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After the Cataclysm
Postwar Indochina & the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (The Political Economy of Human Rights)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
A carefully dcoumented asessment of Western reporting on post-1975 Indochina.
Airbrushing Barbarity
The Warped Language of Public Policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Couching moral/political matters in technocratic language helps us forget the unpleasantness of the underlying incivility and brutality of political measures. Political discourse is fundamentally dishonest in that it airbrushes barbarity.
"Al Qaeda's MASH Unit": How the Syrian American Medical Society Is Selling Regime Change and Driving the US to War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) is not merely a group of Syrian doctors tending to the wounded in war torn areas, nor is it an objective and relaibale source on chemical attacks and other atrocities. This article explains that SAMS is actually a politically enaged organization that has for years been actively seeking to overthrow the Syrian government.
American Communism and Soviet Russia
The Formative Period
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960 Published: 1986
A history of the formative peirod of the American Communist Party.
American Fascists
The Christian Right and the War on America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Hedges examines the Christian Right's origins, its driving motivation and its dark ideological underpinnings, with interviews and coverage of events such as pro-life rallies and weeklong classes on conversion techniques. Hedges argues that the movement resembles the young fascist movements in Italiy and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, movements that often masked the full extent of their drive for totalitarianism and were willing to make concessions until they achieved unrivaled power. He challenges the Christian Right's religious legitimacy and argues that at its core it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for the open society.
The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
A history of the American Socialist Party, which at its height had over 150,000 dues-paying members, published hundreds of newspapers, and won almost a million votes for its presidential candidate.
America's Capitalist Religion has Little Room for Science
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The US mainstream press accuse the Pope of being leftist. Evidence? Well, they make the claim that he is leftist because he supports the theory of global warming. My guess is that the Pope also supports the theory of gravity, which, like global warming, has a great body of scientific evidence to support it. But is science now a part of the leftist realm of influence?
America's last taboo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
The unspoken premise of the mainstream press is that no Palestinian or Arab position on Israeli police terror, settler-colonialism, or military occupation is worth hearing from.
Amid Censorship, Israel's Media Does Its Part
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Israel's media has once again chosen the low road, the one carefully couched in patriotism and praise for the right-far-right coalition government.
Anarchism
A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas
Resource Type: Book
Anatomy of a Propaganda Blitz - Part 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
We live in a time when state-corporate interests are cooperating to produce propaganda blitzes intended to raise public support for the demonisation and destruction of establishment enemies. Here we will examine five key components of an effective propaganda campaign of this kind.
Anatomy of a Propaganda Blitz - Part 2: 'Hitlergate'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
As with so many propaganda blitzes, intense media coverage was triggered by 'dramatic new evidence'; namely, the discovery of a graphic posted by Naz Shah two years ago, before she became a Labour MP. The graphic shows a map of the United States with Israel superimposed in the middle, suggesting that a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict would be to relocate Israel to the US.
Anatomy of a Propaganda Campaign: Jeremy Corbyn's Political Assassination
Zollmann, Florian; Coles, T.J.
Resource Type: Article
First 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.
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
First 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.
Apartheid Media
Disinformation and Dissent in South Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
A riveting expose of the media and its anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa as well as the intimate face of a universal war between disinformation and dissent, propaganda and truth, state control and individual rights. Through telling annecdote and cross-cultural analysis, Phelan repeatedly demonstrates that the white South African regime's downward spiral into despotism is a cautionary tale for the United States.
Assange and Posada in the Propaganda System
Mixed Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Posada's case is a dramatic illustration of the fraudulence of the so-called "War on Terror" and highlights the U.S. refusal to abide by the rule of law. Assange's case shows well the U.S. establishment's fear of the free-flow of information that might interfere with foreign policy and reveal that there are many more Posadas whose service to the empire might be disclosed. And the media's cooperation in this protection of Posada and pursuit of Assange is clear. \
Avenge But One of My Two Eyes
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2006
Israeli director Avi Mograbi documents what he calls the "culture of death" in the psychology of Israel the occupier.
The BBC's 'Bogeyman' Narrative on Hugo Chavez
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The changes in Venezuela, and throughout Latin America, over the past decade: the development of peaceful, democratic alternatives to the policies of neoliberalism; standards of living improved for millions of people following a process that has had popular, democratic support, are at risk of being written off as simply the actions of another 'anti-American' 'bogeyman' due to the media's relentless negative treatment of the Venezuelan government.
The Best of The Nation
Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
An anthology of articles from The Nation.
Between the Lines
How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
An exploration of medthods of "dec-doing" our daily newspapers and radio/TV news. Examines our predominant sources of information (mass media) and indicates the existence of many alternative sources of informaiton.
Beyond Hypocrisy
Decoding the News in an Age of Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992 Published: 1999
Edward Herman's book should be required reading for all news rooms and journalism students. In this book he examines through essays, cartoons and a dictionary of "doublespeak" the terms used in the language of U.S. government policy. He highlights the deception and moral hypocrisy and the media's all too willing role to propagate it: whether it be the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq (aggression) or the American invasion of Grenada (justifiable) . One of the most important aspects of doublespeak is the ability to "use lies to choose and shape facts selectively". Another lesson of this book is the governments' mastery of propaganda and manufacture of new foes and the media's failure to question the basis in reality of these supposed threats.
Blaming The Victims
Spurious Scholarship And The Palestinian Question
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Demonstrates with cold precision how the consistent denial of truth about the Palestinians by governments and the media in the West has led to the current impasse in Middle East politics. Controversial, forceful, and 'above all' honest, it attempts to redress a sustained crime against historical truth in order to make a more rational political future in Palestine possible. Searing essays from Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Peretz Kidron, G. W. Bowerstock, Ibrahim and Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Mumammad Hallaj, Elia Zureik, and Rashid Khalidi.
Bogus, Misdirected and Effective
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The Tea Party movement is steeped in misinformation and denial. But it has a lot to teach the left.
Bound By Power
Intended Consequences
Resource Type: Book
These essays focus on how power and ideology work within society. Interviews are with Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, Robert Bertuzzi and others. They speak to the issues of the understanding of power and political dissent, the repression of dissent in post 9/11 media coverage and the war on terror.
Britain's Own Pravda-Style Propaganda
Ten Years Of 'Involvement' In Afghanistan
Resource Type: Article
First 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?'
British Government-Funded Outlet Offered Journalist $17,000 a Month to Produce Propaganda for Syrian Rebels
Resource Type: Article
First 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.
Burma: Ripe for change
New Internationalist May 2008
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2008
A look at Burma's attempts to speak out against political injustice.
The Canadian Ministry of "Truth": "Reality Is Whatever We Say It Is"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The government and corporations operate as if truth and reality are what they say it is. Guerin analyzes and provides examples of this propaganda, including Canada's Bill C-51.
Carter's Inconvenient Truths
An Honest Man Refutes Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
The reason that Israel has been able to appropriate Palestine unto itself with American aid and support is that Israel controls the explanation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At least 90% of Americans, if they know anything at all of the issue, know only the Israeli propaganda line. Israel has been able to control the explanation, because the powerful Israel Lobby brands every critic of Israeli policy as an anti-semite who favors a second holocaust of the Jews.
The Case Against Alan Dershowitz
Plagiarism, Cover Up and Misrepresentations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Documents numerous instances of plagiarism and misrepresention by Alan Dershowitz in his smear campaigns against critics of Israel.
Chomsky on MisEducation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Chomsky critiques the education system and discusses what education could be like in a democratic society.
