De
kop van dit bericht is een heel andere dan die van het hieronder
opgenomen artikel, waar Caitlin Johnstone in feite een stelling
betrekt: ‘Yes Moscow Boosts Western Anti-Imperialist Voices. So
What?’
In
haar artikel, geplaatst op haar eigen site stelt
Johnstone dat de VS precies hetzelfde doet, hoewel daar aan
toegevoegd moet worden dat de anti-Russische propaganda voor het
overgrote deel niet wordt ondersteund door feiten, terwijl de
anti-imperialistische berichtgeving voor het overgrote deel niet
eens moeite hoeft te doen om met feiten aan te tonen dat de VS de
internationale stabiliteit steeds verder ondermijnt, daar de bewijzen overweldigend zijn……
Het
lullige is dat elke kritiek bijvoorbeeld over de feiten aangaande de
VS terreur in het Midden-Oosten, in de VS en de rest van het westen
worden afgedaan als pro-Russische propaganda, zo worden de sociale
media die hier aandacht aan besteden, zoals RT (Russia Today) weggezet als Russische trollen…..
Johnstone
noemt het niet in haar artikel, maar The Voice of America is een
zender die vooral propaganda maakt voor het imperialisme waar de VS
intussen al vele jaren meer dan berucht door is geworden en waar men Rusland consequent als een kwaadaardige natie neerzet……. Uiteraard wordt dit voorgesteld als het brengen van democratie en stabiliteit door de VS, waar dit gestolen land in werkelijkheid massamoord en vernietiging brengt, ter illustratie >> sinds 1945 heeft de VS meer dan 22,5 miljoen mensen vermoord*:
- in diverse illegale oorlogen
- bij door de VS georganiseerde opstanden waarvoor de VS o.a. economische oorlogsvoering gebruikt
- bij door de VS georganiseerde staatsgrepen
- bij geheime militaire missies van de VS
- bij moordaanslagen van de CIA en bij standrechtelijke executies van verdachten middels drones, waarbij meer dan 90% van de slachtoffers niet eens werd verdacht
Overigens: de grootste manipulators van verkiezingen in de VS zijn grote bedrijven die met hun macht en enorme kapitaal in feite politici en verkiezingsuitslagen kopen, ofwel grootscheepse corruptie, waarmee de democratie met voeten wordt getreden…… (de VS democratie heeft in feite plaats gemaakt voor een politiestaat, waarop de grote bedrijven grote invloed uitoefenen, grote bedrijven waaronder de bankenmaffia, oliemaatschappijen en wapenfabrikanten….. Opvallend dat grote bedrijven het altijd goed kunnen vinden met dictaturen, althans zolang ze niet zogenaamd links zijn….)
Conclusie van Johnstone is dat Rusland in feite hetzelfde doet als de VS, ware het niet dat de sociale mediaorganen die worden beschuldigd de stem van het Kremlin te vertolken, i.t.t. tot de reguliere westerse media, wel echt nieuws brengen en durven in te gaan tegen de neoliberale status quo en de oorlogszuchtige stemming die zo wordt verdedigd en zelfs uitgedragen in die westerse media…….
Yes,
Moscow Boosts Western Anti-Imperialist Voices. So What?
In
an extremely weird article titled “Russia
is backing a viral video company aimed at American millennials“,
CNN reports that Facebook has suspended popular dissident media
outlet In
The Now and
its allied pages for failing to publicly “disclose” its financial
ties to a subsidiary of RT. According to CNN, such disclosures are
not and have never been an actual part of Facebook’s official
policy, but Facebook has made the exceptional precondition of public
disclosure of financial ties in order for In
The Now to
return to its platform.
I
say the article is extremely weird for a number of reasons. Firstly,
according to In
The Now CEO
Anissa Naouai, CNN knew that Facebook was going to be suspending the
pages of her company Maffick Media before she did, suggesting a
creepy degree of coordination between the two massive outlets to
silence an alternative media platform.
