[PDF file]: […] assumes they are up to something. He confirmed this (24 June 1940) with the comment: ‘Edward Rice came to see me: he is deeply involved in peace propaganda and is alleged to be strongly pro-Nazi. I don’t know: he always praises Hitler in conversation’. We’re not told, of course, what Rice was talking to […]
[PDF file]: […] usually for lucre, or under the influence of ‘gat’ (khat, a chewed stimulant). Under interrogation, they emitted ‘bloodcurdling squeals’ – not ‘cries’. Cairo Radio didn’t just broadcast propaganda, but ‘spouted’ it, ‘gutterally’. Their supporters – at the UN, for example – ‘ranted’. Not all these expressions come from Mitchell’s mouth; many of them are […]
[…] 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]: […] and after. In 2018-19 the Army’s information warfare and psychological operations unit, the 77th Brigade, secretly advised the Israeli military on ‘information operations’, namely psychological warfare and propaganda as well as the use of cyber warfare and digital platforms to destabilise insurgent groups.35 A 2020 agreement between Britain and Israel led to the development […]
[PDF file]: […] as Smock was concerned, America was already suffering from ‘a serious political virus’ when the pandemic arrived. ‘Trumpism was spread from person to person with lies, deception, propaganda, and with bullying and smear tactics’. Trump’s rallies were important spreaders of the infection. As a ‘disease of the mind’, it could also be spread by […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] of Christianity against the decadence of Western social liberalism (hence the anti-PC stance of the current regime).1 ‘Promotion of illegal drugs and of alcoholism, degenerative art, prostitution, propaganda of homosexuality and paedophilia, offences against religious and national feelings are those openly antinational and anti-social manifestations of the perverse liberalism that should be banned unconditionally.’ […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Sadly – and stupidly – access to it is £30.27 However its thesis can seen from the abstract: or 22 Paul Lashmar and James Oliver, Britain’s Secret Propaganda War 1948-1977 (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1998) 23 or 24 25 Christopher Mayhew, War of Words: a Cold War Witness (London: I. B. Tauris, 1998) p. 46. […]
[PDF file]: […] point of view, they got two “hits” for the price of one: a smear on the CIA at a crucial moment and a strong dose of anti-US propaganda in a contested nation.’ Robert Kennedy suspected the Agency might have done it, and asked then CIA Director John McCone about its possible role. The CIA […]
