[PDF file]: […] race – just like the USSR was during the first cold war. The encouragement of regional separatist tendencies within the People’s Republic, and the launch of a propaganda offensive against it via mainstream and liberal media outlets throughout the West, also recalls the strategy of ‘containment’ deployed against the USSR from 1947 until it […]
[PDF file]: […] originally celluloid and now are billions of digital signals. Hence it is no wonder that the ‘greatest US president’ was an iconic product of the film and propaganda industry which has done more to sell the US ‘way of life’ and its vision of the world than anything else, including Coca-Cola. Ronald Reagan, an […]
[…] 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]: […] his diary! As far as New Labour’s foreign policy was concerned, MacShane discusses the situation in the Middle East, the demonization of Saddam Hussein by the ‘ propaganda machine’, and ‘the plain fact . . . that overthrowing a tyrant in the Middle East just opens Pandora’s Box and we have no politics of […]
[PDF file]: […] troubling pattern of behaviour. We already know that organisations like the Integrity Institute, and its notorious sort of predecessor the Information Research Department, have anonymously distributed state propaganda through networks of journalists and academics. The State of Secrecy adds to these examples. We learn about British spies writing under pseudonyms for mainstream news organisations, […]
[…] 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]: […] sketch-writers who reported the moment saw it as typical of New Labour’s desire to “spin”. Ask Blairites a direct question, and they will start force-feeding you with propaganda about their glorious achievements in health, transport and good old education.’1 Wilson’s view is very much Bower’s. Broken Vows tells us that the man once called […]
[PDF file]: […] end of the book his unwillingness to use such a term struck me as being at least as strange as the territory he is ‘mapping’. Conspiracy Cinema Propaganda, politics and paranoia David Ray Carter Headpress; UK £13.99 US $19.95, p/b www.worldheadpress.com How things have changed! Not so long ago ‘conspiracy cinema’ would have meant […]
[PDF file]: […] basically saying that the US is engaging in eco-terrorism under the pretext of preventing, what might be called an ‘earthquake Pearl Harbor.’ Cohen was using the same propaganda coupled with old technologies and new advances in microwave weapons. Also in 1997, USAF’s Geophysical Directorate stated that their ‘Seismic program’ had been transferred to the […]
[PDF file]: […] of epic conflicts and battles), keeping their populations onside via political repression characterised by censorship, thought control, arbitrary detention and brutal ‘re-education’, along with cheap alcohol and propaganda on the part of the state and a captive media. Many commentators have drawn attention to examples of the way what was fiction in Nineteen Eighty-Four […]