Chronicles of Dissent
Noam Chomsky Interviewed by David Barsamian
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
The CIA
A Forgotten History
Resource Type: Book
Describes the CIA's role in overthrowing governments, rigging elections, assassinating leaders, and manufacturing "news" in over 50 countries.
The CIA and the Press: When the Washington Post Ran the CIA’s Propaganda Network
Resource Type: Article
First 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.
The CIA's Greatest Hits
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Brief case studies of the CIA's greatest 'triumphs'.
A Citizen's Guide to Combating Election Propaganda: Debunking Anti-Welfare Myths
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The goal moving forward must be to create a critical citizen consciousness, so the masses don't simply "accept what they're told" once every four years by the pretty faces running for office. What follows is a primer for readers to help in their conversations with friends, neighbors, acquaintances, and family, to fight back against the racist, classist propaganda so often employed against disadvantaged groups in the U.S.
Climate Advocates Underestimate Power of Fossil Fueled Misinformation Campaigns, Say Top Researchers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
The "climate countermovement" direct massive resources towards denying the reality of climate change. Climate advocates need to address their opposition's tactics to be able to combat this misinformation.
Climate Cover-Up
The Crusade to Deny Global Warming
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Tracking the global warming denial movement from its inception, public relations advisor James Hoggan (working with journalist Richard Littlemore), reveals the details of those early plans and then tracks their execution, naming names and exposing tactics in what has become a full-blown attack on the integrity of the public conversation.
The Climate Denial Industry Is Out To Dupe The Public. And It's Working
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The climate denial industry consists of people who are paid to say that man-made global warming isn't happening.
The Comic Book Simplicity Of Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The referendum campaign on Scottish independence heightened many people's awareness of the pro-elite bias of the 'mainstream' news media. The grassroots power of social media in exposing and countering this bias was heartening to see. But the issue of independence for Scotland is just one of many where the traditional media consistently favour establishment power.
Communication for and Against Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
This anthology explores the circumstances in which communication serves at times as an instrument of repression and domination, and at others as a support for human emancipation.
A Comparative Review of Flat Earth News and Newspeak
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
A comparative review of two recent books about the media, one a mainstream view, the other using the propaganda model of media control.
Confessions of an Alleged Russian Propagandist: A Pentagon Hit?
Resource Type: Article
First 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.
Confronting Injustice
Social Activism in the Age of Individualism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014 Published: 2016
Confronting Injustice is a call for collective action against the social causes of poverty and climate change, written by a socialist organizer for activists.
Connexions Library: Arts, Media, Culture Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on media, culture, and art.
Connexions Library: Organizing Focus Page
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
Conscience & Courage
Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust
Resource Type: Book
Contested Truths
Keywords in American Politics since Independence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Corporate money preventing all-out campaign to stop global warming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Highly-regarded former Toronto Mayor David Miller says he is "very excited" about becoming the new President and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund-Canada in September. But there are questions about whether the WWF is effective in its work and, moreover, why the WWF and other members of the global environmental movement have made such little progress combatting the most serious threat to earth - climate change.
The Costs of McCarthyism
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Many Are the Crimes is far more than just an incisive diagnosis of the interlocking components of the historical era known as “McCarthyism.” Yeshiva University historian Ellen Schrecker has also produced a unique anti-witch-hunt study acknowledging that the vast majority of the legal targets of repression were, as the McCarthyites claimed, variously associated with the Communist movement.
Counter Mobilization: an Effective Response to Right Wing Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
As the effects of the Great Recession linger, the ruling rich are making every effort to ensure that the working class bears the brunt of the economic crunch. In this atmosphere, elements of the extreme right feel emboldened to promote their reactionary wares. From the increasing visibility of right wing websites like breitbart.com, to well-publicized speaking tours by conservative ideologues like Milo Yiannopoulos and others, to former Breitbart editor Steve Bannon attaining the status of presidential advisor – the message from the top is clear: racism, sexism and xenophobia will all be used to divide and oppress the 99%. Meanwhile, these same poisonous sentiments are used to divert attention from those actually responsible for and benefiting from the current crisis.
Counter-Rhetoric
Challenging "conventional wisdom" & reframing the conflict
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
This useful little book does two things. It challenges the rhetoric, the perceptions and assumptions regarding the conflict in Israel/Palestine, and it exposes the underlying imbalance of power around which this rhetoric swirls. It is both useful as a historical guide and as a tool for countering the prevailing divisive rhetoric. Whether challenging the concepts embedded in Zionism, the wars of the mid 20th century and the later occupation, or the Wall as security argument, this book gives a systematic alternative to the prevailing mantras and begins the process of changing the viewing of the conflict.
Countering Zionist propaganda about Hizbullah and Lebanon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Nothing will change until the people of Palestine, Arabs and Jews, rise up to change the rules of the game, and rebuild the country on a new basis that respects democracy and human rights and good-neighbourly relations.
The Cultivation of Hate
The Lies Grow More Audacious
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
If there were any doubts that Western “leaders” live in a fantasy make-believe world constructed out of their own lies, the G-7 meeting and 70th anniversary celebration of the Normandy landing dispelled the doubts.
The Culture of Terrorism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Chomsky argues that the United States elites are dedicated to the rule of force, and that their commitment to violence and lawlessness has to be masked by an ideological system which attempts to control and limit the domestic damage done when the mask occasionally slips.
Dances of Disinformation: the Partisan Politics of the Integrity Initiative
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
The Integrity Initiative - a supposedly non-partisan agency aiming at dismantling state sponsored misinformation - was exposed as funded by a UK government agency to undermine the opposition. This brings into question the plausibility of an impartial or apolitical playing field.
The Death of the Fourth Estate
8000 Channels With One Corporate Message
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
According to a recent Gallup survey, only 40 percent of Americans believe what they read in newspapers. After scanning today’s tabloids, one only wonders why the percentage is that high.
Debunking the Fraser Institute's Latest Crusade: Teacher Merit Pay
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Fresh from the triumph of successfully promoting its fallacious school report card, this time in Alberta, the Fraser Institute is already scheming to peg teacher pay to student test scores and create a market for teachers. We should remember that the institute's success with school rankings would not be possible without over-the-top support from the corporate media.
The Demonology School of Journalism
Putin and the press
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The major influential western print media are engaged in a prolonged, large-scale effort to demonize Russian President Putin, his politics and persona. There is an article (or several articles) every day in which he is personally stigmatized as a dictator, authoritarian, czar, 'former KGB operative' and Soviet-style ruler; anything but the repeatedly elected President of Russia.
Dershowitz to the Rescue?
The Israeli Spin-Machine in Overdrive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
According to Israel's apologists, only Israelis have a right to defend themselves. Palestinians do not have this right, nor does anyone else who is attempting to assist the Palestinians.
Designing Pacifist Films
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1961
Deterring Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Don't be fooled: 'media watchdogs' are Israeli propaganda tools
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Consider yourself very lucky if you have never heard of "UK Media Watch" (formerly called "Comment is Free Watch" – CiF Watch), "BBC Watch", "HonestReporting" and "Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America" (CAMERA).
Double Standards
Resource Type: Website
Focusing on double standards in the media and in international politics. "Double Standard 1. a rule or principle applied more strictly to some people more than others (or oneself)."
Easily Led
A History of Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
The Economics Behind the Skripal Poisoning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The question is why are they doing this with Russia? Why are they imposing sanctions and mounting a great publicity campaign?
