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me every 1st week on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world the politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you there. 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 organized labor 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. a major reason for the concentrated on us fanatic attack on unions our guys labor is they are a democratizing force. to provide a barrier that defends workers' rights but also popular rights generally. and if that interferes with the pariah it is now or for those who can imagine society. i should say that anti union sentiment in the united states among elites is so strong that the fundamental couper of labor rights and the basic principle in the international labor organization is the right of

free association which would mean the right to form unions u.s. has never ratified and. i think the us may be alone among major sadie's in every space. it's considered so far out of the spectrum of american politics it literally has never been. consider. herber that the us has a. very violent labor history as. society. but the labor movement had been very strong by the 1920 s. in the period not unlike today it was virtually crushed.

by the mincer is it began to reconstruct. or doesn't or is felt he himself was rather sympathetic to chris if legislation that would be in the benefit of the general population but he had to somehow get it passed so even from . labor leaders and others force me to do it. what he meant is going to demonstrate we're going to protest develop the labor movement. when the packard pressures fission and be able to through the legislation you know i am not for a we're. still last definition number 11 a and our many. great people well being gradually read your man in endless. friendly deal. 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 funkier activism . there were industrial action there were sit down strikes which were very frightening 2. 100 ships. have to recognize. a sit down strike is just one step before saying we don't need bush that we can run this player sales. and business was told you read the business press say in the late thirty's they were talking about to the hazard facing industrialists in the rising political power of the masses which has 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. test courtly had a. tourist start any quality

in labor management relations. in a currency ism 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 continued the ninety's and of course with george w. bush went through the roof by now less than 7 percent of private sector workers have unions. the effect is that to the usual counterforce to an offensive or highly class conscious business clueless as does oath to. know if you're

in a position of power you want to maintain class consciousness for yourself but a limited everywhere else you back to the 19th century in the early days of the industrial revolution in the united states were. and people were very conscious of this they in fact overwhelmingly regarded. wage labor as not very different from slavery and a different only in that it was temporary effect of such a popular idea that was a slogan of the republican party. well that was a very sharp class consciousness in 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 the population by force too much freedom and one. labor going to use in parliamentary labor parties 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 they're stunned blind called fabricating consumers. if you can fabricate 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 him out of our hair. you find his doctrine all through progressive intellectual thought but walter lippmann the major progress of intellectual of the 20th century. he wrote famous progressive

essays on democracy in which his view was 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 free said area 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 what to engage 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 that's mostly illusion you go back to the campaign rhetoric and take a look at this 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 even more and more is focused on the private interests that fund the campaigns. with the public being marginalized. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. direct. what is truth what is faith.

in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a maybe in the shallows. in the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of northern ireland that was coordinated loyalist attacks protect the only population of belfast tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes a mob was striking to put these attacks was a p.r. you see the police actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing it they were active participants in the burning of the whole streets in belfast at the take more than a 100 innocent civilians were unloaded as the review can seniors and we found out more i was surprised about the extent and of the currents which the solution was involved in some of those cases that killers would later be named. and getting i

think it went to the very very top i think if the phones cross the water where politicians you thought was going on and give the go ahead. what politicians do. put themselves on the line. they get accepted over jet. so if you want to be president i was wrong. or someone. that's why the rest of the life of 3 of them on the good. island was the oars in the lives of our. guests a. lot

of the leading political scientists martin guillen's came out for this study of the relation between public attitudes and the wood boma see what he shows is that about 70 percent of the population has no way of influencing. they might as well be into the mother country. and the population knows. what it's led to is a population that angry frustrated and i hate institutions. and it's not acting constructively to try to respond to that. there is popular mobilization in activism but in very self destructive directions. taking the form of unfocused bangor 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 to 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 an april 5th. and. every 15th is going to measure the day if they are taxes of how democratic a society is a different league 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 they should celebrate the way it is needed state it's a day of mourning it's

a day in which some alien power you know has nothing do with you is coming down to steal your hard earned money and you do everything you can 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 her attractive picture. be the tendencies that we've been describing within american society unless they're reverse to 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.

aside in which normal human instincts an emotion of sympathy so they're e.b. to a sport in which they're going 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 the desire to maximize personal gain at the expense of others and any society has made a small society based on that principle is ugly but it can survive 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 more significant 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 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 but dismantling that form of illegitimate authority and in fact progress over the years 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 and freedom of speech issues began to come to the supreme court in the early 20th century. the major contributions came in the 1960 s. one of the leading ones 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 non-trivial extent of also spent

a lot of my life in activism in that doesn't show up publicly but you know i should not terribly good at it and not the greatest organizer i think that we can see quite clearly a very very serious defect was an error. which are going to have to be corrected by operating out of work that is commonly accepted i think we're going to have to find new ways to. build. activists are people who have created the rights that we enjoy. in the army carrying out cosies based on information that they're receiving but also contributing to the understanding remembers or separate process. that you have agreed 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. and there's huge opportunities it is

a very free society still good for his world. government is very limited capacity to coerce corporate business may try to coerce but there are mechanisms. so there's a lot can be done if people organise struggle for their rights as if done in the past and you can win many victories. i am. a. 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 mentalist do it future. the

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has slammed washington sanctions on russia's north stream into gas pipelines in germany saying it's crossed a crucial line against its nato ally it comes as berlin gives an angry reaction as well branding the sanctions interference in the us to affairs. also this hour a u.s. court rules that american spy agencies can collect data on citizens without a warrant if done by accident at the lessons of national security agency whistleblower edward snowden who lifted the lid on u.s. placerville and seem to have been forgotten. you tell us who edward snowden is. wait a 2nd snowden is not the. not the brooks the guy that he leaked some information . and a man has been sentenced to 16 years in jail after still.