June 9, 2022
The best propaganda is generally a mixture of truth with half-truth, distortion, lies by omission and the removal of context and perspective.
By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com
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The Grayzone has published leaked email communications between faux-left British commentator and aspiring parliamentarian Paul Mason and a shady intelligence contractor named Amil Khan which plainly show the two plotting to use state power to subvert anti-imperialist media outlets like Consortium News and The Grayzone, as well as “far left rogue academics” and the broader left more generally.
Mason has obliquely authenticated the contents of the emails with a weird, rambling Medium post claiming to have been victimized by a “Russian hack-and-leak operation.” The post does not deny the veracity of the emails. Instead, Mason bizarrely claims that they “may be altered or faked,” as though they are not his own personal communications whose accuracy he could instantly deny if they were altered or faked in any way.
This is the same as verifying the emails and then yelling “But look over there! It’s Putin!”
It would take a very silly person indeed to look at a bunch of authenticated emails showing a major British media figure conspiring with an intelligence contractor to subvert the antiwar left and then conclude that the correct response to this would be to get angry at the Russians.
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