EPA Uses ‘Covert Propaganda’ to Trick Americans into Accepting Totalitarian Policies

by J. D. Heyes, Natural News:

For those who are not familiar with the taxpayer-funded network Voice of America, it is essentially a government propaganda instrument whose mission, as The New York Times has noted in its politically correct manner, “is charged with presenting America’s viewpoint to the world.”

Established during World War II as a propaganda instrument similar to those begun by the Axis powers, VOA began broadcasting to the communist Soviet Union in 1947 as “an important part of America’s propaganda campaign … during the Cold War.” Radio transmissions, you see, are difficult to intercept, especially when they emanating from inside the borders of another superpower with as much nuclear capability as you have.

But the point is, VOA – and other CIA-related “PSYOPS” (psychological operations) conducted at various times and in various geographical locations throughout the history of the agency – are part of deliberate federal government efforts to push a narrative, whether true or not, on an unsuspecting population, for the purposes of gaining advantage.

Now, it seems, federal agencies are in the same business of pushing the federal government’s narrative through propaganda spread via more modern methods like social media.

So, will anyone at EPA be held accountable this time?

As reported by The New York Times, Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency broke federal law when the agency used Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms to push a massive new and constitutionally questionable water rule:

“The Environmental Protection Agency engaged in ‘covert propaganda’ and violated federal law when it blitzed social media to urge the public to back an Obama administration rule intended to better protect the nation’s streams and surface waters, congressional auditors have concluded.”

The Government Accountability Office, which issued the ruling, opened an investigation into the EPA’s practice following an earlier report by The New York Times. The GAO, in its ruling, clearly outlined what is and is not legally permissible for federal agencies experimenting with the use of social media and going too far when pushing an issue. Federal law is very clear on this matter: Government agencies are forbidden from lobbying or pushing propaganda.

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