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The Crisis at the New York Times

From Israeli Propaganda to Page One

Patrick Lawrence •ï¿½February 12, 2024

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It has been evident to many of us since the genocide in Gaza began Oct. 7 that Israel risked asking too much of those inclined to take its side. The Zionist state would ask what many people cannot give: It would ask them to surrender their consciences, their idea of moral order, altogether their native... Read More

From "Donuts" to Wars for "Democracy"

The Triumph of American Corporate BS

A.J. Smuskiewicz •ï¿½March 13, 2023

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Consider the humble doughnut, generally a ring or flattened sphere of fried dough topped or filled with sugary or fruity flavoring. These sweet, satisfying bakery products have been created and enjoyed for centuries in various forms. Then in the mid-1900s, a big U.S. corporation called Dunkinâ€™ Donuts became very successful by selling what can best... Read More

Democracy, the Most Dangerous Religion: Part 6 â€“ the Theology of Elections

Larry Romanoff •ï¿½November 5, 2022

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In its simplest form, democracy is the members of a group using some decision-making process to demonstrate their preference on a course of action, as opposed to a leader deciding for the group. In the West, a voting process is the preferred method for group decision-making. No rationale is offered for this preference, but supporters... Read More

Democracy, the Most Dangerous Religion: Part 2 â€“ Rubber-Stamp Parliaments

Larry Romanoff •ï¿½October 21, 2022

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We often read in the Western press that China has a â€œrubber-stampâ€ parliament. That isnâ€™t true, and I will deal with it below but, if we want a genuine example of a real rubber-stamp parliament, we can look much closer to home â€“ Canada. In Canada, the leader of the party that wins the election... Read More

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Democracy, the Most Dangerous Religion: Part 1 â€“ Introduction

Larry Romanoff •ï¿½October 20, 2022

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Having been raised in a Western democratic political environment, Americans (and yes, others as well, but most especially Americans) have been by design infused from birth with a conviction that some form of a multi-party electoral system â€“ which we can loosely term â€œdemocracyâ€ â€“ is, even with the occasional flaw, the right way, the... Read More

Why I Work for Sputnik

Ted Rall •ï¿½March 18, 2022

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I have won two Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, been a Pulitzer Prize finalist, published more than 20 books and have seen my political cartoons and columns appear in hundreds of newspapers and magazines. So why do I have Russian state media as one of my clients? I'm on Sputnik News' website â€” as a... Read More

The Tribal Leftâ€™s a Mirror Image of the Tribal Right

Jonathan Cook •ï¿½November 26, 2021

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Of course, I expect a backlash every time I write. It comes with the territory. There is no point being a Bari Weiss or a David Frum and crying out against â€œcancel cultureâ€. Dissension is part of the rough and tumble of a modern world in which everyone â€“ at least, for a little longer... Read More

Propaganda and the Media: Fact-Checking â€“ Part 7

Larry Romanoff •ï¿½June 27, 2021

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In our world today, who desperately needs to be â€œfact-checkedâ€œ? The mass media, of course. And, in todayâ€™s world, who owns, funds, and controls the entire fact-checking infrastructure and conducts all the fact-checks? The mass media, of course. So, the inmates are running the asylum and the foxes are guarding the henhouse. What could possibly... Read More

Propaganda and the Media â€” Censorship, or Burning the History Books â€” Part 6

Larry Romanoff •ï¿½June 18, 2021

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I have written elsewhere that probably 90%, or even 95%, of everything that you know, or think that you know, or that you believe to be true about history, is wrong. To state another way, if we were to take the history of the entire world for the past 500 years and condense it into... Read More

Propaganda and the Media â€” Letâ€™s Tell Some Lies â€” Part 5

Larry Romanoff •ï¿½June 13, 2021

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I stated in earlier articles that we are subjected â€“ more often than we might imagine â€“ to news articles that were entirely fictitious, reporting on news events that either never occurred, or where the description bore no resemblance to the actual event. One of the most common ploys is to fabricate an event â€“... Read More

Propaganda and the Media â€” Part 3 â€“ Establishing and Controlling the Narrative

Larry Romanoff •ï¿½May 21, 2021

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The Globe & Mail is a respectable broadsheet long recognised as Canadaâ€™s national newspaper. Some years ago, the Globe published an article detailing the atrocities then being committed against the Arabs in Palestine. The article wasnâ€™t inflammatory or ideological, but simply an accurate chronicle of events the editors believed should be brought to the attention... Read More

Propaganda and the Media: All You Have to Do Is Think â€“ Part 4

Larry Romanoff •ï¿½May 21, 2021

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If I were a dictator, one of my first dictates would be that every adult must take at least one university-level course in logic. In todayâ€™s world, with what is essentially an international criminal element in control, one which effectively manages public perception through their leverage over the mass media, readers would benefit immensely from... Read More

Propaganda and the Media â€“ Deception on a Grand Scale â€“ Part 2

Larry Romanoff •ï¿½May 16, 2021

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Much of the US media attention directed to China is unrelated to news in any sense, but is part of an extensive propaganda program designed to inflict serious discomfort on Chinaâ€™s government, using the political pressure of the media in attempts to force China to accommodate US and European political and commercial interests. This is... Read More

Propaganda and the Media: Part 1 â€“ Introduction

Larry Romanoff •ï¿½May 10, 2021

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Note to Readers: For a period of about ten years, I operated a website of political commentary that contained thousands of articles, many of which were content from various media, but many being my own work. That website experienced occasional but persistent DDOS and other attacks by forces unknown Some years ago, I published on... Read More

You Refuse to Get Vaccinated, But Are You Ready to be an Outcast?

