Propaganda and Subversion, Part 1: Deception

He who controls the present controls the past; he who controls the past controls the future. - George Orwell Since deception is the most self-explanatory of the six stages, rather than explaining how propagandists lie (especially since I've already done that to an extent), I will instead correct some not-so-common misconceptions about history, and maybe…

On the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex

In his farewell speech upon completing his second term as President of the United States in January of 1961, Dwight Eisenhower coined the term "military-industrial complex" to describe the insidious influence of private industry and the military over the American people and their trusted institutions, in some ways echoing the sentiments of United States Marine…