![]() Media Control is an invaluable primer on the secret workings of disinformation in democratic societies. Chomskys classic back-pocket primer on U.S. Chomsky further touches on how the modern public relations industry has been influenced by Walter Lippmann’s theory of "spectator democracy," in which the public is seen as a "bewildered herd" that needs to be directed, not empowered and how the public relations industry in the United States focuses on "controlling the public mind," and not on informing it. Buy a used copy of Media Control : The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda book by Noam Chomsky. From an examination of how Woodrow Wilson’s Creel Commission "succeeded, within six months, in turning a pacifist population into a hysterical, war-mongering population," to Bush Sr.'s war on Iraq, Chomsky examines how the mass media and public relations industries have been used as propaganda to generate public support for going to war. ![]() According to Chomsky, "propaganda is to democracy as the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state," and the mass media is the primary vehicle for delivering propaganda in the United States. Noam Chomsky’s backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy-one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Many are threatened by a woman who leads, and Joan draws wrath and suspicion from all corners, while her first taste of fame and glory leaves her vulnerable to her own powerful ambition. This meticulously researched novel is a sweeping narrative of her life, from a childhood steeped in both joy and violence, to her meteoric rise to fame at the head of the French army, where she navigates the perils of the battlefield and the equally treacherous politics of the royal court. ![]() ![]() Chen’s hands, the myth and legend of Joan of Arc is transformed into a flesh-and-blood young woman: reckless, steel-willed, and brilliant. From this chaos emerges a teenage girl who will turn the tide of battle and lead the French to victory, becoming an unlikely hero whose name will echo across the centuries. France is mired in a losing war against England. Saint? From the acclaimed author of Mary B comes a stunning, secular reimagining of the epic life of Joan of Arc.ġ412. ![]() ![]() ![]() At least in Roslyn’s stories. This author is very good at describing desire and passion and even better at building them up. She makes what seemed improbable to me very believable. ![]() Roslyn Sinclair is an author I got to know through reviews from TheLesbianReview . This story was first a fanfic by Telanu (penname for Roslyn Sinclair). The fanfic was from the fandom The Devil Wears Prada. It really never occurred to me that Andrea and Miranda could be or become a couple. With some apprehension I read a fanfic story by Telanu and well, that couple work really well □. ![]() ![]() Some among them were adorned in mementos: faded protest buttons or T-shirts with militant slogans. This was what survivors of the plague looked like. If you knew what to look for, you saw in their faces the burden of a shared past, the years and years of similar services. Even the nimble among them wore haunted expressions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of them were hollow cheeked and balanced on canes or on one another, slowed by age or disease or a reluctance to reenter the community of the grieving. Taxicabs deposited luminaries from the worlds of science and medicine, of theater, advertising, and media, of activism, art, and academia, people from all over the United States, from Europe and Africa. Long before the glass doors swung open, a line stretched down the block. They made their way down East Thirty-second Street in Manhattan just after two o’clock, wending sedately toward the stark black doorway of the Cutting Room, a performance space hosting the memorial service for Spencer Cox, one of the country’s most recognizable AIDS activists. The experience of death, which had bound them together a quarter century ago, unexpectedly reunited them on an unseasonably warm January afternoon in 2013. ![]() ![]() ![]() The threats facing Roe that Ginsberg’s death seemed to portend were forgotten for a little while, but not forgotten entirely. He realizes that eighty percent of Americans do not want to see Roe v. Though President Biden likens himself to a moderate, he joins the fifty-five percent of Americans who believe abortion should be legal in most or all cases. I wrote, and I slept (not well) until I completed a moldable essay draft. One year before, after the death of Justice Ginsburg, I’d spent days writing. ![]() In the email that the other fellows and I receive from Jennifer, she reminds us to take care of ourselves, pointing us toward the organization’s Employee Assistance Program. Phase two will cover Policy Education and Engagement, Statehouse Testimonies, Calling Legislators, Media Engagement, and Social Media Safety, among other things. In phase one, we studied stigma busting and other foundational topics relating to reproductive justice. Patients to Advocates is exactly what it sounds like-an organization which trains folks who have had abortions to advocate for increased access to abortion. ![]() The email is from Jennifer, Program Coordinator at a fellowship program I participate in