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maandag 30 december 2019

White Helmets oprichter 'vermoord door' vredesactivisten en kritische alternatieve media


De wereld weer eens geheel en al op de kop: James Le Mesurier, ex-militair inlichtingen officier en de oprichter van White Helmets benam zich het leven eerder dit jaar, de reden voor Public Broadcast Service (PBS), een o.a. door de VS overheid bekostigde tv zender, om te stellen dat de critici van Le Mesurier en zijn White Helmets hebben geleid tot de dood van Le Mesurier.... Zelfs het kritisch zijn op hoe de reguliere westerse media en politiek met Syrië omgaan zou tot de dood van mensen leiden..... 

Hoe ongelofelijk psychopathisch moet je zijn om het voorgaande te stellen, dus de stelling dat kritiek op Le Mesurier tot zijn dood heeft geleid en dat kritiek op westerse bemoeienis met Syrië leidt tot de dood van mensen*, zeker als je ziet dat datzelfde westen onder aanvoering van de VS (met hulp van andere NAVO-partners) Syrië voor een deel hebben platgebombardeerd en een enorm aantal slachtoffers hebben gemaakt......**


Reden Voor Caitlin Johnstone 'om in de pen te klimmen' en een artikel aan deze waanzinnige leugen te wijden. De White Helmets is een schimmige organisatie die vooral samenwerkt met en zelfs werkt voor terreurgroepen in Syrië, zolang men maar tegen Assad vecht, kan er gerekend worden op westerse hulp voor het geweld dat deze zogenaamde mensenredders uitoefenen.....

Le Mesurier was in feite een promotor en propagandist van de oorlog is Syrië en het geweld van de verschillende terreurgroepen en precies dat verwijt men nu de mensen die het lef hadden om tegen de stroom in de werkelijke aard van de White Helmets bloot te leggen en te openbaar te maken op het internet, een schande van jewelste........ Men durft zelfs te stellen dat er voor Le Mesurier geen plek was om zich te verstoppen op het internet..... (je zou je bijna doodlachen, wat een kul!)

Le Mesurier maakte gewoon deel uit van de VS oorlogsmachine die Assad zo snel mogelijk weg wilde hebben en zijn zogenaamde humanitaire White Helmets hebben zich aantoonbaar schuldig gemaakt aan een groot aantal geweldplegingen, het fabriceren van valse video's die het geweld van het Syrische bewind en de Russen moesten aantonen (een aantal van deze video's werden zelfs in Egypte en Turkije in elkaar gezet.....).....

Jammer genoeg is deze gang van zaken de gehele westerse reguliere media aan te rekenen, met grote agressie in de berichtgeving lepelt men met grote graagte de leugens op die de White Helmets, terreurgroepen en het Syrische Observatorium voor Mensenrechten (SOHR) naar buiten brachten (SOHR is een organisatie van een gewezen ordinaire misdadiger die op zogenaamd politieke gronden asiel kreeg in Groot-Brittannië, deze schoft bericht vooral wat terreurgroepen in Syrië hem voorschotelen....) In feite werken deze terreurgroepen, de White Helmets en SOHR samen om het bewind van Syrië zo zwart mogelijk te maken..... Zelfs Obama moest toegeven dat een Assad gelinkte gifgasaanval, in feite werd uitgevoerd door terreurgroepen in Syrië.... (een false flag operatie om de VS en de andere deelnemende NAVO-lidstaten te verleiden een aanval op het reguliere Syrische leger uit te voeren......

Nu is men dus zover dat men zelfs een suïcide van een gevaarlijke man, want dat was Le Mesurier wel degelijk, in de schoenen te schuiven van mensen die leugens doorprikken en wel eerlijk berichtten en berichten over de oorlog in Syrië..... 

Onlangs is een nieuwe westerse propaganda-oorlog gestart tegen het Syrische bewind, daar dit bewind terecht de provincie Idlib wil veiligstellen van de vele terroristen die zich daar ophouden en de aanval hebben geopend op de terreurgroepen waar deze terroristen deel van uitmaken, terroristen die in de reguliere westerse media 'rebellen' worden genoemd..... Zelfs de VN neemt deel aan de beschuldigingen dat het Syrische bewind burgers in gevaar brengt, terwijl een groot deel van de mensen in die provincie bestaan uit IS leden en leden van andere terreurgroepen, plus de aanhang van deze terroristen... Bovendien hoor je die westerse media niet over de gruwelen die deze terroristen uitoefenen op de gewone bevolking van Idlib, zoals ze dit vanaf het begin van de ellende daar niet hebben gedaan......

