the vicious attacks on ward churchill ward churchill appears to be the latest author attacked by a strikling super conservative 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 churchill's 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 america's 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 doesn't 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 america is 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 u s when i first visited russia in i made friends with a musician whose father had been brezhnev's 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 don't notice it or laugh at the notion it even exists lessons in how to lie about iraq august by the observer uk