Review of Jewish interest Noam-Chomsky-Media-Control-Spectacular-Achievements-of-Propaganda
Not at all plausible or accurate, June 28, 2010I suspect this book might appeal more to Europeans than Americans—Chomsky has many European supporters, including, up to a point, me.
Try to see propaganda from the US perspective. What is the single most spectacular achievement of propaganda? I'll avoid here the obvious censorship of the 'ZOG' groups in the USA, despite their importance. I'd fix it at 1916, when the intention was to get the USA into the European War. Up to 1916 there was isolationism; after, given a huge wave of atrocity stories and anti-German propaganda of every sort, the USA was at least apparently keen to get involved. Chomsky does NOT mention this at all. Instead this small book is mostly devoted to the lightweight marketing tricks of PR people, notably that chap related to Freud—I almost forgot his name—Bernays. Thus the single most decisive war in the last hundred years which started huge devastation isn't even examined by Chomsky.
Another chapter deals with 'communism'. Chomsky says such things as in India, there is a lot of starvation and poverty. Chinese 'communism' was no worse. Or something along those lines; it's not really important. What Chomsky does NOT consider is 'Communism' in the USSR, which because of its industrial nature was possibly the most ruthless and cruel regime in History. And of course run and financed by Chomsky's fellow cultists. Now that also is a remarkable propaganda 'achievement'. Moreover he assumes Chinese 'communism' was the same sort of thing as Soviet communism. But was it? I don't profess to know—and the evidence in any case would obviously be secret. Most Americans of course fall for this—they think, falsely, there was something called the 'Viet Cong' and they were 'communist', as though rural peasants in a rice based Buddhist economy were interested in class war in Manchester.
Just a few examples! This book is tenth-rate but might have the virtue of inducing people to step back, and consider abstractly what they've been told, and how much was propaganda.