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Day 4 October, 2008

I have a theory about climate change deniers

How many anti-capitalist cli­mate change den­iers do you know? Do they even exist? I pre­sume there are at least some out there but the only den­iers I per­son­ally know are also ardent advoc­ates of mar­ket eco­nom­ics. Go through a list of prom­in­ent scep­tics and you also invari­ably find within it a little club of mar­ket eco­nomy advocates.

Maybe they sub­con­sciously real­ise what many don’t want to talk about; that cli­mate change has happened under the watch of the mar­ket economy.

U.S. spending $100 million a year on propaganda in Iraq

Wash­ing­ton Post:

U.S. to Fund Pro-American Pub­li­city in Iraqi Media

The Defense Depart­ment will pay private U.S. con­tract­ors in Iraq up to $300 mil­lion over the next three years to pro­duce news stor­ies, enter­tain­ment pro­grams and pub­lic ser­vice advert­ise­ments for the Iraqi media in an effort to “engage and inspire” the local pop­u­la­tion to sup­port U.S. object­ives and the Iraqi government.

I love how they refer to it as “Pro-American Publicity.”