Sentences with phrase «as war propaganda»

It has been used as war propaganda, commercials, and educational films.

Christianity was used as war propaganda by the Holy Roman Emperor Constantine.

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This fast train to war was sidetracked, however, as Russia and China succeeded in blocking concerted United Nations action against both Iran and its ally, Syria (itself facing a massive propaganda campaign alleging atrocities that can not be independently or fully verified).

The last cruise missiles may have landed in Syria for now but the propaganda war is in full swing between the U.S. and its allies as Russia and Syria claim vastly different results from overnight strikes.

The CCK had requested permission to replace an old tower, which had been lit up for many Christmases as part of a propaganda war between North and South Korea, The New York Times reported.

As the war dragged on, the propaganda favoring the Allied cause mounted.

Otherwise the only way to view those wars, is as all other wars — one group of thugs attempting to kill another group of thugs, both doing so in the name of their own ego, misappropriating whatever political, religious, and social pressure and propaganda they can, to their cause.

Government propaganda encouraged an apocalyptic worldview during the cold war, as it does now, when we wage an open - ended «war on terrorism.»

Instead, it once again went to war pumped up on our own propaganda — especially the conjoined beliefs that the United States was the «indispensable nation,» the «lone superpower,» and the «victor» in the Cold War; and that it was a new Rome the likes of which the world had never seen, possessing as it did — from the heavens to the remotest spot on the planet — «full spectrum dominance.&raqwar pumped up on our own propaganda — especially the conjoined beliefs that the United States was the «indispensable nation,» the «lone superpower,» and the «victor» in the Cold War; and that it was a new Rome the likes of which the world had never seen, possessing as it did — from the heavens to the remotest spot on the planet — «full spectrum dominance.&raqWar; and that it was a new Rome the likes of which the world had never seen, possessing as it did — from the heavens to the remotest spot on the planet — «full spectrum dominance.»

A state that was «truly founded upon the principles of atheism would be the greatest place on earth; a place of reason, compassion, logic, knowledge and beauty, where each fellow knew his and her fellows as people to be cherished, not chastised and shackled into conformity through propaganda and war crimes.»

The same way we're in a propaganda war against Islam, as Bloomberg put it, we have been fed propaganda about Hamas, the group which was almost unheard of until they won parliamentary elections in 2006.

As the political propaganda grew and war was equated with patriotism and, even more oddly, with spiritual practice or faithful following of Jesus, I struggled.

I no longer get news from any major news outlets as they are pure propaganda to keep the war industry going.

Here, the chief villain remains the odious Walter Duranty of the New York Times, a principle agent of the cover - up of the Holodomor, which continued well into the 1960s and is being revived in Putin's Russia today, as part of its propaganda war against a now - independent Ukraine.

One nation under god was added to the pledge during the cold war as propaganda against the USSR.

What is going on in Ukraine is foreign aggression; it is by no means a civil war, as Russian propaganda would like the world to believe.

We are apt to recognize propaganda in its most glaring forms, such as the nationalistic posters of earlier wars that illustrate Keen's book, but its impact is absorbed without notice when it flows through the river of images that pours out of the television set.

ABUJA — Elder statesman and Presidential Liaison Officer in the Second Republic, Dr Tanko Yakassai, has described the anti-corruption efforts of the Muhammadu Buhari administration as a mere propaganda war, lamenting it has unfortunately won over right thinking men like Prof. Wole Soyinka.

Other countries allied or friends with the US may believe that this is a sign that the US has become trigger - happy and unhinged, and may distance themselves from them, while their enemies may use this as propaganda or as an excuse to launch another war.

This produced a climate of warring practitioners and fostered «sectarian antagonism,» «internecine hatreds,» and «mutual hostility» in the medical profession, and led to the concerted dissemination of propaganda dismissing their healing modalities as «quackery» (McKeown, 1979).

Lds mobile police as what parents your own star wars propaganda.

In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth and hatred is declared to be love.

At the same time, President Coin (Julianne Moore) becomes more transparent in her efforts to use Katniss as a propaganda weapon in the war for control of Panem — with Gale Hawthorne (Liam Hemsworth) at her side.

Yet when the filmmaker came across an article in The New Yorker about the citizen journalist outfit Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, he realized that the war he would cover would not be fought with bullets, as much as the men and women who file dispatches from ground zero risk their lives, but instead with information as he followed the network built by RBSS to share their testimony with the rest of the world to rival the propaganda machine created by ISIS to recruit new soldiers from inside the country.

You could call it a propaganda piece, an uplifting film about sacrifice and duty in the face of war that celebrates the service of Britain's men in war and the endurance of the women (including Celia Johnson as Coward's wife) left behind.

Sometimes these crises are played for laughs (e.g. Peter Quill's insistence on being called «Star - Lord» in Guardians Of The Galaxy) and sometimes for drama, as in the three movies centered on Chris Evans» heroic Captain America (Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War), which follow his journey from Hitler - slugging song - and - dance propaganda act to fugitive.

«American Sniper» wants to have it both ways — as a war - on - terror fantasy and poignant PTSD drama — but while it doesn't shy away from the physical and psychological horrors of battle, the movie is so heavy on pro-military propaganda that it doesn't realize its dramatic potential until it's too late.

One of the things the film is about is the use of media as a weapon: this war of propaganda between RBSS on one side and ISIS — with its slick Hollywood - style productions — on the other.

