Publisher’s note: Amazon is now hoovering up 1 out of every 2 US dollars in the American retail economy, while founding CEO Jeff Bezos nurtures his cozy relationship with US corporate “news” media (owner of the Washington Post), the CIA (cloud computing contracts) and the Pentagon (BODs). Meanwhile, on Amazon PRIME, pop culture propaganda explodes into American living rooms, as Amazon positions itself to give Netflix a run for its money in the world of original content / digital streaming while advancing US interests in American living rooms. Witness THE REPORT, a compelling drama throwing the Bush/Cheney regime under the bus for its policy of “enhanced interrogation” (read: torture) while elevating the Obama administration and the Democratic Party to heroic status, and season 2 of JACK RYAN, which features Jim of The Office (Jon Krasinski) as a Tom Clancy inspired CIA officer who busts up a Russian/Venezuelan arms dealing plot in America’s back yard – talk about pop culture propaganda imitating real life, as the real life US national security state works to destabilize popularly elected governments in Bolivia and Venezuela.