Eight Men Speak
And Other Plays from the Canadian Workers' Theatre
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Eight plays presented by the Canadian Worker's Theatre in the 1930s.
Eight reasons why the latest Syria chemical weapons attack allegations are almost certainly complete nonsense
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A discussion on the chemical attack in Douma, Syria, and why the allegations are likely false.
The Encyclopedia of Censorship
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
This Encyclopedia concentrates primarily on the United States and the United Kingdom, but it also covers events in Western and Eastern Europe and in parts of the Third World. The Encyclopedia is an accessible and wide-ranging sourcebook on censorship topics.
Eyeless in Gaza
Israel's Deceptions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A single incident at the weekend – the reported capture by Hamas on Friday of an Israeli soldier through a tunnel – illustrated in stark fashion the layers of deception Israel has successfully cast over its attack on Gaza.
Four Trends That Scare the Hell Out of Me
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
To paraphrase H.G. Wells, modern history has become a race between education and miseducation. There are very few people around who really don't know anything, but there are multitudes who know many things that don't happen to be true.
Fracking Firm Encourages Industry to Imitate Taco Bell's Twitter Strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Oil and gas companies are steadily increasing their footprint on social media, hiring specialized public relations firms and developing "visual shorthand" infographics that can be shared easily on Facebook and Twitter.
Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
The Future of Israel and the Decline of the American Empire
The Wages of Hubris and Vengeance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Israel is in the grip of a kind of collective schizophrenia. Not only its governors but the majority of its Jewish population have delusions of both grandeur and persecution, making for a distortion of reality and inconsistent behaviour. Israeli Jews see and represent themselves as a chosen people and part of a superior Western civilization.
Gaza, Israel and 'Human Shields'
The People Putting Innocents in Danger are the Israelis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
What does it mean to use human shields? Employed by the Germans and Japanese in the Second World War, the tactic is premised on an underlying trust in your enemy’s humanity. It appeals to the compassion and mercy of the combatant that they not slaughter the innocent in order to avenge their target. The ‘shield’ is not the human bodies surrounding the ‘guilty’ party, the shield is the clemency that mankind instinctively affords the innocent. The shield evaporates only when confronted by an enemy who is not merely a fellow solder locked in a power battle, but a psychopath unconcerned with the pain of others.
Get Up, Stand Up
Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Levine offers insights into the epidemic of political passivity in America and analyzes how major U.S. institutions have created helplessness and fatalism. He proposes ways of recovering dignity, energy, and unity in order to wrest power away from the corporatocracy.
GMO Propaganda and the Sociology of Science
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
In August of 2014, the website Gawker revealed documents that demonstrated the lengths to which the global chemical giant Monsanto would go in order to control the narrative about their products – in particular, their genetically modified crops. While we all like to believe that our scientific/rational brains see through the transparent marketing, public relations rhetoric exists because it greatly sedates critical thought.
Golden Silences in the Propaganda System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Propaganda shapes the flow of information in many different ways, including, obviously, the choice of the news fit to print, its placement, and the selection of authorities to make those facts credible. But equally important, and implicit in news choices, especially where there are political interests at stake and possible varying interpretations of the news, is omitting facts and ignoring sources that call the chosen (often official) perspective into question.
The Goldstone report and the battle for legitimacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
It may yet be the case that, as in the anti-apartheid struggle, the shift in the relation of forces in the Palestinians' favour will occur not through diplomacy or as a result of armed resistance, but on the symbolic battlefield of legitimacy that has become global in scope.
Greenwashing the Climate Catastrophe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Many solutions to climate change such as the Green New Deal do not address the real threat to the planet: capitalism. They in fact are a smokescreen under which to conduct business as usual.
Hamas Rocket Launches Don't Explain Israel's Gaza Destruction -- Israeli Forces' Manipulated Figures and Fake Evidence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Israel and its supporters abroad have parried accusations of indiscriminate destruction and mass killing of civilians in Gaza by arguing that they were consequences of strikes aimed at protecting Israeli civilians from rockets that were being launched from very near civilian structures.
Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth and Morality
Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Observations on Hannah Arendt's 1951 book "Origins of Totalitarianism" on the nature of Totalitarianism and the role of propaganda in its rise and support within societies.
Hasbara
Resource Type: Article
Sourcewatch's analysis of 'Hasbara' -- the propaganda efforts to sell Israel, justify its actions, and defend it in world opinion. The premise of hasbara is that Israel's problems are a matter of better propaganda, and not one of an underlying unjust situation.
Hegemony or Survival
America's Quest for Global Dominance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003 Published: 2004
Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
Hitler's Propaganda Machine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Hollywood's 'Captain Marvel' Blockbuster Is Blatant US Military Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Captain Marvel is the latest in a long line of movies made with the cooperation and approval of the US military.
How Big Oil Plans to Win Ugly in New York
Leaked Transcript from PR Maven Shows Energy Companies will be Told to Make the Fight Against Fracking Opponents Personal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A PR firm well known for its hardball tactics in defense of Big Tobacco will deliver the keynote address at tonight’s Independent Oil and Gas Association conference.
How Israel Spins War Crimes
The Secret Report That Helps Israelis Cover Atrocities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Israeli spokesmen have their work cut out explaining how they have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them civilians, compared with just three civilians killed in Israel by Hamas rocket and mortar fire. But on television and radio and in newspapers, Israeli government spokesmen such as Mark Regev appear slicker and less aggressive than their predecessors, who were often visibly indifferent to how many Palestinians were killed.
How low will Israel stoop to win the propaganda war?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The Israel Project's training manual is an unpleasant piece of work. It recycles many of the discredited techniques used by the advertising industry. And it serves to undermine with clever words the inalienable rights pledged by the UN and the world's civilized nations to all peoples, including the Palestinians.
How Propaganda (Actually) Works
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Political propaganda employs the ideals of liberal democracy to undermine those very ideals, the dangers of which, not even its architects fully understand.
How Propaganda Works
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015 Published: 2016
Jason Stanley argues that more attention needs to be paid to propaganda. He examines how propaganda operates subtly, how it undermines democracy -- particularly the ideals of democratic deliberation and equality -- and how it has damaged democracies of the past.
How Propaganda Works to Divide Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Political propaganda employs the ideals of liberal democracy to undermine those very ideals, the dangers of which, not even its architects fully understand.
How the Guardian became the West's Pravda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Cook says that the British newspaper The Guardian has become a mouthpiece for the establishment.
How They Sold the Iraq War
Resource Type: Article
First 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.
How to Fight Western Propaganda
Time for a Creative Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The western propaganda apparatus is enormously efficient and effective. It is also brilliant in how it ensures that its inventions get channeled, distributed, and accepted in all corners of the world. The system through which disinformation spreads, is incredibly complex.
What are we, who oppose the regime, supposed to do?
How Truth Slips Down The Memory Hole
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
John Pilger, applies to current events Orwell's description in '1984' of how the Ministry of Truth consigned embarrassing truth to a memory hole. He highlights the killing of a Palestinian cameraman by the Israelis as an example of how "we" are trained to look on the rest of the world as quite unlike ourselves: useful or expendable.
If the 'product' is wrong, a rebrand won't help Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Cook discusses Israel's attempt to rebrand itself. Specifically, he addresses "hasbara", translated as "public diplomacy", a campaign that calls for Israelis to justify and defend any policy regarding occupied territories.
If U.S. Mass Media Were State-Controlled, Would They Look Any Different?
