[…] that a Soviet plane had fired at something, and they knew a Korean airliner had crashed. Even if they thought the Schultz story was wrong, once the propaganda had started to flow (“This was the Soviet Union against the world and the moral precepts which guide human relations among people everywhere” – R. Reagan) […]
[…] relation to this group. The UCA smear What is not true, but was latterly claimed, was that Elliot was leader of the mysterious Ulster Citizens Army, whose propaganda leaflets carried the Connolly Plough. The UCA was not a creation of Army Information Policy at Lisburn, though Colin Wallace has acknowledged that the Army gave […]
[…] the Allies against Germany.(10) Umaru Bah examines his theories of development communication research and its involvement in ‘promoting US foreign policy objectives in general, and Cold War propaganda objectives in particular.’(11) Another academic, psychologist Carl Rogers,also had links to the CIA-funded Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology.(12) Demanchick and Kirschenbaum provide the details […]
[…] automatically dismiss someone as paranoid, one 1964 account of the Kennedy assassination (Red Roses from Texas by Nerin E. Gunn) quotes, as an example of vicious anti-JFK propaganda, a rightist broadsheet headlined ‘Kennedy Keeps Mistresses’. I am well aware that there are left conspiracy theories as ridiculous as right-wing ones. The all-time ripe example […]
[…] a useful overview of the subject and its problems – of which the chief one is the fact that many of the so-called think tanks are essentially propaganda operations – we get accounts of the Adam Smith Institute, the Social Market Foundation and the Institute for Economic Affairs. There is much interesting detail here […]
[…] of propagandistic sources as though they are respectable academic ones; and a related, if surprising, weakness, when it comes to considering BNP ideology and its provenance. The propaganda source referred to is Searchlight magazine, incessantly cited by Copsey as authoritative on fascist activity, strategy or simply factual developments. I have shown repeatedly elsewhere () […]
[…] that man must again learn to live in harmony with the forces of nature instead of waging constant war against them.’ (28) The practical (as opposed to propaganda) consequences were few, however. In 1985 one Michael Fishwick (later editor of NF News) was expelled from the Hunt Saboteurs Association. Enquiries made of the HSA […]
[…] dominance in Washington over the past quarter century with the help of more than $3 billion spent by Korean cult leader Sun Myung Moon on a daily propaganda organ, The Washington Times, according to a 21-year veteran of the newspaper.’(10) While visiting Parry’s site, take a look at ‘Gary Webb’s death: American tragedy’,(11) Parry’s […]
[…] pseudo-social science – ‘a longitudinal study’ etc, complete with graphs and diagrams – the authors repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot (feet?) by citing examples of Soviet propaganda ‘falsehoods’ which are, to anyone outside the ranks of the fruit-cake right-wing, manifestly true. For example, in the study of Soviet propaganda themes 1976-1979, they tell […]
[…] off were not the same pilot and plane that arrived. Somewhere en route a switch had been made. In the diaries of Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, there are a number of entries after Hess’s flight to Britain expressing his bafflement that no propaganda was being made with Hess. (Hess was bunged in […]
