Thursday, April 7, 2022

Links — 7 Apr 2022 Part 1

A Son of the New American Revolution
The Dog That Ain’t Barking in Ukraine
Larry C. Johnson | CEO and co-founder of BERG Associates, LLC, an international business-consulting firm with expertise combating terrorism and investigating money laundering, formerly Deputy Director in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism (1989-1993, and CIA operations (1984-1989)
https://sonar21.com/the-dog-that-aint-barking-in-ukraine/

Turcopolier
“US training small number of Ukrainians on Switchblade drones” – TTG
https://turcopolier.com/us-training-small-number-of-ukrainians-on-switchblade-drones-ttg/

Reminiscence of the Future
Andrei Raevsky Makes The Point...
Andrei Martyanov, former USSR naval officer and expert on Russian military and naval issues.
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/04/andrei-raevsky-makes-point.html

Moon of Alabama
U.S. 'Intelligence' Says Its 'Intelligence' Is Bullshit (here it is necessary to distinguish between intel and ops. Intel is about providing decision makers with actionable information (interpreted data) and knowledge (explanation) while operations is about creating narratives, regardless of fact. Shaping the narrative is about deception. The CIA and MI6 are not supposed to do this domestically but they now do.)
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/us-intelligence-says-its-intelligence-is-bullshit.html

RayMcGovern.com
Q and A with Primo Radical (15 min video/podcast interview, no transcript)
Ray McGovern, co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, and retired 27-year career CIA whose tasks included preparing and briefing The President’s Daily Brief and leading the Soviet Foreign Policy Branch
https://raymcgovern.com/2022/04/07/q-and-a-with-primo-radical/

Dances with Bears
BRITISH GOVERNMENT ENGAGES SECRET LAWYER TO REPRESENT SERGEI SKRIPAL AND YULIA SKRIPAL IN PUBLIC INQUIRY – THE SECRET IS THAT THE SKRIPALS DON’T KNOW, CAN’T SAY
John Helmer
http://johnhelmer.net/british-government-engages-secret-lawyer-to-represent-sergei-skripal-and-yulia-skripal-in-public-inquiry-the-secret-is-that-the-skripals-dont-know-cant-say/

Zero Hedge
Viral "Russian Mobile Crematorium" Tweet Is From An 8-Year-Old YouTube Video
Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/viral-russian-mobile-crematorium-tweet-8-year-old-youtube-video

Lavrov Rejects New Ukraine Draft Peace Proposal As "Unacceptable", Says US Seeks To Undermine Talks
Tyler Durden
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/futures-jump-then-dump-lavrov-calls-new-ukrainian-draft-peace-proposal-unacceptable






3 comments:

Joe said...

For what it's worth, while the tactics are maybe more direct now, the CIA has always propagandized the American public. A favorite technique was getting fake articles in foreign newspapers, which are then picked up by Americans ones.

Tom Hickey said...

A favorite technique was getting fake articles in foreign newspapers, which are then picked up by Americans ones.

Right. They used to do this. Now they are using the direct approach much more openly than in the past, where they had plausible deniability.

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2104/S00073/the-cia-used-to-infiltrate-the-media-now-the-cia-is-the-media.htm

Joe said...

They should be careful, the brilliance of the American propaganda system is the media's ostensible independence and that the people on air are generally saying what they believe. As Chomsky and Herman have explained, if the presenter believed something different they wouldn't have gotten the job (sometimes people get through, but then they get fired or get their desk moved to a closet like Ashleigh Banfield had done to her). This gives the American media credibility that outright state media doesn't have. But it seems that our system is evolving towards a more overt state controlled system.

The last 5 or 6 years have seen a series of humiliations for the US media, but the last month especially, the US and western media in general, just seems so over the top that skepticism should be the default position of the general public. It's hardly surprising trust in the media has been sinking for years now.