ISSUE #73: Information laundering AND War on antiwar media.
Antiwar journalists are not allowed to do their job to protect "democracy."
The leaked e-mail conversations between Paul Mason and an intelligence contractor named Amil Khan showed they - alongwith other think tanks - are plotting a war against anitwar jounalists.
Who’s Paul Mason?
A prominent British journalist who has been in full support of the Western military intervention in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. He even led a demonstration through the streets of London where he cheered for NATO military escalation against Russia. His recent columns have shown his support for crackdown on “Russian disinformation” and has demanded “state action” against the members of media who oppose the NATO intervention. To put it simply, he is a warmonger.
After the e-mails were leaked, he claimed to have been victimized by a “Russian hack-and-leak operation” in a Medium post, in which he tried to distract his followers from the fact that he indeed is plotting to censor, smear, deplatform, defund the antiwar media or the media that tells the truth about the West’s foreign policy. He is like: “Yeah, I’m engaged in this dirty work, but look over there at bad Russians who exposed me.”
Only an idiot would look at the leaked e-mails, which clearly show the efforts being made to discredit antiwar media, and get mad at Russia for leaking someone’s personal e-mails.
In one of the e-mails, Mason suggested “relentless deplatforming” of The Grayzone, including cutting them off from donation sources such as Paypal because “Grayzone is not just pushing disinfo - it is doxxing and exposing counter-disinfo actors,” Mason said in another e-mail, which, when translated into simple and plain English, means they are not only telling the truth about the West’s foreign policy but also exposing the warmongers pushing for more war.
They refused to engage in “toe to toe” conversation with The Grayzone and think that debunking their news stories by running a secret operation with think tanks like Bellingcat “would be a worthy project,” which is interesting because if The Grayzone and other publications - which do not parrot the government narrative - are really spreading “disinformation”, as Paul Mason tells us, then why do they need to set up a secret plot to take down The Grayzone? Why don’t they debunk their news stories out in the open, in a public debate? This tells you everything you need to know.
Let’s talk a bit about Bellingcat that Paul Mason talked repeatedly about in his conversations.
Bellingcat is Netherlands-based investigative site and recognizes itself as an “independent international collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists using open source and social media investigation to probe a variety of subjects.”
They have also been praised by the Western state-affiliated media - “an intelligence agency for the people” by ABC Australia, “transparent” and “innovative” by the New Yorker, and “independent news collective” by the Big Think. Publicly, Paul Mason calls the site “a 100% independent investigations group,” and in the leaked private conversations, calls it “intel service input by proxy” and says the company “get a steady stream of intel from Western agencies.” Logically speaking, what a person says in private is often what he truly believes in, rather than in public where he can mold his opinion in some way knowing that he’s being listened to.
Are they really an “independent” or “neutral” investigative site that the media wants us to believe? The facts tell us a whole different story:
Far from being independent or neutral, Bellingcat is funded by the US and UK intelligence agencies and staffed with former military and intelligence officers. To cite one example, its Senior Investigator, Nick Waters, spent three years as an officer in the British army. In 2016, the founder of Bellingcat, Eliot Higgins, dismissed the fact that his organisation gets funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), but admitted it a year later.
(As a sidenote, NED is a US-backed regime change organisation.)
Alan Macleod wrote about Bellingcat in detail here.
The thing I want you to focus on is how the Western intelligence agencies like CA and MI6 use these so-called “independent” organizations to launder information. To illustrate, if the CIA wants to run anti-China propaganda like the Uyghur genocide in Xinjiang, they would simply launder it through Bellingcat or any other “neutral” organization so that the Western media can surface the news stories into mainstream calling it “verified” from “independent” sources. People don’t realize that what they are being fed is NOT based on hard core evidence but the lies promoted by the Western intelligence agencies of the West.
Another definition could be when the news, whether true or false, is surfaced into mainstream based on claims made by unverified sources or the sources that have every incentive to make those claims. A recent good example can be when a Ukraine’s commisioner for human rights, Lyudmila Denisova, was falsely accusing Russian army of raping children and the Western press was relentlessly publishing the stories into mainstream knowing that they are not backed by evidence, which resulted in her being removed from the post.
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