Propaganda

Selling A Lifetime Subscription To The Politics Of Fear

August 25, 2016 Osama Husseini, www.husseini.posthaven.com Educate! Fear, Mass Media, Propaganda

By Osama Husseini for Posthaven - Dana Milbank, a columnist for the paper, popped up at Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein's news conference that focused on climate change. After Stein noted that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have gotten billions in free media, he chimed in: "Dana Milbank with the Washington Post segment of the corporate media. I have a conundrum I want to present to you. I could write about today and others could report here about what an important issue climate change is.

Are People Of United States Being Propagandized For War With Syria

August 24, 2016 Rick Sterling, www.globalresearch.ca Educate! Propaganda, Syria, Wars and Militarism

By Rick Sterling for Global Research - In early August Dennis Ross and Andrew Tabler opined in the NY Times about “The Case for (Finally) Bombing Assad”. Dennis Ross is a favorite Clintonite. In her book “Hard Choices”, Clinton described how she asked Dennis Ross to come to the State Department to “work on Iran and regional issues”. NY Times regular Nicholas Kristof made his pitch for war against Syria. According to the self-styled humanitarian, we need “safe zones” as proposed by Clintonite Madeline Albright and retired General James Cartwright. That is risky but “the risks of doing nothing in Syria are even greater”.

Major Political News Media Sell Interviews At Conventions

July 3, 2016 Lee Fang, www.theintercept.com Educate! 2016 Elections, Corruption, Media, Propaganda

By Lee Fang for The Intercept. For high-rolling special interests looking to make an impression at the presidential conventions next month, one option is to pay a lot of money to a media outlet. Lobbyists for the oil industry, for instance, are picking up the tab for leading Beltway publications to host energy policy discussions at the convention, including The Atlantic and Politico. And for the right price, some political media outlets are even offering special interviews with editorial staffers and promotional coverage at the convention. The Hill newspaper, which is sponsoring events at both the RNC and DNC, offers sponsors “a turnkey and custom experience,” including a “Thought-Leader Luncheon” moderated by The Hill’s editorial staff and the luncheon sponsor, who also gets to “curate a list of participants from politics, government, media and industry.”

School Board Bans Climate Change-Denying Materials

May 22, 2016 Shasta Kearns Moore, www.portlandtribune.com Create! Climate Change, Education, Propaganda, Schools

By Shasta Kearns Moore for the Portland Tribune. Portland, OR - In a move spearheaded by environmentalists, the Portland Public Schools board unanimously approved a resolution aimed at eliminating doubt of climate change and its causes in schools. “It is unacceptable that we have textbooks in our schools that spread doubt about the human causes and urgency of the crisis,” said Lincoln High School student Gaby Lemieux in board testimony. “Climate education is not a niche or a specialization, it is the minimum requirement for my generation to be successful in our changing world.” The resolution passed Tuesday evening calls for the school district to get rid of textbooks or other materials that cast doubt on whether climate change is occurring and that the activity of human beings is responsible.

Dark Money Group Attacking CFP Bureau

May 1, 2016 LibWatson, www.sunlightfoundation.com Educate! Dark money, Propaganda, Transparency

By Libby Watson for the Sunlight Foundation. Since it formed in 2011, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been under siege from financial institutions. Senate Republicans tried very hard to stop it from functioning at all, and since then they’ve tried to “tighten the leash” on the agency. Nearly five years since it officially opened, a new dark money group is taking aim at the agency — and no one has any idea who's behind it. Protect America’s Consumers is a 501(c)(4) group that incorporated in November 2015. Its registered agent is North Rock Reports LLC, located at the same address in Warrenton, Va., as the law firm Holtzman Vogel Josefiak Torchinsky. According to Politico, “The firm specializes in untraceable pressure groups for conservative causes.” I

How Neocons And Liberal Hawks Lie To Sell Wars

April 24, 2016 Derek Royden, www.nationofchange.org Educate! Media, Propaganda, Wars and Militarism

By Derek Royden for Nation of Change. In the lead up to the first Gulf War in 1991, the world was shocked by congressional testimony from a young woman named Nayirah, who said she was in a Kuwait Hospital when Iraqi troops arrived. She broke down describing the looting she said followed, claiming the soldiers had killed premature newborns by taking them out of their incubators and leaving them on the cold floor. There was just one problem with this testimony that wasn’t discovered until later: it wasn’t true. The tearful story was given by the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the US, who later admitted she hadn’t been at the hospital at all. The spectacle was planned by PR firm Hill and Knowlton, who earned over $10 million to sell the citizens of the US and allied countries on a campaign to “liberate” the despotic (but oil rich) monarchy.

‘Corruption’ As A Propaganda Weapon

April 6, 2016 Robert Parry, www.consortiumnews.com Educate! Corruption, Journalism, Propaganda

By Robert Parry for Consortium News - Far too often, this sort of “journalism” is just a forerunner to the next “regime change” scheme, dirtying up or delegitimizing a foreign leader before the inevitable advent of a “color revolution” organized by “democracy-promoting” NGOs often with money from the U.S. government’s National Endowment for Democracy or some neoliberal financier like George Soros. We are now seeing what looks like a new preparatory phase for the next round of “regime changes” with corruption allegations aimed at former Brazilian President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Correcting Propaganda: Ecuador, China, Indigenous & The Amazon

February 17, 2016 Stansfield Smith, www.counterpunch.org Educate! China, Ecuador, Oil, Propaganda

By Stansfield Smith for Counter Punch - The end of January a news article appeared, “Ecuador To Sell A Third Of Its Amazon Rainforest To Chinese Oil Companies,” and has resurfaced again and again on the internet. Posted on progressive websites such as Reader Supported News, Daily Kos, “The PeoplesVoice.org,” “ThinkGlobalGreen.org,” the story often comes with maps of the affected area, and include pictures of indigenous peoples living peaceably with nature or protesting against oil drilling.

