{"id":8769,"date":"2015-10-13T06:10:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T10:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=8769"},"modified":"2015-11-07T21:08:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T02:08:45","slug":"americas-unofficial-religion-the-war-on-an-idea-empire-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=8769","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Unofficial Religion \u2014 The War On An Idea &#8211; Empire Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Empire has a range of weapons to maintain its power: from its courts to its military. But it also has effective ideological weapons.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Everyone in the United States knows that &#8220;socialist&#8221; or &#8220;communist&#8221; is considered a bad word. How did things get that way?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Abby Martin explores the history of anti-communism in America, and the heavy repression of an idea that became an unofficial religion.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hznlp-DwgSw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Featuring interviews with:<br \/>\nBrian Becker, founder of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (Twitter: @pslweb)<br \/>\nJared Ball, Professor of Communication Studies at Morgan State University (Twitter: @iMiXWHATiLiKE)<\/p>\n<p>teleSUR&#8217;s The Empire Files airs every Friday night at<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Hznlp-DwgSw#\">10:00<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>EST \/<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Hznlp-DwgSw#\">7:00<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>PST. Watch live here:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-redirect-link\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1kuU2Vi\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1kuU2Vi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1kuU2Vi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW @EmpireFiles &amp; @AbbyMartin<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nLIKE<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-redirect-link\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/TheEmpireFiles\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/TheEmpireFiles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/facebook.com\/TheEmpireFiles<\/a><br \/>\nMusic by Fluorescent Grey:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-redirect-link\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/fluorescentgrey\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/fluorescentgrey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/fluorescentgrey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Empire has a range of weapons to maintain its power: from its courts to its military. But it also has effective ideological weapons.\u00a0Everyone in the United States knows that &#8220;socialist&#8221; or &#8220;communist&#8221; is considered a bad word. How did things get that way?\u00a0 Abby Martin explores the history of anti-communism in America, and the heavy repression of an idea that became an unofficial religion.\u00a0 Featuring interviews with: Brian Becker, founder of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (Twitter: @pslweb) Jared Ball, Professor of Communication Studies at Morgan State University (Twitter: @iMiXWHATiLiKE) teleSUR&#8217;s The Empire Files airs every Friday night at\u00a010:00\u00a0EST \/\u00a07:00\u00a0PST. Watch live here:\u00a0http:\/\/bit.ly\/1kuU2Vi FOLLOW @EmpireFiles &amp; @AbbyMartin\u00a0 LIKE\u00a0http:\/\/facebook.com\/TheEmpireFiles Music by Fluorescent Grey:\u00a0https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/fluorescentgrey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14,683],"tags":[790,84],"class_list":["post-8769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-pol","category-activism-usa","tag-empire-files","tag-feature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8770,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions\/8770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}