In 1934 a young Tunisian lawyer, Habib Bourguiba, and his colleagues broke with the Destour Party to form a new organization, the Neo-Destour, which aimed at spreading propaganda and gaining mass support.
Even as popular occultism and superstition were intermittently rooted out, suppressed, and outlawed, the Nazis drew upon a wide variety of occult practices and esoteric sciences to gain power, shape propaganda and policy, and pursue their dreams of racial utopia and empire.
Terrorists would gain the same propaganda effect by attacking a shopping mall or nightclub -- and they could just as easily do that during a military commission trial.
As The Hill points out, Paul -- in the days after the tragedy -- accused the Obama administration and the Western media of "join[ing] together to gain the maximum propaganda value from the disaster".
"Just days after the tragic crash of a Malaysian Airlines flight over eastern Ukraine, Western politicians and media joined together to gain the maximum propaganda value from the disaster," writes Ron Paul in his Texas Straight Talk column on the Ron Paul Institute website, listing the many things he argues the mainstream media has failed to report.
Just a year after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, extremist groups were already gaining recruits thanks to the propaganda value of an unpopular, visibly ineffective occupation.
"Indian economy is gaining control over our mineral resources, oil reserves and electricity," said JVP propaganda secretary, Vijitha Herath.
Pakistani diplomats want to offset what they believe is a propaganda advantage gained by India on the Kashmir issue since attacks by Kashmiri militants backed by Pakistan in Srinagar, Kashmir, last October and on the Parliament in New Delhi on Dec. 13.
The main antagonists are the DomZ High Priest, who is the chief architect of the invasion, and Alpha Sections leader General Kehck, who uses propaganda to gain the Hillyans' trust, even as he abducts citizens to sustain the DomZ.
The propaganda war was becoming intense, with both sides bluffing in the hope of gaining an advantage.
