The American journalist, Edward Bernays, is often described as the man who invented modern propaganda.
The nephew of Sigmund Freud, the pioneer of psycho-analysis, it was Bernays who coined the term “public relations” as a euphemism for spin and its deceptions.
In 1929, he persuaded feminists to promote cigarettes for women by smoking in the New York Easter Parade – behaviour then considered outlandish. One feminist, Ruth Booth, declared, “Women! Light another torch of freedom! Fight another sex taboo!”
Bernays’ influence extended far beyond advertising. His greatest success was his role in convincing the American public to join the slaughter of the First World War. The secret, he said, was “engineering the consent” of people in order to “control and regiment [them] according to our will without their knowing about it”.
He described this as “the true ruling power in our society” and called it an “invisible government”.
Today, the invisible government has never been more powerful and less understood. In my career as a journalist and film-maker, I have never known propaganda to insinuate our lives and as it does now and to go unchallenged.
Imagine two cities.
Both are under siege by the forces of the government of that country. Both cities are occupied by fanatics, who commit terrible atrocities, such as beheading people.
But there is a vital difference. In one siege, the government soldiers are described as liberators by Western reporters embedded with them, who enthusiastically report their battles and air strikes. There are front page pictures of these heroic soldiers giving a V-sign for victory. There is scant mention of civilian casualties.
در شهر دوم - در کشور دیگری در نزدیکی - تقریباً دقیقاً همین اتفاق می افتد. نیروهای دولتی در حال محاصره شهری هستند که توسط همان نژاد متعصب کنترل می شود.
The difference is that these fanatics are supported, supplied and armed by “us” – by the United States and Britain. They even have a media centre that is funded by Britain and America.
Another difference is that the government soldiers laying siege to this city are the bad guys, condemned for assaulting and bombing the city – which is exactly what the good soldiers do in the first city.
Confusing? Not really. Such is the basic double standard that is the essence of propaganda. I am referring, of course, to the current siege of the city of Mosul by the government forces of Iraq, who are backed by the United States and Britain and to the siege of Aleppo by the government forces of Syria, backed by Russia. One is good; the other is bad.
آنچه به ندرت گزارش می شود این است که اگر بریتانیا و ایالات متحده در سال 2003 به عراق حمله نمی کردند، هر دو شهر توسط متعصبان اشغال نمی شدند و توسط جنگ ویران نمی شدند. جنگ داخلی در سوریه
Without this drumbeat of propaganda dressed up as news, the monstrous ISIS and Al-Qaida and al-Nusra and the rest of the jihadist gang might not exist, and the people of Syria might not be fighting for their lives today.
Some may remember in 2003 a succession of BBC reporters turning to the camera and telling us that Blair was “vindicated” for what turned out to be the crime of the century. The US television networks produced the same validation for George W. Bush. Fox News brought on Henry Kissinger to effuse over Colin Powell’s fabrications.
در همان سال، بلافاصله پس از تهاجم، مصاحبهای با چارلز لوئیس، روزنامهنگار تحقیقی مشهور آمریکایی در واشنگتن فیلمبرداری کردم. از او پرسیدم: "اگر آزادترین رسانه های جهان به طور جدی آنچه را که تبدیل به یک پروپاگاندای خام شد به چالش می کشیدند، چه اتفاقی می افتاد؟"
He replied that if journalists had done their job, “there is a very, very good chance we would not have gone to war in Iraq”.
این یک بیانیه تکان دهنده بود، و یکی دیگر از روزنامه نگاران مشهور که من همین سوال را مطرح کردم - دن رادر از CBS، دیوید رز از مشاهده کننده و روزنامه نگاران و تهیه کنندگان بی بی سی که مایل به ناشناس ماندن بودند.
به عبارت دیگر، اگر روزنامهنگاران کار خود را انجام میدادند، اگر تبلیغات را بهجای تقویت آن به چالش میکشیدند و تحقیق میکردند، امروز صدها هزار مرد و زن و کودک زنده بودند و نه داعش و نه محاصره حلب و موصل وجود داشت.
There would have been no atrocity on the London Underground on 7th July 2005. There would have been no flight of millions of refugees; there would be no miserable camps.
When the terrorist atrocity happened in Paris last November, President Francoise Hollande immediately sent planes to bomb Syria – and more terrorism followed, predictably, the product of Hollande’s bombast about France being “at war” and “showing no mercy”. That state violence and jihadist violence feed off each other is the truth that no national leader has the courage to speak.
یوتوشنکو، مخالف اتحاد جماهیر شوروی، گفت: "وقتی حقیقت با سکوت جایگزین می شود، سکوت دروغ است."
