Why reserve-currency politics are an overrated lens for understanding US intervention – the Trumroe world is cruder

At the core of propaganda lies an intriguing paradox: Sometimes the safest way to bury the truth is to place it in plain sight.

Propaganda 101: Manipulation through manifestation

When an inconvenient fact is openly stated, being printed, televised, or officially acknowledged, it often loses its power to provoke, because the public is inclined to believe that anything truly dangerous would be concealed.

The mechanics of this inversion of trust were prefigured in Hitler’s concept of the “Big Lie” . This is the idea that enormity…

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