Forget The Battlefield: The Real War Is For Your Mind (video and pictures)

The U.S. Department of Defense defines psychological warfare (PSYWAR) as: “The planned use of propaganda and other psychological actions having the primary purpose of influencing the opinions, emotions, attitudes, and behavior of hostile foreign groups in such a way as to support the achievement of national objectives.”

During World War II the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff defined psychological warfare more broadly stating “Psychological warfare employs any weapon to influence the mind of the enemy. The weapons are psychological only in the effect they produce and not because of the weapons themselves.

This film explores the evolution of propaganda and public relations in the United States, with an emphasis on the elitist theory of democracy‚ and the relationship between war, propaganda and class.

Includes original interviews with a number of dissident scholars including Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Peter Phillips, John Stauber, Christopher Simpson and others.

Please visit the film makers website for more information, films, etc. http://metanoia-films.org/

Check out this Metanoia Film that is Blocked on youtube!
Lifting The Veil: Barack Obama and the Failure of Capitalist “Democracy”
http://mysticalmusingsandpolitics.blo…
(I uploaded it, but youtube muted the audio!)

Sources for film:

Beder, Sharon — Consumerism: an Historical Perspective

Chomsky, Noam — What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream

Darwinia — WWI Propaganda

Ewen, Stuart — Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture

Lazere, Donald — American media and mass culture

Lutins, Allen — An Eclectic list of Events in US Labor History

Millies, Stephen — The Ludlow Massacre and the Birth of Company Unions

Parenti, Michael — Super-Patriotism

Simpson, Christopher — The Science of Coercion

Smith, Sharon — Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States

Snow, Nancy — Propaganda, Inc., Selling America’s Culture to the World

Stauber, John and Rampton, Sheldon — Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush’s War on Iraq ; Toxic Sludge is Good For You

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