{"id":122081,"date":"2018-11-19T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=122081"},"modified":"2018-11-13T14:48:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T14:48:36","slug":"cultural-imperialism-linguistic-perversion-and-obfuscation-of-empire-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/11\/cultural-imperialism-linguistic-perversion-and-obfuscation-of-empire-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Imperialism: Linguistic Perversion and Obfuscation of Empire Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>12 Nov 2018 &#8211; <em>In the contemporary world, western imperialist propagandists, particularly journalists and editors of the mass media, have resorted to perverting everyday concepts and the language of politics.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The use and abuse of the language of politics has served to blame victims and to justify imperial aggressors. The consequences are multiple, both in legitimizing war crimes and economic plunder, as well as neutralizing domestic opposition.<\/p>\n<p>We will proceed by identifying the key terminology which furthers imperial aggression. We will then describe the economic and political objectives of linguistic imperialism.<\/p>\n<p>We will conclude by examining the political\/cultural alternatives.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/petras.lahaine.org\/b2-img\/PetrasCulturalImperialism.pdf\" >Read essay [PDF]<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>___________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/james-petras-e1497793376538.gif\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-80568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/james-petras-e1497793376538.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>James Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. He is the author of more than 62 books published in 29 languages, and over 600 articles in professional journals. He has a long history of commitment to social justice, working in particular with the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement for 11 years. In 1973-76 he was a member of the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Repression in Latin America. He writes a monthly column for the Mexican newspaper, <\/em><em>La Jornada<\/em><em>, and previously, for the Spanish daily, <\/em><em>El Mundo<\/em><em>. He received his B.A. from Boston University and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/petras.lahaine.org\/cultural-imperialism-linguistic-perversion-and-obfuscation\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 petras-lahaine.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 Nov 2018 &#8211; In the contemporary world, western imperialist propagandists, particularly journalists and editors of the mass media, have resorted to perverting everyday concepts and the language of politics. The use and abuse of the language of politics has served to blame victims and to justify imperial aggressors. The consequences are multiple, both in legitimizing war crimes and economic plunder, as well as neutralizing domestic opposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":80568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}