Tag: Propaganda
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Propaganda as a Means of Protecting Corporate Power Against Democracy
I publish a lot of articles related to propaganda. And here’s another one 🙂 The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy. There have been two…
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Our Demagogue in South Korea
The Current Situation in Korea – 18 March 1948, Declassified CIA Memo: The reports starts of with the following summary: US strategic interests would be seriously affected by the absorption of Korea into the Soviet orbit. The current political, economic, and military situation in the US and Soviet Zones, respectively, makes it unlikely that any…
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FOX News: State Television and Propaganda
State television! We like to think that state television is something that exists in autocratic nations like Russia or Cuba. Unfortunately, it exists in liberal democracies as well. Republican media strategist Roger Ailes, who served as paid consultant to Nixon and Bush Sr. in the 1970s and 1990s, launched Fox News Channel in 1996, ostensibly…
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CFR and State Department Discussions on “World Control”
Let’s talk RealPolitik. During WWII, it was internally assumed that the U.S. would emerge from the war as the world’s dominant power. One of the primary war aims of the war was to organize a “Grand Area” to serve the needs of the American economy. In 1939, the U.S. State Department along with members of the Council…
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Kennedy: “I’m Not That Interested in Space”
In 1957, The USSR launched Sputnik to orbit the Earth. Two years later, in 1959, the USSR orbited the moon with Luna 3. By April of 1961, the USSR put the first man in space: Yuri Gagarin. The U.S. needed to respond. In spring 1961, President John F. Kennedy approved a mission to land a…
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Ho Chi Minh Falls for U.S. Propaganda
From 1945-1946, Ho Chi Minh and his government reached out to the United States on numerous occasions to ask for help in resolving the problem of Indochina. Ho forwarded to the Secretary of State the DRV Declaration of Independence, Bao Dai’s abdication rescript, general DRV foreign policy declarations, and its expressed position on the war…
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The Atlantic Charter, Propaganda, and the True Aims of the Post-War Period
The “Grand Area” was a concept created by the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) and the U.S. State Department in the early 1940s. During WWII, it was assumed that the U.S. would emerge from the war as the world’s dominant power. One of the primary war aims was to organize a “Grand Area” to serve the…