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The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.
Israeli settlers attack olive farmers and Washington Post journalist in West Bank
October 16, 2026
Israeli settlers have attacked Palestinians across the occupied West Bank in a coordinated movement to disrupt the annual olive harvest, burning cars and trees and injuring Palestinians and a Washington Post photographer.
Masked settlers wielding clubs and other weapons attacked people attempting to harvest their olives in towns across the West Bank on Friday. At least six people were injured in the town of Abu Falah near Ramallah, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said.
... full articleThe most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
Genocide Treated as Afterthought by Media on Third Anniversary of October 7 Attacks
October 9, 2026
October 7 marked three years since the Hamas attacks on Israel that left some 1,200 people dead and 251 taken hostage. It also marks three years since Israel launched its genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip with material and moral support from the United States, with an official death toll surpassing 74,000—including more than 20,000 children.
The official death toll is no doubt an underestimate, given the large number of missing and disappeared persons. (When Western corporate media outlets cite this toll, they often feel compelled to qualify it—e.g., as the BBC [10/7/26] had it, the “war between Israel and Hamas has killed more than 74,200 people in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, whose overall figures are seen as accurate by the UN”—lest, presumably, they be seen as taking Hamas’s word for it that the figure is so high.)
... full articlePropaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
NAZA: the film Israel does not want you to see
October 16, 2026
Oscar-winning filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor discuss their new documentary, NAZA, which exposes the AI systems that the Israeli military uses to rain down strikes on Gaza, causing the mass killing of civilians. Based on the testimony of 24 military insiders, the documentary caused uproar in Israel, with the government threatening to strip the filmmakers of their citizenship. The Guardian’s Annie Kelly talks to the directors about how the film was made, and the price they paid for speaking out
... full articleBefore mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.
Mahmoud Khalil Was Never Meant To Be the Only One
October 13, 2026
Icould not tell you when exactly I began to understand that harmony would not be part of my time at Columbia University. I can tell you, however, when I knew we were beyond the point of no return.
It was the first week of March 2025. A torrential downpour was hammering the window as I sat in my Wednesday evening class in Barnard Hall. Earlier in the afternoon, there had been a peaceful protest in Barnard College’s Milstein Center against the suspension of students involved in pro-Palestine demonstrations. As I listened to my professor lecturing, I heard someone screaming outside. The scream grew louder until a man’s voice on a megaphone drowned it out. He was warning people to “get back,” repeating the instruction several times. Through the rain, I could hear the steps of heavy-soled boots.
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