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  1. Anatomy of a Propaganda Campaign: Jeremy Corbyn's Political Assassination
    Zollmann, Florian; Coles, T.J.
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2022
    Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the British Labour Party, was subjected to a concerted propaganda campaign by the British right-wing military-industrial establishment, which regarded him as a threat to its interests. This article fleshes out the individual components of this campaign and dissects how it was amplified by the British mainstream media. As Corbyn pointed out, he was not the threat. The real 'threat' was the general public who would have used Corbyn as a political representative to bring services back into common ownership, moderately raise taxes on the wealthy, properly fund social security, and to some degree curtail British militarism abroad.
  2. The Anti-Empire Report #153
    Cold War Number One: 70 years of daily national stupidity. Cold War Number Two: Still in its youth, but just as
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    A comentary on current events in Russian and US relations which may be entering a new Cold War, as well as a look back at events through the Cold War period from 1948 to the 1980's.
  3. AP Blasts "Russian Propaganda War" Over Ukraine
    Herding the Media Sheep
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Peter Leonard’s March 15 Associated Press report is entitled: “Russian propaganda war in full swing over Ukraine.” “This is Ukraine today,” he begins, “at least as seen by most Russian news media: the government is run by anti-Semitic fascists, people killed by opposition snipers and the west is behind it all.”
  4. BBC correspondent-fixer shaping Ukraine war coverage is PR operative involved in 'war-messaging tool'
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    BBC reports on the suspicious destruction of a theatre in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol were co-authored by a Ukrainian PR agent tied to a firm at the forefront of her country's information warfare efforts.
  5. Big media versus the people
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A look how "Big Media" shapes public attitudes, the economy, culture, leisure and education, and how governments have developed close relationships with the press in a way which has not been in the public interest.
  6. Blair: Bombing Iraq Better. Again
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The authors critique the British media's coverage of a new essay by Tony Blair which attempts to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003.
  7. British Government-Funded Outlet Offered Journalist $17,000 a Month to Produce Propaganda for Syrian Rebels
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The Revolutionary Forces of Syria media office, a major Syrian opposition media outfit and frequent source of information for Western media, is funded by the British government as a propaganda outlet.
  8. Canadian group not dealing with major free expression issue
    Celebrating World Press Freedom Day
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    We need to address how corporate-owned mainstream news organizations restrict the freedom of journalists and prevent the public from having access to a wide variety of important news and opinion articles. This lack of balanced information affects everything from people having the information they need to decide how to vote to all of us better understanding how power is exercised in our communities. The censorship consists of banning some topics and discussions and filtering out stories and ideas that do not fit the current mainstream media agenda.
  9. The CIA and the Press: When the Washington Post Ran the CIA’s Propaganda Network
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Last week, the Washington Post published a scurrilous piece by a heretofore obscure technology reporter named Craig Timberg, alleging without the faintest evidence that Russian intelligence was using more than 200 independent news sites to pump out pro-Putin and anti-Clinton propaganda during the election campaign.
  10. The CIA Used To Infiltrate The Media. Now The CIA Is The Media.
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2021
    In totalitarian dictatorships, the government spy agency tells the news media what stories to run, and the news media unquestioningly publish it. In free democracies, the government spy agency says “Hoo buddy, have I got a scoop for you!” and the news media unquestioningly publish it.
  11. A Coalition of the Killing
    War, media, propaganda and language
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2003
    War, media, propaganda and language.
  12. Conan Shows Us That Main Stream Media Is Scripted
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2013
    A segment from Conan's show where dozens of news anchors are caught in the act of "reporting" the exact same story, the exact same way.
  13. Concocting a Crime-Ageddon to Promote Police Power
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Manhattan is overrun with criminals and nobody is safe! -- or that’s what certain tabloids and newspapers would have you believe. Through the use of misleading statistics and extraordinary exceptions, the Mayor of New York has been successfully depicted as 'soft-on-crime' even though the city's crime rate is at an all-time low.
  14. Confessions of an Alleged Russian Propagandist: A Pentagon Hit?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    While our corporate media don't talk about it, the US does run a vast propaganda operation, which includes the spawning and spreading of, guess what?, fake news stories! This kind of thing has gone on for years abroad, but since 2001, under both the Bush and Obama administrations, both the Pentagon and the US Information Agency have done away with an earlier ban on spreading such lies posing as news inside the US. Now we’re all fair game for US propaganda, which by the way the mainstream media routinely parrot.
