Since Vogue published an exquisitely timed fawning profile of the "glamorous, young, and very chic" first lady of Syria Asma al-Assad in February, her husband has presided over the murder of more than 300 demonstrators and jailed more than 10,000 political prisoners in a bloody crackdown. Now Asma has fled to England…

Rolling Stone is trying to add another general to its head count: Michael Hastings, the reporter who dispatched Gen. Stanley McChrystal last year, is reporting that Gen. William Caldwell, who is in charge of training Afghan forces, used Army psychological operations troops to try to influence VIP visitors, including…

Turns out the Nazis were watching 3-D movies years before Americans were. According to the Guardian, Australian filmmaker Philippe Mora recently uncovered two 3-D propaganda films that date to 1936:

The forces of righteousness have once again unleashed their most feared weapon: fake pimps and hos. This time the victim was Planned Parenthood of Central New Jersey, which was revealed, on tape, to provide abortions! To prostitutes! And teens!

Leave it to the Church of Scientology to make a commercial printing center seem creepy and menacing: This video celebrating the launch of its new 185,000 square foot "dissemination" facility in L.A. will give you paper-cut nightmares.

Wal-Mart, unsated by every last drop of Middle America's lifeblood, plans to break into the NYC market, whether we like it or not. Today, the company rolls out its all-powerful propaganda tool: a website! Bow before its persuasive powers!

Why is our economy in the predicament that it's in today? High unemployment, sluggish growth...who's to blame? The unions, of course. The unions are the enemies of the working man. The working class must destroy unions for their own good.

A new study shows that Fox News viewers are more likely to believe demonstrably false things than viewers of other networks. Which is to be expected. But it also shows that the more you watch, the more misinformed you get.

Iran's state-run PressTV yesterday aired a "reconstruction" of the murder allegedly committed by Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani — the woman sentenced to death by stoning earlier this year. In it, she reenacts the moment she injected her husband. It's creepy.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez™ has tightened his totalitarian grip on the country by banning the reproduction of his "name, image or figure" for murals and other propaganda without express permission from the government. The revolution will not be illegally reproduced.

A group of right-wing conspiracists has produced a 25-minute phantasm of Obama-rage posing as a "documentary," and it's airing in battleground states. Will Fox News sue to keep them from using its clips, like it does against Democrats? Probably not!

This morning, Fox News jacked up its anti-"Ground Zero Mosque" propaganda by broadcasting a "map" that identified remains of 9/11 victims and their proximity to the proposed building site—all with a decidedly biased, fear-mongering tone. Video inside.

Iran, aided by Russian technicians, is about to open a nuclear reactor, to produce energy. Russia says it's implemented safeguards to ensure fuel can't be diverted for possible weapons programs. Still: Let's translate this into Drudge Report-ese, shall we?

CBS's corporate advertainment show Undercover Boss was wildly successful at making propaganda palatable and, indeed, superficially desirable. Now, CBS is ordering up a companion series. But will it also help workers internalize a self-destructive dynamic? Oh you bet!

A wealthy scion of an American dynasty is using his media knowledge and Hollywood connections to lobby power players to insert subtle liberal messages into movies and TV shows by manipulating their storylines. This is not propaganda, apparently.

In response to this weekend's joint US-South Korean naval exercises in the Sea of Japan, North Korea today said it will launch a "sacred war" and use its "nuclear deterrent" to crush the imperialists and its puppet regime.

Radio Free Asia this week published a picture of a North Korean poster depicting a sailor punching a warship that reads: "We will smash you with a single blow if you attack!" It was smuggled out by a Chinese businessman.

After 9/11, the State Department launched an Arab outreach magazine to show off the splendors of American life. It didn't work and was mired in petty politics. For example: pictures of donkeys on camping trips were deemed too "pro-Democrat".

Today in Factual Accounts of True Tales of American Heroism That Should Not Be Characterized as Propaganda: Hero Navy SEALs have rescued a helpless eagle that was shot by a fiendish Afghani.