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...message-laden music is part of an army propaganda blitz that includes radio spots, billboards and leaflets dropped by helicopter. Guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - the nation's largest rebel group, known as the FARC - are told that by turning themselves in, their sins will be forgiven and they can start anew. The campaign is one of the pillars of a broader U.S.-backed military offensive that has driven the FARC out of the most important areas of Colombia and cut the size of the rebel army in half. Since President Alvaro Uribe was first elected...
...while the government has stepped up the number of arrests on smuggling charges and for watching the videos, it has relaxed sentences for offenders who only do the latter. Ten years ago, that particular crime carried a sentence of five years in a prison camp; today, enemy-propaganda watchers are usually handed a sentence of three months or less of unpaid labor, according to two refugees in Seoul. The shift may not have been an ideological one: Myung, who served in the North Korean police just last year, says that the regime made the decision because it couldn't afford...
...might do well to pay attention to Omar's al-Qaeda childhood for clues about how to inoculate young people against radicalism. His remarkable achievement - to have maintained humane beliefs despite being pulled from school at the age of 12 and exposed to a near constant deluge of hateful propaganda, isolation and family pressure - seems to have been helped by a love of animals. A constant collector of pets - against his father's wishes - and an avid horseman, Omar's awareness of the madness of al-Qaeda was fueled in part by several acts of animal cruelty by his father...
...stone's throw from the big-name designer shops of New Bond Street, Bloomsbury Auctions deals in books, prints, posters, photographs, maps - anything, in fact, on paper. Sales aren't held to a fixed timetable, so see bloomsburyauctions.com for dates of forthcoming events. (An auction of ephemera and propaganda from China under Mao, including the first Hebrew edition of the Little Red Book, takes place on Nov. 5.) There's a high tweed-jacket count - book-collecting seems to be the province of silver-haired gentlemen, who bid courteously and quietly. Expect shelves crammed with leather-bound books and many...
...disaster, especially if the operation is not wrapped up before the onset of winter, it does allow the military to work unimpeded without risking civilian casualties. Still, the camps, if not managed properly, can cause widespread resentment and frustration for displaced civilians, and provide fertile ground for anti-government propaganda...