- John Pilger: Silencing The Lambs (How Propaganda Works) Archived Message
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on August 23, 2023, 4:18 pm
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In the 1970s, I met one of Hitler’s leading propagandists, Leni Riefenstahl, whose epic films glorified the Nazis. We happened to be staying at the same lodge in Kenya, where she was on a photography assignment, having escaped the fate of other friends of the Führer. She told me that the “patriotic messages” of her films were dependent not on “orders from above” but on what she called the “submissive void” of the German public. Did that include the liberal, educated bourgeoisie? I asked. “Yes, especially them,” she said. .................. In the years before he died in 2008, the playwright Harold Pinter made two extraordinary speeches, which broke a silence. “US foreign policy,” he said, is “best defined as follows: kiss my arse or I’ll kick your head in. It is as simple and as crude as that......" ............ contd: https://www.eurasiareview.com/22082023-john-pilger-silencing-the-lambs-how-propaganda-works-oped |
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