Despite projections of a new cold war, the United States remains the power all turn eyes towards -- even those who are opposed to it
By Azmi Bishara
Al-Ahram Weekly
".....One can go on ad nauseam citing instances of such campaigns of deceit using the "respectable" press to build up a climate of hysteria and rally public opinion behind a war and, simultaneously, to refute opposing opinions and ostracise those who espouse them. Then, if the war effort is blessed with victory, the media will shower the administration with praise. But if not, it will condemn the administration with the same fervour while exempting itself from any culpability. What concerns us here is that the US's imperial "privilege" of being able to spread lies so easily by virtue of its domination over the means to shape tastes and control moods and to produce tears and create fears is still very much intact whatever one might say about the rising power of Russia and China. Here, in the industry of promoting cultures, fads and fictions, as well as in the industries of computers, advanced scientific research, military technology and the Internet, the mono-polar order still prevails and holds sway, even over the minds of opponents to the US. The world has never known an imperial regime that held such a totalitarian grip over the media."
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