{"id":64985,"date":"2023-02-09T07:31:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T12:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64985"},"modified":"2023-02-09T07:31:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T12:31:43","slug":"theyre-not-worried-about-russian-influence-theyre-worried-about-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64985","title":{"rendered":"They\u2019re Not Worried About \u201cRussian Influence\u201d, They\u2019re Worried About Dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\">\n<h3 id=\"e09d\" class=\"pw-post-title gu gv gw bd gx gy gz ha hb hc hd he hf hg hh hi hj hk hl hm hn ho hp hq hr hs bi\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caityjohnstone.medium.com\/theyre-not-worried-about-russian-influence-they-re-worried-about-dissent-6034bd03c6db\">They\u2019re Not Worried About \u201cRussian Influence\u201d, They\u2019re Worried About Dissent<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"ec ee hu hv hw hx dy dz paragraph-image\">\n<div class=\"hy hz di ia bf ib\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">\n<div class=\"dy dz ht\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/640\/1*daPDA0XwaU3xNdiSEqU2og.webp 640w, https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/720\/1*daPDA0XwaU3xNdiSEqU2og.webp 720w, https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/750\/1*daPDA0XwaU3xNdiSEqU2og.webp 750w, https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/786\/1*daPDA0XwaU3xNdiSEqU2og.webp 786w, https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/828\/1*daPDA0XwaU3xNdiSEqU2og.webp 828w, https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/1100\/1*daPDA0XwaU3xNdiSEqU2og.webp 1100w, https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/1400\/1*daPDA0XwaU3xNdiSEqU2og.webp 1400w\" type=\"image\/webp\" sizes=\"(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/640\/1*daPDA0XwaU3xNdiSEqU2og.png 640w, https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/720\/1*daPDA0XwaU3xNdiSEqU2og.png 720w, https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/750\/1*daPDA0XwaU3xNdiSEqU2og.png 750w, https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/786\/1*daPDA0XwaU3xNdiSEqU2og.png 786w, https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/828\/1*daPDA0XwaU3xNdiSEqU2og.png 828w, https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/1100\/1*daPDA0XwaU3xNdiSEqU2og.png 1100w, https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/1400\/1*daPDA0XwaU3xNdiSEqU2og.png 1400w\" sizes=\"(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" data-testid=\"og\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"bf ic id c\" role=\"presentation\" src=\"https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/700\/1*daPDA0XwaU3xNdiSEqU2og.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"367\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p id=\"5ed7\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph ie if gw ig b ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is it iu iv iw ix iy iz ja jb gp bi\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\"><a class=\"ae jc\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/theyre-not-worried-about-russian-influence-theyre-worried-about-dissent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\"><em class=\"jd\">Listen to a reading of this article:<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"je jf jg jh ek hx\">\n<div class=\"bz ji l di\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p id=\"89c9\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph ie if gw ig b ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is it iu iv iw ix iy iz ja jb gp bi\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Being labeled a Russian propagandist all day every day for criticizing US foreign policy is really weird, but one advantage it comes with is a useful perspective on what people have really been talking about all these years when they warn of the dangers of \u201cRussian propaganda\u201d.<\/p>\n<p id=\"9e5c\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph ie if gw ig b ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is it iu iv iw ix iy iz ja jb gp bi\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">I know I\u2019m not a Russian propagandist. I\u2019m not paid by Russia, I have no connections to Russia, and until I started this political commentary gig in 2016 I thought very little about Russia. My opinions about the western empire sometimes turn up on Russian media because I\u00a0<a class=\"ae jc\" href=\"https:\/\/caityjohnstone.medium.com\/i-permanently-release-all-copyrights-to-all-my-writing-use-any-of-it-however-you-want-9ad929b92d42\" rel=\"noopener\">let anyone use my work who wants to<\/a>, but that was always something they did on their own without my submitting it to them and without any payment or solicitation of any kind. I\u2019m literally just some random westerner sharing political opinions on the internet; those opinions just happen to disagree with the US empire and its stories about itself and its behavior.<\/p>\n<p id=\"5cd7\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph ie if gw ig b ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is it iu iv iw ix iy iz ja jb gp bi\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Yet for years I\u2019ve watched people pointing at me as an example of what \u201cRussian propaganda\u201d looks like. This has helped inform my understanding of all the panic about \u201cRussian influence\u201d that\u2019s been circulating these last six years, and given me some insight into how seriously it should be taken.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"je jf jg jh ek hx\">\n<div class=\"bz ji l di\">\n<div class=\"jl jk l\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"es n gk dh bf\" title=\"Matt Taibbi on Twitter: &quot;Instead of tracking how &quot;Russia&quot; influenced American attitudes, Hamilton 68 simply collected a handful of mostly real, mostly American accounts, and described their organic conversations as Russian scheming: https:\/\/t.co\/vxnKAoI9T7 \/ Twitter&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1619058860131602434&amp;image=https%3A\/\/i.embed.ly\/1\/image%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fabs.twimg.com%252Ferrors%252Flogo46x38.png%26key%3Da19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p id=\"d532\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph ie if gw ig b ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is it iu iv iw ix iy iz ja jb gp bi\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">That\u2019s one reason why I wasn\u2019t surprised by\u00a0<a class=\"ae jc\" href=\"https:\/\/www.racket.news\/p\/move-over-jayson-blair-meet-hamilton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\">Matt Taibbi\u2019s reporting<\/a>\u00a0on the Twitter Files revelations about Hamilton 68, an information op run by DC swamp monsters and backed by imperialist think tanks which generated hundreds if not thousands of completely bogus mainstream news reports about online Russian influence over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They\u2019re Not Worried About \u201cRussian Influence\u201d, They\u2019re Worried About Dissent Listen to a reading of this article: Being labeled a Russian propagandist all day every day for criticizing US foreign policy is really weird, but one advantage it comes with is a useful perspective on what people have really been talking about all these years [&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":[17039,2299,3484,33637,643,655,694,827,834,13246],"class_list":["post-64985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-control","tag-dissent","tag-hamilton-68","tag-power","tag-propaganda","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-western-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64985","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=64985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64986,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64985\/revisions\/64986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}