[…] Israel by one of its own citizens. ‘The Sharon government is a giant laboratory for growing the anti-Semitism virus. It exports it to the whole world. Sharon’s propaganda agents are pouring oil on the flames. Accusing all critics of his policy of being anti-Semites, they brand large communities with this mark, Many good people, […]
[…] of Herman’s previous books on the media and disinformation, the excellent Rise and Fall of the Bulgarian Connection and The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda. The opening section of the book takes the statistical approach adopted in The Real Terror Network, to prove that state terrorism, particularly in Latin America, has […]
Weapons of Mass Deception: The uses of propaganda in Bush’s war on Iraq Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber London: Robinson, 2003, p/b, £6.99 Regime Unchanged: Why the war on Iraq changed nothing Milan Rai London: Pluto, 2003, p/b, £10.99 The Rampton/Stauber book appeared about 6 weeks after the attack on Iraq ended and […]
[…] who are seeking the nation’s highest office.’ Factbook on Intelligence http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/facttell/index.html Updated version of the CIA Factbook on Intelligence, a history and guide to the CIA. German Propaganda Archive http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/ Nazi and East German propaganda, translated. ‘Includes both propaganda itself and material produced for the guidance of propagandists. The goal is to help people […]
[…] operations since the establishment of the Soviet Union, or that international front groups controlled by the Russian Communist Party have not systematically engaged in worldwide penetration and propaganda campaigns. It is nonetheless true that scholars have often hastened to deny the existence of genuine conspiratorial plots, without making any effort whatsoever to investigate them, […]
[…] White House were ‘tested’ in the morning when no cameras were allowed and the fine-tuned for later briefings which would find their way onto evening news bulletins.The propaganda lessons of Vietnam had been fully absorbed and the media were used (in the vast majority of cases quite willingly) to report and promote exactly what […]
[…] global media ecology….in the battle for hearts and minds…the impact of such operations at home may be their most important legacy. IO “blowback” occurs as surveillance and propaganda campaigns targeting foreign audiences spill back into the US because of the nature of the global media and information flows.’(21) The miners united… A former Bedfordshire […]
[…] of Operations (military administration). Templer was an absolute dictator, and as dictator was able, eventually, to achieve the kind of comprehensive and coordinated intelligence, police, military and propaganda operation which is at the heart of Kitson’s thesis, but which was never really achieved in Northern Ireland. One of the striking sections of the Templer […]
[…] unrest among the natives by the classic Imperial methods which had worked so well in Malaya against the Communist guerillas – a co-ordinated intelligence drive, a big propaganda campaign, mass round-ups of suspects, attacks on guerillas’ arms-supplies and cross-border sanctuaries – and then, if all else failed, negotiations from strength. None of these grand […]
[…] him a Polaroid photograph taken of the dead Green. This is awkward for the British state – and Taylor. Acknowledging this would be to give too much propaganda advantage to the IRA. So this is Taylor on Nairac: ‘There were rumours and allegations that Captain Robert Nairac, a legendary army intelligence and liaison officer […]
