The stage seems set for a French-Russian proxy war in Mali in the event that the Associated Press’ rebranding of genuine terrorists there as simply being so-called “extremist/jihadi rebels” is indeed intended to precondition the public for a Syrian redux in West Africa as was argued in this analysis. The Associated Press, one of the…
Firstly, it is necessary to explain what the US military means by information operations. According to a training document issued by the US Army War College in October 2011, “Information Operations (IO) seek to influence the behaviour of target audiences by changing their ability to make decisions, while simultaneously defending the friendly capability to make…
Over the past 200 years, a number of Western countries, primarily the United States, Britain, Germany and France, have honed their skills in conducting information operations aimed at both their own citizens and the enemy’s consciousness. With the advent of newspapers and magazines, political propaganda took many forms – essays, news stories, cartoons, manifestos, and open…
Claims that Ukraine is set for victory on the ground are Kiev and Washington’s wishful thinking at best Western media coverage of the Ukraine conflict has been so hysterically one-sided, and divorced from reality, that it’s probably only a matter of time before Iraq’s erstwhile ‘Comical Ali’ is brought out of retirement to insist that there…
Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ There’s a very important question that we all need to be asking ourselves at this point in history, and that question is as follows: how much are we as a society willing to sacrifice so that the US government can win a propaganda war against Vladimir Putin?…
The number one rule of waging infowars is to never admit doing so since that immediately prompts questions about the credibility of one’s own side. It’s therefore inexplicable why US spies would do this since their admission draws attention to the “deep state’s” direct meddling in both their own self-declared “democracy” as well as international…
