“The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.”

—  Mumia Abu-Jamal

"A Year In: More Same Than Change" http://prisonradio.org/more_of_same.htm

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