Propaganda analysis — United States.

  • A Higher standard / Seymour Hersch.

    Keynote speech by Seymour Hersh, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who broke the My Lai Massacre story and has authored several books, including “The Price of Power” and “The Sampson Option.” Hersh speaks about the importance of moral force in fostering change, citing the anti-Vietnam War protest movement as evidence. He warns of the role…

  • Looking toward 2000 / Noam Chomsky ; interviewed by Samori Marksman.

    Noam Chomsky, noted M.I.T. linguist and foreign policy analyst, discusses the potential impact of the Clinton Presidency. Chomsky argues that Clinton presents a continuation of business-oriented American policies, but there will be a shift from defense spending to bio-technologies. Chomsky traces the developing United States policies since the Nixon administration, touching upon new technologies and…

  • Managing the propaganda war : the defense establishment and the media.

    Conference with panel discussions which explore various aspects of mass media, particularly its role in the Gulf War, South Africa, Central American and Caribbean politics, the political turmoil surrounding the end of the Cold War, Arab-Israeli relations, international information control, the use of disinformation, and its use for propaganda in the United States. |r.1. pt.1.…

  • Threats to our democracy / Noam Chomsky.

    Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at MIT, speaks about American concepts of Democracy, tracing the development of those ideas. |r.1. modern propaganda; the anti-war attitudes of 1916; slander toward Germans; liberal democrat participation in propaganda, such as Walter Lippman and Rhinehold Nebor; the breakup of the labor movement during the Great Depression; decline of unions…