I am so glad to be following you on substack! I didn’t know of you before, but your pieces and links are always exceptionally good. And I just read (on page 143) in Robert Kennedy’s book that you are (were?) a NYU “popular historian and propaganda expert.” Thank you, sir, for all that you do!! The timeline on Ukraine piece from the Off Guardian is very helpful — I’m printing it out so that I can study it carefully.
With Putin and the actor playing the part of the Ukrainian leader both being WEF members…how is this not scripted? Act One: StrokeMe 19 Act 2: War Act 3: Alien Invasion?
Thank you for providing much-needed balance to this overwhelmingly one-sided propganda and mania-driven affair.
Following the uncredible events of the last two years, the docile citizenry have gone along with the media psyop surrounding Ukraine. We have seen the world transform under the spell of media manipulation. Much worse than 9/11, Iraq, Arab Spring/Libya/Syria combined. This is the stuff of nightmares. Thank you also to offguardian for the illuminating info.
May the truth and some sense of sanity eventually prevail.
Old habits die hard. This is the intentional balkanization of networks to prepare for false flag cyber attacks that will be blamed on Russia. Plus the de-globalization process to shrink the world back to manageable sectors for incremental democide and control.
It would be far more suspicious to /not/ limit your enemy's ability to communicate, garner support and undermine opposition. Controlling intel and signals is as vital as airspace or logistics.
And the militaries of the world, with the exception of the US during Korea and Vietnam, have never ascribed to the silly notion that the press is anything but propaganda. Journalism is storytelling and propaganda, nothing else and has never been anything but and in wartime it is doubly so by simple necessity and the fact that all wars are wars of annihilarion and genocide, though they rarely progress that far in reality.
And why on Earth would anyone, in a war let the other side(s) have access to the public or the home front? Come now, it's no nefarious plot afoot, it's the Great Game as it always was and always must be. It's just us westernerns who's been drunk on the illusion of righteousness after the fall of Germany oand then the collapse of communism.
Realpolitik is real - ideological politik is delusional. There is only so much good land, so many resiurces and so on. Either your civilisation, culture, race, people - pick your term - will dominate it, or they will be dominated. Or made extinct.
What's happening now is hardly typical, nor is it restricted to the war in Ukraine. It's far more comprehensive, including all so-called "misinformation"/"disinformation" vis-a-vis COVID and those "vaccines." (Two Democratic senators just introduced a bill that will give tech companies until May 2 to "turn over COVID-19 misinformation.") And DHS sees it as "domestic terrorism" to question the results of the 2020 election.
If these developments are not "nefarious," I'd like to know what is.
What is different is that it is now well known beyond people working inside governement and business, and that other words and terms than those part of the system (or machine or conspiracy, take your pick) are used to describe what is in actuality business as usual.
That it is more comprehensive is simply due to inforamtion technology being what it is. Imagine the Vietnam conflict but with the internet of today. Imagine all those ten of thousands of documents regarding CIAs drug business, the involvment of hardware manufacturers (Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and so on), the "donations" to campaigns and all the rest being known as the US involvment in the conflict was escalating.
That's what's different, really.
Hey, imagine the reaction if it had been known at the time that the nazi eugenics programme was a carbon copy of the one proposed twenty years earlier in the US, by the top level of intellectual, political and business elite. Or the british use of poison gas on civilians during the first world war. Or that the allied bombings deliberately targeted civilian targets, both in Europe and in Japan. Or that the Nuremberg process didn't try a single allied soldier for war crimes - such as the soviet rape and murder of more than 850 000 polish and german civilians.
That's the difference: we have access to information which gainsays all the half-truths. But nefarious? No more so than at any other time. It's just USAmericans getting a wake up call that there is nothing so totalitarian than state capitalism - aka classic fascism.
In wartime, dissent is criminal. So, make it always be wartime: war on illiteracy, war on poverty (rather: war on the poor, a timeless capitalist classic), war on dissenters and splitters, war on Covid, war on whatever's fit for purpose.