Good wartime propaganda films are as rare as good wars.

Chris Evans returns as Steve Rogers, the World War II propaganda machine known as Captain America, turned modern day super soldier.

At its simplest, Comrade Detective is a Romanian buddy - cop comedy presented as Cold War - era pro-communist propaganda that is being dubbed into English by A-list voice talent including Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon - Levitt,...

In that latter category, suffice it to say that nobody still thought that this was the war to end all wars, particularly since victory in Europe and in the Far East simply segued into the Cold War as two allies, the U.S. and the Soviet Union, broke apart, competing for superiority on the athletic field and, grievously, in tense propaganda battlwar to end all wars, particularly since victory in Europe and in the Far East simply segued into the Cold War as two allies, the U.S. and the Soviet Union, broke apart, competing for superiority on the athletic field and, grievously, in tense propaganda battlWar as two allies, the U.S. and the Soviet Union, broke apart, competing for superiority on the athletic field and, grievously, in tense propaganda battles.

Carrie Fisher, famous for her role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars trilogy, portrays the disembodied voice of propaganda blaring throughout the city.

And when such links can not be ignored (as, for example, in the cases of the horrendous treatment of women by the Taliban or the rulers of Saudi Arabia, the clear calls for holy war against the infidel by many Muslim clerics, or the widespread dissemination of Nazi - level anti-Semitic propaganda throughout the Arab world), students are still exhorted to tolerate the intolerable by «understanding» its cultural or historical context to the point of excusing it all away.

You can expect to see lessons in propaganda as the educational norm — teachers will be obliged to extoll the wonders of free market capitalism and the American business system; they will be forced to speak in favor of the nation's latest wars; and perhaps there will be lessons devoted to creation science and the lie of global climate change.

A teacher might introduce a concept in class — such as World War II — era propaganda — and then post a discussion topic online that asks students to evaluate and discuss an embedded photo of a Nazi propaganda poster.

The SOE was formed from three different but overlapping units: a propaganda unit known as Department EH run by a Canadian newspaper magnate; Section D, a division of the Secret Intelligence Service focused on sabotage and propaganda; and a department of the War Office, known as MI R.

Meanwhile, pit bulls were chosen as mascots by the Buster Brown shoe company and by the United States itself, which featured pit bulls on American propaganda posters for each of the first two world wars.

Because in the propaganda war with the Soviet Union, this new artistic movement could be held up as proof of the creativity, the intellectual freedom, and the cultural power of the US.

Wars are the subject of such works as Destiny Manifesto (2006) and Triumph of the Wild (2009), whose titles pun, respectively, on Manifest Destiny and on Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will.

Given this, it's not surprising that McKenzie's influences are just as diverse as her work: she draws inspiration from sources like Eastern European propaganda, Cold War iconography, 20th - century literature, and selected artists from the 1920s,»30s, and»50s, such as Hergé and Käthe Kollwitz.

Representation is the key strategy for two artists: the Japanese American artist and community activist Tomie Arai's Momotoro / Peach Soy revisits the narrative of a Japanese folk tale, used as propaganda by the Japanese military during World War 11, by juxtaposing images taken from various sources.

I see the whole series of House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home as acts of resistance against the war, and a form of propaganda against War Home as acts of resistance against the war, and a form of propaganda against war, and a form of propaganda against it.

I freely admit that I gently borrowed the title from French professor Serge Guilbaut, whose book How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom, and the Cold War, written back in 1983, is still by far one of the most fascinating books about abstract expressionism and its controversial use as propaganda in the Cold War years.

Her video The Man in the Background and her publication, Gentlemen and Arseholes, were launched as two parts of one project about art and propaganda during the Cold War.

Drawing inspiration from official communication, memorials, war museums, and political propaganda as well as current events, advertising, and video games, the exhibition explores the interchangeability of strategies and discourses.

Even though Burri was never explicitly tied to any movement, to most viewers his abstract «unpainted paintings» should appear comfortable in his cultural moment, absorbing the monochromatic interests of Abstract Expressionists, while also setting the ground for Arte Povera and assemblage art.The co-curators work extensively to expand these associations through the exhibition's wall labels, which relate Burri to various artists, works, and moments far beyond the scope of midcentury abstraction, including Piero della Francesca's Madonna of Partition (1455 — 6)(for the subject of incised fabric), Joseph Beuys (as an artist formed by war), Italian Neorealist cinema (for its use of artifice and rupture to reappropriate the realism of Facist war propaganda), and even Rodin's Gates of Hell (1880 --- 1917)(for the «Combustione Plastica» series» hellish melting of form).

We'd be hard pressed to find any rules that her eclectic and diverse work abides by, as her influences range from Eastern European propaganda and 20th - century literature to Cold War iconography and, in the case of this work, the illustrations of Hergé.

As a public service broadcaster it does not have the right to manipulate graphs, invent histories, alter scientific evidence or produce a film which, in the words of one of its contributors, was «as close to pure propaganda as anything since World War Two» (4As a public service broadcaster it does not have the right to manipulate graphs, invent histories, alter scientific evidence or produce a film which, in the words of one of its contributors, was «as close to pure propaganda as anything since World War Two» (4as close to pure propaganda as anything since World War Two» (4as anything since World War Two» (4).

He called the programme «as close to pure propaganda as anything since world war two» and has complained to Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator, about his treatment.