Canada: Government Censorship Rebrands with “Disinformation” Campaign

July 21, 20222 Comments

Wednesday, 20 July, 2022 — Dissident Voice

by Yves Engler

Last week the Social Media Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Management released a report titled “The reach of Russian propaganda and disinformation in Canada”. According to lead author Anatoliy Gruzd, “the research provides evidence that the Kremlin’s disinformation is reaching more Canadians than one would expect. Left unchallenged, state-sponsored information operations can stoke societal tensions and could even undermine democracy itself.”

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UK Propaganda Meets Physical Reality

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Tuesday, 19 July 2022 — Geopolitics And Climate Change

Roger Boyd

“He [Putin] has weaponised food, energy and refugees, spreading economic and political pain across the continent. Sanctions don’t work, a land for peace deal would be a disaster. Only the military route remains”

Simon Tisdall, The Observer, July 17th 2022.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/17/putin-is-already-at-war-with-europe-there-is-only-one-way-to-stop-him

As the reality of Russian victory is becoming harder to cover up by the day, the UK post-Empire desperation to “take Russia on” is shown by Mr. Tisdall above in a statement full of lies from start to finish. It’s like a corgi barking at a bear; the bulldog having being put down long ago. Coming from a pseudo-left newspaper (Gurdian/Observer) fully neutered and leashed by the British establishment after the Snowden affair.
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Directing the Moderate Rebels: Syria as a Digital Age Crucible for Information and Propaganda Warfare

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Friday, 1 July 2022 — Internationalist 360°

Ben Arthur Thomason

Syria prop

A decade into Syria’s catastrophe as one of the deadliest wars of the 21st century, we can take greater stock of its effects not just on geopolitics and Syria itself, but on imperial management strategies, information warfare, and popular culture, particularly when considering the interventions by the West and its regional allies. A key pillar of Western imperialist projects next to the hard power of bombs and economic sanctions is the soft power of diplomatic maneuvering, media and cultural imperialism, manufacturing public consent for war, and inventing realities to maintain ideological hegemony. The complementary dialectic between hard and soft power in the US led imperial project in Syria built on historical ventures in Muslim majority countries and evolved propaganda and civil society hybrid warfare strategies that may become foundational for 21st century warfare.
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Ukraine Is The Most Aggressively Trolled War Of All Time: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

July 1, 20223 Comments

Friday, 1 July 2022 — Caitlin Johnson

Caitlin Johnstone

There’s a lot going on in America and the people are very stressed out and frightened, but don’t worry, there’s nothing the US government won’t do to make sure more High Mobility Artillery Rocket systems get to Ukraine.

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Cognitive Warfare: Israel Targets Journalists Who Threaten Its Reality-Creation Tactics

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Monday, 23 June 2022 — MintPress News

They were shooting directly at the journalists: New evidence suggests Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in targeted attack by Israeli forces”. Thus read a CNN headline on May 26, 2022, for an article describing what may have been a “targeted killing,” – that is, assassination – of Al Jazeera journalist Shirleen Abu Akleh, a 51-year-old highly esteemed Palestinian-American journalist who had covered Israeli repression of the Palestinian population for about 25 years before she was killed.

Jonathan Cook

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Russia Is Running Out Of [Whatever The Media Claim]

June 26, 2022June 26, 2022Leave a comment

Sunday, 26 June 2022 — Moon of Alabama

The main stream media have no problem with contradicting their own reporting:

- U.S. Lacks a Clear Picture of Ukraine’s War Strategy, Officials Say – Jun 8, 2022 – New York Times
  Intelligence agencies know far more about Russia’s military, even as the United States ships billions of dollars in weapons to the Ukrainians.
- Commando Network Coordinates Flow of Weapons in Ukraine, Officials Say – Jun 25, 2022 – New York Times
  A secretive operation involving U.S. Special Operations forces hints at the scale of the effort to assist Ukraine’s still outgunned military.

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The Guardian Churns Out Embarrassingly Awful Empire Propaganda

June 19, 20221 Comment

Sunday, 19 June 2022 — Caitlin Johnson

Caitlin Johnstone

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The Guardian has put out a smear piece on critics of the imperial Syria narrative that reads like propaganda made by seven year-olds without adult supervision.

The article was initially released under the headline “Russia-backed network of Syria conspiracy theorists identified,” which was then hastily edited to “Network of Syria conspiracy theorists identified,” because the article does not even make an attempt to argue that all of the so-called “conspiracy theorists” it smears are backed by the Russian government. It claims only that the Russian government has at times cited and amplified information about Syria which is inconvenient for the US empire, which, you know, duh. Obviously it’s going to do that.

