| "All warfare is based on deception."The Art Of War -- Sun Tzu | "The first casualty of war is truth."Rudyard Kipling |
He who molds opinion is greater than he who enacts laws."Abraham Lincoln
"Politics is the womb in which war develops."Carl von Clausewitz | "Your first job is to build the credibility and the authenticity of your propaganda, and persuade the enemy to trust you although you are his enemy."A Psychological Warfare Casebook Operations Research Office Johns Hopkins University Baltimore |
| "One cannot wage war without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda."General Douglas MacArthur | "By way of deception, thou shalt do war."Motto of the Mossad |
| "Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have." -- Richard Salent, Former President CBS News. |
"News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising".
former NBC news prez Rubin Frank |
"A government which lacks authority ...will have little ability, short of cataclysmic crisis, to impose on its people the sacrifices which may be necessary.."
-- 1975 Trilateral Commission Report on the Governability of Democracies |
"Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves... So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations...It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our [counterterrorism] efforts."
--Secretary of Defense William Cohen at an April 1997 counterterrorism conference sponsored by former Senator Sam Nunn |
