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British Intelligence Had Mussolini on WWI Payroll

Dictator-in-training got $9,500 a week to help convince Italians to keep fighting

Oct 13, 09 9:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Britain’s overseas intelligence service helped Benito Mussolini finance his first forays into Italian politics, newly uncovered documents show. Hoping to keep Italy on its side in 1917, during World War I, MI5 gave Mussolini, then 34 and editor of a right-wing newspaper, the equivalent of what’s now $9,... More »

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propaganda • Italy • MI5 • British Intelligence • Benito Mussolini • Fascism

OPINION

 Fox Ain't News, It's 
 'the Opposition Party' 

Other media outlets need to highlight 'propaganda:' Boehlert

Oct 13, 09 1:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - “Fox News has exited the journalism community this year,” Eric Boehlert writes. “It's a purely political player,” which would be all well and good if other media outlets would just report that. As it stands, Fox goes happily about its “propaganda” while hiding behind... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • propaganda • journalism • Fox News • Glenn Beck • Sean Hannity • health care reform • town hall meeting • right wingers • Obama administration • birther • teabaggers • opposition party

ANALYSIS

 Afghan Vote's True 
 Winner: The Taliban 

Chaos and corruption aid insurgents' propaganda campaign

Sep 21, 09 5:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - It's still not evident whether Hamid Karzai will avoid a runoff in Afghanistan's presidential vote, but the winner of the election is clear: the Taliban. Delays in tallying and alleged systemic fraud have given the insurgency new material for a sophisticated propaganda campaign that portrays the Karzai administration as corrupt... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • propaganda • Hamid Karzai • corruption • Mullah Omar • insurgency • Abdullah Abdullah • Afghanistan election

GI's Capture Fuels Desertion Controversy

Lawmakers rip Fox analyst; blogger says Bergdahl left unarmed

Jul 24, 09 1:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - With some speculating that the US soldier kidnapped by the Taliban deserted his Afghanistan post, conservative media are hot on the trail. Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl “walked off (his base) with a water bottle and (a military ration pack) on some kind of he-man expedition,” a military blogger tells... More »

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Congress • Taliban • propaganda • kidnapping • Fox News • soldier • desertion • conservative media • capture • Bowe Bergdahl

A Baptist and a Mullah
Team Up to Fight Taliban

US captain urges Afghan colonel to show faith to locals

Jul 16, 09 9:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Baptist Army officer has teamed up with an Afghan mullah to fight Taliban propaganda that calls the Afghan army godless. “The only way we can keep people from becoming Taliban is by promoting the Muslim nature of the Afghan National Army,” says the mullah, Lt. Col. Abdul... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • propaganda • US military • Afghan Army • Baptist • mullahs • mentor

OPINION

 Hey, Media: 
 US Jails Journos, Too 

'First duty' of press is to hold own gov't accountable

May 11, 09 12:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - The American media are celebrating Iran’s release of journalist Roxana Saberi in a case the press doggedly pursued. But today’s back-patting is hypocritical, writes Glenn Greenwald in Salon: the US media have all but ignored foreign journalists imprisoned by our own government, often with little reason. Case in... More »

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media • propaganda • press • photographers • journalist • American media • freedom of press • media bias • American press • Roxana Saberi • Jay-ZTV

 Pentagon Targets Taliban Radio 

Extremist websites, radio stations to be jammed as part of new strategy

Apr 18, 09 6:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Forcing Radio Taliban off the air is a key part of the Pentagon's new Afghanistan strategy, the Wall Street Journal reports. Military communications experts are working to jam the websites and unlicensed radio stations extremists in Afghanistan in Pakistan use to proclaim their power, intimidate residents, plan attacks, and broadcast... More »

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Afghanistan • radio • Taliban • Pakistan • propaganda • US military

 Terrorists 
 Call for 
 YouTube 
 'Invasion' 

Jihadist site urges 'YouTube invasion'

Dec 3, 08 5:25 AM CST
(Newser) - Islamic extremists are being given training in how to use YouTube to spread anti-American propaganda, Reuters reports. A US-based terrorism monitoring organization discovered a posting on an extremist website that gives detailed instructions on best ways to use YouTube, and directions on finding software needed to utilize the site.... More »

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Islam • YouTube • propaganda • jihad • Islamic terrorism • Site Intelligence Group

Al-Qaeda Boss Calls Obama 'House Negro'

Audio message
aimed at faithful who might be weakening

Nov 19, 08 9:19 AM CST
(AP) - Seeking to persuade Muslims and Arabs that Barack Obama does not represent a change in US policies, al-Qaeda's No. 2 calls the president-elect, along with Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, “house negroes” in a message on militant websites today. In the audio tape, Ayman al-Zawahri calls Obama “the... More »

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Barack Obama • propaganda • al-Qaeda • Ayman al-Zawahiri • President Obama

Efforts to Show Off Kim's Health Raise More Eyebrows

Observers can't tell whether recently released photos are legit

Nov 6, 08 4:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Recently released photos of Kim Jong-il are baffling observers, who still speculate the North Korean leader may have suffered a stroke despite officials’ insistence otherwise, the New York Times reports. One photo has green foliage, although North Korea’s trees are now sporting autumn colors; in another, Kim’s left... More »

