which also is home to the National
Security Agency (NSA).
The US’s Israeli partner in the Middle East demonstrated a skilled
manipulation of the global media’s coverage of the May 31 attack on
the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Israel controlled the news and images that
emerged from the attack on the ships, asserting that the invading
Israeli paratroopers were viciously attacked by crewmembers—resulting
in the killing of several in “self defense.” Israel sought to divert
the focus of public discussion away from the illegitimate use of
excessive force against a group of humanitarians– of diverse religious
and national affiliations– to the blaming of the victims for causing
their own deaths.
Managed news creates a Truth Emergency for the public inside the US/
NATO Military Industrial Media Empire.
Deliberate news management undermines the freedom of information on
the doings of the powerful military/corporate entities though overt
censorship, mass distractions, and artificial news— including stories
timed for release to influence public opinion (i.e.,
propaganda).
A Truth Emergency is the lack of purity in news brought about by this
propaganda and distraction.
It is the state in which people, despite potentially being awash in a
sea of information, lack the power of discernment resulting in a
knowinglessness about what is going on in the world. In short, we are
living in a time where people do not know whom to trust for accurate
information and yearn for the truth.
One antidote to the ongoing Truth Emergency is the creation of
validated independent news by colleges and universities around the
globe where students and professors use research skills and databases
to fact check and verify information that is reported to the public.
For more about this, and what we can all do to counter managed news,
see Project Censored International's new website at
http://www.mediafreedominternational.org
. Together, we can build
accountability in our media and breathe life back into our withering
republic.
Peter Phillips is professor of sociology at Sonoma State University,
President of Media Freedom Foundation/Project Censored, former
director of Project Censored, and co-editor of Censored 2010.

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