[PDF file]: […] contrary to the beliefs of many on the left, were a Several – and possibly all – of the authors have been associated with the cluster of propaganda outfits based at 55 Tufton Street in London. There is a very nice and informative portrait of these groups in a short film at . 1 […]
[…] rogue elements in the government, military and secret services seemed to have free rein to distort facts and even kill opposition voices under the camouflage of black propaganda’. (p. 1) Well, yes, something like that, even if that is oddly expressed. But while the author’s thesis is generally correct (we might argue about ‘rogue […]
[…] a very striking account by an American journalist of an Israeli-funded press junket to Israel. Of course the American hacks got a ton of anti-Hamas and anti-Muslim propaganda. That was the point of the exercise. What is striking is the mind-boggling absurdity and crudity of the material offered by the Israelis. Evidently the Israelis […]
[PDF file]: […] Israel’s actions evoke in its supporters. Israel needs an internal enemy. Without one its actions would be undeniably simple ethnic cleansing. With one, and with a huge propaganda effort by its supporters, they become ‘self-defence’. Hamas, certainly in part the creation of the Israeli state,1 is the perfect opponent. All Israel has to do […]
[…] a very striking account by an American journalist of an Israeli-funded press junket to Israel. Of course the American hacks got a ton of anti-Hamas and anti-Muslim propaganda. That was the point of the exercise. What is striking is the mind-boggling absurdity and crudity of the material offered by the Israelis. Evidently the Israelis […]
[PDF file]: […] on the BBC News website at . It included this: ‘There have long been claims that elements in the Army and British government were behind a widespread propaganda campaign throughout the early 1970s mostly aimed at undermining the IRA.’ Nearly 30 years after this story was first discussed, when we know a great deal […]
[PDF file]: […] class and 2 former Labour voters drawn to Thatcherism by its commitment to aspiration, equality of opportunity, entrepreneurship, asset ownership and the accumulation of personal wealth. Conservative propaganda deliberately contrasted these ‘virtuous’ citizens with those accused of scrounging and idleness, dependent on State assistance paid for by hard working taxpayers. It was a tactic […]
[…] a very striking account by an American journalist of an Israeli-funded press junket to Israel. Of course the American hacks got a ton of anti-Hamas and anti-Muslim propaganda. That was the point of the exercise. What is striking is the mind-boggling absurdity and crudity of the material offered by the Israelis. Evidently the Israelis […]
[PDF file]: […] quite naturally, that they are more likely to behave in such ways. But their propensity for doing so is also bolstered by thirty years of laissez faire propaganda by businessmen, academics, politicians and much of the mainstream media which has promoted the idea that state regulation is an evil, that the ‘free market’ will […]
[PDF file]: […] down the search results we find a copy of his newsletter from 1974 released by the CIA.7 This is a rather impressive if bizarre piece of right-wing propaganda on behalf of the colonial powers in Africa then beginning to experience serious local resistance. There is this paragraph, for example. The CIA’s Irving Brown as […]
