Ernst et Ernst, le héros et le Saint

Ernst et Ernst, le héros et le Saint

Comunidad Post 55 - ¿qué es el Materialismo Filosófico? - ARSFILOSOFO o el arte del filósofo materialista

Comunidad Post 55 - ¿qué es el Materialismo Filosófico? - ARSFILOSOFO o el arte del filósofo materialista

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democracia/fascismo USA y América Latina, video de Ed Hermann

http://www.zcommunications.org/latin-america-and-the-us-by-edward-herman
El profesor Eduard Hermann, expone en una video entrevista sus tesis acerca del modo en que los EEUU han apoyado gobiernos de corte fascista en América Hispana, por intere4ses de sus propias corporaciones sin importar para nada la cuestión de la auténmtica democracia, de la cual los EEUU se han ido haciendo una especvie de valedores a nivel mundial...
Longtime activist and author Edward S. Herman was interviewed by Hans Bennett in Philadelphia on December 26, 2008. In this interview, Herman discusses the history of US influence in Latin America, and contextualizes this with what he says is an anti-democratic US policy throughout the Global South, designed to create a favorable investment climate for US corporations. He is asked how things are changing today with the popular election of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and many other recently-elected leftist presidents in Latin America. Is the US losing power and influence? What will this mean for the future?
A longtime critic of US foreign policy in Latin America, Herman is a Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a contributor to Z Magazine since its founding in 1988. He is the author of numerous books, including his 1979 book, co-authored with Noam Chomsky, The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism: The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume I, and Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media.
The Washington Connection has an interesting history. When Chomsky and Herman wrote its precursor, they found their analysis of U.S. foreign policy unwelcome by the corporate media establishment. Warner Modular Publications (at that time a subsidiary member of the Warner communications and entertainment conglomerate) was set to release it, but when the parent company learned about the book in the fall of 1973, it condemned its "unpatriotic" scholarship. William Sarnoff, a high officer of the parent company, explained why the book upset him so much, citing the book's "unpatriotic" argument that "the leadership in the United States, as a result of its dominant position and wide-ranging counter-revolutionary efforts, has been the most important single instigator, administrator, and moral and material sustainer of serious bloodbaths in the years that followed World War II."
As a result, Chomsky and Herman explain in The Washington Connection's introduction that:
Although 20,000 copies of the monograph were printed, and one (and the last) ad was placed in the New York Review of Books, Warner Publishing refused to allow distribution of the monograph at its scheduled publication date. Media advertising for the volume was cancelled and printed flyers that listed the monographs as one of the titles were destroyed. The officers of Warner Modular were warned that distribution of the document would result in their immediate dismissal.
Following this, Warner backed down a little, and formally agreed to not suppress the book: reaching a compromise with the lower-level publisher (who struggled for distribution of the monograph). However, before the compromise could be enacted the publishing house was shut down, with Warner selling the house's "stocks of publications and contracts to a small and quite unknown company" effectively killing the book.
Taking a closer look at the book's content, Chomsky and Herman argue that the "ideological pretense...that the United States is dedicated to furthering the cause of democracy and human rights throughout the world, though it may occasionally err in the pursuit of this objective" has been constructed to mask: "the basic fact...that the United States has organized under its sponsorship and protection a neo-colonial system of client states ruled mainly by terror and serving the interests of a small local and foreign business and military elite."
Focusing largely on US support for the Latin American "National Security States," Chomsky and Herman argue that U.S. corporations purposefully support (and in many instances create) fascist terror states in order to create a favorable investment climate. In exchange for a cut of the action, local military police-states brutally repress their population when it attempts to assert basic human rights. They write:
The proof of the pudding is that U.S. bankers and industrialists have consistently welcomed the "stability" of the new client fascist order, whose governments, while savage in their treatment of dissidents, priests, labor leaders, peasant organizers or others who threaten "order," and at best indifferent to the mass of the population, have been accommodating to large external interests. In an important sense, therefore, the torturers in the client state are functionaries of IBM, Citibank, Allis Chalmers and the U.S. government, playing their assigned roles in a system that has worked according to choice and plan.
Chomsky and Herman cite official statements by State Department planner George Kennan, to illustrate the mindset behind US policy in Latin America and around the world. In 1948, Kennan wrote Policy Planning Study 23, stating that if the U.S. wanted to maintain (and expand) its position of world dominance, it could not truly respect human rights and democracy abroad. The document said:
We have about 50 percent of the world's wealth, but only about 6 percent of its population...In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships that will permit us to maintain this disparity...To do so we will have to dispense with sentimentality and daydreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives...We should cease to talk about vague and...unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of living standards and democratization."
Kennan elaborated on this concept in a 1950 briefing of U.S. ambassadors to Latin American countries. Of prime importance was to prevent the spreading of the idea "that governments are responsible for the well being of their people." To combat the proliferation of this idea, Kennan argued that "we should not hesitate before police repression by the local government...It is better to have a strong regime in power than a liberal one if it is indulgent and relaxed and penetrated by Communist."

