A summary by Belgian historian Anne Morelli of Lord Ponsonby's 'Falsehood in War-time, Containing an Assortment of Lies Circulated Throughout the Nations During the Great War' (1928).
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A summary by Belgian historian Anne Morelli of Lord Ponsonby's 'Falsehood in War-time, Containing an Assortment of Lies Circulated Throughout the Nations During the Great War' (1928).
America is run like a cartel. A unified conglomeration of private interests secretly plotting and planning to get you to act in certain ways. And those ways are always, at the end of the day, about money. This, more than anything else, is the missing piece in the American Right’s understanding of propaganda, and why they have lost so many battles for so long. They believe that the “leaders” needed to influence the population will be convinced by rational arguments…all while the “leaders” are getting paid by the other side. They’re like guys who think strippers actually like them.
ReplyDeleteAnother word for this process is patronage. Every player in a piece of propaganda gets paid. They amplify the message because it's in their shared interest to do so. And the best propaganda makes sure they only get paid if the initiative is successful.
Every time you read “experts say…” you should immediately smell propaganda. It’s not that experts say some true things and some untrue things. It’s that experts don’t say anything unless it’s part of a propaganda campaign. Like celebrities, this is the function of experts. Experts are no more than paid witnesses in the trial of public perception.
Isaac Simpson
https://www.carousel.blog/cp/143289203
Bashar Assad rejected a Qatari proposal to route Doha’s vast gas reserves directly to Europe, via a $10 billion, 1,500 kilometre-long pipeline spanning Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and Turkey. As extensively documented by WikiLeaks-released diplomatic cables, US, Israeli and Saudi intelligence immediately decided to overthrow Assad by fomenting a local Sunni rebellion, and started financing opposition groups for the purpose.
ReplyDeleteThis effort became turbocharged in October 2011, with MI6 redirecting weapons and extremist fighters from Libya to Syria, in the wake of Muammar Gaddafi’s televised murder. The CIA oversaw that operation, using the British as an arm’s length cutout to avoid notifying Congress of its machinations. Only in June 2013, with then-President Barack Obama’s official authorisation, did the Agency’s cloak-and-dagger connivances in Damascus become formalised - and later admitted - under the title “Timber Sycamore”.
How CIA and MI6 Created ISIS
https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/how-cia-and-mi6-created-isis
Ask Virginia Ironside - My dying friends
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I have been attending reunions of my university year every five years and am a member of a WhatsApp group. We are all in our late seventies; so there are more and more gaps in the ranks. Another reunion is being talked about, but I have mixed feelings. I used to enjoy them, but I don’t relish the prospect of a toast to absent friends who now outnumber the survivors. I am healthy enough to go, but I don’t want to spend the evening talking about deaths and illnesses of old friends whom I remember in the flower of their youth. Is it better to stop reunions by agreement or just let them fade away? Should I force myself to go?
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Why don’t you fudge it? You could say you’re going and then, at the last minute, develop a ‘bad cold’. It’ll be five years before the next reunion and by then (a) it may not happen, (b) you may have changed your mind and long to see old friends, or (c) you may be one of the ‘absent friends’ to whom they all raise a toast.
https://www.theoldie.co.uk/blog/ask-virginia-ironside-my-dying-friends
Well, characteristics.
ReplyDeleteItems 6 and 8 can be said of both sides in most wars. Thomas Mann was much nearer the norm on both side in WW I than Bertrand Russell or Karl Kraus was.