Secondly,
the article reports that CNN found out about Maffick’s financial
ties thanks to a tip-off from the German Marshall Fund, a narrative
control firm which receives funding from the US government. In
The Now‘s
Rania Khalek has
described this
tactic as “a case where the US government has found a legal
loophole to suppress speech, in this case speech that is critical of
destructive US government policies around the world.”
Thirdly,
and in my opinion weirdest of all, the article goes to great lengths
to make the fact that a dissident media outlet supports the same
foreign policy positions as Russia look like something strange and
nefarious, instead of the normal and obvious thing that it is.
Unprecedented. @CNN knew @IntheNow_tweet and other Maffick pages would be blocked on @Facebook before we did cnn.it/2DJubp5
Russia is backing a viral video company aimed at American millennials
Three online video channels designed to appeal to millennials have collected tens of millions of views on Facebook since September. But the pages pushing the videos do not disclose that they are…
The
article repeatedly mentions the fact that all the people working
for In
The Now “claim”
to be editorially independent as opposed to being told what to report
by Kremlin officials, a notion which Khalek
says was
met with extreme skepticism when she was interviewed for the piece by
CNN. As though the possibility of an American opposing US
warmongering and the political establishment which drives it without
being ordered to by a rubles-dispensing FSB officer was a completely
alien idea to them.
Check
out the following excerpt, for example of this bizarre attitude:
“Ben
Nimmo, a senior fellow for information defense at the Atlantic
Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, told CNN that while
Russian state-backed outlets claim to be editorially independent,
‘they routinely boost Kremlin narratives, especially those which
portray the West negatively.’
“Nimmo
said the tone of Maffick’s pages is ‘broadly anti-US and
anti-corporate. That’s strikingly similar to RT’s output. Maffick
may technically be independent, but their tone certainly matches the
broader Kremlin family.’”
This
is a truly obnoxious mind virus we’re seeing the imperial narrative
controllers pushing more and more aggressively into mainstream
consciousness today: that anyone who opposes the beltway consensus on
western interventionism is not simply an individual with a conscience
who is thinking critically for themselves, but is actually “boosting
the Kremlin narrative”. If you say it in an assertive and
authoritative tone like Mr Nimmo does, it can sound like a perfectly
reasonable position if you don’t think about it too hard. If you
really look at it directly, though, what these manipulators are
actually saying is “Russia opposes western interventionism,
therefore anyone who opposes western interventionism is basically
Russian.”
Which
is of course a total non-argument. You don’t get to just say
“Russia bad” for two years to get everyone riled up into a state
of xenophobic hysteria and then say “That’s Russian!” at
anything you don’t like. That’s not a thing. More to the point,
though, there is no causal relationship between the fact that Russia
opposes western interventionism and the fact that many westerners do.
As
we discussed
recently,
there will necessarily be inadvertent agreement between Russia and
westerners who oppose western interventionism, because Russia, like
so many other sovereign nations, opposes western interventionism. If
you discover that an American who opposes US warmongering and
establishment politics is saying the same things as RT, that doesn’t
mean you’ve discovered a shocking conspiracy between western
dissidents and the Russian government, it means people who oppose the
same things oppose the same things.
Something appears fishy with conservative columnist running smears on behalf of a “Russian troll hunter” about an open pro-Bernie subreddit before the man even announces he’s running.
Someone REALLY wants Trump to get a second term! (Thread) washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/…
Prominent pro-Sanders subreddit WayOfTheBern aims to divide Democrats,
Something appears fishy with WayOfTheBern, a prominent Reddit page dedicated to advancing the prospects of Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders, according to experts who track political social media.
We’re
seeing this absurd gibberish spouted over and over again by the
mainstream media now. The other day the delightful pro-Sanders
subreddit WayOfTheBern was smeared
as a Russian operation by
the Washington
Times, not
because the Washington
Times had
any evidence anywhere supporting that claim, but because the
subreddit’s members are hostile to Democratic presidential hopefuls
other than Sanders, and because its posts “consistently support
positions that would be amenable to the Kremlin.” All this means is
that the subreddit is full of people who support Bernie Sanders and
oppose US government malfeasance, yet an entire article was published
in a mainstream outlet treating this as something dangerous and
suspicious.
