Today in for-profit ‘college’ news

The Apollo Group (partially owned by the Carlyle Group) is really ramping up its advertising, spending $665 million this year (as it closes more than 100 physical sites) (http://chronicle.com/blogs/bottomline/u-of-phoenix-reboots-advertising-and-rebrands-in-the-process/).   The Apollo Group owns The University of Phoenix which receives eighty nine percent if not more, of its revenue from you, the taxpayer who will […]

Dalton Sherman - The 'Michael Jackson' of right wing think tanks and the crypto-fascists who fund them

  Believing is better than asking questions, or so says the ruling class and their lap dogs.  Appealing to irrationality instead of rationality is an old sophist trick refined by Edward Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud.  Initially applied to the Creel reports during World War I, Bernays went on to not only show how […]

Chris Hedges Tells Us To Reject Brand Obama

Author Chris Hedges tells readers to reject brand Obama. Based on advertising methods Barrack Obama’s Presidency is designed to make citizens feel good about government while ordinary people’s political enemies in government loot Treasuries, expand war for empire, destroy Constitutional rights and virtually copy Bush Administration policies; fooling citizens into believing they are getting something […]

Bill O'Reilly Show looses UPS advertising thanks to Think Progress

Thanks to a huge effort by www.thinkprogress.org and www.newshounds.org, UPS has stopped advertising on bill O’Reillys show. This comes after O’Reilly’s employees harassed and followed a blogger for Think Progress while on vacation. Think Progress In response to our Stop Supporting The O’Reilly Harassment Machine campaign, UPS told us yesterday that it was investigating whether […]