Terrifying look at Russia's propaganda machine. How Putin manipulates the masses and keeps them docile.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...l#.VKnUAMXgHa8 …
St. Petersburg Neo-Nazi Sadist in Donbas – ‘Russia’s Pride and Glory’ #RussiainvadedUkraine http://khpg.org/index.php?id=1420855493 …
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(Novo)Russian propaganda in the same procedure like everyday: "We just defend." ... pic.twitter.com/vOlIMcnck6
FROM TODAY:
Russian trolls are starting to threaten @RobPulseNews on @twitter https://twitter.com/RobPulseNews/sta...61473613164544 … @support Very dangerous in these times!!!
its amazing how the trolls have stepped up a gear Twitter totally swamped with pro RU blogs
Terrifying look at Russia's propaganda machine. How Putin manipulates the masses and keeps them docile.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...l#.VKnUAMXgHa8 …
https://euobserver.com/foreign/127135The Netherlands is funding a study on how the EU can fight back against Russia’s “information war”, in one of several counter-propaganda initiatives.
The Dutch-sponsored study was launched in January by the European Endowment for Democracy (EED), a Brussels-based foundation.
Alastair Rabagliati, the EED’s director of operations, told EUobserver: “We’ve launched an initiative, with the support of a Dutch government grant, which will develop a feasibility study with clear recommendations on the way forward for the development of independent Russian language media initiatives”.
“It’ll aim to consolidate different free media and enable new actors in the Russian language info-sphere - TV, social media, internet portals - in order to optimise co-operation".
EU sources say the grant is worth about €500,000 and the initial report is due before a summit of former Soviet and EU states in Riga in May.
How Russian propaganda spreads online. Good piece on social media use in the #Ukraine conflicthttp://www.dailydot.com/politics/ukr...paganda/?tw=dd …
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Meet Ketchum, #Putin's U.S. PR firm who place articles for the #Russia|n gov't in western MSM:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/01/bu...line.html?_r=0 …
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.@BBCworldservice is using @PLnewstoday (German version of @GrahamWP_UK) for 'facts on ground'. via @myroslawabrulak pic.twitter.com/ps9QPwjNFJ
Even BBC runs the Russian disinformation unchecked.
Since August 2014 I have seen numerous European information/disinformation articles written by both fake and real writers BUT one written by an American surprises me greatly as he seems to have completely missed the entire social media which has been covering the Russian invasion inch by inch with videos, photos and open source analysis.
This author seems to want to imply that all of the above has not been done and it the fault of the West that Russian invasion troops are actively fighting in the Donbas.
Strange to see this type of article from an American although reuters has been involved in carrying articles that later proved to be false.
Opinion: Perhaps you missed it: We’re at war with Russia
Published: Jan 20, 2015 9:55 a.m. ET
But nobody has explained what our vital interest is in Ukraine
By
Chris
Martenson
Reuters
Secretary of State John Kerry has accused Russia of providing heavy arms to Ukrainian separatists, but has offered no proof.
The U.S. has been waging economic, financial, trade, and political war against Russia and even kinetic war-by-proxy in Ukraine. Worryingly, nobody in power in the U.S. or Europe really seems willing to tell us exactly why.
From the Russian point of view, everything from their plunging ruble to bitter sanctions to the falling price of oil are the fault of the U.S., either directly or indirectly. Whether that is fair or not is irrelevant; that’s the view of the Russians right now. So no surprise, it doesn’t dispose them towards goodwill negotiations with the West generally, and the U.S. specifically.
Recently the anti-Russian stance in the U.S. press has quieted down, presumably because the political leadership has moved its attention on to other things, and that means Russia is largely out of the U.S. news cycle. However, there’s plenty of serious action going on in Russia and Ukraine, as well as related activity in the U.S. that deserves our careful attention.
The U.S. (via John Kerry) and NATO have steadily accused Russia of having funneled hundreds of tanks, armored personnel carriers and other heavy equipment to the separatists in eastern Ukraine.
These assertions bring to mind the Sherlock Holmes case of the dog that did not bark where the absence of a piece of evidence leads us to a very different conclusion than the one the U.S. political establishment would like us to believe.
The sorts of weaponry that NATO and the U.S. have charged Russia with providing are virtually impossible to conceal from the air. Snapping high-resolution photos of such war machinery is child’s play for today’s military satellites, and even civilian ones too. If the assertions were true, we should have seen a flood of photographs of Russian heavy equipment every step of the way as it passed into Ukraine.
But none have been offered, not even one so far. And the simplest explanation for this is that none exist. If they did, you can be 100% certain they’d have been released and replayed over and over again on CNN until everybody and their uncle could distinguish a T-72 tank outline from that of a T-64.
What concerns me even more than these undocumented charges are two especially ill-conceived, if not overtly confrontational, pieces of legislation passed by the Congress in December.
The first is H.Res 758 passed on Dec. 4, which, among other charges, accused Russia of having invaded Ukraine again without providing or referring to any sort of evidence photographic or otherwise. Entitled “Strongly condemning the actions of the Russian Federation, under President Vladimir Putin, which has carried out a policy of aggression against neighboring countries aimed at political and economic domination” the resolution is packed with a variety of one-sided assertions and leaves no diplomatic wiggle room for the possibility that Russia has a different view of what has transpired in Ukraine.
According to Ron Paul, these sorts of resolutions are dangerous because they politically commit the U.S. political structure to rigid stances that are politically difficult to back down from and have historically been a stepping stone on the path to war.
The Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014, or S.2828, was passed by the Senate on Dec. 11. This goes even further than merely condemning Russia and authorizes the distribution of both lethal and non-lethal military aid to Kiev, including sniper and assault rifles, mortars and shells, stinger missiles, anti-tank missiles, night vision goggles, radar systems and a host of other hardware items.
If the tables were turned, and it were the Russian lawmakers passing a resolution condemning the U.S. for a variety of international crimes for which exactly zero proof was offered, and then were actively arming a dangerous conflict right on the U.S. border, I think we all know just how ablaze with indignity the U.S. political leadership would be. And rightly so.
So is it any surprise that Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in response, “Both houses of the U.S. Congress have approved the Ukraine Freedom Support Act bypassing debates and proper voting. The overtly confrontational message of the new law cannot but evoke profound regret. Once again Washington is leveling baseless sweeping accusations against Russia and threatening more sanctions.”
The really bizarre part of this story is that I cannot yet find any credible analysis or commentary explaining exactly what the U.S.’s interests are in Ukraine that are so compelling as to risk increasing confrontation with Russia. And it bothers a great many analysts that the U.S. is on an increasingly combative course with yet another country without providing any evidence in support of its accusations and actions. Again.
In response, Russia is rapidly withdrawing from additional dialog with the U.S. and Europe, while drawing ever closer to China, Turkey and India. Russians feel that they are already under siege from the U.S., and that acts of war have already been committed.
Despite being almost completely out of the U.S. news cycle, events are in and around the Ukraine situation are actually picking up pace. On Jan. 15, Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree mobilizing 50,000 new servicemen to the front lines, and Russia just announced that Europe will have to accept gas via Turkey as the Ukraine route is being shut down.
This situation remains much more fluid and nuanced than we’re being told by the Western media, with much more to this story than a short column allows, Those interested in delving deeper can read our latest report here.
But in short, the situation is getting more strained, not less, and it has the very real chance of blossoming into something far larger and more deadly than the sparse coverage in the Western press might imply.
If it looks like a war, acts like a war and smells like a war, it may just be a war. Everyone should be very concerned by these events, but especially European readers.
Chris Martenson is an economic researcher and futurist specializing in energy and resource depletion, and co-founder of PeakProsperity.com
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Alasania says Russian secret services investing heavily in Georgian media:
http://goo.gl/os73a1
Of course, that has been happening since at least 2012... remember this? http://www.media.ge/en/portal/news/51192/ …
WAIT A MINUTE!!!! Russian Propaganda trolls are pushing Blackwater Mercenaries story again!!!
https://twitter.com/DajeyPetros/stat...20602392190979 …
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Feds allege a “leading Russian state-owned news organization” was used to gather intelligence:
http://huff.to/15LRQTy
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MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia
#Lukashevich: We insist on a stop of provocations against Russian representatives unleashed by #US secret services
http://itar-tass.com/en/russia/773606 …
Maybe belongs here.
http://corporateeurope.org/sites/def...doctors_mr.pdfRussia: European PR firms as
mouthpieces for the Kremlin page 13
Despite Russia invading Ukraine, brinkmanship over gas
supplies, and US and European sanctions, PR firms still
work as Putin’s mouthpiece in Brussels and European
capitals
Anyone have an answer to the following question?
Why is it that western media seems bent on not taking over articles from open source analysts when even the OSCE confirms the information and it is used by the US UNSC?
Doubts cast on Russian TV take on bus attack toll
http://bbc.in/1Eozt59
And almost forgot this: long live independent "western journalism": http://www.russia-insider.com >> "I still need money"
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US anti-fracking eco group was Russian-funded. Paid to mislead public. http://freebeacon.com/issues/foreign...n-oil-company/ …
Reason the new Greek government is massively pro Russian--31B USDs in Cyprus banks---close friends with Dugin
A concerted & orchestrated attack is underway to permanently delete @EuromaidanPress's @facebook site.
#Kremlin clearly see it a threat..
Dugin's role in the new Russian ethno nationalism ie Russian fascism. Great chart
Nice infographics on Dugin's part in RUS propaganda. Better quality image: http://s7.directupload.net/images/140507/af6x8hcn.jpg …
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Find out exactly why Aleksandr Dugin is sharing the "happy penguin" video on FB this morning: http://goo.gl/Nl4pZ0 pic.twitter.com/YjGmPu28JP
Must read (in Rus) first-hand account of life and work inside the infamous St. Petersburg troll factory. http://goo.gl/sh2Wmm
Russian journalist uncovers plan to manipulate western academics.
Eerily familiar to @peterpomeranzev's thesis.http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/67014.html …
Do We Feed the Trolls? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRZT...ature=youtu.be … In which me and several other brainy folks discuss the art and perils of online trolling.
#Putin #Russia tries to wreck mobilization in #Ukraine with #infowar campaign
http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/01/2...-visit-russia/ … pic.twitter.com/R55gU870xK
"Kremlin troll farm" located at 55 Savushkina Street in St. Petersburg via @Interpreter_Mag http://www.interpretermag.com/russia...-29-2015/#6579 …
Russian Hackers Leak List of Pro-Russian Influence Group Made of High-Profile European...
https://lnkd.in/b6FMnCa
How Putin Secretly Conquered Russia's Social Media Over the Past 3 Years http://globalvoicesonline.org/2015/01/30/how
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