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Dec 2024
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Episode 54- Propaganda- Power & Persuasi...

ANTONY ROTUNNO
About this episode

And so we bring an end to another fine journey through a fascinating topic and indeed another year of this podcast.

 

Part 3 of this series looks at ‘positive propaganda’ in the field of public health, multiple examples of negative propaganda by way of the demonising (sometimes literally) of political rivals and rival nations, and finally a look at how technology has brought propaganda, along with the world, into a very new landscape in the 21st century.

 

If nothing else, this series should get you thinking about propaganda and whether it is all bad or simply becomes that in the wrong hands

(ref- the outro clip is Bill Hicks talking about the first Iraq War and President George H.W. Bush)  

 

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Link to David Welch’s book ‘Propaganda: Power & Persuasion

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17674209-propaganda

 

What is propaganda?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

 

25 powerful propaganda posters

https://www.emlii.com/25-most-powerful-propaganda-posters-that-made-all-the-difference/

 

episode links

Roger Stahl’s ‘Militainment Inc’ (how the 2003 Iraq War was sold to the public)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31080465/

 

Bill Hicks on war and weapons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRy5znLg1f8

 

Iraq War lies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgfzqulvhlQ

 

Edward Bernays and female smokers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdQ6HIzaSm4

 

Adam Curtis’s ‘The Power of Nightmares’ and the truth about Al Qaeda’s origins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEjRcwDxvEY

 

Review of ‘Downfall’ on The Mind Renewed podcast

https://www.themindrenewed.com/episodes/2022-23/1572-ep070

 

‘Propaganda Watch’ on the Corbett Report website/podcast (James Corbett)

https://corbettreport.com/category/propagandawatch/

 

John Pilger on how to see through propaganda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvF3d8hhoJo&t=213s

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