This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, August 6, 2021.

I'm Caleb Brown.

When the drumbeat for war gets started, it's hard to stop.

How do federal agencies contribute to it? And how do federal agencies

federal agencies frame our thinking about the value of their work versus the risks we face,

and thus keeping their budgets growing?

Economist Abigail Hall is co-author of the new book Manufacturing Militarism, U.S.

government propaganda in the War on Terror, available now.

We spoke this week.

To what extent has the U.S. government used propaganda in order to further the laudable

aims of winning wars against Nazis, for example?

So to answer your question, propaganda has been used extensively by the US government.

While my co-author and I focus primarily on instances and we detail case studies related to the

War on Terror, so all of this is in the post 9-11 context, we can

and do see the use of propaganda throughout US history. What's changed over time, particularly if you look at World War I and then World War II and beyond, is that we see this increasing

centralization of information and the centralization of information.

So when you say information, what are the key pieces of information that the public

either once had access to that they do not have access to today or

what you know is it just the flow of information that is more tightly controlled what is it?

So there are a couple different things that we can more tightly controlled? What is it?

So there are a couple different things

that we can think about.

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