{"id":67321,"date":"2024-04-14T09:53:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T14:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67321"},"modified":"2024-04-14T09:53:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T14:53:57","slug":"u-s-funds-ukraine-groups-censoring-critics-smearing-pro-peace-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67321","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Funds Ukraine Groups Censoring Critics, Smearing Pro-Peace Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. Funds Ukraine Groups Censoring Critics, Smearing Pro-Peace Voices<\/a><\/h3>\n

American taxpayers are footing the bill for Ukrainian NGOs focused on smearing proponents of a diplomatic solution as “Russian disinformation” agents.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ukraine\u2019s American-backed fight against Russia is taking place not only in the blood-soaked trenches of the Donbas region but also on what military planners call the cognitive battlefield \u2013 to win hearts and minds.<\/p>\n

A sprawling constellation of media outlets organized with substantial funding and direction from the U.S. government has not just sought to counter Russian propaganda but has supported strong censorship laws and shutdowns of dissident outlets, disseminated disinformation of its own, and sought to silence critics of the war, including many American citizens.<\/p>\n

Economist\u00a0Jeffrey Sachs<\/a>, commentator Tucker Carlson, journalist Glenn Greenwald, and University of Chicago Professor\u00a0John Mearsheimer<\/a>\u00a0are among the critics on both the left and the right who have been cast as\u00a0part<\/a>\u00a0of a \u201cnetwork of Russian propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the figures targeted by the Ukrainian watchdog groups are hardly Kremlin agents. They simply have forcefully criticized dominant narratives around the war.<\/p>\n

Sachs is a highly respected international development expert who has angered Ukrainian officials over his repeated calls for a diplomatic solution to the current military conflict. Last November, he gave a\u00a0speech<\/a>\u00a0at the United Nations calling for a negotiated peace.<\/p>\n

Mearsheimer has written extensively on international relations and is a skeptic of NATO expansion. He predicted that Western efforts to militarize Ukraine would lead to a Russian invasion.<\/p>\n

Greenwald is a Pulitzer Prize-winning independent journalist who has criticized not just war coverage but media dynamics that suppress voices that run counter to U.S. narratives. \u201cWhat they mean when they demand censorship of \u2018pro-Russia propaganda\u2019 is anything that questions the US\/EU role in the Ukraine war or who dissents from their narratives,\u201d Greenwald has\u00a0observed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Funds Ukraine Groups Censoring Critics, Smearing Pro-Peace Voices American taxpayers are footing the bill for Ukrainian NGOs focused on smearing proponents of a diplomatic solution as “Russian disinformation” agents. Ukraine\u2019s American-backed fight against Russia is taking place not only in the blood-soaked trenches of the Donbas region but also on what military planners call […]<\/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":[120,11587,34261,26071,34262,694,30990,821,827,834],"class_list":["post-67321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-lee-fang","tag-leefang-com","tag-narrative-management","tag-realclearinvestigations","tag-russia","tag-substack","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67321","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=67321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67322,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67321\/revisions\/67322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}