CIA Propaganda Operations: Washington Post Anti-Russia 'Hacker' Propaganda

ministry of tokyo 'RUSSIAN' HACKER - WASHINGTON POST PROPAGANDA extract —Yasha Levine https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/on-russia-hacking-american-democracy http://archive.is/IVD3o extract WASHINGTON POST So much effort has been thrown at implicating the Russians in some way and none of the evidence has stuck  ... The paper offered no evidence to back up its shocking claims, but relied on secret claims made by a shady anonymous group called PropOrNot, which compiled a blacklist of American news outlets it considers to be Russian agents engaging in treason. PropOrNot's story is already unraveling. The group admitted to lying about its partnering organizations and refuses to disclose why its media blacklist of “Russian agents” contains some of the best journalists in recent history: Robert Parry (who helped break the Iran-Contra scandal), Robert Scheer (who helped expose CIA funding of student groups in the 1960s as editor at Ramparts) and Yves Smith (the fearless founder of an invaluable and respected financial blog, nakedcapitalism.com). It’s shocking and disturbing that WaPo would smear respected journalists as traitors with no evidence. It appears there's a chance that PropOrNot is connected to groups funded the Broadcasting Board of Governors, a CIA spinoff that manages the U.S. government's foreign propaganda division. If true, that would make PropOrNot's activities illegal — in violation of a federal law that prohibits the BBG from intentionally influencing or swaying public opinion inside the United States. Creating blacklists of American journalists, labelling them as traitors and then circulating this information to American newspapers would certainly fall into that category. Maybe Russia has the means to “hack” America’s elections, but it's hard to talk about it without real evidence. Sure, Russia’s been getting into the psyops game much more lately — with fake and biased news, comment trolls and Twitter bots. It’s cheap and effective, and good at exploiting people’s increasing lack trust in their country's institutions and political process.  [comment:  I disagree with this point - see below] It’s cheap and effective, and good at exploiting people’s increasing lack trust in their country's institutions and political process. But in reality it seems to have very little penetration of America's media landscape. Let's face it: life is miserable and getting more miserable by the day for most Americans — and no one in power seems to care one way or another. Americans don't need a Russian Twitter bot to undermine their trust in the Democratic Party. And anyway, this kind of propaganda psyops isn't anything that the United States isn’t doing at this very moment against Russia on a much bigger level — just look at Tor, Internet Freedom and Radio Free Europe. NSA and CIA and U.S. Naval intelligence and President Obama ... No one has said a thing. They’re all moving with the transition as normal. Whereas if it was really true, this info would not be coming from some anonymous outfit set up last week. The U.S. would be gearing up for real war with Russia. [comment:   I believe the US-Ango-EU-NATO capitalist military, political and propaganda media agents are actually gearing up for indoctrinating the Western the public for war with Russia.   But this is not war arising from to what amounts to anonymous - likely CIA-propaganda-machine connected - 'Russian hacking' allegations, made groundlessly throughout the Western capitalist oligarchy CIA-NATO-friendly propaganda media, in terms of cause.  Rather, the cause of 'Russian hacking', anti-Russian and anti Russian media propaganda,  is the Western capitalist plan for war with Russia. It is because the capitalist oligarchy has targeted Russia for capitalist exploitation (the path to which is war), just as a predator targets, stalks and takes down prey - and that the Western capitalist propaganda arises out of that agenda and is effectively a 'stalking' of prey behaviour, designed to influence and control public opinion. Look at the NATO bases inching towards Moscow; look at the long-range missiles trained on Russia by NATO; look at the CIA-coup in Ukraine and the US capitalist (EU-NATO) grip on former Soviet satellite states; look at the vicious sanctions placed on Russia and the US-Anglo-EU capitalist oligarchy attempt to destroy the Russian economy; look at the US-Anglo-EU oligarchy's aggression in Syria, Russia's ally and Middle Eastern base.   Look at the vicious anti-Putin and anti-Russia propaganda (see  an inappropriately vilified Putin, depicted as a demon, on the cover of The Economist, for example); see the incessant Western capitalist oligarchy media attack & that of their scoundrel hysteria and propaganda public spin-doctoring performances, politicians - eg. Boris Johnson (UK) and other Western capitalist oligarchy serving foreign ministers joining the propaganda performing chorus; and the constant lying stream of preposterous US-NATO capitalist oligarchy serving anti-Russia propaganda that streams from the Scandinavian and Baltic states - worst offenders, in my opinion:  Sweden and Lithuania.   ] —Yasha Levine UPDATE: Max Blumenthal debunked PropOrNot blacklist smears in Alternet. Mathew Ingram did the same in Fortune. https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/on-russia-hacking-american-democracy http://archive.is/IVD3o COMMENT Enjoyed looking at this article. The layout above isn't how it appears in the originally - and I've just lifted the bits I personally found of note. Full article is at the links provided. I would, however, disagree with the following statement: Sure, Russia’s been getting into the psyops game much more lately — with fake and biased news, comment trolls and Twitter bots. I find Russian news to be of a revelatory standard that is by far superior to Western capitalist controlled media. The two Russian targets that are in the Western propaganda and 'regulation' (ie censorship) sights of US-Anglo-NATO capitalists and their CIA (& associated agency) propaganda, smear, delegitimisation and distrust-sowing ops efforts - eg. Russia's RT News and Sputnik Western capitalist smear targets - are actually excellent, factual and unbiased, in my opinion.  Of course, standards between different Russian media outlets and private blogging enterprises (Russian or sympathetic to Russia ... or purporting to be 'Russian') - or simply media deliberately posing as 'Russian', but not necessarily Russian or from a Russophobic source  (eg.   from the disaffected, convicted, former 'Russian' oligarchs in exile and their brigade of sponsored intelligentsia 'trolls' etc) - would vary not only in terms of quality and standard, but also in terms of motivation and spin .  As for Russian 'bots' - everyone that can see things from a non-indoctrinated and non Western capitalist oligarchy serving, or ideologically compliant, perspective, can expect to be harassed by Western capitalism's media, social media and capitalist-sponsored 'grass-roots' trolls and other proxies, screaming:  'Kremlin troll!' ... which is rather hilarious. The propaganda, the indoctrination, the bias, the lies, with withholding of information, the spin-doctoring,  and the social media trolling (by the Western capitalist sponsored intelligentsia and virtually all of mainstream capitalist controlled media journalists, presenters, writers, plus the sports and entertainment industry (as well as CORPORATIONS and their representatives incessantly forcing ideology, propaganda and indoctrination on the unwary masses), is a 24/7 US-Anglo-EU-NATO capitalist oligarchy friendly propaganda operation that is at a disadvantage when foreign independent media reports as close to the truth as foreign independent media may do, without incurring Western capitalist censorship body penalties for being truthful. Such are spun as something entirely different when the foreign media is targeted and then smeared in the Western capitalist controlled media, while bullied by Western capitalist media censorship bodies.   Foreign media may not defend itself by publicly discussing 'charges' brought against it by these Western capitalist oligarchy censorship boards etc - eg. RT News. Not also, that the Western capitalist oligarchy funds its own social media trolls, by way of a vast network of sponsored 'progressive' (and other) NGOs, pursuing, reinforcing, enforcing and echoing capitalist serving ideology in the media, in 'alternate' (also capitalist sponsored) 'controlled opposition' media  and in social media, as well as in the community.  That is the suffocating extent of Western ideological, social and political propaganda, indoctrination and suppression activities, quietly deployed in the service of Western capitalist ruling oligarchy's interests and aim. The 'free' West is not free at all:  a man cannot be free if the information that he is provided with to make sense of his world and his decisions is censored, distorted or falsified, as it is in the Western capitalist oligarchy controlled propaganda and indoctrination media machine that's closely aligned with government, government agencies such as CIA, along with the military and entertainment propaganda complexes. Western capitalist society is entirely without substance:  what we see reflected as 'reality' or representation of our understood history, our daily news, our societies, our institutions, our politicians and our societal 'reality' is nothing but LIES. For an idea of how much harassment foreign news is up against, here's an article on the British media censorship, and thus US-Anglo-NATO capitalist propaganda, body's harassment of RT News: UK Media Regulator Again Threatens RT for “Bias”: This Time, Airing “Anti-Western Views” https://theintercept.com/2015/03/02/uk-media-regulator-threatens-rt-bias-airing-anti-western-views/ saved [excuse any typos ... finding it hard to focus]