17-01-2010, 03:41 AM
(This post was last modified: 17-01-2010, 06:35 PM by Nathaniel Heidenheimer.)
This is an article I have been meaning to look up for a long time.
http://books.google.com/books?id=-U0EAAA...q=&f=false (:deal: I hope)
This article is called "A Buisnessman's Letter to JFK by David Rockefeller, Life Magazine,July 6th, 1962.
I think, if one reads closely one could see some interesting differences between the boilerplate. While today we might not expect it in mass media, there were attempts to maintain a middle brow at this stage of the Cold War, much more so than today, even if this middle brow itself served wider Cold War ends of the day. In short, beneath the boilerplate there are six or seven very interesting paragraphs IMO.
Battling Wall Street by Gibson, A Century of War by Engdal, and Thy Will be Done, by Colby and Dennett all argue that the years 1957 -63 were a turning point in US Capitalism, or a fork in the road. In these years, the authors agree, Industrial Capitalism was finally abandoned in favor of finance capitalism. Thy Will Be Done even makes the connection to NAFTA.
In my view the Kennedy years were the critical ones in this transition, and these changes have clearly have clear parallels in foreign policy-- Vietnam, detente possibilities, redirect investment in Latin America, and serious changes in the Alliance for Progress [e.g. Thomas Mann was pacified for abruptness of Stage 2 cut off with the plumb of being named boss of Alliance For Progress. After that, the coups just kept coming] -- but for some reason the important foreign policy decisions are often shorn of their implications for the domestic economy.
disinformation-pushers work daily to remove the Cold War history from the Assassination, and reduce it to a who done it, a matter for ballistic experts with no clear connection to how we ended up in today's world--in which we are currently experiencing the greatest degree of income inequality since 1917, a fact completely unworthy of mention in today's Corporate Media. This assassination of history enables the misplaced hopes in Goldman-Sachs-Democrats, and enables many to not laugh openly at the puppet show of these two bankers parties, in a year that has turned the Republican Party from widely scorned thieves to """""""""""""""""""populist"""""""""""""""""""""
insurgents.
http://books.google.com/books?id=-U0EAAA...q=&f=false (:deal: I hope)
This article is called "A Buisnessman's Letter to JFK by David Rockefeller, Life Magazine,July 6th, 1962.
I think, if one reads closely one could see some interesting differences between the boilerplate. While today we might not expect it in mass media, there were attempts to maintain a middle brow at this stage of the Cold War, much more so than today, even if this middle brow itself served wider Cold War ends of the day. In short, beneath the boilerplate there are six or seven very interesting paragraphs IMO.
Battling Wall Street by Gibson, A Century of War by Engdal, and Thy Will be Done, by Colby and Dennett all argue that the years 1957 -63 were a turning point in US Capitalism, or a fork in the road. In these years, the authors agree, Industrial Capitalism was finally abandoned in favor of finance capitalism. Thy Will Be Done even makes the connection to NAFTA.
In my view the Kennedy years were the critical ones in this transition, and these changes have clearly have clear parallels in foreign policy-- Vietnam, detente possibilities, redirect investment in Latin America, and serious changes in the Alliance for Progress [e.g. Thomas Mann was pacified for abruptness of Stage 2 cut off with the plumb of being named boss of Alliance For Progress. After that, the coups just kept coming] -- but for some reason the important foreign policy decisions are often shorn of their implications for the domestic economy.
disinformation-pushers work daily to remove the Cold War history from the Assassination, and reduce it to a who done it, a matter for ballistic experts with no clear connection to how we ended up in today's world--in which we are currently experiencing the greatest degree of income inequality since 1917, a fact completely unworthy of mention in today's Corporate Media. This assassination of history enables the misplaced hopes in Goldman-Sachs-Democrats, and enables many to not laugh openly at the puppet show of these two bankers parties, in a year that has turned the Republican Party from widely scorned thieves to """""""""""""""""""populist"""""""""""""""""""""
insurgents.