If you think there is the archvillain, actual one person, rather than an oligarchy, assorted collection of syndicates, academia, various bureaucracies, etc. - then you've been watching too many Hollywood movies. I also have a business proposition about a certain bridge over the East River.
A brief, but revealing, transcript of an interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski (one of the founders of the Trilateral Commission) with respect to Operation Cyclone – a CIA operation in which American (and Saudi) money was funneled to the ISI (Pakistan's Intelligence Agency), to be spent radicalizing and arming the Mujahideen to suck the USSR into a "Vietnam" conflict.
https://www.marxists.org/history/afghanistan/archive/brzezinski/1998/interview.htm
The funding of the op continued over decades and increased to the tune of billions. Part of the playbook was going after the education system to spread anti-Soviet dogma and encourage jihad –
"The majority of the book’s 41 lessons glorify violence in the name of religion. “My uncle has a gun,” reads the entry for the letter T, using the Pashto word for “gun,” “topak.” “He does jihad with the gun.”" (http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/12/7/afghan-fighters-americantextbooks.html)
I did not read the transcript (yet), but what I find curious is that things like that were well-known at the time, and totally in the open - at least for those who cared to read papers beyond the first and sports pages, or even just Times magazine. It was par for the course. Nowadays those things are labeled "conspiracy theories" and people's minds immediately shut down. Something has changed in the propaganda machine and public opinion formation. I wonder what it is and why it happened. No doubt proliferation of the social media is part of the answer.
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