[…] The three Roundtable guests were mocked savagely for their perceived lack of military insight, and for repeating narratives that LazerPig said they had absorbed directly from Russian propaganda. Each guest was described as an idiot or a liar. While delivering his withering monologue, LazerPig repeatedly explained to his viewers why Russia’s invasion would not […]
[PDF file]: […] the Information Research Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. IRD had been set up at the onset of the Cold War to counter Soviet Communist Bloc propaganda, by monitoring, conducting research and providing unattributable briefings to journalists and others. 3. By the time I joined, IRD’s terms of reference had widened to include […]
[PDF file]: Business, propaganda and terror The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam Douglas Valentine 1990 Reissued by Open Roads as e-book in the new series ‘Forbidden Bookshelf’ curated by Mark Crispin Miller, 2014. Dr. T. P. Wilkinson D ouglas Valentine explained the purpose or at least the subject of his study of the […]
[PDF file]: […] which also had seemingly-limitless reserves of youthful energy. The DRE had been established by the CIA in 1960, originally as a combined outlet and amplifier for anti-Castro propaganda and other psychological operations. There was direct liaison with the CIA via JMWAVE, the Agency’s sprawling Miami station, which was effectively the general headquarters of nearly […]
[PDF file]: […] White, a former OSS official and CIA consultant who had represented OSS in the Operation Underworld negotiations with Meyer Lansky. For years Anslinger would uncritically transmit KMT propaganda about a world-wide Red Chinese opium conspiracy and document it persuasively with evidence of what he knew very well was in fact the KMT’s own narcotics […]
[PDF file]: […] . Barry Zorthian (1920-2010) was head of USIA/JUSPOA (Joint United States Public Affairs Office) in Saigon from 1964 until 1968. JUSPOA was the central office for press, propaganda and psychological operations in the US mission in Vietnam. The conference was ‘The American Experience in Southeast Asia 1946-1975’, Washington, DC 29-30 September 2010. See . […]
[PDF file]: […] two prominent South Carolina banksters (the other being James Byrnes) introduced the term into American political discourse with, inter alia, the aid of the dean of political propaganda, Walter Lippmann, as the US Empire was mobilising to absorb the remains of European empires after the defeat of Japan.1 The subsequent 50 years of US […]
[PDF file]: […] 8 2 Oh, really? I had a look at Crozier’s memoir, Free Agent (HarperCollins, 1993). There is nothing in it about such an operation involving Agee.5 mass propaganda in the context of the First World War and the Russian Revolution. The Comintern developed as a centre of expertise in the field before fracturing in […]
[…] warfare – the covert intervention by one country in the internal politics of another. The roots of this tradition are traced to the beginnings of modern mass propaganda in the context of the First World War and the Russian David Leigh’s 1978 Guardian account of the demise of IRD is archived at . 5 […]
[PDF file]: […] came to dominate the mass media; and whose descendants dominate it today. In 2017, a real estate mogul from New York City, the original headquarters of the propaganda machine that created Woodrow Wilson, became the 45th president of the United States. The country has been waging war almost continuously since 1945, most recently its […]
