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A section presenting incontrovertible evidence about the nature of the system we criticize originating with impeccable sources: highly-placed establishment insiders who, in moments of candor, hubris, or, rarer, repentance, left us the testimony and words of caution we feature below. Readers are invited to submit their own "finds" in this area for possible inclusion in this department.
NAME OF WITNESS
CLAIM TO AUTHORITATIVENESS
EVIDENCE AT HAND
Edward Bernays
Father of public relations; advisor to presidents
PROPAGANDA, by Edward Bernays. Wherein the father of public relations explains how political propaganda plays an important and indispensable role in the "manufacturing of consent" in "Western democracies."
Smedley Butler
Major General, USMC
EXCERPT from speech delivered in 1933 on US military role in foreign adventures.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
President of the United States
Despite the fact that "Ike" was a career military man, a Republican, and a certifiable Cold Warrior, his farewell address in 1961 contained an unexpected warning about the rise of the "military-industrial complex", a phrase widely adopted since to signify the current entanglement of corporate power and Pentagon bureaucracies.
John Swinton
Leading American journalist (1829-1901)
He defined the role of US journalists as servants of Mammon, incapable of telling the truth.
