Propaganda

btw, u should look out 4 IEDs

by Judith Siers-Poisson — July 24, 2006 - 11:42am

94 million registered users – many in their teens and 20s – use MySpace.Com as a way to connect with others with similar interests. The U.S. Marine Corps is hoping to tap into that pool of potential recruits through its own MySpace profile. According to Gunnery Sgt. Brian Lancioni, it’s “definitely the new wave.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 24, 2006

Pentagon Seeks More Bang for Propaganda Buck

by John Stauber — July 19, 2006 - 6:16pm

"The U.S. military has removed two firms from a psychological operations contract aimed at influencing international public opinion," reports the Washington Post. "The firms, plus a third company (SYColeman) that will retain the contract, spent the past year developing prototypes for radio and television spots intended for use in Iraq and in other nations...

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Washington Post, July 19, 2006

He Who Sows the Wind, Reaps the Storm

by Judith Siers-Poisson — July 19, 2006 - 2:28pm

Israeli leaflet dropped in Lebanon

It isn't only Israeli bombs that are landing in Lebanon. Propaganda flyers are also descending on the Lebanese landscape.

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The Washington Post, July 18, 2006

John Rendon's Long, Strange Trip in the Terror Wars

by John Stauber — July 10, 2006 - 11:15pm

Topics: Iraq, Propaganda

John Rendon

In his hippie youth as a Merry Prankster, Stewart Brand bounced around San Francisco in Ken Kesey's day-glo bus, dousing people with LSD-laced Kool-Aid at the legendary Acid Tests. Those were strange days, but his latest trip is also bizarre. Brand and his Long Now Foundation are bringing to San Francisco John Rendon, the elusive head of the Rendon Group, one of the CIA's favorite PR firms.

John Rendon is the self-described "information warrior” who, under contract with the CIA, named and nurtured the infamous Iraqi National Congress. INC leader Ahmed Chalabi was a Rendon protégé embraced by the Project for a New American Century and other advocates of war with Iraq. Rendon and Chalabi probably did as much as anyone to deceive the US into war.

U.S. Military Gets Picky about Whom It Embeds

by Diane Farsetta — July 10, 2006 - 5:58pm

In an interview with Foreign Policy, former Newsweek Baghdad bureau chief Rod Nordland said the situation in Iraq is "a lot worse ... than is reported. The administration does a great job of managing the news." He added, "The military has started censored many [embedded reporting] arrangements. Before a journalist is allowed to go on an embed now, [the military] check[s] the work you have done previously.

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Foreign Policy, July 5, 2006

Afghanistan's Media War

by Diane Farsetta — June 23, 2006 - 11:35am

In Afghanistan, "the Taliban now have three different press spokesmen covering three separate regions of the country. In Kandahar this summer, Taliban cassettes, DVDs and magazines are available in numbers never previously seen. ... The Taliban have also begun broadcasting a pirate station called the 'Voice of Sharia' from mobile transmitters in at least two southern provinces," reports The Independent.

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The Independent (UK), June 23, 2006

Ready for Review: The Best War Ever

by John Stauber — June 5, 2006 - 6:03pm

Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber have finished writing The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies and the Mess in Iraq. It is their sixth book together for the Center and a sequel to their 2003 bestseller Weapons of Mass Deception. If you review books or interview authors, please contact us to request a free advance review copy.

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Center for Media and Democracy, June 5, 2006

The Best War Ever

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Lies, Damned Lies and the Mess in Iraq

by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber

Pentagon Primes Propaganda Plan

by Diane Farsetta — May 30, 2006 - 1:13pm

The Pentagon's new "strategic communications roadmap" will soon be approved, according to U.S. News and World Report. The plan seeks to "create a culture" that sees strategic communications as "not just public affairs, information operations or psychological operations, legislative affairs or public diplomacy, but ...

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U.S. News and World Report, May 29, 2006