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The misinformation is coming from inside the house!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation_Governance_Boar...
I am so angry right now.
In a long list of awful things that US intelligence agencies have done, this has got to be near the top. Also, what happened subsequently is a textbook example of what Chalmers Johnson described in "Blowback".
This is nowhere near the top. If I had to hazard a guess, the rabid propaganda and pushing of the ukraine war is near the top.
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This is nowhere near the top. If I had to hazard a guess, the rabid propaganda and pushing of the ukraine war is near the top.
You don't need propaganda to tell people invading another country is wrong.
Even in a thread about sick US propaganda, the apologists find an excuse for war.
So basically this campaign was just one of many?!
> The U.S. military is prohibited from targeting Americans with propaganda, and Reuters found no evidence the Pentagon’s influence operation did so. The US military should be banned from using propaganda in any form. We're not in a war. There's no justifiable reason to spend US tax payer dollars to actively lie to the rest of the world. What a shameful and tawdry use of our institutions.
> The U.S. military is prohibited from targeting Americans with propaganda, and Reuters found no evidence the Pentagon’s influence operation did so. This is a moronic caveat. They were posting on instagram, facebook, and twitter. I have it on good word that Americans read those. I suppose that they'll be able to post any sort of lie as long as they say they were targeting Turkmenistan or Bolivia.
What makes this infuriating is the "most moral country in the world" did this for economic damage to another country's commercial market. So much for free markets. In the US, we still think the China vaccines are not as effective. This led to Saudi Arabia requiring everyone who came for pilgrimages to use US made vaccines. The problem was US made vaccines were not readily available in all places. It was double troubl…
> Although the Chinese vaccines were found to be less effective than the American-led shots by Pfizer and Moderna, all were approved by the World Health Organization.
Is this a false statement?
What makes this infuriating is the "most moral country in the world" did this for economic damage to another country's commercial market. So much for free markets. In the US, we still think the China vaccines are not as effective. This led to Saudi Arabia requiring everyone who came for pilgrimages to use US made vaccines. The problem was US made vaccines were not readily available in all places. It was double troubl…
Per the article, the China vaccines are not as effective: > Although the Chinese vaccines were found to be less effective than the American-led shots by Pfizer and Moderna, all were approved by the World Health Organization. Is this a false statement?