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Lets play "Spot the thinktank cretins"! jstribune.com about page: > The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune is a journal representing Israeli and American views about
by MSFT_Edging 4mo ago
Lets play "Spot the thinktank cretins"!
jstribune.com about page:
> The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune is a journal representing Israeli and American views about international affairs.
Hm interesting. Lets see who runs it.
Editorial Board
-Ahmed Charai, Chair -- Owner of the site, on multiple thinktank boards such as the atlantic council
-Jacob Heilbrunn, Co-Chair -- Another fellow of the atlantic council
-Dr. Daniel Samet -- Daniel J. Samet is a Jeane Kirkpatrick Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
-Melinda Haring -- a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center
-Dr. Eran Lerman -- former IDF colonel and a lecturer at Shalem College
Board of Directors
-Gen. James Jones -- 21st national security advisor under Obama.
-Ahmed Charai -- owner of the site again
-Admiral James Foggo III -- former US navy Admiral. Nice retirement spot, James
Board of Advisors
-Hon. Dov Zakheim, Chairman -- Various positions under Reagan
-Hon. John Hamre -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hamre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hamre
-Gen. Yaakov Amidror -- former major general and National Security Advisor of Israel
-- got tired of the bit around here --
-Ambassador Anne W. Patterson
-Ambassador Eric Edelman
-Ambassador Bilahari Kausikan
-Ambassador Atul Keshap
-Gen. Ruth Yaron
-Dan Meridor
Anyway, the goal here was to point out articles like this don't come from journalistic backgrounds, but thinktank policy makers. The intention of pieces like this is to launder official government opinion as a semi-legitimate news source. Think "Radio Free Asia".
- __patchbit__ 4mo agoPaul Craig Roberts points to Israel and the powerful American lobby are writing new laws to be passed forbidding words and ideas, which is against the spirit and the letter of established laws and gets no or not enough journalistic attention.
- notavalleyman 4mo agoSometimes an essay is just an essay, and not an elaborate conspiracy by multiple governments to trick you into thinking about geography
- MSFT_Edging 4mo agoThis one was just an essay, but remember when you couldn't go a day without an article about Uyghur's in Xiajiang? I'd play this game with those articles, where every article would cite a little essay like this on a similar thinktank site or the actual Zenz study. No new journalism, just rehashing reports like this. This isn't a conspiracy, it's an industry made up of ex-insiders who maintain relationships and pedal the talking points.
- notavalleyman 4mo agoOk so....you previously felt like you were seeing a lot of articles about Uighurs ....and that's proof of a wider conspiracy? And....you see that essays often include citations. And that's proof of a dark network of the illuminated? Maybe these were all just essays? > This isn't a conspiracy, it's It's not X it's Y
- MSFT_Edging 4mo ago> It's not X it's Y Buddy.... Here's the author of the essay by the way: https://x.com/RaghuKondori/status/1877616501395505259?s=20 https://x.com/RaghuKondori/status/1877616501395505259?s=20 He has multiple books with AI covers, loony-adjacent nonsense ideology, prolifically posts on X @ing politicians and posting AI images. He even has his own thinktank: https://shahvand.org/en/ https://shahvand.org/en/ He's also a Reza Pahlavi crank, you know, the Maryland Shah. https://shahvand.org/en/pahlavi-will-return/ https://shahvand.org/en/pahlavi-will-return/
- hulitu 4mo agoAnd most of the time people do not work in their free time.