[HN Gopher] CIA report into shoring up Afghan war support in Wes...
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       CIA report into shoring up Afghan war support in Western Europe, 11
       Mar 2010
        
       Author : salemh
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2021-08-24 19:55 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (wikileaks.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (wikileaks.org)
        
       | criticaltinker wrote:
       | Summary:
       | 
       |  _> This classified CIA analysis from March outlines possible PR
       | strategies to shore up public support in Germany and France for a
       | continued war in Afghanistan. _
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       | _> The proposed PR strategies focus on pressure points that have
       | been identified within these countries. _
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       | _> For France it is the sympathy of the public for Afghan
       | refugees and women. _
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       | _> For Germany it is the fear of the consequences of defeat
       | (drugs, more refugees, terrorism) as well as for Germany 's
       | standing in NATO. _
       | 
       | _> The memo is a recipe for the targeted manipulation of public
       | opinion in two NATO ally countries, written by the CIA. It is
       | classified as Confidential /No Foreign Nationals. _
        
         | nickff wrote:
         | Thanks! These do seem to be the most important points, though
         | I'm not sure that tailoring one's message to the audience is
         | really 'manipulation'.
        
       | l332mn wrote:
       | This is how American propaganda works, not only to support the
       | Afghanistan war, but to support US imperialist foreign policy in
       | general. It's extremely manipulative, but also effective at
       | controlling the narrative, in a 1984-esque fashion. It has lead
       | to the result that the "official narrative" as portrayed by
       | mainstream media and (complicit) politicians stands in stark
       | contrast with the general public perception on the matter. It's
       | basically taboo to be critical of the widespread use of
       | propaganda to support imperialist policy, and you're generally
       | deemed a conspiratorial lunatic if you point at CIA's role in all
       | this in a manner which is critical both of them and the state
       | which support them.
       | 
       | Where are all the journalists scouring wikileaks for real news?
       | For real content, investigating the dark underbelly of foreign
       | policy and war, etc.? Why are we only served with manufactured
       | consent (i.e. bullshit) from BBC, CNN, etc.? When it comes to
       | war, they eagerly repeat the manufactured lies about our
       | "enemies", be it Saddam's WMD's, Assad's chemical missile
       | attacks, Gaddafi's genocide - all exposed through wikileaks to be
       | lies manufactured by "intelligence" agencies, in conflict with
       | facts and evidence at hand at the time - which then serves to
       | justify intervention on "humanitarian" grounds, but which is
       | merely pretext for imperialist aggression. It's taboo, most of
       | all for journalists, to take an interest in this. They are barred
       | from mainstream media outlets, shunned even. Some are even killed
       | (cf. the investigators of the Panama Papers). You will receive no
       | financial support if you do, and you will be judged a foreign
       | state actor if you're freelancing for non-western media outlets
       | (e.g. RT).
        
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