[PDF file]: […] Act was a political and economic assistance plan focussed on the reconstruction of parts of Western Europe damaged during World War II. It was heavily promoted by propaganda on both sides of the Atlantic as American generosity – compared to the acrimony of the postWorld War I treatment of the defeated belligerents. Thus the […]
[…] popular consciousness and ‘incorporated into the political culture, shared especially by the upper circles of politicians, business elites, the military, and Christian institutions…..one of the most impressive propaganda achievements ever.’ This was facilitated by the fraudulent use and abuse of many treaties and numerous laws such as the Indian Removal Law and the Discovery […]
[PDF file]: […] a particular culture is sufficient grounds for breaching human rights laws, imposing economic domination or being immune to respecting the views of others. It’s pernicious and dangerous propaganda. It may have been and is influential, (but) it is simply not true – and never was. The historical evidence alone refutes it, whatever we make […]
[PDF file]: […] the Moral Majority and its successors. The British involvement with the Muslim world goes back much further. Oborne sees the Venerable Bede as ‘the father of English propaganda against Islam’ but after the First World War ‘the UK had become the greatest Muslim power in the world, holding sovereignty over approximately half the global […]
[PDF file]: […] Pluto Press, 2010, £13.00 (p/b) Robin Ramsay On the British right there is a widespread view that the BBC is full of lefties and puts out lefty propaganda. Here’s Melanie Phillips: ‘With a few honourable exceptions, the BBC views every issue through the prism of left-wing, secular, anti-western thinking. It is the Guardian of […]
[PDF file]: […] account I have read of the campaign run by the pro-EEC lobby in this country. The state, including the Information Research Department (IRD), the quasi-independent antisubversion, anti-communist propaganda organisation, co- 1 The ACUE/European Movement, for example, was first discussed in ‘How the European Movement was launched’ in Hirsch and Fletcher’s 1971 Who were they […]
[PDF file]: […] when the BBC – which was supposedly impartial and above politics – could not. Another benefit that flowed from using Radio Luxembourg as an organ of British propaganda on the status of the Sudetenland was that its broadcasts were clearly ‘deniable’ as representing the views of the Chamberlain government. In 1940 the powerful and […]
[PDF file]: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents Alex Butterworth London: The Bodley Head, 20Å10. Hbk. xii, 482 pp. Illus, notes, bibliography, index. RRP £25.00 ISBN 978-0-224-07807-8 Richard Alexander As the subtitle suggests, this is a book with many stories, plots and subplots, all interwoven into a highly readable and entertaining (and occasionally […]
[PDF file]: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents Alex Butterworth London: The Bodley Head, 20Å10. Hbk. xii, 482 pp. Illus, notes, bibliography, index. RRP £25.00 ISBN 978-0-224-07807-8 Richard Alexander As the subtitle suggests, this is a book with many stories, plots and subplots, all interwoven into a highly readable and entertaining (and occasionally […]
[PDF file]: […] Americans showed me that anything can be violated, including the rules that they themselves taught us. Without any regard to us, they used our intelligence information for propaganda press leaks. They wanted to mine certainty from unconfirmed suspicion and use it as an excuse for military action. We were supposed to play the role […]
[PDF file]: […] whole, with Alfred Rosenberg and Julius Streicher leading the way. Certainly the Nazis, both before and after they took power, made use of the Protocols as a propaganda tool, but a good case can be made that they reinforced – rather than created – their genocidal anti-Semitism. Hagemeister’s book also contains a useful chapter […]
