Juan Cole: "Congress Wants the Department of Defense to Propagandize Americans"
Juan Cole (Informed Comment):
Two congressmen are attempting to insert a provision in the National Defense Authorization act that would allow the Department of Defense to subject the US domestic public to propaganda. The bipartisan amendment was introduced by Rep. Mac Thornberry from Texas and Rep. Adam Smith from Washington State.
Nothing speaks more urgently to the creeping fascism of American
politics than the assertion by our representatives, who apparently have
never read a book on Germany in the 1930s-1940s or on the Soviet Union
in the Stalin period, that forbidding DoD and the State Department from
subjecting us to government propaganda “ties the hands of America’s
diplomatic officials, military, and others by inhibiting our ability to
effectively communicate in a credible way.” And mind you, they want to
use our own money to wash our brains!
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