Inability to do so will convey business-as-usual to hemispheric neighbors and embolden populist forces who thrive on popular discontent by fueling propaganda and corruption.
Ethnic hatred grew as various incidents fueled the propaganda machines on both sides.
Besides fueling the propaganda war, the blight might also help the insurgency by giving prices a boost.
Mohammed Emwazi, the murderer who slaughtered Western hostages to fuel Isis propaganda, has almost certainly been killed in a US drone strike targeting the jihadist group's capital, Raqqa, in Syria.
Isn't it about time to call a spade, a spade instead of fueling the propaganda campaign for an even higher-design religion?
Fueled by militarist propaganda that drew on these myths, more than two million soldiers died in his name.
And the fighting has led to a surge in nationalism, fueled by Government propaganda and animosity toward the Tutsi, who propelled Mr. Kabila to power but from whom he later distanced himself.
In my own seven minutes (beginning at the 33 minute mark in the first video below), in the course of trying to explain how lies and propaganda fueled the U.S. government's "going to the dark side" after 9-11, I ended up butchering Mark Twain's quote: "A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes". I hope I didn't confuse the German audience too much.
The outcry over Russia's social-media-fueled propaganda war in Ukraine should have served as a warning.
The letter adds, "It is particularly troubling and puzzling that she would seemingly buy into false Russian-fueled propaganda, spread by both the Russians and our opponent, about our candidate's health".
The public's laconic initial reaction to the revelations of Edward Snowden offers proof that most Americans, like Winston at the end of Orwell's 1984, have come to accept the state's scare-fueled propaganda and gradual elimination of civil rights in exchange for a false sense of "security". They already love Big Brother.
