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Old Oct 10th, 2006, 03:01 PM        war and propaganda machines
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Wars and propaganda machines
By Rodrigue Tremblay
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Oct 9, 2006, 01:30

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publ...ter_1290.shtml
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Old Oct 10th, 2006, 03:34 PM       
What did it say? Why do you like it?

Can you summarize it for us?
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Old Oct 10th, 2006, 03:40 PM       
"Thanks to the powerful pro-Israel Lobby and its propaganda (Hasbara) machine, Americans seem to live on a different planet than the rest of the world. -- Americans, for example, are far more likely than Europeans to side with Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."

Yeah, and Europe has always gotten this one right.

Where does the author's own country stand on this issue? Where were they on Lebanon?
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Old Oct 10th, 2006, 07:57 PM       
CAMERA is one of many media watchdog groups devoted to corrected published innacuracies. They're not part of any Lobby. I think the consensus is that Israel has consistantly lost the publicity war on all counts.
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Old Oct 10th, 2006, 11:23 PM       
at economics professors writing articles about politics
I like how the crux of his article is that there is a propaganda machine in support of the war, but other than telling us what companies run the media propaganda machine he never really made any argument about the connection between the media and the government. Well, I mean he does point out the fact that the Jews are involved, I guess that's pretty convincing. Seriously though, the conclusion I would reach from that article is that the American people are really fucking stupid.
The part about the faceless cabal of neocons 'whispering in Bush's ear about "God" and the "Devil"' was pretty awesome too. I bet they had a seance and got Leo Strauss to give him a lecture about the importance of deceiving the masses too.
Also, the inclusion of the lengthy Goebbels' quote at the beginning was pretty weird, considering that Goebbels was talking about was the limits of the usefulness of propaganda.
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