CorpGovMedia Propaganda is grinding away at the European Welfare States

[cryofan]

Lately, I have been reading a lot about on social democracy, and a lot of Chomsky-related stuff lately, mostly related to how the media seems to control the flow of ideas so that the public debate is limited to those areas where the public consensus is in agreement with the opinions of the elite. It seems to me that Chomsky et al., are generally right about how the elite institutions collaborate to further tighten the grip of corporate-globalist capitalism on people everywhere. In order to slowly tighten their grip on the people, the CorpGovMedia propaganda machine is directed towards Europe, and especially the social democracies that do the welfare state so well, such as Sweden, for example.
Here are a couple of paragraphs from a website that discusses in detail the Nordic model of the social democracy. They also analyze how CorpGovMedia is demonizing and attacking with propaganda the Nordic model of the social democracy.



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Although the possibility cannot be ruled out, there is at this point no evidence that the steady stream of bad news about Sweden has been co-ordinated in any systematic way. Quite possibly, it is merely the haphazard product of a diverse assortment of actors who share roughly the same interests and, correspondingly, the same basic perspective on the human condition. All over the world, there appear to be well-paid and well-placed individuals who look at Sweden-- with its egalitarian tendencies, its history of involvement in issues of peace and global justice, its condemnation of great crimes committed in the name of freedom-- and do not like what they see.
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AND THIS:

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At least for the time being, the country has been safely incorporated into the new world order of the United States-- a seemingly loose but nonetheless effective hegemony based on neo-liberal ideology, control of international financial institutions and the mainstream news, and the periodical demonstration of overwhelming military power.

The significance of the latter has been underlined by an ideologue of the New York Times, the unofficial official voice of the U.S. empire: ”For globalization to work, America cannot be afraid to act like the almighty superpower that it is. . . . The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist-- McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies is called the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.”
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Much more here:
http://www.nnn.se/n-model/disinfo/disinfo.htm

[cryofan]

1. bump

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

2. "The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist"

ain't that the truth!

[IrateCitizen]

4. That's my favorite Tom Friedman quote of all time

It speaks VOLUMES as to where that man's true loyalties and motivations lie.

[IrateCitizen]

3. The hidden fist -- that's from Tom Friedman

That quote you excerpted is a prime reason that I view Friedman as a complete scumbag. It is quite obvious from his statement that the overarching goal of the "globalization" that he trumpets on behalf of his rulers is not free exchange of goods, but domination.

This kind of stuff becomes old hat after a while, once your illusions have been stripped away. It's a neverending battle, and I'm not really sure what to do to counter it -- other than dealing with people one-on-one, trying to spread a bit of the truth to counter the propaganda organ of lies.