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In Libya, US Fights With Words as Well as Weapons
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- International military forces are using words as well as weapons to try to weaken the grip of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi and urge his troops to turn against him. They are dropping leaflets targeting government troops as well as flying a U.S. propaganda plane that broadcasts to forces of the North African nation, U.S. military officials said Monday. The message: Refuse to obey Gadhafi's orders, stop fighting, go home to your families. Although each day the Pentagon reports the number of bombs it has dropped in the week-old Libya intervention, it has said little about the ...
Rolling Stone: General Deployed Psy-Ops Against US Senators
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThe U.S. Army ordered a "psychological operations" team to manipulate visiting U.S. senators into pushing for more funding and troops for the war in Afghanistan, according to a report in Rolling Stone magazine. Three-star U.S. general Lt. Gen. William Caldwell is accused of deploying propaganda techniques, which the Army says are intended to "alter the behavior of foreign populations," against visiting U.S. dignitaries to Afghanistan in a potentially illegal, months-long operation to lobby Congress. Caldwell is responsible for the training of Afghan security forces. Gen. David Petraeus, the ...
Rolling Stone's Big Army Psy-Ops Story: Here Are the 5 Juiciest Nuggets From It
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsDid the Army deploy psychological warfare on U.S. politicians? That's the implication of an explosive story from Rolling Stone's Michael Hastings. In "Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators," Hastings reports that experts in "psy-ops," or psychological operations, in Afghanistan were asked to use their unique skill set on visiting dignitaries like senators. Here are the most inflammatory highlights from the article. The primary accusation Hastings alleges that the improper use of psy-ops occurred at Camp Eggers in Kabul, Afghanistan, under the orders of Lt. Gen. ...
NKorea Turns to Twitter in Propaganda War
By Terence Neilan - AOL News(Aug. 20) -- The war of words between North Korea and South Korea has reached an unexpected new high, or perhaps a new low. North Korea has embraced Twitter, YouTube and now possibly Facebook to step up its propaganda aimed at riling the South. But Seoul has responded by blocking at least one of the accounts, with more action being considered. The U.S. also hasn't been spared in Pyongyang's embrace of the social networking sites. A YouTube clip calls Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton a "minister in a skirt" and Defense Secretary Robert Gates a "war maniac," according to The New York ...
HBO's '12th and Delaware' — Where Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Intersect
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyThe title of the documentary, "12th and Delaware," now showing on HBO, seemed lackluster until I understood its significance. Directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady [disclosure: Grady is the daughter of my Politics Daily colleagues Bonnie Goldstein and James Grady] the film tells the story of an abortion clinic that opened at 12th & Delaware in Fort Pierce, Fla. in 1991. Eight years later, a pro-life Pregnancy Care Center opened up directly across the street. Today, 12th and Delaware is where pro-life and pro-choice passions intersect. I have a love-hate relationship with documentaries. ...
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Congress to Investigate Propaganda Charge
By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyIn April, The New York Times reported that the pentagon used retired military officers, so called "message force multipliers," to generate positive news coverage by echoing Bush administration positions on Iraq and Afghanistan. On Friday, Congress passed an amendment to the military authorization bill that would mandate an investigation into whether the program violated laws prohibiting the government from funding domestic propaganda. The investigations will be conducted by the Department of Defense's inspector general's office and the Government Accountability Office. Republican ...
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