Snowden Coverage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The Edward Snowden leaks have revealed a U.S. corporate media system at war with independent journalism. Many of the same outlets that missed the Wall Street meltdown and cheer-led the Iraq invasion have come to resemble state-controlled media outlets in their near-total identification with the government.
The Illusion of Debate
Consensus for the People that Matter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A recent article in FAIR reviewed the findings of its latest study on the quality of political “debate” being aired on the mainstream networks. It studied the run-up to the military interventions in both Iraq and Syria. Perhaps the arbiters of the study intended to illustrate what we’ve learned since the fraudulent Iraq War of 2003. Well, it appears we’ve learned nothing.
In Middle East Wars It Pays to be Skeptical
Resource Type: Article
First 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.
Independent Groups Debunk Israeli War Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
As the Israelis try to justify the massive loss of civilian life in Gaza, their arguments and counter-charges continue to be shot down either by the United Nations or by international human rights organizations.
Indonesia
Law, Propaganda, and Terror
Resource Type: Book
In this study of Indonesia under the Suharto regime, the authors describe and explain the violent means the regime has consistently resorted to in order to maintain and legitimize its position. The significance of this book lies in the detailed account which illuminates the complex ways in which such regimes combine terror, a perverted legal system, and propaganda to force entire populations into submission.
The Insidious Power of Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
To study the effects of political propaganda in what used to be called the 'free world' there could hardly be a better time than now. We are living through an instance of insidious propaganda that has clean contours. It fills a common need. In a period of large-scale slaughter and other man-made disaster the morally conscious person can do with some clear categories of good and bad, desirable and despicable.
Intellectual Cleansing Part 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Keeping the media safe for big business.
Intellectual Cleansing: Part 2
Former Guardian and Observer Journalist Jonathan Cook Responds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Most ambitious journalists start out on a daily local newspaper owned by one of a handful of large media groups. There one quickly feels all sorts of institutional constraints on one's reporting. As a young journalist, if you know no better, you simply come to accept that journalism is done in a certain kind of way, that certain stories are suitable and others unsuitable.
Intellectual Cleansing: Part 3
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The tendency to self-deception appears to be greatly increased when we join as part of a group. Groups create a sense of belonging, a "we-feeling", which can provide even greater incentives to reject painful truths.
Inventing Reality
The Politics of News Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
Inventing Tax Rage
Misinformation in the National Post
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
How the National Post created an agenda for the tax cuts that mostly benefits the wealthy.
Inventing Tax Rage (excerpt)
Misinformation in the National Post
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004 Published: 2005
The propaganda campaign to invent "tax rage".
Israel/Palestine Lexicon For Mainstream Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
If you are writing for mainstream media, you need to learn special uses of words and phrases that are specific to Israel/Palestine. If you use common usage, you will run into confusions, paradoxes, and hostile responses from pro-Israel people. Please follow these guidelines and you will have no problems with editors, politicians, or organized pro-Israel groups. For each phrase, this guide will present first (a) the common usage, and then (b) the specific Israel/Palestine usage that you must use in order to write for major US (and UK and Canadian of course) media (NYT, Toronto Star, BBC, CBC, etc.)
Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2006 Published: 2014
A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the situation in Isreal/Palestine based on peace, justice, and human rights.
Israel Steps up Dirty Tricks Against Boycott Leaders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The current obsession with the challnege posed by BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) reflects a changing political environment for Israel.
Israeli government pays students to spread propaganda online
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The Israeli government has launched a program to pay students to promote the Israeli agenda on Facebook and internet chatrooms.
Israel's 'left' apologists
Resource Type: Article
Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism.
Israel's New Strategy: "Sabotage" And "Attack" The Global Justice Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Reut's analysis vindicates the effectiveness of the Boycot Divestment Sanctions strategy. As Israeli elites increasingly fear for the long-term prospects of the Zionist project they are likely to be more ruthless, unscrupulous and desperate than ever.
The Issue is Not Trump, It is Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Until real politics return to people's lives, the enemy is not Trump, it is ourselves.
It Doesn't Matter to Them If It's Untrue. It's a Higher Truth.
The Anti-Empire Report
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The lies used to justify the US/NATO attack on Libya.
It's Not OK for Grown Adults to Think This Way About Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Jonathan Cook - Response to Intellectual Cleansing Part 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
However grateful we should be to the tiny minority of dissident writers, their relegation to the margins of the commentary pages of Britain's 'leftwing' media serves a useful purpose for corporate interests. It helps define the 'character' of the British media as provocative, pluralistic and free-thinking - when in truth they are anything but. It is a vital component in maintaining the fiction that a professional media is a diverse media.
Journalism and 'the words of power'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
More and more today, we journalists have become prisoners of the language of power.
JournalismSources.com
Resource Type: Website
First 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.
Journalistic Malpractice at the Post and the Times
Rejecting the Offer of Evidence of US War Crimes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Wikileaks source Bradley Manning is evidence that the USA’s two leading news organizations, the Washington Post and the New York Times, are not willing to report critically of the 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
First 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.
Kill Anything That Moves
The Real American War in Vietnam
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Turse demonstrates that violence against Vietnamese noncombatants was not at all exceptional during the American war against Vietnam. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequence of orders to "kill anything that moves."
Killing Granny with the Laziness Bias
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
While it is often the case that the majority of Americans do see the light "about the need for healthcare reform, a new energy policy or affordable, high-quality day care." The dominant journalistic practices, especially in broadcast and cable news, dim the light in favor of noise. Far-right Republicans understand, almost instinctively, this preference for noise. And they appreciate "and know how to cultivate" the greatest bias in electronic journalism right now: the laziness bias. The laziness bias means you feature sensation over substance, provocative sound bites over investigative reporting, misinformation over fact.
The Koch Whisperers
Big Brothers Buy in at Big Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
A review of documents and tax records for the dizzying, interconnected web of corporate front groups, frequently created, supported and influenced by Charles or David Koch, shows just how dangerous these groups espousing free markets and liberty have become to a free society. The game plan is to devalue the rights of actual citizens by seeking human voices dangling from a corporate marionette string, that might be willing for the right amount of cash incentive to broadcast the Orwellian reverse-speak: liberty means more liberty for corporations (corporate serfdom for real citizens); freedom means corporate freedom to privatize national resources, pollute the environment and fleece the consumer with impunity; free market means the freedom to draw a dark curtain around how the corporations are actually screwing us and stealing our liberty.
Leader and Vassal
Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Americans do not think of themselves or of Israel as terrorist states, but the evidence is complete and overwhelming. Thanks to the power of the Israel Lobby, Americans only know the Israeli side of the story, which is that evil anti-semite Palestinians will not let blameless Israelis live in peace and persist in their unjustified terror attacks on an innocent Israeli state.
Let Them Eat Climate Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The winds are changing for the energy giants. And so the black plumes of smoke emitted by the climate deniers in an attempt to provide cover for the coal, oil and gas industry have already been refined.
Letters from Lexington
Reflections on Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
The Lie Machine
The Media and the TTIP
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
I have come to the conclusion that the West is a vast lie machine for the secret agendas of vested interests. Consider, for example, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnership.
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Life, Money & Illusion
Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
The failure to reduce green house gas emissions, the success of efforts to curb ozone depletion, causes related to prosperity and social justice are just some the topics covered. By using the example of Kerela, India, Nickerson shows how a society by working together can become car-free, religious and bigotry free, have a high level of health care and literacy and be able to sustain itself on a fraction of the money on which we depend.
'A Load Of Tosh'– The BBC, 'Showbiz News' And State Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
BBC News reporting on international relations, with particular reference to 2017-2018 tensions with Russia, relies heavily on state propaganda.