If
you really listen to what the CNNs and Ben Nimmos and Washington
Timeses are actually trying to tell you, what they’re saying is
that it’s not okay for anyone to oppose any part of the unipolar
world order or the establishment which runs it. Never ever, under any
circumstances. Don’t work for a media outlet that’s funded by the
Russian government even though no mainstream outlets will ever
platform you. Don’t even subscribe to an anti-establishment
subreddit. Those things are all Russian. Listen to Big Brother
instead. Big Brother will protect you from their filthy Russian lies.
“If
CNN would like to hire me to present facts against destructive US
wars and corporate ownership of our political system, I’ll gladly
accept,” Khalek told me when asked for comment. “But the
corporate media doesn’t allow antiwar voices a platform. In
The Now does.
I’ve worked for dozens of different outlets, from Vice to Al
Jazeera to RT, and my message has always the same: leftist, antiwar
and pro justice and equality. People should be asking why US
mainstream media outlets that claim to be free and independent refuse
to air critical and adversarial voices like mine.”
Why
indeed? Actually, if CNN is so worried about Russian media influence
in America, all they’d have to do is put on a few shows featuring
leftist, antiwar and pro-justice voices and that would be the end of
it. They could easily out-spend RT by a massive margin, buy up all
the talent like Khalek, Lee Camp and Chris Hedges, put on a sleek,
high-budget show and steal RT America’s audience, killing it dead
and drawing all anti-establishment energy to their material.
But
they don’t. They don’t, and they never will. Because Russian
media influence is not their actual target. Their actual target is
leftist, antiwar and anti-establishment voices. That’s what they’re
really trying to eliminate.
I did an interview with RT’s Going Underground yesterday on UK foreign policy since 1945, to broadcast Monday. Why? I’ve waited since 1989 when I was at Chatham House to be interviewed by BBC; the call has never come. So I gave my first interview to RT. (PS. I don’t love Putin).
So
yes, Moscow will of course elevate some western voices who oppose the
power establishment that is trying to undermine and subvert Russia.
Those voices will not require any instruction to speak out against
that establishment, since that’s what they’d be doing anyway and
they’re just grateful to finally have a platform upon which to
speak. And it is good that they’re getting a platform to speak. If
western power structures have a problem with it, they should stop
universally refusing to platform anyone who opposes the status quo
that is destroying nations abroad and squeezing the life out of
citizens at home.
It
doesn’t take any amount of sympathy for Russia to see that the
unipolar empire is toxic for humanity, and most westerners who oppose
that toxicity have no particular feelings about Russia any more than
they have about Turkey or the Philippines. Sometimes Russia will come
in and give them a platform in the void that has been left by the
mainstream outlets which are doing everything they can to silence
them. So what? The alternative is all dissident voices being
silenced. The fact that Russia prevents a few of them from being
silenced is not the problem. The problem is that they are being
silenced at all.
