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PatrickforO

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4. We all know that Reuters and the NYT are both part of the giant, swollen, quivering propaganda

Reply to brentspeak (Original post)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 12:56 PM

Sep 2015

organ of the corporate oligarchs. Each day, this organ's sphincters open up and it spews out 'news' designed to distract the populace from how they are getting ripped off by Wall Street bankers, the Military Industrial Complex and multinational corporations.

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UK centrists and RWers predict the End of the World with Jeremy Corbyn as new Labour leader [View all] brentspeak Sep 2015 OP

I've been chuckling over the coverage enlightenment Sep 2015 #1

Of course. Well, deep conservatives. They're mostly the same around the world Hortensis Sep 2015 #2

Blair's attempts to frighten Labour members... Spider Jerusalem Sep 2015 #3

Blairism is dead in the water T_i_B Sep 2015 #6

It would've been far more savvy of Blair LuvNewcastle Sep 2015 #7

I think they assumed that the Labour party still loves him... T_i_B Sep 2015 #10

He spends a lot of quality time with the sound of his own voice Betty Karlson Sep 2015 #16

We all know that Reuters and the NYT are both part of the giant, swollen, quivering propaganda PatrickforO Sep 2015 #4

Sort of the way Demo apparatchiks view Sanders, eh? Can't have someone stand for the *actual* villager Sep 2015 #5

The statement that Cameron was elected 'on a promise to cut welfare spending' is a very misleading LeftishBrit Sep 2015 #8

To be honest, the RW would and do demonize ANY Labour leader LeftishBrit Sep 2015 #9

i just have to kick this. Too delicious! nt riderinthestorm Sep 2015 #11

The first thing Corbyn should do is expel BLIAR from the party malaise Sep 2015 #12

Here's the problem with that T_i_B Sep 2015 #13

You are correct but it is better to rebuild from scrap than to have these malaise Sep 2015 #14

Those third-wayers (Social-Democrats) actually had a lot of followers in 1980. Betty Karlson Sep 2015 #17

The Lib Dems were to the left of Labour prior to Clegg T_i_B Sep 2015 #18

That is true too. The Lib-Dems under Charles Kennedy were very social-democratic Betty Karlson Sep 2015 #19

Wah wah wah! We no longer can force voters to choose between RW and RW-lite! n2doc Sep 2015 #15