Propaganda

The Art Of Exploiting A Pandemic

May 2, 2020 Mike Pappas, Left Voice. Educate! COVID-19, Pandemic, Propaganda, US military

We have all likely seen or heard the commercials. They typically start with slow music and maybe a nice sunrise. The ads then give lip service to the ‘strange and uncertain’ times in which we’re living. But never fear, your savior is here: some large corporation wants to let you know that they are “here for us.” Do not worry, even after the pandemic is over, they will still be “here for us.” This touching treacle would be incomplete without a nod to the “healthcare heroes” continuing to fight during this pandemic. It just touches your heart, doesn’t it? But the eerily similarity of many of the commercials is a bit off putting… It is almost as if there is a propaganda campaign designed to exploit our worry and vulnerability during the global pandemic.

Looting, Protests, Coronavirus And Venezuela

April 27, 2020 By Jesus Rodriguez-Espinoza, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Looting, Propaganda, US Imperialism, Venezuela

In recent days Venezuela has suffered very localized situations of violence and protests, that at least in two or three cases, have ended up in looting. There might be different elements that ignite looting such as poverty, hunger, hatred, psychological distress, criminality, and all of them are relevant to analyze causes but not to use as an excuse to foment or to protect those committing the criminal act. As to Venezuela, at the beginning of the quarantine announced by President Nicolas Maduro on March 14, 2020. — 42 days of real social distancing very similar to the one implemented in Spain or Italy but much earlier and much more in comparison to the lax social distancing in the US — the very first days, there were several twitter trending topics with the hashtag “saqueos” — all of them referring to events that happened in other countries, or in other moments or some of them not really presenting solid evidence of looting at all.

US Media Fall For Kim Jong Un Rumor

April 23, 2020 Moon of Alabama. Educate! Media, NED, North Korea, Propaganda

Two South Korean government officials rejected an earlier CNN report citing an unnamed U.S. official saying Washington was “monitoring intelligence” that Kim was in grave danger after surgery, but they did not elaborate on whether Kim had undergone surgery. The presidential Blue House said there were no unusual signs coming from North Korea. An official at the Chinese Communist Party’s International Liaison Department, which deals with North Korea, told Reuters the source did not believe Kim was critically ill. China is North Korea’s only major ally. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Beijing was aware of reports about the health of Kim, but said it does not know their source, without commenting on whether it has any information about the situation.

Cruel Hoax Mumia Abu-Jamal Was Ill With COVID-19

April 22, 2020 Mobilization for Mumia, Popular Resistance Educate! health, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Prisons, Propaganda

When a PA Department of Corrections official falsely claimed Mumia Abu-Jamal was being hospitalized with COVID-19 at 5 pm on April 15, the news was shared worldwide in minutes. Supporters around the world, who have been misled by DOC statements in the past, immediately called the institution and demanded confirmation from Mumia himself. By 8:45 pm, the DOC allowed Mumia to call his supporters and he confirmed that the official report was false. “I am fine, I am not hospitalized,” he can be heard on the recorded call saying, part of which was played at the press conference, “...What I need is freedom.” The whole incident adds to a long list of lies and misinformation by the PA DOC since Mumia was first unjustly incarcerated in 1982.

US Pushes Conspiracy Theory On China’s Coronavirus Death Toll

April 6, 2020 Ajit Singh, The Grayzone. Educate! China, COVID-19, Media, Propaganda

As the United States suffers from the worst coronavirus outbreak in the world, President Donald Trump has insisted that if his administration manages to keep the death toll to 100,000, they’d be doing a “very good job.” To deflect from the unconscionable failures and deceptions that allowed the pandemic to spread deep into the US population, the White House has launched a blame-shifting PR campaign targeting China. At the heart of Washington’s narrative is the accusation that Beijing orchestrated a “cover-up” that is responsible for the disastrous situation in the US. Having zealously demonized China while it battled the worst of the coronavirus crisis, corporate US media is seizing on the effort to redirect American outrage onto a foreign bogeyman.

You Don’t Need To Believe China About China’s Coronavirus Success

April 6, 2020 Jim Naureckas, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Educate! China, COVID-19, Media, Propaganda

Bloomberg News (4/1/20) reported that anonymous US officials say that a secret US intelligence report says that China’s statistics on the coronavirus outbreak are “fake”: China has concealed the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in its country, under-reporting both total cases and deaths it’s suffered from the disease, the U.S. intelligence community concluded in a classified report to the White House, according to three US officials. The officials asked not to be identified because the report is secret, and they declined to detail its contents. But the thrust, they said, is that China’s public reporting on cases and deaths is intentionally incomplete. Two of the officials said the report concludes that China’s numbers are fake. Neither the Chinese government nor US intelligence agencies are particularly trustworthy sources. So if they disagree about whether China’s figures on its Covid-19 outbreak are accurate, as Bloomberg reported, is there any way to tell who’s telling the truth?

