Part 2 ----The mechanism of control naturally in a totalitarian state and a state capitalist democracy, but there have been striking features in common throughout the Cold War era. When the Soviets sent tanks to East Berlin, Budapest, or Prague, or devastated Afghanistan, the population could be mobilized and clients abroad pacified by invocation of the evil empire, poised to strike, the same was true as state power imposed a brutal repressive apparatus while assuring the privilege and authority of the Nomenklatura, the armed forces and security services, and military industry.

Similar devices wee deployed for population control within the United States as it conducted it global programs of the violence and subversion while maintaining the Pentagon-based state industrial policy that has been a prime factor in economic growth, and instituting the regime of the sacrifice and discipline called for the U.S. National Security Council memorandum NSC 68, the major secret Cold War document ( April 1950), which outlined the necessity for just suppression, a crucial feature of the democratic way, with dissent among us curbed while public resources are shifted to the needs of advanced industry.

And now, a few years after the Cold War, the pattern persists with little change. One revealing example is the standard current interpretation of the campaign of a slaughter, torture, and destruction that the United States organized and directed in Central America through the 1980s to demolish the popular organizations that were taking shape, in part under Church auspices. These threatened to create a base for functioning democracy, perhaps allowing the people of this miserable region, long in the grip of the U.S. power to gain some control over their lives; therefore they had to be destroyed.

This shameful episode of imperial violence is now routinely depicted as an illustration of the U.S. high ideals and its success in bringing democracy and human rights to this primitive region. And now. It has been intriguing to observe the desperate search for some new enemy as the Russians were fading through the 1980s: thus the category of international terrorism is cleansed of any references and its clients (mainly Israel), which breaks all records but remain unmentionable in the media and respective scholarship; the drug war frenzy evaded the leading role of the CIA in creating and maintaining the post-World War II drug racket as well as the state role in allowing in U.S. banks and corporations to profit handsomely from the sale of lethal narcotics; and so on down the list.

The basic insight was well expressed by a nineteenth century critic of the compulsory education designed to convert independent farmers to docile wage laborers, to educate them to keep them away from our throats," as Ralph Waldo Emerson parodied elite fears of politicized majority: Them as read newspapers know s too much bout other folks" sins not nough bout thar own, he said.

That about sums up what thousands of pages of detailed documentation and analysis have shown. Imperialism is very much adaptive and since the order of the day, that is the New World Order calls for expansionism rather than containment, methods of public control needs to shift directly proving that in order to succeed imperialism needs to have an adaptive nature.