The Little Devil And His Many Potemkin Palaces of Disinformation and Untruths: the "Weaponization of Information" and the Brave New Age. M.N.: The interesting set of questions, ain't it? In the range from the "Information War" to the literary criticism, or the "critical theory": Weaponizing information... | "Scrutiny of Trump hasn't been as sharp for Clinton and Obama"

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The Little Devil And His Many Potemkin Palaces

of Disinformation and Untruths:
the "Weaponization of Information" and the Brave New Age.

"The interesting set of questions, ranging from the Information War" to the literary criticism, or the "critical theory"...

"Weaponizing information is really about who gets to write the truth, who gets to write the narrative and who benefits from that narrative — and that is incredibly powerful," said Laura Galante, director of intelligence analysis at cybersecurity firm FireEye.

M.N.: But most importantly, what this "Truth" really is, the one and only, above and beyond all its weaponized and unweaponized versions, which will fade into oblivion, and sooner rather than later, and The Truth will shine alone. How to detect and to prove it, and to present your evidence? All the rest, including "the narratives", are the secondary considerations. "The Truth is the best propaganda", and the best propaganda is the Truth.

"As Cardinal Bergoglio—now Pope Francis—once wrote of the Devil, “destruction, division, hatred, and calumny,” and all disguised as the search for truth." - "The Devil's Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West" - by Michael Walsh

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Why? How can you explain this "bias" if indeed, it is a "bias"? A bad case of the "all American" political love affair with the "all American" bad boy? Similar to a very bad case of the Russian's love affair with the "bad boy" Putin? The Worldwide "The Bad Boy" new(?) political cult? The contemporary cults of the "tragic" (or "flawed") hero, in all their various and national versions? The historical - social - political ("obsessive-compulsive") replay of the old, culture perpetuated as "the classics", tragedies and dramas? Because the new ones are not sufficiently "classical" or sufficiently powerful for us, to tickle our tired nostrils? The interesting set of questions, ain't it? In the range from the "Information War" to the literary criticism, or the "critical theory".

I find it most remarkable that one of the most cogent, clear and concise pieces of analysis and criticism of the situation in the field of the National Security and Intelligence, practically one of the most notable writings (if any, recently, after Mike Morell's article) in the sphere of the Strategic Intelligence comes from no one else but the professional literary critic. These two, and the other related fields are not that much afar from themselves and their central subject, which has the practical implications: the theoretical need to facilitate their integration, in some type of M&A (Merger and Aquisition) action, as some businessmen-politicians would put it in our days, or in the process of the creation of the "new paradigm", as Kuhn would describe it.

Two life stories come to mind: the one is of James J. Angleton, the head of the US counterintelligence for many years, although "controversial", who was, in addition to his duties, the accomplished and published poet, and, for the comparison's balance, his Soviet - Russian - Georgian counterpart and contemporary, Vsevolod Merculov, who in addition to his duties, as essentially, one of the most powerful Stalin's Secret Police bosses, was also a popular dramatist, among the whole cohort of the literary-security mongrels of his times. It was something the unforgivingly, and, apparently, the irresistibly, as it was felt then, "romantic", about those cruel and the most bloody times.

What is born out first as the artistic fantasy, becomes a plan and the reality, sometimes harsh, or dramatic, or tragic. Or invisibly and mysteriously, and in quite an untestable way, "progressively" in the broadest sense possible, "Otherwise".

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Russia bets on Trump as gateway to eased sanctions
Sunday December 4th, 2016 at 7:02 AM

Vladimir Putin wants to make Russia great again. For that, he may need a hand from Donald Trump.

For the Russian president, relief from crippling sanctions is a gateway to the ultimate goal of establishing Russia as the political and economic equivalent of the United States. And the U.S. president-elect, who extolled Putin's leadership during the campaign and called for a tempered approach to U.S.-Russia relations, may be a conduit to achieving that.

