Posted on 08/01/2018 8:35:56 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Richard Stengel, a former high-level U.S. government official, head of the office for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the State Department from 2013 to 2016, former editor of Time Magazine and a regular pundit on MSNBC, said in April of 2018 at a Council on Foreign Relations forum about “fake news,” that he “supports the use of propaganda on American citizens.” He then continued; “Basically, every country creates their own narrative story and, you know, my old job at the State Department was what people used to joke as the ‘chief propagandist’ job.”
Keep in mind, that in 2013, Congress passed legislation allowing the federal government to fund and create propaganda they knew could be used to manipulate Americans on American soil. This legislation was called ‘The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act’, sponsored by Mac Thornberry (R-TX), that failed in 2011 when it was submitted on its own. But in 2013 Thornberry and his co-sponsors buried this legislation in the NDAA of 2014, where it was surreptitiously passed.
The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act overturned a prohibition against domestic propaganda that had been in place since 1948. This act was passed as a result of a series of events in American history that drew the concern of those who wanted to secure a free press and the freedom of speech of the American people.
The concern began when Woodrow Wilson established the Committee on Public Information through an executive order with the purpose of influencing American public opinion toward supporting the US involvement in World War I. The man appointed to be the chairman over this committee was George Creel, a well renowned investigative journalist and editor of the Rocky Mountain News.
In 1942, FDR established the United States ‘Office of War Information’ (OWI) by executive order to “truthfully inform” the American people...
(Excerpt) Read more at thecoachsteam.com ...
If you go back to the 1916 election...remember, Wilson’s vow throughout the campaign...he’d never take the nation into Europe’s war. Days after the election...he’s got the boys lined up to plan the sequence, and tells the public roughly sixty days later that yes....we are going to war. If he had admitted this in November prior to the election? That’s a good question to ask.
The dysron obviously does not understand that our “narrative” was created by the Founding Fathers, who would have laughed this pontificating dolt out of the room.
The US was never neutral in WWI. That was a sham. Britain enforced a Naval Blockade, forcing the Germans to use their U-Boats to try to level the playing field, which therefore put US ships at risk.
If we were really neutral, we would have cut off aid to Britain, until they lifted their naval blockade of Germany.
‘The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act’, sponsored by Mac Thornberry (R-TX), that failed in 2011 when it was submitted on its own. But in 2013 Thornberry and his co-sponsors buried this legislation in the NDAA of 2014, where it was surreptitiously passed.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Deep State has operatives that wear both jerseys.
And they bury the worst stuff in National Defense Authorization Acts.
The mustering of men for WWI in the US help spread the 1918 flu epidemic.
The masks are coming off.
Ah, CFR, the organization for neo-cons and founded by Fabian socialists.
Wilson was a duplicitous bastard. I agree with your assessment. WWI was about Britain trying to cut Germany down to size.
Whatever happened to Truth, Justice and the American Way?
I guess they’re on a cosmic tour of other solar systems cuz they sure ain’t hanging around here anymore..
Deep Staters know no shame..
It was the return to the US after the war not the mustering before the war....PLUS the mode of transport of the time, the railroad... that created the right conditions.
It was the return to the US after the war not the mustering before the war....PLUS the mode of transport of the time, the railroad... that created the right conditions.
This is a very worthy article. Thanks.
BTTT
Thanks Oldpuppymax.
bump
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.