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Three important takeaways here.1. There is no evidence that RT or Sputnik pushed fake news. They featured accurate news reports that the US establishment didn't like and hosts and guests that contested the US establishment message.2. The US tech industry and Google in particular have enormous control over the US information system and they use it the interest of the US establishment.3. The US intelligence apparatus revealed its high degree of politicization and involvement in domestic propaganda. The real concern should be the close integration of the private and public sectors in advancing the interest of the US establishment rather than Russian influence in US domestic affairs.FAIRBacklash Against Russian ‘Fake News’ Is Shutting Down Debate for Real Robin Andersen See alsoExcellent
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: fake news, propaganda, rt, Russiagate, Sputnik
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Three important takeaways here.1. There is no evidence that RT or Sputnik pushed fake news. They featured accurate news reports that the US establishment didn't like and hosts and guests that contested the US establishment message.2. The US tech industry and Google in particular have enormous control over the US information system and they use it the interest of the US establishment.3. The US intelligence apparatus revealed its high degree of politicization and involvement in domestic propaganda. The real concern should be the close integration of the private and public sectors in advancing the interest of the US establishment rather than Russian influence in US domestic affairs.FAIRBacklash Against Russian ‘Fake News’ Is Shutting Down Debate for Real Robin Andersen See alsoExcellent
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: fake news, propaganda, rt, Russiagate, Sputnik
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Daniel Becker writes The Big Myth, by Naomi Oreskes
Chris Blattman writes Our willing gullibility on war news
Chris Blattman writes Our willing gullibility on war news
Mike Norman writes The Deepfake iPhone Apps Are Here — Jacob Schulz
Three important takeaways here.The real concern should be the close integration of the private and public sectors in advancing the interest of the US establishment rather than Russian influence in US domestic affairs.
1. There is no evidence that RT or Sputnik pushed fake news. They featured accurate news reports that the US establishment didn't like and hosts and guests that contested the US establishment message.
2. The US tech industry and Google in particular have enormous control over the US information system and they use it the interest of the US establishment.
3. The US intelligence apparatus revealed its high degree of politicization and involvement in domestic propaganda.
FAIR
Backlash Against Russian ‘Fake News’ Is Shutting Down Debate for Real
Robin Andersen
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Excellent interviews both.
'Russian Media Are Very Diverse' - a Veteran Russian Pundit Explains (Dmitry Babich)
Eric van de Beek interviews Russian journalist Dmitry Babich, a self-declared 'conservative leftist' and a political analyst for Sputnik International, and sometime commentator on BBC, Al Jazeera and CNN.
Leo Standish
State Department Condemns* Designation Of Media As Foreign Agents (*only applies to Russia)
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Today the U.S. State Department hit the ball of hypocrisy out of the park.
It remarked that "legislation that allows .. to label media outlets as 'foreign agents' ... presents yet another threat to free media". It noted that "freedom of expression—including speech and media ... is a universal human rights obligation".
The remark came after the U.S. Department of Justice required the Russian outlet RT Americato register as a 'foreign agent' under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA). RT registered as ordered on November 13.But the State Department statement was NOT in response to the DOJ requirement against RT. The State Department reacted to a new
Russian law that was issued in response to the demand against RT. The new Russian law is a mirror to the U.S. FARA law. It demands that foreign media which are active in Russia register as 'foreign agents'. (The EU poodles followed the State Department nonsense with an equally dumb statement.)
With its criticism of the Russian version of the FARA law while ignoring the U.S. FARA action against RT, the State Department confirmed the allegations of hypocrisy RT and other media have raised against the U.S. government.Moon of Alabama
State Department Condemns* Designation Of Media As Foreign Agents (*only applies to Russia)
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It's now become obvious with the latest sanctions that the US conducting economic warfare to take Russia down. This is really serious. It's not "slouching" toward war; it is rushing toward military conflict with a nuclear power.
Putin has declared that US aggressiveness is a result of a perception that the homeland cannot be reached. Putin has state that should war come, the US will be disabused of the illusion in order to end its aggressiveness. This is basically saying that Russia, having the capability, is morally obliged to hit the US homeland in case of aggression against it.
New US sanctions against Russia come into force
KtovKurse - translated by Inessa Sinchougova
Zero Hedge
Russia Warns Washington: Confiscating Gold Reserves Would Be "Declaration Of Financial War"
Russia has just warned the US that freezing its assets will be taken as a hostile act.
Russia Warns Washington: Confiscating Gold Reserves Would Be "Declaration Of Financial War"
Tyler Durden
Moreover, Putin has directed that steps be taken to shift to full wartime mobilization on a moment's notice to defend the homeland from attack.
It's looking like Moscow is preparing for the prospect of military conflict.
Viable Opposition
How Russia is Preparing for War
A Political Junkie
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