> On Aug 10, 2024, at 2:58 AM, gojko rakic via groups.io
> <gojkor=hotmail....@groups.io> wrote:
>
> when I found the whole aricle I did not occured to me that is on LaRouche
> site. The author of that article was also unknown to me.
Larouche is very much a US figure, so there's no need for the explanation,
Gojko. And I agree with David that the article is good, mostly, and it fits
with what I have learned about the US atomic-bomb attack on a non-white
civilian population. But towards the end of the article, the cuckoo pops out
of the clock:
"Later, in a similar peace-through-development initiative, President Ronald
Reagan adopted Lyndon LaRouche's technology-sharing concept for his Strategic
Defense Initiative (SDI) proposal."
The idea that Reagan was making armament policy decisions without guidance the
from US weapons industry is as strange as the notion that he got his plan from
Lyndon LaRouche to share the products of billions of dollars of weapons R&D
with the USSR. This inanity undercuts the thesis of the article. Also, the
"one-world government" rant is also fits into conspiracies of the US right.
But why not quote larouchepub.com if we follow and quote the imperialist New
York Times or the Zionest Haaretz? The latter two publication collect a lot of
news and information worldwide through networks of international news agencies,
independent journalists and thought leaders. That information useful for
evidence-based analysis. Their propaganda model is "normally not accomplished
by crude intervention" like larouchepub. A large for-profit media enterprise
works by filtering what is covered, selection of what is covered and who covers
it, according to Herman and Chomsky in Manufacturing Consent: The Political
Economy of the Mass Media.
How does larouchepub's propaganda model work? The author belongs to a Chinese
think tank,
http://rdcy.ruc.edu.cn/yw/Teacher_Home/WilliamJones/Commentarieswj/index.htm,
along with the widow of Lyndon LaRouche. This by itself says little to
nothing, but given the craven history of LaRouche and his followers, I'm
inclined to believe their propaganda serves Chinese imperialism, which also
works through the selection of "right-thinking personnel and by the editors’
and working journalists’ internalization of priorities and definitions of
newsworthiness that conform to the institution’s policy," to quote
Manufacturing Consent.
I think David is right that we should evaluate what is being said or written
rather than by whom. But sometimes the question of why a story or article is
being published is more interesting than the story itself.
Mark
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