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| | Swans Commentary: Our Masters of Propaganda, by Stephen Gowans - gowans12 |
 | | As the devastation in Afghanistan becomes clearer, as stories of broken bodies and blood and flattened Red Cross depots and orphaned children and weeping mothers trickle out of the war-torn and drought-stricken country, the White House and the State Department and the Pentagon fire back: Don't believe it. |
 | | If it looks like the war that was supposed to capture Osama bin Laden dead or alive has become a war on Afghans, well, that's just because the Taliban, backward, medieval, unworldly, are masters of deception. |
 | | The Nazis, with their Reichstag fire, their humanitarian intervention into the Sudentenland, their stories of Germany under attack from within and without, were masters of propaganda. |
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