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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
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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
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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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Boycott Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Here’s Why
By Eric Zuesse Source: Strategic Culture Foundation NATO — the neoconservatives, the marketeers for firms such as Lockheed Martin and BAE — has taken over the social-media giants and much of online international ‘news’-reporting, including that of virtually all independent … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, civil liberties, consciousness, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, divide and conquer, Dystopia, elites, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, news, Oligarchy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology, war
Tagged alternative media, Atlantic Council, Ben Nimmo, boycott, censorship, corporate media, DFRLab, Digital Forensic Research Lab, Dystopia, Eliot Higgins, empire, Facebook, Facebook Purge, geopolitics, Google, imperialism, Information War, Internet Freedom, Katie Harbath, Libya, media, Militarism, military spending, Mint Press, Nathaniel Gleicher, NATO, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Russia, Russian Trolls, Social Media, Twitter, uk, war, war profiteers
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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
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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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