  15. Conflict In Ukraine Used To Silence Voices Of Dissent In The United States
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2022
    Clearing the FOG speaks with political comedian Lee Camp about the sudden de-platforming that happened to him when RT America abruptly shut down after the Russian military intervention in Ukraine last month. Camp lost his program Redacted Tonight that aired weekly for the past eight years, and he was kicked off of other platforms such as Spotify. Camp talks about the big picture of growing censorship, the state of the media and freedom of the press, and the assault on the public's access to information that counters the narrative in the corporate media.
  16. Conundrum - Syriza, Democracy And The Death Of A Saudi Tyrant
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    It's always a tricky moment for the corporate media when a foreign leader dies. The content and tone need to be appropriate, moulded to whether that leader fell into line with Western policies or not.
  17. Don't watch RT!
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    As RT UK launches, attacks on the channel in the British media have stepped up. The latest is a piece by Mr. Cyril Waugh-Monger, a very important newspaper columnist for the NeoCon Daily, a patron of the Senator Joe McCarthy Appreciation Society and author of 'Why the Iraq War was a Brilliant Idea' and 'The Humanitarian Case for Bombing Syria.'
  18. Exposure of Another Pro-War Lie Doesn't Make Media More Skeptical of Pro-War Claims
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    The story of pro-Maduro forces burning trucks bringing aid to Venezuela has now been reported as false, even by corporate media. The bigger story of how and why this lie was propogated gets left behind.
  19. "Fake News"
    Introduction to the December 20, 2016 issue of Other Voices
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    "Fake news" is the latest mania to convulse the mainstream media. All at once, we're being subjected to an outbreak of hand-wringing articles and commentaries about obscure websites which are supposedly poisoning public opinion and undermining democracy by spreading "fake news."
  20. Fake News on Russia in the New York Times, 1917-2017
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Fake news on Russia is a Times tradition that can be traced back at least as far as the 1917 revolution.
  21. Gaslighting The Public: Serial Deceptions By The State-Corporate Media
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2021
    Other than the ever-present risk of nuclear war, there is no greater threat to humanity than the climate crisis. And there is no more damning example of gaslighting by state-corporate media when they tell us we can trust governments and corporations to do what is required to avert catastrophe.
  22. The Heat Is On
    The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    A book discussing the ever-worsening threat of global climate change.
  23. The Holocaust, the BBC and antisemitism smears
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2020
    Senior BBC news reporter Orla Guerin has found herself in hot water of an increasingly familiar kind. During a report on preparations for the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp, she made a brief reference to Israel and an even briefer reference to the Palestinians.
  24. Is Assad to blame for the chemical weapons attack in Syria?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    What possible motives that could link the Assad regime to a chemical attack in Northern Syria?
  25. Israeli Cease Fire Violations and Media Propaganda
    The Conquest of Palestine
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The Israeli conquest of Palestine has always been a difficult issue for Western mainstream media to cover. The difficulty lies not in the task of reporting the facts on the ground and transmitting an accurate depiction of them to the public, but in refraining from doing so.
  26. It's Not OK for Grown Adults to Think This Way About Ukraine
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2022
  27. JournalismSources.com
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    A portal featuring news, articles, and resources about journalism, press freedom, free speech, censorship and related topics. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
  28. Journalists need 'national security' training to stop flow of embarrassing but true NATO stories, defense-backed think tank warns
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    With Western armed forces already using embedded reporters to tell the story they prefer, a UK think tank now calls for national security training for journalists so they don't help out Russia or China by telling the truth.
  29. Killing Corbyn
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The 'Brexit' referendum vote, split 52% to 48% in favour of leaving the European Union, has been exploited by the 'mainstream' media to launch yet another assault on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
  30. The Lies About Assange Must Stop Now
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    Newspapers and other media in the United States and Britain have recently declared a passion for freedom of speech, especially their right to publish freely. They are worried by the "Assange effect".
  31. Lurching to War
    Introduction to the October 15, 2016 issue of Other Voices
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Capitalism hates competition, and the U.S., the world's dominant capitalist power, has never tolerated competitors, rivals, or leaders who dare to put their own country ahead of U.S. interests.
  32. Lurching to War - Octber 15 issue of Connexions Other Voices now available
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Lurching to War: The United States and its NATO allies increasingly see war, not as a disaster to be avoided, but a normal tool of foreign policy. Getting the public to acquiesce in regarding war as inevitable and justifiable requires propaganda
  33. Manufacturing the Enemy: The Media War Against Cuba
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2019
    Mainstream media in the United States for the past 60 years has converged with the neo-colonial foreign policy objectives of the state to create a misinformed, biased narrative against the Cuban revolution. Using extensive examples, including pre-revolutionary historic coverage, journalist Keith Bolender reveals how the national press has established an anti-Cuba chronicle in adherence to Washington's unrelenting regime change policies.