Lees het volgende artikel van Johnstone waar ze dieper op de beschuldigingen van PBS ingaat en zegt het voort, bijna dagelijks brengt zelfs de zogenaamde onafhankelijke zendgemachtigde NOS leugens over de strijd in Syrië, zoals deze zendgemachtigde dat vanaf het begin van de ellende in Syrië heeft gedaan, ellende die werd georganiseerd en geregisseerd door de CIA, zoals deze terreurorganisatie ook in Iran de boel opstookt en dat laatste heeft de VS zelfs toegegeven!!  

Narrative Managers Claim White Helmets Founder Was Driven To Suicide By Syria Skeptics



Imperialist spinmeisters are trial-ballooning a new Syria narrative that is so breathtakingly stupid that it needs its own article solely for the purpose of mockery.

On Christmas Eve PBS aired a bizarre segment on the death of James Le Mesurier, the former military intelligence officer who founded the extremely shady propaganda construct known as the White Helmets. The segment makes relentless, ham-fisted appeals to emotion, even attempting to associate the White Helmets with Armistice Day using wistful camera pans over poppy flowers and misty war memorial art exhibits, but by far the most yogurt-brained part is its repeated suggestions that Le Mesurier killed himself because people had been accusing him of being a propagandist.

"And now a story of a humanitarian trying to help Syria: the suspicious death in Turkey last month of James Le Mesurier, the co-founder of the White Helmets rescue organization in Syria," opens PBS News Hour's Judy Woodruff. "Friends and colleagues fear that he may have been murdered or driven to suicide by a campaign of character assassination."


"Whatever the cause, Le Mesurier was a victim of a very modern war," the special's narrator solemnly intones. "There is no hiding place in cyberspace. Le Mesurier was at the epicenter of a propaganda war, and his friends are appalled at what they regard as a campaign of character assassination."

"The amount of abuse, the amount of ill-placed propaganda, disinformation that's on social media and the Internet coming out of Russian bots and Syria, Syrian regime, and others was unbearable," Col. Hamish de Bretton-Gordon mourns.

This ridiculous narrative was picked up and run with by Syria narrative managers on Twitter.

"On lethal disinformation— a thread," tweeted virulent Syria narrative manager Idrees Ahmad. "This is a disturbing report by Malcolm Brabant on the lethal consequences of conspiracism. It shows how slander and disinformation may have pushed James Le Mesurier, one of the finest humanitarians, to his death. The report highlights the pernicious lies issuing from the self-described 'Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media', which is a small group of academics, none specialising in Syria or the Middle East, in alliance with a group of pro-Kremlin trolls like Vanessa Beeley et al."

It is true that both Beeley and the Working Group on Syria (WG), Propaganda and Media have accused Le Mesurier of running a propaganda operation on behalf of western governments using western government funding. But if Ahmad truly believed that accusing people of conducting propaganda caused them to kill themselves, he should turn himself in for attempted murder, because he accuses people of being propagandists constantly.

Here's a link to Ahmad calling journalist Max Blumenthal a "propagandist for Maduro". Here's a link to Ahmad calling Beeley a "pro-regime propagandist". Here's a link to Ahmad calling award-winning journalist Jonathan Steele "a fabricator and a propagandist". Here's a link to Ahmad calling CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou "a propagandist for Putin".
Talk about "lethal disinformation", Idrees.


Alexander "I'm so far left I agree with Mike Pompeo on every foreign policy issue" Reid Ross also assures us that questioning establishment Syria narratives definitely kills people. https://twitter.com/areidross/status/1210627624592003075 






But of course, no one really believes that accusations of conducting propaganda actually drive people to suicide. If they did, people like me would have thrown ourselves off a building years ago.

I am accused of being a propagandist nearly every day. At the height of Russiagate hysteria it happened many times a day in my blog post comments and social media notifications. Depending on what's in the news and how I've responded to it I've been accused of writing paid propaganda for the Kremlin, Assad, the Iranian government, Palestinians, Pyongyang, Beijing, Maduro, the alt-right, George Soros, and WikiLeaks, just off the top of my head.

Every anti-imperialist, anti-interventionist, and antiwar activist with any kind of platform has had this experience. Ever since the new McCarthyism of establishment-driven Russia hysteria took off, accusing people who question imperialist narratives of conducting psyops for foreign governments has become the norm in political discourse. It's created an extremely hostile and vitriolic environment in which productive conversations are vanishingly rare.

Where's our PBS special? Does anyone care? Is there any compassion from these hand-wringing establishment loyalists for the fact that Vanessa Beeley and the members of the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media are hounded day in and day out by establishment narrative managers and their brainwashed followers with accusations of spreading propaganda, supporting genocide, and embracing war crimes? I know I've never had a garment-rending Idrees Ahmad thread written about concerns for my psychological well being, and I've been targeted by multiple online harassment campaigns over the years.

The amount of hateful vitriol that gets leveled at people for simply opposing imperialism, for wanting peace, is truly astonishing. Just for saying "Hey here are some reasons we should maybe reconsider toppling yet another government in yet another Middle Eastern nation" will bring in complete strangers calling you all sorts of names, calling you disgusting, calling you evil, calling you a monster. For supporting peace.

