Now I am sure “my cover is blown.” I confess to having connections with some of Russia’s most loyal citizens in high and common positions. In just over three years I’ve been befriended by the producers of Russia’s most popular TV shows, by photographers and writers, by artists and ballet legends, local and federal politicians, Olympic athletes, and even Spetsnaz officers. This happenstance was not because of any special character of mine, not because any money changed hands, and especially not because Vladimir Putin sent me out from the Kremlin to engage in his anti-NATO propaganda. The ordinary and extraordinary Russians befriended me and some of these others because we defended them — period. As difficult as this may be for some to imagine, the hand of friendship goes a very, very long way in Mother Russia.
So far, I have presented many of the most well-known pro-Russian influencers in the digital world. They have contributed in their own words, their motivations, ideas, and ideals concerning the clearly anti-Russia propaganda war that has raged the last three or four years. I’ve also attempted to explain my own motivations and role in all this, which turns out to be a mirror of my colleagues’ involvement. The noted international correspondent, Pepe Escobar introduced the book and the prevailing “Putin troll” sentiment you’ve read over-and-over again. The Saker, Charles Bausman, Graham Phillips, and Vanessa Beeley showed you the broad and sweeping independent media path of truth, and on the dissenting view on Russia. And the real Kremlin heroes, if I may, they showed you the crisp reality of this war on Russia and Russians — and this is common decency heated to a raging boil.
People like Eric Anderson down on the Amazon, artist Carmen Renieri, and disabled veterans like Paul Payer, they show us all the real power behind Vladimir Putin, the wisdom, and strength of truth. Facing the biggest lie in the history of humanity dead in the face, decent people of every nationality just said, “Wait one damn minute!” Ordinary people, people watching their grandkids, people in wheelchairs, old soldiers on breathing machines, bloggers and stock market speculators, teachers, lawyers, adventurers, and stay at home moms got tired of unsportsmanlike conduct — there is nothing more to it. This book has shown this irrevocably for anyone with an ounce of moderation and decency in their soul. The simple truth is, there are paid journalists like Pepe Escobar, Robert Parry, scholars like Stephen Cohen, and experts like Dr. Paul Craig Roberts in the mix for moderation on Russia. I confess my admiration for them all, for their courage in the face of overwhelming dangers.
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] 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] 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.”
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