United States global propaganda

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The USIA's New Line: Hard Sell
By Nancy Snow, Toward Freedom, 7 July 1998. USIA likes to call its particular branch of foreign affairs public diplomacy, a euphemism for propaganda. USIA doesn't want the US public to think that it engages in propaganda, for it is a pejorative catch-all for negative and offensive manipulation.
Media hype for another ‘American Century’
By Norman Solomon, Creators Syndicate, 30 December 1999. According to media pundits, the main reason for the absence of a serious challenge to American empire is that it is so benign. There's every reason to think the upcoming 100 years will prove to be yet another American century. The prevalent media assumption that Uncle Sam's global reach is overwhelmingly benign.
Voice of America Under Pressure to Toe U.S. Line
By Felicity Barringer, The New York Times, 8 October 2001. The Voice of America, born during World War II, nurtured in cold war propaganda and remade in the 1990's as a source of objective information for a global audience, is under renewed pressure to be a salesman for U.S. government policy.
Media watchdogs troubled by possible Pentagon propaganda
By Lauren Gelfand, AFP, 19 February 2002. US media watchdogs reacted with dismay today to news that a little-known Pentagon office was considering influencing international opinion on the war on terrorism, with a broad campaign possibly including planting false stories in foreign media.
Pentagon Debates Propaganda Push in Allied Nations
By Thom Shanker and Eric Schmitt, The New York Times, 16 December 2002. The Defense Department is considering issuing a secret directive to the American military to conduct covert operations aimed at influencing public opinion and policy makers in friendly and neutral countries such as Germany.
Us and Them, the Myth of Western Superiority
By William Mark Hardiker, al-Jazeerah, 18 August 2003. A dramatic increase in and refinement of the art of vilification in order to escalate the level of support for the U.S. war on terrorism and to justify measures not otherwise acceptable, ie pre-emptive attacks on defenseless states and domestic legislation limiting human freedoms and rights. For the administration, the drive to accentuate the differences between them and us has been one of the highest priorities.
The 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its global domination
By Michael Meacher, The Guardian, Saturday 6 September 2003. The PNAC blueprint supports an earlier document attributed to Wolfowitz and Libby which said the US must discourage advanced industrial nations from challenging our leadership or even aspiring to a larger regional or global role. The so-called war on terrorism is being used largely as bogus cover for achieving wider US strategic geopolitical objectives.