If Time Magazine Celebrates Greta Thunberg, Why Should We?

Is Greta a corporate tool? It bears remembering that Time magazine has always been the mouthpiece for the Wall Street oligarchy.

louisproyect's avatarLouis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

COUNTERPUNCH, DECEMBER 13, 2019

In just over 6,500 words, Time Magazine  makes the case for Greta Thunberg being 2019’s Person of the Year. For much of the left, this confirms that she is a corporate tool. Founded in 1923 by Henry Luce, Time was the flagship of the Luce empire. Print newsmagazines have gone into a steep decline with the advent of the Internet. Despite a steep decline in circulation, Time remains the second-largest weekly after People.

Henry Luce was one of the most powerful Republican Party supporters in the 20th century, the Rupert Murdoch of his day. Luce was a member of the China Lobby that sought the overthrow of Mao Zedong. He also urged JFK to invade Cuba. Unless he did, Luce planned to imitate William Randolph Hearst and push for war, even if involved the big lie. These odious policies and others fell within the…

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6 thoughts on “If Time Magazine Celebrates Greta Thunberg, Why Should We?

    • I don’t know if you listen to podcasts, Deb, but I found some excellent ones on the Words of Others SoundCloud site. The articles Cory Morningstar wrote documenting corporate links to Greta (The Manufacturing of Greta Thurnberg) are extremely detailed because the corporate component is very carefully hidden behind the extremely complex corporate network known as the Nonprofit Industrial Complex. I find it much better to listen to these articles than to read them – after I listen to them 2-3 times I begin to retain some of the links. At the same site there are also podcasts where he reads the series Whitney Webb did on Jeffrey Epstein’s links to the CIA and the Mossad (also extremely complicated) and (of special interest to me) of New Zealand intelligence operatives being “ordered” by the CIA to engage in industrial espionage in France (by Suzie Dawson, a Kiwi-born journalist granted refugee status in Russia.

      Here’s the link:

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  1. Comment I left on the other blog: “I think I will let time and tide (not Time Ragazine) speak for Greta, her following and how much of her message is being massaged into another aspect of corporatism, the side that sees inevitable change coming and wants to capitalize on it. When Greta accepted the utterly hypocritical greet and meet with OBomber, she lost my support, even though I keep reminding myself that’s she’s awfully young and may just not be up to par on the realities of big politics. Shaking hands with a mass murderer didn’t bother her… at her age it would have bothered me. Sorry Greta, take what you can get. If the oligarchs support you, then they won’t murder you, esp. if they can profit from your message. Follow the money? You’re already bought and paid for, Greta, you just don’t know it yet.”

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    • Sha’Tara, I think Greta (who suffers from Asperger’s Disorder) is definitely being controlled by her mother, a high official in the World Wildlife Fund, one of the main movers and shakers behind the Fourth Industrial Revolution being promoted by the World Economic Forum. According to Cory Morningstar, author of The Manufacture of Greta Thurnberg, the goal of all the mass protests being organized by the corporate-linked Nonprofit Industrial Complex is to shift investment away from fossil fuels and to unlock $3 trillion tied up in pension funds for investment in Green capitalism – specifically industries related to carbon trading, privatization of natural resources for profit, carbon capture, hydrogen, etc.

      Supposedly this is supposed to prevent capitalism from collapsing.

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  2. They are mostly pronuclear hthey simply lie about it. It is ironic because the world will probably be wiped out by more nuclear accidents and or nuclear war, than any protracted climate change. That means muc sooner. Most of the worlds old delapidated reactors, are completely vulnerable to the catastrophes climate change is wreaking. They have no where to put the waste. Most of the northern hemisphere is flooded with radionuclides. These gits have no real solutions. They are distraction and counterintelligence, put forth by fascism with a smile.

    Dirty Diesel to back up far Dirtier Nuclear Waste – New Consultation on Deisel Generator Power for Sellafield “back up”.

    Climate Change is real. Astrophysicists have valid proof of it from planet’s with atmospheres. Venus, Mars, Earth, Gas Giants.
    The composition of the atmosphere of the earth is changing from human monkey-activity and radionuclide flooding. It effects the climate. Humans burn quadrillions of gallons of fossil fuels a year.
      Atmospheric gas changes like sulfuric acid and greenhouse acceleration on venus, actually caused
    geophysical changes  on venus and more vulcanism. Carbon dioxide traps heat in green houses.
    The gas giants have constant dynamic, climate-change because they are volatile. Any slight change in atmospheric composition causes major changes in temperature in large areas. Venus could never support life from its precipitous, climate change cascade.
    Gas giant moons, with atmospheres, have climate change. These facts, go  right past climate-deniers. The ones who say the earths climate, is only affected by the suns radiant energy or the earth’s
    magnetic field, other distractions.
    Radionuclides catalyze chemical reactions in the earths atmosphere, affecting the ozone layer and affecting climate in other ways.
    Many radionuclides like cs137, co60, st90, iridium, plutonium generate their own heat when concentrated.
    The nucleoape countries have dumped, a half million or more tons of high and medium level radionuclides into the arctic ocean, including old nuke subs and reactors by the americans, russians french and british..
    Plutonium , rcesium and iridium  are pyrophoric in trace amounts like many radionuclides they promugate fires.
    They spontaneoulsy set off fires in already climate changed areas . 
    Radionuclide pollution helped catalyze the wildfires at massive and large nuclear sites,   like the Idaho National Nuclear Lab Nuclear Reservation where 900, 000 acres burned. There was also Santa Susana
    Accumulated hyrdrocarbon residues on the ground from burning hcs all these years, probably helps  wildfires burn. Radioactive gasses like  and krypton from  nuclear reactors and radium in clouds,  from burning hydrocarbons, cause free radical reactions in the upper atmosphere, that deplete ozone.
    Dr Busby has measured large amounts of radium from rain- cloud outbursts in South america. That radium comes from the radium that exists in fossil fuels, that are burned in internal combustion engines.
    The combination of climate change and nuclear-flooding, of the earth with radionuclides, is bringing down systems faster than most can comprehend.

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