There are all kinds of people in the world who are very deserving of harsh words. Powerful exploiters, oppressors and manipulators. People who destroy the environment for profit. People who get rich selling weapons of war while paying politicians and think tanks to advance the cause of war. War criminals who've never faced justice. With all those people in the world who we can all agree are terrible, you wouldn't think peace activists should feature anywhere near the top of anyone's list. But they do. Because war propaganda is just that influential.

And, of course, nobody cares. None of these narrative managers care about what psychological burden they might be placing on people by assuring their audiences that it's perfectly sane and normal to hound and harass anyone who questions imperialist propaganda. Their concern is not and has never been about anyone's psychological health. Their concern is in managing narratives in a way that favors the US-centralized empire that they serve.

I do not know what caused Le Mesurier's death; to be in any way confident that a known spook committed suicide at all, or was murdered by Russians, is absurd. Maybe he killed himself because he failed to listen to the adage "Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes."

What I absolutely do know, with absolute certainty, is that only idiots believe that skepticism about western regime change agendas in the Middle East kills people.
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 *  Zeker als je bedenkt dat Le Mesurier dondersgoed wist wat een samerige organisatie hij op poten heeft gezet, met de opzet om propaganda tegen de regering Assad te maken in een poging om het westen tot ingrijpen te verleiden..... Het is zelfs heel goed denkbaar dat Le Mesurier heeft gezien waartoe zijn acties hebben geleid: false flag operaties waarbij een groot aantal burgers om zijn gekomen en hij zich daarom het leven heeft genomen.........

** Dezelfde VS heeft de gewelddadige opstand in Syrië georganiseerd en geregisseerd, met de voorbereiding daarvan was deze terreurentiteit al bezig vanaf 2006..... Mede samenzweerders hierin zijn o.a. Groot-Brittannie, Egypte en Saoedi-Arabië....... Zie o.a.: 'VS heeft opstand en daarmee de oorlog in Syrië georganiseerd, zo toont WikiLeaks ten overvloede nog eens aan.......'  
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Wat betreft de White Helmets zie: 
'White Helmets oprichter overleden, het sein voor nog meer anti-Syrische propaganda'

'White Helmets worden als helden afgeschilderd in propaganda spel'

'White Helmets is een terreurorganisatie, zie de bewijzen op Facebook: foto's van de W.H. leden'



'White Helmets terreurgroep wordt vandaag met open armen ontvangen in Tweede Kamer.....(met video over samenwerking tussen Al Qaida en de White Helmets, zie ook de andere links in dat bericht) 

'White Helmets: naast gebruik van terreur ook schuldig aan orgaanhandel, vernietigende VN video presentatie'

Syria: The White Helmets Are Terrorist Auxiliaries

'Gifgasaanval Idlib: de komende 'kindslachtoffers' worden getraind door terreurgroep White Helmets.........'

'Avaaz haalt 1 miljoen op voor terreurorganisatie Witte Helmen.... ha! ha! ha! Nu nog een inzameling voor ISIS!!!'  

'Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) laat weten hoe White Helmets vips rekruteren met Saoedisch geld....' 

'Al Jazeera filmde een onderdeel van de 'gifgasshow' in Kahn Sheikhoun...........'

'Nederland financiert terrorisme in Syrië........'*

'Massamedia treuren over de dood van een door de CIA gesteunde terrorist'


'MP Chris Williamson confronts UK government with apparent evidence of ‘staged’ chemical attack in Syria' De gifgasaanvallen die het reguliere Syrische leger zou hebben gepleegd, zijn onderdeel van 'false flag' operaties, ofwel men begaat een oorlogsmisdaad en schuift die de vijand in de schoenen, zie o.a.: ''False flag terror' bestaat wel degelijk: bekentenissen en feiten over heel smerige zaken..........'










'Van Baalen (VVD) het is moeilijk te zien wie je moet steunen: Al Qaida, Al Qaida of Al Qaida....... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!'

'VS bereid tot militair ingrijpen tegen de regering Assad >> aanleiding: gifgas leugens van o.a. de VS zelf.......'

