[PDF file]: […] the Falklands War) and its determination to protect British culture and ‘character’ from ‘alien’ influences, including mass immigration. This nationalist discourse has featured increasingly significantly in Party propaganda ever since William Hague succeeded John Major as leader in 1997 and has been central to its pitch to the electorate in both the 2017 and […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] took this seriously. The claim is true in one profound but unstated sense: the Conservatives will continue to harass those who are not employed. Thirty years of propaganda against those dependent upon the state has resulted in a public climate hostile to almost all those claiming benefits: the ‘deserving poor’ category has now shrunk […]
Contents The World That Never Was. A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents Alex Butterworth London: The Bodley Head, 2010. Hbk. xii, 482 pp. Illus, notes, bibliography, index. RRP £25.00 ISBN 978-0-224-07807-8 Richard Alexander A s the subtitle suggests, this is a book with many stories, plots and subplots, all interwoven into […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
