MESS 2.0

While the middle-east seems to be in the throws of a free-fall with uprisings aspiring toward revolution(s)- I cant help but think that all of these messes are interconnected in some way.
 Doesn't the imperative to sell arms for private profit fosters a frenzy of security-angst as well as feed various dictatorship's thirst for control and power? In the mean time such a vaccumm creates desperation among those who are losing everything they had or thought they had (in America)
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Taibi's Rolling stone article about the criminality of WallStreet/Bankers et al is echoed in Danny Schecter's film PLUNDER (youtube 13min clip)

The link to the above article from Schecter's  MediaChannel website was down during this post.

If it stands to reason that PR as we know it is done to influence peoples choices and actions then how is it possible to say with a straightface that mass distributed speech with hateful content is ineffectual in inluencing (the choices and actions) of millions in America today? Influencing people , subtly or explicitly is a huge billion dollar industry (by it's creators as well as those who commission the influence). It's a bald lie (thus part of the PR machine) when it is repeated again and again that it is only free-speech and is not incitement.