Mainstream Media And The Propaganda Machine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Mainstream media, especially the American media plays a vital role in shaping the world public opinion.
The Manufactured Doubt Industry And The Hacked Email Controversy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The fossil fuel industry has been working for years to create a smokescreen of doubt to obscure the facts of global warming.
Manufacturing Consent
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1992
A film about Noam Chomsky's ideas about the media, ideology, propaganda, and elite control of society's institutions.
Manufacturing Consent
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
Marc Morano's Climate Hustle Film Set For Paris Premiere With Same Old Denial Myths
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Marc Morano is never short of a superlative or two, but when it has come to promoting his long-gestating documentary Climate Hustle, the climate science denialist extraodinaire has been outdoing himself.
Martial Matters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A selection of commentaries on Australian martial experience at radical odds with mainstream Australian histories.
Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
Media Control
The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997 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.
Media Control and Indoctrination in the United States
An Interview With Catherine Komp
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
An excerpt from the just released 2nd edition of Noam Chomsky’s OCCUPY: Class War, Rebellion and Solidarity.
Media Lies And The War Drive Against Iran
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Iran's crime is its independence. Having thrown out the US's favourite tyrant, Shah Reza Pahlavi, Iran remains the only resource-rich Muslim state beyond US control. As only Israel has a 'right to exist' in the Middle East, the US goal is to cripple the Islamic Republic. This will allow Israel to divide and dominate the region on Washington's behalf, undeterred by a confident neighbour.
Media Promote Baseless Assertions By Government Officials Of Russian Interference As Facts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The headline of a New York Times article published April 6, 2017, "C.I.A. Had Evidence of Russian Effort to Help Trump Earlier Than Believed," misleadingly implies not only that there was an effort by the Russian government to help Donald Trump win the American presidential election but that it is a settled fact that the CIA was in possession of hard evidence to that effect.
Media Think
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
Medialens
Resource Type: Website
Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media.
MediaLens is a response based on our conviction that mainstream newspapers and broadcasters provide a profoundly distorted picture of our world. We are convinced that the increasingly centralised, corporate nature of the media means that it acts as a de facto propaganda system for corporate and other establishment interests. The costs incurred as a result of this propaganda, in terms of human suffering and environmental degradation, are incalculable.
In seeking to understand the basis and operation of this systematic distortion, we flatly reject all conspiracy theories and point instead to the inevitably corrupting effects of free market forces operating on and through media corporations seeking profit in a society dominated by corporate power.
MediaSources.ca
Resource Type: Website
First 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.
NATO - New York Times Convoy Fabrications
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
On Saturday, the entire humanitarian convoy of 227 trucks crossed back into Russia without incident after having successfully delivered its contents to the Luhansk distribution centre. The unwavering round trip project from Russia surmounted considerable bureaucratic delays and political obstacles including wild assertions that the convoy’s true purpose was to ‘smuggle weapons’ to the east Ukraine rebels.
NBC News Releases the Long-Awaited Trailer for its Summer Horror Film About ISIS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
ISIS now officially poses a bigger threat to the "U.S. homeland" than the one posed by former title-holder Al Qaeda.
Necessary Illusions
Thought Control in Democratic Societies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989 Published: 1991
An inquiry into the nature of the media and the role of intellectuals in "a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force, and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control."
New Democracy Internet site
Resource Type: Website
Supports a democratic revolution to overthrow corporate capitalism, but opposes socialism. Features short articles on labour issues, the deficit, education.
The Newsfakers
Whose hands are behind those dramatic YouTube pictures?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
YouTube and blogs have made it easier than ever to fabricate events. The media are happy to run unsubstantiated reports and footage.
Newspapers and the Workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1916
The worker must resolutely reject any solidarity with a bourgeois newspaper. And he must always, always, always remember that the bourgeois newspaper (whatever its hue) is an instrument of struggle motivated by ideas and interests that are contrary to his.
Newspeak in the 21st Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Revealing the lethal bias in 'balanced' reporting.
The not-so-hidden persuaders
The Israel lobby's global propaganda manual
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
A major public relations manual for Israel lobbyists teaches pro-Israel propagandists how to hoodwink people about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, how to silence critics and how to avoid making statements that produce negative reactions.
Nuclear Deceit: The Times and Iran
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Is the Times engaged in reporting or propaganda in its coverage of Iran's nuclear program?
NYT Hypes Russian Threat to the Internet
Resource Type: Article
First 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.
Oil and Gas Industry's "Endless War" on Fracking Critics Revealed by Rick Berman
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Leave it to Washington's top attack-dog lobbyist Richard Berman to verify what many always suspected: that the oil and gas industry uses dirty tricks to undermine science, vilify its critics and discredit journalists who cast doubt on the prudence of fossil fuels.
On Israel, Ukraine and Truth
The Return of George Orwell and Big Brother's War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
As advanced societies are de-politicised, the changes are both subtle and spectacular. In everyday discourse, political language is turned on its head, as Orwell prophesised in 1984. "Democracy" is now a rhetorical device. Peace is "perpetual war". "Global" is imperial. The once hopeful concept of "reform" now means regression, even destruction. "Austerity" is the imposition of extreme capitalism on the poor and the gift of socialism for the rich: an ingenious system under which the majority service the debts of the few.
On Power and Ideology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Five lectures on U.S. international and security policy.
On Translating Securityspeak into English
In the Land of False Cognates
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The Security State has its own language: Securityspeak. Like Newspeak, the ideologically refashioned successor to English in Orwell’s “1984,” Securityspeak is designed to obscure meaning and conceal truth, rather than convey them.
On 'Human Shielding' in Gaza
How the Israeli Army has Tried to Justify Striking Civilian Areas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
All fighting within cities and all bombardments of urban spaces, even the most “precise and surgical”, is a potential death trap for civilians. Consequently, the permeation of war into cities inevitably transforms their inhabitants into potential human shields.
One Market Under God
Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Operation Cast Lead: News control as a military objective
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Control of news in time of war has become a military objective.
The Organizer's Manual
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Practical suggestions for small-group and grassroots organizing, political self-e4ducation, mass education and communications, alternate community services, mass actions, legal and medical self-defense. Strategies for organizing high schools, universities, racial groups, women, the military, labor, the professions.
