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I am writing to you
in order to congratule you on the articles published in your website. I find
them very interesting.
I made a
translation into Spanish on the article "Wars and propaganda
Machines".
Agustín (Argentina)
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Maybe all
of your assertions are true, though I don't think anybody in Britain (my
homeland) or Holland (where I live) believes there is/was a direct connection
between 9/11 and Saddam, nor that he had MADs, though I know you were also
contrasting Europe with the US.
I don't
think talking of "sympathies" for Israel or Palestine is helpful.
Each side is at fault. My own feeling is that it is the Israelis that need to
change, since the Palestinians are incapable. Pres. Bush may be antagonistic in
attitude, but the British press is far more so; no wonder politicians are
guarded in what they say, since when they do make a comment, the media,
including the BBC, immediately comes out with an atagonistic headline (as in
Jack Straw's recent comments about Moslem women covering their faces).
But my
main reason for writing: the Washington Times may have been pro the invasion of
Iraq (I don't know, I don't read it) and it was founded by the Reverend Sun
Myung Moon, but he has repeatedly cautioned against the military option in the
MIddle East and initiated the Middle East Peace Initiative which involves
numerous projects aimed at helping reconcile the different ethnic, national and
religious peoples in the region. He has also been very active in trying
to help North Korea, while still telling the Korean leadership that it
needs to change.
Christopher D. (U.K.)
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While I
certainly appreciate your tantalizing bits of info on the propaganda machine,
what is lacking is some kind of legal strategy to challenge the control and in support
of our democratic Canadian rights....what surely is needed is some civil
movement to challenge our democratic or undemocratic process in the
courts.......
Ira Z.
(Canada)
Answer by R. T.:
What is even more needed is a political movement to break down media
ownership concentration. In the U.S., the Bush administration (just like the
Reagan administration) has instructed the FCC to encourage media ownership
concentration. In Canada, the Chretien-Martin governments were very happy to
see the Asper group (CanWest) take control of nearly all important newspapers
in English Canada and let the CRTC do the same with radio-TV.
Now that CanWest is siding with the Harper government, the Liberals may
have second thoughts about such concentration.
The issue should be raised publicly. But this is not easy, since the
controlled media do not want to see that occuring.
R. T.
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The
Propaganda Machine works in ways that even the enlightened fail to
acknowledge: we start from a platform of tying Iraq to al Qaeda, or
not, and refuse to examine the connection between 9/11 and al Qaeda (Osama
bin Laden).
Without
question, we are inclined to start with the assumption that Osama bin Laden is
guilty of the events of September 11, 2001, and expand from there. In
spite of the fact that the best evidence to date, and growing, suggests
otherwise. Sure, he may have had a plan, and the plan may have been
leaked, but evidence suggests that that may be the extent of his involvement.
Getting
wind of the plan, those behind the Project for a New American Century,
"caught the ball and ran with it". And, as they say, "the
rest is history". The official story just does not hold water, so we
are left wrestling with a story that will: and that leaves only an "Inside
Job".
The
collapse of the Twin Towers and #7 at free fall speed is the smoking gun for
all the world to see. To achieve these speeds, all impedance to gravity had
to be removed by extraordinary means: the preparations of such, with the weeks
of access needed to secure buildings, was not orchestrated from the caves of
Tora-Bora.
Being a
rational person, I need a rational story: the truth will do! Meanwhile we
must remember to start our assessment at least one step farther back. Who
benefited, who had access, and what is plausible.
Though it
changes everything, it changes nothing: the Neo-Cons have a steel grip on the
"truth".
Doug M.
(USA)
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I read
with interest your essay “Wars and propaganda machines,” posted at
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1290.shtml
In your
essay, you cite a quotation that you attribute to Joseph Goebbels. These words
are so radically contrary to views expressed by Goebbels on other occasion that
I strongly suspect that this quotation is bogus.
I would
be grateful if you could please provide your source for this quote, or at least
a credible reference.
Mark W.
Answer by R. T.:
Yes, Goebbels was Nazi Germany Propaganda
Minister and he liked to burn books.
Now that you draw my attention to it, the quote seems to be
at odds with what such a man would be thinking.
When I ran into the
quote, I understood it came from an interview Goebbels was supposed to have
given while in prison after the war.
On Google, I found dozens of references to the quote. I
traced it back also from the 2005 review of a documentary called " The
Goebbels Experiment." The reviewer presented the quote as being "perhaps
the most famous and significant utterance of Paul Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945),
Nazi Reichsminister of Propaganda." [http://www99.epinions.com/content_197921771140]
I
understand the quote also originates from a 1950 book titled "Goebbels'
principles of propaganda" by Leonard William Doob.
Therefore, even though I cannot personally vouch for the
quote, it seems to have been referred to quite often.
R. T.
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In one of
your articles you prised one of the worst war criminals in a recent history
with a title of exceptional diplomat, so you might be interested to read this
article:
Adrian
(Canada)
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by Molly
Ivins
The Old
War Criminal is back. I try not to hold grudges, but I must admit I have never lost
one ounce of rancor toward Henry Kissinger, that cynical, slithery,
self-absorbed pathological liar. He has all the loyalty and principle of
Charles Talleyrand, whom Napoleon described as “a piece of dung in a silk
stocking.”
continue
Answer by
R. T.:
Yes, I referred once to Kissinger (See, 'For a
Productive New Approach in the Middle East') [http://www.TheNewAmericanEmpire.com/tremblay=1035])
and it was in relation to the 1975 Helsinki Accords which he ushered in the
demise of the Soviet Union and of which Kissinger was the proponent in the Ford
administration.
This does not mean that I agree with everything Kissinger has done. I
concur that he acted as a criminal for what he did within the Nixon
administration in Chile, Argentina and elsewhere.
I hope this clarifies things.
R. T.
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I have
just discovered your blog via Information Clearing House (ICH) and found your
analysis of the American administration and it's propaganda to be pitch
perfect.
So I
thought I would email you and ask for your comments on the following posted to
my site on 1st March this year (2006). That now seems a long time ago, the Israeli
war on Lebanese children and the N.Korean explosion have shifted the equation
somewhat.
http://www.outsidethegates.com/content/view/3/2/
"The
Five Pillars of the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex" was riveting.
Les
(U.K.)
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