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Abstract for Article on Disinformation: Military preparedness and military conflicts engaged ... more Abstract for Article on Disinformation:
Military preparedness and military conflicts engaged in by the United States are typically costly in dollars and lives, they are also typically unsuccessful. This article examines the control by military and intelligence agencies that permit public acquiescence to this waste. Why do we allow this? Some of the contracted “perception-management” companies are identified, and corporate media ownership is described.

Topics in this chapter includes: The Humble Origins of Wal-Mart Divine Politics and Signs of Fas... more Topics in this chapter includes:

The Humble Origins of Wal-Mart
Divine Politics and Signs of Fascism
A Summary and Some What Helpful Prognosis

Topics in this chapter includes: Selling the Image of Being for the People Electoral Games The P... more Topics in this chapter includes:

Selling the Image of Being for the People
Electoral Games
The Public's Role in Protecting Centralized Power
Interests Served by the Dominant Paradigm
American Greatness and Exceptionalism

Topics in this chapter includes: The First War and Propaganda The Committee on Public Informatio... more Topics in this chapter includes:

The First War and Propaganda
The Committee on Public Information
The Muckrakers and Big Business
Media Monopolies and the Effect on Journalism
Lack of Government Regulation
Using Fake Groups and Fake News
The Effect on Journalism
The Rise of Social Media
Political and Economic Agendas: The Modern-Day Manufacture of Consent
The Defense Department's Media Contracts
The Rendon Group
The Lincoln Group
Official Manipulation: The Office of Strategic Influence
In Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq
Official Manipulation: The Office of Special Plans
The Media's Failure to Examine Questions about the Events of 9/11
Historical Examples of Media Manipulation and the Justification of War
Strategic Media: Embedded Journalism
Strategic Media: The Pentagon's Doha Media Center
Media Complicity: Spinning the War on Terror
Eliminating Journalists
Discounting Civilian Deaths
Spinning the Story
Journalism Matters: The effects of Propaganda
News on the Home Front: Domestic and Environmental Issues
Hiding Scientific Warnings of Danger

Topics in this Chapter Includes: Creating the Enemy Violence and Coercive Tactics The Mind-Set o... more Topics in this Chapter Includes:

Creating the Enemy
Violence and Coercive Tactics
The Mind-Set of Competitive Games
Legitimizing Global Violence
Externalizes: The Acceptability of Risk
End Goals of Global Games: The Expansion of Markets
Ideological Beliefs
A Permanent War Economy
Economic Aid as a Political Tool
Creating the Communist Enemy
Ideological Irony
Tactics to Defeat Communism in the Third World
Creating Governments With the Corporate Agenda
Economic Intervention
Bypassing Legal Constraints
Overthrowing Governments
Iran: A Model Removal of a Popular Leader
Iraq and the Middle East: Preemptive Military Action
East Timor: Decimating a Civilian Population
Guatemala: Supporting Violent Military Rule
The Vulcans Expand the Agenda
Concentrating Power in the Executive
A Matter of Torture
Mercenaries: Privatizing the Military
New Directions for the War Fare State
Pointing the Cameras on Ourselves
Justifying the Expansion of Power and Influence

Topics in This Chapter Includes: What is Power? Network Analysis: Revealing Networks of Power Cr... more Topics in This Chapter Includes:

What is Power?
Network Analysis: Revealing Networks of Power
Creating Authority
Effects of Concentrated Corporate Growth and Expansion
The Military Industrial Complex
National Defense Budget
The Industry of Defense
The Government as Contractor: Bechtel, Carlyle, and Halliburton
Carlyle Group
The Security Digital Complex
Halliburton
Elite Clubs: Building Networks of Power
The Bilderberg Group
The Bohemian Club
Think Tanks, Advisory Boards, and Councils: Creating Policy and Consent
Business Advocacy and Lobbying Groups
National Manufacturers Association
The Business Round Table
The Project for the New American Century
The Defense Policy Board
International Groups that Plan and Implement Policy: International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Trade Organization
Corporatization of Elections: Taking Power from the People
The Funding of Candidates
Political Action Committees
Polling Places and Electronic Voting Machines
New Barriers to Voting
Judicial Injustice and Social Exclusion

Topics in this Chapter Includes: Globalization of Food Production Economic Globalization Subsidi... more Topics in this Chapter Includes:

