Anyone on the left who still think Greenwald, Wikileaks, Declassified and Grayzone are on the good side needs to look at how they have fed and amplified far right attacks on “woke” USAID - ThreadSky

bobfrombrockley.bsky.social • 18 days ago

Anyone on the left who still think Greenwald, Wikileaks, Declassified and Grayzone are on the good side needs to look at how they have fed and amplified far right attacks on “woke” USAID

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duncancd.bsky.social•18 days ago

Long term Russian assets

blowen.bsky.social•18 days ago

Maybe it's my Top Secret clearance, but I can read IN's financial disclosures, detailed project data, and Form 990 filings on their very public website. And don't tell anyone, but I just visited their super-secret FB page that has 28,000+ followers.

therealyahya.bsky.social•18 days ago

You post like what was leaked was false, yet they have documents to back up their claim

You got JackSht

grozzle.bsky.social•18 days ago

these chucklefucks take Campism to an absurd binary conclusion, arrive at a very small-minded black and white "goodies and baddies" view of the world, and act like they're in on a big secret.

anticapitalistmusings.com•18 days ago

Check out Eoin Higgins’s book, he worked with Greenwald at the Intercept and follows his trajectory right.

acab.dad•18 days ago

lol, clockwork

bobfrombrockley.bsky.social•18 days ago

🎯

not-nobel.bsky.social•18 days ago

Elon Musk is also sharing the same Wikileaks post. (For some reason I can't post pictures on bluesky since yesterday otherwise I'd post the tweet screenshot)

bobfrombrockley.bsky.social•18 days ago

I added that to the thread. The Wikileaks post is of course untrue. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1888393119806447996.html

rickibobbi.bsky.social•17 days ago

Identitarian politics is used to avoid talking about power /class /Labour. It's a divide and conquer strategy of power. Greenwald, when talking about the left, is really talking about the standard US weak, npr liberal, not actual lefties - which practically don't exist in the US

aiteall.bsky.social•18 days ago

You are naive to think USAID is not an element of US global influence. Do you think the BBC World Service is not an arm of the Foreign Office?

bobfrombrockley.bsky.social•18 days ago

Consider this: maybe, just maybe, USAID is indeed a soft power tool, but it ALSO literally keeps millions of the world’s neediest people alive so defunding it is a bad thing (and doing so because it’s “woke” even worse)?

jalixe.bsky.social•17 days ago

It's true that they are tools of US foreign influence, but superpowers are going to be influencing countries regardless. They are not going to be independent nor sovereign once the US is gone, they'll just be controlled by China or Russia instead.

jalixe.bsky.social•17 days ago

It's not like if countries like Russia are inherently more humanitarian for being less western either, there were a lot of atrocities committed in Chechnya, Ukraine, and Afghanistan.

bobfrombrockley.bsky.social•18 days ago

It’s striking how much Grayzone and Intercept use the same anti-“woke” vocabulary as Spiked and MAGA.

rhysneedham.bsky.social•18 days ago

If anyone talks about liberation or tries for it, they'll call them CIA anyway and want them shot?

bobfrombrockley.bsky.social•18 days ago

theseer.bsky.social•18 days ago

are you aware of an art org named A/Political. They often publish interviews by Kennard especially on the run up to the usa election they seemed to flow the zone with the tankie takes, not anti woke as that would fly with the art world they seem to want to influence. more with false equivalence

theseer.bsky.social•18 days ago

also on the GZ subject one of their writers was Joe Kent campaigner... so their mask is fully off no? People really need to stop allowing these fascists in left wing spaces. these dark times require clarity. these people are NOT on our side

bobfrombrockley.bsky.social•18 days ago

No I’m not. Will have a look

theseer.bsky.social•18 days ago

it is funny as on the subject of soft power, seems to be that's exactly what they are doing... infiltrate the art scene with edgy political views .. a lot of my artist friends really like them and don't necessarily see he nefarious side

bobfrombrockley.bsky.social•18 days ago

It’s almost like these people are pro-Putin and pro-Trump and not leftists at all isn’t it?

And of course PressTV’s Chris Williamson laps it up, including Max Blumenthal echoing Trump’s nonsense about Starmer’s Labour interfering in the U.S. election

sklansky.bsky.social•18 days ago

On the other hand they have all been they are all against Israel. They were against the proxy war in Ukraine. I don't recall any one of the left being critical of Greenwald in publishing the Snowden files. Of Assange leaking the war log files. Wikileaks pretty much has the receipts

sklansky.bsky.social•18 days ago

for every thing they have published. The government does all kinds of things that we don't know about. If you are a good journalist then you should print the truth where ever it is

bobfrombrockley.bsky.social•16 days ago

Stopped clocks are right twice a day. See @geraldroche.bsky.social: https://positionspolitics.org/gerald-roche-rogue-journalists-are-denouncing-the-gaza-genocide-because-they-want-you-to-deny-the-next-one/

bobfrombrockley.bsky.social•18 days ago

Ok last ones. Here the Grayzone’s Kit Klarenberg is in a love-in with far right activist Mike Benz, the guy who infected Elon Musk with his USAID obsession.

Read about Benz here: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna190646

michaelbirdwrites.bsky.social•17 days ago

“Tactical wokeness” is hilarious, but dangerous as fuck. Russia is going to start getting inspired by the USA

bobfrombrockley.bsky.social•18 days ago

I said last ones but this extraordinary thread details exactly how a Russian disinfo op about USAID support for Ukrainian independent media was brought to the English-speaking world by Ivan Katchonovski and Grayzone, and then reached Elon Musk.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1888393119806447996.html

bobfrombrockley.bsky.social•18 days ago

And I hadn’t realised that the Grayzone’s Aaron Musk and Max Blumenthal are directly feeding targets to Musk/DOGE.

sklansky.bsky.social•18 days ago

it's Aaron Matte

gilgamish3.bsky.social•3 days ago

Blumenthal's MO is helping facist authoritarians. This is not a surprise.

bobfrombrockley.bsky.social•17 days ago

Correction: Aaron MATE

souleater1212.bsky.social•18 days ago

testburntemp.bsky.social•18 days ago

WTF I love WikiLeaks now.

rockerabella.bsky.social•16 days ago

@paulmason.bsky.social I found you on here from twitter where you follow me, please follow back...

tokitaneko.bsky.social•18 days ago

I remember the "multipolar spin" article and discussions from years ago pointing how how fascism and these anti-imperialist organisations intersect, driven by Duginists in Russia, and despite stepping away from fighting tankies i can see nothing has changed in the time ive been away.

bobfrombrockley.bsky.social•18 days ago

Yes. Nothing has changed — except they’ve got their people in positions of power

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