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Dehumanisation is a human universal
You don’t have to be a monster or a madman to dehumanise others. You just have to be an ordinary human being. By David Livingstone Smith. (2014)
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Wonderfully Kitschy Propaganda Posters Champion the Chinese Space Program (1962-2003)
Generations of people born in the nineties and beyond will have grown up with the ISS as a symbol of the triumph of STEM education and decades of space travel and research. What they will not have experienced is something that seems almost fundamental to the cultural and political landscape of the Boomers and Gen Xers—the Cold War space race... (January)
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Fox News - Clear and Present Danger to America
This is my first diary and its going to be long. I’ve been mulling over something that happened to me for almost a week now, I thought I’d become less angry and disappointed, but I just can’t get over it.
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Homeland, Snowden and fictional defences of the CIA
The battle for public opinion over whether Edward Snowden was right might just be won out, not in the press or the US Congress, but in fiction.
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The Heartbreaking Posters That Convinced Americans to Help Displaced Syrians During WWI
The American Committee for Relief in the Near East, which put these posters in circulation in the last years of World War I, began in 1915 as the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief and was formed as a humanitarian response to the Armenian genocide and the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire... By Rebecca Onion.
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Civil War Envelopes Are Works of Art—And Propaganda
Envelopes were relatively new for American mail in the 1860s, and printers used them to take sides. By Veronique Greenwood.
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This Is How Fox News Brainwashes Its Viewers
Our In-Depth Investigation of the Propaganda Cycle. By Heather Hogan. (Sept. 2)
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North Korea Faked Sub-Launched Missile Test Footage
Footage of a North Korean submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) test released by Pyongyang two days after it announced it had conducted the country's fourth nuclear test last week was faked, according to an analysis by a California-based think tank.
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Keep Calm and Carry On – the sinister message behind the slogan that seduced the nation
It is on posters, mugs, tea towels and in headlines. Harking back to a ‘blitz spirit’ and an age of public service, ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ has become ubiquitous. How did a cosy, middle-class joke assume darker connotations? By Owen Hatherley.
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North Korea sends garbage, anti-Seoul leaflets by balloon to South Korea
Tensions at the border between North and South Korea are rising after Pyongyang dropped nearly 300,000 propaganda leaflets south of the demilitarized zone, as well as trash that included hundreds of cigarette butts, according to South Korea police. The airdrop of garbage is unprecedented and includes 600 cigarette butts, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported.
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Report: Berlin to Probe Russia Propaganda Efforts in Germany
The German government has asked its intelligence agencies to investigate whether Russia is conducting a propaganda campaign in Germany, according to media reports Friday. Daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung and public broadcasters WDR and NDR reported that the government believes Russian media are being used to spread disinformation and destabilize Germany. Government spokeswoman Christiane Wirtz declined to confirm the report, saying intelligence matters are never commented on.
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A World War has Begun: Break the Silence
“On my return journey, I stopped at Honolulu airport and noticed an American magazine called Women’s Health. On the cover was a smiling woman in a bikini swimsuit, and the headline: ‘You, too, can have a bikini body.’ A few days earlier, in the Marshall Islands, I had interviewed women who had very different ‘bikini bodies’; each had suffered thyroid cancer and other life-threatening cancers.” By John Pilger.
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James O’Keefe Accidentally Stings Himself
A failed attack on George Soros is part of a new era of secretly funded political hit jobs. By Jane Mayer. (May 21)
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Rise in advertising as North Korea embraces nascent consumerism
From free samples of sweet drinks to Italian kitchen displays, brands in the DPRK are learning to compete with the state, writes Choson Exchange.
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Kansas Republicans Employ Koch Propaganda To Abolish Public Schools
Kansas GOP calls public schools government schools to imply they indoctrinate children and interfere with individual's free choice.
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Thin Blue Spin
From Baton Rouge to New York City, police departments across the country have taken their hip message to social media. By Aaron Miguel Cantú.
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The ‘White Helmets’ Controversy
The saturation of propaganda from massive investments by Western interests in NGOs like the “White Helmets” has skewed the public’s understanding of foreign crises, such as Iraq in 2003 and Syria today, writes Rick Sterling.
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Inside the Shadowy PR Firm That’s Lobbying for Regime Change in Syria
Posing as a non-political solidarity organization, the Syria Campaign leverages local partners and media contacts to push the U.S. into toppling another Middle Eastern government. By Max Blumenthal.
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Inside the Invisible Government
War, Propaganda, Clinton & Trump. By John Pilger.
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Ban the burqa? Scrap the sari? Why women’s clothing matters
British missionaries hated the sari; US feminists would ban the burqa. Why do empires care so much about women’s clothes? By Rafia Zakaria.
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