Cultural and psychological war

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Sacred Sword of the Patriots League
By Ralph McGehee, 10 November 1999. Comments on Richard H. Shultz Jr., The Secret War Against Hanoi? Use of the same technology and deception used against the Nazis in WWII. The failure of covert action in Vietnam. Example of a phnony opposition movement called the ‘Sacred Sword of the Patriots League’.
British psychiatry: from eugenics to assassination
By Anton Chaitkin, Executive Intelligence Review, [30 July 2002]. A behavior control research project was begun in the 1950s and became famous in the 1970s under a CIA code name, “MK-Ultra.” Its notoriety for brainwashing by drugs, hypnosis, electroshock, and other tortures caused many books to be written about the project, and the U.S. Senate conducted hearings which exposed many of its abusive features.
War without death
By Patrick J. Sloyan, The San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday 17 November 2002. The Pentagon promotes a vision of combat as bloodless and antiseptic. Thousands of Iraqi soldiers, some of them alive and firing their weapons from World War I-style trenches, were buried by plows mounted on Abrams battle tanks.
War Propaganda
By Charley Reese, InterPress Service, May 2004. You are constantly being propagandized to approve of war—not just the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but war generically. The administration wants you to see the war as an electronic game with bright lights in the distance and good sound effects, or close-ups of our brave warriors firing their guns at an invisible enemy.