Voor wapenleveranties e.d. aan terreurgroepen in Syrië, zie de berichten onder de volgende links (opvallend nogmaals dat de VS ISIS van wapens voorzag, neem de hysterie n.a.v. de moord op al-Baghdadi.....):









'Lt. General McInerney says Obama helped build ISIS with Weapons from Benghazi'

'Tulsi Gabbard (VS congres Hawaï): Trump is de beschermende Big Brother van Al Qaida' 

* Wat betreft de Nederlandse steun voor terreur met ons belastinggeld, zie ook:
'Blok (VVD minister BuZa) loog alweer: Nederland wist dondersgoed dat de hulp voor 'gematigde rebellen' werd gebruikt voor grootschalige terreur'




donderdag 10 januari 2019

Britse militaire geheime dienst bedient zich van moddergooien en andere manipulaties om Europese en VS politiek te manipuleren, zo blijkt uit gelekte documenten

Max Blumenthal en Mark Ames hebben op Gray Zone een uitgebreid artikel geschreven over de gelekte documenten waaruit blijkt dat de Britse militaire geheime dienst zich bedient van moddergooien en andere manieren om het publieke debat te beïnvloeden...... Ja, je las het goed, zaken waarvoor de Britse geheime diensten, de Britse politiek en de Britse massamedia nu al weer een paar jaar lang met de vieze vingers naar Rusland wijzen....... 

Het 'leukst' van al is wel dat men dit het 'Integrity Initiative' noemt...... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Het zoveelste bewijs dat de westerse bevolkingen keihard worden voorgelogen met fake news (nepnieuws) en desinformatie door de hiervoor aangehaalde instanties (met hulp van de reguliere media).... Voorgelogen? Zeg maar gerust gehersenspoeld! Zo gaat er werkelijk geen dag voorbij of de BBC demoniseert Rusland (en intussen ook alweer een aantal maanden lang China)...... Zaken als Russiagate, waar zelfs na twee jaar niet één bewijs voor kon worden geleverd, worden gepresenteerd als een feit..... (overigens daaraan maken ook andere reguliere westerse massamedia zich schuldig, bij ons zelfs de NOS, een 'onafhankelijke zendgemachtigde', al even 'onafhankelijk' als de BBC.......)

Nogmaals waar men Rusland van beschuldigt doet men zelf op grote schaal (of zo de waard is....)....... Het gaat dan ook al lang niet meer over de waarheid maar om het aantal mensen dat men weet te overtuigen van pertinente leugens........

Beste bezoeker ik moet eerlijk toegeven dat na het lezen van artikelen zoals hieronder is opgenomen, me het gevoel bekruipt dat hier niets tegen te doen is, zeker als je ziet dat men dergelijke schandalige zaken in feite openlijk toegeeft (zo wordt in dit artikel o.a. gesteld dat men in westerse overheden en dan m.n. in de afzonderlijke geheime diensten en rechtse denktanks niets tegen propaganda heeft, zolang het volk maar blijft geloven in alle leugens en manipulaties.....).... Alsof we al in één grote dictatuur leven...... Vergeet hierbij nogmaals niet dat de brengers van echt nieuws en oprechte journalisten die uitgebreide onderzoeken publiceren, onderzoeken die aangeven hoe de vork werkelijk in de smerige westerse steel steekt, worden afgedaan als brengers van nepnieuws en onzin, waarbij deze journalisten en alternatieve opiniemakers worden aangemerkt als Russische trollen......... (elke kritiek op westerse manipulaties en andere smerige spelletjes, wordt neergezet als anti-westers en pro-Russische propaganda, wat uiteraard een smerige leugen is, een leugen die in de eind 40er en begin 50er jaren van de vorige eeuw thuishoort, waar opperschoft McCarthy in de VS tekeerging tegen iedereen die links en/of tegen VS oorlogsvoering was.....)

Het volgende uitstekende artikel komt zoals gezegd van Gray Zone (Original journalism and analyses). Voor vergroting van afbeeldingen, zie de instellingen op je browser, te vinden rechtsboven in die browser:

New Documents Reveal a Covert British Military-Intelligence Smear Machine Meddling In American Politics


The Integrity Initiative has mobilized an international disinformation campaign across Europe. Now, with government and right-wing foundation money, this massive “political smear unit” is infiltrating the US.

By Max Blumenthal and Mark Ames


A bombshell domestic spy scandal has been unfolding in Britain, after hacked internal communications exposed a covert UK state military-intelligence psychological warfare operation targeting its own citizens and political figures in allied NATO countries under the cover of fighting “Russian disinformation.”

The leaked documents revealed a secret network of spies, prominent journalists and think-tanks colluding under the umbrella of a group called “Integrity Initiative” to shape domestic opinion—and to smear political opponents of the right-wing Tory government, including the leader of the opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn.

Until now, this Integrity Initiative domestic spy scandal has been ignored in the American media, perhaps because it has mostly involved British names. But it is clear that the influence operation has already been activated in the US. Hacked documents reveal that the Integrity Initiative is cultivating powerful allies inside the State Department, top DC think tanks, the FBI and the DHS, where it has gained access to Katharine Gorka and her husband, the fascist-linked cable news pundit Sebastian Gorka.

The Integrity Initiative has spelled out plans to expand its network across the US, meddling in American politics and recruiting “a new generation of Russia watchers” behind the false guise of a non-partisan charity. Moreover, the group has hired one of the most notorious American “perception management” specialists, John Rendon, to train its clusters of pundits and cultivate relationships with the media.

