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?? > --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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