This site is inspired by the pioneering work of the Institute for Propaganda Analysis (IPA). In 1937, the IPA was created to educate the American public about the widespread nature of political propaganda. Composed of social scientists and journalists, the IPA published a series of books, includ...
is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true; so that he who says of anything that it is, or that it is not, will say either what is true or what is false;
In allegory, the story is always told with a lesson or message in mind. The writer’s goal is to have the reader come away with a new understanding of an event, a movement, or a social dialogue and thenattempt to become better because of it. The world is rarely black and white, but...
To conflate, again and again, the White Helmets with a propaganda operation run by a western PR company is to miss the point of the (this time literally) hundreds of thousands of deaths by the air strikes, barrel bombs and missile attacks of the regime against areas where the regime itself...
That is, after all, the reason it was created. Propaganda is also often disguised to look like news but is actually intended to provoke, mislead, or persuade.The role of the First Amendment A free and independent press is one of the five crucial freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment ...
I don’t need to hear your whataboutism. — Bryn (@brynismyname) June 22, 2020Critics who claim “All Lives Matter” and “Blue Lives Matter” in response to the Black Lives Matter movement are engaging in whataboutism. They deflect attention from the original issue (Black people are ...
This is the starting point for the below, Feynman being prescient again, but a masterclass. POINT: We know what to do and have come close to understanding much of nature in the last 200 years. In particular the last 20 years when most of the pseudo science of the Agenda 21 movement ha...
Regimes that rule by fear, live in fear. They fear that one day the people will no longer tolerate their lies, thieving and brutality. They try to hang on with propaganda, persecution and patronage. But it looks increasingly as if Mr Putin is running out of tricks, and as if Alexander ...
Here’s what you need to know about the group at the center of New York City’s most volatile pro-Palestinian protests. Within Our Lifetime started as a student organization but has widened. Origins of the movement Within Our Lifetime was established in 2015 as NYCStudents for Justice in ...
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