For Friday, we reblog this interesting piece on war guilt for World War One, and important, but little known true history of the time. We have hammered away at this fact that official history is largely propaganda that benefits the few at the expense of the many.
The moral of the story is that we cannot trust those who control the flow of information to tell us the truth. Not surprisingly, more books are banned each day as blogs are taken down or de-platformed. Free speech and free expression is necessary for free, independent, critical thinking. But, sadly, we are all to be passive, demoralized sheep on a global plantation.
The Lies That Form Our Consciousness and False Historical Awareness
Download and Read the Book: The genesis of the world war : an introduction to the problem of war guilt
Paul Craig Roberts
My generation associated dystopias, such as George Orwell’s 1984,
with the Soviet Union, a country in which explanations were controlled
and criticism of Stalin would land a person in the Gulag. We
thought of the United States and our life here much differently. But
with the passage of time the difference between life in the Soviet Union
in the 20th century and life in the Western world today is
disappearing. Today, the
journalist Julian Assange is undergoing the same kind of state terror
and torture as any Soviet dissident, if not worse. The
Western media is as controlled as the Soviet media, with print, TV, and
public radio serving as a propaganda ministry for government and the
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