The vicious attacks on Ward Churchill  Ward Churchill appears to be the latest author attacked by a strikling superconservative country I have been reading a lot about American sociology lately as it relates to the violent suppresion of the left    I knew little about Churchill and had a negative view of him because of his  article and infamous little eichman quote  I then stumbled upon one of his articles    It was absolutly incredible  Ward Churchill is an incredible historian What do these attacks on Ward Churchill do  They cause Americans to shy away from reading Churchills work and they send a clear message to others who may want to attack American foreign policy that you can lose your job if you criticize America that you will be attacked viciously if you criticize America  It is the latest form of American suppression of the Left  I am just interested if there is a list of authors or a book or article about those who have been Swift Boated like Churchill  If so I would like to add this to the article  I think Americans need to know how Americas sophisticated Propoganda system operates   Including such books as  which asks such questions as why has America had more people killed in labor disputes than any other country  Why doesnt America have a labor party like other industrialized countries  Why are union numbers so low in America compared to other industrialized countries  As Ellen Schrecker said Political repression in Americais American as apple pie American Inquisition The Era of McCarthyism Tape  Joe McCarthy and the Loss of China  I have the greatest admiration for your propaganda Propaganda in the West is carried out by experts who have had the best training in the world  in the field of advertizing  and have mastered the techniques with exceptional proficiency  Yours are subtle and persuasive ours are crude and obvious  I think that the fundamental difference between our worlds with respect to propaganda is quite simple You tend to believe yours  and we tend to disbelieve ours Soviet correspondent based five years in the US  When I first visited Russia in  I made friends with a musician whose father had been Brezhnevs personal doctor One day we were talking about life during the period of stagnation  the Brezhnev era It must have been strange being so completely immersed in propaganda I said  Ah but there is the difference We knew it was propaganda replied Sacha   That is the difference Russian propaganda was so obvious that most Russians were able to ignore it They took it for granted that the government operated in its own interests and any message coming from it was probably slanted  and they discounted it  In the West the calculated manipulation of public opinion to serve political and ideological interests is much more covert and therefore much more effective Its greatest triumph is that we generally dont notice it  or laugh at the notion it even exists   Lessons in How to Lie About Iraq August   by the ObserverUK