{"id":3351,"date":"2007-03-15T20:25:41","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T03:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/15\/are-you-with-the-program\/"},"modified":"2007-03-15T20:25:41","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T03:25:41","slug":"are-you-with-the-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/15\/are-you-with-the-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You With the Program?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is not civilizations that promote clashes. They occur when old-fashioned leaders look for old-fashioned ways to solve problems by rousing their people to armed confrontation.&#8221; <em>&#8211;Kenichi Ohmae, The End Of The Nation State, (New York: The Free Press 1995), p. 11.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Why of course the people don&#8217;t want war. &#8230; That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.<em> &#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/quotes.liberty-tree.ca\/quotes_by\/hermann+goering\">Hermann Goering, Adolph Hitler&#8217;s heir-apparent<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is more propaganda in a democracy than in a dictatorship. &#8230; The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control -&#8216;indoctrination,&#8217; we might say &#8211; exercised through the mass media. <em>&#8211;Seminal linguist Noam Chomsky<\/em><br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table width=\"425\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"10\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><strong>An Act of Creation?<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>[youtube]xdXiVqt5T0o[\/youtube]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><strong>Meet The Press, March 11, 2007<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/08\/cajoled\/\">Iran is up next<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the program the War Party has planned for you, your children and your grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Are you with the program?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is not civilizations that promote clashes. They occur when old-fashioned leaders look for old-fashioned ways to solve problems by rousing their people to armed confrontation.&#8221; &#8211;Kenichi Ohmae, The End Of The Nation State, (New York: The Free Press 1995), p. 11. Why of course the people don&#8217;t want war. &#8230; That is understood. But, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3351"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}