[…] the parameters to US foreign aid in the Middle East. The overseas networks play a major role in shaping the internal debate on US policy toward Israel. Propaganda associating Israeli repression of Palestinians as the righteous response of the victims of the Holocaust has been repeated throughout the mass media. President Ahmadinejad’s suggestion that […]
[…] Calvin Coolidge. Before long, Bernays was helping Israel to lobby the US military and recasting India as a worthy recipient of $1bn-worth of aid. He became the propaganda mastermind in overthrowing Guatemala’s elected government on behalf of the United Fruit Company (who were worried that the country’s socialist regime would harm profits). Mind you, […]
[…] a long analysis of NYT’s handling of El Salvador and Nicaragua by Edward Herman (whose book is reviewed in this issue); and a very acute analysis, Covert Propaganda in Time and Newsweek, by Howard Friel. But perhaps most useful of all is a long piece by CAIB co-founder Louis Woolf on the right-wing organisation, […]
[…] (according to the blurb) how and why peace with freedom is threatened the real meaning of perestroika, glasnost, and the ‘new thinking’ in terms of the Soviet propaganda machine the role of the mainstream peace movements and the Churches in Canada the crucial role of deterrence in maintaining peace with freedom the one-sided and […]
[…] with stories about about Saddam Hussein, Iraq, its weapons and its weapons potential. Some of these might have been true but there is so much disinformation and propaganda being generated by the US and UK intelligence services there is no way of telling with most of it. Three spectacular examples of fakery are worth […]
[…] to play a significant part in colonial life. Smith portrays MI5 working with the Colonial Office, bugging, tapping, intercepting mail — as well as producing inept anti-communist propaganda. Then as independence loomed, the Colonial Office/MI5 team were replaced by the Foreign Office/MI6 people. Smith’s encounter with colonial corruption climaxes with his discovery that among […]
[…] December 1981 Time 8th June 1981 New York Times 17th November 1981; Searchlight October 1981 Panorama (Milan) 10th August 1981 French masons, part of a so-called ‘ propaganda’ cell, conspired against Louis XVI in the name of the memory of Jacques De Molay. (Michael Baigent et al, Holy Blood, Holy Grail. (1983) pp52/53Here it […]
[…] in direct interference in the politics of that region. After their first victory in November 1952, in Egypt, the two services realised that their combined efforts would produce results: hence it was followed by the Iranian coup. Contrary to the CIA’s propaganda the Iranian coup was not an American operation but a joint MI6-CIA operation.
[…] a campaign of rehabilitation. Goldsmith himself joined in this campaign. In January 1981 he addressed the Conservative Media Committee in the House of Commons on ‘The Communist Propaganda Apparatus and Other Threats in the Media’. In his speech he quoted the Czech defector Major-General Jan Sejna who ‘admitted that the campaign by the German […]
[…] not me that has to read her appalling books. RR Available in this country from The Alternative Bookshop, 3 Langley Court, Covent Garden, London. Ireland and the Propaganda War Liz Curtis, Pluto Press, 1984 I used to hate picking up Pluto Books, badly written garbage; but thankfully things have changed and we have recently […]
