Follow RT on Many high-placed politicians, generals and journalists are ratcheting up tensions with insane talk of a military conflict with Beijing being ‘highly likely’. For the sake of world peace, they need to grow up and shut up.
There’s a “high likelihood” that a “kinetic” war between Australia and China could take place. That’s at least what Major-General Adam Findlay told his special forces troops last year in a confidential briefing now made public in the Australian media this week.
Though the general’s words were never intended to be public, they are now. As the old saying goes, you can’t take back words. Now everyone is aware of the Australian military establishment’s calculations, which are clearly a driving factor in the aggressive rhetoric that’s been coming from the country’s political establishment.
Once again, we are faced with the ugly spectacle of a terrorist-generated war in the Middle East. Disturbances on the.
What Walter Lippmann called “the acids of modernity” were at work in the Jewish Pale of Settlement, where heterodox ideas, including socialism and then Bundism and Zionism, eroded traditional orthodoxies. Cahan’s novel is described as “semi-autobiographical,” but uses fictional plot devices such as David’s mother murdered in a pogrom for melodramatic effect.
Abraham Cahan’s real life was dramatic enough. The son of a Hebrew teacher and tavern keeper, Cahan was born in 1860 in a shtetl before his family moved to Vilna. His Hebrew education was disrupted by his passion for Russian language and literature. He also supported the Narodnaya Volya terrorist underground. The pogroms blaming the Jews for the assassination of Czar Alexander II in 1881 precipitated the first mass emigration of Russian Jews to the US. Russian radicals, who taught Cahan that �
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, Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway and an editor at the Russia in Global Affairs journal. Follow him on Twitter @glenndiesen For most people, propaganda has simply come to mean deception and lies. However, throughout history, the dark arts of media manipulation have long been known to be a far more powerful tool than falsehoods and dishonesty alone.
The concept of propaganda was seen by its pioneers, New York-born Walter Lippmann and Austro-Hungarian press agent Edward Bernays, as something of an exact science. Lippman cautioned that democracies have an inclination to use it to manufacture the consent of the public, while Bernays dubbed the growing discipline ‘public relations,’ in order to avoid the negative connotations.