Posted on 06/08/2018 10:57:03 PM PDT by ransomnote
The Council on Foreign Relations delivered an Orwellian presentation recently that unsurprisingly went unnoticed in the mainstream media, in which CFR’s Richard Stengel forwarded the notion that governments “have to” direct “propaganda” at their own domestic populations. The Council is recognized as one of the United States’ oldest and most establishment think tanks of the American power-elite, and it often sets the agenda on important policy questions—or, as former senior editor at the Washington Post, Richard Harwood, in a column entitled “Ruling Class Journalists,” approvingly described the Council as, “the nearest thing we have to a ruling establishment in the United States.”
Harwood admiringly wrote: “The membership of these journalists in the Council, however they may think of themselves, is an acknowledgment of their active and important role in public affairs and of their ascension into the American ruling class. They do not merely analyze and interpret foreign policy for the United States; they help make it…. They are part of that establishment whether they like it or not, sharing most of its values and worldviews.”
CFR is a key cog in the hub of Washington think-tanks promoting endless war. As former Army Major Todd Pierce described, think-tanks act as “primary provocateurs” using “‘psychological suggestiveness’ to create a false narrative of danger from some foreign entity with the objective being to create paranoia within the U.S. population that it is under imminent threat of attack or takeover.”
In late 2018, WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange publicized the extensive sway the Council on Foreign relations carried over U.S. mass media by Tweeting a graphic created by Swiss Propaganda Research (SPR), a research and information project on geopolitical propaganda in Swiss media, which illustrated the heavy influence CFR exercises over the media narrative delivered to the American public, i.e. domestic propaganda.
CFR sets broad agreement on major topics among the self-appointed elites, while highlighted arguments over policy details.
Among major points without dissent allowed:
The US Constitution is infinitely malleable by the Elites.
Unlimited immigration.
The US military is the world’s policeman.
Affirmation of homosexuality and other sexual perversion.
Opposition to anti-trust enforcement.
Yet another 40 year old conspiracy 'theory' turns into conspiracy 'fact' right before our very eyes. Sad.
Bkmrk.
When I was a teenager in the 70s, my father explained to me that the media and Ivy League-type universities promulgated the same propaganda. Those same schools of thought perpetually churn inbred journalists, attorneys, politicians, and judges. Back in those days he preferred reading US News & World Report. And we only had snowy reception to two television stations, a CBS and an NBC affiliate.
Even you can be one of their grunts: https://www.cfr.org/career-opportunities/open-positions
Perhaps President Trump needs to reinstate the no propaganda law that Obungho got rid of in secret that fueled this massive propaganda machine the MSM.
You mean that governments don't already do this?
“The need for propaganda in itself explains that lies are needed to obscure the truth. The truth if fact based always makes itself know”
Beautiful. Perfectly stated
If truth and data don’t work then use intentional lies!
It all depends on which side of the government directed propaganda you are on, and that then changes the meaning of “success”.
Iran’s paranoia prevents them from telling the truth and letting the people advise the government. The people’s point of view does not matter.
as if the L$M hasn't been the AgitProp arm of the RAT party for over 50 years
It was reading the nonsense coming from the DEA about marijuana that first gave me the notion that we were paying people to lie to us.
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