Intifada,thicket of personalities, propaganda, Black propaganda

A human rights group and local news outlets have accused Turkey of using poisonous gas during operations in Syria. According to an Ankara diplomat, "this is black propaganda."

Turkey denies use of chemical weapons in Syria

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On the Moral Implications of the Music Strauss wrote under the Nazi regime
Levi: We have to divorce the music from the man. Some past composers in history have been terribly unpleasant people with unpleasant views. It is a thicket. We need to mention a piece like Metamorphosen, written at the end of the war, where you really sense the agony and the grief for the destruction of Germany. The destruction of Germany was wrought by Hitler and his gang, and this music really speaks to the heart that few other works of the 20th century do.

On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review


'Cleopatra: A Life'
By STACY SCHIFF
Reviewed by KATHRYN HARRISON


Stacy Schiff penetrates an ancient thicket of personalities and propaganda to reconstruct the Macedonian-Egyptian queen Cleopatra in all her ambition, audacity and formidable intelligence.

through thick and thin, thicket of rules,, copse, zapper

 

Never have the media been so influential in determining the course of war as during the Al-Aqsa Intifada, “起義”which, as far as the Western media are concerned, has essentially become a battle over images and ideas. Israel has already poured hundreds of millions of dollars into what in Hebrew is called hasbara, or information for the outside world (hence, propaganda).




Black propaganda is false information and material that purports to be from a source on one side of a conflict, but is actually from the opposing side. It is typically used to vilify, embarrass, or misrepresent the enemy.^[1] Black propaganda contrasts with grey propaganda, the source of which is not identified, and white propaganda, in which the real source is declared and usually more accurate information is given, albeit slanted, distorted and omissive. Black propaganda is covert in nature in that its aims, identity, significance, and sources are hidden.

propaganda[prop・a・gan・da]

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• 発音記号[prɑ`pəgǽndə | prɔ`p-]

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1 [U]（組織的な）宣伝（活動）, プロパガンダ；((略式))デマ, 偽りのニュース

a piece of propaganda
一つの宣伝

spread propaganda for ...
…の宣伝をする.

2 ((主に軽蔑))（ある団体・運動によって）宣伝された主義［主張］.

3 [U]((the P-))《カトリック》布教聖省；（外国伝道司祭のための）プロパガンダ大学.

 

 

thicket

Line breaks: thicket

Pronunciation: /ˈθɪkɪt/

noun

• A dense group of bushes or trees: a horned owl perfectly camouflaged in a dense thicket
  

  
  

Origin

Old English thiccet (see thick, -et¹).