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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
I really wish Biden’s foreign invaders would speak English on an American forum.
BTW, your image in Post 35 looks familiar. Didn’t I see you (bimboeruption) post that recently? I sure hope it wasn’t copied/hotlinked. That would be bad form.
Thanks for the compliment mommy! I know you're talking about me but you're too yellow-bellied to ping me so you'll talk behind my back.
At least I don't break into FReepers image hosting accounts and steal their stuff.
You're posts have become interesting now that you're using my gifs and memes, just sayin'.
More Commandments broken by the REVEREND.
“intruthfulisources”
PARDON TYPO
Untruthful sources
Try reading Comments for your personal edification
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4235494/posts?page=34#34
Even though I have been attacked for my stance on FR, I totally agree with the last sentence in the first paragraph.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/religion/4234949/posts?page=34#34
“It’s great that when you’re not propaganda, your posting self- help”
Wrong again. You reject help on any level. So, best to give up trying to reach you. Best to pray for you instead.
“At least I don’t break into FReepers image hosting accounts and steal their stuff.”
Great!
I don’t ‘break - into’ your account either despite your accusations.
>>>>tennmountainman: I don’t recognize that word as an English word. So it has to be YouCraynee word.
Allegra: I really wish Biden’s foreign invaders would speak English on an American forum.
BTW, your image in Post 35 looks familiar. Didn’t I see you (bimboeruption) post that recently? I sure hope it wasn’t copied/hotlinked. That would be bad form.<<<<
Yes, I did have that cricket pic in my imgbox account. But a few weeks ago, some slimy creature broke into my account, saw it, liked it, grabbed it and is using it and my other stuff to enliven their boring posts.
Wrong again. You reject help on any level. So, best to give up trying to reach you. Best to pray for you instead.<<<<
If I want prayer, I'll ask Bible believers to pray for me. Save your prayers for yourself and your sodomy-loving UMC denomination.
I know you've seen the UMC's approval of homosexuality discussed on FR because you commented in the thread below, so don't pretend as if you don't know what I'm talking about.
>>>>I don’t ‘break - into’ your account either despite your accusations.<<<<
Break-into, hacking, call it what you want. But whatever you call it doesn’t change the fact that you did it, or had it done.
The coding on my pix and gifs is the same as the coding on some of the pix and gifs that you’re using.
How does that happen mommy?
And you posted a screenshot of my entire imgbox album.
How did you do that without breaking into/hacking my account?
“UMC’s approval of homosexuality discussed on FR”
Even though I have been attacked for my stance on FR, I totally agree with the last sentence in the first paragraph.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/religion/4234949/posts?page=34#34
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/4234949/posts?page=34#34
“Break-into, hacking, call it what you want. But whatever you call it doesn’t change the fact that you did it, or had it done. The coding on my pix and gifs is the same as the coding on some of the pix and gifs that you’re using.”
I borrowed memes/gifs just as you have done.
Rt. click image & select ‘copy image link’
Did you disaffiliate yourself from the UMC and join the GMC?
ALSO ANOTHER CORRECTION:
My personal Christian theological doctrine is Sola scriptural: the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
>>>>I borrowed memes/gifs just as you have done.
Rt. click image & select ‘copy image link’<<<<
That’s a lie when it comes to the screenshot of my entire imgbox album which you posted on FR.
A post that was quickly removed by JimRob.
You need to PM me for further discussion of my faith
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