Screen Propaganda, Hollywood and the CIA
Posted: March 5, 2013 Filed under: Propaganda | Tags: CIA, Hollywood, Iran 3 Comments“One of the most pervasive trends in 21st century western culture has become somewhat of an obsession in America. It’s called “Hollywood history”, where the corporate studio machines in Los Angeles spend hundreds of millions of dollars in order to craft and precisely tailor historical events to suit the prevailing political paradigm.” (Patrick Henningsen, Hollywood History: CIA Sponsored “Zero Dark Thirty”, Oscar for “Best Propaganda Picture”)
by Julie Lévesque
Published: Fe. 28, 2013 – Global Research
Black Hawk Dawn, Zero Dark Thirty and Argo, those are only a few major recent productions showing how today’s movie industry promotes US foreign policy. But the motion picture has been used for propaganda since the beginning of the 20th century and Hollywood’s cooperation with the Department of Defense, the CIA and other government agencies is no modern trend.
With Michelle Obama awarding Ben Affleck’s Argo the Oscar for best movie, the industry showed how close it is to Washington. According to Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich, Argo is a propaganda film concealing the ugly truth about the Iranian hostage crisis and designed to prepare the American public for an upcoming confrontation with Iran:
2011 Clinton Global Citizen Awards
Posted: September 24, 2011 Filed under: New World Order, Propaganda, World Hegemony | Tags: Brookings Institute, Clinton, Global Elite, Globalisation, International Crisis Group, Media, Multinational Corporations 2 CommentsLiberal confab sponsored by corporate fascists, big oil, big banks.
by Tony Cartalucci
Published: Sep. 21, 2011 – Land Destroyer Report
The Clinton Global Citizen Awards, held this week in New York City, claims to “recognize extraordinary individuals who have demonstrated visionary leadership in solving pressing global challenges. Through their work, these citizens have proven that diverse sectors of society including philanthropic, public service, corporate, and civic organizations can work together successfully to implement and devise solutions that effect positive, lasting social change.”
In reality, it is yet another elaborate display of self-aggrandizing by the same handful of corporate-financier interests emanating from Wall Street and London, attempting to maintain the legitimacy of their “international order.” Had the Nazis been less overt in their ambitions, and more patient in selling the world their presumed dominion over the planet, it might have looked something like this.
The post-9/11 decade of lies
Posted: September 9, 2011 Filed under: Problem Reaction Solution, Propaganda | Tags: 9/11 3 CommentsThe myth of 9/11, imbedded inextricably into the fibers of society and culture…
by Larry Chin
Published: Sep. 08, 2011 – Global Research
It has been and will be the same since the day it happened. The same exhausting exercise, whether one, five years, ten or fifty years since 9/11. Another orchestrated orgy of mass propaganda-stoked ignorance and “war on terrorism” hysteria.
The propaganda myth of 9/11, imbedded inextricably into the fibers of society and culture, and into the brain cells of naïve, willfully uninformed people, is back for another sickening “commemoration”.
Libya and the world we live in
Posted: September 6, 2011 Filed under: Imperial Power, Propaganda, World Hegemony | Tags: AFRICOM, European Union, Libya, Media, NATO, Oil, USA 4 Comments“Why are you attacking us? Why are you killing our children? Why are you destroying our infrastructure?”
– Television address by Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, April 30, 2011
by William Blum
Published: Sep. 01, 2011 – Killinghope.org
A few hours later NATO hit a target in Tripoli, killing Gaddafi’s 29-year-old son Saif al-Arab, three of Gaddafi’s grandchildren, all under twelve years of age, and several friends and neighbors.
In his TV address, Gaddafi had appealed to the NATO nations for a cease-fire and negotiations after six weeks of bombings and cruise missile attacks against his country.
Well, let’s see if we can derive some understanding of the complex Libyan turmoil.
