a Twitter thread from @zei_squirrel
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how does the CIA conduct regime change operations? They utilize insights from social psychology to create a sense of crisis in a country, as part of a wider terror campaign. Guatemala 1954 is a case study, described here by the CIA agents in charge of it:
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the same strategies are used today, except now with social media. Fake media operations and troll and bot armies create a sense of crisis. Western media then boosts this further. This is how you get cyber revolutions that last for months and months with nothing actually happening
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there's an elaborate network of psy ops assigned for every Official Enemy of the US: Cuba, China, Venezuela, Iran, North Korea, Syria. Their job designation is as described by the CIA agents in the Guatemala case, constantly creating a sense of crisis as part of a terror campaign
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then ironically the Western media class hysterically whines about "Russian interference", which is a joke. Any such networks are immediately shut down and the ones that did briefly operate reached a marginal amount with amateur shirtless Bernie memes. This is child's play
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if you want to see a serious psy op network, look at Iran International, the media operation funded by the genocidal fascist maniac Muhammad Bin Salman to conduct psy op warfare against Iran, with the blessings of Israel and the US. Flush with cash and bot armies they go to work
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they effectively create the mirage of a professional news network with their endless supply of bloodstained MBS cash. They bought "journalists" from the BBC and prominent media personalities, athletes, academics. These people sit side by side with terrorist cults like the MEK
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imagine a CNN level propaganda operation inside the US, with Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer level media personalities and prominent guests constantly on air, beloved and taken seriously by other media outlets, except it's all funded by China or Russia. That's Iran International
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they are so successful in laundering their image that even someone like @rogerwaters happily went on their programs and did propaganda for them. Again, this is a fake Saudi media operation that hosts and promotes literal terrorists, and an activist like Roger Waters fell for it
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this fake media operation has a reach of millions on Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, where it constantly engages in psy ops of the kind described by the CIA agent, and it's incredibly effective. BBC, NYT, bluecheck Western journos boost their propaganda all the time
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another crucially important element in the success of this psy op: the lack of any tags to filter it, which Western regimes have imposed on Chinese, Russian and Iranian media operations and anyone who dares associate with them, effectively destroying them: https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1376583897891356676
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some state affiliated media is not like others
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those media links are filtered out, you can't even see the title of articles, just a notice. Then when you click to like you get a second one: "Are you sure you want to like this tweet from Chinese state affiliated media?" But psy op outfits like Iran International operate freely
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they're also filtered in searches, so you have many restrictions in the West on media which are openly state affiliated like Russia Today (actually banned in the EU now) but psy op networks aimed at Official Enemies are boosted including on Musk's twitter: https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1585954158829400064
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Elon Musk is the nominally privatized segment of the US security state and military industrial complex. His collection of fake companies, all reliant on public funding and tax exemptions, are everywhere involved in CIA and state department proxy wars and regime change operations
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a final note, what kind of propaganda does Iran International disseminate? Guides on how to make and use Molotov cocktails. Calls to invade and bomb the country by esteemed guests like John Bolton. Glorification of terrorist acts by cults like the MEK. Just total psy op warfare
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one thing they have specialized in over the recent years is sending their "reporters", i.e. fascist MBS funded thugs, to harass Iranian athletes, actors and directors whenever they have a public appearance. It's just a full on terrorist operation masquerading as a news network
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but without a doubt the most successful psy op media network that makes even Iran International look like child's play is the BBC. The BBC and its world service, aimed at China, Russia, Iran, is the highest level professional psychological warfare unit of Western imperialism
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going back to the first post, I highly recommend watching John Pilger's documentaries not just on Guatemala but all of them as he cuts through these psy op campaigns brilliantly. For more resources on CIA ops in Guatemala and Latin America see this thread:
https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1330347431133851649
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people in Guatemala are rising up against their corrupt ruling class. in order to understand what's going on there now, one has to know what went on before, particularly the history of US imperialist interventions. here's a thread with a brief overview, starting at the beginning:
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also you can find more CIA agents describing how they conducted their psy op campaigns with the use of media organizations like the New York Times here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK1tfkESPVY, and here:
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1589606899569377282
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Edward Snowden (@Snowden)
The most important video of the year was filmed in 1983.
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this is perfect. We get to see what happens when a bot army misfires. Yesterday the German outlet Deutsche Welle posted a clip completely unrelated to Iran, and someone mistakenly put an Iran focused bot army on it. Look at the replies. That's how you do psy op campaigns today
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they use multiple languages too, creating the appearance of some global movement, and focused on the national context of the outlet in question (German here). That's how they put pressure on their own domestic politicians and media. Look for yourself: https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1599466421309870084
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DW News (@dwnews)
Stepping up its war on gangs, El Salvador sent 10,000 soldiers to seal off a crime-ridden suburb of the capital city.
Rights groups have already expressed concern over the government's tactics.
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for those asking where the original clip on the Guatemala coup is from, it's included in the thread I linked earlier but here it is separately as well. It's from John Pilger's excellent documentary "The War on Democracy", which you can watch in full here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyWVh4kRyg4&ab_channel=DocumentaryCentral
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