Moleskine co was surprised when Russian Nashi Party’s creepy nationalist youth camp Seliger listed it as a major sponsor on their website. While they only agreed to quietly donate 30 of their very hip notebooks, they were practically billed as generous Nashi supporters. Russian bloggers called for a boycott and burnings of Moleskine “Kremlin propaganda tools.” Oops. Read more »
Designer Steve Thomas offers his modernized take on the classic constructivist propaganda poster, warning you about the dangers of loose lips at the water cooler, idle Twitting and downloading diseased email attachments. Post these up at your office and you’ll get that 5 year plan done in no time! Posters are available for purchase and come in blue, for those that still have the Red Scaries.
When Marx’s “religion is the opium of the masses” slogan was crazy popular, the Soviets were getting everyone off the Eastern Orthodox Jesus crack, whether they liked it or not. Enter Bezbozhnik (“Heathen” or “Godless”) magazine of the late, hooked-on-Stalin ’20s, spreading equal opportunity propaganda and damning all major religions. Oh, and USA’s racism and capitalism, while they were at it. See what Christ’s got on tap in the vintage covers above.
Copyright infringement now earns you a mandatory date with Happy Tree Friends. If this light instructional sets the standard on what YouTube wants us to think about Fair Use, then it’s really, really complicated, kids, so just don’t remix if you don’t have an attorney… It’s bad, m’kay? Read more »
As NATO assumes control of the no-fly zone over Libya — a politically correct way of saying the US is still calling the shots, but gets to do it while wearing a different mask — the resistance continues to battle pro-Gaddafi forces, and things on the ground are at full tilt. Along with the air campaign comes the propaganda and this is where social media has played a crucial role, Flickr included. Read more »
The Chinese don’t give a fuck. Within earshot of rolling out their spiffy new, possibly knocked off stealth aircraft, a state run network broadcasted video of what they said was a J-10 fighter jet destroying a target during a training exercise, but there was one little kink. The footage looks awfully similar to a scene out of Top Gun, a popular U.S. propaganda film. Goodness gracious great balls of fire! (Sorry.)
As someone who’s written about Walmart and labor issues on and off over the years, and who’s read books and articles about the big-box retailer’s business practices, I’ve identified some tactics the company regularly uses to ingratiate itself with the public and get its stores approved. Read more »
Chris Brown found an unlikely ally in Ron English, as confirmed to ANIMAL by Ron English’s wife, Tarssa Yazdani. News of Brown starting a “graffiti movement” of “Breezy Art” heavily hinged upon his association with the artist and surprisingly, it wasn’t invented by his reps. Read more »
PR-wise, cannabis is having a stellar year and the good news keeps on rolling in. A new study from the University of Pittsburgh concludes that weed IS NOT a gateway drug. This long held belief, propagated by the government and organizations like a Partnership for A Drug Free America, is patently false! Doing bong hits will not automatically turn you into a crack-smoking alcoholic who eventually graduates to heroin and other harder drugs. It’s more of a ‘kids will take whatever they can get their hands on’ theory says researchers: Read more »
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