Since bursting onto the U.S. foreign policy stage in the 1980s, the neocons have been masters of “perception management,” devising emotional (and often false) messaging to justify aggressive war, as Maidhc Ó Cathail sees in recent Holocaust-themed propaganda against Syria’s…
Category: Obama Administration
The Battle for Palestine — Part Three
Citizenfour’s Escape to Freedom in Russia
Neocon Sabotage of Iran-Nuke Deal
Chevron Invests in Political Campaigns
Germans Clear Russia in MH-17 Case
The ‘Threat Multiplier’ of Climate Change
Climate change what the Pentagon calls a “threat multiplier” could put the world on course toward worsening chaos or even extermination as nuclear-armed nations scramble to cope with environmental dislocations and resource shortages, a danger that could define the future,…
The Two Sides of the Berlin Wall
WPost’s Slimy Assault on Gary Webb
Shaping the Vietnam Narrative
Controlling the narrative is a key tool for propagandists who realize that how people understand a foreign conflict goes a long way toward determining their support or opposition. So, the U.S. government’s sanitizing of the Vietnam War is not just about…