Mark Crispin Miller

“The job of the intellectual is not to be a cheerleader for the state.”

“The COVID-19 narrative is the biggest propaganda campaign in human history.”

“The corporate media, of course, are not going to do their job, and we're not going to be able to make them do their job. We've got to do their job for them.”

“The whole point of the Bush record is to conceal the Bush record.”

“What we have now is a kind of propaganda that is so pervasive, so subtle, and so effective that it has become the air we breathe.”

“The purpose of propaganda is not to persuade, but to immobilize.”

“This is a system that is in place to protect the powerful from scrutiny.”

“The mainstream media has become a kind of state media, a propaganda arm of the government.”

“The free press is not free. It is owned by a handful of corporations that have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.”

“We are living in a time of unprecedented corporate control over our lives.”

“The internet, which was once hailed as a tool for liberation, has become a tool for surveillance and control.”

“We're not allowed to ask questions. That's the first sign of a totalitarian society.”

“Democracy cannot survive in a society where the media is controlled by a few.”

“The culture industry is not about art; it's about social control.”

“The purpose of the university is not to train people for jobs, but to teach them how to think critically.”

“The official story of 9/11 is a conspiracy theory. It's the theory that 19 Arabs with box cutters outwitted the most powerful military-industrial complex in the history of the world.”

“What's happening is a global coup by the financial elite.”