Misinformer Of The Year: The Center For Medical Progress

December 22, 2015 Olivia Kittel, www.mediamatters.org Educate! Media, Propaganda

By Olivia Kittel for Media Matters - Conservative media figures and their right-wing political allies thought that this was the year they could finally achieve their decades-long goal of destroying Planned Parenthood's reputation and ability to provide health care to millions of Americans. Since July, the previously-unknown anti-choice group Center for Medical Progress has released a series of dishonestly edited videos that falsely accuse Planned Parenthood of illegally selling "baby parts." Long-standing opponents of the organization's mission used those deceptive videos to generate congressional hearings...

Thomas Paine, Recycled Propaganda, White Power & COP21

December 4, 2015 Resistance Report COP21, Propaganda, Racism

Eleanor Goldfield for Occupy.com. On Act Out this week, let's use some common sense and talk about the rights of man. Next up, Recycled Propaganda, pure white low life scum, grab a seat at the middle east dinner table and from Paris to the globe, climate change can be slowed, if we make it so. But first, life is meaningless – like a blank page so get a brush, a crayon, a pen and paint your way.

Cameron Calls Opponents Of Bombing ‘Terrorist Sympathizers’

December 3, 2015 Jon Stone, www.independent.co.uk Educate! Propaganda, Syria, United States

By Jon Stone for Independent - David Cameron has refused to apologise after branding MPs who oppose air strikes in Syria “terrorist sympathisers”. The Prime Minister faced repeated interventions from MPs during a House of Commons debate on military action demanding that he retract the attack. Mr Cameron reportedly last night told rebel Conservative MPs that they might be set to “walk through the lobbies with Jeremy Corbyn and a bunch of terrorist sympathisers”. But today he did not acknowledge requests in parlaiment to withdraw the comments, even from pro-intervention MPs.

Project Censored 2015: Top Ten News Stories The Media Ignored

November 29, 2015 Tim Redmond, www.cascadiaweekly.com Educate! Arctic, Drones, Enviornment, Food and Agriculture, Fracking, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, Fukushima, Groundwater, killed by police, Mass Media, Methane, Oil and Gas, Poverty, Propaganda, Renewable Energy, spying, Wealth Ineqaulity

By Tim Redmond for Cascadia Weekly. As Project Censored staffers Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth note, 90 percent of U.S. news media—the traditional outlets that employ full-time reporters—are controlled by six corporations. “The corporate media hardly represent the mainstream,” the staffers wrote in the current edition’s introduction. “By contrast, the independent journalists that Project Censored has celebrated since its inception are now understood as vital components of what experts have identified as the newly developing ‘networked fourth estate.’”

US Total Failure In Ukraine, Will The Nation Wake Up?

September 6, 2015 Patrick L. Smith, www.salon.com Educate! coup, Media, Propaganda, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

By Patrick L. Smith for Salon - It is not a matter only of countering entrenched interests—the Pentagon, the defense industries, the intelligence and national security apparatus. I conclude that the American consciousness must also sustain a certain kind of violence before we will imagine our place in the world anew. This seems to me the colonel’s thought: We failed in Ukraine “pretty much completely,” and we can learn from this to think differently. I see two major misapprehensions immediately at issue. One is the neoliberal model, arising as it does out of the Chicago School’s free-market ideology, econometrics, rational choice theory, and the drastic tilt toward mathematics and computer modeling in postwar social sciences. It strips all history, culture, tradition and human preference out of our thinking such that we can pile into Ukraine and expect to win the day. Impossible. This is the irrationality of hyper-rationality. It is a proven loser. Let the losses pile up.

How The US Elections Manipulate Voters, Prevent Progress

September 1, 2015 Byron Williams, www.contracostatimes.com Educate! Elections, Politics, Propaganda

By Byron Williams in Contra Costa Times - If the 2016 presidential race stays true to form, it will be dominated by preliminary bouts, otherwise known as primaries, followed by the main event, the General Election. The primaries will be a competition to see who is more in touch with the respective party's base. This means Democrat and Republican candidates will appeal more to their parties more ideological sectors, only to make a mad dash to the center after the nomination process is complete. With some exceptions, this has been the basic formula that both parties have employed for the last four decades. It depends on a linear left/right axis. What's great about this approach is its neatness, or at a minimum the appearance thereof. For the portion of the electorate that participates in the political process, it is a call to arms -- to hunker down in the predictable silos of orthodoxy, questioning the sanity of those who possess the unmitigated gall to see the world differently.

8 Frightening Characteristics Of Propaganda

August 25, 2015 Daniel Lattier, www.intellectualtakeout.org Educate! Education, Media, Propaganda

By Daniel Lattier in Intellectual Take Out - Jacques Ellul’s Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes (1965) has been called “a far more frightening work than any of the nightmare novels of George Orwell.” In it, the French philosopher and sociologist dispels some of the popular notions about propaganda and exposes how it really operates in the modern world. In the first chapter of the book, Ellul describes some of the characteristics of modern propaganda. Eight of them appear below: 1) It Prevents Dialogue. 2) It Focuses on the Mass. 3) It is “Total”. 4) It Takes Over Education. 5) It Takes Over Literature and History. 6) It Must be Subtle at First. 7) It Must be Nonstop. 8) It Aims at Irrational Action.

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