The Power of Propaganda
Eric Zuesse
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Ukrainian propaganda about Russian strikes intentionally targetting civilians
The propaganda about propaganda is that it’s only direct deceit against the public by the Government (like America’s Founders thought to be the case when they wrote the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution); but, in an aristocracy — which is a Government by only the super-rich, who control the ‘news’-media by owning it and by funding it with their corporations’ advertisements — propaganda is actually instead by and represents the people who, behind the scenes, control the Government, because the real Government is the one behind the facade (the facade being the elected political leaders), and these actually controlling individuals are the aristocrats, the billionaires, the super-rich, who are the megadonors to political campaigns, the few individuals who donate more than half of all the money that is being spent in political campaigns, to fool the public to vote for one group of billionaires’ nominees, against another group of billionaires’ nominees.
In a modern fascist country, the aristocracy control by pretending to be instead a democracy (by means of these s‘elections’), so that its subjects (‘citizens’) are controlled by lies instead of by violence — this method is far more efficient than the old method, which was much more fractious. The public then willingly serve the aristocracy, by being deceived that they don’t but instead serve themselves or ‘the country’, in ‘a democracy’ (because of those s‘elections’).
Throughout the collective West — the U.S. empire — this has been the model ever since U.S. President Harry Truman, on 25 July 1945, accepted the advice from both General Dwight Eisenhower and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, which told him that unless the U.S. Government would ultimately take over the entire world, the Soviet Union would, and so Truman established America’s military-industrial complex, including its subversion-agency the CIA, for that purpose: all-inclusive global empire. From that moment on, America has been controlled by the controlling owners of its armaments manufacturers and their sub-contractors. This way, those firms would control their chief market, which is the American Government and its colonies (‘allies’).
It functions not only in the United States but in all of its colonies. For example: France.
In France, the public have been overwhelmingly deceived to believe that when Ukraine’s Government radically changed in February 2014, that had been a democratic revolution, by and for the people of Ukraine, instead of an American coup, by the U.S. Government, on behalf of America’s billionaires.
Here is some of the irrefutable evidence that it was instead an American coup. (Just click on it to see that evidence, if you don’t already know it to be the case.)
However, the French media have hidden that evidence from the French public. They think that Vladimir Putin started the war in Ukraine on 24 February 2022, and are ignorant that Obama started it in his February 2014 coup and had been planning that coup ever since at least June 2011.
Here is what has resulted from this hiding of truth and spreading of lies about Ukraine:
“Armée : Ces trois chiffres qui illustrent un « regain de patriotisme » des jeunes Français”
Armée : Ces trois chiffres qui illustrent un « regain de patriotisme » des jeunes Français
ALLONS ENFANTS•Les jeunes Français semblent partants pour faire la guerre en cas de nécessité
Des militaires français lors de l'exercice Dragon-24 de l'OTAN. - SOPA Images/SIPA / SIPA
Publié le 12/04/2024 à 21h08 • Mis à jour le 12/04/2024 à 21h13
Les Journée défense et citoyenneté (autrefois JAPD) et les spots publicitaires des armées semblent enfin faire effet sur les nouvelles générations. Ou serait-ce plutôt le contexte actuel qui encourage les jeunes Français à participer à l’effort militaire ?
2 April 2024
Defense and Citizenship Day (formerly JAPD) and army advertising spots finally seem to have an effect on new generations. Or would it rather be the current context which encourages young French people to participate in the military effort? In any case, there is a “renewed patriotism” among 18-25 year olds, according to an unprecedented study on young people and war, carried out in 2023 and published Friday [March 29th] by organizations of the Ministry of the Armed Forces. Strong trends emerge in the perception of military issues.
“There is a revival of patriotism which responds to a need for meaning, commitment, to feel useful,” explained to AFP the author of the study, Anne Muxel, research director at the CNRS and director delegate of the CEVIPOF political research center.
More than one in two ready to enlist in the event of war
Among the striking figures from this sociological study, the first on the subject since the start of the Russian invasion in Ukraine on February 24, 2022. To the question: “if the protection of France required that the country engage in war in Ukraine, would you be ready to commit to defending your country?”, 51% of those questioned answered “yes”, including 17% “yes absolutely” and 34 “yes perhaps”. Nearly a quarter of boys (24%) answered “yes absolutely”, compared to 12% of girls.
Even more striking: without mentioning a particular country, 57% of the young people questioned declared themselves ready to enlist under the flags “in the event of war”.
A third of young people in favor of a French presence in Ukraine
Furthermore, almost a third of young French people (31%) declared themselves in favor of a deployment of French troops in Ukraine (compared to 17% of those aged 50 and over), even before the option was mentioned by Emmanuel Macron. on February 26 .
A majority for compulsory military service
A large majority of respondents (62%) consider that “it would be a good thing to once again establish compulsory military service”, abolished in 1997 and partially reintroduced by several European countries such as Sweden.
Furthermore, more than half of them are “possibly considering a career in the armed forces”, good news for an institution which in 2023 experienced a deficit between departures and recruits of some 3,000 personnel.
Here is some additional information about the deceit against the French public by French and American billionaires, regarding Ukraine and Russia.
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