We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Monday, July 21, 2014

The Evolution of US War Propaganda

Click here to access article by Caleb Maupin from New Eastern Outlook. 

This New York based political analyst and activist provides an excellent review of the varying uses and methods of US war propaganda since WWII. 
...the victims of US aggression all vary in their ideological outlook, religion, history, and circumstances. As has always been the case, regimes are targeted not for ideological reasons, but because they stand for independence from economic domination by Wall Street and London.
The US ruling class started seriously using propaganda, which they called "public relations, in the 1920s to serve their interests following their dramatic and surprising success in using propaganda to turn public opinion from strongly opposing US entry into WWI to supporting it.
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