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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Would be nice if you followed that yourself but you don’t.
Especially when you repeatedly mentioned posters without pinging them.
Yes, that is FR etiquette which you ignored.
And let’s not forget the zeepers calling others “putinistas” and other things.
The wide eyed shrieking at others who disagree with being fleeced is so tiresome.
Mommy's leaving, let's drink a bottle of wine!
Mom?
See post 77.
We can only hope.
“Mr. Robinson has never directed me to do anything.”
WRONG.
You just ignore Mr. Robinson’s commenting rules:
1. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3928396/posts
2. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4166577/posts
I love Dancing Wine Lady! 🍷
Sssh... I think it is bimboeruption
Annnnnnnnnd you were just whining in post 78 about FR etiquette.
This is why nobody takes you seriously.
Grow up, stop being a thin skinned child.
Sure sport, when you follow them yourself.
Plank, eye and all that.
Remember insulting everyone who doesn’t agree with the war adventure in Ukraine?
It’s part of your whole charade, trying to pretend to be oh so righteous.
Mommy, I’m all confused. You told us “good bye” but you’re still here badgering us.
Is your post a cry for help?
>>>>Sssh... I think it is bimboeruption<<<<
Double click on one of the pix that you copied from my image hosting account when you broke into it and snooped around, and you’ll see who the Dancing Wine Lady really is.
”She looks awfully happy. We hear tell she’s a zeeper nippin’ at the Communion wine.”
“Double click on one of the pix”
No need to attempt your “break-in”. Who cares! LOL
Your false accusations are legion whether they are directed at me or another Freeper.
“Plank, eye and all that.”
Thanks. Good comparison. :)
Try first to see clearly to remove splinters.
Think of it as in same vein as Paul nee Saul publicly confronting Peter when he was wrong.
Take the rebuke and be better.
But we both know you won’t.
The Scriptural rebuke ‘Plank, eye and all that.’
Thanks. Good comparison. :)
Actually applies to all of us: to remove the log to see clearly enabling to remove splinters from another.
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