Summary: We see the news as individual stories. This makes it easy to miss the trend. Such as the growing control of our rulers over our news. Unless we act soon, a kind of 1984 might lie in our future.
After generations of lying to us, our elites have grown confident about our gullibility and disinterest in truth. In the past year our elites have prepared us for the next step: formal machinery to control the flow of information in America.
We saw the early stages of this in their protests against unauthorized releases to the American public of accurate information – information we were not to know. The ClimateGate emails. The revelations from Edward Snowden. The revelations of Chelsea Manning. The leaks of the emails from the Democratic National Committee.
Outrage about truth we were not to know. Dangerous truths, dangerous to our rulers.
Now the giant social media corporations have begun censoring their content.
Next comes the big step: formal open government machinery to control the information flow to us. They believe that our passivity and apathy have grown sufficiently deep in our minds to accept this step. The big step to the death of the Republic, infowar waged against us. Here is one of the many articles pushing us to accept this.
“We Need a NATO for Infowar“
By Elisabeth Braw at Defense One.
“Western countries have pitifully few defenses against ever-more-powerful disinformation campaigns.
Banding together can help.”
“…Russian media deliver a dizzying range of exaggerations and falsehoods about our countries, while we usually opt for the high road of near-silence. But truth won’t prevail on its own. We need a robust defense not just of our borders but of our free and open societies: in other words, a Communications NATO for information warfare. …
“{R}esponses to disinformation are like swatting flies: time-consuming and ineffective. But not addressing disinformation is ineffective, too. ‘Western media still have this thing where they try to be completely balanced, so they’ll say, “the Russians say this, but on the other hand the Americans say this is not true,” They end up giving a lie and the truth the same value,’ noted Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the former president of Estonia. …
“‘Why do we even allow RT to broadcast in our countries?’ asked Ilves. Why, indeed. But as ‘USA Really’ shows, even if EU or NATO member states collectively revoked RT’s broadcasting licenses, Russian disinformation would not go away. …
“So who will go head-to-head with Sergey Lavrov, the way NATOwould confront, say, Russia’s armed forces if they made aggressive moves? And what if other countries or entities (say, ISIS at its zenith) attack us with propaganda campaigns? We can’t hang the job on our own news media. …
“What we need now is a cross-border defense alliance against disinformation — call it Communications NATO. Such an alliance is, in fact, nearly as important as its military counterpart … Such a move would help strengthening citizens’ resilience against disinformation. …”
Most of this is lies. Some is madness. Caitlin Johnstone gives her usual fact-rich, analytical debunking in …
“Atlantic Council Explains Why We Need To Be Propagandized For Our Own Good.“
“As I wrote recently, mainstream media outlets have been going out of their minds churning out attack editorials on anyone who questions the establishment narrative about what happened in Douma. A BBC reporter recently admonished a retired British naval officer for voicing skepticism of what we’re being told about Syria on the grounds that it might ‘muddy the waters’ of the ‘information war’ that is being fought against Russia {details here}.
“All day, every day, western mass media are pummeling the public with stories about how awful and scary Russians are and how everything they say is a lie. …
“Russian propaganda is not dangerous. Having access to other ways of looking at global geopolitics is not dangerous. What absolutely is dangerous is a vast empire concerning itself with the information and ideas that its citizenry have access to. Get your rapey, manipulative fingers out of our minds, please.”
Russian propaganda is dangerous because when your government decides it’s time to go to war with Russia, you might not want them to.
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) May 3, 2018
But none of that matters. All that matters is our willingness to defend our liberty, our commitment to the truth, and our resolve to govern ourselves. Without that we are no longer America, just a bunch of people working for our rulers – no different in nature than the peons in a Third-world nation.
For More Information
See more examples of info war waged against us: “Media Use Disinformation To Accuse Russia Of Spreading Such.”
The big picture about US – Russia relations: We ended the Cold War by lying to Russia. They remember, even if we don’t.
Ideas! For some shopping ideas, see my recommended books and films at Amazon.
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- Learning from the Cold War to prevent war with Russia today.
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- The Russian cyberattack on the world that wasn’t (again).
- Debunking RussiaGate, attempts to stop the new Cold War.
- Debunking the story about Russia’s hit on Sergei Skripal.
- Another rush to war! This time in Syria.
- Secrets about our attack on Syria & Russia to help jihadists.
Two new books about our new Cold War.
Return to Cold War
Who Lost Russia?: How the World Entered a New Cold War
See Tony Wood’s review of these new books in the London Review of Books.
