PSY-OPS – INTERNATIONALIST 360°

For Corporate Media, Sandinistas’ Electoral Success Proves Their Repressiveness

John Perry The headline in the Washington Post ahead of Nicaragua’s local elections hinted at skepticism: “Nicaragua Ruling Party Seeks to Expand Hold in Local Votes” (11/6/22). The story itself, taken from an Associated Press report filed from Mexico City, was worse, framing the elections as a “farce” carried out “under the absolute control” of the governing Sandinista party….

Ukraine Proxy War Propaganda: Lessons from MKULTRA

Rainer Shea It’s useful for communists to view the enemies of Marxism as cults, or at least as in the vein of cults. This is especially true during our time of renewed great-power competition, when the CIA and NATO have been opening up the legal systems for ubiquitous psychological operations while partnering with neuroscientists to innovate in their cognitive…

Manufacturing Consent: How the United States Has Penetrated South African Media

Ajit Singh, Roscoe Palm In recent weeks, South African public discourse has been focused on concerns about alleged Chinese influence in the country’s media landscape. However, these conversations have tended to overlook the already existing spheres of influence within South African media. Politically motivated sponsorship of prominent South African media outlets by the United States dates…

National Security State Censoring of Anti-Imperialist Voices the Latest Phase of Their Long-Term Strategy to Divide and Control the Left

Stansfield Smith The US rulers use many tools to disrupt and disorganize the anti-war and anti-imperialist left. Three discussed here include: one, corporate control of the news media gives them free reign to spread disinformation and fake news against foreign and domestic targets. Two, they use government and corporate foundation resources to fund and promote…

“The ‘Defactualization’ of America.” Ukraine as Mirror.

Patrick Lawrence What shall we think and believe today? Mariupol, 15 March. (Ukrainian government, cc by 4.0/ Wikimedia Commons.) This is the first of an occasional series, to appear in four parts, considering various aspects of our “bubble of pretend,” that protective membrane within which most Americans prefer to reside, safely removed from the realities of our…

Communication: Strategy for Wars

Fabrizio Casari Wars have always been fought to conquer territories, to plunder the riches of the sea, land and subsoil, for the strategic control of sea and air routes. Today, wars are also fought to prevent the growth of competition in markets, to redefine the structure of world governance, where a unipolar and a multipolar…

British Bullshit Corporation Whitewashes Ukrainian Nazis

Finian Cunningham The Orwellian reality of the Beeb should make it the world’s “most busted” propaganda outlet, Finian Cunningham writes. There is no Nazi presence in Ukraine, the Azov Battalion are merely excellent fighters, and Russian claims of denazifying the regime are cynical falsifications to justify aggression, according to the BBC. In a sneaking way,…

Ukraine: The Great Manipulation

Thierry Meyssan While revelations are multiplying about the exactions committed by Ukrainian banditry over the past eight years, Westerners continue to perceive only the suffering of the Ukrainian civilian population. They are unaware of the root causes of the war, as well as the events that led the Kremlin to unleash it. No matter, the…

How the West Was Won: Counterinsurgency, Psyops and the Military Origins of the Internet

Dustin Broadbery Part 1: Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth As the digital revolution was underway in the mid-nineties, research departments at the CIA and NSA were developing programs to predict the usefulness of the world wide web as a tool for capturing what they dubbed “birds of a feather” formations. That’s when flocks…

Russophobia: NATO’s Psychological Torture Manual and the Construction of a Single Perception

José Negrón Valera In Venezuela we have experience in dealing with psychological siege tactics. For 20 years, Chavismo has been subjected to a campaign of psychological torture that reached its paroxysm when, in 2017, news portals called for “hunting” and publishing the location of people the opposition identified as Chavistas.mind Today, a very dangerous strategy…

The Covid Regime Has Fooled Us All

Jacob Siegel Did mass formation psychosis make us easy to deceive? In the late stages of the American Covid regime, “The Science” has become dramatically less important to the ruling class. Notably missing from a new debate about masking policy, in which President Biden has cast doubt on the recent decision by seven Democratic governors…

ASPI – The Gov’t-Funded Conspiracist Think Tank Now Controlling Your Social Media Feed

Alan Macleod That ASPI is now partially in charge of Twitter’s moderation, influencing what hundreds of millions of people see daily, is a grave threat to the free flow of information, as well as to the chances for a peaceful 21st century. CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA –Social media giant Twitter raised many eyebrows recently when it announced…

Cognitive Warfare: Imperialist Psyops, Social Control, & Making Reality Malleable

Rainer Shea Since capitalism reached its highest stage, the stage where the imperialist countries export capital in order to perpetuate their dominance, the bourgeoisie have been aware that this system is crucial for more than merely gaining profits. It lets them project social control. Within the core imperialist countries, where capitalism’s most brutal and extreme…

Leaked Files Expose Syria Psyops Veteran Recruiting Youtube Influencer to Counter Covid Restriction Critics

Kit Klarenberg and Max Blumenthal By covertly recruiting popular YouTube influencer Abigail Thorn to counter growing opposition to UK gov’t Covid restrictions, psy-ops pros are bringing home the tactics they honed in the Syrian dirty war. Leaked documents have revealed a state-sponsored influence operation designed to undermine critics of the British government’s coronavirus policies by…

CIA’s Extraordinary Role Influencing Liberal Media Outlets Daily Kos, The Daily Beast, Rolling Stone

Dick Russell Part 1 of a two-part series takes a deep dive into the history of the CIA’s central role in orchestrating news and editorial coverage in America’s most influential liberal national media outlets — and its continued hold today. As a longtime investigative journalist and author, I have spent a good portion of my…

Edward Bernays: Propaganda and the U.S.-Backed 1954 Guatemalan Coup

Robert SkvarlaEdward Bernays [Source: thoughtco.com] Edward Bernays: The father of public relations, the father of lies. Edward Bernays may be known as the Father of Public Relations, but you would not be mistaken if you thought of him as the Father of Lies. He was a bullshit artist par excellence who pioneered countless methods of…