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sábado, 9 de março de 2024

Apparently, the comment I wrote two days ago didn't go down well.

Summarizing Sikorski's intervention, what remains is delusional arrogance, hatred, and vassalage to American imperialism.

Citizens who demand negotiations are labeled Putin's puppets, but people like Radosław Sikorski are heroes as if using belligerent language makes their narrative true. Interesting logic.

I have a question: When was the last time the US/NATO acted as a force for good in the world?

This is actual US foreign policy.

Overthrowing Other People's Governments: William Blum's Master List

https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

Comment on the video: https://www.youtube.com/live/SFOYe92FHxE?si=PMfydHw2h4f5RysN

How the Media Frames Political Issues

In The Emergence of American Political Issues (1977) McCombs and Shaw state that the most important effect of the mass media is "its ability to mentally order and organize our world for us. In short, the mass media may not be successful in telling us what to think, but they are stunningly successful in telling us what to think about."[13] The presidential observer Theodore White corroborates this conclusion in The Making of a President (1972):

The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It determines what people will talk and think about - an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.[14]

McCombs and Shaw also note that the media's tendency to structure voters' perceptions of political reality in effect constitutes a bias: "to a considerable degree the art of politics in a democracy is the art of determining which issue dimensions are of major interest to the public or can be made salient in order to win public support."[15]

http://www.scottlondon.com/reports/frames.html