Propaganda

The U.S. government is treating strikes on Iran like a video game, inviting the country to watch as memes and montages subsume the human cost of war.Why it matters: The Trump administration didn't invent the gamification of war, nor did it invent wartime propaganda — a tool of statecraft as old…

“This is all being read inside of Iran as a war on the Iranian people.” As oil prices threaten to spike to $200 a barrel amid Iran’s pressure campaign against the U.S. and its allies, professor Narges Bajoghli returns to Democracy Now! with an update on the war on Iran…

Yu-Gi-Oh was one of many properties from the worlds of movies, games, and anime that the White House used in a gross video to drum up hype for the United States and Israel’s joint strikes on Iran last month . Dan Green, the voice of Yami Yugi in the original…

Iran’s newly appointed Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is said to have suffered a fractured foot and minor facial injuries on the opening day of the ongoing U.S.-Israeli bombardment campaign against Iran. A source familiar with the situation told the CNN on Wednesday. The injuries include a fractured foot, a bruise…

After Meeting Service Chiefs, Musa Urges Media to Avoid Amplifying Terrorist Propaganda The Minister of Defence, Christopher Gwabin Musa, has urged media organisations across the country to exercise professionalism in their reporting and avoid amplifying terrorist propaganda capable of demoralising troops and giving undue publicity to criminal elements. Musa made…

By Amanuel Tesfaye Kebede After Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on February 17, it wasn’t the diplomatic and geopolitical importance of his visit that captured the internet’s attention. It was a video of his motorcade racing through a newly completed boulevard in Addis Ababa, with wide,…

The band's 2003 hit appeared in a propaganda video the Israeli Defense Forces posted over the weekend Franz Ferdinand have spoken out about the Israeli Defense Forces using their 2003 song “Take Me Out” in a propaganda video. Frontman Alex Kapranos shared the video on Instagram over the weekend, criticizing…

AS Sun Tzu, the master Chinese strategist of antiquity put it, “all warfare is based on deception”. Propaganda has been an essential part of war for centuries, with the victors overplaying their successes and the victims downplaying their losses. But in the current era of information warfare...Read More

The White House keeps pumping out memes, and movie directors and recording artists keep making it clear that their work was used without permission, and they demand that the memes be taken down. The White House posted this update on Operation Epic Fury, and it includes clips from quite a…

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