Posted on 05/03/2024 5:20:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Ukraine’s American-backed fight against Russia is being waged not only in the blood-soaked trenches of the Donbas region but also on what military planners call the cognitive battlefield — to win hearts and minds.
A sprawling constellation of media outlets organized with substantial funding and direction from the U.S. government has not just worked to counter Russian propaganda but has supported strong censorship laws and shutdowns of dissident outlets, disseminated disinformation of its own, and sought to silence critics of the war, including many American citizens.
Economist Jeffrey Sachs, commentator Tucker Carlson, journalist Glenn Greenwald, and University of Chicago Professor John Mearsheimer are among the critics on both the left and the right who have been cast as part of a “network of Russian propaganda.”
But the figures targeted by the Ukrainian watchdog groups are hardly Kremlin agents. They simply have forcefully criticized dominant narratives about the war.
Sachs is a highly respected international development expert who has angered Ukrainian officials over his repeated calls for a diplomatic solution to the current military conflict. Last November, he gave a speech at the United Nations calling for a negotiated peace.
Mearsheimer has written extensively on international relations and is a skeptic of NATO expansion. He predicted that Western efforts to militarize Ukraine would lead to a Russian invasion.
Greenwald is a Pulitzer Prize-winning independent journalist who has criticized not just war coverage but media dynamics that suppress voices that run counter to U.S. narratives.
“What they mean when they demand censorship of ‘pro-Russia propaganda’ is anything that questions the US/EU role in the Ukraine war or who dissents from their narratives,” Greenwald has observed.
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They could’ve wrote this story on day 1.
Jennifer Faux Griffin on Fox
You're just saying that because it's true. 
Her husband is number 2 at NPR, and is a big Trump stalker, too.
Vindman is their Hero.
Oh look - another Russian troll bemoaning things...
Excellent article. Thanks for posting. Note: USAID is headed by Samantha Power.
Exactly as we have posted for +2 years!
Excellent article.
Zeeper Follies PING!
Be gone Biden voter!
Certainly a few work here.
Agreed, excellent article.
Does this surprise anyone?
Lee Fang doesn’t sound like a Russian troll name to me. Maybe you know something we don’t know? 😏
Yes, and they probably make a pretty penny.
It’s why they get so vicious and defensive when we criticize their excessive propaganda.
He has him/her/it confused with Eric Swallwell's CIA honeypot spy Bang Bang.
I mean Fang Fang.
Here's one for you.
Ah yes. Mommy Dearest.
There is a hall of shame on evrey website. Zeepers are at the top of the list. It requires faith in the MSM and Joe Biden so I have no use for them. The democrat has finally found a war they love.
Which of those four named commentators has actually been censored? I see stuff from them pretty regularly.
Comments from: How Reagan and Thatcher would have defeated Putin in Ukraine
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4235375/posts?page=67#47
Vaden: RuSSian propaganda should NEVER be welcome on a conservative site.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4235375/posts?page=47#47
UMCRevMom: RuSSian propaganda should NEVER be welcome on a conservative site.”
TRUTH!
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4235375/posts?page=68#68
These comments prove the accuracy of the Lee Fang article.
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