Barack Obama’s Literature List for 2025 —Connecting the Dots

As senior OWI officials saw it, “Books do not have their impact upon the mass mind but upon the minds of those who mould the mass mind—upon leaders of thought and formulators of public opinion. The impact of a book may last six months or several decades. Books are the most enduring propaganda of all.

John B. Hench, Books as Weapons: Propaganda, Publishing, and the Battle for Global Markets in the Era of World War II (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010), 70

Barack Obama’s Literature List for 2025 —Connecting the Dots

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Books differ from all other propaganda media, primarily because one single book can significantly change the reader’s attitude and action to an extent unmatched by the impact of any other single medium… this is, of course, not true of all books at all times and with all readers – but it is true significantly often enough to make books the most important weapon of strategic (long-range) propaganda.

Liberated Texts: The power of books as propaganda

How Good Books Can Change a Person

How Good Books Can Change You

CIA and the Cultural Cold War (Anti-Communism)

‘Make Europe Great Again’ and more from a longer version of the National Security Strategy

From Brexit to Bannon’s failed Movement, the through‑line has always been fragmentation: dismantling the European Union into smaller, more pliable states that Washington could manage one‑by‑one. Where Bannon faltered, Heritage has stepped in — not only with slogans, but with policy machinery designed to export Trump’s nationalist agenda across the Atlantic.

‘Make Europe Great Again’ and more from a longer version of the National Security Strategy

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It’s Not Only About Venezuela: Trump Intends a Wider Domino Effect

John Perry and Roger D. Harris

It’s increasingly obvious that the US military threats against Venezuela have a wider agenda. Their game plan is regime change, but not only in Venezuela. This is the objective – on a longer timescale in some cases – across several of the countries in the Caribbean Basin, aiming to cleanse the region of governments deemed undesirable to Washington.

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Gimenez: The Tweets and the Foreign Lobbying Firm

Brian Berletic:

US Authorizes CIA Violence in Venezuela, Then Blames Venezuela For It…

The US already openly announced the CIA is conducting operations inside Venezuela, then says “Venezuela” is doing it to themselves to blame the US or its terrorist proxies inside Venezuela…

The NYT had reported:

“The new authority would allow the C.l.A. to carry out lethal operations in Venezuela and conduct a range of operations in the Caribbean.

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The CIA has released a new Call of Duty PsyOp /s

Black Ops 7 campaign review: Maybe the worst Call of Duty campaign ever

I had to check and see what country it targeted this time.

Google AI overview:

The country that represents the Mediterranean city of Avalon in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is the fictional nation of Avalon, which is depicted as a city-state and a former crime syndicate based in the Mediterranean region. While it is a fictional location, the city’s in-game storyline and characteristics, particularly its former criminal organization, are inspired by real-world locations like Monaco, and it has historical ties to France and Italy. 

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