{"id":63426,"date":"2022-09-02T06:33:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T11:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63426"},"modified":"2022-09-02T06:33:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T11:33:38","slug":"were-being-trained-to-worry-about-russian-propaganda-while-drowning-in-us-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63426","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Being Trained To Worry About \u2018Russian Propaganda\u2019 While Drowning In US Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2022\/08\/31\/were-being-trained-to-worry-about-russian-propaganda-while-drowning-in-us-propaganda\/\">We\u2019re Being Trained To Worry About \u2018Russian Propaganda\u2019 While Drowning In US Propaganda<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-11933\" class=\"post-11933 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-cnn tag-media tag-msm tag-propaganda tag-russia tag-the-grayzone tag-us-empire\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/medium-4-7.jpg?485df6&amp;485df6\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/medium-4-7.jpg 800w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/medium-4-7-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/medium-4-7-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/medium-4-7-128x86.jpg 128w\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/were-being-trained-to-worry-about-russian-propaganda-while-drowning-in-us-propaganda\">Listen to a reading of this article:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1334701816&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=1000&amp;maxwidth=1060\" width=\"1060\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>One of the weirdest, most insane things happening today is the way the entire western world is being trained to freak out about \u201cRussian propaganda\u201d \u2014 which barely exists in the west\u00a0\u2014 while ignoring the fact that we are spending every day marinating in billions of dollars worth of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/imperial-narrative-control-has-five\">US empire propaganda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>CNN has an article out titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/08\/27\/europe\/darya-dugina-russia-disinformation-women-intl-cmd\/index.html\">Darya Dugina\u2019s death provides a glimpse into Russia\u2019s vast disinformation machine \u2014 and the influential women fronting it<\/a>\u201d on the recently assassinated daughter of\u00a0Alexander Dugin, a Russian political thinker of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkAmesExiled\/status\/1561126973040218112?s=20&amp;t=MKGwJ6Md_ZQF5PwazWWm3Q\">wildly exaggerated<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2022\/08\/rip-darya-dugina.html\">influence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article uses Dugina\u2019s assassination to further stoke its audience\u2019s ever-growing panic about Russian disinformation, quickly becoming a commentary on Russia\u2019s entire propaganda network without bothering to articulate how Dugina\u2019s death \u201cprovides a glimpse\u201d into its workings.<\/p>\n<p>Without the slightest hint of self-reflection or irony, this CNN article about Russian propaganda cites as its two main experts a think tanker from\u00a0the Atlantic Council\u2019s Digital Forensic Research Lab and a think tanker from the\u00a0Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). The Atlantic Council is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/censorship-way-facebook-hires-nato-press-officer-intelligence-chief\/275154\/\">NATO narrative management firm<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/about\/donate\/honor-roll-of-contributors-2019\/\">is funded<\/a>\u00a0by NATO, the US government, the UK government, various other US-aligned states, the arms industry, and numerous billionaires.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cepa.org\/about\/our-supporters\/\">CEPA\u2019s donor list<\/a>\u00a0looks similar to the Atlantic Council\u2019s and includes US arms manufacturers and the US government through both the US State Department and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/williamblum.org\/chapters\/rogue-state\/trojan-horse-the-national-endowment-for-democracy\">CIA cutout National Endowment for Democracy<\/a>. Both are used to promote the information interests of the US-centralized power alliance in Europe and North America.<\/p>\n<p>As we\u2019ve\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/basing-news-stories-on-corrupt-think\">discussed previously<\/a>, the way news media cite corrupt warmongering think tanks to discuss foreign policy without ever mentioning their immense conflicts of interests is plainly journalistic malpractice&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re Being Trained To Worry About \u2018Russian Propaganda\u2019 While Drowning In US Propaganda Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 One of the weirdest, most insane things happening today is the way the entire western world is being trained to freak out about \u201cRussian propaganda\u201d \u2014 which barely exists in the west\u00a0\u2014 while ignoring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[17039,14545,655,694,821,827,834,965],"class_list":["post-63426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-narrative-control","tag-propaganda","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63427,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63426\/revisions\/63427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}