حمله به عراق، حمله به لیبی، حمله به سوریه به این دلیل اتفاق افتاد که رهبر هر یک از این کشورها دست نشانده غرب نبود. سابقه حقوق بشر یک صدام یا یک قذافی بی ربط بود. آنها از دستورات اطاعت نکردند و کنترل کشور خود را تسلیم نکردند.
زمانی که اسلوبودان میلوسویچ از امضای «توافقنامه» که خواستار اشغال صربستان و تبدیل آن به اقتصاد بازار بود، امتناع کرد، همین سرنوشت در انتظار او بود. افراد او بمباران شدند و او در لاهه تحت پیگرد قانونی قرار گرفت. استقلال از این نوع غیر قابل تحمل است.
As WikLeaks has revealed, it was only when the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad in 2009 rejected an oil pipeline, running through his country from Qatar to Europe, that he was attacked.
From that moment, the CIA planned to destroy the government of Syria with jihadist fanatics – the same fanatics currently holding the people of Mosul and eastern Aleppo hostage.
Why is this not news? The former British Foreign Office official Carne Ross, who was responsible for operating sanctions against Iraq, told me: “We would feed journalists factoids of sanitised intelligence, or we would freeze them out. That is how it worked.”
The West’s medieval client, Saudi Arabia – to which the US and Britain sell billions of dollars’ worth of arms – is at present destroying Yemen, a country so poor that in the best of times, half the children are malnourished.
Look on YouTube and you will see the kind of massive bombs – “our” bombs – that the Saudis use against dirt-poor villages, and against weddings, and funerals.
The explosions look like small atomic bombs. The bomb aimers in Saudi Arabia work side-by-side with British officers. This fact is not on the evening news.
Propaganda is most effective when our consent is engineered by those with a fine education – Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Columbia — and with careers on the BBC, the ها Guardian، نیویورک تایمزاز واشنگتن پست.
These organisations are known as the liberal media. They present themselves as enlightened, progressive tribunes of the moral zeitgeist. They are anti-racist, pro-feminist and pro-LGBT.
And they love war.
While they speak up for feminism, they support rapacious wars that deny the rights of countless women, including the right to life.
In 2011, Libya, then a modern state, was destroyed on the pretext that Muammar Gaddafi was about to commit genocide on his own people. That was the incessant news; and there was no evidence. It was a lie.
در واقع، بریتانیا، اروپا و ایالات متحده خواهان چیزی بودند که دوست دارند آن را «تغییر رژیم» در لیبی، بزرگترین تولیدکننده نفت در آفریقا، بنامند. نفوذ قذافی در این قاره و بالاتر از همه، استقلال او غیرقابل تحمل بود.
So he was murdered with a knife in his rear by fanatics, backed by America, Britain and France. Hillary Clinton cheered his gruesome death for the camera, declaring, “We came, we saw, he died!”
نابودی لیبی یک پیروزی رسانه ای بود. همانطور که طبل جنگ زده می شد، جاناتان فریدلند در نامه نوشت نگهبان: "اگرچه خطرات بسیار واقعی هستند، مداخله همچنان قوی است."
Intervention — what a polite, benign, Guardian word, whose real meaning, for Libya, was death and destruction.
According to its own records, Nato launched 9,700 “strike sorties” against Libya, of which more than a third were aimed at civilian targets. They included missiles with uranium warheads. Look at the photographs of the rubble of Misurata and Sirte, and the mass graves identified by the Red Cross. The Unicef report on the children killed says, “most [of them] under the age of ten”.
As a direct consequence, Sirte became the capital of ISIS.
Ukraine is another media triumph. Respectable liberal newspapers such as the نیویورک تایمزاز واشنگتن پست و نگهبان, and mainstream broadcasters such as the BBC, NBC, CBS, CNN have played a critical role in conditioning their viewers to accept a new and dangerous cold war.
All have misrepresented events in Ukraine as a malign act by Russia when, in fact, the coup in Ukraine in 2014 was the work of the United States, aided by Germany and Nato.
This inversion of reality is so pervasive that Washington’s military intimidation of Russia is not news; it is suppressed behind a smear and scare campaign of the kind I grew up with during the first cold war. Once again, the Ruskies are coming to get us, led by another Stalin, whom اکونومیست به عنوان شیطان به تصویر می کشد.
The suppression of the truth about Ukraine is one of the most complete news blackouts I can remember. The fascists who engineered the coup in Kiev are the same breed that backed the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Of all the scares about the rise of fascist anti-Semitism in Europe, no leader ever mentions the fascists in Ukraine – except Vladimir Putin, but he does not count.
Many in the Western media have worked hard to present the ethnic Russian-speaking population of Ukraine as outsiders in their own country, as agents of Moscow, almost never as Ukrainians seeking a federation within Ukraine and as Ukrainian citizens resisting a foreign-orchestrated coup against their elected government.
