The composition of the Committee to Investigate Russia disqualifies it from the job, not to mention the funding. It has propaganda machine written all over it. The name should be Committee to Demonize Russia.NEO“Meathead” is Running the Committee to Investigate Russia Phil Butler
Read More »Gordon M. Hahn — Russian Propaganda Machine: Much Ado About Little as Compared with Western Stratcomm
Much is being made about the ostensibly omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent Russian propaganda machine. In the Western view, it decides Western elections and threatens the ‘global liberal order’. In fact, an anti-Putin media organ has published a comparison of the resources devoted to propaganda or ‘strategic communications (stratcomm) by Russian and just the US (excluding European) governments. It demonstrates that the American propaganda machine alone is approximately 3-4 times more...
Read More »Leonid Bershidsky — Wanted: Russia Experts, No Expertise Required; Jingoism has replaced scholarship and a spirit of real inquiry when it comes to Russia. That’s a mistake.
There's a lot to unpack about the newly formed Committee to Investigate Russia, which aims to "help Americans recognize and understand the gravity of Russia’s continuing attacks on our democracy." Perhaps its most striking feature is that no Russia experts are involved; that's a sign of the times... No experts needed other than in propaganda. … as another eminent Russia expert -- Mark Galeotti, who used teach at New York University and now works at the Institute of International...
Read More »The Saker — US propaganda on Russian TV
Quite a while ago I wrote an article entitled “Counter-Propaganda, Russian style” in which I tried to show that far from censoring the russophobic propaganda of the AngloZionist Empire, the Russians try hard to give it as much visibility in Russia as possible. The reason for that it very simple: by showing the Empire’s propaganda the Russian media provides incontrovertible evidence of the hatred the Empire has for Russia and for the Russian people. This very slick counter-propaganda...
Read More »Branko Milanovic — How I lost my past
Yet it is very difficult to tell these other stories. History is written, we are told, by the victors and stories that do not fit the pattern narrative are rejected. This is especially the case, I have come to believe, in the United States that has created during the Cold War a formidable machinery of open and concealed propaganda. That machinery cannot be easily turned off. It cannot produce narratives that do not agree with the dominant one because no one would believe them or buy such...
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