Summary: One of the biggest stories of our time is the evolution of the America-that-once-was into The New America. It’s so slow to be easily missed, especially since it’s a melody the news media cannot hear. And those they look to for advice, the courtiers of the Versailles-on-the-Potomac, will not hear it. Here are the some of the latest reports on this grand theme.
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(1) Top recommendations
- This Reuters series about The New America should be at the top of your reading list:
“The Unequal State of America“ - “Is Our Republic Ending?“, Steven Strauss (Harvard), Huffington Post, 16 December 2012 — “Eight Parallels Between the Collapse of Rome’s Republic and Contemporary America”
- “True Believer: Petraeus and the Mythology of Afghanistan“, Gareth Porter, Truthout, 20 December 2012 — This is story about us. Our desire to be fooled. Our wish to follow a man on a white horse. Eventually we’ll probably find him, and the remnants of the Republic will collapse.
- “Why the Pundits Are Wrong About Big Money and the 2012 Elections“, AlterNet, 20 December 2012 — “One campaign funded largely by the super-rich lost to another funded by same, and money mattered big-time in House elections.”
- “Gun Control Without Equality Means More Massacres, Not Fewer“, Mark Ames, 21 December 2012 — The psychological stress created by the slow economic collapse of the bottom 47% of America will result in more killings, of every sort.
- Two essential sources of info and insight about the coming New America: TomDispatch and Glenn Greenwald at The Guardian.
(2) Other interesting stories, bread crumbs to a vision of a The New America
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- Preparing our children for the New America: ACLU report on the over-policing of our schools, July 2009
- Watching your grade-school classmates taken away by police in handcuffs is educational, teaching about citizenship in The New America: : “10 Disgusting Examples Of Very Young School Children Being Arrested, Handcuffed And Brutalized By Police“, The Truth is Now, 20 April 2012
- Shutting down social mobility in America: “The De Facto Privatization of State Universities“, Roger Pielke Jr (Prof, U CO – Boulder), 17 December 2012
- “America is the Torture Superpower”, Torture Superpower“, TomDispatch, 18 December 2012
- In the New America we support the rich: “Yacht Owners Go Galt in Newport Beach“, Kevin Drum, Mother Jones, 18 December 2012 — It’s a misleading title.
- “Newtown kids v Yemenis and Pakistanis: what explains the disparate reactions?“, Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian, 19 December 2012 — “Numerous commentators have rightly lamented the difference in how these childrens’ deaths are perceived {in America}. What explains it?”
- “The coming drone attack on America“, Naomi Wolf, op-ed in The Guardian, 21 December 2012 — “Drones on domestic surveillance duties are already deployed by police and corporations. In time, they will likely be weaponised”
- “Missing British-Somali man reappears in New York court“, Alice K Ross, from the great Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 22 December 2012 — Did you really believe that Obama stopped renditions?
(3) For More Information
For a full list of posts about this war see the FM Reference Page America – how can we stop the quiet coup now in progress?
Posts about the mainstream media:
- Only our amnesia makes reading the newspapers bearable, 30 April 2008
- “Elegy for a rubber stamp”, by Lewis Lapham, 26 August 2008
- “The Death of Deep Throat and the Crisis of Journalism”, 23 December 2008
- The magic of the mainstream media changes even the plainest words into face powder, 24 April 2009
- The media – a broken component of America’s machinery to observe and understand the world, 2 June 2009
- We’re ignorant about the world because we rely on our media for information, 3 June 2009
- About campaigns for high office in America – we always expect a better result from the same process, 17 June 2009
- Are we blind, or just incurious about important news?, 6 July 2009
- We know nothing because we read newspapers, 12 October 2009 – About mythical numbers
- Must the old media die for the new media to flourish?, 29 October 2009
- Journalists, relying on anonymous government sources, attack anonymous bloggers who correct journalists’ errors, 25 July 2010
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