The CIA’s Influence Over the Media: Use of the Conspiracy Theorist Slur

The CIA’s Influence Over the Media: Use of the Conspiracy Theorist Slur

These days, it seems that you can tell who is working for the CIA simply by the way they use “conspiracy theory” and “conspiracy theorist” in attempts to belittle others. An example might be when a lawyer for gold mining companies was presented by the corporate media as a public servant/truth teller based on stolen documents that were never shared with the public. That lawyer and his colleagues at The Intercept use the conspiracy theorist slur as much as any other media source, and often when they are questioned about their dubious rise to fame.

[2019] Former Intercept Writer Steps Forward – Is ‘The Intercept’ An Intelligence Operation?

Former Intercept Writer Steps Forward – Is ‘The Intercept’ An Intelligence Operation?

Washington Babylon has been running a number of stories this week by Tim Shorrock and I which raise the possibility — mine did directly — that Pierre Omidyar’s The Intercept (TI) is an intelligence operation, working in collaboration with the U.S. and/or a foreign government. I understand why some readers might be skeptical of that charge, so let me lay out here some additional information and why I think everyone should be open minded about the topic.

Pierre Omidyar’s Funding of Pro-Regime-Change Networks and Partnerships with CIA Cutouts

To [Omidyar] it’s … about … integrating things together to give technocrats, business executives and government officials a God’s-eye view of the world — to manage and control society more efficiently.” — Yasha Levine, author of “Surveillance Valley: The Military History of the Internet”

Pierre Omidyar’s Funding of Pro-Regime-Change Networks and Partnerships with CIA Cutouts

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Ukrainian Neo-Nazis associated with US-backed militia joined Hong Kong protests

Ukrainian neo-Nazis flock to the Hong Kong protest movement

The US is Arming and Assisting Neo-Nazis in Ukraine, While Congress Debates Prohibition

Pierre Omidyar co-funded Ukraine revolution groups with US government, documents show

Yes, in the annals of independent media, this might be the strangest twist ever: According to financial disclosures and reports seen by Pando, the founder and publisher of Glenn Greenwald’s government-bashing blog,“The Intercept,” co-invested with the US government to help fund regime change in Ukraine.

Pierre Omidyar co-funded Ukraine revolution groups with US government, documents show

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