Orwell
The War Broadcasts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 19 2014
Spying, terrorism, and protest
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Coverage of spying, terrorism, and protest. Articles on how the ISIS (Islamic State group) comes to be using American weapons; the U.S. government's secret plans to spy for American corporations; the insidious power of propaganda; how to spot and defeat disruption on the Internet, and steps to sustainable livestock production. Topic of the week is War Crimes; book for the week is Berkeley: The New Student Revolt, and website of the week is LabourStart.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 13, 2014
Libertarian Socialism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
The topic of the week is Libertarian Socialism. Articles on no-state solutions in Kurdistan; right-wing dirty tricks used to attack labour and environmental groups; scientists unravelling the risks of new pesticides; the terrors faced by fishermen in Gaza; and bringing books and seeking peace in Colombia. Film of the week is Even the Rain, and book of the week is Adolph Reed's Class Notes.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 27, 2014
Climate Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
The theme for this issue, and the topic of the week, is Climate Change. Groups and websites engaged in the fight for action on global warming and climate justice are featured. Book of the week is Magdoff and Foster's "What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism." In addition to articles on climate change, there are articles on Ebola, corporate tax evasion, and state terrorism, as well as a 1971 interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2015
SYRIZA
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First 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 - February 26, 2015
Ukraine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Ukraine is spotlighted in this issue of Other Voices, with several articles on the events of the past year, from the overthrow of the government, to the rise of the far right, the armed conflict in the east, and aggressive US/NATO moves setting the stage for a possible nuclear war between the US and Russia. Also in this issue, #DomesticExtremists ridicule police state legislation in the UK, world inequality in one simple graphic, and people's history items about mass strikes in the First World War, and the new People's Archive of Rural India.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 5, 2015
Residential schools
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices focuses on residential schools. As documented by the just-released report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, residential schools were set up to forcibly 'assimilate' Native children by taking them away from their parents and communities, and depriving them of their language, culture, history, and emotional supports. Based as they were on a system of arbitrary power and cruelty, it is not surprising that they also fostered physical and sexual abuse of the children forced into the schools. We spotlight the report and the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as films, books, and survivor stories. Also in this issue: the Orwellian language and tactics being used to sell 'anti-terrorist' legislation, mind-boggling subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, and, on the other side of the ledger, stories of courage and resistance.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2016
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
This issue of Other Voices features a wide range of issues. The topic of the week is homophobia, the hate that led to 49 deaths in Orlando last week, but which is present in greater or lesser form in every part of the world.
We are always concerned, not only with what is wrong with the world, but what to do about it.
This issue carries an excerpt from Umair Mohammed's book 'Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism' in which he warns against the pitfalls of individualist and consumer-oriented approaches and argues in favour of collective action to build an effective movement.
Derrick Jensen considers some of the arguments in favour of pacifism and finds them wanting. He agrees that creative approaches to social change can oftentimes make violence unnecessary, but that sometimes violence is a necessary response to violence.
Another article looks at the decline of liberation theology, targeted as a threat by both the Vatican and secular power structures.
Kenan Malik considers the issue of "cultural appropriation" and asks why so many on theso-called left are more interested in criticizing Justin Bieber's hairstyle than in fighting capitalism.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 2, 2016
Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union, has thrown the political elites into turmoil and confusion. The referendum was supposed to be a safe political manoeuvre, a way to produce an appearance of democratic legitimacy for the profoundly undemocratic structures of the EU. The gambit turned out to be a spectacular miscalculation, as millions of people turned out to express their opposition to a state of affairs that is leaving the majority worse off while enriching a small minority. This issue of Other Voices looks at the Brexit referendum, elite loathing for democracy, and the related attempt to get rid of Labour's leftwing leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 20, 2016
Fake News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First 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 - June 10, 2018
Massacres and Morality
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2018
In the wake of Israel's brutal massacres of Palestinian protestors in Gaza in May and June 2018, Other Voices looks at the ways in which state terrorism is used to keep subjugated populations in line, at home or abroad. The issue also questions the morality of those who either support, or keep silent about, the violence of the oppressor.
Our Lives are Militarised
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Sam Walton examines the PR strategy of placing soldiers at civil society events.
Out Lickspittle Press
Doorkeepers to the House of Lies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Today no one believes that our country’s success depends on an informed public and a free press. America’s success depends on its financial and military hegemony over the world. Any information inconsistent with the indispensable people’s god-given right to dominate the world must be suppressed and the messenger discredited and destroyed.
Palestine Media Watch
Resource Type: Website
PMWATCH was established to promote fair and accurate coverage of the Israeli occupation of Palestine in the US mainstream media. In broad terms, our mission is two-fold: (1) identify, report on, and protest clear journalistic failures by the US media in covering the conflict, and (2) help media outlets with access to pro-Palestinian points of view and voices for interviews, op-eds, or background discussions, whether here in the United States, in Israel, or in the Occupied Territories. Includes tools and suggestions for action on media bias.
Paul Goodman: Writing on the Web
Resource Type: Website
Writings of the social critic Paul Goodman.
Peddling miracles and amnesia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
The shifting PR campaign to justify Chile's 'economic miracle' and to forgive its chief architect.
Political Smears in U.S. Never Change: the NYT's 1967 Attack on MLK's Anti-War Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
John Oliver's Monday night interview of Edward Snowden -- which in 24 hours has been viewed by 3 million people on YouTube alone -- renewed all the standard attacks in Democratic circles accusing Snowden of being a traitor in cahoots with the Kremlin.
The Politics Of Anti-Semitism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
How did a term, once used accurately to describe the most virulent evil, become a charge flung at the mildest critic of Israel, particularly concerning its atrocious treatment of Palestinians? This is the question considered in these 18 essays (by nine Jews and nine Gentiles), including Edward Said, Robert Fisk, Norman Finkelstein, Lenni Brenner, and Uri Avnery.
The Poster in History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
The Power of Persuasion
The Politics of the New Right in Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Kozolanka looks at how the Mike Harris's new right conservative government came to power in Ontario Premier Mike Harris by using successful strategies from other countries to gain public accquiescence for its neo-conservative policies. Relying on evidence drawn from literature, interviews and content analysis, she argues that this trajectory was "neither haphazard nor narrowly constructed."
Press for Conversion #48
July 2002
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
This issue contains a wealth of original COAT research about militarised war shows.
Press for Conversion #50
January 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First 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.
Press for Conversion #63
November 2008
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2008
CIDA-funded "NGOs" in Canada rationalized the destabilization and overthrow of Haitian democracy and then covered up the atrocities of the Canadian-backed dictatorship after the coup. This issue examines major themes in the propaganda war against Aristide's popularly-elected Lavalas government.
A pro-Israel group's plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Electronic Intifada exposes a secret scheme by a pro-Israel pressure group to infiltrate the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia to rewrite Palestinian history, pass off crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia administrative structures to ensure these changes go either undetected or unchallenged.
Profit over People
Neoliberalism and Global Order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Chomsky confronts neoliberalsim: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide.
Propaganda and Consciousness: The Future of Big Flame Newspaper
Resource Type: Article
A political dicussion of the strategy and practice of Big Flame, written in the early 1970s.
Propaganda Blitz: How the Corporate Media Distort Reality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
A look at how corporate media distort the news. Uses recent examples such as the Scottish Independence referendum.
Propaganda and Lies, Canadian Style
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
As Canadian politicians speak freely and with less accountability on international affairs, indiviuals need to educate themselves on international issues and through alternative sources of information.
Propaganda model
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A theory that alleges systemic biases in the mass media and seeks to explain them in terms of structural economic causes. Views the private media as businesses interested in the sale of a product - readers and audiences - to other businesses (advertisers) rather than that of quality news to the people.
Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack on the Gaza Peace Flotilla - Part 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
We are trained to react to violent acts, not on the basis of their objective legality and human cost, but on the basis of the perceived legitimacy of the people committing the act. Violence committed by authority figures will tend to be viewed as legitimate and well-intentioned. Violence committed by non-state actors or "rogue states" resisting the state will tend to be seen as illegitimate and malevolent.
Propaganda Techniques of Empire
Resource Type: Article
First 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.
PublicitySources.com
Resource Type: Website
First 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.
Pure Propaganda - The Great Global Warming Swindle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
The Scientists Are The Bad Guys.
Putin on the Ritz
Resource Type: Article
First 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.
Quotes about Ideology and Propaganda
Resource Type: Unclassified
Quotes about Media
Resource Type: Unclassified
Radical Digressions 6
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Radical Mass Media Criticism
A Cultural Geneology
Resource Type: Book
Examines the thinkers who have reacted against the increasing media power. From the critiqes of the corrupt press during the First World War, an analysis of the relationship between public opinion and propaganda diring the Nazi years and the bias of the supposed objective news of today. Contributors include Noam Chomsky, Slavko Splichal, Joost van Loon and many other leaders in the international field.