‘Forced Labor’ Stories On China Drive Cold War PR Blitz

March 29, 2020 Ajit Singh, The Grayzone. Educate! Australia, China, NATO, Propaganda

A recent surge in stories in the Western press accuse China of implementing an oppressive program of “forced labor” against the country’s Uyghur Muslim ethnic minority. The titanic crime China is accused of has been called “Xinjiang’s new slavery.” This alleged coercive system is said to encompass more than 80,000 laborers and implicate the supply chains of 83 global brands, including Apple, Amazon, Nike, BMW, Gap, Samsung, Sony, and Volkswagen. Featured in Western news outlets from Foreign Policy to the Washington Post to Democracy Now!, the reports rely on a series of questionable studies by purportedly “independent, nonpartisan” think tanks and crank experts backed by the West’s military-intelligence apparatus.

China’s Damning US Human Rights Report May Be Propaganda, but It’s Not Wrong

March 23, 2020 Alan Macleod, Mintpressnews.com Educate! China, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Propaganda, United States

Amid a global pandemic, you might be forgiven for having missed that the State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China just released a 13,000-word report on the state of human rights in the United States. Entitled “The Record of Human Rights Violations in the United States in 2019,” it begins by quoting Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “We lied, we cheated, we stole … It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment,” Pompeo said of his time as head of the Central Intelligence Agency during a Q&A at Texas A&M University.

Israel Kills 10,000th Palestinian Since 2000, US Media Largely Ignore It

March 18, 2020 Alison Weir, Israelpalestinenews.org Educate! Israel, Middle Class, Palestine, Propaganda

Israeli forces invading Palestinian Territory have just killed a 15-year-old unarmed Palestinian boy. A sniper shot him in the head with an expanding bullet. This is the 10,000th Palestinian killed by an Israeli since the round of violence that began in fall 2000. The boy was reportedly shot in the face. During the same period, Palestinians have killed 1,270 Israelis.

A Case Study Of Corporate Media Disinformation

March 15, 2020 Stansfield Smith, Dissident Voice. Educate! Cuba, Media, Propaganda, Regime Change

Some alternative media have exposed the US government and its corporate media fake news reporting on Russian “election interference,” on Venezuela, the war on Syria, China’s Xinjiang and Hong Kong, Nicaragua, Palestine, among others. One of the longest running media disinformation campaigns has been directed at Cuba, well covered in Keith Bolender’s Manufacturing the Enemy: The Media War Against Cuba.1 This thoroughly documented work is a good antidote to the constant anti-Cuba disinformation we are subjected to, which inevitably influences all of us. According to well-known Goebbels quote, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it” — true, but actually a lie that Goebbels ever said this.

International Media Uses Fake Journalist To Spread Disinformation About Nicaragua

March 14, 2020 Nora Mitchell and Nan McCurdy, Afgj.org Educate! Latin America, Nicaragua, Propaganda

On Feb. 20, 2020, Vox.com published a piece entitled “Burnt radio stations and 18-month newsprint blockades: Inside the slow culling of Nicaragua’s free press” that has multiple problems. The first of the many problems with this propaganda piece is that one of its authors – Carl David Goette Luciak – who initially came to Nicaragua to support anti-canal activists...

Weaponizing Coronavirus In The US Propaganda War Against China

February 24, 2020 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast China, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Health Care, Propaganda, Wars and Militarism

The United States changed its national security strategy from the "war against terror" to "great power conflict" targeting countries such as Russia and China. Some say the United States is already at war with them, surrounding them militarily and using economic and media attacks to try to weaken them. A current example of the propaganda war is the US' response to the coronavirus, which started in the Chinese province of Wuhan. We speak with US-based activist Siu Hin Lee about the reality of life in China under quarantine, the Chinese healthcare system and why the West doesn't recognize China's approach to foreign policy. As China with its economic power and Russia with its military might collaborate, the United States faces a choice between competition and cooperation. This choice will define the outcomes for the US in the twenty-first century.

REVEALED: The British government’s covert propaganda campaign in Syria

February 22, 2020 Ian Cobain and Alice Ross, Middleeasteye.net Educate! Propaganda, Syria, United Kingdom (UK)

Documents obtained by MEE reveal how British contractors recruited Syrian citizen journalists - often without their knowledge - to promote 'moderate opposition' The British government covertly established a network of citizen journalists across Syria during the early years of the country’s civil war in an attempt to shape perceptions of the conflict, frequently recruiting people who were unaware that they were being directed from London.

While Nicaragua returns to peace, media and international NGOs conjure epidemic of violence with dubious reporting

February 22, 2020 John Perry, TheGrayZone.com Educate! Latin America, NGOs, Nicaragua, Propaganda

After the violent attempt to overthrow the government in 2018, which cost at least 200 lives, the country has largely returned to the tranquillity it enjoyed before. This is not only the impression that any visitor to Nicaragua will receive; it is confirmed by statistics: Insight Crime analysed homicide levels across Latin America in 2019 and showed that only three countries were safer than Nicaragua in the whole continent.

Coronavirus: Media And Politicians Take Anti-China Fear Mongering To New Levels

February 18, 2020 By Alan Macleod, Mintpressnews.com Educate! China, Coronavirus, health, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Propaganda

Despite praise from the World Health Organization for its handling of the coronavirus, China has been derided by Western media and politicians alike over nearly every aspect of its response. Starting in Wuhan in December, the coronavirus outbreak has spread across China, infecting around 64,000 people and worrying the rest of the world. Fueling the panic, media have been printing alarmist scare stories and politicians peddling false information.

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