You may have heard that Victor Orban in Hungary was a threat to democracy. May also have heard that AMLO in Mexico was also a threat to democracy.
What you almost certainly didn't hear was how these two presidents were tremendously popular and why. Let's start with Orban.
The news media lies to you, but probably not in the way you are thinking.
When you think of news media lies you probably think of Saddam's WMDs and his fictional ties to al-Qaeda.
This lie was the exception because the news media was lazy. They lied about something specific that could be easily disproven, which was unusually sloppy for them. Most of the media's lies are much larger and harder to disprove and usually involve half-truths and lies of omission.
A tip o' the hat to Naked Capitalism's Lambert Strether today for including a link to
A friend of mine sent me a link to a TED talk given by a presumably learned Briton, speaking to an audience in Canada. The speech which is linked here: I found as quite interesting on several levels.
The Powell memorandum told the Republicans to go forth and use ownership of media and industry by the super-rich to change American popular culture from top to bottom — in order to put a stop to the social and political ferment of the Sixties and Seventies, crush the so-called counterculture, and try to make any revival of such developments impossible once and for all.
Why do Democratic politicians have to lie to stay in office?
Case in point. In an article published today at the Huffington Post, Sam Levine covers the president’s recent attack on Elizabeth Warren for criticizing the TPP. As Levine points out:
While Obama criticized Warren for being wrong on the facts of the deal, it's difficult to know exactly what the deal contains because his administration has deemed the negotiations to be classified.
