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When WikiLeaks blew open US corruption, war crimes and human rights violations they went after the whistle blowers, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning.

United States "The leader of the free world" and Israel "The only democracy in the Middle East" in action.

I think what you are showing is that far right parties often incorporate one or two left-wing policies in order to gain popularity. Cherry-picking those and putting them together does not create a realistic profile of right wing opinions.

Very interesting that Petro has ordered the replacement of Colombian diplomatic personnel dealing with China. It shows how insiders can sabotage agendas even when the leader has a progressive plan. In the UK, Jeremy Corbyn's government was constantly being sabotaged by Labour inisders, too.

When you're dating your door and things are going well.

Fired for passing failing students. At this point in North America teachers have to pass failing students! I'm not US American so I am not sure if "No Child Left Behind" means no failing, though I remember it was a Bush jr policy that lowered standards.

Sounds like you went to very "active" middle and high schools!

That's because he's a Marcos and a US toady. Easy fix: get rid of Marcos. Have a sovereign foreign and domestic policy.

The duality of human

Does Vicky think Russia is losing the war?

Propaganda is when you punch someone in the face and then quote them saying "I'll kill you" instead of mentioning the face punch.

Do you mean investors are trying to manipulate stocks by planting stories? Yeah, I think so. But intelligence agencies have whole training programs on how to manipulate narratives, and a very long track record of doing so.

See: Israel's hasbara apparatus,

GCHQ leaked documents on infiltrating and derailing socialist discussions,

Church Committee Hearings,

"The Cultural Cold War" by Frances Stonor Saunders.

I've seen it listed on product ingredients as "aqua".

I prefer to call it "glug".

The top hits for my "WSB" search are:

• World Sports Betting
• r/WallStreetBets
• World Superbikes

I don't think any of their goons are astroturfing (well, maybe World Superbikes). Did you mean a different entity?

Corporatism leads to imperialism by the need to seek profits in new markets. Wherever we see lots of defense of imperialism, there is corporate backing behind it. That's why I think lemmy.world is astroturfed. There's a strong anti-communist and pro "free market" capitalist tendency on there. Posts that attack the Global South as the world's villains. On the other hand, there are also many people on lemmy.world that speak out against imperialism and capitalistic exploitation. But the recurrent waves of reactionary politics on lemmy.world indicate to me the presence of astroturfing trolls. This makes sense even on a relatively small platform like Lemmy because it threatens to become a nucleus for organizing against capitalism.

Good evidence of astroturfing on Reddit. That Reddit took action and banned the Palantir agents only provides evidence that exposure of the op is the problem. Not evidence that Reddit acts in good faith.

If you are interested in my views and where my loyalty lies you can ask me about those things. Is there severe oppression in China? What is it? Do you mean Xinjiang? Have you seen any evidence to support this? Any evidence to the contrary?

It's definitely still possible to block ads on YouTube.

I read independent journalism from China. It's called Ginger River Review if you're interested.

Independent news media was almost totally killed off in the US and Canada with the media mergers. Good thing Substack and for a while Medium, also YouTube, and just independent websites popped up. Of course YouTube is owned by Google and the reporting on it reflects their censorship.

As for authoritarian, that's a core part of the propaganda campaign developed by NATO / The Atlantic Council to deal with states that don't bend the knee to US empire. It's a smear that distorts what is happening in The West (increasing authoritarianism) and in China (improving quality of life).

I don’t think anyone in this thread is anywhere close to implying all western news is true or that all non-western news is false.

Yes, I agree. But it's a common belief in the West that Russian and Chinese news, for example, are pure propaganda. The irony is that this belief is itself the result of propaganda.

That's a good point. I totally agree. Every news source has its biases.

The scary thing is getting hundreds of millions of people to believe Western news delivers the truth, while non Western news delivers the lies.

Also I don't believe there is a single correct position on every issue. But on genocide there is a basic take: stop it immediately.

That's what this sub is about. Progressive politics now means pretending that your local right wing party is fundamentally different from your local left wing party. Both are funded by the same corporate interests and both are chock full of corrupt sell-outs. But one of them talks about helping people while actively screwing them over, so they are O-K!