Globalization of Food Production
Economic Globalization
Subsidies
Biotechnology
Intellectual Property
The Privatization of Water
Bechtel Vs. Bolivia
Agriculture and the Production of Narcotics
The War on Drugs
Columbia: Militarizing a Social and Economic Problem
Afghanistan: Opium and Intervention
Burma (Myanmar): Oppressive Governments and Opium
The Evolving Story of People on Land
An Alternative: Agroecology and the Good Sovereignty Movement

Topics in this Chapter Includes: Structural Violence Psychological and Epidemiological Perspecti... more Topics in this Chapter Includes:

Structural Violence
Psychological and Epidemiological Perspectives
Cases of Structural Violence by the Global Economy
Nike in Indonesia
McDonald's and Disney in Vietnam
Wal-Mart
Foxconn and Electronics Manufacturing in China
Vioelnce against Consumers in the Global Market Place
Avon in Brazil
Channel 1
Corporate Sponsorship of Schools
Systemic Violence Against Women and Children
Human Trafficking
AIDS of Structural Violence
Human Effects of Free Trade
Domestic Terror
The Doctrine of Global Corporate Growth
Wealth's Disparity
Risk and Responsibility

Topics in this chapter includes: War and Human Nature Killing in Our Minds and Motives Context o... more Topics in this chapter includes:

War and Human Nature
Killing in Our Minds and Motives
Context of Killing
War and the minds of Men
Dehumanization and Enemies
The Dehumanization of Culture
Different Realities
The Experience of Combat
Glory and the Sense of Purpose
The Decision Makers for War

Topics in this chapter includes: The Changing Character of War Destructive Capabilities of Weapo... more Topics in this chapter includes:

The Changing Character of War
Destructive Capabilities of Weapons
Nuclear Weapons
Human Consequences of War
The Effects of War on Soldiers
The Effects of War on Children
The Use of Child Soldiers
Civilian Causalities: Collateral and Targeted
Land Mines
Terrorism: The Calculated Use of Violence
State Sanction Terror
Case Studies of State Terror
Guatemala
Columbia
Cambodia
Material and Human Quest of Preparedness
US Responsibility

Topics include the changing character of war, destructive capabilities of weapons, nuclear weapon... more Topics include the changing character of war, destructive capabilities of weapons, nuclear weapons, human consequences of war, soldiers after was, children and war, child soldiers, civilian casualties (collateral and targeted), Guatemala, Columbia, Cambodia, people displaced by war, land mines, material and human costs of preparedness, and US responsibility.

Peace Movements Worldwide

From Veterans for Peace to the Nonviolent Peace Force, from UN initiatives to local actions by wo... more From Veterans for Peace to the Nonviolent Peace Force, from UN initiatives to local actions by women in Colombia and Kenya, and from citizen diplomats to creative conflict resolvers to survivors of genocide, this set tells the stories of ideas, people, and worldwide organizations striving to help humanity realize its never-ending yearning for peace.

The Healing Web: Social Networks and Human Survival

How We Lost the War on Poverty

Unless otherwise indicated, the essays in this book originally appeared in transaction/Society ma... more Unless otherwise indicated, the essays in this book originally appeared in transaction/Society magazine. Second Printing 1976 Copyright© 1973 Transaction, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, ...

International Conflict and Social Policy

The Triple Revolution (1968, 1971)

An edited book that discusses in detail the contents of the "The Triple Revolution," an open memo... more An edited book that discusses in detail the contents of the "The Triple Revolution," an open memorandum sent to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and other government figures on March 22, 1964. The document was drafted and signed by an array of noted social activists, professors, and technologists.

Papers by Marc Pilisuk

Council of Hemispheric Affairs, 2019

Signing an agreement declaring Guatemala a “safe” country does not make it so. Increasing drug an... more Signing an agreement declaring Guatemala a “safe”
country does not make it so. Increasing drug and gangrelated
violence and poverty—an estimated 59% of
Guatemalans live in poverty, most of whom are
indigenous—are not the ingredients of a safe and
secure environment. This environment is largely a result
of the legacy of more than half a century of U.S. policy,
intervention, and corporate interest and its deleterious
effect on Guatemala’s people.

Assessing Risk: A Public Analysis of the Medfly Eradication Program

Public Opinion Quarterly, 1984

DETERMINATION of acceptable levels of risk is rapidly gaining the widespread attention of scienti... more DETERMINATION of acceptable levels of risk is rapidly gaining the widespread attention of scientists, elected officials, and bureaucrats. Public concern about the safety of drugs, pesticides, food additives, pollution, and nuclear energy has spawned the demand for ...

The Journal of Primary Prevention, 1982