The greatest threat to the American Working Class is the Wall that
stands between the People and those Profiteers busily stripping away
all our possessions and exhausting our entire planet. That Wall has a
name. Donald Trump. While the Media draws our attention to the crazy
antics of this Showman, the American Corporate Empire(ACE) has free
range.
None of us would hand over our wallets or purses to some fast talking
street entertainer, but that's what is happening. What strange hold
does Donald Trump have over the Working Class?
Carl Jarvis
On 3/26/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Chris Hedges
Mueller Report Ends a Shameful Period for the Press
Truthdig
The Mueller report's categorical statement that Donald Trump and his
campaign did not collude with Russia ends one of the most shameful periods
in modern American journalism, one that rivals the mindless cheerleading
for
the Iraq War by most of the press. It further erodes and may prove fatal to
the credibility of a press that has steadfastly rendered most of the
country
invisible and functions as little more than an array of gossiping courtiers
to the elites.
" '[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign
conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election
interference activities,' " the report by special counsel Robert Mueller
says, according to a direct quotation given in an official letter by U.S.
Attorney General William Barr.
The charge that Russia stole the 2016 presidential election, that Vladimir
Putin has secret "pee tapes" of Trump cavorting in a Moscow hotel with
prostitutes or that Trump has been a longtime "Kremlin agent," repeated by
reporters whose work I admired in the past, is demagoguery as pernicious as
the vile taunts and racist tropes that come out of the White House. The
press endlessly repeated such allegations while ignoring the expanding
social inequality and suffering of a country where half the population
lives
in poverty, as well as the collapse of our democratic institutions. These
facts, not Russian manipulation, saw enraged American voters elect a
demagogue who at least belittles the elites, including those in the press,
who sold them out. The charge that Trump was a tool of Russia is
entertaining. It attracts billions in advertising dollars. It allows the
press to posture as a moral crusader. But over the past three years this
obsession blotted out most of the real crimes committed by this
administration and the reality most Americans endure.
The mainstream press, owned by the corporations that have extinguished the
democratic state and are fleecing the public, as well as destroying the
ecosystem on which we depend for life, does not hold its employers to
account. The empty chatter about Russia, including in The New York Times,
exposes the bankruptcy of the U.S. media. MSNBC and CNN, which long ago
abandoned journalism for entertainment, have breathlessly clogged the
airwaves with ridiculous conspiracy theories and fantasies and used them to
justify a faux crusade.
