{"id":24504,"date":"2013-01-07T12:07:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T12:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=24504"},"modified":"2013-01-14T11:51:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T11:51:01","slug":"the-power-principle-ii-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/01\/the-power-principle-ii-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power Principle \u2013 II: Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>This documentary is about the foreign policy of the United States. It is the second of three parts that demonstrate the importance of the political economy, the Mafia principle, propaganda, ideology, violence and force.<br \/>\n<\/i><br \/>\nIt documents and explains how the policy is based on the interest of major corporations and a tiny elite to increase profits and the United States governments own interests in maintaining and expanding its imperialistic influence.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the United States this has been made possible with a propaganda of fear for the horrible enemies like the Soviet Union, &#8220;communists&#8221;, China, &#8220;terrorists&#8221;, and a love for &#8220;free markets&#8221;, &#8220;democracy&#8221;, &#8220;freedom&#8221; and so on. Externally (and increasingly internally) this has caused massive poverty and suffering, genocide, wars, coups, crushed unions and popular movements, and environmental destruction.<\/p>\n<p><i>Featured in the films are Noam Chomsky, Michael Parenti, John Stockwell, Christopher Simpson, Ralph McGehee, Philip Agee, [TRANSCEND member] Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, John Perkins, James Petras, John Stauber, Russ Baker, Howard Zinn, William Blum, Nancy Snow, William I. Robinson, Morris Berman, Peter Phillips, Michael Albert, and others.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b1J9ybfRWSk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This documentary is about the foreign policy of the United States. It is the second of three parts that demonstrate the importance of the political economy, the Mafia principle, propaganda, ideology, violence and force. Featured in the films are Noam Chomsky, Michael Parenti, John Stockwell, Christopher Simpson, Ralph McGehee, Philip Agee, [TRANSCEND member] Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, John Perkins, James Petras, John Stauber, Russ Baker, Howard Zinn, William Blum, Nancy Snow, William I. Robinson, Morris Berman, Peter Phillips, Michael Albert, and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglo-america","category-in-depth-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24504","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=24504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}