Late last year, my name was added to a blacklist published online by the Ukraine Center for Countering Disinformation. I joined over ninety others deemed to be “speakers who promote narratives consonant with Russian propaganda.“…
The Spook to Bellingcat Pipeline: How Bellingcat Launders National Security State Talking Points into the Press…
For a self-proclaimed citizen journalism outfit, an alarming number of Bellingcat’s staff and contributors come from highly suspect backgrounds, including high-level positions in military and intelligence agencies…
Omidyar’s Intercept Teams Up with War-Propaganda Firm Bellingcat…
The Intercept, along with its parent company First Look Media, recently hosted a workshop for pro-war, Google-funded organization Bellingcat in New York. The workshop, which cost $2,500 per person to attend and lasted five days, aimed to instruct participants in how to perform investigations using “open source” tools — with Bellingcat’s past, controversial investigations for […]
Putin Calls Sergei Skripal a Traitor and a ‘Scumbag’…
Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a stern attack against former spy Sergei Skripal on Wednesday, describing him as a “scumbag” who betrayed Russia. “He is just a scumbag,” Putin told an energy forum in Moscow. “He is just a spy, a traitor to the homeland.” It was the first time the Russian president directly condemned […]
Urban’s Tale Clears Away Some of the Smoke and Mirrors in Salisbury Poisonings…
Bellingcat’s Very Obviously Fake Chepiga Photo…
Former Weapons Inspector: Trump’s Sarin Claims Built on ‘Lie’ by Scott Ritter (Excellent Read)…
On the night of June 26, the White House Press Secretary released a statement, via Twitter, that, “the United States has identified potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack by the Assad regime that would likely result in the mass murder of civilians, including innocent children.” The tweet went on to declare that, “the activities […]
NYT’s New Syria-Sarin Report Challenged by Robert Parry…
For U.S. mainstream journalists and government analysts, their erroneous “groupthinks” often have a shady accomplice called “confirmation bias,” that is, the expectation that some “enemy” must be guilty and thus the tendency to twist any fact in that direction. We have seen this pair contribute to fallacious reasoning more and more in recent years as […]