Radical Newspapers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
A radical newspaper succeeds to the extent that in engages in dialogue with its readers and community, rather than in preaching.
Rampaging Climate Deniers' Losing Battle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Because of the flimsy comprehension of science and evolution of most writers in the mass media, those who venture to write about evolution feel constrained to present "alternative" views. But "alternative" views are not necessarily credible or true. The cliimate change deniers' arguments are no less articles of faith than those of the creationists. In the case of the former, the faith is not in a god but in the free market and capitalism. Almost without exception, those who are in staunch denial are those connected to, involved in or supportive of the traditional capitalist model of economic growth, and by implication opposed to anything that might constrain this model.
The real first casualty of war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Censorship by journalism is virulent in Britain and the US - and it means the difference between life and death for people in faraway countries.
The Real Terror Network
Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests.
The Red Menace
A libertarian socialist newsletter
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975 Published: 1980
Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
Return of the Evil Empire
Resource Type: Article
First 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).
Revealed: The British government's covert propaganda campaign in Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
The British government covertly established a network of citizen journalists across Syria during the early years of the country's civil war in an attempt to shape perceptions of the conflict, frequently recruiting people who were unaware that they were being directed from London.
Revolution in the Revolution
Resource Type: Book
The Revolutionary Act of Telling the Truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Pilger discusses the challenges that we encounter as Western governments and media actively seek to supress any political consciousness and independent thought.
Revolutionary reels: Soviet propaganda film and the Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
However, the Bolsheviks would revolutionize Russian cinema as leaders recognized the potential of film propaganda as a way to influence the political and social attitudes of the people. Vladimir Lenin clearly understood the power of film, as he stated, "Of all the arts, for us, cinema is most important."
Rick Berman Exposed in New Audio; Hear His Tactics Against Environmentalists and Workers' Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Rick Berman, the king of corporate front groups and propaganda, has been caught on tape detailing his attacks on public interest groups in the labor and environmental movements. Berman specializes in setting up pro-corporate front groups to attack grassroots citizen groups. Berman advocates and practises a range of dirty tactics and propaganda techniques.
Rick Berman Exposed in New Audio; Hear His Tactics Against Environmentalists and Workers' Rights
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2014
The king of corporate front groups and propaganda, has been caught on tape detailing his attacks on public interest groups in the labor and environmental movements, including on efforts to increase the minimum wage for workers.
The Rise of the Tea Party
Political Discontent and Corporate Media in the Age of Obama
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
A socio-political analysis of the Tea Party that probes its history, organizational structure, membership, ideological coherence, and relationship to the mass media.
Russia's Fantasy "Stray Missiles," America's Real Ones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Even to those who do not watch closely it has to be apparent that Washington's vast disinformation machine is finally out of control, seriously awry, or desperate.
Russkies at the Doorstep
Resource Type: Article
First 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.
Sacrificing Gaza: The Great March of Zionist Hypocrisy
Resource Type: Article
First 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.
Scapegoating Russia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of "The Plot to Scapegoat Russia" authored by labour and human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik.
Selling Free Enterprise
The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
The Semantics of Terrorism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
A mental construct has been created in which the State of Israel is an entity that is under constant attack. By terrorists. Who, irrefutably, must be eradicated. Their actions are somewhat irrelevant. Whether they are school children, passing through checkpoints, or citizens from other countries bringing medicine and food to Gaza, Israel will garner an astonishing degree of unconditional national and international support for harming them if they call them terrorists.
Seven Answers To Climate Contrarian Nonsense
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Within the community of scientists and others concerned about anthropogenic climate change, those deny climate change are commonly referred to as contrarians, naysayers and denialists. Not everyone who questions climate change science fits that description, of course - some people are genuinely unaware of the facts or honestly disagree about their interpretation. What distinguishes the true naysayers is an unwavering dedication to denying the need for action on the problem, often with weak and long-disproved arguments about supposed weaknesses in the science behind global warming.
A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense
Find Your Inner Chomsky
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005 Published: 2008
What must a citizen in a democracy know to make the word democracy meaningful? Baillargeon provides readers with the tools to see through everyday spin and jargon -- from politics to advertising, from mysticism to news reporting.
Sick Sophistry: BBC News On Afghan Hospital "Mistakenly" Bombed by United States
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
One of the defining features of the corporate media is that Western crimes are ignored or downplayed. The US bombing of a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on the night of October 3, 2015, is an archetypal example.
The Silent Revolution
Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Six Red Months in Russia
An Observers Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1918
Louise Bryant's account of her time in Russia during the revolution 1917-1918.
'Smooth Operator?'
The Propaganda Model and Moments of Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
An article by Des Freedman on Herman and Chomsky's propaganda model for the mass media and moments of crisis (disagreements within the ruling class), focusing particularly on the Daily Mirror and its anti-war coverage in the build up to the Iraq war.
The Socialist Register 1984
Volume 21: The Uses of Anti-Communism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
Socialist Register 2006:
Volume 42: Telling the Truth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life.
Society of the Spectacle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967 Published: 2005
An analysis of modern society and how it can be changed, written in the form of 221 theses. The first thesis reads: "In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation." Translator Ken Knabb describes the book as "an effort to clarify the nature of the society in which we find ourselves and the advantages and drawbacks of various methods for changing it. Every single thesis has a direct or indirect bearing on issues that are matters of life and death."
Some of my best comrades are friends
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
The left's sloppy use of language indicates sloppy thinking.
Spinwars
Politics and New Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
Suck It Up: Using Our Pride Against Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Sultans of Sleaze
Public Relations and the Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Reveals the extent to which we have been deceived by public relations firms on behalf of their unscrupulous clients -- the corporations and governments that control our society.
The Sunday Times' Snowden Story is Journalism at its Worst - and Filled with Falsehoods
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Western journalists claim that the big lesson they learned from their key role in selling the Iraq War to the public is that it's hideous, corrupt and often dangerous journalism to give anonymity to government officials to let them propagandize the public, then uncritically accept those anonymously voiced claims as Truth. But they've learned no such lesson. That tactic continues to be the staple of how major U.S. and British media outlets "report," especially in the national security area.
The Syrian Observatory: Funded By The Foreign Office
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The UK funded a project worth £194,769.60 to provide the 'Syrian Observatory for Human Rights' with communications equipment and cameras.
Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The Israeli state and its defenders are increasingly attempting to silence critics because they are losing the battle for public opinion.
Taking the Risk Out of Democracy
Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995 Published: 1997
The twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda practiced by U.S. businesses and the ways in which such corporate propaganda was exported to, and adopted by, other western democracies especially the United Kingdom and Australia.
Talking Back to the Right
A guide for community activists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
The right's enormous success in framing the American public debate is based not just on isolated issues, but on in overall definition of what the debate is about. The purpose of this guide is to suggest ways that progressive community-based advocacy groups can reframe the right's definition of the debate-ways that can connect with deeply-held Values and understandings of the American people. It is designed to help advocates frame their views for the media, develop educational programs and materials for their constituents, and talk to their fellow citizens in meetings and informal discussions.
Taser Company Uses Facebook, Blogs to Improve Image Amidst Lawsuits
Stun-gun maker Taser blogs to beat bad buz
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The company, whose main product is a lightning rod for criticism, is increasingly using blogs and social networks to promote new products and dispel anxieties about them.
