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This is a propaganda piece against abortion.
The film itself may be masked propaganda for conformity and bourgeoisie, but delivers a satisfying and tear jerking portrait of love lost and refound but most importantly about the responsibility we all have not only to make ourselves happy but also the people around us, who rely on us for their joy in life.
For example, in Ukraine, a recent initiative carried out by IREX mobilized librarians in an effort to neutralize the detrimental effects of Kremlin-funded propaganda.
The exceptions to this state of affairs are when the Party initiates a propaganda campaign, such as the one associated with the turnover of Hong Kong in 1997, or the more recent anti-Falun Gong blitzkrieg.
From Twitter trolls sowing discord among voters, to the Kremlin’s alleged support for extremist groups, Russian propaganda is undermining trust in democratic governance.
While Russia’s propaganda efforts may be aimed at influencing governments, it is individuals who suffer the consequences.
His trial could even mark a definitive moment in the history of efforts to counter Russian propaganda, giving beleaguered writers and journalists the courage they need to stand up to Russia in ways that governments rarely have.
In societies where women are treated like second-class citizens, ISIS has an easier time recruiting women with its quasi-female empowerment propaganda, like one image that shows a woman clad in a burqa with the words “Covered girl...because I’m worth it.”
Of course, spin, propaganda, and censorship persist in journalism, but with one big difference: Almost anyone can now operate as a reporter.
In Lebanon in 2006, Hezbollah fought Israel through well-trained cells that combined propaganda, conventional military tactics, and rockets launched from densely populated civilian areas, achieving what many in the region considered a political victory.
In China, for example, military planners developed a strategy of “unrestricted warfare” that combines electronic, diplomatic, cyber, terrorist-proxy, economic, and propaganda tools to deceive and exhaust US systems.
Immigrants, particularly from Muslim countries, bear the brunt of populist propaganda.
Viewed from this perspective, countering terrorism includes rebutting terrorist propaganda with a strategic communications campaign.
Despite Putin’s aggressive use of force and blustery propaganda, Russia is a country in decline.
Every day and every hour, by means of their own propaganda, these globally minded kleptocrats, are setting the path to power for the nationalists.
It would not be difficult for them to convince ordinary Russians, who have already been primed by today’s xenophobic propaganda, that Tbilisi, Sevastopol, Astana, and Tallinn belong to Russia and should be taken by force.
Fortunately, their propaganda campaign has been a failure.
Kremlin leaders instinctively understood the benefits of normalising relations with the Holy See for Soviet propaganda and foreign policy, and meetings between the Pope and Andrei Gromyko and Nikolai Podgorny did take place.
The left was accused of being complicit in spreading foreign – Chinese, Korean, or American – propaganda.
Instead, the US should devise a sound, thoughtful, and measured approach toward Russia – one that appeals to values not as propaganda, but as the basis of a more straightforward and credible foreign policy.
The American sinologist David Shambaugh, for example, estimates that the country spends roughly $10 billion a year in “external propaganda.”
Instead, it has clung to the view that the government is the main source of soft power, promoting ancient cultural icons that it thinks might have global appeal, often using the tools of propaganda.
What is scarce is attention, which depends on credibility – and government propaganda is rarely credible.
For all of China’s efforts to position the Xinhua news agency and China Central Television as competitors of CNN and the BBC, the international audience for brittle propaganda is vanishingly small.
Second, and more importantly, it is a propaganda machine for right-wing causes and political figures.
Whereas political propaganda had once been the domain of governments and political parties, Fox News is formally independent of both – though itoverwhelmingly serves the interests of America’s Republican Party.
Indeed, its specific genius has been to turn propaganda into a popular and financial success.
But, whatever else is revealed, the UK phone-hacking scandal is of a piece with the Murdochs’ transformation of news into propaganda: both reflect an assault on democracy’s essential walls of separation between media, the state, and political parties.
George Orwell neatly summarized why: “All propaganda is a lie even when it's telling the truth."
The Nazis are gone but propaganda lives on, and its potential is deadlier than ever.
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