Articles by James F. Tracy
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ISIS Is America’s New Terror Brand: Endless Propaganda Fuels “War on Terror”
Prof. James F. Tracy - Global Research,
7 Sep 2015
In the wake of World War I, erstwhile propagandist and political scientist Harold Lasswell famously defined propaganda as “the management of collective attitudes” and the “control over opinion” through “the manipulation of significant symbols.” The extent to which this tradition is enthusiastically upheld in the West and the United States in particular is remarkable.
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Prof. James F. Tracy - Global Research,
31 Aug 2015
CIA publicists and journalists alike will assert they have few, if any, relationships, yet the seldom acknowledged history of their intimate collaboration indicates a far different story–indeed, one that media historians are reluctant to examine.
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Prof. James F. Tracy – Global Research,
26 Nov 2012
The week-long Israeli onslaught against largely defenseless Palestinians in Gaza that began on November 14 [2012] provides a basis for assessing how Western corporate media whitewash the war crimes of America’s foremost ally in the Middle East. There are three often intertwined techniques consciously applied to such news coverage.
→ read full articleThe JFK Assassination and the Lost Prospects for Peace
Prof. James F. Tracy - Global Research,
26 Nov 2012
Report From Iron Mountain: On The Possibility and Desirability of Peace is a uniquely important document worthy of careful reconsideration a half-century after JFK’s passing. It points to not only the rationales behind the military industrial complex and its overarching influence, but perhaps more importantly how a very real discussion concerning the nation’s priorities proceeded under Kennedy’s watch—a window of possibility that was violently shut on November 22, 1963.
→ read full articleChemtrails. The Realities of Geoengineering and Weather Modification
Prof. James F. Tracy – Global Research,
12 Nov 2012
For over a decade military and private jet aircraft have been spraying our skies with what an admixture of aluminum, barium, strontium, and other dangerous heavy metals. Such substances distributed into the atmosphere as microscopic subparticulates eventually descend to earth where they are breathed by living things and absorbed by the soil and plant life. By drawing attention away from actually existing efforts of atmospheric experimentation and manipulation, such coordinated efforts are complicit in the impending environmental catastrophe they profess to be rallying against.
→ read full articleFrom Persuasion to Coercion: PsychoPharma’s “Priesthood of the Mind”
Prof. James F. Tracy – Global Research,
8 Oct 2012
Since the 1950s psychotropic drugs comprise the psychiatric-pharmaceutical complex’s lucrative masterstroke of public relations and marketing. Heretofore the prevalence and use of such substances have been constructed in the public mind through a conditioned cultural obeisance toward professional expertise and its amplification in advertising and related promotional discourse.
→ read full articleThe Tender Tyranny of American Liberalism Redux
Prof. James F. Tracy – Global Research,
1 Oct 2012
Liberalism itself is a synthetic creation of the power structure, a humanitarian facade behind which the dirty work of policing the world can go on uninterrupted by idealistic spasms in the body politic.
→ read full articleFalse Flag Terror and Conspiracies of Silence
Prof. James F. Tracy – Global Research,
20 Aug 2012
The news media’s readiness to accept official pronouncements and failure to more vigorously analyze and question government authorities in the wake of “domestic terrorist” incidents contributes to the American public’s already acute case of collective historical amnesia, while it further rationalizes the twenty-first century police state and continued demise of civil society.
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