Once Again, Mainstream Media Get It Wrong on Venezuela
Posted already in LBN by DU poster yaesu:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142314408#post7
Failed 'Coup' a Fake Corporate News Story Designed to Trick Venezuelan Soldiers and US Public
Foreign outlets, dutifully supporting Trump administration calls for regime change, reported that a widespread uprising was underway, even though Juan Guaidó’s coup attempt had little support.
Caracas—It began with a tweet.
In it, Venezuela’s self-declared president, Juan Guaidó, stands in front of a line of military vehicles and rows of Venezuelan soldiers in green uniforms. Beside them is opposition leader Leopoldo López, whom they have freed from house arrest, which stemmed from his role in the 2014 guarimba street protests in which dozens of people were killed.
Guaidó, dressed in a black suit and a white shirt, talks to the camera. “Today, the armed forces are clearly with the people,” he says. “The time is now.” He calls on the military to rise up and says they are in the streets. He insinuates that they have taken the Carlota military base in eastern Caracas.
https://www.thenation.com/article/venezuela-coup-media-guaido/
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I'm sure you may so easily know about the "Father of Propaganda," also the "Father of Spin," Edward Bernays, but in case the subject hasn't come up, and almost everyone remains in the dark except for people who look into Latin American/US history, this subject will open the door to so much enlightening stuff about why the country has seen those "commies" in Latin America as "enemies", when he leaped right in just as Eisenhower started overthrowing countries with the CIA, and military, and helped program the US public perception through the printed word, and images, and a HELL of a lot of lies:
Edward Bernays - Wikipedia
Edward Louis Bernays (/bərˈneɪz/; German: [bɛɐ̯ˈnaɪs]; November 22, 1891 − March 9, 1995) was an Austrian-American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, referred to in his obituary as "the father of public relations".[3] Bernays was named one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th century by Life.[4] He was the subject of a full length biography by Larry Tye called The Father of Spin (1999) and later an award-winning 2002 documentary for the BBC by Adam Curtis called The Century of the Self. More recently, Bernays is noted as the great-uncle of Netflix co-founder, Marc Randolph.
His best-known campaigns include a 1929 effort to promote female smoking by branding cigarettes as feminist "Torches of Freedom" and his work for the United Fruit Company connected with the CIA-orchestrated overthrow of the democratically elected Guatemalan government in 1954. He worked for dozens of major American corporations including Procter & Gamble and General Electric, and for government agencies, politicians, and non-profit organizations.
Of his many books, Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923) and Propaganda (1928) gained special attention as early efforts to define and theorize the field of public relations. Citing works of writers such as Gustave Le Bon, Wilfred Trotter, Walter Lippmann, and his own double uncle Sigmund Freud, he described the masses as irrational and subject to herd instinct—and outlined how skilled practitioners could use crowd psychology and psychoanalysis to control them in desirable ways.[5][6]
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"Girl in Red" advertisement for Lucky Strike; shot by Nickolas Muray, a photographer enlisted by Bernays to help popularize feminine thinness and cigarette smoking.[40
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United Fruit and Guatemala
See also: 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
The United Fruit Company (today's Chiquita Brands International) hired Bernays in the early 1940s for the purpose of promoting banana sales within the United States. Promote them he did, by linking bananas to good health and to American interests, and by placing them strategically in the hands of celebrities, in hotels, and other conspicuous places. Bernays also argued that United Fruit needed to put a positive spin on the banana-growing countries themselves, and for this purpose created a front group called the Middle America Information Bureau, which supplied information to journalists and academics.[50]
More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
Tons more available on this guy than there was before, than when I started trying to find information about him. I imagine it's because more people are awakening, or I hope it is.
After thinking about Bernays, you start looking long and hard about everything you hear and say, knowing the practice of lying their asses off has already been underway for a very long time, and its captured almost everyone, unfortunately!
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