[…] took this seriously. The claim is true in one profound but unstated sense: the Conservatives will continue to harass those who are not employed. Thirty years of propaganda against those dependent upon the state has resulted in a public climate hostile to almost all those claiming benefits: the ‘deserving poor’ category has now shrunk […]
[…] rogue elements in the government, military and secret services seemed to have free rein to distort facts and even kill opposition voices under the camouflage of black propaganda’. (p. 1) Well, yes, something like that, even if that is oddly expressed. But while the author’s thesis is generally correct (we might argue about ‘rogue […]
[PDF file]: […] on the BBC News website at . It included this: ‘There have long been claims that elements in the Army and British government were behind a widespread propaganda campaign throughout the early 1970s mostly aimed at undermining the IRA.’ Nearly 30 years after this story was first discussed, when we know a great deal […]
[PDF file]: […] class and 2 former Labour voters drawn to Thatcherism by its commitment to aspiration, equality of opportunity, entrepreneurship, asset ownership and the accumulation of personal wealth. Conservative propaganda deliberately contrasted these ‘virtuous’ citizens with those accused of scrounging and idleness, dependent on State assistance paid for by hard working taxpayers. It was a tactic […]
[PDF file]: […] Israel’s actions evoke in its supporters. Israel needs an internal enemy. Without one its actions would be undeniably simple ethnic cleansing. With one, and with a huge propaganda effort by its supporters, they become ‘self-defence’. Hamas, certainly in part the creation of the Israeli state,1 is the perfect opponent. All Israel has to do […]
[PDF file]: […] quite naturally, that they are more likely to behave in such ways. But their propensity for doing so is also bolstered by thirty years of laissez faire propaganda by businessmen, academics, politicians and much of the mainstream media which has promoted the idea that state regulation is an evil, that the ‘free market’ will […]
[PDF file]: […] the homepage at . 47 48 See . probably knew about Soviet responsibility for the war crime49 but, rather than rocking the allied boat, remained silent as propaganda was dispersed that placed the blamed on the Nazis. Even now, more than seventy-five years later, the historians of the FCO continue to make excuses for […]
[PDF file]: […] end of the book his unwillingness to use such a term struck me as being at least as strange as the territory he is ‘mapping’. Conspiracy Cinema Propaganda, politics and paranoia David Ray Carter 9 in Afghanistan (and inadvertently helped create Osama Bin Laden). Another is John Dean, President Nixon’s lawyer during the Watergate […]
[PDF file]: […] from any responsibility for the death of Otto Warmbler, the American student sentenced to fifteen years hard labour in early 2016. He was charged with removing a propaganda poster while on a guided tour visit to the country. He ‘confessed’ to having both Christian and CIA links (the Christian connection was not that convincing […]
[PDF file]: […] Orleans. The eponymous Reily was a rabid anti-communist who gave financial support both to Sergio Arcacha Smith’s Crusade to Free Cuba Committee and Ed Butler’s partially CIA-funded propaganda outfit, the Information Council of the Americas (INCA). The Reily vice-president, William Monaghan, was a former FBI agent and was a charter member of INCA. Jim […]