9/11 and the American Mind
Posted: August 15, 2011 Filed under: Problem Reaction Solution, Propaganda | Tags: 9/11, Media 3 Commentsby Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald
Published: Aug. 12, 2011 – Counterpunch
9/11. The number still rings in the mind as if chosen to act as a Pavlovian trigger: Outrage, anger, paranoia, retribution. A shadowy band of religious zealots fly not one, but two commercial airliners into the heart of America’s financial community while others deal a deadly blow to the Pentagon. It was a Hollywood movie, an act of war rivaling Pearl Harbor. Why did it happen? Who would do this to Americans, to America? How could a band of ragged terrorists plotting from a cave in faraway Afghanistan have accomplished such a complex task given the size and pervasiveness of the largest and most expensive military/intelligence apparatus in the history of the world? And even more curiously, why would Islamic radicals give the ideology-driven neoconservative administration of George W. Bush exactly the pretext they needed to launch a bloody invasion and further occupation of the Middle East?
According to the official narrative, 9/11 was an attack on everything American and in so doing changed everything about America. Like Kafkaesque characters who’d suddenly found themselves on the other side of a Cold War “Iron Curtain” mirror, Americans would now have to “watch what they say and watch what they do,” open up to questioning or face jail when prodded by squinty-eyed border guards and forsake any hope of privacy or dignity in a new world of electronic spies and full body scans. Former National Security Advisor, Admiral John Poindexter’s Total Information Awareness program would be enacted and a preexisting “Patriot Act” would be signed into law to clamp down on dissent and real or imagined domestic terrorism.
Bin Laden Hoax to Expand War
Posted: May 4, 2011 Filed under: Propaganda, War on Terror, World Hegemony | Tags: Balochistan, Bin Laden, Central Asia, China, Drone Attacks, Obama's Wars, Pakistan, Project for the New American Century 6 CommentsGlobalist think-tanks are already building a case against Pakistan
by Tony Cartalucci
Published: May 02, 2011 – Land Destroyer Report
Bangkok, Thailand May 3, 2011 – Foundation for the Defense of Democracy (FDD) scribe and all around intellectually dishonest propagandist, Bill Roggio of the “Long War Journal,” has dedicated his life to perpetuating the entirely fake “War on Terror,” abandoning all objectivity with the very name of his now officially government funded, Neo-Conservative establishment affiliated blog. The term “Long War” of course is a throwback to the Bush era and constant reassurances by the president that indeed the “War on Terror” will be endless.
Osama bin Laden’s Second Death
Posted: May 3, 2011 Filed under: Economy, Propaganda, Uncategorized, War on Terror | Tags: Bin Laden, Obama's Wars 5 Commentsby Paul Craig Roberts
Published: May 02, 2011 – Global Research
If today were April 1 and not May 2, we could dismiss as an April fool’s joke this morning’s headline that Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight in Pakistan and quickly buried at sea. As it is, we must take it as more evidence that the US government has unlimited belief in the gullibility of Americans.
Think about it. What are the chances that a person allegedly suffering from kidney disease and requiring dialysis and, in addition, afflicted with diabetes and low blood pressure, survived in mountain hideaways for a decade? If bin Laden was able to acquire dialysis equipment and medical care that his condition required, would not the shipment of dialysis equipment point to his location? Why did it take ten years to find him?
Osama Bin Laden Pronounced Dead…For the Ninth Time (With Videos)
Posted: May 2, 2011 Filed under: Propaganda, War on Terror | Tags: Al Qaeda, Bin Laden, CIA, Media, You Tube Videos 6 Comments
by James Corbett
Published: May 02, 2011 – Activist Post
Al Qaeda Doesn’t Exist
Posted: April 20, 2011 Filed under: Propaganda, War on Terror | Tags: Al Qaeda, Bin Laden, CIA, You Tube Videos, Zbigniew Brzezinski 6 Commentsby James Corbett
Published: Oct. 26, 2009 – The Corbett Report
The film documentary Al Qaeda Doesn’t Exist interrogates the notion that Osama Bin Laden single-handedly runs the pervasive Al Qaeda terrorist network by examining its inception, its links to Western intelligence, the double agents and fictitious characters that populate its ranks, and the fraudulent ways the Al Qaeda myth is propagated in the controlled corporate media. The documentary also offers ways that citizens can become involved in helping to spread understanding about the true government-sponsored terror paradigm.
