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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: "Russian Propaganda" Just Means Disobedience
Published: 2022-08-06
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4AZ_eekBpc
Title: "Russian Propaganda" Just Means Disobedience
Published: 2022-08-06
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4AZ_eekBpc
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russian propaganda just means disobedience you can always tell how important narrative control is by watching the way people react when their control of the narrative is jeopardized empire apologists are raging at amnesty international for pausing its aggressive facilitation of western imperialism to issue one brief criticism of the way ukrainian forces have been endangering civilian lives with their warfare tactics against the russian military amnesty is far2/22
from the first to highlight this extensively documented issue that ukrainian forces have been deliberately positioning themselves in civilian populations without taking proper measures to protect non-combatants is a concern that has been voiced repeatedly since the war began and reported on by both mainstream western news outlets and the united nations nevertheless amnesties claim that ukrainian forces have put civilians in harm's way by establishing bases and operating3/22
weapons systems in populated residential areas including schools and hospitals has drawn fire from ukrainian officials from mass media pundits from the brainwashed rank and file on social media and from president zielinski himself a common criticism circulating among the outrage is that amnesty is facilitating russian propaganda has been influenced by russian propaganda or has itself become an instrument of russian propaganda the head of amnesty international's ukrainian4/22
branch resigned as a result of the report saying that the organization created material that sounded like support for russian narratives and that in an effort to protect civilians this study became a tool of russian propaganda it is a shame that the organization like amnesty is participating in this disinformation and propaganda campaign tweeted zelinski advisor michaelo podoliak amnesty international can go to hell for all this garbage5/22
tweeted human rights foundation chairman gary kasparov or go to ukraine which putin's war is trying to turn into hell as with their actions on navalny it reeks of russian influence turning kremlin propaganda into amnesty statements the daily mail called the amnesty report a coup for vladimir putin's propaganda machine the organization gives a huge assist to russian propaganda tweeted alexi sorokin chief operating officer of the nato6/22
propaganda outlet kiev independent shameful victim blaming russia invaded ukraine and is committing unspeakable war crimes there please do not amplify russian lies tweeted paul massaro of the u.s government's helsinki commission the underlying premise behind these complaints of course is that it is amnesty international's job to help ukraine win a propaganda campaign against russia which is odd because amnesty's reporting on the war has actually been overwhelmingly7/22
biased in favor of ukraine this entire time anger directed at amnesty is surprising given that it is the first critical piece the group has written on ukraine since the war began reports unheard over the last six months amnesty has published 40 articles on ukraine nearly all of which condemn russia's invasion with only one exception its latest that could be conceivably described as critical of ukraine even8/22
the amnesty report currently sparking all the outrage contains repeated condemnations of russians russia's actions in ukraine citing indiscriminate attacks by russian forces and war crimes amnesty has found russia guilty of committing as well as decrying the use of quote inherently indiscriminate weapons including internationally banned cluster munitions but even 99 loyalty to the official line is not enough for imperial spin meisters and the empire's useful idiots9/22
anything short of a hundred percent compliance counts as russian propaganda but that's precisely the notion that has been drummed into western consciousness with ever increasing fervor since 2016 that any dissent about u.s foreign policy is russian propaganda don't support western interventionism in syria you're spouting russian propaganda worried about nuclear war russian propaganda don't think the fight for u.s domination is worth all this dangerous brinkmanship russian10/22
propaganda don't like the idea of an expensive proxy war with no exit strategy whose economic fallout is making life harder and harder for more and more people all around the world russian propaganda i myself am accused of being a peddler of russian propaganda many times per day and have been for years this despite my hardly ever consuming russian media never receiving a penny from russia and11/22
never having worked for the russian government or any other government at any time russian media have at times chosen of their own initiative to amplify my work since i have a standing invitation for anyone to do so but i'm literally just an australian woman writing her opinions online with her american husband i only qualify as russian propaganda because i disagree with u.s foreign policy ask anyone12/22
who says a criticism of the western empire's ukraine policy as russian propaganda to name a critic of western ukraine policy who they don't consider a russian propagandist they won't be able to for them disagreeing with one's government about ukraine is itself russian propaganda for empire apologists the measure of what constitutes russian propaganda about ukraine has nothing to do with whether or not what's being said is13/22
true or valid it's literally just a question of obedience to one's government and about the decisions it's been making with regard to that nation if the measure of whether something qualifies as propaganda is defined entirely by whether it agrees with one's government then that measure is itself propaganda that's exactly what's happening with criticism of the west's interventionism in ukraine something doesn't have to come from russia14/22
to be considered russian propaganda and its source doesn't need to have any connection to the russian government it doesn't even have to be false all it needs to be is disobedient we saw this illustrated this past june when the guardian published a nato-backed claim that journalist aaron mate was the most prolific spreader of disinformation among a russia-backed network of syria conspiracy theorists despite being incapable of15/22
citing a single false thing in mate's syria reporting and despite the guardian having to hastily edit out their russia-backed claim we also saw this illustrated this past june in a university of calgary briefing paper on disinformation about the war in ukraine which warns about five primary narratives being circulated online one implying nato expansionism legitimizes the russian invasion two portraying nato as an aggressive alliance using ukraine16/22
as a proxy against russia three promoting a general mistrust of institutions and elites four suggesting that ukraine is a fascist state or has extensive fascist influences 5. promoting a specific mistrust of canada's liberal government and especially of prime minister trudeau there are arguments of varying strengths to be made for every one of those points but more importantly it is self-evident that all of them are matters17/22
of opinion and none of them meet any sane definition of disinformation they also can't in and of themselves rightly be called either russian or propaganda russian propaganda certainly exists and the russian government certainly has a vested influence interest in influencing western thought in its strategic favor to whatever extent it is capable but its capability is very very limited especially compared to the exponentially greater influence that18/22
western institutions have over our minds russia has a few trolls and some media outlets that were barely viewed by westerners even before they were banned the u.s centralized empire has the billionaire media silicon valley hollywood and the education system comparing the two is like comparing a candle to the sun and the sun ain't russia but that's the one whose influence over our minds we are meant19/22
to worry about in reality we are swimming in propaganda that is favorable to the us empire our entire lives it's so ubiquitous that people don't even notice it claiming your support for u.s foreign policy on an issue has nothing to do with being propagandized is like someone who was raised in the westboro baptist church claiming it's pure coincidence that he happens to agree with the church20/22
on the sinfulness of homosexuality it pervades our minds and shapes our society but they want us all freaking out about the virtually non-existent problem of russian propaganda this is a thought-killing dynamic and it is a major problem it is not good that propaganda is shoved into our minds manufacturing consent for dangerous escalations between the world's two greatest nuclear powers while anyone who opposes any part of21/22
it is dismissed as a russian propagandist or a useful idiot of the kremlin we should be using our minds more at this critical juncture but these dynamics put in place by imperial narrative managers have instead got us using them a lot less old joke a russian and an american get on a plane in moscow and get to talking the russian says he works for the kremlin