  34. The Mass Media Will Never Regain The Public’s Trust
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2021
    It doesn’t ultimately matter what mainstream pundits and reporters believe is the cause of the public’s growing disgust with them, because there's nothing they can do to fix it anyway. The mass media will never regain the public's trust.
  35. Media Control
    The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    Chomsky begins by asserting two models of democracy: one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky "propaganda is to democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state," and the mass media is the primary vehicle for delivering propaganda in the United States.
  36. Media Review: Fake News
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2017
    Richard Seymour looks at the current debate around 'fake news'. What does the term refer to and is it as new as we think?
  37. MediaSources.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    A web portal featuring resources about media and the media industry, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
  38. MSM Cover-Up of Neo-Nazis In Ukraine
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2022
    In its coverage of the war in Ukraine, one of the MSM's most egregious offenses is its silence or downplaying the significance of the neo-Nazis in Ukraine.
  39. New Study: "Russian Trolls" Did Not "Sow Discord" - They Influenced No One
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    The U.S. has claimed that the Russia government tried to influence the 2016 election through Facebook and Twitter. Russia supposedly did this through people who worked the Internet Research Agency (IRA) in St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia. The evidence contradicts these claims.
  40. New York Times Job Listing Shows How Western Propaganda Operates
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2020
    In order to get a job at the New York Times, you need to demonstrate that you subscribe to the mainstream oligarchic imperialist worldview which forms the entirety of western mass media output. You need to demonstrate that you have been properly indoctrinated, and that you can be guided into toeing the imperial line with simple attaboys and tisk-tisks from your superiors rather than being explicitly told to knowingly lie.
  41. The news media offers wall-to-wall propaganda every day. We only notice when a royal dies
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2021
    If the BBC makes its editorial decisions based on what rightwing and far-right newspaper tycoons think is good both for the country and for the world, then how is the BBC not equally rightwing?
  42. Noam Chomsky And The BBC: A Brief Comparison
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    A recent interview with 88-year-old Noam Chomsky once again demonstrates just how insightful he is in providing rational analysis of Western power and the suffering it generates. By contrast, anyone relying on BBC News receives a power-friendly view of the world, systematically distorted in a way that allows the state and private interests to pursue business as usual.
  43. NYT Hypes Russian Threat to the Internet
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    As if Americans didn't already have enough to worry about in regards to the recently resurrected Red Menace, we can now add the fear that those devious Russians are threatening to -- horror of horrors -- bring down the Internet.
  44. Official Enemies
    Introduction to the August 27, 2017 issue of Other Voices
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    We are never left in any doubt about who our enemies are. The word goes out from the United States that a certain country is a dictatorship which abuses human rights, supports terrorism, and poses a terrible threat to the U.S. and to the world. The mainstream media then swing into action with military precision and flood us with stories, images, and commentary about how dreadful country 'X' is.
  45. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 15, 2016
    Lurching to War
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2016
    The risk of nuclear war is as great now as it was at the height of the Cold War. From the time the Warsaw Pact dissolved itself and the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States has single-mindedly pursued a hyper-aggressive strategy of surrounding Russia with hostile military forces and missiles aimed at the Russian heartland.
  46. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2015
    SYRIZA
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    This week we're featuring the 40-point program which SYRIZA, the Greek coalition of the radical left, put forward to win the Greek election. Oliver Tickell writes about the mass media's latest campaign of pro-war propaganda, this time revolving around supposed "Russian aggression" in Ukraine, while Paul Edwards looks at another form of war propaganda, Clint Eastwood's 'American Sniper'. The Topic of the Week is Water Rights. Related items include the film "Blue Gold: World Water Wars," the featured website International Rivers, and articles on water-related struggles, past and present, including articles on the Walkerton water disaster and the Cochabamba water war.
  47. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 20, 2016
    Fake News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2016
    "Fake news" is the latest mania to convulse the mainstream media. All at once, we're being subjected to an outbreak of hand-wringing articles and commentary about obscure websites which are supposedly poisoning public opinion and undermining democracy by spreading "fake news." Since we don't like to be left out when a new fad comes on the scene, Other Voices is jumping on the bandwagon too, with this, our last issue of 2016, devoted to "fake news." Our focus, however, is not so much on the crackpots and trolls making mischief on the fringes, but on the dominant actors in the fake news business: governments and the corporate and state media.
  48. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 27, 2017
    Official Enemies
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    Why and how do some countries become 'enemies'? How and why do governments and media work in tandem to demonize official enemies? Who are the people who live in those countries, what are their lives like, and why should we consider them our enemies?
