Psywar
2010 · 99 MIN · IMDB 7.9 · 236 VOTES · DIR. Scott Noble
Overview
This film explores the evolution of propaganda and public relations in the United States, with an emphasis on the elitist theory of democracy and the relationship between war, propaganda and class. Includes original interviews with a number of dissident scholars including Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Peter Phillips (Project Censored), John Stauber (PR Watch), Christopher Simpson (The Science of Coercion) and others. A deep, richly illustrated study of the nature and history of propaganda, featuring some of the world’s most insightful critics, Psywar exposes the propaganda system, providing crucial background and insight into the control of information and thought.
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00:00:06 This film is not for sale or distribution.
00:04:54 The same day we blew up Al Jazeera's television station
00:08:32 and was meticulously planned to manipulate the public.
00:12:26 Seven years later, the results of the invasion are clear.
00:17:36 he replied: "The public be damned!"
00:22:00 than the rich.
00:26:08 under the direction of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
00:30:33 what one saw in the geopolitical stage was a crisis of empires.
00:34:27 During the Great War, the savage Indian and the sub-human Negro
00:39:43 But in my mind, it was a tall, proud city
00:43:54 'Wobblies' was the nickname for an organization called
00:47:47 could suspend constitutional rights when the nation faced:
00:51:29 back in time, back those 200 years
00:55:25 especially threats from people who didn't have much.
00:58:58 and forced down the Constitution
01:02:35 they would have to go back and discuss it.
01:06:09 Arnold Schwarzenegger!
01:10:15 John Edgerton, president of the National Association of Manufacturers
01:13:34 encouraging females, women, to smoke.
01:17:38 to feel as though they are climbing the social hierarchy
01:21:33 was this tremendous emptiness again.
01:25:17 that developed a whole new big professional class and the like.
01:29:29 is in fact, the amount of time they have to spend
01:33:08 when they become targets of psychological operations and propaganda.