Omidyar’s Intercept Teams Up with War-Propaganda Firm Bellingcat

“Omidyar has continued to fund USAID”

Evil keeps growing. I’ve had a run-in with the scumbag behind “Bellingcat,” who called PFB a Russian propaganda website! I think I threatened to sue the reptile, and he went right away.

Omidyar’s Intercept Teams Up with War-Propaganda Firm Bellingcat

 

Bellingcat regularly works with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), which – according to the late journalist Robert Parry – “engages in ‘investigative journalism’ that usually goes after governments that have fallen into disfavor with the United States and then are singled out for accusations of corruption.” OCCRP is notably funded by USAID and the controversial George Soros-funded Open Society Foundations.

…Bellingcat’s founder Elliott Higgins is employed by the Atlantic Council, which is partially funded by the U.S. State Department, NATO and U.S. weapons manufacturers.

Russia Accuses US of Running Illegal Bioweapons Lab in Georgia

“part of a network of U.S. labs near the borders of Russia and China.”

“Among the documents released by Giorgadze was a U.S. patent for a drone intended to disseminate infected insects, he said. Other patents covered projectiles for delivering chemical and biological agents.”

Russia claims US is running a secret bio weapons lab in Georgia

MOSCOW — Russia’s Defense Ministry said Thursday the United States appeared to be running a clandestine biological weapons lab in the country of Georgia, allegedly flouting international conventions and posing a direct security threat to Russia — allegations the Pentagon angrily rejected.

… Giorgadze’s materials cited the deaths of 73 volunteers who took part in tests of a new drug at the lab in 2015-2016.

Dozens of Georgians likely killed by US toxin or bioweapon disguised as drug research – Russian MoD

Warmongering Pundits Like Bill Maher

I’m not sure how stupid some of these lunatics are, nor how much they believe their own bullshit. War with Russia is the end of the world. Everyone used to know that. Now, we have pretend “liberals” who think we need to attack the 2nd greatest nuclear power on the planet. They are a dangerous brew of compromised clowns and deep state propagandists paid to churn out this non-stop drumbeat for wars, particularly the “Atlantic Council,” which should be exposed and shut down permanently.

How Pundits Like Bill Maher Are Getting Liberals To Support War

“time to make Ivan bleed” 

VIPS: Moscow Has Upped the Ante in Syria

 

Threat of World War Three may be at its highest point yet.

 

Moscow Has Upped the Ante in Syria

New Chemical Weapons Big Lie: Mattis/Trump

 

Mattis Lacks State Department’s Intelligence … On Al-Qaeda’s Chemical Capabilities

“Mad Dog” Mattis, the current Secretary of Defense, lies about Syrian rebels and chemical weapons.

“We have zero intelligence that shows the opposition has any chemical capability,” Mattis told reporters traveling with him to the Indian capital of New Delhi.

His own state department had previously issued warnings about it. NY Times reported the “opposition” (Jihadists in Syria and Iraq) used chemical weapons “at least 52 times.”

https://www.nytimes.com/…/isis-chemical-weapons-syria-iraq-…

Now the Russian Ministry of Defense has reported tankers of chlorine being moved into Idlib before the rebels have a chance to massacre civilians and attempt to blame the Syrian government (again).

https://sputniknews.com/…/201808251067461189-us-uk-france-…/

This is the repeated pattern. Jihadist psychopaths murder children with chemicals and the media lies in coordination with the US government to blame it on the Syrian govenrment and ignore the terrorists, whom they secretly support with arms and money.

Expect another completely fabricated incident soon. This is your tax money at work.

Russian MOD: Another Syria False Flag “chemical attack” is in progress

“To carry out the alleged ‘chemical attack’ in the city of Jisr al-Shughur in the province of Idlib, militants from the Tahrir al-Sham group (affiliated with the Jabhat Nusra* terror organization) had delivered 8 tankers with chlorine… to a village a few kilometers from Jisr al-Shughur,” the general stated.

