Word: propagandas
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...battle and the losing side of the war. That cued Eastwood to make an Iwo Jima diptych and, after scouting Japanese filmmakers, to direct it himself (though he doesn't speak the language). The result is a unique, bifocal view of ground war--the men who fight it, the propaganda attending it, the awful way it ends...
Throughout the year, the class will examine news reports, websites, propaganda, history books, blogs, even pop songs. The goal is to teach kids to be discerning consumers of information and to research, formulate and defend their own views, says Stroud, who is founder and principal of the four-year-old public school, which is located in a repurposed handbag factory...
...enormous discrimination against any Japanese,” recalls Fujimoto. “Alien Japanese were not allowed to own property and had very little rights. On the West Coast in particular, the discrimination was excited in great part by the ‘Yellow Peril’ propaganda put out by the Hearst newspapers,” Fujimoto says—referring to the chain of papers, including the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the San Francisco Examiner, owned by Harvard dropout William Randolph Hearst...
...films being shown at the series, a short piece called “Death Mills,” was found in a defunct military base outside of Boston. There were no credits on the piece to identify Wilder as its creator. An anti-Nazi propaganda piece made for the U.S. Office of War Information, the short was recently traced to Wilder when an interview was discovered in which he mentioned the film...
...Even so, talk of transferring responsibility to Iraqis and paving the way for a U.S. withdrawal will be welcomed by some Iraqis - those who stand to gain, whether in political terms or purely for propaganda. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, reduced to an isolated, fringe figure with little control of his unraveling country, has been talking up Iraqi control of the security operations in a desperate attempt to appear tough and decisive. Last week, he claimed his forces would be ready to take over as soon as next spring. If the Bush Administration were to take the ISG's suggestion...