Tag Propaganda

Poll reveals: people are easily confused

Sharp decline in public’s belief in cli­mate threat, Brit­ish poll reveals:

The pro­por­tion of adults who believe cli­mate change is “def­in­itely” a real­ity dropped by 30% over the last year, from 44% to 31%, in the latest sur­vey by Ipsos Mori.

What I don’t under­stand is that we’ve been here so often before. Why do people listen to the pro­pa­ganda of oil com­pan­ies and the like over sci­entific evid­ence? How many times do you have to have the wool pulled over your eyes by pro­pa­gand­ists deny­ing that smoking causes can­cer, deny­ing that CFCs lead to ozone deple­tion, deny­ing that cer­tain pol­lut­ants cause acid rain or deny­ing that cli­mate change is man­made (or, ori­gin­ally, that it even existed)?

This is a great time to be born, a great time to be alive. This gen­er­a­tion gets to com­pletely change the world we live in. We have a chance here to reima­gine every single thing we do. But, no, per­haps we’d rather go down with the ship and listen to rich old men try­ing to squeeze every last dol­lar, euro and yen from their invest­ments in out­dated industries.

Chilcot Inquiry into Iraq War is a whitewash before it starts

The Chil­cot Inquiry into the Iraq war is already run­ning a pro­pa­ganda cam­paign that it “won’t be a whitewash.”

But you only need to real­ise that its mem­bers were appoin­ted by Gor­don Brown — one of the per­pet­rat­ors — and read the terms of ref­er­ence to real­ise this is a white­wash before it even starts.

The truth about Amersterdam vs. Bill O’Reilly 2

Bill O’Reilly being called out again out on what can only be described as his feeble fact-free attempt to paint Amer­s­ter­dam as a cess­pool of crime and cor­rup­tion. You can watch the ori­ginal Bill O’Reilly clip here, and the Roberwter’s first response here. (via Rus­sell Brown’s Hard News)

Cheney: an evil person for evil times

The Guard­ian: ‘Mem­oirs to reveal Dick Cheney thought Bush had gone soft on war on ter­ror.’ Who knows what dark place we’d all be in if this man had become U.S. President.

Want to be bemused?

Then try fol­low­ing the debate pro­pa­ganda war on health care reform in the U.S. Dar­ing Fire­ball has a couple of pearlers: You Can’t Make This Stuff Up, Part One You Can’t Make This Stuff Up, Part Two Update: Stephen Hawk­ing: I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS,” he told us. “I have…

Colonel Julian didn’t get the memo

Ahh, yes, there’s noth­ing like a little Amer­ican excep­tion­al­ism to get one going in the morn­ing. Accord­ing to Reu­ters, Col­onel Greg Julian, a U.S. mil­it­ary spokes­man in Kabul, has been com­plain­ing that the Taliban is viol­at­ing inter­na­tional law by parad­ing a cap­tured U.S. sol­dier on cam­era. It seems Col­onel Julian didn’t get the memo: the…

No, Afghanistan is not “a war we should be fighting”

Afgh­anistan is spun as a war we should be fight­ing. In fact, a fact long for­got­ten by the West­ern media and oth­ers involved in the inva­sion of Afgh­anistan is that, on 14 Octo­ber, 2001, the Taliban pub­licly offered to hand over Osama bin Laden to a third coun­try, provided the U.S. hal­ted the illegal bombing…

Neda’s death used selectively as a propaganda tool

Neda Agha-Soltan is a young women from Iran who was shot dead while protest­ing against repres­sion in Iran. She has a page on Wiki­pe­dia. Pho­tos and video and of her death have been widely broad­cast by the West­ern media, with copi­ous amounts of faux sym­pathy. She deserves our sym­pathy because she appears to be a…

Prefer more than a caricature of North Korea?

Look no fur­ther than Media Lens: How much do you know about the increased polit­ical ten­sions on the Korean pen­in­sula? The answer, even for dili­gent read­ers of the main­stream press, is likely to be ‘not much’. In place of ser­i­ous, pen­et­rat­ing ana­lysis the pub­lic has been sold a car­toon ver­sion of events based on a…

The train wreck that was Donald Rumsfeld

Fas­cin­at­ing art­icle on Don­ald Rums­feld in GQ magazine that will make you cringe.

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