The White House is walking back on Biden's claims of beheaded children

a reply to: carewemust


Wow, I always know that Trum is a lot of things, but he have a keen eye to people reactions and behavior that is how he survives as a shrewd businessman.

I believe it, for some reason Netanyahu is one of those political figures I never had good vibes from. He does not seem right.

a reply to: carewemust

either a WIMP or is COMPROMISED.

Corruption affairs, a constitutional crisis with massive protests and a military that wasn't even deployed on guard duty? WTF?

What kind of military state is this supposed to be anyway, a self-decapitated one?

who is protecting us from state spread fake news??
regarding also the scam and lies to invade Irak


a reply to: Insurrectile

a reply to: visres

Nobody is, free press and civil society can only react. But decent reporting and research takes time.

The invasion of Iraq provides a good example for the integration of media operations, to "win hearts and minds", and how those operations made us "forget" the Geneva Conventions to this very day.

Drawing lessons from the American war in Vietnam, the US mission in Iraq defined victory as the winning of Iraqi and American hearts and minds. To that end, the media was enlisted as a force multiplier in the exercise of soft power, unlike in Southeast Asia, where it was often viewed as a fifth column.

In Vietnam, it was clear to ordinary Americans that a militarily inferior enemy embarrassed the world’s most powerful army in good part because it had the support of its people. In Iraq, therefore, “perception management” became a strategic priority.

This involved carefully crafted press conferences and press releases as well as the selective leaking of information, which together structured assumptions about the basic facts on the ground. The embedding of journalists within military units helped control the perspective from which Americans viewed the conflict, with the experiences of US soldiers foregrounded and those of Iraqis relegated to the background. Sometimes information operations exaggerated the threat of enemies or even invented one altogether.

A significant consequence of battlespace thinking was that it afforded US military commanders the rationale to treat purveyors of information as combatants, even individuals and institutions protected by the Geneva Conventions, such as journalists reporting American atrocities, hospitals releasing civilian casualty figures and Iraqi mosque leaders calling on able-bodied men to defend their communities.

How US propaganda won Iraq’s ‘battlespace’