Authored by Eric Zuesse via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
The more people there are who ignore facts that contradict their beliefs, the likelier a dictatorship will emerge within a given country.
Here is how aristocracies, throughout the Ages, have controlled the masses, by taking advantage of this widespread tendency people have, to ignore contrary facts:
Authored by Chris Hedges via TruthDig.com,
The ruling elites, who grasp that the reigning ideology of global corporate capitalism and imperial expansion no longer has moral or intellectual credibility, have mounted a campaign to shut down the platforms given to their critics. The attacks within this campaign include blacklisting, censorship and slandering dissidents as foreign agents for Russia and purveyors of “fake news.”
Following Kim Jong-Un's televized response to Trump's UN speech, in which he called the US president a "mentally deranged dotard" and vowed to "tame the U. S. dotard with fire", Donald Trump took to twitter this morning, responding in kind that "Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who is obviously a madman who doesn't mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before!"
Last week we jokingly wrote about a Facebook press release that was apparently an honest effort by the social media giant intended to summarize Russian efforts to undermine the 2016 election using their social media platform.
The verbal soap opera continues.
Just hours after North Korea's foreign minister Ri Yong-ho called Donald Trump a "barking dog", the rogue state's president, Kim Jong-Un called President Donald Trump “a frightened dog” and a “gangster fond of playing with fire” in an official yet fiery statement on Thursday.
Reacting to Trump's United Nation's speech in which the US president called Kim Jong Un “Rocket Man,” and threatened to "totally destroy" North Korea, Kim's response was nothing short of a macabre magnum opus of comic-hyperbolic fusion.