Propaganda
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“Guerrilla Ad Campaign Replaces “Study in Israel” Billboards”
The guerrilla ads replaced ads which also featured photos of groups of people, beneath the headline, ‘Study in Israel? You’d like it here.’ The ad campaign was part of an intensive campaign to promote study in Israel at California universities. Continue reading
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Is There a Save Darfur Industrial Complex? By Bruce Dixon
The backers and founders of the ‘Save Darfur’ movement are the well-connected and well-funded U.S. foreign policy elite. Continue reading
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Politically Timed ‘Terror’ Arrests – the Real Bob Quick Scandal By Craig Murray
So why did the government want us to see that Bob Quick was entering No 10? The only possible answer is that, had things gone more smoothly in the arrest of the ‘Terror suspects’, the government would have paraded the footage of Quick entering no 10 as evidence that it was really Glorious Gordon and… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Children Of Darkness – Killing ‘Them’ – Part 1
As we have noted before, journalists are highly evolved intellectual herd animals. They possess sophisticated sense organs capable of detecting minute changes in the propaganda environment. Continue reading
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A Camp Follower Who Aims to Please: How Anthony Cordesman Proved that Israel Fought a Clean War By Norman G. Finkelstein
This preposterous, barely literate ‘analysis’ Cordesman cobbled together after his junket is unlikely to fool anyone, although in fairness to camp follower Cordesman it must be said that he plainly did his best to please and the American Jewish Committee plainly got its money’s worth from him. Continue reading
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Richard Silverstein: The Israeli foreign ministry itself is asking volunteers to flood news websites with pro-Israel arguments and information
I view it as a cynical attempt to flood the web and news media with favorable flackery in a vain attempt to tilt public opinion toward Israel. Continue reading
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Media Lens: The BBC, Impartiality, And The Hidden Logic Of Massacre — Part 2
Despite the input of hundreds of journalists working for numerous large, well-resourced corporations, we were unable to find a mainstream account that made sense of what was happening in Gaza. Continue reading
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Israel Recruits Army Of Bloggers To Troll Anti-War Websites
According to a report in Haaretz, the Immigrant Absorption Ministry is setting up `an army of bloggers` who will `represent` Israel on `anti-Zionist blogs` in English, French, Spanish and German. Continue reading
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How Israel’s Propaganda Machine Works by James Zogby (Middle East Online)
When events and reality break through, contradicting the Israeli-established narrative, creating stories that run counter to the imposed story line, the propaganda machine works overtime to deny, deny, deny Continue reading
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Dan Alba – Will AP Ever Stop Lying for Israel?
On January 9, The Associated Press released a report titled “A look at the Islamic militant Hamas group.” Like virtually all AP reports on Israel-Palestine, it is loaded with examples of journalistic malpractice: omission of the most basic and vital facts, use of the most sensationalistic or flatly wrong language, contradictions, and untruths. Continue reading
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Raanan Shaked: Bomb it yourself
You calmly go into Hot’s VOD and there on the main menu waiting for you is the category of Cast Lead. You select it and there you are — whole worlds of rich and entertaining content, courtesy of the IDF Spokesperson Office! Continue reading
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The obscenity that is the state of Israel By William Bowles
The war, if that’s what it can be called as in reality it’s remote-controlled slaughter, is as much a propaganda war in true Goebellian fashion, a war that is being conducted in the homes of the so-called developed world through the electronic and print media. For without the complicity of our political class and state/corporate… Continue reading
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The Jerusalem Post explains why Israel has gotten such ‘good’ media coverage
This first-hand experience of life under rocket fire may be one of the reasons Israeli diplomats and spokesmen feel Israel is finally getting a hearing in the international media. Continue reading
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Agent of a foreign power? By William Bowles
The BBC is directly complicit in selling a war crime of monstrous dimensions and should the day arrive when the architects of the slaughter are brought to justice, I really hope the managers of the BBC ‘News’ are along there with them in the dock. Continue reading
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Caucasus: Media Guilty as `Fog of War` Clears
“The screen reports were transmitting pictures of cluster bombs being used and indiscriminate shelling. The anchors described it as Russia’s shelling of Georgia. It was a pile of lies, distortions and propaganda of the event that happened in Georgia. The foreign press believed what the Georgian officials told them and it looked like the world… Continue reading
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Stop the lying! By: B. Michael
It is not clear which bluff broke the camel’s back this time. Was it the shooting in the head of an emotionally-disturbed person in Ni’lin village? The distraught mother who went to a police station to report the disappearance of her daughter and left it with a broken hand? The Israel Security Agency [ISA –… Continue reading
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US Gambles with Russia: Stoking a Global War? By Stephen Lendman
One nation above others is an obstacle – Russia. It’s powerful and can’t be intimidated like most others. It’s also dominant where Washington wants control – the Eurasian vastness with its huge oil, gas and other resources. For years, American sought dominance over it. Saw an opening when the Soviet Union dissolved. And one way… Continue reading
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The Dutch Connection By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
The recent De Telegraaf article[i] ‘revealing’ the Dutch intelligence cooperation with the CIA is a propaganda piece aimed at undermining the credibility of United Nations, its specialized agency, the IAEA, and its chief Mohammad ElBaradei. It also seeks to demoralize the Iranians and undermine their resolve in confronting outside enemies. Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: NEWS INTERNATIONAL THREATENS MEDIA LENS WITH LEGAL AND POLICE ACTION
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media July 10, 2008 On June 28 and July 3, Media Lens received repeated threats of both legal and police action from Alastair Brett, legal manager of News International’s Times Newspapers. Noam Chomsky described the threat, pithily, as “pretty sick.” (Email, June 28, 2008) David… Continue reading
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