BBC on Afghanistan

Nick Bryant concluded tonight's report on Afghanistan with the usual BBC version of objective reporting:

"American forces believe last year's election marked its [the Taliban's] moral and psychological defeat." (Bryant, BBC 22:00 News, June 6)

It's always fascinating to hear the US military view, although it's hardly news.
Bryant, of course, is presenting as the actual view of "American forces" what they claim is their view. Obviously no need to question how much relation the claim bears to the reality.

Bryant and co similarly insisted time and again that "Blair believes" a robust approach to UN weapons inspections offered the best chance of a peaceful resolution to the Iraq crisis. The same are also now trying to convince us that Blair is "passionate" about saving Africa and the climate.

Are they nuts?

Joel Bakan explains in his book, The Corporation, here referring to corporate executives:

“The law forbids any motivation for their actions, whether to assist workers, improve the environment, or help consumers save money… Corporate social responsibility is thus illegal - at least when it is genuine.”

Thus our problem with the corporation: “Nothing in its legal makeup limits what it can do to others in pursuit of its selfish ends, and it is compelled to cause harm when the benefits of doing so outweigh the costs.”

Propagandising on behalf of the corporate system, including corporate politics, is one example of the harm caused. Because the psychopathic demands of the corporation remain the same, they continue to be manifested in near-identical ways regardless of the evidence indicating the utter absurdity. The corporate media is structurally incapable of learning from the past.