تقریبا وجود دارد joie d'esprit of a class reunion of warmongers.
The drum-beaters of the واشنگتن پست inciting war with Russia are the very same editorial writers who published the lie that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
To most of us, the American presidential campaign is a media freak show, in which Donald Trump is the arch villain.
But Trump is loathed by those with power in the United States for reasons that have little to do with his obnoxious behaviour and opinions. To the invisible government in Washington, the unpredictable Trump is an obstacle to America’s design for the 21st قرن.
This is to maintain the dominance of the United States and to subjugate Russia, and, if possible, China.
از نظر نظامیگرایان در واشنگتن، مشکل واقعی ترامپ این است که در لحظات روشن خود، به نظر میرسد که او خواهان جنگ با روسیه نیست. او می خواهد با رئیس جمهور روسیه صحبت کند، نه با او دعوا. او می گوید که می خواهد با رئیس جمهور چین صحبت کند.
ترامپ در اولین مناظره با هیلاری کلینتون قول داد که اولین کسی نباشد که سلاح های هسته ای را وارد درگیری کند. او گفت: «مطمئناً اولین حمله را انجام نمیدهم. وقتی جایگزین هسته ای اتفاق بیفتد، تمام می شود. این خبری نبود
واقعا منظورش این بود؟ چه کسی می داند؟ او اغلب با خودش تناقض دارد. اما آنچه واضح است این است که ترامپ تهدیدی جدی برای وضعیت موجود در نظر گرفته می شود که توسط ماشین امنیت ملی گسترده ای که ایالات متحده را اداره می کند، صرف نظر از اینکه چه کسی در کاخ سفید است، حفظ می شود.
The CIA wants him beaten. The Pentagon wants him beaten. The media wants him beaten. Even his own party wants him beaten. He is a threat to the rulers of the world – unlike Clinton who has left no doubt she is prepared to go to war with nuclear-armed Russia and China.
Clinton has the form, as she often boasts. Indeed, her record is proven. As a senator, she backed the bloodbath in Iraq. When she ran against Obama in 2008, she threatened to “totally obliterate” Iran. As Secretary of State, she colluded in the destruction of governments in Libya and Honduras and set in train the baiting of China.
She has now pledged to support a No Fly Zone in Syria — a direct provocation for war with Russia. Clinton may well become the most dangerous president of the United States in my lifetime –a distinction for which the competition is fierce.
Without a shred of evidence, she has accused Russia of supporting Trump and hacking her emails. Released by WikiLeaks, these emails tell us that what Clinton says in private, in speeches to the rich and powerful, is the opposite of what she says in public.
به همین دلیل است که ساکت کردن و تهدید جولیان آسانژ بسیار مهم است. آسانژ به عنوان سردبیر ویکی لیکس حقیقت را می داند. و اجازه دهید به کسانی که نگران هستند اطمینان دهم، حال او خوب است و ویکی لیکس در همه استوانه ها کار می کند.
Today, the greatest build-up of American-led forces since World War Two is under way – in the Caucasus and eastern Europe, on the border with Russia, and in Asia and the Pacific, where China is the target.
Keep that in mind when the presidential election circus reaches its finale on نوامبر 8هفتم، If the winner is Clinton, a Greek chorus of witless commentators will celebrate her coronation as a great step forward for women. None will mention Clinton’s victims: the women of Syria, the women of Iraq, the women of Libya. None will mention the civil defence drills being conducted in Russia. None will recall Edward Bernays’ “torches of freedom”.
George Bush’s press spokesman once called the media “complicit enablers”.
Coming from a senior official in an administration whose lies, enabled by the media, caused such suffering, that description is a warning from history.
در سال 1946، دادستان دادگاه نورنبرگ در مورد رسانه های آلمانی گفت: «قبل از هر تجاوز بزرگ، آنها یک کمپین مطبوعاتی را به راه انداختند تا قربانیان خود را تضعیف کنند و مردم آلمان را از نظر روانی برای حمله آماده کنند. در نظام تبلیغاتی، این مطبوعات روزانه و رادیو بودند که مهمترین سلاحها بودند.»
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“Keep that in mind when the presidential election circus reaches its finale on November 8th, If the winner is Clinton, a Greek chorus of witless commentators will celebrate her coronation as a great step forward for women. None will mention Clinton’s victims: the women of Syria, the women of Iraq, the women of Libya. None will mention the civil defence drills being conducted in Russia. None will recall Edward Bernays’ ‘torches of freedom’.” — John Pilger
Free yourselves from the “witless commentators” and register a thoughtful and honest protest on Nov. 8.
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