(NewsAsia, SHANGHAI): China Central Television (CCTV), Beijing’s largest and most important TV network, said it will launch a new global media platform at the stroke of New Year’s Day to help re-brand China overseas. The new multilingual media cluster will have six TV channels, a video n[...]
Posts Tagged ‘propaganda’
Qatar, home of Al Jazeera, is two faced
Sheikha Mozah, Qatar’s queen mother and head of an international charitable foundation, has two faces. One is the charity that funds education for impoverished girls; the other is the charity that funds religious extremism. Her foundation has built a mosque in Doha. Last Ramadan the mosque [...]
Chavez Goes to Heaven on Columbus Day
CHaVEZ NUESTRO QUE ESTaS EN LOS CIELOS capitulos I y II[...]
Rightwing liars attack CNN using fake photo of Oregon shooter
Rightwing propagandists are known for being a pack of liars who falsify “proof” of their claims. You can do almost anything to a photo or video with readily available software. Almost immediately after the tragic massacre at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, several rightwing websites [...]
How to lie with a chart
Republicans are masters of propaganda. This chart was shown to the TV cameras in House hearings aimed at defunding Planned Parenthood. Here’s how they made it look like Planned Parenthood performs more abortions than cancer screenings: &n[...]
Lessons From Hiroshima for Detroit
As Japan Marks The Hiroshima Bombing Anniversary, there are lessons how US cities can survive OUR challenges.. [...]
UKRAINE REWRITES SOVIET ERA VERSION OF HISTORY
Gov’t approved a package of bills on decommunisation, commemoration of fighters for Ukraine’s independence and victory over Nazism The Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, is expected to sign a package of laws on “decommunisation”, recently passed by parliament, which will lay do[...]
My Take on the Israeli Palestinian Conflict
The issue is not and never has been whether both sides want to “live on the lands they are fighting over.” Nor is it really about Gaza as a piece of land. The core issue here is that Hamas rejects Israel’s right to exist. As long as this radical islamist group insist that Israel ce[...]
As Summer Approaches, Where Amerikins Ought Not Travel
OOOPS ..how come Cuba did not make the list? I would add Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and parts of Idaho. But then I am Jewish and have a lot of African American friends. Of course as a Jew I am also not permitted in Singapore or Malaysia. Presumably Tea Party types should also a[...]