Propaganda Alert
compiled by Cem Ertür
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Dandelion Salad
28 October 2010
1) MI6 chief: We need intelligence operations to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons (28 October 2010)
2) UK Foreign Minister: We will continue to lead the way in imposing tighter sanctions on Iran (6 October 2010)
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David Miliband
Insurgent Ed Miliband Ends the New Labour Era by Michael Carmichael
by Michael Carmichael
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PlanetaryMovement.org
September 28, 2010
New Labour began as an ill-advised facsimile of the center-right shift of U.S. politics.
In the aftermath of the dreadful Dukakis campaign in 1988, Bill Clinton headed the ‘New Democrat’ movement to Reaganize the Democratic Party by tilting it to the right. Richard Gephardt, Bruce Babbitt, Lawton Chiles and Sam Nunn all gave the Democratic Leadership Council their backing. Al From became the founder and CEO of the party-within-a-party to drive public opinion to the right and displace the liberal paradigm that had sustained the Democrats since the days of FDR and JFK.
Flying the Flag, Faking the News By John Pilger
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By John Pilger
Information Clearing House
www.Newstatesman.com
September 02, 2010
Loud noises from Washington about a US pull-out from Iraq are a poor disguise for America’s determination to keep waging war. And the same sort of spin is at work here in Britain
Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, is said to have invented modern propaganda. During the First World War, he was one of a group of influential liberals who mounted a secret government campaign to persuade reluctant Americans to send an army to the bloodbath in Europe. In his book Propaganda , published in 1928, Bernays wrote that the “intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society”, and that the manipulators “constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power in our country”. Instead of propaganda, he coined the euphemism “public relations”.
Miliband: People in the Middle East respect us for having fulfilled our warning that it was Iraq’s last chance to avoid war
Propaganda Alert
compiled by Cem Ertür
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11 March 2010
1) David Miliband: People in the Middle East respect us for having fulfilled our warning that it was Iraq’s last chance to avoid war (8 March 2010)
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2) Tony Blair: Iraq is better, our own security is better with Saddam out of power (28 January 2010)
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Top judge: Binyam Mohamed case shows MI5 to be devious, dishonest and complicit in torture
The Guardian
Wednesday 10 February 2010 21.40 GMT
MI5 faced an unprecedented and damaging crisis tonight after one of the country’s most senior judges found that the Security Service had failed to respect human rights, deliberately misled parliament, and had a “culture of suppression” that undermined government assurances about its conduct.
Binyam Mohamed: Judges overrule attempt to suppress torture evidence
by Richard Norton-Taylor
guardian.co.uk
Friday 16 October 2009
High court orders publication of US report, saying British foreign secretary’s actions were harmful to the rule of law
David Miliband, the foreign secretary, acted in a way that was harmful to the rule of law by suppressing evidence about what the government knew of the illegal treatment of Binyam Mohamed, a British resident who was held in a secret prison in Pakistan, the high court has ruled.
In a devastating judgment, two senior judges roundly dismissed the foreign secretary’s claims that disclosing the evidence would harm national security and threaten the UK’s vital intelligence-sharing arrangements with the US.
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via Binyam Mohamed: Judges overrule attempt to suppress torture evidence | World news | guardian.co.uk
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US Torture Under Scrutiny In British Courts by Andy Worthington
UK Foreign Minister Miliband: The long thesis of the conspiracy by foreign powers against Iran is peddled vociferously by the regime
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19 June 2009
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| “Obviously the long thesis of the conspiracy by foreign powers against Iran is one that is deeply ingrained in the popular imagination and peddled vociferously by the regime. The demonisation of the West, the United States, the UK to some extent, has been a feature of the last 30 years.” |
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Dispatches: Iraq – The Betrayal
Video Report From UK: Channel 4
Mar 17, 2008
Peter Oborne accompanies the UK Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, as he travels across Iraq, meeting the main players who will determine the future of the country; from the US Commanding General David Petraeus, to militiamen fighting to protect their homes, to parliamentarians holed up in Baghdad’s Green Zone, Oborne discovers that Iraq seems to have reverted to a violent feudalism.
Meanwhile America has lost the trust and respect of the world and there are chilling consequences of the war for ordinary people back on the streets of Britain.
via http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/dispatches/iraq%2Bthe%2Bbetrayal/1753047.html
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