Ninety-nine percent of Americans believe Iran is a threat to
them just as the majority believed Iraq was responsible for the 9/11 (2001)
attacks. ‘Propaganda always wins.’”
Excerpting, minor editing, formatting for TIN by Carolyn Bennett
From John Pilger’s “The new propaganda is liberal, the new
slavery is digital”
Submissive void
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| Leni Riefenstahl |
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| Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will |
Of “her epic films that glorified the Nazis, using
revolutionary camera and lighting techniques,” producing “a documentary form
that mesmerized Germans (the film ‘Triumph of the Will’ cast “Hitler’s spell”) ─
the ‘submissive void’ of the German public, liberal, educated bourgeoisie, Pilger quotes from his 1970 interview with filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, ─ “‘Everyone’”
supported the “‘messages’” of these films.
Wikipedia
note: Helene Bertha Amalie (Leni) Riefenstahl (b. August 22, 1902, in Berlin,
German Empire; d. September 8, 2003, Pöcking, Germany, burial place Munich
Waldfriedhof)
She was a German film director,
actress and dancer, her most famous film was “Triumph of the Will,” a
documentary film made at the 1934 congress in Nuremberg of the Nazi Party.
Riefenstahl’s prominence in the Third Reich along with her personal association
with Adolf Hitler destroyed her film career following Germany’s defeat in World
War II. She was arrested but released without any charges.
Social control (the “message”)
Today’s ‘message’ of grotesque inequality, social injustice
and war is the propaganda of liberal democracies. By any measure of human
behavior, this is extremism.
When Hugo Chavez challenged it, he was abused in bad faith.
And his successor will be subverted by the same zealots of the ─
American Enterprise Institute,
Harvard’s Kennedy School and
‘Human rights’ organizations that
have appropriated American liberalism, and underpin its propaganda
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‘Liberal fascism,’ … ‘All is normality on display: for
[Nazi] goose-steppers, substitute the seemingly more innocuous militarization
of the total culture,’” Pilger says, quoting historian Norman Pollack.
“‘…For the bombastic leader, we have the reformer manqué [frustrated in his aspirations], blithely at work [in
the White House], planning and executing assassination ─ smiling all the while.’
“The militarist violence perpetrated against hundreds of
thousands of nameless men, women and children by ‘our’ governments is never a
crime against humanity…”
Failure to dissent, resist, un-wire:
propaganda wins
“In my own film-making career, says filmmaker Pilger, “I
have never known a time when dissenting voices in the visual arts are so few
and silent.…
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The U.S. market share of cinema box-office takings in
Britain often reaches 80 percent; the small UK share is mainly for U.S.
co-productions. Films from Europe and the rest of the world account for a tiny
fraction of those we are allowed to see.” And empire “Hollywood has returned to
its cold war role ─ led by liberals.…
As Obama’s CIA commits multiple-murder
by drone, Ben Affleck lauds the ‘clandestine service... that is making
sacrifices on behalf of Americans every day....’
Argo:
A propaganda movie claiming to be innocent of ideology … debases the art of
film-making to reflect an image of the power it serves.
Ben Affleck’s Oscar-winning ‘Argo’
is the first feature film so integrated into the propaganda system that its
subliminal warning of Iran’s ‘threat’ is offered as Obama is preparing, yet
again, to attack Iran.
That Affleck’s ‘true story’ of
good-guys-v.-bad-Muslims is as much a fabrication as Obama’s justification for
his war plans is lost in PR-managed plaudits.
Zero
Dark Thirty This 2010 Oscar-winner by Kathryn Bigelow, a
torture-apology, was all but licensed by the Pentagon.
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… A generation ago, dissent and biting satire were allowed in
the ‘mainstream’; today their counterfeits are acceptable and a fake moral
zeitgeist rules.
‘Identity’ is all, mutating
feminism and declaring class obsolete.
Just as collateral damage covers
for mass murder, ‘austerity’ has become an acceptable lie.
Beneath the veneer of consumerism, large
swathes of metropolitan populations live in ‘extreme poverty.’
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| Rachel Corrie Nonviolent resistance |
illful stupidity (ignorance?) has a high price. Whether the 1930s or now,
propaganda wins ─ if people let it win. Some resist, nonviolently.
Sources and notes
“John Pilger: Digital slavery and the propaganda of liberal
democracies,” March 14, 2013, John Pilger USA and the War on Terror ─ “According
to Gallup, 99 percent of Americans believe Iran is a threat to them, just as
the majority believed Iraq was responsible for the 9/11 attacks. ‘Propaganda
always wins.’”
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/index.php/usa-war-on-terror/2318-john-pilger-digital-slavery-and-the-propaganda-of-liberal-democracies
“The new propaganda is liberal. The new slavery is digital” March
14, 2013, This article originally
appeared in the New Statesman, UK http://johnpilger.com/articles/the-new-propaganda-is-liberal-the-new-slavery-is-digital
http://johnpilger.com/
Pilger
John Pilger’s articles appear worldwide in newspapers such
as the Guardian, the Independent, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the
Mail & Guardian (South Africa), Aftonbladet (Sweden), Il Manifesto (Italy).
He writes a regular column for the New Statesman, London.
In 2001, he curated a major exhibition at the London
Barbican, Reporting the World: John Pilger’s Eyewitness Photographers, a
tribute to the great black-and-white photographers he has worked with. In 2003,
he was awarded the prestigious Sophie Prize for “30 years of exposing injustice
and promoting human rights.” In 2009, he was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize.
Pilger’s latest film is “The War You Don’t See” (2010). The film
premiered in London, both in the cinema and on television.
See full biography at http://johnpilger.com/biography
Wikipedia brief
John Richard Pilger (b. October 9, 1939) is an Australian
journalist based in London. Since his early years as a war correspondent in
Vietnam, Pilger has been a strong critic of American, Australian and British
foreign policy, which he considers to be driven by an imperialist agenda.
Pilger has also criticized his native country’s treatment of indigenous
Australians and the practices of the mainstream media. In the British print
media, he has had a long association with the Daily Mirror, and writes a
fortnightly column for the New Statesman magazine.
Pilger has twice won Britain’s Journalist of the Year Award,
and his documentaries, screened internationally, have gained awards in Britain
and worldwide. The journalist has also received several honorary doctorates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pilger
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West
England, with a population of 2.68 million.
It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the
United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham,
Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the cities of Manchester
and Salford.
Greater Manchester was created on April 1, 1974, as a result
of the Local Government Act 1972.
A quarter of Greater Manchester (one
of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom, pop. 2.68 million) is
reported to be living in ‘extreme poverty.’ [Pilger]
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