 

US, UK and France Prepare New Strike Against Syria – Russian MoD

The Anti-Empire Report #159

 

by William Blum

 

The mind of the mass media: Email exchange between myself and a leading Washington Post foreign policy reporter:

July 18, 2018

Dear Mr. Birnbaum,

You write Trump “made no mention of Russia’s adventures in Ukraine”. Well, neither he nor Putin nor you made any mention of America’s adventures in the Ukraine, which resulted in the overthrow of the Ukrainian government in 2014, which led to the justified Russian adventure. Therefore …?

If Russia overthrew the Mexican government would you blame the US for taking some action in Mexico?

William Blum

Dear Mr. Blum,

Thanks for your note. “America’s adventures in the Ukraine”: what are you talking about? Last time I checked, it was Ukrainians in the streets of Kiev who caused Yanukovych to turn tail and run. Whether or not that was a good thing, we can leave aside, but it wasn’t the Americans who did it.

It is, however, Russian special forces who fanned out across Crimea in February and March 2014, according to Putin, and Russians who came down from Moscow who stoked conflict in eastern Ukraine in the months after, according to their own accounts.

Best, Michael Birnbaum

To MB,

I can scarcely believe your reply. Do you read nothing but the Post? Do you not know of high State Dept official Victoria Nuland and the US Ambassador in Ukraine in Maidan Square to encourage the protesters? She spoke of 5 billion (sic) dollars given to aid the protesters who were soon to overthrow the govt. She and the US Amb. spoke openly of who to choose as the next president. And he’s the one who became president. This is all on tape. I guess you never watch Russia Today (RT). God forbid! I read the Post every day. You should watch RT once in a while.

William Blum

To WB,

I was the Moscow bureau chief of the newspaper; I reported extensively in Ukraine in the months and years following the protests. My observations are not based on reading. RT is not a credible news outlet, but I certainly do read far beyond our own pages, and of course I talk to the actual actors on the ground myself – that’s my job.

And: yes, of course Nuland was in the Maidan – but encouraging the protests, as she clearly did, is not the same as sparking them or directing them, nor is playing favorites with potential successors, as she clearly did, the same as being directly responsible for overthrowing the government. I’m not saying the United States wasn’t involved in trying to shape events. So were Russia and the European Union. But Ukrainians were in the driver’s seat the whole way through. I know the guy who posted the first Facebook call to protest Yanukovych in November 2013; he’s not an American agent. RT, meanwhile, reports fabrications and terrible falsehoods all the time. By all means consume a healthy and varied media diet – don’t stop at the US mainstream media. But ask yourself how often RT reports critically on the Russian government, and consider how that lacuna shapes the rest of their reporting. You will find plenty of reporting in the Washington Post that is critical of the US government and US foreign policy in general, and decisions in Ukraine and the Ukrainian government in specific. Our aim is to be fair, without picking sides.

Best, Michael Birnbaum

======================= end of exchange =======================

Right, the United States doesn’t play indispensable roles in changes of foreign governments; never has, never will; even when they offer billions of dollars; even when they pick the new president, which, apparently, is not the same as picking sides. It should be noticed that Mr Birnbaum offers not a single example to back up his extremist claim that RT “reports fabrications and terrible falsehoods all the time.” “All the time”, no less! That should make it easy to give some examples.

For the record, I think RT is much less biased than the Post on international affairs. And, yes, it’s bias, not “fake news” that’s the main problem – Cold-War/anti-Communist/anti-Russian bias that Americans have been raised with for a full century. RT defends Russia against the countless mindless attacks from the West. Who else is there to do that? Should not the Western media be held accountable for what they broadcast? Americans are so unaccustomed to hearing the Russian side defended, or hearing it at all, that when they do it can seem rather weird.

To the casual observer, THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA indictments of July 14 of Russian intelligence agents (GRU) reinforced the argument that the Soviet government interfered in the US 2016 presidential election. Regard these indictments in proper perspective and we find that election interference is only listed as a supposed objective, with charges actually being for unlawful cyber operations, identity theft, and conspiracy to launder money by American individuals unconnected to the Russian government. So … we’re still waiting for some evidence of actual Russian interference in the election aimed at determining the winner.