Back in the UK, Member of Parliament Chris Williamson has clamored for an investigation into the Integrity Initiative’s abuse of public money.

The Integrity Initiative story is just growing and growing. Many are rightly outraged that this Tory government could fund a political smear unit.

Questions need to be answered. Share this video on Facebook to make that happen. https://www.facebook.com/1676943375878964/posts/2298507900389172/ 

In a recent editorial, Williamson drew a direct parallel between the group’s collaboration with journalists and surreptitious payments the CIA made to reporters during the Cold War.

These tactics resemble those deployed by the CIA in Operation Mockingbird that was launched at the height of the cold war in the early 1950s. Its aims included using the mainstream news media as a propaganda tool,” Williamson wrote.

They manipulated the news agenda by recruiting leading journalists to write stories with the express purpose of influencing public opinion in a particular way,” the Labour parliamentarian continued. “Now it seems the British Establishment have dusted off the CIA’s old playbook and is intent on giving it another outing on this side of the Atlantic.”


Unmasking a British military-intelligence smear machine


The existence of the Integrity Initiative was virtually unknown until this November, when the email servers of a previously obscure British think tank called the Institute for Statecraft were hacked, prompting allegations of Russian intrusion. When the group’s internal documents appeared at a website hosted by Anonymous Europe, the public learned of a covert propaganda network seed-funded to the tune of over $2 million dollars by the Tory-controlled UK Foreign Office, and run largely by military-intelligence officers.

Through a series of cash inducements, off the record briefings and all-day conferences, the Integrity Initiative has sought to organize journalists across the West into an international echo chamber hyping up the supposed threat of Russian disinformation—and to defame politicians and journalists critical of this new Cold War campaign. 

bid for funding submitted by the Integrity Initiative in 2017 to the British Ministry of Defense promised to deliver a “tougher stance on Russia” by arranging for “more information published in the media on the threat of Russian active measures.”


The Integrity Initiative has also worked through its fronts in the media to smear political figures perceived as a threat to its militaristic agenda. Its targets have included a Spanish Department of Homeland Security appointee, Pedro Banos, whose nomination was scuttled thanks a media blitz it secretly orchestrated; Jeremy Corbyn, whom the outfit and its media cutouts painted as a useful idiot of Russia; and a Scottish member of parliament, Neil Findlay, whom one of its closest media allies accused of adopting “Kremlin messaging” for daring to protest the official visit of the far-right Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy — the founder of two neo-Nazi parties and author of a white nationalist memoir, “View From The Right.”

These smear campaigns and many more surreptitiously orchestrated by the Integrity Initiative offer a disturbing preview of the reactionary politics it plans to inject into an already toxic American political environment.


Lessons from “the man who sold the war”


A newly released Integrity Initiative document reveals that the outfit plans an aggressive expansion across the US.


The Integrity Initiative claims to have already established a “simple office” in Washington DC, though it does not say where. It also boasts of partnerships with top DC think tanks like the Atlantic Council, the Center for European Policy Analysis, CNA, and close relationships with US officials.

A major hub of Integrity Initiative influence is the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), a de facto US government propaganda operation that was established by President Barack Obama to battle online ISIS recruitment, but which was rapidly repurposed to counter Russian disinformation following the election of Trump.

The Integrity Initiative has also recruited one of the most infamous American PR men to organize its clusters of journalists and political figures.

He is John Rendon, best known as “The Man Who Sold The War” — several wars, in fact, but most notoriously the Iraq invasion. Rendon was the self-described “information warrior” who planted fake news in the major US-UK media about non-existent WMD threats. With deep ties to the CIA and other military-intelligence agencies, his PR firm was paid $100 million to organize and sell Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress. In 2002, the New York Times exposed a Pentagon program using Rendon to plant “disinformation” — including “false stories” and “the blackest of black PR” — in media outlets around the world, in order to shape public opinion and sell the Iraq invasion.

John Rendon (left) with Maj. Gen. Michael Snodgrass, US Africa Command Chief of Staff (photo by US Africom Public Affairs)
Journalist James Bamford outlined a catalogue of disinformation feats Rendon performed for the Pentagon, such as identifying “the biases of specific journalists and potentially obtain an understanding of their allegiances, including the possibility of specific relationships and sponsorships.” Bamford also found proposals and programs Rendon was involved in that aimed to “’coerce’ foreign journalists and plant false information overseas… [and] find ways to ‘punish’ those who convey the ‘wrong message.’”

These tactics seem particularly relevant to his work with the Integrity Initiative, especially considering the internal documents that reveal further Rendon-style plans to produce reports and studies to be “fed anonymously into local media.” (Among the outlets listed as friendly hosts in Integrity Initiative internal memos are Buzzfeed and El Pais, the center-left Spanish daily.)


