Propaganda
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WESTERN PSY-OPS AGAINST SYRIA: When Mrs Assad’s “Shopping” Becomes a “Crime Against Humanity” By Finian Cunningham
Michelle Obama, the fashion style icon wife of US President Obama, is to have travel sanctions imposed on her by member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, including Russia, China and SCO associate state Iran. Continue reading
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Assad and those pesky emails – Who is Sam @ alshahba?
None of the emails leaked belong to Bashshar Al-Asad, who I am told rarely use emails for security reason. But this Syrian opposition website (which is known for having inside sources in Syria itself) had published this article on the “leaked” emails back in February and published the name of the government official whose email… Continue reading
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KONY 2012: Merchandising and Branding Support for US Military Intervention in Central Africa By Nile Bowie
Edward Bernays believed that society could not be trusted to make rational and informed decisions on their own, and that guiding public opinion was essential within a democratic society. Bernays founded the Council on Public Relations and his 1928 book, Propaganda cites the methodology used in the application of effective emotional communication. He discovered that… Continue reading
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Video: Syria: His Master's Voice
This BBC report says it all really, the arrogance of Empire. Thanks to Felicity Arbuthnot for directing me to this blatant example of the Imperial mindset warping the thinking of a no doubt intelligent person. Listen to how she browbeats the guy about her fucking visa! Continue reading
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Syria: Straining credulity? By Alastair Crooke
The UN Secretary General was reported on March 3 saying that he had received “grisly reports” that Syrian government forces were arbitrarily executing, imprisoning and torturing people in Homs after retaking control of the Baba Amr district from insurgents. Did he really believe this; or was he just “saying it”? Continue reading
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Memo To POTUS–Eyes Only: From The Department of Pre-War Planning And Threat Exaggeration By Danny Schechter
This is a digest of the multi-dimensional and multi-track strategy that is in place, and is being pursued simultaneously in a coordinated manner, by The Executive Branch, Defense Department, State Department, and all intelligence agencies. (And despite reports from our spy agencies that Iran is right to insist it is not making nuclear bombs. Why… Continue reading
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Lies, Revolutions and Wars: A House of Sand and Fog By Nebojsa Malic
Last summer, as the Sandstorm mistakenly dubbed the “Arab Spring” swept across North Africa, a cadre of professional revolutionaries the Empire created in Serbia bragged about their role in the revolts to some European videographers. Sure, the revolts in Tunisia and Egypt may have begun spontaneously, but Empire-trained activists soon took control and channeled the… Continue reading
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Video: High-Tech Trickery in Homs? By Sharmine Narwani
The “satellite photos,” says Ford, “have captured both the carnage and those causing it — the artillery is clearly there, it is clearly bombing entire neighborhoods…We are intent on exposing the regime’s brutal tactics for the world to see.” But within 24 hours, the blog Moon of Alabama had taken a hammer to the ambassador’s… Continue reading
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Syria Regime Change PR in High Gear: More ‘Newborn Baby Slaughter’ Propaganda By Patrick Henningsen
We can already see exact parallels with the current PR operation to bring down Syria with how Libya went down. In one story published today, it seems that one award-winning mainstream newspaper has been caught red-handed running faux news on Syria – and incredibly, it’s not the first time this exact story has been used. Continue reading
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Syrian NGOs: A dual-use technology? — RT
Syrian NGOs have often been the sole source of information for the Western media when it comes to reporting alleged atrocities within the country. Why is it then that so many of these NGO are either funded or based entirely in the West? Continue reading
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'US call for Iran war classic deception'
A Harvard professor of international affairs says the warmongering calls for a military strike on Iran follow a classic model of deception that involves fabricating a threat and downplaying the repercussions of an attack. Continue reading
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Libya: NTC concocts mass grave story in brazen propaganda ploy and the BBC spreads it
In a truly stunning display of dishonesty, the BBC has reported, citing no evidence to back its claim, that a mass grave containing over 1,200 bodies has been found in Tripoli’s Abu Salim prison complex. The BBC attempts to tie this ‘finding’ to the equally concocted ‘Abu Salim prison massacre’, as it claims that the… Continue reading
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The Libya Media Hoax: Fabricated Scenes of Jubilation and Euphoria on Green Square By Metro Gael
Surpassing previous mass media fabrications, both in scale and boldness, yesterday morning’s Al Jazeera mise-en-scène will surely go down in history as one of the most cynical hoaxes committed by corporate media since the manipulated pictures of Iraqis topplying Saddam Hussein’s statue after the US invasion in 2003. Continue reading
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Mainstream media are waging a Psychological War on People of Tripoli
The mainstream media are working with NATO to spread disinformation and waging a psychological war on the people of Tripoli. Watch the real report directly from Tripoli. Continue reading
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Libya: Swimming against the Tide of NATO’s Media Propaganda
If we were to believe the main stream media Tripoli is about to fall and the Rebels are closing in from all sides with their NATO airforce bombing everything that resists their infantery on the ground. Continue reading
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Fake Social Media Messages Led To War Against Libya By Marinella Correggia
This is what the UN resolutions and the war [on Libya] are based on… a tweet from a fake source. Continue reading
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USCENTCOM and the Cyberwar against Libya By Martin Iqbal
In an ominous development in March this year (in the lead-up to the war on Libya and the destabilisation of Syria), US Central Command (USCENTCOM) purchased a piece of software allowing US government employees to assume multiple fake online identities, complete with false backgrounds, supporting details, and IP address masking functionality. Continue reading
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Replay: Libya rape claims ‘hysteria’ – investigator
A UN human rights investigator has cast doubts over claims by the chief ICC prosecutor of evidence that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had ordered mass rapes. Continue reading
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‘Public Opinion’: The Phantom Menace By John Brissenden
Any 11 year old who saw Avatar or The Matrix has a basic understanding of constructed reality; teenagers carefully construct and reconstruct their online identity; politicians and pundits alike talk without shame or irony about presentation, optics and symbolism rather than policy. It is no different on the left. Resistance to the cult of austerity… Continue reading
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