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Sun Jan 11, 2015, 07:12 PM Jan 2015

You Are Being Lied To | Mickey Z.


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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

Jan. 11, 2015

“For some people, war is terror, disaster, and death. For others, it's a PR problem”

- Norman Solomon


All it would take is a casual glance at social media to agitate anyone with even a hint of contextual knowledge. Current events -- events that repress, oppress, and kill by design -- are viewed in a guilt-free vacuum. Each sensationalist episode is portrayed as discrete, garners a few insipid memes and hashtags, and then boom: we’re being spoon-fed the next set of lies.

News Flash #1: From the perpetual international interventions to the wars being waged on our streets by unaccountable, militarized law enforcement agents, it’s all connected.

News Flash #2: It’s our job to draw those connections and spread the word.

Please read on for small sampling of how we’re consciously and relentlessly manipulated.

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