Phil Butler - Putin's Praetorians - Confessions of the Top Kremlin Trolls

As for the opposing force, I can tell you as a former editor of several highly influential media sources, these “forces” of which I speak are as devastating as they are diabolical. There’s yet another subject for a book, but the point of these people and their brave efforts should be well made. To cement the dangerous nature of this force a story in the New Yorker [53] The Propaganda About Russian Propaganda , by Adrian Chen, The New Yorker , December 1, 2016 by Internet culture expert Adrian Chen contains a warning from the opposing technocracy side of all this. In the report Chen wrote:

“Bogus news stories, which overwhelmingly favored Trump, did flood social media throughout the campaign, and the hack of the Clinton campaign chair John Podesta’s e-mail seems likely to have been the work of Russian intelligence services. But, as harmful as these phenomena might be, the prospect of legitimate dissenting voices being labelled fake news or Russian propaganda by mysterious groups of ex-government employees, with the help of a national newspaper, is even scarier.”

The people who are the opponents of “Kremlin Trolls” are an imposing force. Journalists and experts spouting Russia hate are well funded, well educated, and work under an almost impenitrable dome of protection created by government, coprorate interests, banking interests, and the trillions of dollars supra-capitalism runs off the printing presses of central banks. The evangelists of NATO and the globalists, the minions of the insane Russophobes, they sop up the drippings from the tables of business giants and elite bankers whose names we are all familiar with by now. I’ve mentioned George Soros, USAID, the CIA, NATO and its own trolls, the United States State Department, the governments of the United Kingdom and of the EU, corporate media such as Bertelsmann and Axel Springer, the IMF and other financial organizations, and hundreds of NGOs, all of which played a huge role in this ongoing media war. The vastness of the effort to discredit and dishonor Vladimir Putin and Russia is almost unimaginable.

Not until Donald Trump was elected president did I even realize just how desperate and deadly the globalist elite had become. Imagine how Soros and his colleagues in London or Luxembourg must feel, having paid untold trillions to create a new liberal world order, only to be thwarted by a few crazy journalists, some drunken writers, a few aging grandmas, a platoon of marginalized old soldiers, and a pissed off travel agent or two. Pitiful is the only word that describes the nasty and wasteful movement against the Russians in all this. It’s pitiful for whole industries and world organizations to fail so miserably in subduing an opposing message — our message of opposition. Think about it for a moment, the billionaires and bankers, the politicians and bureaus, the untold thousands of paid pundits against Vladimir Putin. Then imagine if you can a ragtag gang of rusty conquistadors like me and these others beating them into a frenzy. Gasp the enormity of Russian media like RT and Sputnik, with their pitiful budgets in rubles, striking utter fear into the heart of the globalist beast. Aided and abetted by this old technology blogger turned politico, and by a couple of hundred more zealots who are disenchanted by the false American Dream, a tiny group of virtual “nobodies” drove the Germans to create a “Truth Ministry”, the EU to pass “anti-propaganda” legislation, and America’s ruling class and technocrats to scream “foul” through their media machine. Yes, Kremlin Troll voices became the New World Order’s worst nightmare.

“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.”

The entities arrayed against any positive message about Russia have no plausible deniability for the disparate roles they’ve played in all this chaos. There’s no need for me to provide further proof of my own government’s role than the National Defense Authorization Act, signed into effect by outgoing President Barack Obama, which included a $160 million revamping of the “Global Engagement Center” to combat Russian propaganda. An article via The Nation by Adam H. Johnson [54] US Officials Won’t Say if a New Anti–Russia Propaganda Project Is Targeting Americans, by Adam H. Johnson, The Nation , March 9, 2017 framed the most pertinent aspects of this center so:

“When asked by The Nation if the State Department was targeting Americans or paying American journalists, State Department spokesperson Nicole Thompson wouldn’t say they weren’t, only that, “the Global Engagement Center targets its messaging at foreign audiences abroad.”

Of special importance here, is a section of the bill signed by Obama that points to the US government funding journalism and journalists arrayed against the Russia message. The Nation article cited this section:

“The legislation establishes a fund to help train local journalists and provide grants and contracts to NGOs, civil society organizations, think tanks, private sector companies, media organizations, and other experts outside the U.S. government with experience in identifying and analyzing the latest trends in foreign government disinformation techniques.”

In no uncertain terms, the $160 million earmarked by the Obama decree could be used to fund characters like Bellingcat, Weisburd, Soros NGOs, or even companies set up with the explicit purpose of defeating “guess who?” Yes, those of us labeled Kremlin or Putin trolls by the real trolls in this information war. The powers that control the monstrosity that has become western business-government have not learned a lesson by being beaten to pieces by unpaid amateurs and truth seekers, they’ve decided to throw still more money at their problemjust like they did in funding the Russia-focused, English-language Interpreter magazine, which allegedly funded not only by the US State Department but by the family of ousted Russian oligarch and mafioso, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The magazine is led by the aforementioned Daily Beast editor, Michael Weiss is a prime example of the new western oligarchy propaganda. Weiss, who is another prototypical “agent” of the neocon narrative, headed up a neocon PR project known as “Just Journalism, ” which policed (trolled) the English-language press for any journalism critical of Israel in the wake of its brutal war on Gaza of 2008 and 2009. [55] Hysterical beast: The problem with The Daily Beast’s Russia analysis , RT Op-Edge, October 8, 2015 Weiss has provoked much criticism from journalists and experts who live outside the corporate or governmental budgetary matrix. Another scathing report [56] Neo-McCarthyism and the US Media , by James Carden, The Nation, May 19, 2015 by James Carden entitled “Neo-McCarthyism and the US Media,” betrays the clear mission against any semblance of moderate thought about Russia. Here is Carden on the relationship of Weiss and other western journalists to the anti-Russia narrative:

“Weiss and Pomerantsev (Peter) have joined the long line of Western journalists who have played to the public’s darkest suspicions about the power, intentions and reach of those governments that are perceived as threats to the United States. In his seminal essay on McCarthyism, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” the historian Richard Hofstadter wrote that in the worldview of these opportunists, “very often the enemy is held to possess some especially effective source of power: he controls the press; he has unlimited funds; he has a new secret for influencing the mind (brainwashing).” There exists no better précis of Weiss and Pomerantsev’s view of Putin and the Russian government’s media apparatus.”