Astroturfing is now taking off in the United Kingdom. Earlier this month Spinwatch showed how a fake grassroots group set up by health insurers helped shape the Tories’ NHS reforms(18). Billionaires and corporations are capturing the political process everywhere; anyone with an interest in democracy should be thinking about how to resist them. Nothing is real any more. Nothing is as it seems.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Summing Up
Via Mills River Progressive, George Monbiot of the UK Guardian (I can't remember the proper misspelling right now) assesses the Tea Party Movement. With footnotes! Hint: He compares it to something used on sporting fields. (The link given at MRP is still arguing with Safari. Guardian direct link here.)
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