More than 50% of all the news Americans get through commercial media (TV, radio, and print) is now either filtered through, or provided by, hired consumer relation firms representing the interests of corporate or government entities.  Over 100 billion dollars a year is spent on generating such "news".  Provided free to news hub sources, it is replacing the time honored system of investigative news-gathering.  It is produced so as to be indistinguishable from bonifide news reports.  Presented as “real” news, the last seven generations of consumer propaganda lessons have developed an industry for hire that seriously threatens to overwhelm honest news gathering services. Democracy depends on  critical journalism to provide our people with accurate unbiased information to make informed decisions on issues critical to our lives and future. As multi-national corporate interests control more and more mainstream media outlets, it has become easier and easier to "shape" the opinions of the American Public.
          So the world lurches toward a new fascism.  Couched in the language of propaganda, the War Against Terror threatens us all.  For what is this war but the fulfillment of a desire to revenge ourselves against those who have hurt us—even when they have taken their own lives in the effort? So our eyes turn toward finding someone else to punish.  In Israel, suicide bombers take their lives to fulfill their revenge, and Israeli’s retaliate by running giant bulldozers over the homes of innocent Palestinian families.  The Institutions of those three desert religions, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism—have always ignored the lessons of history, indulging their fantasy that violence can be prevented with more violence.  When innocents are murdered, the thirst for revenge, uncontrolled by spiritual restraint, is surely unquenchable.  But do not call it justice. As day follows night, revenge begets revenge—forever.