American Propaganda Research Paper

POWER STRUCTURES AND THEIR INHERENT PROPAGANDA IN AMERICA
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Power Structures And Their
Inherent Propaganda In America:
Michael F Heyn
Madison Area Technical College

POWER STRUCTURES AND THEIR INHERENT PROPAGANDA IN AMERICA
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Abstract:
The world is usually not the way it seems, and this is especially true when looking for truth.
There’s a reason for the common saying, “The truth often hurts the most”. Society as a whole often isn’t allowed to acknowledge the truth because of the propaganda of the ruling class. In all hierarchical societies, free information is heavily restricted or sometimes even completely restricted to prevent free thought among the masses. This is just as true in America as in any other society. This paper will

At the time of carrying out operation PBSUCCESS, the coup was unknown to the public. The American people did not know their own government was overthrowing a democracy. The reason that this coup was performed was for a foreign business interest, the United Fruit Company (now known as
Chiquita Bananas), President Jacobo Árbenz was making an attempt to do land reform in a time when United Fruit Company owned 70% of Guatemala's land and controlled the media companies of the country. The largest component of Árbenz' reform attempts was his agrarian reform bill, “The focus of the program was on transferring uncultivated land from large landowners to their poverty stricken laborers, who would then be able to begin a viable farm of their own”(Immerman 1982). This kind of policy was very concerning to the capitalists who owned shares of United Fruit Company, and would also result in a decrease to US federal government revenues. The CIA decided to perform a coup, ““For four weeks, starting on May
Day 1954, the CIA had been waging psychological warfare in Guatemala through a pirate radio station called the Voice of Liberation, run by a CIA contract officer, an amateur actor and