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Why don’t honest journalists take on Roger Ailes and Fox News?
Howell Raines/Washington Post
One question has tugged at my professional conscience throughout the year-long congressional debate over health-care reform, and it has nothing to do with the public option, portability or medical malpractice. It is this: Why haven’t America’s old-school news organizations blown the whistle on Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News, for using the network [...]
Marjah: The Non-Existent City the Military Said We Conquered in Afghanistan
Gareth Porter, IPS News
WASHINGTON – For weeks, the United States public followed the biggest offensive of the Afghanistan war against what it was told was a “city of 80,000 people” as well as the logistical hub of the Taliban in that part of Helmand. That idea was a central element in the overall impression built [...]
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Disinformation Tactics: The Methods Used To Keep You In The Dark
Dprogram.net / Rogue Government
There was a time, not too long ago (relatively speaking), that governments and the groups of elites that controlled them did not find it necessary to conscript themselves into wars of disinformation. Propaganda was relatively straightforward. The lies were much simpler. The control of information flow was easily directed. In fact, during [...]
Pentagon calls for ‘Office of Strategic Deception’
Sahil Kapur/RawStory
WASHINGTON — Remember the Pentagon Office of Special Plans that helped collect dubious intelligence that led to the war in Iraq? Or the program where the Pentagon secretly briefed military analysts to promote the Iraq war?
Meet the would-be Office of Strategic Deception.
In a little-noticed report earlier this month, the Defense Department’s powerful Defense Science [...]
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Hiding War Horrors from Americans
consortiumnews.com/Sherwood Associates
Editor’s Note: Propaganda is not just about lying, indeed outright falsehoods are a minor part. Effective propaganda is about highlighting favorable information and hiding the negative. And it’s especially effective if the work is done by a supposedly “free” media.
Legendary psy-warrior Edward Lansdale once said the trick of great propaganda was not to plant [...]
DoD “Clarifies” Doctrine on Psychological Operations
Steven Aftergood
From now on, propaganda will refer only to what the enemy does…
The Department of Defense has issued a new publication (pdf) to update and clarify its doctrine on “psychological operations.”
Psychological operations, or PSYOP, are intended to “convey selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the [...]
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Greenwald: Helen Thomas deviates from the terrorism script
Glenn Greenwald/Salon
(updated below)
Following up on Thursday’s post concerning our collective refusal to discuss how American actions and policies fuel Terrorism: at a White House press conference yesterday with Janet Napolitano and John Brennan, Helen Thomas shows — yet again — that she’s one of the very few White House reporters willing to deviate [...]
The Iran Nuclear Trigger Forgeries
New Revelations Blow Holes in Story
Gareth Porter/Counterpunch
New revelations about two documents leaked to The Times of London to show that Iran is working on a “nuclear trigger” mechanism have further undermined the credibility of the document the newspaper had presented as evidence of a continuing Iranian nuclear weapons program.
French Media Caught Red-Handed: Honduras Coup Protest Photo Presented as Iranian
Global Research / Indymedia UK
The German daily Junge Welt reported [1] that the French public national television channel “France 2″ has diffused an image of a protest in Honduras against the June 2009 military coup and portrayed it as young Iranians resisting security forces during the Ashura day protests in Tehran.
This abuse of images was [...]
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Georgians panic over mock TV news report of Russian invasion