Because [war] makes you pick a side. Look at yourself. The US oligarchs and politicians who has trampled all over whatever promises were made to Russia in the nineties are corrupt and nefarious, no argument there (unless one agrees with them or is of their circle - then they are noble defenders of global liberal democratic capitalism).
That does not change that Putin is a diktator, vozd, and vor v zakone. That does not change that Russia is the aggressor, striking at Ukrine since it cannot attack or even threaten the US (you may not know it but the combined militaries of Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, the Baltic states and Poland is by far greater than Russia's, excluding nuclear weapons).
Putin does not become good or justified because the other's are bad too. Nor does their censorship expunge his several decades long censorship and control of political movements in Russia, foreign funded or not.
Being swedish, I'm of course partisan seeing as Russia is our hereditary enemy, and with good reason. "War crime" does not exist as a russian military concept, only as part of maskirovka and desinformatsiya. They play for keeps, the West due to US cultural hegemony thinks words and documents and treaties are real and not just realpolitik tools.
So, censorship bad, sink the censorship. But understand why it is being brought about - those doing so aren't the Legion of Doom gleefully rubbing their grubby little mitts cackling away about their Grand Master plan. They think they are the good guys making necessary decisions they'd rather avoid, but times being what they are, well needs must. Ain't no greater cause for suffering than people thinking they are doing good deeds using bad methods.
I think this whole Russia/Ukraine show is much darker and sinister than we can imagine. It reminds of a horror film in which the monster (DC, MSM etc.) is backed into a corner, and begins to lash out with its most evil powers in an attempt to turn the tables. I'm not a bible thumper, but this seems like a spiritual war.
I am so glad to be following you on substack! I didn’t know of you before, but your pieces and links are always exceptionally good. And I just read (on page 143) in Robert Kennedy’s book that you are (were?) a NYU “popular historian and propaganda expert.” Thank you, sir, for all that you do!! The timeline on Ukraine piece from the Off Guardian is very helpful — I’m printing it out so that I can study it carefully.
With Putin and the actor playing the part of the Ukrainian leader both being WEF members…how is this not scripted? Act One: StrokeMe 19 Act 2: War Act 3: Alien Invasion?
https://www.weforum.org/press/2021/10/russia-joins-centre-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution-network/
https://anti-empire.com/meet-hermann-graf-the-wef-approved-manager-of-all-the-russians/
I'm not convinced Putin is supporting WEF. I think he attended as a spy. File under "Keep your friends close & your enemies closer."
It will or will not be apparently obvious soon.
Agreed. Time will tell.
Thank you for providing much-needed balance to this overwhelmingly one-sided propganda and mania-driven affair.
Following the uncredible events of the last two years, the docile citizenry have gone along with the media psyop surrounding Ukraine. We have seen the world transform under the spell of media manipulation. Much worse than 9/11, Iraq, Arab Spring/Libya/Syria combined. This is the stuff of nightmares. Thank you also to offguardian for the illuminating info.
May the truth and some sense of sanity eventually prevail.
Old habits die hard. This is the intentional balkanization of networks to prepare for false flag cyber attacks that will be blamed on Russia. Plus the de-globalization process to shrink the world back to manageable sectors for incremental democide and control.
Great info Mark! Many thanks!
It would be far more suspicious to /not/ limit your enemy's ability to communicate, garner support and undermine opposition. Controlling intel and signals is as vital as airspace or logistics.
And the militaries of the world, with the exception of the US during Korea and Vietnam, have never ascribed to the silly notion that the press is anything but propaganda. Journalism is storytelling and propaganda, nothing else and has never been anything but and in wartime it is doubly so by simple necessity and the fact that all wars are wars of annihilarion and genocide, though they rarely progress that far in reality.
