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290 THE TRIUMPH OF EVIL
�n. � nd Kopf, 1995) : It should also be mentioned that the USA's terror bombings of
C1v1t � an targets only mcreased the fascists' will to resist (Schulz, 1982). For example,
desp1te several years of intensive aerial attacks, German armaments production was
at its highest level ever in July 1944, and it declined thereafter only because of lost
production and raw materials from territories seized by ground forces (Speer, 1970). ln
addition, it must be remembered that the USA essentially only entered into World War
II to protect its Pacific colonies and not for any humanitarian reasons (Copeland, 2000).
Even Hawaii at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 was not yet a
state, and the seizure of that territory in the late 1800s by USA businessmen backed
by Marines was so blatantly imperialistic (even by USA standards) that it continues to
be challenged legally (Associated Press, 1996c). Similar to the USA's terrorist war on
the German civilian population, the USA's terror bombings of Japanese cities and the
USA's widespread killing of Japanese prisoners of war merely increased the will of the
Japanese to fight to the end (Dower, 1986). Japan finally surrendered about a week after
being attacked militarily by the Soviet Union (Werth, 1964), which confronted the main
body of the Japanese army in Asia and thereby suffered in a brief time about I 0,000
battle deaths (Krivosheev, 1997), which represented over 1/30 of the losses of the USA
for the entire war on all fronts from all causes.
2. One of the most important weapons was the media, which was probably more sue·
cessfully, and definitely more subtly, employed by the West. For instance, the distorted,
one-sided reporting by the most influential Western press is especially effective because
most aren't even aware of how they are manipulated by the Western mainstream media,
which is owned by a rich concentrated few, which relies heavily on the reports ofgov·
emment agencies like the CIA, which can be pressured by rich corporate advertisers to
disseminate only anticommunist views, and which reflects the natural self-interest of
the most valuable rich advertisers and "customers" who have been indoctrinated since
birth with anti-communism, but which allows for some "dissent" in the fo rm of negative
reporting on some controlled and relatively unimportant issues (Herman and Chomsky,
1988). In addition, the USA dominates the media in most countries of the world not
only through Hollywood's market share of movies (Economist, t 999a) but also via the
extensive use of USA TV programs in countries outside the USA, translated or subtitled
in countries that don't use English, and the "independent" media of other countries
(w�her private or government controlled) is becoming more and more like the USA
medta (Foemel, 2000). Exploiting this control, television and Hollywood films (as well
as even cartoons) tend to always show the capitalist USA to be the "good gu
y" that
always wins in the end, even if the "good guys" have some minor correctable problems
or � uffe � temporary setbacks. Possibly as a result of this brainwashing system, Harv�
Umvers1ty professor Cornel West has concluded, "the mainstream population is lookmg
for happy endings, like in Disneyland. America is growing old and big without growing
up" (M � rray, 2000). Moreover, the violence of Hollywood films and TV promote the
pe�e�tl� that the USA's long history of continuing violence is justified to overcome
.
evil Vllla � ns (with the true comprehensive evil of the USA itself explained in this boOk
n � ver bemg port�yed). �use of the hypnotic power of such media and the e � �en·
s1 ve amount of hrne Arnencans and others spend watching television, the repetttJVe·
ness of the th
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e causes many people to believe in such even when they might be
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aware that tnd1v1dual shows or films are fiction. The media thereby create what Hast·
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ings (1999) calls a "gullible electorate" that can be easily manipulated to support USA
tC!J'Ofist attacks on countries like Yugoslavia in 1999. Media portrayal of violence also
more subtly serves the purpose of encouraging violence in defense of USA capitalist
"morals " and helps to develop the soldiers, police, and right-wing terrorists that are
needed to keep repressed those who disagree with USA capitalist world domination,
while violence programming (along with sex and sports shows) also achieves the goal
of channeling youth protest away from anti-capitalist activities (Saadawi, 2000). The
media also more generally provides a distraction from issues that might lead to anticapitalist
political discussions (Foerstel, 2000).
3. One of the primary battlefronts was the propaganda war, which was probably
waged more deceitfully and successfully by the West For instance, when the Eastern
bloc of countries started to win an extraordinary number of medals at the Olympic
games in the 1970s due to superior motivation (as the communist athletes enjoyed the
process and challenge of the sport, which has been fo und to spur 6 times more effec­
tive perfo rmance than the incentives offered Western athletes in the form of fame and
money), the Western bloc of nations blamed the communist successes on doping the
athletes with drugs, even though drug tests revealed less than 0.0 I o/e of the athletes had
used drugs of any sort, and even though the test finding of two athletes having drugs in
their body was consistent with them having taken only harmless antihistamine tablets
(Williams, 1995). In comparison, steroid and other illegal drug use by athletes in the
Western countries appears to be much more prevalent (Rozin, Flynn, and Durcanin,
1995). Nevertheless, Western countries are generally still coosidered to be the "good
guys" on this issue, in spite of other negative facts like the existence of a huge world­
wide narcotics trade sponsored by USA intelligence services (Stich, 1994), and like the
close COMection between British capitalists and the drug trade in their colonies prior to
USA world domination (Gopal, 1963). One reason for the continued belief in the USA
15 the "good guy" is the fact that those Americans who have called the official anti­
communist religion into question (including professors) have often been fired (Smith,
�).
4. Besides outright mass murder and other blatant atrocities (as previously docu­
mented in the Introduction), the USA also victimized many people using more discrete
� such as clandestine assassinations, druggings, and hypnosis, which are often
�emenled through religious cults that they use as fronts, and that they typically
finlnce with profits made from distributing illegal narcotics in the USA and elsewhere
�tine, 1995). Bowart (1978), Schulz (1982), and Stich (1994) provide substan-
l docuMen ted evidence of these facts. Books by Agee and Wolf ( 1975), Stockwell
0978), Prouty (1992), and Reed and Cummings (1994) provide inside information
on� issues presented by former CIA agents, while Milan (1989) and Gian c:an a
� Gtancana ( 1992) provide some personal accounts of important mafia connections
� JICISpective on how the Mafia/CIA alliance assassinated an elected U � A Preside�!
fli1h the USA secret police. Furiati ( 1994) has provided very interesting documentation
. ), who wasn 't right-wing enough for that criminal consortium, especially on poh­
Ciel rtlated to the criminals' desire to overthrow the Castro government in Cuba. In
an lllempt to di scredit such facts that are in conflict with the mainstream lies and p ro
PI&Inda Spread by the capitalist press and USA government officials, the CIA it:'c:lf
COVenly !lromotes the spreading of some very absurd conspiracy theories (Constantine,