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Paul Mason Says Bellingcat Launders Information For Western Intelligence
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com The Grayzone has published leaked email communications between faux-left British commentator and aspiring parliamentarian Paul Mason and a shady intelligence contractor named Amil Khan which plainly shows the two plotting to use state power to subvert anti-imperialist media outlets like Consortium News … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, CIA, civil liberties, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, freedom of speech, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged Amil Khan, Bellingcat, censorship, CIA, civil liberties, Consortium News, Disinfo, Grayzone, information laundering, Information War, Kit Klarenberg, Mainstream Media, Max Blumenthal, media, National Endowment for Democracy, Nina Jankowicz, Paul Mason, propaganda, Psyops, Russia
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Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat participated in covert UK Foreign Office-funded programs to “weaken Russia,” leaked docs reveal
New leaked documents show Reuters’ and the BBC’s involvement in covert UK FCO programs to effect “attitudinal change” and “weaken the Russian state’s influence,” alongside intel contractors and Bellingcat. By Max Blumenthal Source: The Grayzone The UK Foreign and Commonwealth … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, hacktivism, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Alexei Navalny, Andy Pryce, Atlantic Council, BBC, BBC Media Action, BELARUS, Bellingcat, Belsat, Britain, British Foreign Office, CDMD, Color Revolution, Conflict, Counter Disinformation & Media Development, CSSF, Eliot Higgins, empire, geopolitics, Gordon Macmillan, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Mediazona, Meduza, NATO, Navalny, Omidyar, propaganda, Reuters, Russia, Stability & Security Fund, Thomson Reuters Foundation, uk, UK FCO, USAID, Vladimir Putin
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The Art of Doublespeak: Bellingcat and Mind Control
By Edward Curtin Source: Behind the Curtain In the 1920s, the influential American intellectual Walter Lippman argued that the average person was incapable of seeing or understanding the world clearly and needed to be guided by experts behind the social … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Bellingcat, Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World, CIA, conspiracy, Douma, Edward Bernays, Eliot Higgins, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, Information War, JFK, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, mind control, MK Ultra, MSM, NATO, NED, propaganda, Public Relations, Russia, Stephen Kinzer, Syria, The Atlantic Council, The Intercept
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US government drops case against Max Blumenthal after jailing journalist on false charges
As the mysterious disappearance of Secret Service records and complete absence of evidence supporting its case came to light, the US government dropped its bogus charges against journalist Max Blumenthal. By Ben Norton Source: Grayzone The US government has dropped … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, censorship, civil disobedience, civil liberties, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Bellingcat, Benjamin Rubinstein, Carlos Vecchio, censorship, civil liberties, CodePink, DC police, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Diliana Bustillos, Elliot Higgins, James Palmer, Juan Guaidó, Marissa Lang, Medea Benjamin, Naylet Pacheco, Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, Policae State, press freedom, propaganda, Secret Service, US Department of Justice, US government, venezuela
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As The OPCW Is Accused Of False Reporting U.S. Propaganda Jumps To Its Help
Source: Moon of Alabama An international organization published two false reports and got caught in the act. But as the false reports are in the U.S. interests a U.S. sponsored propaganda organization is send out to muddle the issue. As … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Adessium, Bellingcat, Caitlin Johnstone, CIA, corporate media, Deep State, Douma, Elliot Higgins, empire, geopolitics, George Soros, imperialism, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, MSM, National Endowment for Democracy, NED, New York Times, OPCW, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Pax for Peace, Peter Hitchens, Porticus, propaganda, Psy-ops, Syria, US Foreign Policy, war
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Untying PropOrNot: Who They Are … and a Look at 2017’s Biggest Fake News Story
By George Eliason, an American journalist living in Ukraine. Source: Washington’s Blog Preface by Washington’s Blog: A leading cybersecurity expert has publicly said that Mr. Eliason’s research as presented in this article does not violate the law. Washington’s Blog does not … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Dirty Politics, Dystopia, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, History, media, Media Literacy, Neocons, Neoliberalism, news, NGOs, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Anne Applebaum, Aric Toler, BBG, Bellingcat, Broadcasting Board of Governors, Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, censorship, CNN, Crowdstrike, Daily Beast, Dataminr Inc., Dimitry Alperovich, Dirty Politics, Donald Trump, Eliot Higgins, EurasiaNet.org, Fake News, foreign policy, freedom of speech, Hillary Clinton, InterpreterMag.com, Irena Chalupa, James Miller, Left Foot Forward, Michael Weiss, Pierre Vaux, propaganda, ProporNot, psy-op, RFE/RL, Robert Parry, Russia, Steele Dossier, StopFake, Syria, The Atlantic Council, Ukraine
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‘Corruption’ as a Propaganda Weapon
By Robert Parry Source: Consortium News Sadly, some important duties of journalism, such as applying evenhanded standards on human rights abuses and financial corruption, have been so corrupted by the demands of government propaganda – and the careerism of too many … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, conditioning, Conspiracy, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Economics, Empire, History, media, news, propaganda, Social Control, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Bellingcat, BRICS, corporate media, Corruption, G-7, George Soros, Information Warfare, Journalism, Mainstream News, Natalie Jaresko, National Endowment for Democracy, Neocons, Open Society, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, Panama Leak, Petro Poroshenko, President Putin, propaganda, Russia, Syria, The Panama Papers, U.S. Agency for International Developmen, Ukraine, USAID, Victoria Nuland
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