  49. Pathological Deceit: The NYT Inverts Reality on Venezuela's Cuban Doctors
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    Claims that the Maduro government is using Cuban doctors to coerce voters by refusing care to the opposition are based on very dubious evidence.
  50. The people who are preparing for war, and the lies they tell
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2020
    The double standards, hypocrisy, and dishonesty of the media are absolutely breathtaking.
  51. Propaganda Blitz: How the Corporate Media Distort Reality
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2018
    A look at how corporate media distort the news. Uses recent examples such as the Scottish Independence referendum.
  52. Propaganda, Fake News, and Media Lies
    The Diabolical Business of Global Public Relations Firms
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The PRP industry has experienced phenomenal growth since 2001. In 2015, three publicly traded mega PR firms -- Omnicom, WPP, and Interpublic Group -- together employed 214,000 people across 170 countries, collecting $35 billion in combined revenue. Not only do these firms control massive wealth, they also possess a network of connections in powerful international institutions with direct links to national governments, multi-national corporations, global policy-making bodies, and the corporate media.
  53. Provoking Nuclear War by Media
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The exoneration of a man accused of the worst of crimes, genocide, made no headlines. Neither the BBC nor CNN covered it. The Guardian allowed a brief commentary. Such a rare official admission was buried or suppressed, understandably. It would explain too much about how the rulers of the world rule.
  54. Publicity and the Canadian State
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
    A collection examining the state's relationship with public practices and the "permanent campaign," the constant search for politicians and their strategists for popular consent.
  55. PublicitySources.com
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    A web portal featuring publicity and PR resources, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
  56. Putin on the Ritz
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Forgive the word-play; colossal demonization notwithstanding, I’ll go with Putin and Russia over Obama, the US, Rasmussen, Cameron, friends and allies everywhere. America has an unerring nose for smelling Fascism and quickly joining ranks. Today Putin used the political “F” word correctly, and for that I honor him.
  57. Quotes about Media
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  58. Return of the Evil Empire
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    You have to hand it to them. The United States media machine is unequaled at producing and disseminating misinformation. It begins in the bowels of the State Department or White House or Pentagon and is filtered out through the government’s front organizations, otherwise known as Mainstream Media (MSM).
  59. RT in UK: A brief history of establishment hysteria
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    NatWest Bank, a subsidiary of Britain's majority state-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland, gives notice that it is closing RT's accounts – without explanation. In this article detailed information has been presented concerning the issue.
  60. Russiagate media smears against Corbyn brought to you by US and UK military-intelligence apparatus
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    The popular socialist leader of Britain's Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, could be on the verge of becoming prime minister of the United Kingdom. And the mere possibility is terrifying British intelligence services and the US government.
  61. Russian aggression and the BBC's drums of nuclear war
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The drums of war are beating on the BBC and other mass media, writes Oliver Tickell -- naked propaganda about fictitious 'Russian aggression' intended to soften us up for a war that could wipe out life on Earth. We must refuse to fall for the endlessly repeated lies, and tell our politicians that our highest priority of all is peace.
  62. Sacrificing Gaza: The Great March of Zionist Hypocrisy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    The Great March of Return is a startling, powerful expression of Palestinian identity and resistance. Thousands of Palestinians have come out, bravely and unapologetically, to say: “We refuse to remain invisible. We reject any attempt to assign us to the discard pile of history. We will exercise our fundamental right to go home.” They have done this unarmed, in the face of Israel’s use of deadly armed force against targets (children, press, medics) deliberately chosen to demonstrate the Jewish state’s unapologetic determination to force them back into submissive exile by any means necessary. By doing this repeatedly over the last few weeks, these incredibly brave men, women, and children have done more than decades of essays and books to strip the aura of virtue from Zionism that’s befogged Western liberals’ eyes for 70 years.
  63. 'Sexy tricks': How journalists demonize Venezuela's socialist government, in their own words
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    The United States has labeled Venezuela's government a "dictatorship" and part of a "troika of tyranny," and has sponsored multiple coup attempts there, including one in November. The corporate media has dutifully ignored the US role in the country's economic woes, laying the blame squarely at the feet of Maduro, omitting crucial political context on Venezuela's economic crisis while keeping up a constant flow of content presenting the country as a socialist hellhole.
  64. Some Standard Cynical CIA-Style Cuba Covid Reporting at The Washington Post
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2021
    Imperial cynics and propagandists can only see the world through the lens of cynicism and propaganda, which they project on to others.
  65. Study Reveals How UK Intelligence Works with Media to Smear Jeremy Corbyn
    New research from Matt Kennard has shown how the British intelligence establishment works with the UK media to smear Jeremy Corbyn.
