"A crisis without precedent is underway in the United States. And its consequences will be far graver than those wrought by the U.S. presidential election of 2000 and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The collapse of the Jeffersonian 'free and uncensored press' in America endangers the liberties of all Americans and, arguably, citizens from all walks of life around the globe," write John Stanton and Wayne Madsen for Counterpunch. In a far-reaching article, Stanton and Madsen look at how U.S. corporate media has not only failed to examine boundless and money-making U.S. military action, but it has become "the integral [operative] for U.S. war propaganda and concomitant public indoctrination."