Cold War vs. Modern Day US Propaganda

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via CommonDreams:



Published on Friday, December 10, 2010 by RT - Russian Times
Cold War vs. Modern Day US Propaganda


Most propaganda images from the Cold War look outdated now, but the idea of embedding a message in Cold War style could be more relevant than ever in propaganda of the modern.

With a little hate here and a little fear-mongering there, could the raging positions of mainstream pundits on certain issues be stemming from something a little deeper than mood swings?

What do Cold War and modern day propaganda have in common?

“The two are connected to one another. What we’ve seen is the continuation of Cold War propaganda under new conditions,” said Rutgers University professor Norman Markowitz.

The Pentagon has proven time and again its love of creating, chasing and trying to undermine what it calls enemies in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as several other nations it deems rogue.

“The United States is always involved in some kind of war of aggression. It rarely spends an entire year without invading some foreign country,” said editorial columnist Ted Rall.

The media is almost constantly right there to march in lockstep. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/12/10-1

[Nuclear Unicorn]

1. You mean the Soviets never really murdered tens of millions of their own people

and turned half the world into a giant prison camp?

If feel so duped.

Look, I know we're being fed a bunch of bunk on many things but the Soviet government really was a nasty, evil system and they did it all on their own.

[azul]

2. But why would they invade the US?

Or try to bomb the heck out of us? They had enough troubles of their own with their empire, and were pushed into a military defense position by the US, IMO.

The Iron curtain effectively kept the US media out of touch with what went on in the USSR, so that the US military claims of Soviet forces went unchallenged and sustained the US war economy with the reason to be.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

3. Why would they rule over

Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, or all the other places they held on to at gunpoint for all those years slaughtering millions of people?

Those should have been independent nations but the Soviets ruled them by force of arms.

The US was never in Germany to conquer Russia.