The Power of Propaganda - 99% of Americans Consider Iranian Nukes a Threat

[Peter Lemkin]

Why do Americans always have to live with some sort of 'enemy'? I see that based on these poll results, Russia has lost its 'enemy' status. Is War always such a necessity? Can't Wall Street find a better way to make its profits without killing other people - and ourselves? Pretty soon there may be no one to build the machines and bombs of war or fight the wars.Propagandists and politicians and their media friends should start looking for truth and stop lying all the time about non-existing threats to us. Iraq and Afghanistan were lessons enough. And so was Vietnam.Adele

"In dictatorships we are more fortunate that you in the West in one respect. We believe nothing of what we read in the newspapers and nothing of what we watch on television, because we know its propaganda and lies. We've learned to look behind the propaganda and to read between the lines, and unlike you, we know that the truth is always subversive." - Urbanek

"Why of course the people don't want war ... But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." - Hermann Goering, Nazi leader.

"The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of terror. [The public] will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened". - Josef Stalin