this is why we are killing 'insurgents' in Iraq, rather than the 'Freedom fighters' we would call them if they were fighting Soviet expansionism instead of American occupation
this is why we have 'Freedom on the march in Iraq' rather than 'war of aggression' "Moral Values" instead of religious bigotry... Perception management was put into play during the CIA interventions in Central and South America that led to death squads and disappearances executed by right wing dictators imposed by the U S over democratically elected socialists and others, making it possible for the American public to believe we were 'stemming the red tide of communism' instead of usurping the power of indigenous cultures to rule their own country --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/111804.html > > Bush's perception management plan > By Robert Parry > > (Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the > Associated Press and Newsweek.) > > George W. Bush has been criticized for disdaining fact in favor of faith in > his own instincts. But he is savvy about the dangers that information can > present to his authority over the government and the American people. > That is why the first priority of his second term has been the elimination of > the few government sources of information that could challenge the images he > wants to project to the public. Bush doesn’t want the State Department or the > Central Intelligence Agency portraying his Iraq and other foreign policies as > abject failures or reckless adventures. > So, by attacking these remaining pockets of analytical resistance, Bush is > moving to ensure that his administration can keep much of the U.S. population > seeing a near-empty cup as almost entirely full, a concept known in the > intelligence world as “perception management.” > [snip] > Controlling Opinions > “Perception management” �" also known as “public diplomacy” �" is a > propaganda strategy for controlling how a target population views political events. > Refined by intelligence services as they tried to manipulate foreign > populations, the practice eventually seeped into domestic U.S. politics as a way to > manipulate post-Vietnam-War-era public opinion. > In the early 1980s, the Reagan-Bush administration saw the “Vietnam Syndrome” > �" a reluctance to commit military forces abroad �" as a strategic threat to > robust Cold War policies. So the administration launched an extraordinary > effort to influence how the American people perceived overseas events, essentially > by exaggerating threats from abroad and demonizing selected foreign leaders. > Psychological warfare experts from the CIA and Army Special Forces played key > roles in implementing the strategy, which was carried out from offices in > President Ronald Reagan’s National Security Council and a “public diplomacy” > bureaucracy set up at the State Department. > (For rest of this article go to url above.) > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/XgSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- / o o \ ===OO=====OO============================================= (4)Portals (2)News Wikis (2)Conferences - No BuSHIT! Start here: http://pnews.org/ (On Internet since 1982) http://pnews.org/PhpWiki/ (West Coast News Wiki) http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/ (East Coast News Wiki) ========================================================= FIGHT THE RIGHT! ================== Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rhetoric-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
