Re:EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass...
by jmyeet on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @08:05AM
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I really feel like we'd all be better off if Manufacturing Consent [1] was required reading.
The media is complicit in pushing domestic and foreign policy, is selective in what it covers and how it covers it and intentionally uses very different language to describe the exact same thing (eg [2][3]).
I generally agree that what the DPRK does and what Europe (or the US) does isn't really that different. Dig a little deper and look at the role the West played in creating the DPRK and the intentional starving (ie economic sanctions) we enacted, just like in Iraq, Iran, Syria or Venezuela.
European (and US) history of the last century is the neoliberals siding with fascists to quash anything communist or communist adjacent (eg labor unions). Germany might've lost the war but Nazism won. Whatever you do, don't look too deeply into the background of Adolf Heusinger [4] who was made the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee.
Re:EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass...
by f_devd on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @08:29AM
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Just to confirm, you believe the local media as perceived by their population (& by extension social media) has the same power to push back on policy in the DPRK as the EU?
The media is complicit in pushing domestic and foreign policy, is selective in what it covers and how it covers it and intentionally uses very different language to describe the exact same thing (eg [2][3]).
I generally agree that what the DPRK does and what Europe (or the US) does isn't really that different. Dig a little deper and look at the role the West played in creating the DPRK and the intentional starving (ie economic sanctions) we enacted, just like in Iraq, Iran, Syria or Venezuela.
European (and US) history of the last century is the neoliberals siding with fascists to quash anything communist or communist adjacent (eg labor unions). Germany might've lost the war but Nazism won. Whatever you do, don't look too deeply into the background of Adolf Heusinger [4] who was made the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
[2]: https://x.com/trtworld/status/1785959608168731091?lang=en
[3]: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-how-media-langua...
[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Heusinger