Guyanese Online

WEAPONIZING CHEAP PROPAGANDA – By Verian Mentis-Barker

Official mendacity can sometimes be strategy and even some not so discreet embellishment can be tolerated.

But this exhuming of the past by recycling decades old video, regurgitating material that has been declassified so long it’s seldom recalled as having ever been secret, stoking the embers of smoldering racism is a crude, unimaginative kind of political butchery that guts the art of propaganda of its clever elegance and offers us that cheap hollering of the desperate too unimaginative come up with a new line of attack.   

It’s an understatement that the PPP Opposition is losing its mind on the sidelines of Government, as contracts for multiple hundreds of millions are being made when they no longer have access to the treasury and creative budgeting with Ministers of Finance waving magic wands while their wives, Director(s) of Audit Office sign off on their manufactured transactions.

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