While it only lasted for a year and half, the Committee on Public Information was the first official propaganda machine in the United States. The CPI sold and financed a war, framed the Spanish flu pandemic, and helped birth the field of modern public relations.
Tag: propaganda
Rand Paul says US spent $5 mln on influencers in Ukraine
Rand Paul says US spent $5 mln on influencers in Ukraine
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[12-23-2024]: Rand Paul ‘Festivus’ Grievances: US Millions For Ukraine TikTokers
More “Festivus” airing of the grievances: “But the absurdity doesn’t end there. The State Department also splurged $15,220 on an ‘influencers event’ and another $22,231 on a ‘USAID Social Media Influencers Campaign.”
Protected: I’m too tired to rant about the “Is China Socialist?” debate again.
Soft Power: U.K. & Quad STEM Scholarships
Trump Admin Is Misleading Public About Venezuelans at Guantánamo, Attorneys Say
After Kristi Noem, the newly confirmed secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), traveled to Guantánamo Bay earlier this week, she told CNN the Venezuelan migrants being transferred to the notorious U.S. naval base and military prison are “the worst of the worst that we’ve pulled off our streets.”
Immigration attorneys say the facts on the ground do not support Noem’s official narrative about what’s going on at Guantánamo Bay, where President Donald Trump has ordered the construction of a tent city in order to detain up to 30,000 migrants, regardless of the site’s capacity, including asylum seekers fleeing violence and poverty. For civil rights groups, the transfer is only the latest in a series of legally dubious efforts by the federal government to dodge constitutional requirements by incarcerating people at the notorious offshore facility.
Trump Admin Is Misleading Public About Venezuelans at Guantánamo, Attorneys Say
Nothing about the previous attempts by the US government to overthrow the Venezuelan government.
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Previously:
Venezuelan president blames opponent for post-election violence + More
As predicted: violence by the far-right Venezuelan opposition breaks out across Caracas
How the U.S. Drove Venezuelans North
When they request asylum in the United States, migrants have to say something against their government. But everyone in the Venezuelan community knows that it’s a lie. Venezuelan comedians in Florida, like George Harris, joke about the Venezuelans lying to the migration people just in order to receive asylum.
Tag: 2024 Venezuelan Presidential election
María Corina Machado is the female Javier Milei (aka US Puppet)
Rant 02-10-2025: Doveryai, No Proveryai
Pascal did it again! He keeps bringing on David Pyne, without disclosing that he’s a member of the hawkish group, Committee on the Present Danger: China. Pyne is far from neutral on the issue of China!
Related:
The US Scare Campaign Against China (History of the Committee on the Present Danger)
The following statistics are from the Cato Institute, which is affiliated with the Atlas Network via the Koch Network.
Cato Scholar Debunks Trump’s Fentanyl Figures amid Tariff Talk
Decades of drug war tactics have failed, merely shifting production of fentanyl precursors from China to India, Myanmar, other parts of Southeast Asia, and even Canada. Canadian authorities report “superlabs” are shipping fentanyl to drug dealers in Australia and New Zealand and, to a lesser amount, to the US.
Canadian-made fentanyl is an international problem, RCMP says
86.4% were United States citizens
U.S. Citizens Were 89% of Convicted Fentanyl Traffickers in 2022
Fentanyl Is Smuggled for U.S. Citizens By U.S. Citizens, Not Asylum Seekers
The Dark Alliance (PDF)
The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (PDF)
Internet Archive: Barry & ‘the boys’ : the CIA, the Mob and America’s secret history
Silicon Valley venture capital blowing up the US defense industry + More
Silicon Valley venture capital blowing up the US defense industry
“I’m a propagandist, I’ll twist the truth, I’ll put forward only my version of it if I think that’s going to propagandize people to believe what I need them to believe.” – Palmer Luckey
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Prescribing the American Dream
This is from something that I’ve been working on regarding Freudian psychology and social conditioning. Unfortunately, one of the author’s sources is Hannah Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism, which falsely equates Communism with Nazism. To be honest, I haven’t found any “perfect” sources for my project. Even Michael Parenti’s Against Psychopolitics quotes problematic sources (Harold Lasswell was involved with the RAND Corporation). While Karl Korsch had worked for the University of Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, which was home to the CIA front Frankfurt School, I like the above quote. I’ll probably end up using a different one when it’s all said and done, though.
Read More »Chinese Military Might vs Washington’s Asymmetrical Tools of Empire
China continues to strengthen its military capabilities, combining rapid growth in conventional power with readiness to counter U.S. asymmetrical strategies.
Chinese Military Might vs Washington’s Asymmetrical Tools of Empire (archived)
Previously:
US proxy groups capture Rakhine State in Myanmar
US Greenland-Panama Ambitions Aimed at War with Russia-China
Hot spots where war may break out or escalate in 2025: Balochistan
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 
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