8/12/20, “The Russians Are Coming! Or Have They Already Arrived?” Strategic Culture Editorial
[Image via The Last Refuge] “Right at the beginning of the Cold War, the paranoid slogan “The Russians are coming!” was rather popular in a certain part of the American establishment. It
is attributed to an eccentric US Defense Minister who fell out of a
window in mysterious circumstances following a mental breakdown. Years passed by and the Cold War apparently came to an end, but the Russians kept on coming without ever arriving, while vast sums of US taxpayers’ money were spent on the arms race and on propaganda proclaiming that the Russians were still coming. [1966 comedy movie, “The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming,” starred Carl Reiner and Alan Arkin] And now, finally, the Russians have arrived. They have arrived in America’s sovereign media space, a media space not at all tainted by lies, disinformation, fake news and the like. And those devious Russians arrived there just shortly before the US presidential election in the form of the “five pillars” of the Kremlin’s awful propaganda machine with the most malicious intent. The US State Department announced this to the world with undisguised alarm (or even fear) on 5 August, when it published a special report by the Global Engagement Center.
According to the US State Department, high on the list of these five pillars’ key elements is the Strategic Culture Foundation [this website], which the Americans, of course, claim is not only affiliated with Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service and the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but also “plays a central role among a group of linked websites that proliferate Russian disinformation and propaganda.” As evidence of disinformation and propaganda, they cite… the titles of articles (but not their content!), which obviously do not tally with America’s view of the world. An alternative opinion cannot exist in principle, since there is just America’s opinion and that is the only true one. It is not the opinion of individuals, communities and groups, however, but of monopolists and the owners of information and fat wallets, the opinion of the very establishment that hysterically repeated the moss-covered mantra: “The Russians are coming!””…
[Ed. note: First of all, Russia isn’t the problem. The US is the problem. Page 12 of this pathetic US State Dept. report says the following about Strategic Culture Foundation website: “One of its core tactics is to publish Western fringe thinkers and conspiracy theorists.“...A “core tactic?” To accomplish what? It’s not an activist website. How is it “a core tactic” to merely publish articles on a wide variety of topics on a website that no one is forced to read? How does the US define “the West” or “Western?” When did US voters agree to be in charge of “the West,” whatever that might be? How does US define “partner and allied governments?” (p. 3)...On page 11, the Trump admin. hits a new low citing Facebook as an authority on Russian military intelligence: “In a few cases, these outlets have published or republished articles authored by false personas attributed by Facebook to Russian military intelligence.""...
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(continuing): “Incidentally, regarding those citizens of America and other countries who dare to go against the information mainstream and, with no desire to live in an Orwellian world, freely express their point of view on what is happening in the world on our website. The report published by the US State Department scornfully refers to these people as fringe thinkers and conspiracy theorists with anti-Western views(what a nerve!). So much for freedom of speech!
And one final thing. A special thanks has to go to the US Department of State and its Global Engagement Center for the top-notch and free (!) publicity it has given to the Strategic Culture Foundation. We must think of a way to show our gratitude.”
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Added: Why the US global effort to erase speech? US elites know their ideas can’t win on a level playing field: “There is not an engagement of ideas. There is an elimination of ideas….They don’t want a level playing field. They don’t want us on the playing field.” Rush Limbaugh, 8/28/18….“I’m not interested in any kind of boycotts against ’em. I want to beat ’em in the arena of ideas because I want a victory that lasts and I want a victory that’s substance….They don’t care about that ’cause they can’t win that debate.” Rush Limbaugh, 6/7/13…“Rather than debate,…rather than try to win in the arena of ideas, just discredit the people that you disagree with. That’s what they do…It just means that you’re effective....It just means that they don’t know how to deal with you.” Rush Limbaugh, 2/18/20
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Comment: In 2020, while in the employ of US taxpayers, US government completed its destruction of the US, watching from the sidelines in between tv appearances, and left it in the gutter for dead. Every minute of every day the Trump admin. continues to cause massive, excruciating suffering for hundreds of millions of Americans with no letup in sight. None. Just like Afghanistan, it’s assumed this will go on forever and US slaves have no say in the matter. Now we have this ridiculous, August 2020 State Dept. publication, meticulously researched for the benefit of: “partner and allied governments, civil society organizations, academia, the press, and the international public,” (p. 3) providing more confirmation if needed that for Trump, who was our last chance, Americans don’t even exist.
Millions
of our loved ones remain in solitary confinement, forcibly imprisoned
alone in their rooms, not allowed to mingle or share meals–a punishment
said to be too severe even for murderers–in nursing homes, also with no
end in sight. Which is fine, because it just makes it clearer than ever that the US is a monstrous Failed State and must be broken up as soon as possible into 3 parts.…………………………………
Extra: Naughty, naughty. Don’t criticize Trump pals Soros and Bill Gates:
Page 68: “Popular content from the outlet [Geopolitica.ru] highlighted criticism of the United States, George Soros, and the modern day Western anti-fascism movement.”
Also page 68: “Other popular content from the outlet [Strategic Culture] also focused on COVID-19-related disinformation that made references to the U.S. government and Bill Gates.”
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