Psywar | WAR

This film explores the evolution of propaganda and public relations in the United States, with an emphasis on the elitist theory of democracy and the relationship between war, propaganda and class. Includes original interviews with a number of dissident scholars including Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Peter Phillips (Project Censored), John Stauber (PR Watch), Christopher Simpson (The Science of Coercion) and others. A deep, richly illustrated study of the nature and history of propaganda, featuring some of the world’s most insightful critics, Psywar exposes the propaganda system, providing crucial background and insight into the control of information and thought.

A powerful and timely investigation into the media's role in war, tracing the history of embedded and independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan and disaster in Iraq. As weapons and propaganda become even more sophisticated, the nature of war is developing into an electronic battlefield in which journalists play a key role, and civilians are the victims. But who is the real enemy? John Pilger says in the film: "We journalists... have to be brave enough to defy those who seek our collusion in selling their latest bloody adventure in someone else's country... That means always challenging the official story, however patriotic that story may appear, however seductive and insidious it is. For propaganda relies on us in the media to aim its deceptions not at a far away country but at you at home... In this age of endless imperial war, the lives of countless men, women and children depend on the truth or their blood is on us... Those whose job it is to keep the record straight ought to be the voice of people, not power." Directed by John Pilger

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Published on Jul 20, 2017

PRESENTED BY www.facebook.com/groups/fstwc/

Published on Jul 20, 2017

PRESENTED BY www.facebook.com/groups/fstwc/

One former UK Ambassador, three international investigative journalists and two leading professors discuss misreporting, misinformation and deliberate propaganda disseminated by the mainstream media at times of international conflict, and military intervention. The demonisation of one non-aligned leader after another, setting the stage for public consent for regime change has been part and parcel of establishment and corporate media’s agenda this century. While sidelining independent research and refusing to independently verify its own reporting the mainstream has become obsessed with ‘fake news’ – So who is spreading ‘fake news’? What effect has fake news and propaganda had? Should we make the media accountable for its actions? These questions and more are discussed by our expert panel in an event organised by Frome Stop War and supported by Bristol Against Imperialism, entitled ‘Media on Trial’.

Published on Jul 20, 2017

PRESENTED BY www.facebook.com/groups/fstwc/

Published on Mar 4, 2016

ROBERT STUART’S BLOG
https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildr…

Did the BBC Fake ‘Saving Syria’s Children’?
Robert Stuart is a former newspaper reporter who has been researching the many startling inconsistencies and anomalies surrounding the BBC Panorama documentary ‘Saving Syria’s Children’ since material from the programme was first broadcast as MPs voted on military intervention in Syria on the evening of 29 August 2013.Robert’s research has been endorsed by former UK Ambassador Craig Murray and has been featured on RT (Russia Today) and Radio Sputnik.

• “…brilliant dissection of the BBC’s propaganda blitz on Syria, at the time when the security establishment were trying to propel us into war against Assad… … this is very, very important” – Craig Murray, former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan

• “This [Saving Syria’s Children] was so badly done it is no wonder that all copies of the documentary are being purged from YouTube, etc.” – Dr Christopher Davidson, Reader in Middle East Politics, Durham University, author ‘After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies’

• [The BBC’s material] “clearly was faked”; “…any damage to the reputation and good name of the BBC [was] self-inflicted” and the BBC programmes “should never have been broadcast” – TV-Novosti, Ofcom Broadcast Bulletin, 21 September 2015.

A PDF of Robert’s presentation and links to the video clips shown are available here:
https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildr…

Media on Trial Leeds 2018 – Introduction

Patrick Henningsen

Vanessa Beeley

Peter Ford

Piers Robinson

Robert Stuart

Tim Hayward

Media On Trial: STARTS @ 7:33

The Propaganda Multiplier:
The Truth About Mainstream Media “Sources”

The Propaganda Multiplier: How Western Media Report On Geopolitics

We journalists... have to be brave enough to defy those who seek our collusion in selling their latest bloody adventure in someone else's country... That means always challenging the official story, however patriotic that story may appear, however seductive and insidious it is. For propaganda relies on us in the media to aim its deceptions not at a far away country but at you at home... In this age of endless imperial war, the lives of countless men, women and children depend on the truth or their blood is on us... Those whose job it is to keep the record straight ought to be the voice of people, not power.

John Pilger

journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker.

The Invisible Government

by John Pilger, 16 June 2007

I wasn’t going to mention The Green Berets when I sat down to write this, until I read the other day that John Wayne was the most influential movie who ever lived. I a saw the Green Berets starring John Wayne on a Saturday night in 1968 in Montgomery Alabama. (I was down there to interview the then-infamous governor George Wallace). I had just come back from Vietnam, and I couldn’t believe how absurd this movie was. So I laughed out loud, and I laughed and laughed. And it wasn’t long before the atmosphere around me grew very cold. My companion, who had been a Freedom Rider in the South, said, “Let’s get the hell out of here and run like hell.”

We were chased all the way back to our hotel, but I doubt if any of our pursuers were aware that John Wayne, their hero, had lied so he wouldn’t have to fight in World War II. And yet the phony role model of Wayne sent thousands of Americans to their deaths in Vietnam, with the notable exceptions of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

Last year, in his acceptance of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the playwright Harold Pinter made an epoch speech. He asked why, and I quote him, “The systematic brutality, the widespread atrocities, the ruthless suppression of independent thought in Stalinist Russia were well know in the West, while American state crimes were merely superficially recorded, left alone, documented.” And yet across the world the extinction and suffering of countless human beings could be attributed to rampant American power. “But,” said Pinter, “You wouldn’t know it. It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest.” Pinter’s words were more than the surreal. The BBC ignored the speech of Britain’s most famous dramatist.

I’ve made a number of documentaries about Cambodia. The first was Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia. It describes the American bombing that provided the catalyst for the rise of Pol Pot. What Nixon and Kissinger had started, Pol Pot completed—CIA files alone leave no doubt of that. I offered Year Zero to PBS and took it to Washington. The PBS executives who saw it were shocked. They whispered among themselves. They asked me to wait outside. One of them finally emerged and said, “John, we admire your film. But we are disturbed that it says the United States prepared the way for Pol Pot.”

I said, “Do you dispute the evidence?” I had quoted a number of CIA documents. “Oh, no,” he replied. “But we’ve decided to call in a journalistic adjudicator.”

THE INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT by John Pilger, 16 June 2007

FULL ARTICLE:

http://johnpilger.com/articles/the-invisible-government

General Summary Crash Course

http://lookintoit.org/General-Summary-Crash-Course.html

Adaptation and Conformity—The Selling Out of Alex Jones/Infowars

http://lookintoit.org/Psywars.html