Propaganda technologies pioneered by psychologists and developed by corporate interests, coupled with media control/diffusion, blocks the population from being reasonably informed on any of these subjects. These powerful techniques and technologies can be resisted by learning to be truly aware of them, how they work, what they look like in our daily experience. But this kind of learning is easily sabotaged by the ingenious propaganda techniques themselves.
The corporate-propaganda issue profoundly impacts every other item in the Activist Solutions list of issues and is a crucial problem that needs to be solved.
Recommended videos for learning more about this:
History of propaganda technologies:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A2F5DB66EA6E6060
[part 1 of six 10-minute segments of a BBC documentary from the 70's]
"Spin" in action:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7344181953466797353&q=spin&tota...
[Documentary made from normally hidden satellite feeds]
The business of total control:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4835966027154828456&q=arsenal+o...
[connects many dots and illuminates our situation]