Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Israel probably has more important targets in its long-running conflict with Hizballah, whose Shi'ite militiamen have been attacking Israeli troops in Southern Lebanon almost daily. But a look at one of the station's propaganda films shows why Yitzhak Rabin would be happy to see Lighthouse knocked out of commission. While martial music blares in the background, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Hizballah's leader, is seen embracing departing fighters. Documentary footage shows guerrillas planting their flag, Iwo Jima-style, as they storm an Israeli position. Israeli troops load casualties onto stretchers and into helicopters. "Thousands upon thousands are waiting...
...technical policy and public-service director Edward Groth III calls the fda letter to Hansen "hogwash, a propaganda document put out to discredit his report." Groth defends Hansen's expertise and explains CR's position on bst: "The literature shows there is possibly a problem but no conclusive proof. Scientist A says we should be cautious. Scientist B says let's go ahead. Science sometimes carries more weight than it should. Science is good, but in policy you need value judgments...
...feel compassion for the husbands they're cuckolding; victims see the human side of their criminal tormentors; Fowler in The Quiet American comes to mourn the death of his rival in love and opponent in politics (schadenfreude in reverse, you could say). Even when he was writing wartime propaganda for the British government, Greene described an Englishman's shooting of a German lieutenant-and then finding in the dead man's pocket a picture of his baby...
...Helms bill may hurt the U.S. more than Castro. Gary Jarmin, head of the new, conservative U.S.-Cuba Foundation, argues that Helms' bill will only help Castro score anti-American propaganda points. Echoing the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, he argues that ``a massive infusion of capital and contacts will have the best chance of encouraging reform.'' At the worst, tightening the embargo might provoke a bloody revolution that would not serve Washington's interest in a peaceful transition, says Gillian Gunn, director of the Cuba Project at Georgetown University. Most likely, the bill will not affect Cuba much...
...listen to the Republicans talk about it, the possible eradication of CPB is not an attack on Bert and Ernie but rather an assault on a liberal propaganda machine that has no right to receive federal funding...