NO LONGER "CONSPIRATORS", BUT
"TRAITORS"
The EU, NATO, NewsGuard and
the Voltaire Network
by Thierry Meyssan
The propaganda device aimed at stifling dissenting
voices has taken a step forward. It is no longer simply a matter of accusing
them of committing factual errors or deliberately lying, but of presenting them
as traitors in the pay of a foreign power.
VOLTAIRE NETWORK | DAMASCUS
(SYRIA) | 5 MAY 2020
According to this official website of the European
Union,
the Voltaire Network is a gang of traitors in the pay
of Russia
charged with defaming the United States army.
The European
External Action Service created in 2015 the East StratCom Task Force, a unit tasked
with combating disinformation from the Russian secret services. It runs a
website, EUvsDisinfo.eu, and sends weekly e-mails to EU journalists to spread
its good word. We have already reported that this unit is linked to the NATO
Communication Centre in Riga [1].
This unit has
just warned journalists of the Union and incidentally all those who subscribed
to its newsletter [2] that our article of March 31, "Putchists in the
Shadow of the Coronavirus" [3], is Russian disinformation [4].
First, we are outraged to appear on an official
site of the Union responsible for listing Russian disinformation - and this is
not the first time. We have no connection with the Russian authorities, nor
with those of any other country. This is pure defamation. Secondly, the EU’s rebuttal merely states that
our work would be: "An exaggerated interpretation of a Newsweek article
from Mid-March. Newsweek describes the role of the US
military, should the political leadership be incapacitated". However, we
have quoted part of William Arkin’s article without distorting it and analysing
his information in relation to others that are not more contested. It is the perspective
of all this data that troubles the EU.
Until now, the
public authorities had financed private initiatives to de-credit dissident
sources. This is, for example, the function of the Decodex du Monde [5]. It is now a matter of going further and accusing
them of treason.
To distinguish
between true and false, exercise your critical mind!
NewsGuard, a New
York-based company created to evaluate the reliability of websites and make a
note on search engines, contacted us asking first what our relations with the
Syrian state are, and then what we "think of this criticism".
NewsGuard is
very neutral. Its Board of Directors is secret, but its Advisory Board includes
one of the co-founders of Wikipedia (Jimmy Wales) as well as the former
director of the CIA and the NSA (General Michael Hayden), the former Secretary
General of NATO (Anders Fogh Rasmussen), the former Secretary for Homeland
Security (Tom Ridge) or the former Under Secretary of State for Public
Diplomacy - i.e. Propaganda (Richard Stengel) [6].
On its
French site, NewsGuard is careful not to give the names of the members of its
Advisory Council,
except one,
Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
Not
hesitating to lie, he presents the former NATO Secretary General
not as a
senior official of the Atlantic Alliance, but of the United Nations.
Under the
European Treaties, NATO protects the EU. In other words, the European Union is
only the civilian part of a whole in which NATO is the military part.
After several
attempts to kidnap or assassinate one of my staff and me in four different
countries, we have every reason to believe that it is the Atlantic Alliance
that has, on numerous occasions, saturated or even hacked into our website. Our
opponents seem to be reverting to non-lethal means: lies and defamation.
War Propaganda is a three-phase process of engaging
the public in causes they would normally disapprove of:
The first is to mix the false with the true
while accusing those who tell the truth of being wrong or lying (fake news). The second is to dismiss all dissenting speeches
and thus create an appearance of unanimity around the doctored truth. At this
point, the dissidents are no longer hullabaloo-mongering storytellers, but
become traitors. The third one to push the targets to practice
symbolic acts of acquiescence to the new ideology.
A step has just
been taken.
Translation
[1] “The NATO campaign against freedom of expression”, Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network,
December 5, 2016.
[3] “Putchists in the Shadow of the Coronavirus”, Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network,
March 31, 2020.
[4] “Disinfo: The bankers and the
military prepare a takeover in the US”, EUvsDisinfo.eu, April 30, 2020.
[5] “Nato and the European Union are behind Decodex”, February 16, 2017; “The truth about « fake news »”, Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network,
January 16, 2018.
[6] “Our Advisory Board”, NewsGuard, consulted May 3, 2020.
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