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The Bulletin: September 13-19
The Bulletin: September 13-19 Popular Narratives That Do Not Hold Up Under Scrutiny Environmental Impacts of Human Migration Did Putin Just Issue the Most Serious Warning to Date? – Global Research Putin Warns of ‘Direct’ War as US Mulls Letting Ukraine Use Long-Range Western Missiles | Common Dreams It’s Also “Disinformation” When Our Government Does […]
Mass Media’s Russia Hysteria Is Openly Acknowledging The Power Of Propaganda
Mass Media’s Russia Hysteria Is Openly Acknowledging The Power Of Propaganda “So now the question becomes: how did Russia know to target African American voters, and especially in certain key states,” asked popular #Resistance pundit Amy Siskind in response to a New York Times article claiming Russian social media trolls targeted Sanders supporters and Black […]
Deepfakes And Political Manipulation
Deepfakes And Political Manipulation Not a day seems to go by without the American media writing about Russia’s Internet meddling in the US elections. Major international and specialist publications headquartered in the US are routinely regurgitating the myth about “Russian trolls” and “GRU hackers” without a single shred of evidence besides unsubstantiated accusations. Actually, evidence […]
Will Elections ever be Valid Any More?
Will Elections ever be Valid Any More? QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; You have stated that you believe Kennedy was assassinated by the US Intelligence community. Given all this stuff with Comey, FBI, CIA, and NSA all conspiring against Trump, do you think that the real risk of interfering with our elections is not the Russians but closer […]
Facebook Meddles in the 2018 Midterm Elections
Facebook Meddles in the 2018 Midterm Elections Photo Source Mike Mozart | CC BY 2.0 On October 11, Facebook announced the removal of 559 pages and 251 accounts from its service, accusing the account holders of “spam and coordinated inauthentic behavior.” The purged users stand accused of posting “massive amounts of content … to drive […]
The Shaky Case That Russia Manipulated Social Media to Tip the 2016 Election
The Shaky Case That Russia Manipulated Social Media to Tip the 2016 Election The idea promoted by NYT’s Shane & Mazzetti that the Russian government seriously threatened to determine the 2016 election does not hold up when the larger social media context is examined more closely, reports Gareth Porter. In their long recapitulation of the […]
Not All Quiet on South China Sea
Not All Quiet on South China Sea Photo Source Official U.S. Navy Page | CC BY 2.0 The near collision last week between a US warship and a Chinese destroyer in the Spratlys was more than two naval powers playing cat and mouse on the high sea. The incident came hot on the heels of […]
Step Aside Russia: Pence Accuses China Of “Meddling In American Democracy”
Step Aside Russia: Pence Accuses China Of “Meddling In American Democracy” Update: Highlights from Pence’s speech (via Bloomberg): *PENCE SAYS TRUMP HAS MADE RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA `A PRIORITY’ *PENCE: CHINA USING WHOLE-OF-GOVT APPROACH TO INFLUENCE U.S. *PENCE: HOPE THAT FREEDOM IN CHINA WOULD EXPAND WENT UNFULFILLED *PENCE: CHINA USING STOLEN TECH TO TURN PLOWSHARES INTO […]
Russia, China Slam United States Over “Baseless Accusations Of Interference” And International Bullying
Russia, China Slam United States Over “Baseless Accusations Of Interference” And International Bullying Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov vehemently denied US charges of election interference in a speech at the United Nations on Friday – slamming Washington and its international relations. “Baseless accusations of interference in the domestic affairs of particular countries are made while simultaneously engaging […]
The Battle for Our Minds
The Battle for Our Minds There are battlefields in Syria, Ukraine, Yemen, and elsewhere, but given the state of corporate media, perhaps the most consequential battle now being fought is for our minds, says Patrick Lawrence. After reading The New York Times piece “The Plot to Subvert an Election” I put the paper down with […]
Bannon Declares ‘War Rooms’ to Win European Elections – and That’s Not Meddling?
Bannon Declares ‘War Rooms’ to Win European Elections – and That’s Not Meddling? One trait of imperial decadence is untrammeled hubris. Given the increasingly arrant arrogance on display by United States’ officials, public figures and news media we can safely conclude that this empire is accelerating into decadence. A recent spectacular example comes with separate […]
How to interfere in a foreign election
How to interfere in a foreign election FOR ONE OF THE world’s major powers to interfere systematically in the presidential politics of another country is an act of brazen aggression. Yet it happened. Sitting in a distant capital, political leaders set out to assure that their favored candidate won an election against rivals who scared […]
Social Media Titans Holding Private Meeting To Coordinate Strategy For 2018 Midterms
Social Media Titans Holding Private Meeting To Coordinate Strategy For 2018 Midterms Representatives from around a dozen US tech titans are holding a private Friday meeting at Twitter headquarters to coordinate their efforts ahead of the 2018 US midterm elections, reports BuzzFeed News. Last week, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, invited employees from a dozen companies, including Google, Microsoft, and […]
Worried About Election Interference? 5 Clear Times the US Meddled in Elections Abroad
Worried About Election Interference? 5 Clear Times the US Meddled in Elections Abroad Washington D.C. (GPA) – If you read any article about the “Russian hacking” or “U.S. election interference” you will likely see some reference to the U.S.’s own long history of election interference. Yet most of these articles defend the U.S. by claiming […]
The Intelligence Community Is Neither
The Intelligence Community Is Neither At the big “Treason Summit” “Russopocalypse” “Catastrovent” on Monday, journalist Sam Husseini tried to ask a question about banning nuclear weapons, and was physically hauled out of the room by officials from the “Land of Press Freedom,” Finland. Meanwhile, an Associated Press reporter was permitted to ask a perfectly respectable […]
