[PDF file]: […] done……. Beyond hypocrisy There’s a 1992 book by Edward Herman, Beyond Hypocrisy.37 I haven’t read this and, though it’s subtitled ‘Decoding the news in an age of propaganda’, the title is an apt shorthand description of American foreign policy. Thus the state which is apparently agitated about the use of ‘chemical weapons’ in Syria […]
[PDF file]: […] a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council?58 or 55 or 56 Check the material on this Twitter stream from Piers Robinson from the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media at . 57 With everybody and their cousin trying to disinform us, this is about as ‘sticky’ an area as exists at the moment. […]
[PDF file]: […] King, who remained head of the Western Hemisphere Division. Hans Tofte was the head of psychological and political areas and E. Howard Hunt was the Chief of Propaganda. The operations field headquarters, codenamed LINCOLN and headed by Al Haney, was established at Opa Locka, Florida. Dulles issued an initial budget of $3 million on […]
See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices
[PDF file]: […] would be likely to become known by PIRA figures, as having the potential to make an impact on the republican target. However, whilst the focus of the propaganda was aimed at PIRA, it is also clear that the initiatives were not particularly focused or controlled. The initiatives certainly came to include within their scope […]
[PDF file]: […] Act was a political and economic assistance plan focussed on the reconstruction of parts of Western Europe damaged during World War II. It was heavily promoted by propaganda on both sides of the Atlantic as American generosity – compared to the acrimony of the postWorld War I treatment of the defeated belligerents. Thus the […]
[…] popular consciousness and ‘incorporated into the political culture, shared especially by the upper circles of politicians, business elites, the military, and Christian institutions…..one of the most impressive propaganda achievements ever.’ This was facilitated by the fraudulent use and abuse of many treaties and numerous laws such as the Indian Removal Law and the Discovery […]
[PDF file]: […] a particular culture is sufficient grounds for breaching human rights laws, imposing economic domination or being immune to respecting the views of others. It’s pernicious and dangerous propaganda. It may have been and is influential, (but) it is simply not true – and never was. The historical evidence alone refutes it, whatever we make […]
[PDF file]: […] Pluto Press, 2010, £13.00 (p/b) Robin Ramsay On the British right there is a widespread view that the BBC is full of lefties and puts out lefty propaganda. Here’s Melanie Phillips: ‘With a few honourable exceptions, the BBC views every issue through the prism of left-wing, secular, anti-western thinking. It is the Guardian of […]
[PDF file]: […] aware of his borough’s historic status, and he would no doubt have learned all about its glorious past during his formal education. Living alongside this flourishing pro-Soviet propaganda installation, and occasionally venturing inside it, can only have exercised a strong influence on Olaf’s developing mind. One might describe it as immersive indoctrination, and it […]
[PDF file]: […] when the BBC – which was supposedly impartial and above politics – could not. Another benefit that flowed from using Radio Luxembourg as an organ of British propaganda on the status of the Sudetenland was that its broadcasts were clearly ‘deniable’ as representing the views of the Chamberlain government. In 1940 the powerful and […]
