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War Propaganda AlterLinks Topic Index America's Deceptive Model for Aggression Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Since NATO's 1999 war on Serbia, U.S. officials have followed a script demonizing targeted foreign leaders, calling ultimatums "diplomacy," lying about "war as a last resort" and selling aggression as humanitarianism. Amnesty International: Trumpeting for War… Again Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 One would expect a human rights organisation to be intrinsically opposed to war, but AI is a cheerleader of so-called humanitarian intervention, and even "humanitarian bombing". 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.” Beating the drums for war with Russia Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 The US ruiling establishment is considering an escalation of US intervention. Such an escalation carries the very real threat of provoking a wider war. Bolton calls on Al-Qaeda to stage more chemical attacks in Syria Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 The latest statements from the US, France and UK warning against the use of chemical weapons in Syria leave many skeptical and disbelieving of the alarm cries, having seen this song and dance before. Chemical weapons accusations are among the most overused war propaganda tactic used by the West during the war on Syria. Britain's Own Pravda-Style Propaganda Ten Years Of 'Involvement' In Afghanistan Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Imagine Britain had been invaded and occupied by armed forces from another region of the world with China, for example, as a significant ‘partner’ in the ‘coalition’. Imagine tens of thousands of Britons had been killed, and millions had fled as refugees. This is how the Chinese state broadcaster might report the invasion ten years hence: 'It’s ten years this week since Chinese forces first became involved in Britain, and more than five years since they assumed responsibility for south-east England. So what's been achieved in that time?' These were the actual words that presenter Fiona Bruce used on the flagship BBC News at Ten: 'It’s ten years this week since British forces first became involved in Afghanistan, and more than five years since they assumed responsibility for Helmand province. So what's been achieved in that time?' The Button, the Wall and the Myth of Nations Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 North Korean sanctions, the border wall with Mexico, and the "toxic" role of nationalism with regards to international relations and domestically in the US are discussed. A Coalition of the Killing War, media, propaganda and language Resource Type: Article Published: 2003 War, media, propaganda and language. Cold War, today, tomorrow, every day till the end of the world. The Anti-Empire Report #145 Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 The first Cold War performed a lobotomy on Americans, replacing brain matter with anti-communist viral matter, producing more than 70 years of functional national stupidity. For all of you who missed this fun event there's good news: Cold War Two is here, as big and as stupid as ever. Russia and Vladimir Putin are repeatedly, and automatically, blamed for all manner of bad things. Containing the United States Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 With Hillary Clinton about to be elected and some advanced cadres of the war party preparing to take charge, who is going to contain the United States? The U.S. political system has failed its populace and the world and has imposed no brakes on the war machine. The UN and EU are still too much under the U.S. thumb. Russia and China are too weak and with too flimsy an alliance system to threaten U.S. hegemony and do more than make direct U.S. aggression against themselves very costly. 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. "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." 'Flooding the Zone' with Bullshit on Syria Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 In recent weeks, the Obama Administration has been embarked on a massive propaganda campaign they call “flooding the zone.” We hope to provide the most direct and systematic refutation of the Administration’s case for war in Syria. The Great Libya War Fraud Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Coming so soon after the incomplete but still damning exposure of the Iraq deception - with the bloodbath still warm - the media's deep conformity and wilful gullibility on the 2011 Libyan war left even jaundiced observers aghast. It was clear that we were faced with a pathological system of propaganda on Perpetual War autopilot. Gunman as Hero, Children as Targets, Iraq as Backdrop Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 American Sniper, directed by Clinton Eastwood about Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, is not only the latest blockbuster but also a war propaganda. How the White Helmets Became International Heroes While Pushing U.S. Military Intervention and Regime Change in Syria Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Created by Western governments and popularized by a top PR firm, the White Helmets are saving civilians while lobbying for airstrikes. How They Sold the Iraq War Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 The war on Iraq won't be remembered for how it was waged so much as for how it was sold: it was a propaganda war, a war of perception management. In Middle East Wars It Pays to be Skeptical Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 In the context of Western air strikes on alleged Syrian biological weapons sites on 14 April, 2018, the history of the bombing of the Abu Ghraib baby milk factory in 1991 underscores the need for permanent scepticism towards claims by U.S. and Western governments that they know exactly what is happening on the ground in Syria. Inside the Shadowy PR Firm That's Lobbying for Regime Change in Syria Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Posing as a non-political solidarity organization, the Syria Campaign leverages local partners and media contacts to push the U.S. into toppling another Middle Eastern government. Kerry's Propaganda War on Russia's RT When specialists insist that war with Russia is "not unthinkable" precipitated by events in Ukraine, one should take note Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Secretary of State Kerry, who has bumbled through a string of propaganda fiascos on Ukraine, decries Russia's RT network as a "propaganda bullhorn" that Americans should ignore - just trust what the U.S. government tells you, an idea that ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern rejects. 