improved economic structure, and many of these difficulties have been placed on them by the dominant rich nations of the world. If the developing country desires funding from those rich states or their institutions, they often have to spend whatever money they might get as they are told to rather than as they would if left to their own devices. They also will face added difficulties in the information age because they will be left out in the technological race.
The country that controls information will have an advantage, and the United States has shown the ability to create, shape, and control the dissemination of information in various international arenas to date. The recent Gulf War is a case in point, a case where technological superiority also included the ability to shape information to the advantage of the dominant power. Propaganda is usually defined as an attempt to influence public opinion and public behavior through specialized techniques. Zimbardo, Ebbeson, and Maslach state that it differs from education, where t
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