Keeping up with the Gorkas


Internal documents also refer to interactions between Integrity Initiative Director Chris Donnelly and top Trump officials like Katharine Gorka, a vehemently anti-Muslim Department of Homeland Security official, as well as her husband, Sebastian, who earned right-wing fame during his brief tenure in Trump’s White House.

The latter Gorka is an open supporter of the Hungarian Vitezi Rend, a proto-fascist order that collaborated with Nazi Germany during its occupation of Hungary. Following Trump’s election victory in 2016, Gorka appeared for televised interviews in a black Vitezi Rend uniform.

Sebastian Gorka, in Vitezi Rend garb, with his wife, Katharine, on Election Night
Gorka was among the first figures listed on an itinerary for Donnelly to Washington this September
18 to 22. The itinerary indicates that the two had breakfast before Donnelly delivered a presentation on “Mapping Russian Influence Activities” at the federally funded military research center, CNA.


According to the itinerary, Donnelly was granted access to Pentagon officials like Mara Karlin, an up-and-coming neoconservative cadre, and John McCain Institute executive director Kurt Volker, another neoconservative operative who also serves as the US Special Representative for Ukraine. Numerous meetings with staffers inside the State Department’s Office of Global Engagement were also detailed.


A foreign agent in the State Department?


Of all the State Department officials named in Integrity Initiative documents, the one who appeared most frequently was Todd Leventhal. Leventhal has been a staffer at the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, boasting of “20 years of countering disinformation, misinformation, conspiracy theories, and urban legends.” In an April 2018 Integrity Initiative memo, he is listed as a current team member:


Funded to the tune of $160 million this year to beat back Russian disinformation with “counter-propaganda,” the State Department’s Global Engagement Center has refused to deny targeting American citizens with information warfare of its own. “My old job at the State Department was as chief propagandist,” confessed former Global Engagement Center Director Richard Stengel. “I’m not against propaganda. Every country does it and they have to do it to their own population and I don’t necessarily think it’s that awful.”

(het volgende Twitterbericht bevat een video die ik niet kan overnemen, hier de link naar het origineel)
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At a Council on Foreign Relations forum about "fake news," former Editor at Time Magazine Richard Stengel directly states that he supports the use of propaganda on American citizens - then shuts the session down when challenged about how propaganda is used against the third world

Like so many of the media and political figures involved in the Integrity Initiative’s international network, the Global Engagement Center’s Leventhal has a penchant for deploying smear tactics against prominent voices that defy the foreign policy consensus. Leventhal appeared in an outtake of a recent NBC documentary on Russian disinformation smugly explaining how he would take down a 15-year-old book critical of American imperialism in the developing world. Rather than challenge the book’s substance and allegations, Leventhal boasted how he would marshall his resources to wage an ad hominem smear campaign to destroy the author’s reputation. His strategic vision was clear: when confronting a critic, ignore the message and destroy the messenger.

Integrity Initiative documents reveal that Leventhal has been paid $76,608 dollars (60,000 British pounds) for a 50% contract.


While those same documents claim he has retired from the State Department, Leventhal’s own Linkedin page lists him as a current “Senior Disinformation Advisor” to the State Department. If that were true, it would mean that the State Department was employing a de facto foreign agent.

As a cut-out of the British Foreign Office and Defense Ministry, the Integrity Initiative’s work with current and former US officials and members of the media raises certain legal questions. For one, there is no indication that the group has registered under the Justice Department’s Foreign Agent Registration Act, as most foreign agents of influence are required to do.


Grants from the neocons’ favorite foundation


An Integrity Initiative memo states that the right-wing Smith Richardson Foundation (SRF) has also committed to ponying up funding for its US network as soon as the group receives 501 c-3 non-profit status. The foundation has already provided it with about $56,000 for covert propaganda activities across Europe.

The Smith Richardson Foundation has old ties to the US intelligence community and controversial cold war influence operations. According to reporter Russ Bellant, the foundation was secretly bankrolling radical right-wing “indoctrination campaigns for the American public on cold war and foreign policy issues”— programs that got the attention of Senator William Fulbright, who warned then-President Kennedy of their dangers. At one of these indoctrination seminars, a Smith Richardson Foundation director “told attendees that ‘it is within the capacity of the people in this room to literally turn the State of Georgia into a civil war college,’ in order to overcome their opponents.”

Smith Richardson has funded a who’s who of the neoconservative movement, from hyper-militaristic think tanks like the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for the Study of War. “To say the [Smith Richardson] foundation was involved at every level in the lobbying for and crafting of the so-called global war on terror after 9/11 would be an understatement,” wrote journalist Kelley Vlahos.

