Richard Du Boff 1. Comprehensive [Nuclear] Test Ban Treaty, 1996. Signed by 164 nations and ratified by 89 including France, Great Britain, and Russia; signed by President Clinton in 1996 but rejected by the Senate in 1999. The US is one of 13 nonratifiers among countries that have nuclear weapons or nuclear power programs. In [...]
Archive | August, 2003
The Propaganda Model: An Overview
The following is an extract from David Cromwell’s “Spotlight on the Media: Chapter 3 of A Private Planet” (Jon Carpenter Publishing). In their 1988 book ‘Manufacturing Consent – The Political Economy of the Mass Media’, Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky introduced their ‘propaganda model’ of the media. The propaganda model argues that there are 5 [...]