Fake News & False Flags: Pentagon paid British PR firm $500 million for Iraq propaganda

[Mika]

Fake News and False Flags
How the Pentagon paid a British PR firm
$500 million for top secret Iraq propaganda

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The firm’s output was signed off by former General David Petraeus – then commander of the coalition forces in Iraq – and on occasion by the White House, Wells said.

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The Bureau traced the firm's Iraq work through US army contracting censuses, federal procurement transaction records and reports by the Department of Defense (DoD) Inspector General, as well as Bell Pottinger's corporate filings and specialist publications on military propaganda. We interviewed half a dozen former officials and contractors involved in information operations in Iraq.

There were three types of media operations commonly used in Iraq at the time, said a military contractor familiar with Bell Pottinger’s work there.

“White is attributed, it says who produced it on the label,” the contractor said. “Grey is unattributed and black is falsely attributed. These types of black ops, used for tracking who is watching a certain thing, were a pretty standard part of the industry toolkit.”

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[underpants]

1. I posted this earlier today - I hope your's gets more attention.

All the way to the White House.

[Mika]

2. Sorry for the dupe. I searched DU before posting - it didn't come up.

Had it come up as a result I would have simply kicked yours. Pls, post your link so that I can.

[underpants]

4. Double kick

DU Thread

[kristopher]

3. K&R

[Judi Lynn]

5. Argh. So much money, so many taxpayers' dollars dumped upon PR firms to write lies

which benefit the predators' point of view.

So damned sad. At some point the world is going to have to change. They know what they're doing is wrong.

May they all come face to face with their consciences, with no place to hide.

Just keep cranking that crap out, and rubbing it on the inside of our eyelids, and we'll keep paying your salaries, assholes.
All that matters is your happiness, Military Industrial Right-wing Complex.

[yurbud]

6. that's why any time I hear "al Qaeda" from a government source, I add "he lied" in my head