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Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 08:07:43 +0100
From: Hugh Rodwell <m-14970-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se>
Subject: M-TH: Iraq -- Imperialism has lost the hearts and minds


Doug writes:

>I think the control of opinion-formation in the U.S. is one of the most
>efficient and successful enterprises in the history of propaganda. It's
>created a largely, but not fully, passive and voiceless population, that
>feels powerless to change events. It's created an busily vacuous
>intellectual and political culture, a life scripted by publicists. It's a
>crime against freedom & thought.
>
>Is that ok now Hugh?

No. Doug could have written this at any time since world war II. My request
for a comment related to why he thought it was necessary to point out that
the Sparts had been singled out as a force behind what is generally
acknowledged as an important defeat for US government publicists in their
attempts to script a brainwashed response to the threatened genocidal
attack on Iraq.

Cheers,

Hugh



_____________


>Hugh Rodwell wrote:
>
>>Doug the Spart-eating Arch-Observer quotes from the NYT front page:
>>
>>>>From a front-page article in today's New York Times on the Clinton
>>>administration's effort to re-take the PR offensive after the Columbus
>>>debacle the other day:
>>>
>>><quote>
>>>But the White House did not deploy its "A Team" of event organizers to
>>>execute the plan, said another official. "We were in a big league play
>>>yesterday, and we should have treated it like a presidential advance," he
>>>said. Better advance people, he said, "wouldn't have given tickets to
>>>Spartacist League."
>>></quote>
>>
>>Now wouldn't it be great to get just two sentences of substantive comment
>>from the man on what he actually thinks of this??
>





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