Posted by: lettrist on: August 17, 2009
This can be said with several meanings implied. We say this not because we want to continue circumscribing our enemies, but because it is no longer enough to use the imagery of ‘the enemy’ in our propaganda. The abstract ‘enemy’ is only a small part of any successful propaganda campaign. Most propaganda does not make [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: May 5, 2009
Just like in 2003 when the New York Times convinced hundreds of smaller American newspapers and persuaded public opinion that invading Iraq was justified, now the same newspaper is whipping up support for escalating the war in Pakistan.
Today it ran a front page story on the danger of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal and another on radical [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: April 22, 2009
I was reading some Ho Chi Minh the other day, from a book called The Selected Works of Ho Chi Minh, and came to the conclusion that communist writing – the style of communist dispatch writing (in general) – is so very good! and worth emulating.
Ho Chi Minh – first of all – is not [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: January 30, 2009
A friend of mine is taking a course on propaganda at The Evergreen State College, Tacoma campus. Students created propaganda posters for whatever cause or idea they wanted to for one of the projects. The posters are displayed in the hallway outside the classroom for other students and faculty to see.
I recently went to the [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: May 2, 2008
According to historians, 2.5 billion propaganda leaflets were dropped by American aircraft in the Korean peninsula during the Cold War.
A new South Korean museum called “Memories of Propaganda” opened in April and includes 700 of these so-called “paper bombs” North & South Korea and the United States. Since collecting the leaflets during the Cold War [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: September 22, 2007
Last night I attended a debate at King’s Books, a used book store in Tacoma, with the question posed being “Should the United States stay indefinitely?”
Steve Niva
Professor Steve Niva from the Evergreen State College, who argued convincingly that a swift pull-out (six to twelve months) followed by a rapid diplomatic and political process would lead [...]
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