called Patients to Advocates. On Thursday, September 2, 2021, the day after the Supreme Court decides to uphold Texas’s near-total abortion ban, an email with the subject line “Just Checking-in with You All” lands in my inbox. ![]() ![]() ![]() Period bicycles of all kinds military & civilian, and European & Homefront, are all invited to participate in our 2 nd annual rally. Back by popular demand, a period WW2 BICYCLE RALLY & PARADE is scheduled for Sunday morning at 10:30 AM for a leisurely ride through the museum and down the Fox River Bicycle path to the Duerr Forest Preserve and back (approximately 3 miles round trip). Wooded picturesque and sloping terrain along the Fox River offer unique and interesting landscapes for both reenactors and spectators. This is an opportunity for reenactors to immerse the public into history by putting them on a trolley and leading them through various period skits and battles. RTV will once again be presenting the Occupied France Trolley Adventure with updated and new skits along our 3 miles of trolley track. ![]() RTV offers something for all impressions, both military and civilians. Event Summary: We are proud to invite you to our 5 th annual Rails to Victory (RTV) WW2 reenactment at the Fox River Trolley Museum in South Elgin, Illinois, just West of Chicago. ![]() ![]() Tony is a world-class motivational speaker and the author of top-selling books “Bring It,” Crush It!” and “The Big Picture.” He’s appeared on countless television programs as a fitness and lifestyle expert to promote healthy living through exercise and proper nutrition. He’s also the creator of other best-selling fitness series: P90X2®, P90X3®, and Ten Minute Trainer®, and Power 90, to name a few. Tony Horton is the wildly popular creator of the most successful fitness program in America, P90X®. If you haven’t listened to an episode yet, please check out this one! Also, if you’re a fan of the pod, please take a second to leave a review or rating – it would help me out so much and help me continue to book such incredible guests. ![]() ![]() ![]() She soon learns Mark’s death was no accident-it was murder-and Blum dives headfirst into the abyss to find out why and have her revenge. Time passes quietly until while packing up Mark’s office, Blum discovers a recorded conversation from a case he was investigating. As Blum’s grief over the death of her husband, Mark, overwhelms her, only her two little girls can drag her back to the land of the living. Then in one devastating moment, a hit-and-run changes everything. ![]() ![]() She is a successful undertaker, a doting mother, and the loving wife of a decorated police officer. The #1 international bestseller hailed as "one of the most arresting thrillers" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner), Woman of the Dead is the darkly riveting tale of Brünhilde Blum, a successful undertaker whose happiness is struck by tragedy that sets her on the path for revenge.įor the past eight years, Blum has had a good life-a life that masks the terrible secrets of her past. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Britain’s government then did not even publicly avow the existence of its intelligence services. At the time, both services were heavily shrouded in secrecy, far more so than today. He wrote his first novel, Call for the Dead (1961), a minor masterpiece, while commuting by train to MI5’s London headquarters-making it surely the best novel ever written on a train-though he had moved to MI6 by the time it was published. ![]() And for the same reason, le Carré’s fiction had the rare distinction of tangibly influencing his subject-the intelligence world.Īlthough he worked for British intelligence for only a few years, in low-level positions-le Carré was the only novelist to have served in both MI5 (Britain’s domestic-focused Security Service) and MI6 (foreign intelligence)-his experiences shaped his entire subsequent writing career. Like espionage itself, they are about human frailty-moral ambiguity, intrigue, nuance, doubt, and cowardice. Unlike others in that tradition, however, his books transcend their spy-novel genre. 12 at the age of 89, came from a long tradition of British writers who were also spies. David Cornwell, who wrote for six decades under his famous penname, John le Carré, and who died Dec. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The powerful images and wrenching tragedies will haunt readers." - Publishers Weekly, starred review * "Everything Pfeffer writes about seems wrenchingly plausible." - Booklist, starred review "Incredibly engaging." - Kirkus Reviews Praise for THIS WORLD WE LIVE IN * "The protagonists of Pfeffer's novels The Dead and the Gone and Life As We Knew It join forces in this third installment of a harrowing saga set in the not so distant future. Praise for LIFE AS WE KNEW IT An ALA Best Book for Young Adults A 2011 ALA Popular Paperbacks Title A CCBC Choice A Junior Library Guild Premier Selection A Listening Library Selection An Best Book of the Year * "Absorbing from first page to last." - Publishers Weekly, starred review "Riveting and deeply frightening." - Bulletin "You will read it in one sitting, fighting back tears as you bite your nails." Praise for THE DEAD AND THE GONE * "As riveting as Life as We Knew It and even grittier. ![]() |