The question is, will the US see this as a benefit or continue to play critic?
Xi’s whirlwind European tour, playing mediator to mixed reviews
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U.S. Helps Pro-Ukraine Media Run a Fog Machine of War + Supporting Front Orgs
U.S. Helps Pro-Ukraine Media Run a Fog Machine of War
As Congress debates major new funding to support the Ukrainian war effort, U.S. taxpayer dollars are already flowing to outlets such as the New Voice of Ukraine, VoxUkraine, Detector Media, the Institute of Mass Information, the Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine and many others. Some of this money has come from the $44.1 billion in civilian-needs foreign aid committed to Ukraine. While the funding is officially billed as an ambitious program to develop high-quality independent news programs; counter malign Russian influence; and modernize Ukraine’s archaic media laws, the new sites in many cases have promoted aggressive messages that stray from traditional journalistic practices to promote the Ukrainian government’s official positions and delegitimize its critics.
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Read More »TECH OFFICIAL PUSHING TIKTOK BAN COULD REAP WINDFALL FROM U.S.–CHINA COLD WAR
From his perch on a government commission, Jacob Helberg fearmongered about TikTok in Congress. He also works for a giant defense contractor.
TECH OFFICIAL PUSHING TIKTOK BAN COULD REAP WINDFALL FROM U.S.–CHINA COLD WAR
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Lawmaker Who Led TikTok Ban Bill Joins Private Surveillance Firm
Treasonous US Congressional Caucus Created to Support Terrorist Cult
US policies pushing China, Philippines to brink of conflict
US policies pushing China, Philippines to brink of conflict
The China-Philippines maritime dispute does not, in of itself, reflect anything approaching an existential conflict. It has, however, become an increasingly dangerous proxy and potential flashpoint for underlying China-U.S. tensions in the South China Sea.
FYI, this article is full of disinformation. I’m posting it to point out that there’s an information war going on in the South China Sea (using embedded journalists, civil society activists, and various US think tanks). The Philippines plans on building a military base, on the disputed Second Thomas Shoal, to replace the BRP Sierra Madre (which is about to break apart). Marcos is also re-starting oil exploration, in the Reed Bank, which is part of the disputed territory.
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Why the US is Picking a Fight with China in the South China Sea
Beijing rejects tribunal’s ruling in South China Sea case
Paul Reichler, of the law firm Foley Hoag LLP, who who coordinated the Philippines’ legal team, said: “The tribunal’s ruling not only benefits the Philippines, it also benefits other states bordering the South China Sea like Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam. If China’s nine-dash line is invalid as to the Philippines, it is equally invalid to those states and, indeed, the rest of the international community.”
Why Are CNN, ABC, and NBC Reporters Embedding With the Israeli Military?
Why Are CNN, ABC, and NBC Reporters Embedding With the Israeli Military?
Helen Benedict, author of The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq and a professor at the Columbia Journalism School, noted in an interview that “the original purpose of embedding was to control journalists.” She and Christenson both referenced Phillip Knightley’s classic 1975 book The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker From the Crimea to Vietnam, which describes how the government invented embedded journalism in response to critical coverage of the Vietnam War. In a chapter added in 2004, Knightley wrote that as civilian casualties in Afghanistan passed 5,000, “the Pentagon sought a media strategy that would turn attention back to the military’s role in the war, especially the part played by ordinary American service men and women. This would require getting war correspondents ‘on side.’”
H/T: Council Estate Media
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Sacrificing the health of Western Europe for the sake of Ukraine?
The longer the US helps to prolong the war, it risks the stability of its strategic transatlantic interests.
Sacrificing the health of Western Europe for the sake of Ukraine?
When 80 percent of US generals go to work for arms makers
The revolving door between the Defense Department and the weapons industry spins — a new report offers ways to slow it down.
When 80 percent of US generals go to work for arms makers
H/T: Jason Hunt
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8/10/23 Ted Snider on the Polish-Belarussian Tension
Ted Snider joined Scott on Antiwar Radio this week to talk about some concerning developments in Eastern Europe. They start with the tensions on the Polish-Belarus border where forces have been building up since Wagner forces moved in after the Prigozhin ordeal. Snider goes over what’s happening and what it might mean. They then talk about the Neo-Nazi compound in Maine whose leader claims to be training forces to go fight in Ukraine. They finish with some of the disheartening language we’re hearing about the backchannel talks between U.S. and Russian officials.
8/10/23 Ted Snider on the Polish-Belarussian Tension via The Scott Horton Show
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New York Times Helps Marco Rubio Push Persecution Of Antiwar Leftists + More
Citing a recent McCarthyite smear piece by The New York Times, Senator Marco Rubio published a letter on Wednesday that he’d sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland calling for the investigation of American leftist antiwar groups, claiming they are “tied to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and operating with impunity in the United States.”
New York Times Helps Marco Rubio Push Persecution Of Antiwar Leftists
Time to troll Rubio, with Bible verses, on Twitter/X again!
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McCarthyism Is Back: Together We Can Stop It
Chinese-American worker and activist arrested for advocating for peace between US and China
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