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Source: http://www.alqaedadoesntexist.com/
Related:
Al Qaeda – The Invented Hydra for the New World Order´s False Flag Operations
The Terror Card: Fear is the Key to Obedience
How the U.S. Invented ‘al Qaeda’! (With Videos)
DOCUMENTARY – THE CENTURY OF THE SELF (2002)
Posted: February 27, 2011 Filed under: Propaganda | Tags: Documentaries, Edward Bernays, Freud, Mind Control, Multinational Corporations, Society 10 CommentsTHE CENTURY OF THE SELF, 2002.
Directed by Adam Curtis
240 Minutes, BBC Four
United Kingdom
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432232/
The Century of the Self, is a documentary series written, directed and co-produced by Adam Curtis. Released in 2002 and distributed by BBC Four. It’s divided in four episodes of aprox. 60 mins.
It explores how the theories developed by Sigmund Freud were used by his nephew, Edward Bernays, to manipulate the masses. By linking mass produced goods to the unconscious desires of the public, he discovered people could be made to want things they didn’t need. Bernays investigated and applied techniques of mass-consumer persuasion, using any means to achive his goals. He was the first one to associate a product to an ideal, by associating cigarettes to the idea of freedom and independence, the taboo of female smoking in public was brought down. He was also convinced that the theory would prove useful if applied to politics for control of the masses. By satisfying their irrational inner desires people could be made happy and docile.
Episode One: Happiness Machines
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xq6gh7_the-century-of-the-self-1_shortfilms
Episode Two: The Engineering of Consent
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Episode Three: There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xq6ghe_the-century-of-the-self-3_shortfilms
Episode Four: Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering
Related:
Mind Control Theories and Techniques used by Mass Media
Controlling The Minds Of The Masses: How It Is Done And Why (With Videos)
Tavistock Institute: The Best Kept Secret in America
VIDEO – Global Mind Control Through Crisis Creation – TAVISTOCK INSTITUTE
The Rise and Rise of Super Fascism
Posted: December 28, 2010 Filed under: Human Rights, Illegal Occupation, Imperial Power, Israeli Apartheid, New World Order, Propaganda, War on Terror, World Hegemony | Tags: European Union, NATO, Obama's Wars, US Army, Zionism 12 Commentsby Ghali Hassan
Published: Dec. 25, 2010 – Axis of Logic
Mention fascism and most peoples’ minds turn to Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Franco’s Spain, Salazar’s Portugal, Japanese Fascism, Papadopoulos’ Greece and South Africa’s Apartheid regime. However, most people are blissfully unaware of a rising form of fascism, more virulent than all past fascist regimes combined. Its aim is to subjugate the entire planet and its resources to U.S. corporate interests.
Documentary – Psywar: The real battlefield is your mind (2010)
Posted: September 25, 2010 Filed under: Propaganda | Tags: Documentaries, Media, You Tube Videos 5 CommentsPublished: Sep. 23, 2010 – Information Clearing House
How did the land of the free and the home of the brave arrive at a place where citizens could be manipulated with such efficiency and on such a massive scale?
Includes original interviews with a number of dissident scholars including Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Peter Phillips (“Project Censored”), John Stauber (“PR Watch”), Christopher Simpson (“The Science of Coercion”) and others. http://metanoia-films.org/
Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26430.htm
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DOCUMENTARY – FRONTLINE, In search of truth in war time by John Pilger, 1983
DOCUMENTARY – Peace, Propaganda And The Promised Land
DOCUMENTARY– USA: War made Easy
DOCUMENTARY – Enemy Image (2005)
Collapsing America
Posted: September 12, 2010 Filed under: Human Rights, Propaganda, War Crimes | Tags: 9/11, Afghanistan, Crimes Against Humanity, Iran, Obama's Wars, USA, WTC 1 Commentby Linh Dinh
Published: Sep. 11, 2010 – Dissident Voice
All governments lie, kill and misuse public funds, but these calculated habits are amplified manifold during wars. We’re in two now, aiming for a third. Japan, whose land we’re still occupying 65 years after Hiroshima, has just announced sanctions against Iran beyond what the U.N. mandated. South Korea swiftly followed suit. It’s surprising to see these two countries so in sync, until one remembers that they have become American cheerleaders for decades. Rah, rah, bomb Tehran! A murderous chorus is rising, yet again. Countries that aren’t our client states can be counted with two hands, even those missing fingers from an exploding grenade.
