Al Jazeera Investigations – The Lobby P1: Young Friends of Israel

A six-month undercover investigation reveals how Israel penetrates different levels of British democracy.

Posted January 15, 2016

Dr Udo Ulfkotte, journalist and author, on RT

Why Ridiculous Official Propaganda Still Works

by CJ Hopkins

January 13, 2017

source: http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/13/why-ridiculous-official-propaganda-still-works/

For students of official propaganda, manipulation of public opinion, psychological conditioning, and emotional coercion, it doesn’t get much better than this. As Trump and his army of Goldman Sachs guys, corporate CEOs, and Christian zealots slouch toward inauguration day, we are being treated to a master class in coordinated media manipulation that is making Goebbels look like an amateur. This may not be immediately apparent, given the seemingly risible nature of most of the garbage we are being barraged with, but once one understands the actual purpose of such official propaganda, everything starts to make more sense.

We’ve Been Hacking Elections For More Than a Century

By Stephen Kinzer

Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46234.htm

January 15, 2017 "Information Clearing House" - "Boston Globe" - Outrage is shaking Washington as members of Congress compete to demonize Russia for its alleged interference in America’s recent presidential election. “Any foreign intervention in our elections is entirely unacceptable,” Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has asserted. Russian actions, according to other legislators, are “attacks on our very fundamentals of democracy” that “should alarm every American” because they “cut to the heart of our free society.” This burst of righteous indignation would be easier to swallow if the United States had not itself made a chronic habit of interfering in foreign elections.