Alexander Rubinstein Peter Benenson, left, with George Ivan Smith at a 1966 Nordic Africa Institute Seminar. Uppsala-Bild | Creative Commons LONDON — Amnesty International, the eminent human-rights non-governmental organization, is widely known for its advocacy in that realm. It produces reports critical of the Israeli occupation in Palestine and the Saudi-led war on Yemen. But…
Category: PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT
India: Lynching as a Public Spectacle
Prabir Purkayastha The rise of hate crimes in India – cow-related violence and lynchings – has been coupled with extensive use of social media. While fake news and fake videos have often helped spark communal violence, they have also been “celebratory” in nature: participants bragging about being a part of the mob involved in the…
Lava Jato|Fascism is a Match. Who’s the Matchmaker?
After arresting Brazil’s antifascist presidential front runner on trumped up charges to bar his candidacy, Inquisitor Sergio Moro now announces his ideological alignment with a militarized, neofascist regime. Did outside meddling lead to this marriage of convenience? Brian Mier Over the past several years, the Anglo media has gushed over neofascist president-elect’s new Minister of Justice,…
American Fascism
Rob Urie From Whence ‘We’ Came Fascism is a loaded topic for Americans. The term is usually put forward as oppositional, as the flip side of representative democracy, e.g. authoritarian. Left unaddressed is whose interests’ American representative democracy represents. Twenty years of research by political scientist Thomas Ferguson strongly supports the conclusion that it is…
The Guardian Continues its Shameless Misinformation Campaign Against Nicaragua and its People
Camilo Mejía Via Tortilla Con Sal Roberto Huembes Market, Managua, September 7, 2018 On its September 7 article, the once progressive newspaper reports that Nicaragua was brought to a standstill by a general strike called by the Civic Alliance, one of the main opposition coalitions behind the attempted soft-coup, citing how banks and upscale shopping…
The Ass Clown Epoch
Jennifer Matsui How do we define “dumb” in the Age of Stupid? Whether you call it the Anthropocene, or the more scientific ‘Ass Clown Epoch’, stupid is the defining feature of our “smart” everything society: From our phones to the lampshades and corkscrews that increasingly depend on them to function. When the greatest minds of…
Pedagogy of Egoism and Emotional Neoliberalism
Part I of III *Enrique Díez Translated by Internationalist 360° An advertisement for Hornimans teas celebrates the announcement of a “new movement: el yoismo (egotism)”, a movement based on a supposed formula of happiness that would consist of “stop thinking so much about everything, think more about you”. It is the reissue of the so-called “yo-yo (I-I…
Fake News: A New Name for Old Strategies of the Imperial Offensive Against Cuba
Alejandra García | internet@granma.cu On April 14, 2016, a cable released by the Spanish news agency EFE informed the world of the confiscation of 401 kilograms of cocaine in Panama’s Colón port, arriving in a container from the Cuban port of Mariel, that had Belgium as its final destination. After conducting the relevant investigations, including…
“Whoever Reads Bourgeois Newspapers Becomes Blind and Deaf”
Apologies to John Heartfield The Political Photomontage of John Heartfield Meral Bostancı Via Tortilla Con Sal The art of photomontage features the elaborate arrangement of the photographs which embody profound metaphors. Thus, the montage manifests itself as a pictorial metaphor with the entire energy and the power of the reality. The majority of the views…
The New Latin American Dictatorships
Jorge Beinstein The authoritarian rise The reactionary radicalization of the governments of countries like Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico or Honduras generates controversy around their characterization. None of these regimes have been the result of military coups. In the cases of Brazil, Honduras or Paraguay the dismissal of the presidents was carried out (constitutional parody) by…
The Enemy Plan Will Be Defeated with More Cubans Defending ‘Our Reality’
Iramsy Peraza Forte | informacion@granma.cu The CIA had their hopes pinned on agent “Pablo.” He had an excellent education and knew how to relate to youth and students, the focus of Washington’s plans in Cuba. State Security here, however, had full confidence in the man they called “Daniel.” In April of 2011, the real identity…
How US Flooded the World with Psyops
Special Report: The mainstream U.S. media obsesses over Russian “propaganda” yet the U.S. government created a “psyops” bureaucracy three decades ago to flood the world with dubious information, reports Robert Parry. Robert Parry Newly declassified documents from the Reagan presidential library help explain how the U.S. government developed its sophisticated psychological operations capabilities that –…
