Who Killed Economic Growth?

Cold War Propaganda: Selling market driven democracy to the world 1998

The US State Dept. and military planners decided after WW II that America's economy of market driven consumer capitalism would be the economic role model for the world. And any country with nationalist tendencies that might block corporate America's access to their raw materials and energy, or simply demand fair compensation for them, would be considered threats to the free market system and therefore a threat to democracy. Democracy, in western world corporate news media terms, always means freedom for big business to plunder the world's resources for private gain.

And begining with neoliberal capitalism in the 1980s, capitalist forces ranging from unfettered self-interest to appalling greed were unleashed on the world like no other time in history. Consumption of resources and corporate plunder of raw materials accelerated at breakneck rates.

The whole world was lied to constantly during the cold war era regarding an unsustainable way of life with respect to middle class capitalism based on consumption and growth.