And why on Earth would anyone, in a war let the other side(s) have access to the public or the home front? Come now, it's no nefarious plot afoot, it's the Great Game as it always was and always must be. It's just us westernerns who's been drunk on the illusion of righteousness after the fall of Germany oand then the collapse of communism.
Realpolitik is real - ideological politik is delusional. There is only so much good land, so many resiurces and so on. Either your civilisation, culture, race, people - pick your term - will dominate it, or they will be dominated. Or made extinct.
All else is folly.
What's happening now is hardly typical, nor is it restricted to the war in Ukraine. It's far more comprehensive, including all so-called "misinformation"/"disinformation" vis-a-vis COVID and those "vaccines." (Two Democratic senators just introduced a bill that will give tech companies until May 2 to "turn over COVID-19 misinformation.") And DHS sees it as "domestic terrorism" to question the results of the 2020 election.
If these developments are not "nefarious," I'd like to know what is.
What is different is that it is now well known beyond people working inside governement and business, and that other words and terms than those part of the system (or machine or conspiracy, take your pick) are used to describe what is in actuality business as usual.
That it is more comprehensive is simply due to inforamtion technology being what it is. Imagine the Vietnam conflict but with the internet of today. Imagine all those ten of thousands of documents regarding CIAs drug business, the involvment of hardware manufacturers (Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and so on), the "donations" to campaigns and all the rest being known as the US involvment in the conflict was escalating.
That's what's different, really.
Hey, imagine the reaction if it had been known at the time that the nazi eugenics programme was a carbon copy of the one proposed twenty years earlier in the US, by the top level of intellectual, political and business elite. Or the british use of poison gas on civilians during the first world war. Or that the allied bombings deliberately targeted civilian targets, both in Europe and in Japan. Or that the Nuremberg process didn't try a single allied soldier for war crimes - such as the soviet rape and murder of more than 850 000 polish and german civilians.
That's the difference: we have access to information which gainsays all the half-truths. But nefarious? No more so than at any other time. It's just USAmericans getting a wake up call that there is nothing so totalitarian than state capitalism - aka classic fascism.
In wartime, dissent is criminal. So, make it always be wartime: war on illiteracy, war on poverty (rather: war on the poor, a timeless capitalist classic), war on dissenters and splitters, war on Covid, war on whatever's fit for purpose.
Because [war] makes you pick a side. Look at yourself. The US oligarchs and politicians who has trampled all over whatever promises were made to Russia in the nineties are corrupt and nefarious, no argument there (unless one agrees with them or is of their circle - then they are noble defenders of global liberal democratic capitalism).
That does not change that Putin is a diktator, vozd, and vor v zakone. That does not change that Russia is the aggressor, striking at Ukrine since it cannot attack or even threaten the US (you may not know it but the combined militaries of Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, the Baltic states and Poland is by far greater than Russia's, excluding nuclear weapons).
Putin does not become good or justified because the other's are bad too. Nor does their censorship expunge his several decades long censorship and control of political movements in Russia, foreign funded or not.
Being swedish, I'm of course partisan seeing as Russia is our hereditary enemy, and with good reason. "War crime" does not exist as a russian military concept, only as part of maskirovka and desinformatsiya. They play for keeps, the West due to US cultural hegemony thinks words and documents and treaties are real and not just realpolitik tools.
So, censorship bad, sink the censorship. But understand why it is being brought about - those doing so aren't the Legion of Doom gleefully rubbing their grubby little mitts cackling away about their Grand Master plan. They think they are the good guys making necessary decisions they'd rather avoid, but times being what they are, well needs must. Ain't no greater cause for suffering than people thinking they are doing good deeds using bad methods.
I think this whole Russia/Ukraine show is much darker and sinister than we can imagine. It reminds of a horror film in which the monster (DC, MSM etc.) is backed into a corner, and begins to lash out with its most evil powers in an attempt to turn the tables. I'm not a bible thumper, but this seems like a spiritual war.
Thank you for this! Very helpful to see from the inside!
If they have nothing to hide then why