What American propaganda seeks to conceal and divert attention away from is the fact that in the United States, it is the Pentagon and Wall Street who decide everything and in turn set policy. Hence, there will always be a mismatch between American propaganda and reality, given that the reality is that the policy goal … Continue reading Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Tag: history
The Struggle for the Minds of Men
The challenge for everyone is to read past propaganda and the “ideological guise” of a particular party or group and in turn determine their true motives and goals. Nevertheless, what is required in order to garner recognition and to gain power is an effective propaganda campaign. Propaganda is a sort of “weapon” when it can … Continue reading The Struggle for the Minds of Men
Warmongering
The “psychological dislocation” which occurs as a result of what is none other than the very basic nature of today’s globalized economy can occur in as simple of a case as a small-town American man who is engaged to a girl from his community and out of economic necessity applies to work for the government … Continue reading Warmongering
Gemeinschaft
Supranational or internationalist ethics and institutions such as the ‘United Nations’ assumes that there are shared beliefs, ethics, and values between different nations. But nationalism and its “ethical system” upends such an assumption. To borrow from Morgenthau: “Nations no longer oppose each other, as they did from the Treaty of Westphalia to the Napoleonic Wars, … Continue reading Gemeinschaft
Economy and Democracy
We must also be mindful of the fact an economy cannot be disembedded or disentangled from a culture and society. For instance, the American economy is embedded in American culture, and the Chinese economy is embedded in Chinese culture. It follows that we must assess the role which culture plays in the overall functions and operations of the … Continue reading Economy and Democracy
Adam A. Azim 