How the CIA Created a Fake Western Reality for ‘Unconventional Warfare’
In 1950, the CIA helped establish the Congress for Cultural Freedom—an anti-communist advocacy group—to neutralize political opposition to Anglo-American culture.

“The Evil Spirits of the Modern Daily Press,” a cartoon from Puck magazine in 1888. (Wikimedia)
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