Following World War II, the U.S. government deliberately set out to
convince the people at-large that Soviet communism posed a threat to
take control of the world. At the same time, it minimzed the fact that
the communist system failed to provide the people under its dictatorial
control, and who would supposedly conquer for it, with adequate food and
other basic survival needs. The inaccurate and misleading U.S. doctrine
served money controllers and manipulators.
Propaganda instilling fear was unrelenting in the 1950's, prompting many
people to build underground shelters. School children were rehearsed in
hiding under their desks, and the public practiced taking cover upon
hearing monthly blasts of attack-warning sirens. Soviet bombast added
to the fear with statements like "we will bury you", but went without
basis in fact unless they wished to be buried also.
The "cold war" launched between the "free" west and communist east ensured large profits for war industries, the creation of a military-industrial-intelligence complex, about which President Dwight Eisenhower warned in his Farewell Address in 1961 as posing a great danger to American freedom, and greater taxpayer indebtedness to bankers who collected huge interest payments on loans for all the government spending.
Earlier, U.S. propaganda was clearly the concern of Army General Douglas
McArthur;
"Our government has kept us in a
perpetual state of fear, kept us in
a continual stampede of patriotic
fervor, with the cry of a grave national
emergency. Always there has been
some terrible evil at home or some
monstrous foreign power that was
going to gobble us up if we did not
blindly rally behind it by furnishing the
exorbitant funds demanded. Yet, in
retrospect, these disasters seem never
to have happened, seem never to have
been real."
Public Government propaganda was the opposite of fair and balanced
presentation of facts. Even when labeled as "public relations" and
"public information", it was intended to control and manipulate the
people at-large in favor of its doctrine.
Secret Government, such as the CIA, engaged in disinformation and
misinformation, a special type of propaganda requiring conspiratorial
cover-ups by those on the taxpayers payroll who originated and
disseminated false information through mainstream media.
One example was at the height of the Cold War in 1961 when Americans
were told that the Solviet Union had many more missiles aimed at the U.S.
than vice versa, only to learn decades later that the actual count was 98 to 35
in favor of the U.S.
Americans were propagandized by the government into believing Soviet
military ground forces were large and growing after World War II, when
in fact they were declining. Russian analyst Pavel Felgengauer said the
Soviets focused instead on tactical nuclear weapons;
"The great Red Army was a myth
created in the west.."
After communism failed in the Soviet and East European states at the
beginning of the 1990's, an attempt to resurrect a new danger from
Russia fell flat in 1995 when its ground forces were defeated by Chechen
independence fighters. Knight-Ridder News Service reported from the
Chechnya capitol of Grozny that dozens of Russian tanks were destroyed;
"The myth of Russia's military invincibility
died in that catastrophic battle, weakened
by internal dissent, poor morale, obsolete
equipment and a near total lack of pre-
paredness."
U.S. propaganda was ongoing to convince Americans of some new threat.
Libya, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Cuba, North Korea and China became targets,
despite having far less combined military budgets than the U.S. and no
aggressive alliance. Dire warnings that the U.S. needed to prepare for
possible war with North Korea were followed by independent news reports
that millions of North Koreans were dying of starvation in a "full scale
famine", an internal condition unsupportive of the idea that its
military forces would have the morale to fight for a fatally-flawed
communist regime that produced such disaster, even if it had an adequate
supply of food for itself, which was never shown.
Pushing "terrorist" propaganda openly in the 1990's, the President, Vice
President, Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State attempted to
instill fear of widespread attacks, even proclaiming a "war on terrorism"
and launching missile attacks on alleged targets in sovereign countries,
such as Sudan and Afghanistan, with no attempt to halt their alleged
activities by lawful international procedures and institutions of
justice.
For the people at-large, propaganda-for-profit was the true enemy.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural
Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and
Democratic Ideals, complete and objective reporting by government is a
requirement.
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