Propaganda
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LEE CAMP: Connecting the Dates – US Media Used To Stop The ‘Threat’ of Peace
No, this is a column about context. When The New York Times reports anonymous sources from the intelligence community say Russia paid Taliban fighters to kill American soldiers, context is very important. Some of that context is that Mike Pompeo said, “I was the CIA director – We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had… Continue reading
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The Salisbury Poisonings: Skripal drama framed as anti-Russian propaganda
In 2018, Britain published its National Security Capability Review, outlining a new “Fusion Doctrine.” This called for the “use of all our capabilities; from economic levers, through cutting-edge military resources to our wider diplomatic and cultural influence on the world’s stage” to “project our global influence.” The BBC, especially its World Service, was named as… Continue reading
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Get ready for ‘Shock and Awe’ Brexit propaganda campaign
By TruePublica Editor: The governments’ overuse of militaristic, Churchillian and war-time cliches over Brexit and the pandemic is wearing thin and getting tiresome. But as Brexit day approaches, this is the mentality of a government obsessed with public relations. A mass propaganda invasion is to be aimed at every adult to overcome the Remainer enemy. Continue reading
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Novichok: Cynicism and Warmongering
The BBC plumbed the depths of hypocrisy in dressing up the final episode of the Salisbury Poisonings as a homage to Dawn Sturgess while systematically lying about the facts of her death, yet again to cover up the implausibility of the official narrative. Continue reading
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The Miracle of Salisbury
It turns out that the BBC really does believe that God is an Englishman. When the simple impossibility of the official story on the Skripals finally overwhelmed the dramatists, they resorted to Divine Intervention for an explanation – as propagandists have done for millennia. Continue reading
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UK counter-terror programme targeted BAME women using Instagram influencers
‘Stoosh’ campaign aimed at young Asian and Black women was created by media company contracted by Home Office Continue reading
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Coronavirus Propaganda Mimics War Propaganda
In the period leading up to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Bush administration and its media accomplices waged a relentless propaganda campaign to win political support for what turned out to be one of the most disastrous foreign policy mistakes in American history. Continue reading
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The Question Of Evidence When Governments Push Political Narratives
Today, in the background of the risk of world conflict and threat to health and our way of life arising from Covid-19, it’s never been more important to be sceptical and understand evidence. Continue reading
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MINDSPACE – Influencing behaviour through public policy
A must read (and frightening) document that details the UK government’s programme to control our thoughts and opinions. Continue reading
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Refusing to die for a confusing slogan
THE government’s latest injunction–Stay alert, Control the virus, Save lives–has come under instant criticism as providing ineffective advice. Continue reading
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The EU, NATO, NewsGuard and the Voltaire Network
The propaganda device aimed at stifling dissenting voices has taken a step forward. It is no longer simply a matter of accusing them of committing factual errors or deliberately lying, but of presenting them as traitors in the pay of a foreign power. Continue reading
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Propaganda: Automated bots defending the government
If you’ve ever wondered whether social media is just a vast network of automated bots interacting with other bots, congratulations, your worldview may be dystopian, but it’s not exactly wrong. In fact, if anything you’re way ahead of what most people believe. Continue reading
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Government is using daily coronavirus death toll as a ‘propaganda tool’, claims expert
Professor Allyson Pollock, the director of Newcastle University’s centre for excellence in regulatory science, said coronavirus has “shone a spotlight on the widening inequalities” in Britain and called for the government to revisit its public sector policies. Continue reading
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How a Trump media dump mainstreamed Chinese lab coronavirus conspiracy theory
With US deaths from Covid-related complications peaking above 30,000, allies of President Donald Trump are taking their anti-China public relations blitz to new heights of absurdity, hoping to legitimize a conspiracy theory blaming a Chinese biological research lab for engineering the novel coronavirus. Continue reading
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MSM China Hysteria Gets Way Crazier And Dumber
Hysteria about China has been kicked into high gear by the political/media class who are responsible for manufacturing support for the cold war escalations which will be necessary to prevent the US from being surpassed on the world stage as a unipolar superpower. Continue reading
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Wikipedia: Information Wars
Long term readers will recall the Philip Cross Affair. A Wikipedia Editor named “Philip Cross” was relentlessly conducting a propaganda operation. It had two prongs; the first was continually to denigrate the Wikipedia entry of all public figures who opposed military intervention in the Middle East, removing positive information and adding mainstream media slurs in… Continue reading
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US ‘Disinformation’ Claims Do Exactly What Enemies Are Accused of: Distract From Covid-19 Failures
The official Covid-19 death toll in the United States continues to climb, now exceeding 14,000, with at least hundreds of thousands more infected. Under these circumstances, the federal government has found it opportune to reignite the “Fake News” scare, censuring two familiar foes: Russia and China. Continue reading
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The Things You CANNOT Say About Coronavirus
Are you interested in talking about…things? You know, the kind of things that we’re not allowed to talk about anymore? You know, since the…uhhh…“The Event“? Continue reading
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Covid-19: The Panic Is Worse Than the Pathogen
The Corona Virus Disease 2019 or “Covid-19” is a coronavirus similar to the virus that causes pneumonia. Covid-19 is a danger to at-risk groups including the elderly and the chronically ill. If you are not elderly and if you are in good health you have virtually no chance of dying from it. Continue reading