by Eric Zuesse, The Duran:
This article is about how the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment’s freedoms of speech and of the press are treated by today’s American press — treated with hostility — by them: ignored when possible, and suppressed when not. What’s more important to them is to do the propaganda, and this means for them to serve as stenographers for the Government, in order to serve the billionaires who control the Government. It means for them to work with the Government, and not against the individuals (or “Deep State”) who fund both of its political Parties and also fund the press. Because America’s press serves the individuals who actually control the U.S. Government, it is an institution of propaganda, instead of being an institution of journalism; and this fact will be exemplified and demonstrated here.
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America’s Founders were overwhelmingly opposed to the development of political parties, but had little understanding of the economic-class divisions that would emerge between the owners of corporations and the workers in their corporations — “management” versus “labor” — in the following centuries, and that would thus shape “conservatism” versus “liberalism,” and develop into today’s Republican versus Democratic Parties that now are at war against each other on almost all domestic issues but united with each other on expanding this Government’s control over all other countries (and so they agree with one-another on virtually all foreign-affairs issues). America’s billionaires are united on foreign affairs; they are all neoconservatives, and that’s to say, supporters of U.S. imperialism. Only on domestic affairs do they war against each other, and they do this vigorously. It’s is the ideological divide that today’s Republican and Democratic Parties embody in personalities and candidates and offer to the public to vote on to lead the country. But is this democracy as America’s Founders had intended? Or is it, instead, rule by America’s billionaires who fund both Parties?
The History Channel has a very good article, “The Founding Fathers Feared Political Factions Would Tear the Nation Apart”, which opens:
Today, it may seem impossible to imagine the U.S. government without its two leading political parties, Democrats and Republicans. But in 1787, when delegates to the Constitutional Convention gathered in Philadelphia to hash out the foundations of their new government, they entirely omitted political parties from the new nation’s founding document.
This was no accident. The framers of the new Constitution desperately wanted to avoid the divisions that had ripped England apart in the bloody civil wars of the 17th century. Many of them saw parties — or “factions,” as they called them — as corrupt relics of the monarchical British system that they wanted to discard in favor of a truly democratic government. …
England’s civil wars were between its Catholic nobility and its Protestant nobility, and so America’s Founders had no idea of the economic-class wars that would come to dominate during the coming centuries. Today’s political Parties are very different from the ones that developed right after America’s founding, except for one thing — political Parties today, like then, represent, and are controlled by, contending factions within the nation’s aristocracy (formerly the anointed nobles, but now simply the nation’s billionaires).
America’s press today are propaganda organizations either for the Republican Party against the Democratic Party, or for the Democratic Party against the Republican Party, and subscribers to them are buying propaganda, not journalism. A good example to show how this is done is the landmark current court case about the First Amendment, Missouri v. Biden, which was initially decided, on 4 July 2023, in favor of the Constitution that America’s Founders collectively wrote, but which has been responded-to by America’s ‘news’-media on the basis of their respective Party-affiliations — i.e., as propaganda, instead of as journalism. Not only are America’s Founders dead, but the country that they had created is gone. It didn’t actually last this long.
That decision stated in its Introduction:
If the allegations made by Plaintiffs are true, the present case arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history. In their attempts to suppress alleged disinformation, the Federal Government, and particularly the Defendants named here, are alleged to have blatantly ignored the First Amendment’s right to free speech.
