Over the course of my life as a university professor, government official, business consultant, president of a community water company and editor and journalist for national and international publications, I have learned that a majority of people cannot think outside the indoctrination they received that formed their biases.\u00a0 If you provide them with a different view or explanation, instead of thinking about it, they just get angry. This is true also of academics. University professors resist their human capital being devalued and placed in need of renewal by new discoveries and explanations. No academic wants to have to redo all his lecture notes or see his own scholarly contributions bypassed by new explanations. As Niccolo Machiavelli truthfully said, \u201cThere is nothing more difficult, more perilous or more uncertain of success, than to take the lead in introducing a new order of things.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Conservatives with right-wing biases usually write me off as left-wing, and leftists with left-wing biases write me off as conservative, especially as I had a high appointment in the Reagan administration.\u00a0 The only way to write successfully for these people is to tell them what they want to hear.\u00a0 Then they love you instead of hate you.<\/span><\/p>\n It is pointless to write for such people, and I don\u2019t.\u00a0 Ninety-nine percent of my readers can think independently and look to me for explanations that make more sense than the controlled explanations they get from the print, TV, and NPR media.\u00a0 That is the reason I write. As the IPE website states, we try to be accurate but are only human and can be mistaken on occasion.\u00a0 But the agenda is to discover and tell the truth, not to sell an agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n Truth is not the purpose of the print, TV, and radio media or much, perhaps most, of the Internet and social media.\u00a0 Just as the ruling establishment has taken over the print and TV media, they censure social media and are taking over the Internet.\u00a0 Before long, truth will have to rely on mimeograph machines and people to hand out fliers in areas where there are no spying cameras if any such areas will exist in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n There is no doubt that truth is an endangered species.\u00a0 It has always been endangered, but the technology today provides control powers even beyond George Orwell\u2019s imagination.<\/span><\/p>\n So what can we do with truth for the time that it remains available to us? Clearly, we should at least make people aware that truth is endangered and that they are brainwashed with explanations that advance the agendas of the ruling elites.\u00a0 But unless a truth-teller has donors to make him independent, as this site\u2019s donors make me, he can\u2019t tell the truth and also be successful. This is especially true with anything that pertains to Israel.\u00a0 This brings me to right-wing talk radio.<\/span><\/p>\n On the Russiagate and impeachment hoaxes, right-wing talk radio got it right.\u00a0 They could defend Trump on the facts.\u00a0 But when it comes to Russia and Iran right-wing talk radio cannot get it right, because their patriotic conservative audience has swallowed the neoconservative propaganda that Russia and Iran are our enemies and that Russia interfered in the US election. Sean Hannity, for example, repeatedly affirms that Russia interferred in our election despite the fact that there is no evidence whatsoever that Russia interferred in the election.\u00a0 Why does he do this?\u00a0 Because his conservative audience in its gullible patriotism wants to stand up for America against \u201cthem Russians.\u201d\u00a0 Few conservatives can admit that 9\/11 was a false flag to launch America on 20 years of war in the Middle East for the sake of power and profit and Israel\u2019s territorial expansion.\u00a0 Their gullibility leads them to declare: \u201cThe American government would never kill its own people.\u201d\u00a0 Ha!\u00a0 All they need to do is to read the Northwood Project.\u00a0 But that would upset them, whereas denouncing Arabs and Muslims and calling for them to be nuked is emotionally very satisfying.\u00a0 By playing to the ignorant biases of its audience, right-wing talk radio decreases both the chance for peace and for truth.<\/span><\/p>\n This is not a beat-up session on the right-wing.\u00a0 It is an explanation of why truth is so hard to establish.\u00a0 The left-wing is just as guilty of deep-sixing truth.<\/span><\/p>\n When I was on George W. Bush\u2019s case, I was a hero for CounterPunch which even published one of my books.\u00a0 Today I am persona non gratta.<\/span><\/p>\n The problem with truth is that it seldom supports establishment interests.\u00a0 Thus, truth is in the way of material and selfish interests of the powerful.\u00a0 That is why it is hard to defend truth and why so few do so. To tell the truth is extremely costly.<\/span><\/p>\n If a person gets too serious about truth, they end up in prison like Julian Assange and Manning, both of whom are in solitary confinement despite the fact that they have done nothing wrong except tell the truth.\u00a0 And where are their defenders?\u00a0 The presstitute media doesn\u2019t come to their aid, because their truth-telling is an embarrassment to the presstitutes who lie for their living.<\/span><\/p>\n Right-wing talk radio misrepresents these truth-tellers as \u201ctraitors to America.\u201d\u00a0 Assange, of course, is not even an American, so how can he be a traitor to America?\u00a0 A question this simple is over the head of right-wing talk radio and over the heads of the American and British populations that permit the outrage of destroying those who bring us truth.<\/span><\/p>\n