United States Power Alliance Says It Is Preparing An "Information War" Against China by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2023-02-24 at 01:22:00 )

United States Power Alliance Says It Is Preparing An "Information War" Against China by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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In an article published last week titled "United States working with "Five Eyes" nations, Japan on information warfare," a publication on military intelligence and communications technology called C4ISRNET reports that the United States and its allies are collaborating "to share and sharpen information-warfare techniques in the Indo-Pacific" with the goal of "countering" the “increasingly aggressive China."

Here is an excerpt:

-Dialogues and exchanges of best practices are ongoing with Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and other countries including Japan, according to Vice Adm. Kelly Aeschbach, commander of Naval Information Forces.

-"I want to say we have at least a dozen countries or so that are either establishing information warfare programs, or are interested in partnering further in the information warfare realm," she said Feb. 15 at the West 2023 conference in San Diego. "We are leaning in there, we are focused."

-Japan, specifically, has expressed significant interest in information warfare, "in a really positive way," Ms Aeschbach told C4ISRNET. Japan and Australia, among others, are considered critical United States allies in the Indo-Pacific, a region national security officials are invested in as they seek to counter an increasingly aggressive China.

US, Allies Plan for Information War with China by Kyle Anzalone and Connor-Antiwar.com (Antiwarcom) February 22, 2023

Libertarian Institutes Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman have a good write-up on this latest revelation in which they explain that information warfare is "a broad swath of military operations a country can use to disrupt another" which "can include spreading disinformation or preventing the spread of information."

As Anzalone and Freeman note, one significant recent instance of the United States governments acknowledged use of information warfare was when United States officials told NBC News that the United States government has been deliberately circulating unsubstantiated information to western news media "as part of an information war against Russia."

Which is to say, they lied. When you do things like telling New York Times reporters that "Russia asked China to give it military equipment and support for the war in Ukraine after President Vladimir V. Putin began a full-scale invasion last month," only to have NBC report that you knew this claim "lacked hard evidence," you lied. You used your countrys mass media institutions to circulate disinformation.

United States Officials Admit They Are Literally Just Lying To The Public About Russia

"And the only plausible reason I can think of that they would want the public to know about it is that they are confident the public will consent to being lied to."-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) April 7, 2022

Which is of course standard operating procedure for the United States empire; the mass media have always been propaganda institutions used to manufacture consent for the economic and geopolitical status quo upon which the media-owning class has built its empire. Propaganda is nothing new, including propaganda against China.

The difference now is that empire managers are getting increasingly comfortable with publicly acknowledging this fact, probably because the notion that the west needs to fight its own "information war" against its enemies has been gaining increasingly widespread traction since 2016.

And as I keep reiterating, the bizarre thing about this belief is that the propaganda from empire-targeted governments has virtually zero existence in the western world, while western propaganda dominates our information ecosystem.

Before RT was shut down it was drawing just 0.04 percent of the United Kingdoms total TV audience. The much-touted Russian election interference campaign on Facebook was mostly unrelated to the election and affected "approximately 1 out of 23,000 pieces of content" according to Facebook, while research by New York University into Russian trolling behavior on Twitter in the lead-up to the 2016 election found "no evidence of a meaningful relationship between exposure to the Russian foreign influence campaign and changes in attitudes, polarization, or voting behavior." A study by the University of Adelaide found that despite all the warnings of Russian bots and trolls following Russias invasion of Ukraine, the overwhelming majority of inauthentic behavior on Twitter during that time was anti-Russian in nature.

So we can expect to see a multinational coordinated propaganda campaign against China, which could easily eclipse the anti-China propaganda campaign we have seen thus far, and could easily end up making the one against Russia look like childs play.

They Are Not Worried About "Russian Influence", They Are Worried About Dissent

One of the craziest things happening in the world today is the way westerners are being brainwashed by western propaganda into panicking about Russian propaganda.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) February 5, 2023

It should infuriate everyone that our rulers are now flagrantly admitting that they manipulate our information environment to advance their own strategic interests.

The only reason it does not is because westerners are already so propagandized to the gills that the notion that our rulers should lie to us for our own good has gained so much traction that the empire can now openly imprison journalists for trying to tell us the truth.

In writing this practice is called "lampshading", where you defuse any objection your audience might have to a glaring plot hole in your narrative by simply acknowledging that it is there and then moving on. In this case the audience is every news-consuming person in the western world, and the narrative is the story the west has about itself.

Everything the western empire accuses its enemies of doing, it itself does far more egregiously.

Westerners think of people in China as brainwashed victims of propaganda and censorship living in a power-serving homogenized information bubble, but that is exactly what is happening in our own society.

And what is worse, most westerners do not even know it.

And what is even worse, they have the temerity to feel self-righteous about what free-thinking and free-speaking individualists they are compared to people in China!!

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