HOLY SHIT!! [When it comes to espionage, virtually anything can be weaponized. Thats a lesson the U.S. government has learned well, as evidenced by one agencys recent efforts to subvert the Cuban state through the power of hip-hop. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) spent over two years covertly nudging Cubas hip-hop movement to undermine the nations communist ruling party, according to an exclusive report from the Associated Press. Contractors working for USAID cultivated local rappers as assets, bankrolled a music festival, and — according to one contractor involved in the program — trained musicians to focus them a little more on their role as agents of social mobilization. U.S. agencies have spent decades manipulating artistic movements into cudgels to be used against foreign enemies. And while the art of U.S. sponsored cultural propaganda reached its apotheosis during the Cold War, the tradition is very much alive today, as the Cuban hip-hop program shows.]
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 09:05:17 +0000
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