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> Why is the media so eager to help the Justice Department by supplying potentially viable leads? Because journalist-activists are now part of the military-ind

> Why is the media so eager to help the Justice Department by supplying potentially viable leads? Because journalist-activists are now part of the military-industrial complex and are fully aligned with the intelligence apparatus. > Bellingcat, meanwhile, went further and virtually handed over the potential origin point of the leak by specifying the exact name of the chatroom where the documents appear to have first been shared. Bellingcat is notoriously a CIA operation, with a long history of covert activity: https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/20/reuters-bbc-uk-foreign-office-russian-media/ https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/20/reuters-bbc-uk-foreign-of...

mhoad 3y ago
Maybe you should speak with a little less confidence. Let me quote from the opening paragraphs of the Wikipedia entry for the source you just quoted: “ A fringe website,[23] it is known for misleading reporting[24] and sympathetic coverage of authoritarian regimes.[1][15][25] The Grayzone has denied human rights abuses against Uyghurs,[29] promulgated conspiracy theories about Venezuela, Xinjiang, Syria and other regions,[30][31] and promoted pro-Russian propaganda during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[28] The Grayzone has been described by Commentary as a propaganda shop devoted to pushing pro-Assad, pro-Maduro, pro-Putin, and pro-Hamas narratives.[32]” Link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone Or this section from the Wikipedia entry for the author of that “article”. “ Blumenthal has contributed to broadcasts on RT (formerly known as Russia Today) on many occasions.[13] In December 2015, during a visit to Moscow presumed by multiple sources to have been paid for by the Kremlin,[19][22] Blumenthal was a guest at RT's 10 Years On Air anniversary party attended by President Vladimir Putin, then-Lieutenant General Michael Flynn of the United States and English politician Ken Livingstone.[19][13][23] In an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News in November 2017, Blumenthal defended RT against "the charge that it’s Kremlin propaganda."[13][24] He has contributed on multiple occasions to Sputnik radio,[22][25] as well as to Iran's Press TV[26][27] and China's CGTN.[28] Blumenthal founded The Grayzone website within a month after his visit to Moscow.[5]” Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Blumenthal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Blumenthal
orwin 3y ago
Bellingcat founder publicized OSINT tools and techniques that are used by citizens to reports/find out what's happening in protests. Those tools are used in France to report on the action of a "liberal" government and were used in Israel to report on the action of the closest US ally. Also, Bellingcat brought a lot of people into OSINT and ridiculed Russia multiple times (including the one time they modified the wikipedia page of a USSR airplane to fit their narrative on MH17). The thing is, they do not only write articles, they publish their data and methodology, and encourage you to try yourself. It's not just consummer thinking "ahah, Russia Opsec is shit", it's engineers and people interested in OSINT finding out how incompetent Russia is. The one thing i don't like about Bellingcat is that they don't write when they fail to find something. I understand that for journalists, its bad to report on nothing, but people like me learn more wth failure than with success. But the Osint community is big and i'm not a Bellingcat contributor anymore, i found better shoes (and in my language).
DoItToMe81 3y ago
Grayzone is a shaky and conspiratorial source in many cases, but Bellingcat is staffed by ex-intelligence agents and attempted to disguise the sources of its funding, which turned out to include multiple intelligence related sources, including National Endowment for Democracy. Which, for reference, was used to launder for the Contras.

mhoad 3y ago

Maybe you should speak with a little less confidence. Let me quote from the opening paragraphs of the Wikipedia entry for the source you just quoted: “ A fringe website,[23] it is known for misleading reporting[24] and sympathetic coverage of authoritarian regimes.[1][15][25] The Grayzone has denied human rights abuses against Uyghurs,[29] promulgated conspiracy theories about Venezuela, Xinjiang, Syria and other regions,[30][31] and promoted pro-Russian propaganda during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[28] The Grayzone has been described by Commentary as a propaganda shop devoted to pushing pro-Assad, pro-Maduro, pro-Putin, and pro-Hamas narratives.[32]” Link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone Or this section from the Wikipedia entry for the author of that “article”. “ Blumenthal has contributed to broadcasts on RT (formerly known as Russia Today) on many occasions.[13] In December 2015, during a visit to Moscow presumed by multiple sources to have been paid for by the Kremlin,[19][22] Blumenthal was a guest at RT's 10 Years On Air anniversary party attended by President Vladimir Putin, then-Lieutenant General Michael Flynn of the United States and English politician Ken Livingstone.[19][13][23] In an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News in November 2017, Blumenthal defended RT against "the charge that it’s Kremlin propaganda."[13][24] He has contributed on multiple occasions to Sputnik radio,[22][25] as well as to Iran's Press TV[26][27] and China's CGTN.[28] Blumenthal founded The Grayzone website within a month after his visit to Moscow.[5]” Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Blumenthal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Blumenthal

orwin 3y ago

Bellingcat founder publicized OSINT tools and techniques that are used by citizens to reports/find out what's happening in protests. Those tools are used in France to report on the action of a "liberal" government and were used in Israel to report on the action of the closest US ally. Also, Bellingcat brought a lot of people into OSINT and ridiculed Russia multiple times (including the one time they modified the wikipedia page of a USSR airplane to fit their narrative on MH17). The thing is, they do not only write articles, they publish their data and methodology, and encourage you to try yourself. It's not just consummer thinking "ahah, Russia Opsec is shit", it's engineers and people interested in OSINT finding out how incompetent Russia is. The one thing i don't like about Bellingcat is that they don't write when they fail to find something. I understand that for journalists, its bad to report on nothing, but people like me learn more wth failure than with success. But the Osint community is big and i'm not a Bellingcat contributor anymore, i found better shoes (and in my language).

DoItToMe81 3y ago

Grayzone is a shaky and conspiratorial source in many cases, but Bellingcat is staffed by ex-intelligence agents and attempted to disguise the sources of its funding, which turned out to include multiple intelligence related sources, including National Endowment for Democracy. Which, for reference, was used to launder for the Contras.