] These include a powerful propaganda machine Americas ] is the most comprehensive and sophisticated in history ] centered around a few simple, powerful symbols which, ] though in themselves meaningless, are nonetheless, in ] old-fashioned parlance, taboo. It remains an offense to ] desecrate the flag. ] ] They also include a public rhetoric so far removed from ] ordinary speech as to constitute practically a separate ] language and whose intended effect is essentially to ] baffle... Do you watch cspan? ArabNews: Neo-Totalitarianism |