Information War American Propaganda, Free Speech and Opinion Control Since 9-11

by Snow, Nancy; Palast, Greg

• ISBN13: 9781583225578
• ISBN10: 1583225579
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-05
• Publisher: CONSORTIUM BOOK SALES

Summary

Snow examines how American propaganda efforts and covert operations are expanding more rapidly today than at any other time in U.S. history.

Author Biography

Nancy Snow is Professor Emeritus of Communications at California State University, Fullerton and Pax Mundi (“Distinguished”) Professor of Public Diplomacy at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies in Japan. Snow is a world-renowned specialist in public diplomacy and propaganda studies. She received her Ph.D. in International Relations from the School of International Service at The American University in Washington, DC. Snow headed up Common Cause in New Hampshire while teaching politics at New England College. She worked as a cultural affairs specialist and Fulbright program desk officer at the United States Information Agency, and as intergovernmental liaison in the Bureau of Refugee Programs, U.S. State Department. She has been a Fulbright scholar to Germany and Japan, and a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Snow is the author, editor and co-editor of over 70 scholarly chapters and articles, hundreds of print and online pieces, and eleven books, including the Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy, Propaganda and American Democracy, The Arrogance of American Power, and Japan’s Information War. Reach her at http://www.nancysnow.com.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 9
Truth and Consequences	p. 12
Bermuda Mind Triangle: Propaganda, Terrorism, and Media	p. 21
"Media Collusion and the Rise of the Fourth Reich"	p. 36
In the Beginning, There Was George	p. 50
When Harry Met George: An Assessment of the Information War Then and Now	p. 58
Why I Write vs. Why We Fight	p. 67
Opinion Control on the Next War: Freedom to Fear, Freedom from Thinking	p. 73
Sister Soldya: Charlotte Beers and the Mother of All Marketing Campaigns	p. 84
The Last Three Feet	p. 99
The Myth of the Lone Dissenter	p. 109
Uncle Sam and the "Arab Street"	p. 123
The Citizen, the University, and the Publisher	p. 135
The Bush Doctrine: The Wrong Roadmap Toward Peace	p. 140
Epilogue: We Need More Propaganda, Not Less	p. 149
Notes	p. 153
Index	p. 163
About the Author	p. 173
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