[PDF file]: […] took this seriously. The claim is true in one profound but unstated sense: the Conservatives will continue to harass those who are not employed. Thirty years of propaganda against those dependent upon the state has resulted in a public climate hostile to almost all those claiming benefits: the ‘deserving poor’ category has now shrunk […]
[PDF file]: […] elsewhere. Grange, now dead, subsequently resigned his post while under investigation for failing to investigate a judge accused 1 Rose later spread some of the Iraq War propaganda and then tried to rehabilitate himself with an article in the New Statesman openly admitting that he had for years been open to ‘manipulation’ by security […]
[PDF file]: […] the Falklands War) and its determination to protect British culture and ‘character’ from ‘alien’ influences, including mass immigration. This nationalist discourse has featured increasingly significantly in Party propaganda ever since William Hague succeeded John Major as leader in 1997 and has been central to its pitch to the electorate in both the 2017 and […]
[PDF file]: […] Robert Parry at the Consortiumnews wrote: ‘Few Americans understand the ugly history behind the Nazi-affiliated movements that have gained substantial power in today’s U.S.–backed Ukrainian regime. Western propaganda has made these right-wing extremists the “good guys” versus the Russian “bad guys.”’ 39 None of this is mentioned in Elizabeth Pond’s ‘How Vladimir Putin lost […]
[PDF file]: […] contrary to the beliefs of many on the left, were a Several – and possibly all – of the authors have been associated with the cluster of propaganda outfits based at 55 Tufton Street in London. There is a very nice and informative portrait of these groups in a short film at . 1 […]
[…] took this seriously. The claim is true in one profound but unstated sense: the Conservatives will continue to harass those who are not employed. Thirty years of propaganda against those dependent upon the state has resulted in a public climate hostile to almost all those claiming benefits: the ‘deserving poor’ category has now shrunk […]
Contents The World That Never Was. A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents Alex Butterworth London: The Bodley Head, 2010. Hbk. xii, 482 pp. Illus, notes, bibliography, index. RRP £25.00 ISBN 978-0-224-07807-8 Richard Alexander A s the subtitle suggests, this is a book with many stories, plots and subplots, all interwoven into […]
[…] rogue elements in the government, military and secret services seemed to have free rein to distort facts and even kill opposition voices under the camouflage of black propaganda’. (p. 1) Well, yes, something like that, even if that is oddly expressed. But while the author’s thesis is generally correct (we might argue about ‘rogue […]
[PDF file]: […] Israel’s actions evoke in its supporters. Israel needs an internal enemy. Without one its actions would be undeniably simple ethnic cleansing. With one, and with a huge propaganda effort by its supporters, they become ‘self-defence’. Hamas, certainly in part the creation of the Israeli state,1 is the perfect opponent. All Israel has to do […]
[PDF file]: […] and Mao. As if only capitalist exploitation can grow out of the barrel of a gun. He appears to accuse Crais of pursuing the market in anti-western propaganda rather than providing a comprehensive history of violence. Again, it is the role of armaments since 1750 that is Crais’s focus. Although he dwells on the […]
