Global Engagement Center

“On the Offensive”: US State Dept. Gives $40M Boost to “Troll Farm” Propaganda Efforts

WASHINGTON — As U.S. corporate media outlets and lawmakers continue to work themselves and the U.S. public into a lather over alleged “foreign propaganda,” the State Department has launched a new initiative to advance the U.S. government’s own disinformation operations in league with its allies in Silicon Valley.

State Department Gets $40 Million to Fund New Propaganda Troll Farm

(ANTIWAR.COM) — On Monday, the US State Department announced that it had obtained $40 million from the Pentagon to fund a new propaganda and disinformation campaign through the “Global Engagement Center.” While the Global Engagement Center was initially conceived of as resisting foreign propaganda efforts, the new funding is set to be invested in going “on the […]

America’s Russian Dybbuk

By Gerald Sussman | CounterPunch | January 11, 2017 From ancient Hebrew folklore, the dybbuk is a demonic spirit that inhabits a person’s body and soul in order to get what it wants. American foreign policy is endlessly driven to search and destroy imaginary demons: Noriega, Milosevic, Saddam, Ho, Tojo, Nasser, Gaddafi, Lumumba, Castro, Osama, […]