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The Mainstream Worldview Is Self-Evidently Bullshit: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

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Friday, 17 June 2022 — Caitlin Johnstone

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They’ve lied about every war, and they’ve openly acknowledged lying about this very war, but you’re a Kremlin agent if you say they’re lying to us about this war.
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The Frontman of Empire: How Bono’s “Activism” Serves the Powerful

June 7, 2022June 7, 20221 Comment

Monday, 6 June 2022 — MintPress News

The Spin War

Alan MacCloud

DUBLIN – Bono is again in the news for his political activism. At the behest of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Irish rockstar and frontman of U2 traveled to Kiev, where he performed a few songs with Ukrainian soldiers inside the Khreshchatyk metro station to a crowd of around 100 people – most of whom were journalists. After the concert was over, Bono addressed the Ukrainian people through the media, stating, “Your president leads the world in the cause of freedom right now; …the people of Ukraine are not just fighting for your own freedom, you’re fighting for all of us who love freedom,” while also calling for regime change in Russia.

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‘Damned Fun’ – ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ And The Military-Entertainment Complex

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Tuesday, 7 June 2022 — Media Lens

In 1990, Tom Cruise, star of the 1986 blockbuster, ‘Top Gun’, said:

‘Some people felt that “Top Gun” was a right-wing film to promote the Navy. And a lot of kids loved it. But I want the kids to know that’s not the way war is – that “Top Gun” was just an amusement park ride, a fun film with a PG-13 rating that was not supposed to be reality. That’s why I didn’t go on and make “Top Gun II” and “III” and “IV” and “V.” That would have been irresponsible.’

It would indeed, and one can only admire Cruise’s honesty and selfless determination… in 1990… not to mislead young people.

Why, then, 32 years later, would Cruise decide to appear in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’? The Daily Mail provides a clue:
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Ukraine: The Disinformation War

June 7, 20222 Comments

Saturday, 4 June 2022 — SCO

Declan Hayes

Radio 4’s hit piece was a personalized attack on a number of British-based academics, who had been recently named and shamed in the British House of Commons for not being sufficiently Russophobic

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Western Media Run Blatant Atrocity Propaganda For The Ukrainian Government

May 21, 20221 Comment

Saturday, 21 May 2022 — Caitlin Johnson

Caitlin Johnstone

(This article contains reports about child rape which might be intense for some people.)

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The Ukrainian government is quickly learning that it can say anything, literally anything at all, about what’s happening on the ground there and get it uncritically reported as an actual news story by the mainstream western press.

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British Info-Warriors Kill Abroad And Sabotage Politics At Home

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Monday, 16 May 2022 — Moon of Alabama

The British Guardian reports that ‘black propaganda’, issued by the British government, has helped to kill millions of people:
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Western Media Engages in a War on Truth

May 16, 20221 Comment

Monday, 16 May 2022 — CovertAction Magazine

By Russell Bentley

[Source: dailysabah.com]

Yellow Journalism of the Hearst Era Is Alive and Well in the 21^st Century

There is a wise old maxim that says, “The first step on the road to wisdom is to call things by their right names.” So, let’s do that.

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Israel’s PR Problem, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

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Saturday, 14 May 2022 — Caitlin Johnson

Caitlin Johnstone

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Israel’s mounting PR crisis boils down to the fact that its violence and oppression isn’t happening in some far off land as in the case with US wars, it’s happening right at home surrounded by video cameras and enforced by police and soldiers who are not adept PR spinmeisters.

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Army of Secret Propagandists in Ukraine Funded by U.S. to Win Western Hearts and Minds for NATO Policies

May 13, 20221 Comment

Thursday, 12 May 2022 — CovertAction Magazine

By Evan Reif

[Source: facebook.com]

In my previous article on the Kyiv Independent, I touched on the Media Development Foundation (MDF), a “media accelerator” founded in 2013 by the CEO and CFO of the Kyiv Independent, Daryna Shevchenko and Jakub Parusinski.

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA offshoot that tries to advance U.S.-style democracy and capitalism in foreign nations, provided the seed funding, and provides about one-quarter of its overall funding. The remainder comes from either North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) affiliated agencies or right-wing groups.
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Watch: James Vasquez Is A Liar and a Fake

April 13, 2022Leave a comment

9 April 2022 — Youtube

Gonzalo Lira

James Vasquez’s tweet, where he lies about being in combat: https://mobile.twitter.com/jmvasquez1…

Extended livestream where I go through all the James Vasquez lies in more detail: “Propaganda BTFO”
https://youtu.be/cp41QhVEFZQ

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If It Feels Like You’re Being Manipulated, It’s Because You Are

April 11, 20221 Comment

Monday, 11 April 2022 — Caitlin Johnson

by Caitlin Johnstone

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If you’ve got a gut feeling that your rulers are working to control your perception of the war in Ukraine, it is safe to trust that feeling.

If you feel like there’s been a concerted effort from the most powerful government and media institutions in the western world to manipulate your understanding of what’s going on with this war, it’s because that’s exactly what has been happening.

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