The Charge of the Media Brigade
Posted: July 19, 2010 Filed under: Illegal Occupation, Imperial Power, Propaganda | Tags: Media, Obama's Wars, US Army 3 CommentsBehind the Pentagon’s façade of honourable motives for invading other countries lies a history of promoting violence and covering up atrocities with wars of misinformation. Next stops: Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea.
by John Pilger
Published: Jul. 08, 2010 – New Statesman
The TV anchorwoman was conducting a split-screen interview with a journalist who had volunteered to be a witness at the execution of a man on death row in Utah for 25 years. “He had a choice,” said the journalist, “lethal injection or firing squad.” “Wow!” said the anchorwoman. Cue a blizzard of commercials for fast food, teeth whitener, stomach stapling, the new Cadillac. This was followed by the war in Afghanistan presented by a correspondent sweating in a flak jacket. “Hey, it’s hot,” he said on the split screen. “Take care,” said the anchorwoman. “Coming up” was a reality show in which the camera watched a man serving solitary confinement in a prison’s “hell hole.”
The next morning I arrived at the Pentagon for an interview with one of President Obama’s senior war-making officials. There was a long walk along shiny corridors hung with pictures of generals and admirals festooned in ribbons. The interview room was purpose-built. It was blue and arctic cold, and windowless and featureless except for a flag and two chairs: props to create the illusion of a place of authority. The last time I was in a room like this in the Pentagon a colonel called Hum stopped my interview with another war-making official when I asked why so many innocent civilians were being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Then it was in the thousands; now it is more than a million. “Stop tape!” he ordered.
The truth behind the Israeli propaganda
Posted: June 7, 2010 Filed under: Israeli Apartheid, Propaganda | Tags: Boycott Israel, Crimes Against Humanity, Gaza, Israel Leave a commentby Robert Fisk
Published: Jun. 05, 2010 – The Independent
I have, of course, been outraged at armed men boarding ships in international waters, killing passengers on board who attempt to resist and then forcing their ship to the hijackers’ home port. I am, of course, talking about the Somali pirates who are preying on Western ships in the Indian Ocean. How dare those terrorists dare to touch our unarmed vessels on the high seas? And how right we are to have our warships there to prevent such terrorist acts.
But whoops! At least the Israelis have not demanded ransom. They just want to get journalists to win the propaganda war for them. Scarcely had the week begun when Israel’s warrior “commandos” stormed a Turkish boat bringing aid to Gaza and shot nine of the passengers dead. Yet by week’s end, the protesters had become “armed peace activists”, vicious anti-Semites “professing pacifism, seething with hate, pounding away at another human being with a metal pole”. I liked the last bit. The fact that the person being beaten was apparently shooting another human being with a rifle didn’t quite get into this weird version of reality.
Council On Foreign Relations Propaganda
Posted: May 12, 2010 Filed under: Propaganda | Tags: Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), You Tube Videos 3 Commentsby Cassandra Anderson
Published: May 12, 2010 – Infowars
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an invitation only membershipgroup made up of about 4000 people that comprise what many observers consider to bethe shadow government of America. The CFR is more than a ‘think tank’, it is a network of elitists that control America by creating policies, laws, financial alliances and monopolies. This new video, starring such diverse personalities as Angelina Jolie and Zbigniew Brzezinski, promotes the CFR as a wonderful place where people meet to discuss policy, thus giving the impression that all points of view are represented and implemented with the public’s best interests at heart.
Mind Control Theories and Techniques used by Mass Media
Posted: May 11, 2010 Filed under: New World Order, Propaganda | Tags: Carl Jung, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Edward Bernays, Global Elite, Harold Lasswell, Media, Mind Control, Multinational Corporations, Walter Lippmann, You Tube Videos 16 CommentsMass media is the most powerful tool used by the ruling class to manipulate the masses. It shapes and molds opinions and attitudes and defines what is normal and acceptable. This article looks at the workings of mass media through the theories of its major thinkers, its power structure and the techniques it uses, in order to understand its true role in society.
by Vigilant Citizen
Published: Apr. 28, 2010 – The Vigilant Citizen
Mass media are media forms designed to reach the largest audience possible. They include television, movies, radio, newspapers, magazines, books, records, video games and the internet. Many studies have been conducted in the past century to measure the effects of mass media on the population in order to discover the best techniques to influence it. From those studies emerged the science of Communications, which is used in marketing, public relations and politics. Mass communication is a necessary tool the insure the functionality of a large democracy; it is also a necessary tool for a dictatorship. It all depends on its usage.
