War by Media and the Triumph of Propaganda
Secrecy, Surveillance and Censorship
Pilger, John
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/12/05/war-by-media-and-the-triumph-of-propaganda/Publisher: CounterPunch
Date Written: 05/12/2014
Year Published: 2014
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX17075
The world is facing the prospect of major war, perhaps nuclear war -- with the United States clearly determined to isolate and provoke Russia and eventually China. This truth is being turned upside down and inside out by journalists, including those who promoted the lies that led to the bloodbath in Iraq in 2003. The times we live in are so dangerous and so distorted in public perception that propaganda is no longer, as Edward Bernays called it, an "invisible government". It is the government. It rules directly without fear of contradiction and its principal aim is the conquest of us: our sense of the world, our ability to separate truth from lies.
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