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The Power Principle
Corporate Empire and The Rise of the National Security State
Metanoia Films

A gripping, deeply informative account of the plunder, hypocrisy, and mass violence of plutocracy and empire; insightful, historically grounded and highly relevant to the events of today. - Michael Parenti, Historian, Author The Face of Imperialism

Part I - Empire

An Introduction to the Empire; Iran Oil and Geopolitics; Guatemala the merger of state and corporate power; The Congo Neocolonialism; Grenada The Mafia Doctrine; Chile libertarianism with a small l; Globalization: Consequences.

1945: Grand Area Strategy; Fascism: a rational system of the plutocracy; Case Studies: the Greek Communists; The Italian Communists; the Spanish Anarchists; Fascisms Western backers; Trading with the Enemy; Fascism as preservation of civilization; the Cold War and A Century of Fear.


Part II Propaganda

The Soviet Menace?; Case Studies: El Salvador, Nicaragua; Propaganda: Self-Deception and blowback; The International Communist Conspiracy; Declassified Documents; NSC 68; The Pentagon as Keynsian Mechanism; The Military Industrial Complex; The War against the Third World; Shifting rationales; What is imperialism?; Case Study: Haiti; War is a racket.

Fear-based conditioning - The War of the Worlds, The Triumph of the Will; World view Warfare; The Russians are coming; Television: The perfect propaganda medium; Soviet vs. American propaganda; Hollywood and the Pentagon; Psywarriors and the media; Operation Mockingbird; The Pentagon Pundits; Project Revere; The Bomber Gap; scare the hell out of them.


Part III Apocalypse

Mutually Assured Destruction; MAD men - Curtis Lemay and the super hawks; MAD men - Hermann Kahn and the Rand Corporation; Over flights as provocation; Cuba: the danger of a good example; terrorism against Cuba; Unconventional warfare; the Cuban Missile Crisis and the man who saved the world.

Why did the Soviet Union collapse?; Gorbachev: a more violent, less stable world; the Pentagons New Map; Did Ronald Reagan end the Cold War?; The Brink of Apocalypse: Able Archer; The betrayal of Russia; The expansion of NATO; Yugoslavia and Libya; the Yeltsin coup; Living standards in the former Soviet Union; A third way?

Postscript: The Power Principle. A gripping, deeply informative account of the plunder, hypocrisy, and mass violence of plutocracy and empire; insightful, historically grounded and highly relevant to the events of today

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