Showing: Part II of The Power Principle: Propaganda, by Scott Noble

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Grand Junction Film: In his documentary trilogy The Power Principle, Scott Noble, focusing on the last 70 years, does not soft-pedal his historical account of how the U. S. empire was constructed. Part I: Empire documents how U.S. foreign policy, whether under Republican or Democratic regimes, is based on (1) the interests of major corporations and a tiny elite to increase profits and (2) the U.S. government's interests in maintaining and expanding its imperialistic influence. Part III: Apocalypse details how externally--and increasingly internally--this has caused massive poverty and suffering, genocide, war, coups, crushed unions and popular movements, and environmental destruction.

Following World War II American foreign policy planners were faced with a choice: to embrace democracy in all of its forms in various countries or to suppress huge populations around the globe through violence. It chose the latter.

Part II: Propaganda illustrates how American empire has been made possible through fear of the former Soviet Union and Communists, and of course, the newest enemy, terrorists. We will see in this film how fear has been mongered by constantly invoking an external threat that was (and is), in reality, little or no threat at all.

Economic and military power are the real goals of U.S. foreign policy, which means the crushing of popular movements in third world countries. The film exposes documented examples of this thesis. The quotes below are from the film.

In order to make the country bear the burdenwe have to create an emotional atmosphere akin to wartime psychology. We must create the idea of a threat from without. ~ John Foster Dulles, brother of Allan Dulles, CIA Director

Scare the hell out of them! This is the advice from Senator Andenberg, (R Michigan) to President Truman in 1947. It was his resolution of June 1948 that is considered the foundation of NATO. Andenberg always understood that NATO’s purpose was to maintain and expand the growing U.S. empire. He also understood that the people of the United States were reluctant to have their country assume the role of world’s policeman, especially so soon after the carnage of World War II. Thus the above-quoted advice, which has been the essence of Washington’s line to its own citizens ever since.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. ~ General Douglas MacArthur

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