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The propaganda system allows the U.S. leadership to commit crimes
without limit and with no suggestion of misbehavior or criminality; in
fact, major war criminals like Henry Kissinger appear regularly on TV
to comment on the crimes of the derivative butchers. "
Edward S. Herman, political economist and author
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The purpose of commercial [media] is to induce mass sales. For mass
sales there must be a mass norm ... By suppressing the individual, the
unique, the industry ... assures itself a standard product for mass
consumption."
John Whiting, writer, commenting on the homogenization of corporate media program content
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the United States, both the Republican and Democratic Parties, with
only a few prominent exceptions, have been and are in the pay of the
corporate media and communication giants.": John Nichols and Robert McChesney
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Afghan
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Mohammad Rasoul Zazai, another Afghan National Army spokesman. Zazai
said the deaths came after a four-hour firefight Thursday and that no
Afghan soldier was killed.
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The
statement further added that the militants were killed almost half an
hour later after a roadside bomb blast killed one Afghan civilian and
injured three others.
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average cost of each US troop in Afghanistan will nearly double in the
last year of the occupation to $2.1 million, according to a new
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his pocket. Suddenly, the police storm in, arrest the man for
possession and inform you that they are taking your business, selling
it, and pocketing the profits to help fight crime in the state.
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future in which the pension that Mr MacDonald earned over 39 years with
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bankruptcy filing.
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new report from Southern Education Foundation. Thirteen of the states
are in the South, and the other four are in the West.
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