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Pajamas Media » (UPDATED) An Iranian Connection to the Cordoba House Ground Zero Mosque?

Pajamas Media » (UPDATED) An Iranian Connection to the Cordoba House Ground Zero Mosque?

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Dan Dennett Lecture

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Dan Dennett: A secular, scientific rebuttal to Rick Warren

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Daniel Dennett - The Genius of Charles Darwin: The Uncut Interviews

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Obama Backpedals on Mosque

Obama Backpedals on Mosque

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Vic Stenger - The NEW Atheism (Part 01 of 10), Millsaps College, 2009

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Wild and Domesticated Religions: How the Machinery of Religion Evolved

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La Ricotta - Orson Welles

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CALIGULA EN CASTELLANO parte 6

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Docu: Making of Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1/4)

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Docu: Making of Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1/4)

una película imprescindible a mi juicio,para entender las estructuras de la sociedad en el sistema político llamado democracia, en el presente y desde la época en que se filmó esta película de Passolini

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Pasolini - "Nulla è più anarchico del potere" (sub.english)

marxismo operando como crítica del poder económico y político, no hay que dejar de criticar este sistema dominante llamado democracia, en el sentido de sociedad de consumidores sometidos...

Pier Paolo Pasolini, Profezia

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Una voce profetica: Pasolini, la Televisione

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La Rabbia: Pasolini e la televisione

La televisión es uno de los instrumentos más importantes para el buen funcionamiento de las democracias en el presente
Sin televisión no habría democracia tal como hoy opera en topdo el mundo
Desde la filosofía crítica es imprescindible el estudio de este asunto.Para ello podemos consultar un par d elibros muy interesantes al respecto, de Gustavo Bueno,a saber: televisión:apariencia y verdad y Telebasura y democracia, ambos con reseñas y comentarios en fgbueno.es


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mercenarios de la opinión , especialistas lobistas

El mundo en que vivimos está tan sumido en el mar de poderes que lo controla casi todo, desde su base mediática, que ni siquierra somos conscientes de esta situación
El mensual Le Monde Diplomatique ha publicado en el número de agosto de 2010 la traducción de un artículo publicado en la revista mensual norteamericana The Nation titulado Los mercenarios de la opinión independiente
Este es el resumen del contenido tal como lo podemos ver en la edición electrónica en español:
En caso de guerra, de crisis o de reformas, la opción más sencilla (y la más económica) para las televisiones consiste en invitar a "especialistas". Éstos acuden en masa a los canales y, con tono doctoral, repiten análisis y consejos. Aparentemente independientes y desinteresados, son a menudo, en realidad, mercenarios a sueldo de grandes empresas cuyos intereses defienden.
El análisis De Sebastian Jones muestra el modus operandi, ocultado siempre por las grandes cadenas noretamericanas de televisión, de estos especialistas-lobbistas , al servicio de las grandes corporaciones vinculadas a negocios de empresas relacionadas con industrias miliotares, en el caso de las guerras, o de industrias farmacéuticas en el caso de cuestiones de sanidad en el sentido socio político del asunto y mutatis mutandis, lo mismo encontramos en cuanto a la relación entre los grandes medios y las compañías aqseguradoras, para el asunto de la sanmidad, pero además en el caso de crisis fiunancieras, se usa de este tipo de especialistas-lobistas, sus servicios , en cooperación lo más disimulada y oculta posible con los grupos mediáticos, servicios imprescindibles y muy bien remuinerados , desde luego, a la industria del dinero, banca y finanzas

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The Lobbying-Media Complex w/ The Nation's Sebastian Jones

El mensual Le Monde Diplomatique publica en el número de agosto de 2010 un importante artículo del periodista Sebastian Jones aparecido anteriormente en elmensual norteamericano The Nation
Su exposición crítica acerca del modus operandi de los especialistas-lobistas que aparecen en los canales de grandes grupos de noticias , en los EEUU, son sencillamente servicios a la gran industria militar, farmacéutica, aseguradora y bancaria-financiera. Teniendo en cuenta que la información opera a escala global, sólo queda sacar conlcusiones y veremos el modo en que opera realmente la llamada democracia en estos tiempos

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