Besides Smith Richardson, the Integrity Initiative has stated its intention to apply for grants from the State Department “to expand the Integrity Initiative activities both within and outside of the USA.” This is yet another indicator that the US government is paying for propaganda targeting its own citizens.


Main Event” in Seattle


An Integrity Initiative internal document argues that because “DC is well served by existing US institutions, such as those with which the Institute [for Statecraft] already collaborates,” the organization should “concentrate on extending the work of the Integrity Initiative into major cities and key State capitals [sic] across the USA.”

This December 10, the Integrity Initiative organized what it called its “main event” in the US. It was a conference on disinformation held in Seattle, Washington under the auspices of a data firm called Adventium Labs. Together with the Technical Leadership Institute at the University of Minnesota, the Integrity Initiative listed Adventium Labs as one of its “first partners outside DC.”


Adventium is Minneapolis-based research and development firm that has reaped contracts from the US military, including a recent $5.4 million cyber-security grant from the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA.

Inside a modest-sized hotel conference room, the Adventium/Integrity event began with a speech by the Integrity Initiative’s Simon Bracey-Lane. Two years prior, Bracey-Lane appeared on the American political scene as a field worker for Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential primary run, earning media write-ups as the “Brit for Bernie.” Now, the young operator was back in the US as the advance man for a military-intelligence cut-out that specialized in smearing left-wing political figures like Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader widely regarded as the British version of Sanders.

Bracey-Lane opened his address by explaining that Integrity Initiative director Chris Donnelly had been unable to appear at the event, possibly because he was bogged down in the scandal back home.

He proceeded to read remarks prepared by Donnelly that offered a window into the frighteningly militaristic mindset the Integrity Initiative aims to impose on the public through their media and political allies.

According to Donnelly’s comments, the West was no longer in a “peace time, rules based environment.” From the halls of government to corporate boardrooms to even the UK’s National Health System, “the conclusion is that we have to look for people who suit a wartime environment rather than peacetime.”

During Q&A, Bracey-Lane remarked that “we have to change the definition of war to encompass everything that war now encompasses,” referring vaguely to various forms of “hybrid warfare.”

There is a great deal to be done in communicating that to young people,” he continued. “When we mean being at war we don’t mean sending our boys off to fight. It’s right here in our homes.”

The emphasis on restructuring society along martial lines mirrored the disturbing thinking also on display in notes of a private meeting between Donnelly and Gen. Richard Barrons in 2016. During that chat, the two officers decided that the British military should be removed from democratic supervision and be able to operate as “an independent body outside politics.”


While Bracey-Lane’s presentation perfectly captured the military mindset of the Integrity Initiative, the speakers that followed him offered a diverse array of perspectives on the concept of disinformation, some more nuanced than others. But one talk stood out from the rest — not because of its quality, but because of its complete lack thereof.


Reanimating the “red-brown” grifter


Alexander Reid Ross (left) and Emmi Bevensee at the Integrity Initiative’s “main event” in Seattle
The presentation was delivered by Alexander Reid Ross, a half-baked political researcher who peddles computer-generated spiderweb relationship charts to prove the existence of a vast hidden network of “red-brown” alliances and “syncretic media” conspiracies controlled by puppeteers in Moscow.

Ross is a lecturer on geography at Portland State University with no scholarly or journalistic credentials on Russia. His students have given him dismal marks at Rate My Professors, complaining about his “terrible monotone lectures” and his penchant for “insert[ing] his own ideologies into our class.” But with a book, “Against the Fascist Creep,” distributed by the well-known anarchist publishing house, AK Press, the middling academic has tried to make his name as a maverick analyst.

Before the Integrity Initiative was exposed as a military-intelligence front operation, Ross was among a small coterie of pundits and self-styled disinformation experts that followed the group’s Twitter account. The Integrity Initiative even retweeted his smear of War Nerd podcast co-host John Dolan.


So this means both the Alliance for Securing Democracy and the Integrity Initiative are bankrolled by Western governments.

What other prominent groups monitoring "disinformation" and "protecting democracy" (by blaming all our problems on Russia) are also funded by Western govs?
UK government-funded fake "monitoring group" the Integrity Initiative is retweeting some of the most prominent Syria regime-change trolls, anarcho-neocons, and pro-imperialist pseudo-"socialists," as they attack anti-war journalists

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In a series of articles for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) last year, Ross attempted to bring his warmed-over Cold War theories to the broader public. He wound up trashing everyone from the co-author of this piece, Max Blumenthal, to Nation magazine publisher Katrina Vanden Heuvel to Harvard University professor of international relations Stephen Walt as hidden shadow-fascists secretly controlled by the Kremlin.

The articles ultimately generated an embarrassing scandal and a series of public retractions by the editor-in-chief of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Richard Cohen. And then, like some Dr. Frankenstein for discredited and buried journalism careers, the British Ministry of Defense-backed Integrity Initiative moved in to reanimate Ross as a sought-after public intellectual.

