[…] in office, President Barack Obama made the decision to set the country on a new course. On Dec. 23, 2016, he signed into law the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, which used the language of defending the homeland to launch an open-ended, offensive information war. The message from the U.S. defense establishment was […]
[PDF file]: […] down the search results we find a copy of his newsletter from 1974 released by the CIA.7 This is a rather impressive if bizarre piece of right-wing propaganda on behalf of the colonial powers in Africa then beginning to experience serious local resistance. There is this paragraph, for example. The CIA’s Irving Brown as […]
[…] a very striking account by an American journalist of an Israeli-funded press junket to Israel. Of course the American hacks got a ton of anti-Hamas and anti-Muslim propaganda. That was the point of the exercise. What is striking is the mind-boggling absurdity and crudity of the material offered by the Israelis. Evidently the Israelis […]
[PDF file]: […] with apartheid South Africa or countering the apartheid analogy with evidence of the genuine differences between the two systems, Israel’s defenders have resorted to vitriol and recycled propaganda.’ The author finds the apartheid comparison an imperfect one: ‘Unlike white South Africa and many other colonial regimes, Zionists never banned miscegenation or kept people they […]
[PDF file]: […] war – one strongly supported by Murdoch and other supporters of the policies of the United States and Israel – on the basis of ‘dodgy dossiers’ and propaganda in whose creation Campbell had played a major part. Is this a man whose warnings about polarisation, populism and post-truth politics can be taken remotely seriously? […]
[PDF file]: […] operations: for example, Operation Chaos against the domestic radical media; and, in the final section, ‘Coda: Afghanistan’, he shows how former CCF personnel were involved in the propaganda around the American support for the mujahideen in 4 The evidence, transcripts of recordings of JFK and brother Bobby discussing this, is at . Afghanistan. It […]
[…] a very striking account by an American journalist of an Israeli-funded press junket to Israel. Of course the American hacks got a ton of anti-Hamas and anti-Muslim propaganda. That was the point of the exercise. What is striking is the mind-boggling absurdity and crudity of the material offered by the Israelis. Evidently the Israelis […]
[PDF file]: […] Israel’s Interests’, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, June 2003. 109 Quoted in Roy Greenslade, ‘Their Master’s Voice’, The Guardian, 17 February 2003. 110 ‘Murdoch Confesses to Propaganda On Iraq’, February 3, 2007, . 111 Andrew Grice, ‘How Murdoch had a hotline to the PM in the run-up to Iraq war’, The Independent, 19 […]
[PDF file]: […] Afghanistan, is just another term for assassination. Making cases, the principal tactic of federal drug law enforcement, meant selectively feeding and maintaining the drug trade, within the propaganda 6 When Allen Dulles, Harry Anslinger, and J. Edgar Hoover died, the government agencies each had left behind were powerful, entrenched bureaucratic institutions. These men were […]
[PDF file]: […] Brian Crozier’s speech to the 1982 meeting of Le Cercle in which, amidst the standard (to me, comic) line of the enormous threat poised by the Soviet propaganda machine, led by the World Peace Council, was this: ‘In the United Kingdom, the counter-subversion arm of the Foreign Office, the Information Research Department (IRD) was […]
