[…] 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 […]
[…] control of its borders, a large (but unknown) number of Jihadist Muslim refugees set up shop in the UK – mostly in London – and began agitation, propaganda and training for Jihad against the decadent West.(12) I don’t think there is much doubt that something like this has happened, though the numbers remain unclear […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] as strictly military questions, and the North Atlantic Assembly works to influence the parliamentary members of individual countries. It falls within the brief of NATO to conduct propaganda and defend states the ‘infiltration of ideas’. Few citizens of NATO countries are aware of the whole apparatus to which membership commits them – e.g. Plans […]
[…] well as torture. Generally they have focussed on policy rather than operational details. Occasionally a committee will get tired of been used as a conduit for government propaganda and will assert its independence. The Foreign Affairs Committee has focused on the Foreign Policy Aspects of the War on Terrorism and this has led to […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the basis for much of modern communication research.’ I would say: after the war the spooks and the military paid the academics to develop the techniques of propaganda with which to influence the perceptions of the American tax-payer and the subject populations of the informal American empire. (Alternatively, this shows how loyal American academics […]
[…] and the armed forces.’ Burns adds: `Together with a corresponding increase in the popularity of British fascists and quasi-fascist organisations, the paper predicts an increase of “enemy propaganda” by the “subversive” left targeting universities, the civil service, and the armed forces. This would be followed by incidents of sabotage “complicated by a revival of […]
[…] any other outside contacts in respect of it. If we are approached, we listen only.’ Elsewhere, without offering any evidence, West claims that the brilliant WWII black propaganda expert, Sefton Delmer, was a Soviet agent. In the mid-1950s Delmer was expelled from Egypt for being an SIS agent. President Abdel-Nasser, who played footsie with […]
[…] 2006); lock-in: Saudi Arabia will wait for Gordon Brown to become Prime Minister before signing the deal; name generation – always an important arm of political PR/ propaganda: Saudi Arabia’s missiles are called ‘Al Salaam’ – as obscene as America’s ‘Patriots’. The Guardian 16 and 17 January 2007 A ‘tip-off’ can also be of […]
