 We're being trained to worry about Russian propaganda while drowning in U.S. propaganda. One of the weirdest, most insane things happening today is the way the entire western world is being trained to freak out about Russian propaganda, which barely exists in the West, while ignoring the fact that we are spending every day marinating in billions of dollars worth of U.S. empire propaganda. CNN has an article out titled Daria Dugina's death provides a glimpse into Russia's vast disinformation machine and the influential women fronting it, on the recently assassinated daughter of Alexander Dugin, a Russian political thinker of wildly exaggerated influence. The article uses Dugina's assassination to further stoke its audience's ever-growing panic about Russian disinformation, quickly becoming a commentary on Russia's entire propaganda network, without bothering to articulate how Dugina's death provides a glimpse into its workings. Without the slightest hint of self-reflection or irony, the CNN article about Russian propaganda cites as its two main experts a think tanker from the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensics Research Lab and a think tanker from the Center for European Policy Analysis. The Atlantic Council is a NATO narrative management firm that is funded by NATO, the U.S. government, the U.K. government, various other U.S.-aligned states, the arms industry, and numerous billionaires. The Center for European Policy Analysis donor list looks similar to the Atlantic Council's and includes U.S. arms manufacturers in the U.S. government through both the U.S. State Department and the CIA cutout National Endowment for Democracy. Both are used to promote the information interests of the U.S. Centralized Power Alliance in Europe and North America. As we've discussed previously, the way news media cite corrupt, warmongering think tanks to discuss foreign policy without ever mentioning their immense conflicts of interests is plainly journalistic malpractice. But this practice is ubiquitous throughout the western news media because western news media are propaganda outlets. The article cites RT, the Internet Research Agency, and something called United World International as examples of Russia's vast disinformation machine, despite every one of those institutions having a degree of influence that is the exact opposite of vast in the western world. In 2017, RT accounted for all of 0.04% of total TV viewership in the U.K. A study found that the much-touted U.S. election interference campaign by the Internet Research Agency in 2016 consisted mostly of posts that had nothing to do with the election and comprised, quote, approximately one out of 23,000 pieces of content seen on Facebook. I'd be surprised if anyone reading this has ever even heard of United World International and CNN's own article acknowledges that before that outlet was banned from western social media, its accounts only ever had a few thousand followers. Compare those paltry numbers to the nonstop barrage of empire propaganda that westerners are fed every day of their lives by every news media outlet of significant influence, whose coverage of the Ukraine war has eclipsed that of all recent wars the U.S. has been directly involved in and it becomes clear that this message we're being fed that we all need to panic about Russian propaganda is itself propaganda. The CNN write-up criticizes RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan for saying in 2012 that when Russia is at war we are, of course, on the side of Russia. As though CNN ever sides against the U.S. during U.S. wars. Not only does CNN consistently take the side of the U.S. government in every single war, it conducts brazen propaganda operations to help start new ones, like the time at stage at a scripted interview with a small Syrian child calling for U.S. military interventionism in Syria. The only difference between Russian state media and American state media is that Russian state media is honest about what it is. This wave of nonsensical, artificially created panic about Russian disinformation has been used to dismiss any and all information which comes out that casts the U.S. empires and its lackeys in a negative light as Russian propaganda or the work of Russian agents. We've seen this over and over again from the way Julian Assange has been falsely cast as a Kremlin operative to the way indie media are falsely framed as Russian propaganda operations. The latest example of this deception is the way incriminating leaked emails of prominent British figures published by the Grey Zone have been dismissed in a new Politico hit piece as a dishonest representation of emails obtained by Russian hackers per the Russian playbook. Grey Zone staff hastened to point out that not only does the Politico article fail to grapple with the rather important question of what the leaked emails actually contain, but that it failed to mention that its primary source is a UK foreign office veteran and PSYOP specialist who has a publicly stated vendetta to get the Grey Zone censored online. The manufactured hysteria about a non-existent epidemic of Russian propaganda in the West has people so blinkered and confused that it's become impossible to criticize the most powerful government in the world for its world-threatening brinkmanship with a rival nuclear superpower on any online forum without getting accused of being a secret agent for the Kremlin. My own social media notifications are continuously lit up with accusations of Putin loyalty and rubles in my bank account just for criticizing the most dangerous impulses of the most powerful and destructive government on Earth despite never having worked for Russia or any other government. What's funny about all this is that by constantly warning of the dangers of Russian propaganda Imperial spin-meisters are admitting that they know it's possible to manipulate public thought at mass scale using media. They're just lying about who's doing it to us. In reality, they're not worried about Russian propaganda. Russian propaganda is just a spooky story we are told to keep us from noticing that our civilization is saturated in US propaganda.