Despite Russia's denials that it tampered in the U.S. election or even took sides, Trump's victory has been greeted as a win of sorts for Moscow, too, by members of Putin's own United Russia party.

"It turns out that United Russia won the elections in America," Viktor Nazarov, the governor of Omsk, Russia, declared in a radio interview.

Long before Trump was on the radar of American voters, Russia had deep interests in the outcome of elections around the world. But 2016 presented a unique window.

Motivated by years of sanctions and decades of post-Soviet setbacks, the Russians were keen to pounce; the race for the White House, plagued by party infighting and scandal, was easy bait.

Putin "was seriously impacted by the sanctions because it targeted his closest friends and now they think Trump is going to change that," said Robert Amsterdam, an international attorney with Russian clients.

U.S. intelligence agencies said in October they are confident that the Russian government hacked the e-mails of U.S. citizens and institutions, including political organizations, and handed them over to <a href="http://DCLeaks.com" rel="nofollow">DCLeaks.com</a> and WikiLeaks for distribution. Hacked Democratic National Committee emails in July, indicating that DNC leaders were favoring Hillary Clinton over Sen. Bernie Sanders in the primaries, prompted the resignation of chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

"Weaponizing information is really about who gets to write the truth, who gets to write the narrative and who benefits from that narrative — and that is incredibly powerful," said Laura Galante, director of intelligence analysis at cybersecurity firm FireEye.

Russia has sought to put itself on an equal footing with the U.S. since the collapse of the Soviet Union, extending its territory where it can, countering U.S. military action and positioning itself as a rival to the world's biggest economy.

But its ambitions suffered a setback in 2014 when the Obama administration authorized sanctions against sectors of the Russian economy, including financial services, energy, mining and defense. The administration also sanctioned people in Putin's inner circle accused of undermining peace in Ukraine. Add to that falling oil prices and a weak ruble, and Russia's economy was shackled.

The impact has been extensive. Russia's sovereign wealth fund had $87 billion in assets in December 2013, according to the Russian Finance Ministry. As of June 1, it was down to $38 billion, following sell-offs by the Russian government to make up for budget deficits. U.S. trade with Russia tumbled to $23 billion in 2015, from about $34 billion the previous year.

Sanctions that impede Russia's ability to acquire equipment for Arctic offshore drilling are of particular concern because they hold the key to Russia's rapid expansion in that sector.

"Lifting restrictions on exports of technology, software, things that really help their energy industry extract oil and gas" would be the top priority, said Boris Zilberman, a Russia expert at the Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

"Production is dwindling over time, so they're going into new, offshore, deep-water drilling in the Arctic and so on, and to do that, they really need Western technology," he said.

Sanctions relief is important to Russia's broader objective of superpower status, shown by its bullish Syria policy. Syria's Russian-backed military made major gains in rebel-held eastern Aleppo in recent days and rebel resistance appeared to be crumbling. While Moscow and Washington are continuously at odds over Syria, the Obama administration has not imposed any Syria-related sanctions.

Trump's promise of closer cooperation with Russia has created worries that the U.S. will have diminished leverage. He said during the campaign that under his leadership the U.S. might not come to the defense of some NATO members if Russia were to attack them, indicating he would make that decision based on whether those Baltic republics "have fulfilled their obligations to us."

But Trump's positions are hard to assess because he's often stepped away from his more controversial proposals. Trump's choice as defense secretary, retired Gen. James Mattis, has called Russia's aggression in Ukraine a problem "much more severe, more serious" than Washington and the European Union are treating it.

Putin and Trump spoke soon after his victory and a statement from Trump's transition team said the president-elect told Putin he looked forward to "a strong and enduring relationship." Observers caution that Putin's interests are self-motivated and Russia's incentive to interfere in U.S. politics won't go away with Trump's victory.

"It's not that Putin is against the Democratic Party," Zilberman said. "He's more against the United States and (for) whatever may push Russian interests."

He added: "There's nothing saying that next time they won't hack Republicans and expose Trump administration emails if it benefits them."

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