'A Load Of Tosh'– The BBC, 'Showbiz News' And State Propaganda Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 BBC News reporting on international relations, with particular reference to 2017-2018 tensions with Russia, relies heavily on state propaganda. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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? Press for Conversion #50 January 2003 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2003 This issue contains original research revealing that U.S. war planners have repeatedly used elaborate webs of deceit to con the public into rallying behind major wars whose real purposes involved building vast profits for small corporate elites. Propaganda Techniques of Empire Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Washington’s quest for perpetual world power is underwritten by systematic and perpetual propaganda wars. Every major and minor war has been preceded, accompanied and followed by unremitting government propaganda designed to secure public approval, exploit victims, slander critics, dehumanize targeted adversaries and justify its allies’ collaboration. In this paper Petras discusses the most common recent techniques used to support ongoing imperial wars. 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. Quotes about War and Militarism Resource Type: Unclassified 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. Russkies at the Doorstep Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 In a year noted for crude political discourse, eagerly serialized in the mainstream media, the MSM are themselves bellowing anti-Russian rhetoric, conspiracy theory, and fear-mongering. The Slippery Slope: Rolling Downward, No Brakes, Nuclear War Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Policy is not a discrete entity; indeed, instead, it is a cumulative force, broadening in scope and direction, as it -- in this case -- plunges toward self- and global-annihilation. Destruction is in the very air we breathe, as though Thanatos looming overhead, because exceptionalism is reaching a point of satiety and feelings of emptiness and alienation make other than war and dominance meaningless. The Syrian Observatory: Funded By The Foreign Office Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 The UK funded a project worth £194,769.60 to provide the 'Syrian Observatory for Human Rights' with communications equipment and cameras. US and British officials told us that at least 100,000 were murdered in Kosovo. A year later, fewer than 3,000 Resource Type: Article Published: 2000 After more than a year, the silence of those who wrote and broadcast the propaganda for Nato's "humanitarian war" over Kosovo remains unbroken: they who answered the Prime Minister's call to join "a great moral crusade" against a regime that was "set on a Hitler-style genocide equivalent to the extermination of the Jews during World War Two". US Propaganda Campaign to Demonize Russia in Full Gear over One-Sided Dutch/Aussie Report on Flight 17 Downing Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 If the danger of the anti-Putin, anti-Russian disinformation propaganda campaign out of the Pentagon and promoted by the US corporate media weren’t so serious, the effort itself might be laughable. War by media and the triumph of propaganda Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The world is facing the prospect of major war, perhaps nuclear war -- with the United States clearly determined to isolate and provoke Russia and eventually China. This truth is being turned upside down and inside out by journalists, including those who promoted the lies that led to the bloodbath in Iraq in 2003. The times we live in are so dangerous and so distorted in public perception that propaganda is no longer, as Edward Bernays called it, an "invisible government". It is the government. It rules directly without fear of contradiction and its principal aim is the conquest of us: our sense of the world, our ability to separate truth from lies. Why are young journalists not taught to understand media agendas and to challenge the high claims and low purpose of fake objectivity? And why are they not taught that the essence of so much of what's called the mainstream media is not information, but power? Weapons of Mass Persuasion Marketing the War Against Iraq Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 Rutherford, an academic and media critic at the University of Toronto, tries to show how the marketing campaign for the war against Iraq was constructed and carried out with the aid of a compliant media. 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'! The 'White Helmets' and the Inherent Contradiction of America's Syria Policy Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 The danger faced by the White Helmets is not a fiction -- to date, 141 first responders affiliated with the Syrian Civil Defense have been killed while performing their duty. And although their claims of having saved more than 60,000 lives are unverifiable, there can be no doubt that many lives have, in fact, been saved as a result of their work. But let there be no doubt -- despite their oft-cited claims of being neutral and impartial, that the White Helmets are very partisan. 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. 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. 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. A World War is Beckoning Break the Silence Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Why do we tolerate the threat of another world war in our name? Why do we allow lies that justify this risk? The scale of our indoctrination, wrote Harold Pinter, is a “brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis”, as if the truth “never happened even while it was happening”. 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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