A RIGHTEOUS SMOKESCREEN POSTWAR AMERICA AND THE POLITICS OF CULTURAL GLOBALIZATIONAn examination of how the postwar United States twisted its ideal of the free flow of information into a one side export of values and a tool with global consequences. When the dust settled after World War II, the United States stood as the worlds unquestionably pre eminent military and economic power. In the decades that followed, the country exerted its dominant force in less visible but equally powerful ways, too, spreading its trade protocols, its