Exclusive: U.S. government propagandists know that the best way to get Americans to support a war is to get them despising and laughing at some “designated villain,” though the technique applies to more mundane cases, too. That’s when journalists should step…
Tag: Ronald Reagan
How Reagan’s Propaganda Succeeded
Failing to Hide Israel-Iran-Iraq Secrets
Saddam’s Green Light
The US-Israel-Iran Triangle’s Tangled History
CIA at 50, Lost in the ‘Politicization’ Swamp
Tick-Tock-ing toward Oblivion
Finding Creative Ways to Torture
Ronald Reagan’s Torture
From the Archive: George W. Bush’s torture policies may have been extraordinary in the direct participation of U.S. personnel but they were far from unique, with Ronald Reagan having followed a similar path in his anti-leftist wars in Central America,…