Mike Whitney •ï¿½March 25, 2021

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Let's assume for a minute, that the vaccination campaign is led by people who genuinely want to end the current crisis and restore the country to "normal". Let's also assume, that they believe that mass vaccination is the best way to achieve that objective by preventing the spread of the virus and, thus, reducing the... Read More

Bernays and Propaganda â€“ Propaganda Continues Unabated â€“ Part 5

Larry Romanoff •ï¿½March 11, 2021

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In most nations, when a particular criminal conduct reaches epidemic proportion, the government finally acts decisively to eradicate it. Not in America; they solve the problem by legalising it. They did this with influence-peddling (lobbying) and drugs, the same now occurring with domestic propaganda which has been against the law for a very long time... Read More

Bernays and Propaganda â€“ the Transition to Education and Commerce â€“ Part 4

Larry Romanoff •ï¿½March 2, 2021

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The success of Lippman and Bernays did not go unnoticed in many segments of American society. Universities in particular realised the potential of these new propaganda techniques to form, manipulate and control social perceptions and behavior. Schools and Universities in the US had never been viewed as an educational system but more as tools of... Read More

Bernays and Propaganda â€“ Democracy Control

Larry Romanoff •ï¿½February 21, 2021

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From their experiences in the formulation, manipulation and control of public perception and opinion with the CPI, both Lippman and Bernays later wrote of their open contempt for a â€œmalleable and hopelessly ill-informed publicâ€ in America. [1] Lippmann had already written that the people in a democracy were simply â€œa bewildered herdâ€ of â€œignorant and... Read More

Bernays and Propaganda â€“ the Marketing of War

Larry Romanoff •ï¿½February 15, 2021

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In the revelation of propaganda as a tool of public mind control and its use for war marketing, it is worthwhile to examine the historical background of Bernaysâ€™ war effort. At the time, the European Zionist Jews had made an agreement with England to bring the US into the war against Germany, on the side... Read More

Bernays and Propaganda

Larry Romanoff •ï¿½February 6, 2021

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Many years ago, the Jewish-American political commentator Walter Lippmann realised that political ideology could be completely fabricated, using the media to control both presentation and conceptualisation, not only to create deeply-ingrained false beliefs in a population, but also to entirely erase undesirable political ideas from the public mind. This was the beginning of not only... Read More

This Is All So Very Wrong

Larry Romanoff •ï¿½August 29, 2020

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This essay is another attempt to help Edward Bernay's "bewildered herd" connect some dots. The content is only marginally about politics but these two following quotes are necessary to set the context. Montagu Norman, Governor of The Bank of England, in a speech to the US Bankersâ€™ Association in New York City in 1924: From... Read More

The Future of the Spectacle â€¦ or How the West Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Reality Police

C.J. Hopkins •ï¿½September 3, 2019

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If you want a vision of the future, donâ€™t imagine â€œa boot stamping on a human face â€” for ever,â€ as Orwell suggested in 1984. Instead, imagine that human face staring mesmerized into the screen of some kind of nifty futuristic device on which every word, sound, and image has been algorithmically approved for consumption... Read More

â€œMoneybullâ€: An Inquiry Into Media Manipulation

Robert S. Griffin •ï¿½December 1, 2017

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The film Moneyball was well-received by both audiences and critics and an Academy Award contender for best film at the 2012 Oscars. It was based on Michael Lewisâ€™ 2003 nonfiction book by the same name and directed by Bennett Miller from a screenplay written by Aaron Sorkin (who I understand was the guiding force behind... Read More

No Reprieve for Humankind: The Iron Fog

For â€˜Grandpapaâ€™ H.G. Wells

Kersasp D. Shekhdar •ï¿½April 4, 2017

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â€œFrom Bangor off the Atlantic to San Diego in the Pacific, an Iron Fog is descending around the U.S.A. Behind its periphery lie all the cities of the United States of America. New York, Dallas, Chicago, and San Francisco, all these famous cities and the populations that lie around them are subject to the obfuscation... Read More

Continuum of Propaganda

Yale, Mizzou & Your Child's School

Ilana Mercer •ï¿½November 20, 2015

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The specter, on the nationâ€™s campuses, of frightened, middle-aged white educators, mostly men, resigning in fear of a mob rising in rage against hurtful words and gesturesâ€”all constitutionally protected speechâ€”is an organic extension of the American educational project, down to your childâ€™s school. If your kids are in the countryâ€™s educational gulagâ€”primary, secondary or tertiaryâ€”however... Read More

Western â€˜Mainstreamâ€™ Extremism

Distortion, Fabrication and Falsification in the Financial Press

James Petras •ï¿½November 3, 2015

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Introduction: With the collapse of the Communist countries in the 1990â€™s and their conversion to capitalism, followed by the advent of neo-liberal regimes throughout most of Latin America, Asia, Europe and North America, the imperial regimes in the US and EU have established a new political spectrum, in which the standards of acceptability narrowed and... Read More

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