Nelson Mandela was already a name synonymous with freedom and wisdom, justice and principle, by the time I took my first steps. However, it was not until over a decade later, when in my late teens I started to do a little reading and research of my own, that I even heard mention of Cuba's contribution to anti-apartheid. This obvious omission, along with the simplistic narratives that surrounded Mandela and Castro, was a valuable lesson to me about how the powerful craft history and news media to their own ends.
There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Propaganda can be written by anybody, including dictators.
The pro-gun propaganda peddled by the National Rifle Association feeds myths about gun ownership, and these myths arguably perpetuate the suffering of thousands of Americans each year.
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.
In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.
I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.
There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
Protest actions and propaganda are two slightly different things.
Russia has always been involved in propaganda and disinformation.
Terrorists, in ungoverned spaces, disseminate poisonous propaganda and training materials to attract troubled souls around the world to their cause.
It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.