Authored by Edward Curtin via Off-Guardian.org,
There’s propaganda by fee and propaganda by omission, the previous typically serve to hide the latter. Timing is essential.
That the U.S. President Joseph Biden, his British, NATO, Israeli allies, and their company media mouthpieces are in want of a significant propaganda victory is clear. They’re dropping the battle in Ukraine, have been condemned all through the world for the genocide in Gaza, and are ruling over a disintegrating empire. Biden and Netanyahu’s political lives are at critical danger. And they also have simply rolled out a full-court propaganda press effort aimed toward overlaying their losses. It needs to be crystal clear to anybody who can use logic to see the timing concerned.
The good French scholar of propaganda and expertise, Jacques Ellul, wrote years in the past that propaganda “just isn’t the contact of a magic wand. It’s primarily based on sluggish fixed impregnation. It creates convictions and compliance via imperceptible influences which can be efficient solely by steady repetition.”
Nonetheless, as soon as this groundwork has been laid over time – because it has been with the continual anti-Russia Putin hysteria and assist for Israel’s Zionist insurance policies – it may be intensely ratcheted up in exigent circumstances when the long-serving narrative is in jeopardy, similar to it’s now.
As soon as the demise in a Russian jail of the Western backed Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was introduced on Friday, February 16, 2024, it was instantly adopted by a cascade of anti-Russia pronouncements whose purpose was to not solely proceed the demonization of Russia and its President Vladimir Putin however to serve different functions as effectively.
With one fell stroke, the calm historical past lesson about Ukraine, Russia, and U.S./NATO that Putin had simply delivered to the world through Tucker Carlson disappeared down the reminiscence gap, as Biden, with none proof, declared that “Putin and his thugs” and Putin’s “brutality” are accountable for Navalny’s demise.
This, after all, is a replay of the false fees sans proof waged in opposition to Russia for an earlier poisoning of Navalny, the Skripals (since disappeared by the British authorities), Alexander Litvinenko, et al.
Shortly after, Zelensky, performing his puppet routine whereas coincidently showing on the Munich Safety Convention – on Saturday, February 17, a day after Navalny’s demise was introduced – with Navalny’s then widow, mentioned it was “apparent” that Putin had killed Navalny, whereas Biden pushed for more cash for Ukraine’s doomed battle in opposition to Russia, a U.S./NATO battle created by the U.S. from the beginning with its aggressive army push to Russia’s borders and its 2015 Ukrainian coup d’état that ousted the pro-Russian chief, setting the stage for Russia’s incursion into Ukraine in February 2022. That Putin advised Carlson these apparent information, whereas slyly mentioning to Carlson that he understood that Carlson as soon as tried to hitch the CIA, is now for most individuals within the West historical past misplaced behind the headlines, if it ever have been something extra.
All this occurred whereas Russia pushed via Ukraine’s defenses and took the town of Avdeevka, which had lengthy been contested. With every day that passes, it’s apparent that Biden’s Ukraine battle technique is that of a determined politician on the ropes and that Putin has fully outfoxed the American desperados and their NATO European stooges. The MSM choose to recommend in any other case, that hope is simply across the nook if we ship billions extra {dollars} and weapons, and if with the assistance of our British pals, we take the battle additional into Russian territory and danger a nuclear confrontation. However we’re in a propaganda battle for the minds of the Western public.
A lot of the remainder of the world has seen via the risible MSM headlines used to delude the general public that Russia is the good menace to world peace and stability. Just like the earlier Russia-gate lies, this ongoing one, coinciding with Navalny’s demise, is timed to divert the general public’s consideration from key ongoing issues.
Tomorrow and Wednesday, Julian Assange may have his last attraction in a British courtroom to stop his extradition to the USA. Biden needs this journalist prosecuted for doing the job that the MSM have didn’t do: Exposing the information in regards to the ruthless U.S. killing machine. However the bruhaha about Navalny has rendered absolutely the hypocrisy over the torture and imprisonment of the harmless and courageous Assange secondary and “inconsequential.” As meant, this has now develop into an afterthought as the mainstream media’s Russia-obsessed headlines circulate uninterruptedly. The New York Instances, the important thing propaganda organ for the Biden administration and the deep-state, stories simply at the moment that “The gravity of President Putin’s threats is now dawning on Europe” and “Navalny’s Widow Guarantees to Keep it up Opposition Chief’s Work.” These are typical Instances’ rants. As is its Journal article headline from yesterday “Marilyn Robinson [the writer and friend of Barack Obama] Considers Biden a Gift of God.”
I don’t assume the Palestinians would agree, however then too, their slaughter by Israel with U.S. help – greater than 29,000 Palestinians in Gaza alone have been killed thus far – and the approaching IDF invasion of Rafah, have additionally been pushed to the again pages or to nowhere by the propaganda about Navalny and Russia.
I received’t point out the Russian election in mid-March that may probably issue into all this since all of us might be dutifully and well timed advised that the evil killer Putin is a dictator, ignorant, ruthless – add your personal adjectives – and is little doubt attempting to rig the fair-and-square U.S. November presidential election – for somebody, simply as he did in 2016.
Nor point out The NY Instances article of February 17 by David Sanger and Julian Barnes that the “U.S Fears Russia Would possibly Put a Nuclear Weapon in Area.”
Everybody is aware of that the Russians are coming to get us, as they at all times have. They most likely killed JFK, proper?
It’s simple to observe alongside as this propaganda eruption circles the Web like painted ponies on a carousel. There might be no time to cease and assume, to pause; to ask what the hell is occurring? The ponies will dip and bob and make you dizzy.
For extra corroboration of those issues, learn the political analyst Gilbert Doctorow’s astute piece on how the Turkish broadcaster TRT World refused to publish the interview that they did with him. Doctorow claims British intelligence killed Navalny. For some purpose this shouldn’t be broached, in line with TRT.
Whether or not Doctorow is true or not, solely a really dimwitted individual would assume that Putin would have Navalny killed. He has nothing to achieve and every thing to lose by doing so. But the MSM and their authorities overlords take into account most individuals very silly and so are attempting to blitz them with apparent propaganda via fee and omission.
We’ve got heard this story earlier than.
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Edward Curtin is an impartial author whose work has appeared broadly over a few years. His web site is edwardcurtin.com and his new guide is Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies.
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