I’m totally disillusioned with the MSM, or mainstream media, these days. Are they worthless or did they cover the protests and I missed it? Look at this crowd! I now in fact call the media the COM, or the corporate-owned media. I don’t mean online media, which is often pretty good.

So I knew there would be protests on August 12th in Washington, but I assumed, due to lack of hearing about it later, that the protesting was a disastrous failure. Nothing of the kind! In fact, according to certain websites which actually pay attention to this type of thing, the protests were large and enthusiastic. You can read about them here at one of my favorite protest websites.

My latest podcast ends with an interview with Ahmad S., an Afghan journalism student in Pakistan who talks about our foreign policy and his ideas on what we can do about it. You’ll be impressed with his insightful thoughts on it. He produces and writes his own blog called MyScribbles, here. During the interview he expresses his desire for Americans to rise up and protest and demand that our government change our policies. It sounded so easy when he described what we should do! Part of the problem is that when people do protest, the media doesn’t even cover it. If it’s completely ignored, there is no reason to protest. They know this, and that’s why they control so much of the media. Look up who owns American media, and it all starts to make sense. Whoever controls the flow of information to the people, controls the people.

Submitted by Shelly of Citizen Against Lies.