US wars and mind manipulation
At the end of March, the correspondent of the American television channel CNN Amber Lion made a sensational statement that the television channel employees were instructed to broadcast a fabricated news and block information, the publication of which is undesirable for the US administration. According to the journalist, the American media are manipulating the news and now “the same thing is happening with Iraq”: Syria and Iran are being demonized, public opinion is being formed in support of the war against these countries ... E.Lion confirmed that CNN employees receive fees from the US government for fabricated news, and expressed concern about the disappearance of independent journalists whose activities did not follow the White House’s course. According to the journalist, they could be arrested and tortured under the pretext of accusations of terrorism.
As you know, the best varieties of lies are obtained from half-truths. Hollywood has achieved particular success in the manufacture of this product. History Pentagon-Hollywood collaboration began back in the year 1927, during the making of the silent film Wings. Today, the US military helps the “dream factory” with whatever it can.
According to US law, the Pentagon, like the CIA, has no right to engage in propaganda inside the country. However, the output found. Back in 2001, the personal political consultant of US President C. Rove held a meeting with the heads of leading television companies and film studios. Present around 50 top executives of the “world of illusions”, including representatives of ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox, HBO, Columbia Pictures, Metro Goldwin Meyer, Sony Pictures, Dreamworks, 20 Century Fox ”,“ Universal Pictures ”,“ Warner Brothers ”,“ Paramount Pictures ”,“ Viacom ”and others. The main focus of cooperation between the US administration and Hollywood in the information area was“ uniting efforts to combat terrorism ”.
Americans contribute to the maximum spread of misinformation through foreign, primarily European, media (among which they call, for example, Reuters and France Press), and The New York Times noted several years ago that this initiative belongs to the Strategic Influence Department (SALT) - a small a special unit created within the Pentagon structure shortly after 11 September 2001. The task is to use the “black” methods of information warfare to process foreign audiences by throwing up false information foreign reporters, including "of friendly and allied states of the USA."
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have become a testing ground not only for the latest American weapons, but also for modern technologies of mind manipulation. The videos produced for the orders of the Pentagon are largely made on the models of Hollywood producers involved in the production of TV shows and feature films. The pioneer here can be considered D. Brookheimer, the producer of the famous military blockbusters (“The Landing of the Black Hawk”, “Pearl Harbor”, etc.). His supposedly documentary television series “Portraits from the Front,” about American soldiers in Afghanistan, received in its time the support of the US Secretary of Defense.
In 2006, the British The Independent reported that the US government is actively using not only film production, but also custom fake TV news. In particular, the experts of the non-profit organization Media and Democracy Center, which monitored 10 TV channels for 77 months, whose audience is half the population of the United States, concluded that “US television companies fill the broadcast of news programs with video materials created in government and large corporations ... Moreover, the producers of such custom-made commercials have learned how to create materials that do not differ from the news transmitted by independent authors. ”
Here you can recall the TV movie, which at one time played a huge role in the turn of public opinion in the United States to support the first Gulf War. In the frame, an 15-year-old girl depicting a Kuwaiti refugee tells that she saw with her own eyes how Iraqi soldiers condemned 15 babies from a maternity hospital in Kuwait to death. Interviews with the girl twisted on American TV hundreds of times. The name of the girl was hidden - she allegedly had a family back home, and she could suffer from the soldiers of Saddam Hussein. To understand the significance of this video, let us add that President George Bush Sr. used the story of the dead babies 10 once in 40 days of the military propaganda campaign. It was subsequently proved that the girl shown on TV was not a refugee, but the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. Moreover, she is a member of the royal family that governs Kuwait, all her relatives have enormous fortunes, estates abroad and live in the West ...
The New York Times accused the Pentagon and the US administration of placing custom-made stories on American television even earlier than the British in the spring of 2005. In total, according to the American press, this kind of custom-made materials, which look like news reports, prepared at least 20 government departments. According to The New York Times, the Pentagon and the US Census Bureau "produced and distributed hundreds of similar news materials." In one of these videos, “a resident of Iraq freed from the regime of Saddam Hussein” greets American soldiers with exclamations: “Thank you, Bush! Thank you, USA! ”The investigation showed that the hero of the video (by the way, the real American) was shot not in Baghdad, but in Kansas City ...
Some more examples. During the war in South Ossetia, the journalists of the Russia Today TV channel, who worked in Tskhinvali, caught the American television channel CNN for a fake - the extradition of personnel from Tskhinvali for the appearance of a destroyed Gori. But how in August 2008 was used by Reuters in the information war against Russia. In both pictures the same person lies, depicting a dead man, but in different poses and in different places. The second one in black (this is also the same person) in the first case costs near an imaginary corpse, in the second, sitting, crying - only now half-naked and in jeans of a different color, while the “deceased” did not change his pants, although yellow the veil is covered ...
Special groups of such "mobile dead" played a major role in the information war against Libya. Depending on the situation, they portrayed in front of the cameras of western correspondents on the streets of the cities of Qatar or Turkey, either “victims of the Gaddafi regime” or “heroic rebels”. After Libya, the "living dead" were in Syria, this time "victims of the Assad regime." Before you are shots from various reports, which are essentially one well-directed “report” on the reprisals of the “repressive Syrian regime” with the civilian population of Homs. The main character is the same person. "Dead" - Palestinian name is Khaled Abu Salah. In Syria (and not only) is known as one of the leading figures of opposition propaganda ...
As T. Wilson, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency of the United States (RUMO), stated in 2002, future wars will be fought for globalization, which is equivalent to Americanization, and the main thing here is the perception of American values. Simply put, even the threat to American ideas about a new world order becomes a pretext for war. Finally, you can recall the startling results of a survey conducted among US citizens in August 2003 about the war in Iraq. 69% of those polled then declared their belief that Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the preparation of the September 11 terrorist attacks on September 2001. And despite the fact that the White House was not able to provide a single piece of evidence that indicates any links between Iraq and Al-Qaida, which carried out the attacks, according to the official version. Does this mean that the western man in the street can be programmed to believe in anything, nonsense? Apparently, yes. And here is the last, especially alarming proof of this: since the end of January 2013, the Western media began to fill with heartbreaking stories about the hungry North Koreans, devouring supposedly their own children and relatives dug up from their graves. The Washington Post, The Sunday Times, The Independent, The Daily Mail are seriously writing about it ... Commentators have already noted that all this is extremely reminiscent of stories about "babies torn up in maternity hospitals of Kuwait by Iraqi soldiers" that preceded the Gulf War of the Year in the Gulf ...
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