{"id":8382,"date":"2012-05-21T07:54:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T11:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=8382"},"modified":"2012-05-21T07:57:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T11:57:17","slug":"the-creeping-fascism-of-american-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/the-creeping-fascism-of-american-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Creeping Fascism of American Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8389\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/6722-propaganda-war-i-want-you-finger-052012-e1337601402864.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8389\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8389 lazyload\" title=\"6722-propaganda-war-i-want-you-finger-052012\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/6722-propaganda-war-i-want-you-finger-052012-e1337601402864.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"217\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 480px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 480\/217;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bipartisan amendment introduced by Rep. Mac Thornberry and Rep. Adam Smith would allow the Department of Defense to utilize propaganda. (image: Telegraph UK)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have been a regular reader of Juan Cole&#8217;s excellent political analysis &amp; commentary (Check out his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/\">Informed Comment<\/a> site). Here the opening paragraphs of his latest piece:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">20 May 12<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<strong>The Creeping Fascism of American Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/readersupportednews.org\/images\/stories\/alphabet\/rsn-T.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>wo congressmen are attempting to insert a provision in the National Defense Authorization act\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/mhastings\/congressmen-seek-to-lift-propaganda-ban\" target=\"_blank\">that would allow the Department of Defense to subject the US domestic public to propaganda<\/a>. The bipartisan amendment was introduced by Rep. Mac Thornberry from Texas and Rep. Adam Smith from Washington State.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nothing speaks more urgently to the creeping fascism of American politics than the assertion by our representatives, who apparently have never read a book on Germany in the 1930s-1940s or on the Soviet Union in the Stalin period, that forbidding DoD and the State Department from subjecting us to government propaganda &#8220;ties the hands of America&#8217;s diplomatic officials, military, and others by inhibiting our ability to effectively communicate in a credible way.&#8221; And mind you, they want to use our own money to wash our brains!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[continued <a href=\"http:\/\/readersupportednews.org\/opinion2\/277-75\/11530-the-creeping-fascism-of-american-politics\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a regular reader of Juan Cole&#8217;s excellent political analysis &amp; commentary (Check out his\u00a0Informed Comment site). Here the opening paragraphs of his latest piece: 20 May 12 \u00a0The Creeping Fascism of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,845],"tags":[445],"class_list":["post-8382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agitprop","category-politics","tag-juan-cole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8382"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8388,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382\/revisions\/8388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}