Propaganda
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Top 20 Most Cringeworthy Zelensky PR Moments
Saurday, 14 January 2023 — Caitlin Johnson Caitlin Johnstone The US empire’s proxy war in Ukraine has had many jaw-dropping instances of imperialist sociopathy, propagandistic audacity and brazen journalistic malpractice that we’ve discussed in this space many times, but one of the most cringeworthy and degrading aspects of the globe-spanning narrative control campaign surrounding this Continue reading
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Under Musk, Twitter Continues to Promote US Propaganda Networks
Twitter’s “state-affiliated media” policy has an unwritten exemption for US government-funded and -controlled news media accounts. Twitter even boosts these accounts as “authoritative” sources for news during the Russian/Ukrainian war. Continue reading
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Transmission Denied
How will we look back on 2022? For most but the most die-hard Zero Covid addicts (who had to wait until China punctured this illusion only a few weeks ago), victory was declared over Covid early in the piece when the government backed down from its obscene NHS injection mandate in February and ‘Plan B’ restrictions were also subsequently rescinded. Continue reading
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Media regurgitates fake news from US spies, risking World War III with Russia
Top news outlet the Associated Press falsely claimed Russia fired a missile at NATO member Poland, risking WWIII. This fake story came from an anonymous US spy. Continue reading
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How the pro-Ukraine NAFO troll operation crowd-funds war criminals
Celebrated in mainstream US media for its anti-Russian trolling, the Twitter operation known as NAFO was founded by a Polish antisemite to raise money for a militia that has hosted war criminals, white nationalists and wanted murderers. Continue reading
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Western Media Rely on Dubious Sources in Smears Directed Against China
By now, everyone in the West should know that there is mass slave labor in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, where Muslim Uyghurs live. The slaves have to work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and without pay. Worse, they are not even Uyghurs, but foreigners, and Americans at that. The inhumane owners… Continue reading
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Only Adult Children Still Believe U.S. Propaganda
It should now be quite clear to any reasonable person that the Biden administration is hell-bent on destroying Russia and will risk nuclear war in doing so. It has already started World War III with its use of Ukraine to light the final match. The problem is that reasonable people are in very short supply,… Continue reading
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Ukraine – Dissecting Some War Propaganda News Item
Friday, 16 September 2022 — Moon of Alabama Last night a Reuters headline claimed: Mass grave of more than 440 bodies found in Izium, Ukraine -police bigger Continue reading
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Silencing the Lambs: How propaganda works
In an address to the Trondheim World Festival in Norway, John Pilger charts the history of power propaganda and describes how it appropriates journalism in a ‘profound imperialism’ and is likely to entrap us all, if we allow it. Continue reading
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The ‘Fact-Checking’ Liberal Media
In a remarkably unhinged analysis, NPR host Terry Gross and New York Times Magazine writer Robert Draper claimed that Russia is a communist country — as they went on about how detached from reality rightwing Republicans are. Continue reading
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What do the New York Times, Kiev Independent, Euromaidan Press, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and TikTok All Have in Common?
The social media outlets are an open door to organizations like NATO, military suppliers, and the Atlantic Council, with executives making decisions about what content is allowed to circulate widely on social media and what content is encouraged to support U.S. foreign policy goals. Continue reading
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How the Pentagon dictates Hollywood storylines
New documentary discloses the ways western publics are softened up for aggressive, global US militarism through the Pentagon’s influence over thousands of films and TV shows Continue reading
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NATO-Backed Network of Syria Dirty War Propagandists Identified
On June 10th, The Guardian’s Mark Townsend published an article headlined “Russia-backed network of Syria conspiracy theorists identified.” (“Russia-backed” has since been removed). The article is based on what Townsend calls a “new analysis” that “reveals” a “network more than two dozen conspiracy theorists, frequently backed by a coordinated Russian campaign.” Continue reading
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50 Sick Headlines About Vladimir Putin’s Health
Over the last months the British MI-6 disinformation service had fun with strewing rumors over Vladimir Putin’s health, mostly via British tabloids. It used its usual tools – a former MI-6 chief, ‘former’ MI-6 spies and the ever available ‘anonymous’ Russian oligarch who lives in London. Like its other propaganda claims these were obvious nonsense… Continue reading
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Canada: Government Censorship Rebrands with “Disinformation” Campaign
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… Continue reading
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UK Propaganda Meets Physical Reality
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.… Continue reading
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Directing the Moderate Rebels: Syria as a Digital Age Crucible for Information and Propaganda Warfare
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… Continue reading
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Ukraine Is The Most Aggressively Trolled War Of All Time: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
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. Continue reading
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Cognitive Warfare: Israel Targets Journalists Who Threaten Its Reality-Creation Tactics
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… Continue reading
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