and you know full of the much the good with of a little that made me tonight when there. was. a lighting get a preview you know if one of the sins that the other you know made things that straight. to the point. that.

there is one organized force which traditionally plenty of fluids but with all its flaws it's been in the forefront of the. efforts to improve the lives of the general population that's were going to slavery it's also a barrier to corporate tyranny so it's the one barrier to this vicious cycle going on which does lead to corporate tyranny. or a. major reason for the concentrated on a fanatic attack on unions are organized labor is they are a democratizing force. to provide a barrier that defends workers' rights but also popular rights generally. that. interferes with the prerogatives now heard by those who own and manage this

site and i. should say said andy union sentiment in the united states among the leads is so strong that the fundamental couper of labor rights in the basic principle in the international labor organization is the rate of free association which would mean the right to form unions and us has never ratified. but i think the us may be alone in one major societies and their respect . it's considered so far out of the spectrum of american politics it literally has never been considered. or that the us has a lawn very violent labor history as our society. but the labor movement had been very strong by the 1920 s. in

a period not unlike today it was virtually crushed robert reich. by the mincer is beginning to reconstruct. franklin delano roosevelt he himself was rather sympathetic to receive legislation that would be in the benefit of the general population but he had to somehow get it passed so he informed the labor leaders and others forced me to do it. what he meant is you go out and demonstrate we're going to protest develop the labor movement. when the popular pressures fission and be able. through the legislation you know i

am not for a return bill that definition number 11 day and hour which many say 3 people were being gradually read your man then into the senate probably feel. i prefer that brought out information. so there was a kind of a combination of a sympathetic government and by the mid thirty's very substantial focus or activism . there were industrial actions there were the sit down strikes which were very frightening to. ownership. have to recognize a sit down strike is just one step before saying we don't need bush that we can run this by yourselves. and business was told you read the business press in the late thirty's they were

talking about the the hazard facing industrialists and the rising political power of the masses which as to be repressed things were on hold during the 2nd world war but immediately after the 2nd world war the business offensive began in force and test partly yack. yack. to restart any quality in labor management relations. in the currency is and was used for a massive corporate propaganda offensives to attack union. increased sharply during the reagan years and reagan pretty much told the business world if you want to illegally break urbanizing efforts and strikes go ahead they are in violation of the law and if they do not report for work within 48 hours they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated to continue the ninety's and of course with george though. bush went through the roof by now less than 7 percent of private

sector workers have unions. the effect is that the usual counter force to an offensive or highly class conscious business class is dissolved. if you're in a position of power you want to maintain class consciousness for yourself but a limited everywhere else here back to the 19th century in the early days of the industrial revolution and ignited states working people were very conscious of this they in fact overwhelmingly regarded the wage labor as not very different from slavery to the different only in that it was temporary effect of such a popular idea that was a slogan of the republican party. well there was

a very sharp class consciousness and the interests of power and privilege it's good to drive those ideas out of people's heads you don't want them to know that they're an oppressed class so this is one of the few societies magicks don't talk about class in fact the national class is very simple who gives the orders who follows and that basically defines class it's more nuanced and complex but that's basically it. the public relations industry the advertising industry which is dedicated to creating consumers it's a phenomenon developed in the freest countries in britain and the united states and the reason is pretty clear it became clear by a say

a century ago that it was not going to be so easy to control of population by force too much freedom in one. labor organizer in parliamentary labor party as in many countries women started to get the french as and so on she had to have other means of controlling people and it was understood and expressed they have to control them by control of. beliefs and attitudes well one of the best ways to control people in terms of attitudes is what the great political economists there stand blind called fabricating consumers. if you can fabricate a want to. make obtaining things that are just about within your reach the essence of life they're going to be trapped into becoming a consumer's. and you read the business press say 920 s.

it talks about the need to direct people to the superficial things of life like fashionable consumption and that will keep them out of our hair. you find this doctrine all through progressive intellectual thought but water lipman the major progress of intellectual of the 20th century. he wrote famous progressive essays on democracy in which his view is exactly that the public must be put in their place so that the responsible men can make decisions without interference from the be willed and heard. there to be spectators not participants then you get a properly functioning democracy straight back to madison on to the polls memory and so on and the advertising industry just exploded. with with this as its goal fabricating consumers.

and it's done with great sophistication. many whilst down. as one of the last known while very singular. whom are aware of the kind. of the ideal is what you actually see need to did. we're let's see teenage girls they have a free set or afternoon we'll go walking in a shopping mall. the library or somewhere else. the idea is to try to control everyone to turn the whole society into the perfect system. perfect system would be a society based on a diet of pair the pair is you and your television set or maybe knowing who in the internet. in which that presents you with would. the proper life would be with

trying to gauge and you spend your time and effort to gaining those things which you don't need you don't want maybe to throw away. but that's the measure of a decent life. what we see is in say advertising on television if you've ever taken an economics course you know that markets are supposed to be based on informed consumers making rational choices well if we had a system like that a market system in a television ad would consist of say general motors putting up information saying here's what we have for sale a samba an ad for a car is an ad for occurs a football hero you know an actress or the car doing some crazy thing like going up a mountain or something the point is to create uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices that's what advertising is all about. and when the same

institutions p.r. . system runs elections they do it the same way. they want to create an uninformed electorate which will make irrational truisms go off against their own interests and we see it every time one of these extravaganzas take place. right after the election. president obama won an award from the advertising industry for the best marketing campaign and was reported here if you go to the international business press executives were euphoric you know they said we've been selling candidates marketing candidates like you know toothpaste ever since reagan and this is the greatest achievement we have i don't usually agree with therapy. and but when she mocks the much she calls the

hopi changey stuff she's right 1st of all obama didn't really promise anything but that's mostly illusion you go back to the campaign rhetoric and take a look at it has very little discussion of policy issues and for very good reason because public opinion on policy is sharply disconnected from what the 2 party leadership and their financial backers want. poesy more and more is focused on the private interests that fund the campaigns. with the public being marginalized.