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    Academic studies of the Corbyn coverage have also shown that corporate media have shown a profound hostility to him and his project. One report from the London School of Economics included an entire section called "Delegitimization through Ridicule, Scorn, and Personal Attacks."
  66. Thinking The Right Thoughts
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    There are always convenient news-hooks on which corporate journalists can hang their power-friendly prejudices about the West being 'the good guys' in world affairs. The authors provide examples from the British media.
  67. Time to Confront the Media's Anti-Corbyn Bias
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Jeremy Corbyn has been subjected to unprecedented vilification by the British media. No one is surprised that the Daily Mail, Telegraph and Times have been relentless in their hatchet jobs on Corbyn. But it has been disconcerting for the left that the Guardian and BBC never gave him a chance either. He was in their gun-sights from day one.
  68. Twitter spreads paid US government propaganda while falsely claiming it bans state media ads
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2020
    Twitter says it bans ads from state-affiliated media outlets. However, US government propaganda organs like Voice of America’s VOA Persian pay the social media corporation huge sums of money to spread disinformation against Iran and other foreign adversaries.
  69. 2014 Fellowship of Reconciliation with Dr. Peter Phillips
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Dr. Peter Phillips delivered a keynote address at the 2014 Fellowship of Reconciliation’s event in celebration of their 100th anniversary, covering several topics, including corporate media propaganda.
  70. US Media Keep Saying Iran is "In Violation" of a Nuclear Agreement the US Withdrew From
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    US Media portray Iran as having violated the US-Iran nuclear agreement. That's because the Trump administration, acting on its own, foolishlypulled out unilaterally from that agreement, and has been imposing sanctions on Iran, all of which has been in violation of the agreement, and which, by violating its terms, effectively terminates the agreement.
  71. US media love war more than they hate Trump & egg him on to strike Syria
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    US media outlets are recklessly promoting war with help from neocons, including Arab American right-wingers who do not represent the views of the region they are demanding Trump bomb.
  72. A Useful Prep-Sheet on Syria for Media Propagandists
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    State Department talking points on Syria for cable news anchors.
  73. Western media clubs together to white-wash Ukrainian Neo-Nazis
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2022
    Multiple outlets use the same talking points, quotes, and 'experts' to whitewash Ukraine's notorious Azov regiment.
  74. Western Media Responds to Latest Ukrainian Sabotage of Crimea
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Western governments and media have a problem with the right-wing regime that is governing Ukraine. The country's economy is a shambles. Even the regime's own backers in the West acknowledge the country and its economy are hopelessly mired in corruption.
  75. Western Propaganda: So Simple But So Effective
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Western propaganda is actually a perfect apparatus! It is effective and it is almost fully 'bulletproof'. It 'works'!
  76. What George Carlin Taught Us about Media Propaganda by Omission
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    In the old George Carlin joke, the TV sportscaster announces: "Here's a partial score from the West Coast – Los Angeles 6." For a brilliant comedian like Carlin -- who skewered corporate power, class structure and political/media propaganda – that's one of his more innocuous jokes. But it's sharply relevant today as corporate TV news outlets serve up a series of partial scores. Call it 'propaganda by omission.'
  77. Why Are We The Good Guys?
    Reclaiming Your Mind From The Delusions Of Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    One of the unspoken assumptions of the Western world is that we are great defenders of human rights, a free press and the benefits of market economics. Mistakes might be made along the way, perhaps even tragic errors of judgement. But the prevailing view is that the West is essentially a force for good in the wider world. Why Are We The Good Guys? is a provocative challenge of this false ideology.
  78. Why Are We The Good Guys? - Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    One of the unspoken assumptions of the Western world is that ‘we’ are great defenders of human rights, a free press and the benefits of market economics. Mistakes might be made along the way, perhaps even tragic errors of judgement. But the prevailing view is that 'the West' is essentially a force for good in the wider world. Why Are We The Good Guys? is a provocative challenge to this false ideology.
  79. Why Ridiculous Official Propaganda Still Works
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Chief among the common misconceptions about the way official propaganda works is the notion that its goal is to deceive the public into believing things that are not "the truth" (that Trump is a Russian agent, for example, or that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, or that the terrorists hate us for our freedom, et cetera). However, while official propagandists are definitely pleased if anyone actually believes whatever lies they are selling, deception is not their primary aim.
  80. A World War has Begun: Break the Silence
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    How many people are aware that a world war has begun? At present, it is a war of propaganda, of lies and distraction, but this can change instantaneously with the first mistaken order, the first missile.
  81. Yes, the Press Helps Start Wars
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    History shows that a jingoistic media can whip up support for hardline policies, as Trump rightly pointed out.

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