{"id":218941,"date":"2022-09-05T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=218941"},"modified":"2022-09-01T04:47:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T03:47:54","slug":"were-being-trained-to-worry-about-russian-propaganda-while-drowning-in-us-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/09\/were-being-trained-to-worry-about-russian-propaganda-while-drowning-in-us-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Being Trained to Worry about \u2018Russian Propaganda\u2019 while Drowning in US Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Whose Propaganda Is Most Worrisome?<\/strong><\/p>\n

31 Aug 2022 – <\/em>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 US empire propaganda<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CNN has an article out titled \u201cDarya 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 wildly exaggerated<\/a> influence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

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 NATO narrative management firm<\/a> that is funded<\/a> by NATO, the US government, the UK government, various other US-aligned states, the arms industry, and numerous billionaires. CEPA\u2019s donor list<\/a> looks similar to the Atlantic Council\u2019s and includes US arms manufacturers and the US government through both the US State Department and the 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

As we\u2019ve 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. But this practice is ubiquitous throughout the western news media, the because western news media are propaganda outlets.<\/p>\n

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In which \u2066@CNN<\/a>\u2069 chooses to smear the assassinated Dugina as a \u201cdisinformation\u201d purveyor (rather than just someone with a \u201cpro-Kremlin world view\u201d). Note that not only doesn\u2019t the word \u201cterrorism\u201d appear in this long article, not even \u201cassassination\u201d. https:\/\/t.co\/Fx6WCoDkNH<\/a><\/p>\n

— Left I on the News (@leftiblog) August 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n