Television and the Papers sold us this war. Anything that is advertised in them should not be bought unless you absolutly need it. If you really needed it, they wouldn't have to run ads for it.

Buy off brands, generics or from small scale outfits that do not support the media or the war machine. Put off buying a new car - get a used one. Shop at a coop or at least a store that aims that way.

Until they start losing profits, they will keep on selling war and crap that we do not need.

Get some self-esteem from something other than a brand name or logo on your clothes, bags or accessories and if you must buy a Gucci, buy a fake one.

Stop watching CNN, ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS - it's all propaganda, sales pitches and con jobs. The media entertains with stuff that makes you feel bad so you have to buy stuff to maek you feel good. Stop playing that game.

Screw the corporations because they have screwed over the entire country.

Watch "Network" - the MSM sure as hell are not going to show THAT movie.

this video is a keeper. thanks Salon. thanks Naomi Klein.

but Network was released by MGM initially, and its video and dvd distribution has been handled by Warner Brothers, which means that in some way, shape, or form it has been intimately involved with the MSM...again, not to nit pick.

I will second the suggestion to rent, purchase, or just plain experience a viewing of "Network."

More Sidney Lumet, not less.

On her website she speaks proudly of her Communist grandparents.

I like the corporate ad before the video, which goes with the corporate banner at the top of the page, the Salon Premium subscription button below that and the GM ad button below that.

Also like the DTC pharmaceutical ad on the right side of the page and the Fox DVD ad above that.

Funny.

rent it or borrow it or watch the clips on youtube.

i bet you will never see "johnny got his gun" ever again in the MSM because it is antiwar.

We still have to buy soap, fuel, food, toothpaste and toilet paper, but Time Warner isn't making big bucks off of old movies, it's the crap they advertise on TV and are in the theatres now that should be boycotted.

Buying movies is pointless anyway as they will always change the format so you have to buy it all over again.

Once everyone buys a HD tv then they will have to buy an XHD set and then a XHQHD and so on. They survive buy selling us the same crap over and over again.

Jensen: You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it!! Is that clear?! You think you've merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance!

You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multi-national dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, Reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels.

It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU WILL ATONE!

Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?

You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state -- Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do.

We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality -- one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.

Naomi Klein seems like a very insightful lady. There's a line from "The Constant Gardener" that seems very appropriate to her words from the video: "There aren't countries anymore, just corporations."

Anyway, I like what she said about a citizens' revolt. Unfortunately, it would never happen in America. Which got me thinking: why are Americans so complacent about being treated badly by corporate America? Everyone seems to be in universal agreement that huge corporations suck, but nothing ever seems to change. Walmart, for example, may be vilified, but it posted a 4% increase in profits in February 2008. It doesn't help that the same people who decry Walmart on Monday, will be shopping there on Tuesday because it's the only place they'll be able to buy disposable razors for 69 cents a bag. Gas prices continue to climb and Americans seem to not give a crap. Advertisements are EVERYWHERE - from video games to movies to the internet. And the upshot is, most of these companies (Walmart, AT&T, GM, etc.) treat their employees like shit; they have zero respect for employee loyalty and only seem to care about profit, profit, profit. Now, corporations are worming their way into government, so they can...what? Set up Puppet Kings beholden to them and then do whatever the hell they want without fear that the government will break up monopolies?

It's kind of frightening. I mean, I used extreme examples, but I think there's a lot to fear about the ever-growing Corporate culture that America seems to be into these days. That, and the fact that the majority of people only encourage this behavior. I mean, is everyone just so zoned out on Prozac, 'Baby Couture' and booze that no one cares anymore?