[…] pseudo-social science – ‘a longitudinal study’ etc, complete with graphs and diagrams – the authors repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot (feet?) by citing examples of Soviet propaganda ‘falsehoods’ which are, to anyone outside the ranks of the fruit-cake right-wing, manifestly true. For example, in the study of Soviet propaganda themes 1976-1979, they tell […]
[…] off were not the same pilot and plane that arrived. Somewhere en route a switch had been made. In the diaries of Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, there are a number of entries after Hess’s flight to Britain expressing his bafflement that no propaganda was being made with Hess. (Hess was bunged in […]
[…] global media ecology….in the battle for hearts and minds…the impact of such operations at home may be their most important legacy. IO “blowback” occurs as surveillance and propaganda campaigns targeting foreign audiences spill back into the US because of the nature of the global media and information flows.’(21) The miners united… A former Bedfordshire […]
[…] that parts of the conspiracy talk appear to be generated by communist propagandists. Urge them to use their influence to discourage unfounded and irresponsible speculation. To employ propaganda assets to answer and refute the attacks on the critics. Book reviews and feature articles are particularly appropriate for this purpose. The unclassified attachments to this […]
[…] 1949. In a review this length it’s impossible to fully convey the scope and depth of this book. There is much more, including the work of British propaganda both here and the United States. (There is, for example, some information about John Betjeman, who served as British Press Attaché in Dublin during the war.) […]
[…] RENAMO atrocities, nothing on its origins in Rhodesian Intelligence; and so on. The only value this volume has is as a demonstration of how the right produces propaganda, and who it uses as sources. In the essay on the Ukraine, for example, all the key sources are from one journal, the emigre-controlled Ukrainian Quarterly […]
[…] CAIB is now at 1500 Massachusetts Avenue NW, room 732 Washington DC 20005. The Guardian (3 February 1992) reported on the discovery of yet another South African propaganda operation, the International Association for Co-operation and Development in Southern Africa (ACODA). The story was based on a 4-page briefing paper on Acoda. This can be […]
[…] nondescript military clothing, without insignia….. and neither would we wear dog tags for identification. If we were killed, then the enemy would have a hard time making propaganda capital from our corpses. Our major task was reconnaissance, but we were conscious that our prime purpose was to set the pattern for more troops, both […]
[…] American Right) or because it is a moral imperative based on ideology (the neo-conservative and liberal internationalist impulse). Until now, this reification of the West was a propaganda tool by one side in the Cold War or the plaything of intellectuals and of a certain school of right-wing radicalism. Now it is a practical […]
[…] input did it have from the new Research Information and Communication Unit, , set up last year by the then Home Secretary, John Reid, ‘to counter al-Qaida propaganda at home and overseas’?(8) RICU, one report told us, was tasked to degrade al-Qaida ‘as a brand’. If the notion of al-Qaida as a brand sounds […]