The 10 Dumbest, Most Offensive Political Ads in Recent Memory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Not a single election cycle goes by without some attempt to use fear of the "other" to win votes. Sadly, the results are sometimes successful.
Toxic Sludge Is Good for You
Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Explains how modern public relations (PR) transforms the favoured policies of the rich and the powerful into uncontroversial 'common sense'.
TransCanada hires controversial PR firm to derail opposition to Energy East pipeline
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
There are now multiple news articles that report Calgary-based TransCanada hired the controversial public relations firm Edelman in an attempt to derail growing public opposition to its proposed 1.1 million barrels per day Energy East tar sands pipeline.
Trump and Clinton: Censoring the unpalatable
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
A virulent if familiar censorship is about to descend on the US election campaign. As the cartoon brute, Donald Trump, seems almost certain to win the Republican Party's nomination, Hillary Clinton is being ordained both as the "women's candidate" and the champion of American liberalism in its heroic struggle with the Evil One.
The Truth Behind The Israeli Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The amazing thing in all this is that so many Western journalists - and I'm including the BBC's pusillanimous coverage of the Gaza aid ships - are writing like Israeli journalists, while many Israeli journalists are writing about the killings with the courage that Western journalists should demonstrate.
Twitterers Paid To Spread Israeli Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Israel's foreign ministry is reported to be establishing a special undercover team of paid workers whose job it will be to surf the internet 24 hours a day spreading positive news about Israel. Internet-savvy Israeli youngsters, mainly recent graduates and demobilised soldiers with language skills, are being recruited to pose as ordinary surfers while they provide the government's line on the Middle East conflict.
Ukraine, Intervention, and America's Doublethink
High-Motor Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
With the deployment of Russian forces into Crimea and eastern Ukraine, the US-NATO propaganda machine has kicked into high gear. Putin has been portrayed as a tyrannical aggressor, while the Obama administration and its European allies have attempted to stake out the moral high ground, declaring that peace, respect for sovereignty and international law should be the guiding principles. Naturally, such rhetoric warrants closer analysis.
Unreliable Sources
A Guide to Detecting Bias in the New Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Lee and Solomon argue that American news media censor actual current events. The reason being is that there is pressure from the Government and Corporations. The public must challenge the facts of both electronic and print media.
Untouchable - The Uses And Misuses Of 'Genocide Denial'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
One of the wonders of contemporary propaganda is the extent to which corporate commentators are in denial about their use of the term 'genocide denial'. Clearly, they believe they are using a neutral, objective term to describe indisputable facts of genocidal killing and ugly refusals to recognise those facts. The delusion is quickly exposed when we ask a few simple questions. For example: how often do we see 'mainstream' commentators describing US-UK sanctions on Iraq from 1990-2003 as 'genocidal', as affirmed by senior UN diplomats? How often do journalists describe supporters of the devastating Bush-Blair war on Iraq, the Obama-Cameron war on Libya, or May's war on Yemen as 'genocide deniers'? Can we imagine someone who supported the war on Libya being called an 'Obama apologist'? Like 'terror' and 'terrorism', 'genocide' and 'genocide denial' are simply not terms that are applied to Western actions. This really awesome level of bias points to the reality that 'genocide denial' is a propaganda term overwhelmingly used to portray Official Enemies as morally and intellectually despicable, in fact untouchable. As used in the 'mainstream', the term is antirational, an attack on honest debate.
US Lies and Excuses for Bombing Hospital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Here is the US changing its story for the FOURTH time of why it launched an air strike on the Doctors without Borders hospital in the Afghan town of Kunduz at the weekend, massacring at least 22 patients and hospital staff.
US Propaganda Campaign to Demonize Russia in Full Gear over One-Sided Dutch/Aussie Report on Flight 17 Downing
Resource Type: Article
First 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.
Using Children for Israeli Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Engler brings to light Canadian schools' practices that indoctrinate students with problematic colonial, Zionist views.
Video of Shooting Caught Police Propaganda Machine in Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A video supplied to The New York Times, showing the shooting death of 50-year-old Walter Scott at the hands of a South Carolina police officer, appears on first viewing to be the latest example of an unarmed black person killed unnecessarily by a white cop.
The War Against "Fake News" is a War on Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Barely a day passes without a new development in the war on social media -- that is, the war on us. Today, it is a report that Twitter has emailed hundreds of thousands of its users, warning them that they shared "Russian propaganda".
The War against The Lancet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
"An Open letter to the people of Gaza" triggered a furious reaction within Lancet, with complainants suggesting that the publication has sided with the forces of "anti-Jewish bigotry".
War by media and the triumph of propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First 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?
War, Conflict & Enemies of Truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
The frenzy engendered by the Ukraine conflict reinforces a herd mentality that cries out for critical thinking.
Washington’s Secret Agendas
Imperial Rot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
One might think that by now even Americans would have caught on to the constant stream of false alarms that Washington sounds in order to deceive the people into supporting its hidden agendas.
We need to be told
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
When journalists report propaganda instead of the truth, the consequences can be catastrophic - as one largely forgotten instance demonstrates.
We Own the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007 Published: 2008
The whole debate about the Iranian 'interference' in Iraq makes sense only on one assumption, namely, that we own the world. If we own the world, then the only question that can arise is that someone else is interfering in a country we have invaded and occupied.
Weapons of Mass Persuasion
Marketing the War Against Iraq
Resource Type: Book
First 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.
We're Winning -- Don't Ask Where!
Roll Over George Orwell, And Give Goebbels the News!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Western Propaganda: So Simple But So Effective
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Western propaganda is actually a perfect apparatus! It is effective and it is almost fully 'bulletproof'. It 'works'!
What's the Matter With That Union Boss?
The Real Yes Men
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Why do the most right-wing politicians and corporate news outlets always use the term “union boss”? Because the worst thing they can think of is to say the leader of a labour organization acts like a capitalist? Or the capitalist’s lackey?
Why Are We The Good Guys?
Reclaiming Your Mind From The Delusions Of Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
First 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
First 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.
Why Is Benjamin Netanyahu Trying To Whitewash Hitler?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly asserted that Adolf Hitler had no intention of exterminating Europe's Jews until a Palestinian persuaded him to do it.
Why Israeli Anti-Zionists do NOT 'recognize the right of the State of Israel to exist as a Jewish state'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
States that define themselves with reference to the domination of one ethnic group cannot claim legitimacy.
Why Ridiculous Official Propaganda Still Works
Resource Type: Article
First 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.
Why the rise of fascism is again the issue
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Fascism is preserved as history, as flickering footage of goose-stepping blackshirts, their criminality terrible and clear. Yet in the same liberal societies, whose war-making elites urge us never to forget, the accelerating danger of a modern kind of fascism is suppressed; for it is their fascism.
William Morris
From Romantic to Revolutionary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955 Published: 1977
A biography of the nineteenth-century socialist, designer, artist, and intellectual William Morris.
The Witch-Hunters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Washington Post pushes campaign to censor alternative media.
Words have failed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
The written word is a failure at making tangible to Israeli readers the true horror of the Occupation.
Worker-Student Action Committees France May '68
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
An account of the May-June 1968 events in Paris. The authors state that "our intention is not to 'clarify' the sequence of events which took place in France in order to make possible a ritual repetition of these events, but rather to contrast the limited views we had of the events at the time we were engaged in them, with the views we have gained from further action in different contexts."
Year 501
The Conquest Continues
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.

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