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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Book Review: "Revolution From Above: Manufacturing ‘Dissent’ in the New World Order''

From Foreign Policy Journal

"Michael Parenti joked in a talk I once watched online about the skeptic who questions whether the “conspiracy theorist” really believes a bunch of rich and powerful people sit around in rooms and conspire to take over the world. Well, Parenti quipped in reply to the proverbial skeptic, where else are they going to do it, if not in rooms?
The CIA is obviously discussed in the book, as well as the role of the media—often in one and the same instance, such as with the CIA’s Project Mockingbird, which aimed to infiltrate the corporate news media, and which was under the direction until 1963 of Philip Graham, husband of Katharine Graham, the owner and publisher of the Washington Post and Newsweek (and, of course, a member of the CFR, as Bolton never fails to point out)."

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