[…] of sinister forces may be discerned.’ But ‘nexus’ and ‘matrix’ are like synchronicity, implying causality without demonstrating it. Take another example. The author discusses the wartime OSS propaganda career of the writer Hans Habe and links this to the murder in 1968 of Habe’s daughter, Marina. He writes: ‘Marina had been known to the […]
[…] (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 […]
[…] creating justifications for enacting those plans. Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld created their own intelligence apparatus, not only to produce the desired results, but also to wage a propaganda war on their own population. Of course, this material has been out there for years, but what is interesting in this new look at it is […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] There it was, in the middle of Washington, full of lefties, talking openly with Soviet embassy personnel, supporting Cuba and the Sandinistas, quite unimpressed by the anti-Soviet propaganda offensive of the late 1970s and 80s. The Crozier research team showed, without great difficulty, that the IPS was funded by American lefties, some of them […]
[…] funding bodies (with political targets) and other think tanks (including Peter Mandelson’s) which were created by or modified specifically to aid the government and its private agencies, propaganda outlets and front organisations. This was well underway when Lloyd decided to throw in his lot with the FPC, which: ‘…accepted more than £100,000 from an […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] by Peters, which the editor had baulked at. The largest group of articles are those commenting on or opposing Britain’s membership of the then EEC and the propaganda being put out in favour of it. The second biggest group is articles criticising the City of London. In the Financial Times? The last sighting I […]
[…] film rights to the book and then hired Louis de Rochemont as producer. Cohen also wrote a lengthy article on the film for Animation World Magazine. ‘Animated propaganda during the Cold War’ in the issue dated 21 February 2003. (Also available at ). An edited version was published in The Guardian 7 March 2003 […]