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North Korea • propaganda • New York Times • stroke • Kim Jong Il

Bin Laden Media Guru Convicted of War Crimes

Bahlul doesn't contest charges

Nov 3, 08 11:41 AM CST
(Newser) - The man who produced recruitment videos for Osama bin Laden was convicted of war crimes today after a 4-day military trial the defendant adamantly boycotted, the Miami Herald reports. Ali Hamza al Bahlul forbade his lawyer from offering evidence or questioning witnesses because he rejected the military’s authority to... More »

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propaganda • war crimes • Guantanamo Bay • guilty verdict • Guantanamo tribunals • Ali Hamza al Bahlul

Trial Begins for Accused al-Qaeda Moviemaker

Prosecutors say propaganda director created terror recruitment videos

Oct 28, 08 1:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - The trial of a man accused of creating videos for al-Qaeda is under way at Guantanamo Bay, the Miami Herald reports. Prosecutors say Ali Hamza al Bahlul, a Yemeni, made recruitment videos for the terror group, including one that glorified the bombing of the USS Cole, prosecutors argue. He faces... More »

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propaganda • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • al-Qaeda • Guantanamo tribunals • Ali Hamza al Bahlul

opinion

Economy Is Democrats' Fault, But Media Turn Blind Eye

Newspapers aren't being honest about what caused crisis: Card

Oct 22, 08 6:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mainstream media—aka the Democrats’ “public relations machine”—have fed Americans a “big fat lie” by ignoring the fact that this economic mess can be traced directly to Democratic policies, writes Orson Scott Card in Meridian. The crisis is “not a vague emanation of... More »

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Bush administration • Barack Obama • newspaper • propaganda • Republican • Democrat • Chris Dodd • American media • Barney Frank

Al-Qaeda's Top Web Sites Disappear

Militants experiencing technical difficulties since hacker attack

Oct 18, 08 11:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - All but one of al-Qaeda’s main message boards have disappeared, the Washington Post reports, and militants seem unable to get them back online. All five major al-Qaeda portals went down September 10, putting the kibosh on the group’s much-hyped Sept. 11 anniversary video. Only one of the... More »

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Internet • propaganda • jihad • forums • message boards • US intelligence • hackers • al-Qaeda

 US Preps Iraq Propaganda Blitz 

Pentagon will spend $300M on pro-America publicity campaign

Oct 3, 08 1:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Defense Department is launching a major propaganda campaign to “engage and inspire” the Iraqi people. US contractors will be paid up to $300 million over the next 3 years to produce pro-American news and entertainment for the Iraqi media, the Washington Post reports. Such “information/psychological operations”... More »

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Iraq • media • propaganda

US Able to Delay Al Qaeda's Annual 9/11 Tape a Week

Intelligence efforts to infiltrate terror group's networks appears to pay off

Sep 19, 08 5:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Al Qaeda’s commemoration of the Sept. 11 terror attacks came a bit later than usual this year, ABC News reports, as US intelligence services were able to block the group's annual propaganda video from making the Internet rounds until today. Sources said Germany and Malaysia helped keep the extremist... More »

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Afghanistan • propaganda • Germany • US intelligence • Osama bin Laden • Malaysia • al-Qaeda • 9/11 attacks

(Newser) - Similarities between a leaked British government document and a recent BBC report on al-Qaeda’s waning support are just that, the broadcaster said today in denying its editorial independence had been dented. A report leaked to the Guardian talked of pushing material through UK media channels to suggest al-Qaeda is... More »

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propaganda • BBC • Britain • press leaks • al-Qaeda

At 840M Viewers, China TV Wins Global Attention

Western companies line up to advertise on propaganda network

Aug 22, 08 9:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - This year's Olympic opening ceremonies, perhaps the most watched television event in history, were a huge programming coup for CCTV, one of the main propaganda conduits for the Chinese government. CCTV has a larger audience than every major TV station in the US and Europe combined, writes the New York ... More »

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China • television • propaganda • censorship • Chinese economy • Rem Koolhaas • China Central Television • CCTV

Afghans: US Intentionally Fostering Instability

State-run newspaper voices suspicions that larger geopolitical aims trump security

Aug 20, 08 10:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Many Afghans believe the US is purposely avoiding attacking Taliban strongholds in Pakistan in an effort to keep Afghanistan destabilized and justify a continued military presence, according to Anis, the country’s state-run newspaper. Such suspicions have long run through the country, but their appearance in the paper could be... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • propaganda • Hamid Karzai

Cops Turn China Protesters Into Propaganda

Beijing police feed arrested visitors fried chicken, deport them

Aug 15, 08 7:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Rev. Patrick Mahoney posed for pictures during his interrogation in Beijing—half of it, anyway. Over 7 hours, police ran a classic good cop/bad cop routine on Mahoney, who had unfurled a “Jesus Christ is King” banner in Tiananmen Square, he tells the Washington Post. "They wanted... More »

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China • propaganda • 2008 Beijing Olympics • protesters • Tibetan protesters • Patrick Mahoney

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