Word: propaganda
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...regarded with an almost mystical reverence by followers, thanks to a personality cult maintained by constant LTTE propaganda and his remarkable ability to escape capture whenever backed into a corner...
Honest Infidels Blindfolded and handcuffed, the man crouched on the ground, surrounded by Afghan soldiers and their U.S. Marine mentors. He had been found with insurgent propaganda and a Taliban flag and had a bruise on his shoulder - the kind the Afghan soldiers recognized from their days of carrying AK-47s while fighting Soviet forces more than 20 years ago. He said he was an illiterate shepherd, but he had a notebook full of writing. He claimed never to have visited Pakistan, but his mobile phone was filled with Pakistani numbers. Most likely, he was an insurgent...
...take in a glorious slice of Venezuela that hasn't been politicized on either side of the Caribbean. Although his government has funded and promoted the Simon Bolivar to a much greater extent than its predecessors, President Chávez has largely refrained from brandishing the orchestra as a propaganda tool of his "21st-century socialism"; at the same time, neither his Venezuelan opposition nor Washington has tried with much force to claim the Simon Bolivar, founded in 1975, as a cultural showcase of Venezuela B.C. (Before Chávez). (Read about Chávez and Venezuela's student opposition...
...False Crutch I object to the implications made in the Essay "The People's Game" [March 16]. The author parrots propaganda in claiming that Pakistan "was born as ... a refuge for a persecuted minority fleeing the Hindu dominance of India." Never in about 800 years since the first arrival of Muslims in India till independence did Hindus actually dominate. In all this time much of the region was controlled by Muslim rulers and then by the British. Such misconceptions feed into the false binaries that fundamentalists in Pakistan need to survive. Vishv Malhotra, Blackmans Bay, Australia...
...nature and personality of the child he has fathered and retreating further into the arid haven of his intellect in order to cope with her demise. But there are less obvious people the death marks: Kai, a public announcer on a government radio station that spews out continuous propaganda; Kai's husband Han, a man on the make in the provincial government, who harbors dreams of greater influence; and Nini, a deformed girl, eldest of six daughters, who is nothing more than an unpaid, unloved servant to her family...