How America's CIA plants fake stories in the media

FILMED in the 1980s, these two videos show ex-CIA Operations Director John Stockwell describing how the USA CIA plants fake stories in the media. Nowadays, the number of fake stories is unimaginable. One can sense it in and around Sudan and South Sudan, see patterns and hear it. The second video shows Mr Stockwell recalling his disinformation efforts in Angola.

John Stockwell interview on his work in Angola, not Congo. https://t.co/G1AIFQzsGE

— Pete Mahoney (@mahoneclone3) February 29, 2024

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Tucker Carlson interviews Vladimir Putin in Moscow

AMERICAN journalist Tucker Carlson is reportedly airing his interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin today (Thu 8 Feb). Let's hope Mr Carlson clarifies that his references to 'English speaking countries' are confined to the US. People in other English speaking countries are better informed than the average American. His video intro, and the interview, can be viewed at Tucker Carlson Network https://tuckercarlson.com/why-were-in-moscow/

Why I'm interviewing Vladimir Putin. pic.twitter.com/hqvXUZqvHX

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 6, 2024

A Feb 6 post at X by Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson, copied here above, simply says “Why I'm interviewing Vladimir Putin”. The post contains a video of Mr Carlson explaining why he is interviewing President Putin. It is date stamped 6:44 PM · Feb 6, 2024 and so far (15:29 GMT) has 99.2M Views.

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From The Independent - Thu, 8 February 2024, 3:17 pm GMT

How to watch Tucker Carlson’s interview with Putin

The interview will be broadcast on Mr Carlson’s website at 6pm ET (11pm GMT) and also on X, formerly known as Twitter. 

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/watch-tucker-carlson-interview-putin-144458540.html

Photo: Carlson in 2023. Courtesy Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carlson

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UPDATE Fri 9 Feb 2024:

Report from BBC News

By Sarah Rainsford

Eastern Europe correspondent

Dated Friday, 9 February 2024 - excerpts:

Tucker Carlson: Putin takes charge as TV host gives free rein to Kremlin

[…] Instead of pushing the Russian leader - indicted as a suspected war criminal - on his full-scale invasion of Ukraine and challenging his false assertions, Carlson swerved off-piste to talk God and the Russian soul. The American had touted his sit-down with Putin as a triumph for free speech, asserting that he was heading where no Western news outlets dared to tread. That's untrue. The Kremlin is simply highly selective about who Putin speaks to. It will almost always choose someone who knows neither the country nor the language and so struggles ever to challenge him. Carlson's claim also ignored the fact that Russia's president has spent the past two decades in power systematically stamping out free speech at home. Most recently, he made it a crime to tell the truth about Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Multiple critics - Vladimir Kara-Murza, Ilya Yashin and many more - are in prison right now for doing just that.…

Full story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68248740

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Sudan suspends membership of IGAD

NOT seen this before, a news report from China using 'urgent' in a headline. Their reporting is good, accurate, measured, factual without sensationalism. 

Speaking of IGAD, wonder what became of EASF (Eastern Africa Standby Force) and why it or any other force is not being deployed to provide humanitarian corridors in Sudan, Chad and South Sudan for aid workers to reach people in urgent need of food, water, shelter, medical supplies.

Report from Xinhua

Dated Saturday, 20 January 2024 - here is a copy in full:

Urgent: Sudan suspends membership in eastern African block

KHARTOUM, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Sudan's Foreign Ministry announced on Saturday the country has frozen its membership in the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development, an eastern African bloc. Enditem

View original: http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2024-01/20/content_116954268.htm

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