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New leaked documents show Reuters’ and the BBC’s involvement in covert UK FCO programs to effect “attitudinal change” and “weaken the Russian state’s influence,” alongside intel contractors and Bellingcat. by Max Blumenthal Part 3 - “Weaken the Russian state’s influence” The programs exposed through the latest leak of documents operate under the auspices of a shadowy division of the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office called Counter Disinformation & Media Development (CDMD). Led by an intelligence operative named Andy Pryce, the program has shrouded in secrecy. Indeed, the British government has denied freedom of information requests about the division’s budget and stonewalled members of parliament like Chris Williamson who sought data about its budget and agenda, citing national security to block their demands for information. “ When I tried to probe further, ” former MP Williamson told The Grayzone , “ ministers refused to let me have access to any documents or correspond

An investigative analysis takes apart a hackneyed piece of propaganda authored by an international alt-right clique with links to the Pentagon.   by Raul Diego   Part 4 - Footnotes don’t make it real After a poorly executed introduction, the other arguments become even more transparent. Perhaps none more than the one that immediately follows the opening salvo, where a visit by Xi Jinping to Imperial College London in 2015 to announce a collaborative research project involving “ nanotechnology, bioengineering… and public health ” between the UK and China ostensibly portends another public health coup by the Asian superpower. Citing the publication of a study five years later reporting the “initial” efficacy of social distancing in the fight against the disease, the authors insinuate that, once again, China has bested the West by introducing the idea of social distancing. Yet the Bush administration was already discussing social distancing and other pertinent public health control measur

Ecuador’s presidential candidate Yaku Pérez supported coups in Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. His US-backed party Pachakutik and supposedly “left-wing” environmentalist campaign is being promoted by right-wing corporate lobbyists.   by Ben Norton  Part 5 - Non-Indigenous anti-Correa activist from Indigenous party spreads disinformation against Julian Assange   One of the co-founders of Pachakutik, who is not indigenous, Fernando Villavicencio, played a major but under-acknowledged role in the Russiagate conspiracy that consumed official Washington during the Trump era. Villavicencio is an Ecuadorian opposition activist and journalist who dedicated years of his life to destroying Rafael Correa. Besides his work with Pachakutik, Villavicencio established an anti-Correa media outlet to spread disinformation against the leftist president. Villavicencio hated Correa so much that he publicly called for the United States to impose sanctions on Ecuador to punish his government, and

The Trump and Biden administrations have relied on the work of a right-wing religious extremist, Adrian Zenz, for their “genocide” accusation against China. A close review of Zenz’s research reveals flagrant data abuse and outright falsehoods.   by Gareth Porter and Max Blumenthal Part 3 - Cherry-picking and distorting source material, framing free healthcare as genocide Also in 2017, China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission announced a $5.2 billion healthcare investment in Xinjiang, stating its intention to strengthen a brittle health infrastructure in impoverished, rural areas of the region.  According to Chinese government statistics, maternal and infant mortality rates in Xinjiang were nearly halved by 2018, while average life expectancy rose as a result of increased public health investments. A 2019 study by Lancet described China’s improvement of maternal health and infant mortality reduction as a “ remarkable success story. ” Another study that year by the Chinese

The cops and the district attorneys want people to see what we are going through — the conditions of our arrests, our experiences in jail, and our legal battle — and to think that this is what you risk when you stand up against them. – Lillian House, Aurora Activist and Defendant   by Alan Macleod   Part 1 Elijah McClain would have turned 25 last week. However, in 2019, the introverted Black massage therapist was killed on the street by police in his native Aurora (a part of the Denver metropolitan area). None of the officers involved have faced charges for the incident. Yet the leaders of mass protests against the killing are now facing up to 48 years in prison on a host of charges they see as retaliation for standing up to police power. Three activists — Lillian House, Joel Northam, and Eliza Lucero face a preliminary hearing on March 9. A fourth, Terrence Roberts, is also facing similar, though more minor charges.  The most serious of the charges against them is that of kidnapping,

by Robert Inlakesh   Part 3 - Breeding terrorism   While the US footprint seemingly expands in Iraq, Biden is also set to make his decision on whether he will follow the previous administration’s deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan and withdraw the remaining 2,500 troops, or stay in that 20-year-long war. He has until May 1 to do the former or face the backlash of breaking the Trump-era accord.  The common argument used for staying in Afghanistan is similar to the argument for remaining in Iraq. The US will argue, with the full complicity of its media, that there will be a bloodbath if they leave, due to militant groups gaining the upper hand. But when it comes to the US and its involvement in these wars, the problems in both Iraq and Afghanistan were created almost entirely by its presence. In the case of Iraq, there had not been a single suicide bombing and no Islamic terrorist organisations, such as al-Qaeda, had operated in the country before the overthrew of Saddam Hussein.  As f

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CGTN   For BBC, mobs who sabotaged Hong Kong's legislature are "pro-democracy" heroes; professional training institutes in Xinjiang are "camps" full of "systematic rape" and torture. By telling lies and playing a disgraceful role, BBC is making fake news against China.  

globinfo freexchange   Αμέσως μετά τις εθνικές εκλογές του 2019 είχαμε γράψει ότι, ο "σοφός λαός" δεν είναι και τόσο σοφός. Είτε με την ψήφο του, είτε με την αποχή του, έδωσε το ελεύθερο στη χειρότερη δεξιά της μεταπολίτευσης να σαρώσει σαν 'οδοστρωτήρας' τα πάντα στο πέρασμά της. Μετά από τέσσερα χρόνια νεοφιλελεύθερης λαίλαπας, το τοπίο καταστροφής θα έχει κάνει τη χώρα κυριολεκτικά αγνώριστη.   Και τον Νοέμβριο του 2020 επισημάναμε ότι, δυστυχώς, απ'ότι φαίνεται, η πανδημία απλώς θα επισπεύσει αυτή την καταστροφή.   Όπως αποδεικνύεται από την κατάσταση στην οποία έχει περιέλθει το ΕΣΥ, ειδικά στις περιοχές με τον μεγαλύτερο πληθυσμό, η χώρα θα πληρώσει πολύ ακριβά τον ιδεολογικό φανατισμό των στελεχών του καθεστώτος Μητσοτάκη. Ειδικά τώρα, που οι μεταλλάξεις του ιού κάνουν πάρτι και απειλούν να τινάξουν στον αέρα κάθε σχεδιασμό.  Όπως είχαμε επίσης επισημάνει, δεν είναι απλά η ανικανότητα των στελεχών του καθεστώτος που έχει αφήσει ανοχύρωτο το ΕΣΥ απέναντι

New leaked documents show Reuters’ and the BBC’s involvement in covert UK FCO programs to effect “attitudinal change” and “weaken the Russian state’s influence,” alongside intel contractors and Bellingcat. by Max Blumenthal Part 2 - Reuters solicits secret British Foreign Office contract to infiltrate Russian media A series of official documents declassified in January 2020 revealed that Reuters was secretly funded by the British government throughout the 1960s and 1970s to assist an anti-Soviet propaganda organization run by the MI6 intelligence agency. The UK government used the BBC as a pass-through to conceal payments to the news group. The revelation prompted a Reuters spokesman to declare that “ the arrangement in 1969 [with the MI6] was not in keeping with our Trust Principles and we would not do this today. ” The Trust Principles outline a mission of “ preserving [Reuters’] independence, integrity, and freedom from bias in the gathering and dissemination of information and ne