you know world of big partisan loot a lot for us and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door of the bath and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks.

and you try and be professional you try and leave it outside the door you try and put in a comma compartmentalizes in the brain and so you can forget about it but little by little these. these little whispers come and for me it was actually putting some ice into my wife's glass of gin and tonic and the science and the sound of that ice cream to the glass reminded me of how we kept the bodies cool in bali which was with bags of supermarkets our ice.

the leading political scientist martin guillen's came out with a study of the relation between public attitudes and the wood moment see what he shows is that about 70 percent of the population has no way of influencing. but they might as well be in some other country. and the population knows. what it's led to is a population that angry frustrated and hates institutions. and it's not acting constructively to try to respond to. his popular mobilization and activism but in very self destructive directions. taking the form of unfocused anger attacks on one another and on vulnerable targets that's what happens in cases like this. it is corrosive of social relations but that's the point the point is to make people hate and fear each other

and look at only for themselves and don't do anything for anyone else. one place you see it strikingly is on the april 15th. april 15th as a kind of a measure the day of prayer taxes of how democratic a society is a different city if a society is really democratic april 15th would be a day of celebration it's a day when the population gets together decides to fund the programs and activities that they have formulated agreed upon which could be better than that so asian celebrated the way it is needed state it's a day of mourning it's a day in which some alien power has nothing to do with you and is coming down to steal your hard earned money and you do everything you. and they keep from doing it . and that is a kind of

a measure of the extent to which at least in popular consciousness democracy is actually functioning. not are attractive picture. the tendencies that we've been describing within american society unless they're reversed it's going to be an extremely ugly society i'm a society that's based on adam smith's final maxim you know all for myself nothing for anyone else. a society in which normal human instincts an emotion of sympathies or their e.b. to a sport in which they're kind of like driven out. that society

so ugly i don't even know who'd want to live in it i wouldn't want my children to. give the society is based on control by private wealth it will reflect the values that in fact does reflect. a value that is green and i'd like to maximize personal game at the expense of others any society made a small society based on that principle is a good way to control. a global society based on that principle is headed for massive destruction. and i don't think we're smart enough to design in any detail what a perfectly just and free society would be like i think we can give some guidelines and morsi. difficult we can ask how we can progress in that direction.

john dewey the leading social philosopher in the late 20th century he argued that until all institutions production commerce. media unless they're all under participatory democratic control we will not have a functioning democratic society. as he put it policy will be the shadow cast by business over a society. that's centrally true. where there are structures of authority domination and hire somebody gives the orders somebody takes them as they are not self-justifying who they have to justify

themselves and their burden to prove to me. will if you take a close look usually find they can't justify themselves if they can't we ought to be dismantling. trying to expand the domain of freedom and justice way dismantling that form of illegitimate authority and in fact progress over the years and we'll thankfully recognize as progress has been just that the way things change is because lots of people are working all the time and you know they're working in their communities in their workplace or wherever they happen to be and they're building up the basis for popular movements which are going to make changes and that's the way everything has ever happened in history. takes a freedom of speech. one of the real achievements of american society. it's the 1st in the world in that it's not the bill of rights it's time that the constitution

freedom of speech issues began to come to the supreme court in the early 20th century. the major contributions came in the 1960 s. when cleveland's was a case of going civil rights movement well but then you had a mass popular movement which was demanding rights. refusing to back down and in that context the supreme court did establish a pretty high standard freedom of speech or it takes a women's right women also began identifying oppressive structures refusing to accept them or he'd go their people to join with them well that's her right to return. to a non-trivial extent if also spent a lot of my life in activism camilla doesn't show up publicly but you know the show not terribly good it was not the greatest organizer i think that we can see quite clearly

a very very serious defect in our. culture and. which are going to have to be corrected by operating out of it is commonly accepted i think we're going to have to find new ways. but the activists are people who have created the rights that we enjoy. in the army carrying out proces based on information that they're receiving but also contributing to the understanding remembers are separate from process. to try to do things you learn you learn what the world is like that feeds back to the understanding of how to go on. there's huge opportunity it is a very free society still the freest world. government has very limited capacity to coerce corporate business may try to curb. but there are mechanisms. so there's

a lot to be done if people organise struggle for the right susan is done in the past and can win many victories commune community. close friend for many years later cowards in. to put it in his words that what matters is the countless small deeds of unknown people who lay the basis for the significant events that enter history. there's a ones who have done things in the past the once alist do it future. in

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for your. trial a u.s. federal judge condemns the justice department's substantiated claims that a russian for and died for election meddling was ruled by their credit and saying it could sway a jury. also in the program the british ambassador to the u.s. resigns over a leaked papal scandal operation private e-mails expose the far from glowing review of donald trump his administration. meanwhile comes under fire from u.s. democrats for links to billionaire jeffrey epstein who's accused of multiple cases of child sexual abuse despite his close ties to both camps of washington's political.