Allowing them to dig a hole in the sand for your head?
Flying the Flag; Faking the News | by: John Pilger, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed | Friday 03 September 2010
Sgt. Danny H. Metzger, a heavy equipment mechanic for Engineer Troop, 2nd Squadron, 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment Joint Base Balad, became a United States citizen today during a 4th of July immigration and naturalization ceremony held in the rotunda of the Al Faw Palace at Camp Victory near Bagdad, Iraq. (Photo: DVIDSHUB / Flickr)
Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, is said to have invented modern propaganda. During the First World War, he was one of a group of influential liberals who mounted a secret government campaign to persuade reluctant Americans to send an army to the bloodbath in Europe. In his book, “Propaganda,” published in 1928, Bernays wrote that the “intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses was an important element in democratic society” and that the manipulators “constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power in our country.” Instead of propaganda, he coined the euphemism “public relations.”
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