Copyright © 2012 Jaimes Nel
Jon Ronson has spent 3 years piecing together the historical trail of American PsyOps strategies, famous from events such as Waco, and how they have culminated in the horrors of Abu Ghraib.
Sunday 7th November see the beginning of Channel 4’s screening of his 3 part documentary, tracing the (d)evolution of subliminal warfare strategies from post-Vietnam New Age “peace” soldiers to post-9/11 military Black Ops. With the Bush administration having spent $30 billion dollars on secret budgets (more than any other US administration in history), and with a mandate for a second term unlikely to dent enthusiasm for such strategies, this makes compelling, if horrific, viewing.
CRAZY RULERS OF THE WORLD by Jon Ronson begins Sunday 7 November at 8pm on Channel 4
Part two of The Road to Abu Ghraib, also by Jon Ronson features in the Guardian Weekend on Saturday, 6 November.