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* Terreur door de VS uitgeoefend:
‘VS vermoordde meer dan 20 miljoen mensen sinds het einde van WOII……..‘ (tot het jaar 2000, intussen zijn daar al meer dan 2,5 miljoen moorden aan toegevoegd)
‘VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen……….‘
‘List of wars involving the United States‘
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Zie ook:
‘Putin vraagt en Trump levert: een lijst met ‘alle goede zaken die Trump voor Rusland regelde’‘
‘WhatsApp beperking in strijd tegen fake news‘
‘World Economic Forum: de plek waar men elkaar feliciteert met de censuur op de sociale media‘
‘Massamedia VS vallen keihard door de mand met ‘vers’ geschoten Russiagate bok >> publiek wordt om vertrouwen gevraagd‘
‘Lichtgelovige ‘atheïst’ gelooft Russiagate leugens….‘
‘NewsGuard, het nieuwste wapen van Big Brother VS tegen de alternatieve media‘
‘Bedrijf dat voor ‘Russische bots’ waarschuwde, heeft een leger met nep-Russische bots‘
‘VS begint ‘troll farm’, alsof Hollywood en de massamedia al niet genoeg VS propaganda maken……….‘
‘Waarom de burgers van de VS de illegale oorlogen steunen‘
‘De VS heeft Syrië volgepropt met ‘jihadisten’ en wapens‘
‘Der Spiegel, groot bestrijder van ‘fake news’ bracht zelf jarenlang dit soort ‘nieuws’‘
‘Russiagate sprookje ondermijnt VS democratie en de midterm verkiezingen‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht)
‘New York Times ‘bewijzen’ voor Russiagate vallen door de mand……‘
‘Politico rapport bevestigt: Russiagate is een hoax‘ (Russiagate, de enorme leugen op basis waaraan we de huidige censuurgolf te danken hebben……)
‘‘Russiagate’ een complot van CIA, FBI, Hillary Clinton en het DNC………..‘
‘‘Russiagate’ een verhaal van a t/m z westers ‘fake news…..’‘
‘Facebook gebruikte ‘fake news’ beschuldiging om de aandacht voor schandalen af te leiden‘
‘New York Times: eerste Israëlische inval in Gazastrook sinds 2014 >> fake news!‘
‘Noord-Koreaans ‘bedrog met nucleaire deal’ is fake news o.a. gebracht door de New York Times‘
‘‘Fake News’ misbruikt door dictaturen en de reguliere (massa-) media‘
‘The Attack on ‘Fake News’ Is Really an Attack on Alternative Media‘
‘The Lie of the 21st Century: How Mainstream Media “Fake News” Led to the U.S. Invasion of Iraq‘
‘FBI, de spin in het Russiagate web……..‘
‘Mocking Trump Doesn’t Prove Russia’s Guilt‘
‘CIA deed zich voor als het Russische Kaspersky Lab, aldus Wikileaks Vault 8…..‘
‘WikiLeaks: Seth Rich Leaked Clinton Emails, Not Russia‘
‘Hillary Clinton en haar oorlog tegen de waarheid…….. Ofwel een potje Rusland en Assange schoppen!‘
‘Murray, ex-ambassadeur van GB: de Russen hebben de VS verkiezingen niet gemanipuleerd‘
‘Obama gaf toe dat de DNC e-mails expres door de DNC werden gelekt naar Wikileaks….!!!!‘
‘VS ‘democratie’ aan het werk, een onthutsende en uitermate humoristische video!‘
‘Democraten VS kochten informatie over Trump >> Forgetting the ‘Dirty Dossier’ on Trump‘
‘Hillary Clinton moet op de hoogte zijn geweest van aankoop Steele dossier over Trump……..‘
‘FBI Director Comey Leaked Trump Memos Containing Classified Information‘
‘Publicly Available Evidence Doesn’t Support Russian Gov Hacking of 2016 Election‘
‘Russia Is Trolling the Shit out of Hillary Clinton and the Mainstream Media‘
‘Campagne Clinton, smeriger dan gedacht…………‘ (met daarin daarin opgenomen de volgende artikelen: ‘Donna Brazile Bombshell: ‘Proof’ Hillary ‘Rigged’ Primary Against Bernie‘ en ‘Democrats in Denial After Donna Brazile Says Primary Was Rigged for Hillary‘)
‘Rusland zou onafhankelijkheid Californië willen uitlokken met reclame voor borsjt…….‘
‘Alarm Code Geel: Lara Rense (NOS) voedt Rusland-haat‘
‘‘Russiagate’ een nieuwe ongelooflijke aanklacht van de Democraten…….‘
‘VS demoniseert Russiagate critici als Jill Stein…..‘
‘De Russiagate samenzweringstheorie dient de machthebbers………‘
‘Britse en VS manipulaties van verkiezingen en stimulatie van conflicten middels psychologische oorlogsvoering‘ (voor VS manipulaties van verkiezingen elders, liggen er ‘metersdikke’ dossiers, o.a. in te zien op WikeLeaks)
Facebook Purges Independent Media for “Political Disinformation”