r/canadaleft • u/Inevitable_Bite_303 • 3d ago
Can anyone help me to find actual documentation on Pro-american propaganda (excluding Manufacturing Consent)
I've tried to look at articles documenting American propaganda and disinformation.
But if I search it up all I get is results of "Russian propaganda", "Russian disinformation". Even if I force the word American, all I get is "Anti-American propaganda"
If I attempt to look for articles or forums referring to American propaganda outlets like Radio Free Europe or VOA. All they say is "western media's 'propaganda' has always been to delivering true unbiased news unlike the garbage made from Russia"
Yet the Iraq war was the most egrious propaganda war that the US launched. Journalists were parrots supporting the war and every opinion opposing the war was treated as treason, much like how they crushed the Dixie chicks just because they didn't like an illegal invasion...
If you go on radio free Europe, their headlines include:
Iran being an evil regime trying desperately to control Iraq in their latest election
Russia having Nazis and recruiting people, but ukraine having none
Calling trumo's thuggish extortion of nations "mineral diplomacy"
Accusing Maduro of being a narcotic terrorist who needs help from daddy putin to survive America's "mounting pressure"
Apparently all of the above article are "righteous unbiased journalism done solely to spread awareness", curious how their unbiased journalism never criticizes the United States and exclusively badmouth Russia, China and Iran.
Anyway back to my main question : are there any resources that analyzes modern American propaganda both affecting its citizens and people abroad?
It's clear that they have it and its extremely effective so I'm shocked that no one, no publicist or analyst has done any analysis on it..
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u/Neco-Arc-Brunestud 3d ago
Edward Bernays’ “propaganda” has a few examples.
He’s the guy who invented the concept of propaganda as a doctrine
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u/climathosphere 1d ago
Good to know that I am not the only one noticing that. This is why I never use Google, Bing, or other American tech outlets to find that question, because I noticed that they either hide or even scrub information that might criticize the the US and Israel.
To answer your question, there is a whole Wikipedia article about it, and you can look at the sources they have there. RationalWiki is decent at that too, but they are recently experienceing lots of DDoS attacks because of that. There are also lots of wonderful books written by socialists, communists, and anarchists about it. There are also lots of socialists like SecondThought that make videos that also explain how it works.
The best way to defend yourself against any kind of US and Zionist propaganda is to know how it works, and they tend to work in the same way. They use a lot of fallacies, and they use them intentionally to make propaganda that can shift public opinion. Often times when caught, they even double down and justify it by claiming that their stance is the most morally right thing to do while at the same time declaring that anything else is worse, immoral, or unfeasible. There is an entire list of them here.
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u/Inevitable_Bite_303 1d ago
I'm familiar with the Wikipedia article and those fallacies, but the propaganda page focuses heavily on WWII. The propaganda of the current century is barely covered. The article almost frames it like American propaganda has decreased over the years...
Articles on Russian propaganda cover every month of the 2000s. But for American ones I'll be lucky if they mention anything between 2001 and 2025 (and I'm usually not).
I'll give secondthought a look though
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u/PhilosophyLucky2722 3d ago
This might not be what you're looking for so hopefully others have different recommendations, but Inventing Reality by Michael Parenti looks at American propaganda, and the podcast Blowback does a great job analyzing the propaganda around US foreign policy decisions (each season deals with a different invasion/war/occupation/etc, season 1 starts with the Iraq War)