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of New York Times article, “How Russian Propaganda is Reaching Beyond English Speakers,” is an unintentional but no less devastating self-exposition of the government and corporate media’s efforts to suppress public access to all information and analysis that counters the propagandized narratives of the U.S. -NATO for its war in Ukraine. .
of Times, whose coverage of the war aligns with Washington’s “good versus evil” narrative, writes: “When Russia’s war in Ukraine began, Facebook, Twitter and other social media giants moved to block or limit the reach of accounts of the Kremlin’s propaganda machine in the West.” of Times complains that Washington’s efforts to censor Russian accounts of the war “do not yet include media coverage in Latin America and the Middle East.”
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Without full global censorship, writes the Times“The result has been a geographic and cultural asymmetry in the information war over Ukraine that has helped undercut American and European-led efforts to exert broad international pressure on Mr. Putin to call off his war.”
of Times The article sheds light on the heavy involvement of social media Facebook and Twitter in suppressing news and analysis, particularly by RT, which provides access to Russian reports. But efforts to impose global censorship must be stepped up.
of Times states: “Failure to track Russian posts in Spanish, Arabic and other languages has left the door open for the Kremlin to win over audiences in parts of the world where the United States, its main villain, is viewed with greater ambivalence .”
Among the main lessons the US government learned from the Vietnam debacle was that media accounts of wars must be totally propagandized. The era of “embedded” journalists who took dictation from the Pentagon and the CIA began. Today’s war coverage from Times and the entire corporate media illustrates the result of this decades-long process of corruption. of Times is the most egregious example, usually declamatory referring to all Russian statements as “lies”.
This “news” article, for example, strongly denounces “President Vladimir V. Putin’s unprovoked invasion, demonizing Ukraine and obscuring responsibility for Russian atrocities that have killed thousands of civilians.” Is it really a fact that the invasion is “unprovoked”. In the distant past, the claim of objective journalism would have been noted by writing: Putin’s invasion, “which Washington claims is unprovoked…” All such essential modifiers have now been dropped.
of Times The article concludes with the following quote from an Argentine political scientist: “Part of RT’s success probably owes not so much to promoting the Russian version of events, but more to questioning the Western narrative.” This self-condemning statement exposes the broad purpose of American censorship, which is not only to block access to unfavorable information, but also to prevent “questioning of the Western narrative.”
This objective cannot be achieved only by blocking access to RT. It requires the suppression of news and analysis and any public expression of critical opinion. Bottom line: US and NATO imperialism seek dictatorship within the borders of their countries.
