The book opinion that there is and thereby marginalizing and

 Account of U.S. foreign policy and its effects around the eliminating authentic and rational critical discussion
world 
Testing the “Propaganda Model”
September 11, 2001  Propaganda Model: institutions work in their own interests;
 Hijacked airplanes hit the World Trade Center and Pentagon forward points of view and political perspectives which
satisfy the needs and the interests and the perspectives of
1 the buyers, the sellers, and the market
Weekend Teach-In: Opening Session 
Discussions at Rowe, Massachusetts, April 15-16,1989
The Media and Elite Opinion
The Achievements of Domestic Dissidence Filters on Reporting
- has brought changes in the culture Honest Subordination
(1) Restraints on U.S. government (Reagan Administration) “Fight it Better”: the Media and the Vietnam War
intervention: had to back off and move to clandestine
operations (tactics)– secret arms sales, covert funding 2
through client states, training of terrorist forces Teach-In: Over Coffee
(2) Reagan administration was forced to create a major “Containing” the Soviet Union in the Cold War
propaganda office (Office of Public Diplomacy): a major Orwell’s World and Ours
effort at indoctrinating the public Contemporary Poverty
(3) Reagan military budget had to level off by 1985 Religious Fanaticism
(4) More openness in the media: easier access for dissidents “The Real Anti-Semitism”
(5) New human rights organizations developed Ronald Reagan and the Future of Democracy
The U.S. Network of Terrorist Mercenary States Two New Factors in World Affairs
 U.S. government hire terrorist states to carry out its foreign Democracy Under Capitalism
interventions The Empire
Overthrowing Third World Governments Change and the Future
 to overthrow a government, arm its military
Government Secrecy 3
 to prevent the population here from knowing what’s going Teach-In: Evening
on; marginalize the population The Military-Industrial Complex
 to frighten its population The Permanent War Economy
The Media: An Institutional Analysis Libyan and American Terrorism
 (agenda-setting) media is an instrument of state The U.S. and the U. N.
propaganda: it takes the set of assumptions which express Business, Apartheid, and Racism
the basic ideas of the propaganda system and then present Winning the Vietnam War
a range of debate within that framework—so the debate “Genocide”: the United States and Pol Pot
only enhances the strength of the assumptions, ingraining Heroes and Anti-Heroes
them in people’s minds as the entire possible spectrum of “Anti-Intellectualism”
Spectator Sports
 Western European Activism and Canada Community Activists
Dispelling Illusions Discussion Circle
The Early Peace Movement and a Change in the 1970s
4 The Nuclear Freeze Movement
Colloquy Awareness and Actions
Leaders and Movements
The Totalitarian Strain Levels of Change
A Lithuania Hypothetical Non-Violence
Perpetuating Brainwashing Under Freedom Transcending Capitalism
Journalism LeMoyne-Style: A Sample of the Cynical Aspect The Kibbutz Experiment
Rethinking Watergate “Anarchism” and “Libertarianism”
Escaping Indoctrination Articulating Visions
Understanding the Middle East Conflict “Want” Creation
The Threat of Peace Dissidents: Ignored or Vilified
Water and the Occupied Territories Teaching About Resistance
Imperial Ambitions and the Arab Threat Isolation
Prospects for the Palestinians Science and Human Nature
Legitimacy in History Charlatans in the Sciences
Qualifications to Speak on World Affairs; A Presidential Adam Smith: Real and Fake
Campaign The Computer and the Crowbar

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Ruling the World Intellectuals and Social Change
Soviet Versus Western Economic Development The Leninist/Capitalist Intelligentsia
Supporting Terror Marxist “Theory” and Intellectual Fakery
“People’s Democratic Socialist Republics” Ideological Control in the Sciences and Humanities
The Organ Trade The Function of the Schools
The Real Crime of Cuba Subtler Methods of Control
Panama and Popular Invasions Cruder Methods of Control
Muslims and U.S. Foreign Policy The Fate of an Honest Intellectual
Haiti: Disturbance at an Export Platform Forging Working-Class Culture
Texaco and the Spanish Revolution The Fraud of Modern Economics
Averting Democracy in Italy The Real Market
P.R. in Somalia Automation
The Gulf War A Revolutionary Change in Moral Values
Bosnia: Intervention Questions
Toying With India 8
The Oslo Agreement and Imperialist Revival Popular Struggle
Discovering New Forms of Oppression
6 Freedom of Speech
 Negative and Positive Freedoms Welfare: the Pea and the Mountain
Cyberspace and Activism Crime Control and “Superfluous” People
“Free Trade” Agreements Violence and Repression
Defense Department Funding and “Clean Money” International Capital: the New Imperial Age
The Favored State and Enemy States The Fairy Tale Economy
Canada’s Media Building International Unions
Should Quebec Separate from Canada? Initial Moves and the Coming Crisis
Deciphering “China” Elite Planning—Slipping Out of Hand
Indonesia’s Killing Fields: U.S.-Backed Genocide in East Timor Disturbed Populations Stirring
Mass Murderers at Harvard The Verge of Fascism
Changes in Indonesia The Future of History
Nuclear Proliferation and North Korea
The Samson Option
The Lot of the Palestinians
P.L.O. Ambitions
The Nation-State System

9
Movement Organizing
The Movie Manufacturing Consent
Media Activism
Self-Destruction of the U.S. Left
Popular Education
Third-Party Politics
Boycotts
“A Praxis”
The War on Unions
Inner-City Schools
Defending the Welfare State
Pension Funds and the Law
Conspiracy Theories
The Decision to Get Involved
“Human Nature Is Corrupt”
Discovering Morality
Abortion
Moral Values

10
Turning Point
Bringing the Third World Home