Before the Integrity Initiative-organized crowd, Ross offered a rambling recitation of his theory of a syncretic fascist alliance puppeteered by Russians: “The alt right takes from both this ‘red-brown,’ it’s called, or like left-right syncretic highly international national of nationalisms, and from the United States’ own paleoconservative movement, and it’s sort of percolated down through college organizing, um, and anti-interventionism meets anti-imperialism. Right?”

In a strange twist, Ross appeared on stage at the Integrity Initiative’s Seattle event alongside Emmi Bevensee, a contributor to the left-libertarian Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS) think tank, whose tagline, “a left market anarchist think-tank” expresses its core aim of uniting far-left anarchists with free-market right-libertarians.

Bevensee, a PhD candidate at the University of Arizona and self-described “Borderlands anarcho into tech and crypto,” concluded her presentation by asserting a linkage between the alternative news site, Zero Hedge, and the “physical militarized presence in the borderlands” of anti-immigrant vigilantes. Like Bevensee, Ross has written for C4SS in the past.

The irony of contributors to an anarchist group called the “Center for a Stateless Society” auditioning before The State – the most jackbooted element of it, in fact – for more opportunities to attack anti-war politicians and journalists, can hardly be overstated.

But closer examination of the history of C4SS veers from irony into something much darker and more unsettling.


Pedophile co-founder, white nationalist associates


C4SS was co-founded in 2006 by a confessed child rapist and libertarian activist, Brad Spangler, who set the group up to promote “Market anarchism” to “replace Marxism on the left.”


When Spangler’s child rape confessions emerged in 2015, the Center for Stateless Society founder was finally drummed out by his colleagues.

There’s more: Spangler’s understudy and deputy in the C4SS, Kevin Carson — currently listed as the group’s “Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory” — turned out to be a longtime friend and defender of white nationalist Keith Preston. Preston’s name is prominently plastered on the back of Kevin Carson’s book, hailing the C4SS man as “the Proudhon of our time” — a loaded compliment, given Proudhon’s unhinged anti-Semitism. Carson only disownedPreston in 2009, shortly before Preston helped white nationalist leader Richard Spencer launch his alt-right webzine, Alternative Right.

The C4SS group currently participates in the annual Koch-backed International Students For Liberty conference in Washington DC, LibertyCon, a who’s who of libertarian think-tank hacks and Republican Party semi-celebrities like Steve Forbes, FCC chairman Ajit Pai, and Alan Dershowitz.

In 2013, C4SS’s Kevin Carson tweeted out his dream fantasy that four Jewish leftists — Mark Ames, Yasha Levine, Corey Robin, and Mark Potok — would die in a plane crash while struggling over a single parachute. Potok was an executive editor at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which last year retracted every one of the crank articles that Alexander Reid Ross published with them and formally apologized for having run them.



For some reason, the super-sleuth Ross conveniently failed to investigate the libertarian group, C4SS, that he has chosen to partner with and publish in. That ability to shamelessly smear and denounce leftists over the most crudely manufactured links to the far-right —  while cozying up to groups as sleazy as C4SS and authoritarian as the Integrity Initiative — is the sort of adaptive trait that MI6 spies and the Rendon Group would find useful in a covert domestic influence operation.

Ross did not respond to our request for comment on his involvement with the Integrity Initiative and C4SS.

Disinformation for democracy


As it spans out across the US, the Integrity Initiative has stated its desire to “build a younger generation of Russia watchers.” Toward this goal, it is supplementing its coterie of elite journalists, think tank hacks, spooks and State Department info-warriors with certifiable cranks like Ross.

Less than 24 hours after Ross’s appearance at the Integrity Initiative event in Seattle, he sent a menacing email to the co-author of this article, Ames, announcing his intention to recycle an old and discredited smear against him and publish it in the Daily Beast — a publication that appears to enjoy a special relationship with Integrity Initiative personnel.

Despite the threat of investigation in the UK, the Integrity Initiative’s “network of networks” appears to be escalating its covert, government-funded influence operation, trashing the political left and assailing anyone that gets in its way —  all in the name of fighting foreign disinformation.

We have to win this one,” Integrity Initiative founder Col. Chris Donnelly said, “because if we don’t, democracy will be undermined.”


Mark Ames is the co-host of the Radio War Nerd podcast. Subscribe to Radio War Nerd on Patreon.


Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and the author of books including best-selling Republican GomorrahGoliathThe Fifty One Day War, and The Management of Savagery, which will be published in March 2019 by Verso. He has also produced numerous print articles for an array of publications, many video reports and several documentaries including Killing Gaza and Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie. Blumenthal founded the Grayzone Project in 2015 to shine a journalistic light on America’s state of perpetual war and its dangerous domestic repercussions.

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