Friday, November 1, 2013

BIRTH New Idea/s?: China, Iran, Russia, U.S.A. Et Al!

jeremy paxman russell brand
Passion At Long Last?
When someone with interesting things to say is granted a high-profile media platform, it is wise to listen to what is being said and ask why they have been given such a platform. Comedian and actor Russell Brand’s 10-minute interview by Jeremy Paxman on BBC’s Newsnight last week was given considerable advance publicity and generated enormous reaction on social media and in the press, just as those media gatekeepers who selected Brand to appear would have wished.

The interview was hung on the hook of Brand’s guest-editing of a special edition of New Statesman, the ‘leftwing’ weekly magazine owned by the multimillionaire Mike Danson. In a rambling 4500-word essay mixing political comment, spiritual insight, humour and trademark flowery wordplay, Brand called for a ‘total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system.’

‘Apathy’, he said, ‘is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people’. He rightly noted that the public is, however, ‘far from impotent’, adding:

‘I take great courage from the groaning effort required to keep us down, the institutions that have to be fastidiously kept in place to maintain this duplicitous order.’

These were all good points. But one of these institutions, unmentioned even once in his long essay, is the BBC.  Launchpad For A Revolution? >>Global Research<< Oct 31, 2013

 Dick Cheney Calls for War on Iran
Over a decade of warmongering and only a couple of wars to show for it >> Global Research<< October 31, 2013 Reader Supported News Tue Mar 31, 2009


1 comment:

  1. When The War Mongers Get To Be On TV AIRWAVES And Sell More Genocide Global, Dick Cheney's Arrest Needs To Be RIGHT NOW, When He Is Alive And Not Wait Til The Old Killers Heinz Kissinger & Him Are Dead Flesh

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