The media and the American domination of the world.

The analysis of the media and its influence as a doctrine of US domination in the world.

American power over the mediaas in other sectors, is unparalleled and rests, since the 1940s, on several central foundations that make up its doctrine of domination. One of these central foundations makes the media an extremely useful tool for this country's capacity of influence: the ideology of free-change or (neo) liberalism.

Just shortly before the end of World War II (1944), the United United States approved a measure in which it undertook to promote freedom of information and unrestricted communication in the world. The Bretton Woods agreements of June 1944 for monetary exchanges, which also created the International Monetary Fund (IMF), were signed in 1944. International Monetary Fund (IMF), and, in 1947, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), laid the (neo) liberal free-trade regulatory foundations (GATT), laid the (neo) liberal free-trade regulatory foundations to defend the doctrine of American influence. The multilateral agreements designed by these organizations applied the free dissemination of information and communication, forming an important pillar in the fight against communism. communism.

This doctrine, which dominated the Cold War years and beyond, materialized an American vision (originally embodied in the Constitution of 1791) of freedom of the press. The development of communications infrastructures occurred in parallel to coordinate with the doctrine of influence and, ultimately, domination. In 1964, the Congressional Foreign Affairs Committee considered that the primary purpose of the United States was to impose leadership in the world through voluntary adherence to American values. Thus, the political objective was to influence public opinion or that of the rulers by means of communication techniques. In geopolitics, this can be called softpower.

A doctrine for the domination of global information.

This doctrine, which has made information a commodity like any other and a means of American influence on a planetary scale, is considered as a tool of Realpolitik[1]. The doctrine tends to tear down all the "walls" for the creation of a commercial space within the whole dimension of the globe, thus ensuring free competition and free circulation of American products such as radio or television programs in order to create a framework of influence. Today, the Internet represents the new dimension of this geopolitical doctrine. geopolitical doctrine of the Cold War, however difficult it may be to understand, since the Internet is the new dimension of this geopolitical doctrine. internet has many positive dimensions, for example for the rapid exchange of information.

Thus, information and communication technologies are considered to be one of the foundations of governance governance for the United States. the United States. Since the 2000s, a new economy has crystallized with the rise of American companies based on industrial activities and on new strategic sectors such as e-commerce, online financial transactions, etc. Today, we can see that of the top 10 most visited websites in the world, 8 of them are of "Yankee" origin. are of "Yankee" origin (according to Marketing PGC[2]).

Apparently, these companies do not present any threat to societies and, therefore, we would not say that they can exert a "malign influence". Let's proceed to an approximation.

The dimension of the Snowden case

Echelon is an espionage system created as early as 1947, which is part of a treaty between the United Kingdom and the USAIt was later joined by Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Norway, Turkey and Germany. It consisted, in principle, of sharing information between the different secret services and intelligence agencies. The most important of these is the National Security Agency (NSA) whose discovery in the public eye came about with the declarations made by Edward Snowden in June 2013. This system is made up of a network of 120 satellites forming a global web of telephone tapping, high frequency radio transmissions, submarine cables, internet... The American websites are accomplices of the access of the NSA within their networks such as Facebook, Gmail or Skype.

There is no need to make a long list about the consequences of the spying spying on society. It would almost suffice to perform an exercise of the imagination. However, we would like to mention that this espionage capability, far from being harmless, articulates an attack, not only on the human rights of privacy[3], but also to other levels of human life by allowing knowledge about social, economic, governmental behaviors... This accumulation of knowledge, called BigdataThis accumulation of knowledge, called Bigdata, directly interferes in the course of the world and is computed as one more weapon in the framework of the geopolitics global geopolitics. Although the qualification of hegemonic power is being questioned, USA remains as a potential candidate to renew its status as the pivot of the world.

Bibliographical references:

• [1] Realpolitik is a German concept that designates that foreign policy which is based on power politics: "Power over law".

• [2] http://www.marketing-pgc.com/tag/innovation/