{"id":29486,"date":"2018-01-07T11:01:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T16:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29486"},"modified":"2018-01-07T11:01:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T16:01:01","slug":"how-jeff-bezoss-washington-post-became-the-us-military-industrial-complexs-chief-propagandist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29486","title":{"rendered":"How Jeff Bezos\u2019s Washington Post Became the US Military-Industrial Complex\u2019s Chief Propagandist"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"How Jeff Bezos\u2019s Washington Post Became the US Military-Industrial Complex\u2019s Chief Propagandist\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2018\/01\/07\/or-40157.jpg\" alt=\"How Jeff Bezos\u2019s Washington Post Became the US Military-Industrial Complex\u2019s Chief Propagandist\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/01\/07\/how-jeff-bezos-wp-became-us-military-industrial-complex-chief-propagandist.html\">How Jeff Bezos\u2019s Washington Post Became the US Military-Industrial Complex\u2019s Chief Propagandist<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>It used to be that the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0competed against each other to be the chief propagandist for the hundred or so top firms who sell to the US federal government \u2014\u00a0the 100 top \u201cfederal contractors,\u201d almost all of which are Pentagon contractors\u00a0\u2014 mainly these are weapons-manufacturing firms, such as the biggest, Lockheed Martin. The federal government is a large part of these firms\u2019 essential market; so, invasions by the US against other countries require lots of their goods and services; and, also, America\u2019s foreign allies additionally buy these weapons; and, right now, US President Trump is demanding that they increase their \u2018defense\u2019 budgets to buy more of them. Wars produce corporate profits if (like in the United States) the military suppliers are private corporations instead of government-owned (socialized). Selling wars is crucial to such firms\u2019 bottom lines. And, since there is no law against owning a \u2018defense&#8217; contractor and owning or donating to newsmedia (especially newsmedia such as the\u00a0<em>Times<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Post<\/em>, which publish lots of international news and so can encourage lots of invasions), a sensible business strategy for investors in \u2018defense\u2019 stocks is to also own or donate to some international-\u2018news\u2019 media, in order to generate additional business for the arms-maker or other \u2018defense\u2019 firm. Not only does this business-plan relate to such newspapers as the\u00a0<em>NYT<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>WP<\/em>, but they\u2019ll be the focus here, because they are the most important of America\u2019s international-news media.<\/p>\n<p>Serious periodicals, such as\u00a0<em>The New Republic<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Atlantic<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Mother Jones<\/em>, have also been steady propagandists for \u2018defense\u2019 companies, but magazines don\u2019t reverberate through the rest of the mass-media to the extent that the serious national (NYC &amp; DC) newspapers do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Jeff Bezos\u2019s Washington Post Became the US Military-Industrial Complex\u2019s Chief Propagandist It used to be that the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0and the\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0competed against each other to be the chief propagandist for the hundred or so top firms who sell to the US federal government \u2014\u00a0the 100 top \u201cfederal contractors,\u201d almost all of which are Pentagon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[4394,17812,15620,528,1921,655,827,3481,5228],"class_list":["post-29486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-jeff-bezo","tag-mic","tag-military-industrial-complex","tag-new-york-times","tag-propaganda","tag-united-states","tag-us-federal-government","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29487,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29486\/revisions\/29487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}