In the 1958 preface for A Brave New World, Aldous Huxley paints a rather grim portrait of society. He believes it is controlled by an “impersonal force”, a ruling elite, which manipulates the population using various methods.
“Impersonal forces over which we have almost no control seem to be pushing us all in the direction of the Brave New Worldian nightmare; and this impersonal pushing is being consciously accelerated by representatives of commercial and political organizations who have developed a number of new techniques for manipulating, in the interest of some minority, the thoughts and feelings of the masses.”
– Aldous Huxley, Preface to A Brave New World
His bleak outlook is not a simple hypothesis or a paranoid delusion. It is a documented fact, present in the world’s most important studies on mass media. Here are some of them:
Documentary – Enemy Image (2005)
Posted: March 18, 2010 Filed under: Propaganda | Tags: Documentaries, Iraq, Media, Pentagon, US Army, USA, Vietnam War 1 CommentThe invasion of Iraq was the most closely documented war ever fought. Lasting only 800 hours, it produced 20,000 hours of video, but those images were tightly controlled, producing a monolithic view of combat sanitised and controlled by the Pentagon.
Enemy Image traces the ways U.S. television has covered war, starting with Vietnam in the 1960s and shows how the military has devised ever-improving means of ensuring the American public never again has the real face of combat beamed directly into their living rooms.
Related Documentaries:
DOCUMENTARY – Militainment, Inc.: Militarism & Pop Culture
DOCUMENTARY– USA: War made Easy
DOCUMENTARY – Iraq The Hidden Story
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The Terror Card: Fear is the Key to Obedience
Posted: January 31, 2010 Filed under: Imperial Power, Israeli Apartheid, Problem Reaction Solution, Propaganda, Totalitarian Tiptoe, World Hegemony | Tags: Al Qaeda, False Flags, Global Elite, Israel, Media, Mind Control, Palestine, Surveillance Society, Terrorism Industrial Complex, USA 10 CommentsThe Terrorism Industrial Complex (TIC)
by Rev. Richard Skaff
Published: Jan. 31, 2010 – Global Research
Definitions of terrorism
Webster’s dictionary defines terrorism as the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion. [1].
However, the United States code defined terrorism as “(An) act of terrorism means an activity that (A) involves a violent act or an act dangerous to human life that is a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any state, and (B) appears to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population: (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by assassination or kidnapping.” [2].
This is an official congressional definition of terrorism that applies only to other nations. However, the psychological end results of terror, is always fear that eventually leads to resignation and submission. Fear and terrorism are interconnected, therefore, we should discuss their connection in order to understand their impact on our behavior, and their use to control people. Fear has been the glue that has kept people attached to their dictators and to their gods. It is worth our time to take a brief look at this phenomenon that rules our existence.
The Surveillance Society: Trading Freedom For The Illusion Of Safety (With Videos)
Posted: January 21, 2010 Filed under: Civil Liberties, New World Order, Propaganda, Totalitarian Tiptoe | Tags: China, Global Database, Global Elite, ID Cards, Internet, RFID, Rockefeller, Surveillance Society, UK, USA, You Tube Videos 13 Comments
by Giordano Bruno
Published: Jan. 18, 2010 – Neithercorp Press
Governments, regardless of their political structure or historical background, have always striven to not only control information, but also to gather it from the people by covert means. Often, this secretive observation of the citizenry escalates into a completely open and full-fledged surveillance state. The U.S. in particular stands on a precarious edge: the line between abhorring invasion of privacy, and embracing invasion of privacy as necessary for the “greater good.” Many people assume that such a mindset is forced on the masses by the elite, that strength of arms is somehow required to make them accept the conditions of a police state, but this is not always so. It is very difficult for governments, despite any technological developments or resources they may have, to enforce and maintain a fascistic political construct. In order to retain control, they must build a “Surveillance Culture;” a society in which the people watch each other, and where individuals censor themselves instead of being censored by the authorities. In the end, a police state cannot exist without the help of the people it means to dominate. By spying on each other, we destroy ourselves.
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