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Rockefeller Foundation

Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development (2010)

Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development (2010) by Rockefeller Foundation

Extract:

LOCK STEP – A world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership, with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback.
 
In 2012, the pandemic that the world had been anticipating for years finally hit....

Ben Williams

Central Government (1991)

Central Government (1991) by Ben Williams

Central Government is typified by Babylon. Babylonian type World Empires, based upon the concept of Central Government, are liberally strewn throughout the records of world history. Today, the epitome of Central Government is usually thought to be the Communist government of the Soviet Union. But, in all...

CIA

Eagle & Swastika: CIA & Nazi War Criminals (2003)

Eagle & Swastika: CIA & Nazi War Criminals (2003) by CIA

From the Introduction

Eagle and Swastika: CIA and Nazi War Criminals and Collaborators examines the Central Intelligence Agency's involvement with Nazis and their collaborators after World War II. It details the Agency's assistance to various US Government investigations, primarily by th...

Marvin N. Olasky

Reception of Edward Bernays Doctrine Of Manipulating Public Opinion (1984)

Reception of Edward Bernays Doctrine Of Manipulating Public Opinion (1984) by Marvin N. Olasky

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Comunication (67th, Gainesvile, FL, August 5-8, 1984).

Abstract

Ivy Lee and Edward Bernays are generally regarded as the founding fathers of modern public...

Vance Packard

The Hidden Persuaders (1958)

The Hidden Persuaders (1958) by Vance Packard

"One of the best books around for demystifying the deliberately mysterious arts of advertising." -- Salon

"Fascinating, entertaining and thought-stimulating." -- The New York Times Book Review

"A brisk, authoritative and frightening report on how manufacturers, fundraisers and politicians are...