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By Caitlin Johnstone
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N BC News has a study out citing multiple anonymous U.S. officials, humorously titled "In a break with the past, U.S. is using intel to fight an info state of war with Russia, even when the intel isn't rock solid."

The officials say the Biden administration has been rapidly pushing out "intelligence" nearly Moscow's plans in Ukraine that is "low-confidence" or "based more on analysis than hard evidence" or even just plainly false, in order to fight an information war confronting Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The report says that toward this end the U.S. government has deliberately circulated false or poorly evidenced claims about impending chemical weapons attacks, most Russian plans to orchestrate a false flag attack in the Donbass to justify an invasion, nigh Putin's advisers misinforming him and about Russia seeking artillery supplies from Mainland china.

Psyops in the U.South. targeting the public used to be illegal, even though the way they got around it was to plant stories in the foreign press. Merely over the last five years start with Russiagate & at present Ukraine, information technology is articulate that U.S. public is fair game: https://t.co/gcEWoCZbkB

— Ajamu Baraka (@ajamubaraka) Apr 6, 2022

Excerpt, emphasis mine:

"It was an attention-grabbing assertion that made headlines around the globe: U.S. officials said they had indications suggesting Russia might be preparing to employ chemic agents in Ukraine.

President Joe Biden later said it publicly. But three U.S. officials told NBC News this calendar weekin that location is no prove Russia has brought whatsoever chemical weapons near Ukraine. They said the U.S. released the information to deter Russian federation from using the banned munitions.

It's ane of a string of examples of the Biden assistants's breaking with contempo precedent past deploying declassified intelligence as part of an information war against Russia. The administration has washed and then even when the intelligence wasn't rock solid, officials said, to keep Russian President Vladimir Putin off residual."

Then, they lied. They may hold that they lied for a noble reason, but they lied. They knowingly circulated information they had no reason to believe was truthful, and that lie was amplified by all the most influential media outlets in the western earth.

Another example of the Biden assistants releasing a false narrative every bit part of its "information war":

"Likewise, a charge that Russia had turned to Cathay for potential military help lacked difficult evidence, a European official and two U.South. officials said.

The U.S. officials saidthere are no indications China is considering providing weapons to Russia. The Biden administration put that out as a warning to China not to do so, they said."

On the empire's merits last week that Putin is being misled by his advisers because they are afraid of telling him the truth, NBC reports that this cess "wasn't conclusive — based more on assay than hard evidence."

I'd actually made fun of this ridiculous C.I.A. press release when it was uncritically published bearded as a breaking news report by The New York Times:

Breaking News: The most influential newspaper in the English-speaking earth routinely passes off CIA press releases as "Breaking News". https://t.co/aBzhidbozv

— Caitlin Johnstone ? (@caitoz) March 30, 2022

We'd also had fun with Land Department Spokesman Ned Price's bizarre February impersonation of Alex Jones, where he wrongly claimed that Russia was about to release a "false flag" video using crisis actors to justify its invasion:

US Again Tries To Pass Off Government Assertions Every bit Testify

"This is the kind of show yous tin can't see. The evidence is invisible."https://t.co/mEqIsS0cUS

— Caitlin Johnstone ? (@caitoz) Feb 4, 2022

Other U.S. government lies discussed in the NBC report were less cute:

"In another disclosure, U.Southward. officials said 1 reason not to provide Ukraine with MiG fighter jets is that intelligence showed Russia would view the movement as escalatory.

That was truthful,simply it was also true of Stinger missiles, which the Biden administration did provide, two U.S. officials said, adding that the administration declassified the MiG information to bolster the statement not to provide them to Ukraine."

So the Biden administration knew it was sending weapons to Ukraine that would be perceived past a nuclear superpower as a provocative escalation, sent them anyway and and so lied about it. Cool, cool, absurd.

This NBC report confirms rumors nosotros've been hearing for months. Professional war monger Max Boot said via The Council on Foreign Relations think tank in February that the Biden administration had ushered in "a new era of info ops" with intelligence releases designed not to tell the truth just to influence Putin's decisions. Former MI6 primary John Sawers told The Atlantic Council think tank in February that the Biden administration's "intelligence" releases were based more than on a general vibe than actual intelligence and were designed to manipulate rather than to inform.

Amazing interview with of the quondam MI6 chief with the Atlantic Council's @B_judah (the whole gang present) where the intel goon *admits* that many western "intel leaks" media outlets are dutifully carrying aren't real leaks but propaganda messages designed to undercut Putin. pic.twitter.com/UOzBxG5F5H

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 17, 2022

And in case yous were wondering, no, NBC did non just publish a major leak by whistleblowers inside the U.South. authorities who are bravely exposing the lies of the powerful with the help of the free press. 1 of the commodity'southward authors is Ken Dilanian, who in 2014 was revealed to have worked every bit a literal C.I.A. asset while writing for The Los Angeles Times. If you encounter Dilanian's proper name in a byline, you may be certain that you are reading exactly what the managers of the U.S. empire want you to read.

And so why are they telling us all this now? Is the U.S. government not worried that information technology will lose the trust of the public by admitting that it is continuously lying about its about high-contour international conflict? And if this is an "information war" designed to "become inside Putin'due south head" equally NBC's sources claim, wouldn't openly reporting it through the mainstream press completely defeat the purpose?

Well, the answer to those questions is where it gets really creepy. I welcome anybody's feedback and theories on the matter, only as well-nigh equally I tin can figure the only reason the U.Due south. government would release this story to the public is considering they desire the general public to know about it. And the only plausible reason I tin think of that they would want the public to know most information technology is that they are confident the public will consent to beingness lied to.

To go a ameliorate sense of what I'm getting at, it helps to watch the televised version of this report in which Dilanian and NBC anchor Alison Morris enthuse well-nigh how brilliant and wonderful it is that the Biden administration is employing these psychological warfare tactics to mess with Putin'south listen:

The message an indoctrinated NBC viewer will become when watching this segment is, "Isn't this awesome? Our president is pulling off all these cool 3D chess moves to vanquish Putin, and we're kind of a part of it!"

Information technology's been obvious for a long time that the U.South. empire has been working to shore up narrative control to strengthen its hegemonic domination of the planet via internet censorship, propaganda, Silicon Valley algorithm manipulation, and the normalization of the persecution of journalists. We may now merely be at the stage of majestic narrative control where they can begin openly manufacturing the consent of the public to be lied to for their own good.

Just as the smear campaign against Julian Assange trained mainstream liberals to defend the right of their authorities to continue night secrets from them, we may at present exist looking at the stage of narrative control advancement where mainstream liberals are trained to defend the correct of their government to lie to them.

The U.S. is ramping up cold war aggressions against Russia and China in a desperate attempt to secure unipolar hegemony, and psychological warfare traditionally plays a major role in Cold War maneuverings due to the inability to aggress in more than overt means confronting nuclear-armed foes. Then now would definitely be the time to become the "thinkers" of America's ii mainstream political factions fanatically cheerleading their government'southward psywar manipulations.

A casual glance around the internet at what mainstream liberals are saying about this NBC report shows that this is indeed what is happening. In liberal circles there does appear to be widespread acceptance of the earth's about powerful government using the world'southward about powerful media institutions to prevarication to the public for strategic gains. If this continues to be accepted, it will brand things a whole lot easier for the empire managers going forward.

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