[…] in office, President Barack Obama made the decision to set the country on a new course. On Dec. 23, 2016, he signed into law the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, which used the language of defending the homeland to launch an open-ended, offensive information war. The message from the U.S. defense establishment was […]
[PDF file]: […] sketch-writers who reported the moment saw it as typical of New Labour’s desire to “spin”. Ask Blairites a direct question, and they will start force-feeding you with propaganda about their glorious achievements in health, transport and good old education.’1 Wilson’s view is very much Bower’s. Broken Vows tells us that the man once called […]
[PDF file]: […] with Hitler as well as to bring an unlikely peace offer to Britain. As others have done, the authors quickly demolish this argument – which was the propaganda that the Nazis released at the time. Firstly, the authors prove the flight was well planned and rational. The question is, and remains, just how much […]
[PDF file]: […] basically saying that the US is engaging in eco-terrorism under the pretext of preventing, what might be called an ‘earthquake Pearl Harbor.’ Cohen was using the same propaganda coupled with old technologies and new advances in microwave weapons. Also in 1997, USAF’s Geophysical Directorate stated that their ‘Seismic program’ had been transferred to the […]
[PDF file]: […] of epic conflicts and battles), keeping their populations onside via political repression characterised by censorship, thought control, arbitrary detention and brutal ‘re-education’, along with cheap alcohol and propaganda on the part of the state and a captive media. Many commentators have drawn attention to examples of the way what was fiction in Nineteen Eighty-Four […]
[PDF file]: […] them to exercise their power more effectively. US imperial interests are best served by an unblinking engagement with the real nature of affairs, rather than with a propaganda version. But this honesty only stretches so far. There is no unblinking engagement, for example, with the problems that the Saudi regime has caused – and […]
[PDF file]: […] cautious in his assessment: “Pipeline geopolitics is . . . only a subset of wider competition to dominate global energy markets,” he wrote in his 2018 State Propaganda report. “This was not about one specific project. It was about Syria’s unique geographical location, offering a range of potential routes to transport Mediterranean oil and […]
[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 […]
[…] Brian Crozier’s speech to the 1982 meeting of Le Cercle in which, amidst the standard (to me, comic) line of the enormous threat poised by the Soviet propaganda machine, led by the World Peace Council, was this: ‘In the United Kingdom, the counter-subversion arm of 18 19 < https://wikispooks.com/ISGP/First_ever_documents_of_Le _Cercle.htm> the Foreign Office, the […]
[…] in office, President Barack Obama made the decision to set the country on a new course. On Dec. 23, 2016, he signed into law the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, which used the language of defending the homeland to launch an open-ended, offensive information war. The Bolden interview is at and the reference […]
