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Misleading Parliament – a case to answer

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[PDF file]: […] would be likely to become known by PIRA figures, as having the potential to make an impact on the republican target. However, whilst the focus of the propaganda was aimed at PIRA, it is also clear that the initiatives were not particularly focused or controlled. The initiatives certainly came to include within their scope […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] Under Golitsyn’s influence, Angleton came to believe that in 1959, the KGB had launched a massive deception operation designed to lull the U.S. government into believing Soviet propaganda about “peaceful coexistence” between capitalism and communism, with the goal of prevailing over the complacent West.5 The second KGB officer, Yuri Nosenko, arrived in 1964. An […]

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[…] aware of his borough’s historic status, and he would no doubt have learned all about its glorious past during his formal education. Living alongside this flourishing pro-Soviet propaganda installation, and occasionally venturing inside it, can only have exercised a strong influence on Olaf’s developing mind. One might describe it as immersive indoctrination, and it […]

Climate hysterics: useful idiots or just idiots

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[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 […]

The Crimes Of Empire: Rogue Superpower and World Domination by Carl Boggs

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[…] 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 […]

Brexit Revisited: Europe Didn’t Work, and, Brexit Unfolded

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[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 […]

The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam by Peter Oborne

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[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 […]

The EU: A Corporatist Racket: How the European Union was created by global corporatism for global corporatism by David Barnby

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[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 […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

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[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 […]

The view from the bridge

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[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 […]