Israels Foreign Ministry is reported to be establishing a special undercover team of paid workers whose job it will be to surf the internet 24 hours a day spreading positive news about Israel.
In its taxpayer-financed propaganda campaign, the Pentagon quietly courted about 75 flag officers with an expectation that they'd sell the Iraq war to the public in their on-air comments. These officials met regularly with former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the Joints Chiefs of Staff, had access to classified intelligence, and were flown on Pentagon-financed trips to Iraq and Guantanamo. Because their vested interests as consultants, board members, lobbyists or employees in the defense industry were never disclosed by NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN and Fox, viewers had no way to fully judge their often up-beat assessments of the war. The statements often contradicted reports from Baghdad-based journalists.
Propaganda is created to influence the minds and actions of people, in order to generate a response that achieves the goal of the propagandist. Politicians and governments often use propaganda to obtain support/compliance for their policies.
Religious zealots use a variety of lies, obfuscations, circular logic, and in a word propaganda to push their sordid agendas. This page is dedicated to dismantling and debunking their nonsense point for point.
Respected German historian Guido Knopp has compared a speech by US actor Tom Cruise to the Church of Scientology with a call to war by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
