Word: propaganda
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...rights activists, the withholding of medical care for non-medical reasons is a form of torture. "This violates all conventions against torture," says Miri Weingarten, spokeswoman for the Tel Aviv-based Physicians for Human Rights. Israeli authorities deny carrying out such practices at Erez and dismiss them as Palestinian propaganda...
...gives a clear credibility and legitimacy to this propaganda of falsehood by having it on the walls of Hillel, even if they said they didn’t sponsor it,” Klein said. “Would we have an open discussion about whether the holocaust happened or whether slavery existed in America...
...event may be the first parade organized and led by foreigners in the Chinese capital in at least 50 years. "The idea of the parade is to reflect the warm human ties between Ireland and China," said Wang Hong Bing, the Dongcheng District Director of the Ministry of Propaganda. What was the secret to winning state approval? Says Ambassador Kelleher, "A lot of hard work and a lot of assurances." Adds Minister Roach, "Ireland is a very, very small country. No one sees it as a threat. It doesn't have an agenda." And, of course, there had been something...
...runs conspiracy theories which suggest that the world is designing a campaign to unseat Musharraf and that the U.S. was behind Benazir Bhutto’s assassination.Mr. Quraishi’s outrageous statements are not a new phenomenon: mouthpieces for collapsing dictators have frequently played their part in promoting propaganda and nonsense. Mohammad Saeed as-Sahaf (MSS), the Iraqi minister of (mis?)information, became famous for claiming in April of 2003 that coalition forces were “not even 100 miles from Baghdad. They are not anywhere; they are selling illusions to others.” Within two days...
...press can only apply to one-time project grants from the OFA and the UC.According to John Pyper, an Adams non-resident tutor and a local artist in charge of the underground press, the space was first established in the 1950s as a means of publishing left-wing propaganda and protest literature. In the mid-90s, the press had a close relationship with the local Grolier Poetry Book Shop and commissioned several poems from distinguished poets such as Donald Hall ’51. But when Pyper first walked into the press four years ago, he found the space...