Re: Pentagon aims propaganda at foreign media

[mallard]

Re: Taiwan News - 12/15/05 - Pentagon aims propaganda at foreign media
(Reuters/Washington - no link yet available)

A US$400 million Pentagon psychological warfare operation includes plans to place pro-American messages in foreign media outlets without disclosing the US government as the source, USA today reported yesterday.

Citing one of the military officials in charge of the program, the newspaper said the media campaign was being designed to counter terrorist ideology and sway foreign audiences to support U.S. policies.

The report said the program, run by psychological warfare experts at the U.S. Special Operations command, would operate throughout the world including in allied nations and in countries where the United States is not involved in armed conflict.


[These characters are earning and spending tax dollars to deceptively counter the bad US image created by a 'pre-emptive-for-naught' war in Iraq, by false-flagging supporting reports in the world press. Apparently the idea is to bribe editors into mislabelling their rosy stories at the behest of the war's unrepentent proponents.

[tom_paine]

1. Why not? The same procedure, essentially, is what destroyed America

and turned us into Amerika.

Why not use it on the foreigners, too? The Greatest Propaganda Machine in all of History...The Bushevik Party-Loyal Sub-Media...retrofitted to bring Goebbels v2.0 to the world after it's amazingly successful debut in bringing BushPutinism to America, and really triggering it's re-emergence in Russia after a brief flirtation with the Old American-style governance that the Busheviks have eradicated (not quite fully, yet).

Why the hell not begin exporting the building-blocks of BushPutinism to the Third World?