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Social media fact-checking, brought to you by the Deep State
By Daniel Espinoza Source: Off-Guardian Almost four years of mainstream media hype about “fake news” and “Russian meddling” propaganda has brought to the world exactly what they were intended to bring: an effective mechanism for internet and social media censorship. In the center of this move … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, CIA, civil liberties, conditioning, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Alternative news, Atlantic Council, censorship, CIA, Clayton R. Koppes, corporate media, Facebook, Fake News, Google, Hollywood Goes to War, independent media, Internet, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, NED, Office of War Information, propaganda, Russia-gate, Social Media, the Poynter Institute
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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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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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US Again Complicit in an Illegal Coup, This Time in Bolivia
By Marjorie Cohn Source: Consortium News Once again, the United States is complicit in an illegal coup d’état in Latin America, this time in Bolivia. On Nov. 10, a right-wing, anti-indigenous group seized power after the Bolivian military’s removal of … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Neocons, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Argentina, black ops, Bolivia, Carlos Mesa, CELAG, Center for Economic and Policy Research, CEPR, CIA, Cuba, Donald Trump, empire, Evo Morales, geopolitics, imperialism, Ivanka Trump, Jeanine Añez, Lithium, Mark Weisbrot, MAS, military coup, Movement Towards Socialism, National Endowment for Democracy, NED, Nicaragua, OAS, Organization of American States, School of the Americas, US Foreign Policy, venezuela, Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, WikiLeaks, Williams Kaliman
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US Seeks to Become World Political Schemers
By Valery Kulikov Source: New Eastern Outlook On an practically daily basis, representatives of the present political élite of Washington and US media voice accusations of Russia, China and some other countries which allegedly try “to interfere” with the internal … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, CIA, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Neocons, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged china, CIA, corporate media, Deep State, empire, geopolitics, Germany, Imerpialism, Mainstream Media, MSM, NATO, NED, Neocons, propaganda, Russia, Social Media, Ukraine, US intervention, US National Endowment for Democracy, Vladimir Putin
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Protecting Information Space from Facebook’s Tyranny
By Gunnar Olson Source: Land Destroyer The recent attack aimed at New Eastern Outlook (NEO) and several of its authors once again exposes the infinite hypocrisy of US and European interests including across their media and among their supposed human … Continue reading
Posted in censorship, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, imperialism, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged big data, censorship, china, corporate media, empire, Facebook, geopolitics, Hong Kong, imperialism, Internet Freedom, Mainstream Media, Media Literacy, MSM, National Endowment for Democracy, NED, New Eastern Outlook, propaganda, Russia, Social Media, technology, Thailand, Twitter
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The West’s War on Free Speech
By Tony Cartalucci Source: Land Destroyer With a name like the “National Democratic Institute” (NDI) one might expect the US State Department-funded, corporate-financier chaired front to be the premier proponent of freedom and democracy worldwide. And although it poses as … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, Conspiracy, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, freedom of speech, media, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged censorship, corporate media, Dystopia, Facebook, Fake News, free speech, Google, Information War, Mainstream Media, National Democratic Institute, National Endowment for Democracy, NDI, NED, New York Times, propaganda
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The National Endowment for Democracy: Not National and Not for Democracy
By Tony Cartalucci Source: New Eastern Outlook Using a front to hide illegal or immoral activities has been a feature of human criminality since the beginning of human civilization itself. Facades, both ideological and economical, have helped criminal enterprises conceal … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dirty Politics, divide and conquer, Economics, Empire, Energy, Geopolitics, History, Neocons, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Big Oil, Carlyle Group, CFR, Corporate Globalization, Corporatism, Council on Foreign Relations, Democracy, Exxon, Facebook, geopolitics, Multinational Corporations, National Endowment for Democracy, NED, Neocons, NGOs, regime change
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