#BringBackOurCriticalThinking | Mickey Z.

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

“The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”

- Aldous Huxley

Up until a couple of weeks ago, if I said the words “Boko Haram,” someone might’ve started singing “A Whiter Shade of Pale.” (insert rimshot here)

Today, thanks to a vigilant corporate media, we all know to instead scream: “assassins,” “Jihadists,” and “gun-wielding Islamist militants” using a “Bin Laden connection” to “commit atrocities with impunity” -- with, of course, absolutely no hint of a whiter shade.

While we certainly should not defend the indefensible Boko Haram (or any such group), we also shouldn’t fall for yet another round of the timeworn U.S. humanitarian bullshit. Why the sudden concern for kidnapped African girls? The powers-that-be have their myopic, geo-political, and “strategic” reasons but that’s for another article.

For now, please remember: The U.S. government doesn’t give a damn about kidnapped African girls but it cares a whole lot about control, domination, resources, and keeping its own population thoroughly pacified via spin.

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1. How ironic.

Point to the US government without pointing at people.

If you're pointing at people, wouldn't saying that they don't "give a damn about kidnapped African girls but (the care) a whole lot about control, domination, resources, and keeping (their) own population thoroughly pacified via spin" qualify as trying to say that those people aren't "really human"?

Or perhaps President and Michelle Obama are somehow less than human?

Really?

We really do need to get back to some semblance of critical thinking.