I just so happen to have this one from back in the later months of 2019
https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/08/part-1-cia-as-organized-crime-how.html

: Thanks to reader Kyle..

: Lynda

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: By Edward Curtin – Off-Guardian Feb 14, 2021

: The CIA and the media are part of the same criminal
: conspiracy,” wrote Douglas Valentine in his important book,
: The CIA As Organized Crime.

: This is true. The corporate mainstream media are stenographers

: for the national security state’s ongoing psychological
: operations aimed at the American people, just as they have
: done the same for an international audience.

: We have long been subjected to this “information warfare,”
: whose purpose is to win the hearts and minds of the
: American people and pacify them into victims of their own
: complicity, just as it was practiced long ago by the CIA in
: Vietnam and by The New York Times, CBS, etc. on the
: American people then and over the years as the American
: warfare state waged endless wars, coups, false flag
: operations, and assassinations at home and abroad.

: Another way of putting this is to say for all practical
: purposes when it comes to matters that bear on important
: foreign and domestic matters, the CIA and the corporate
: mainstream media cannot be distinguished.

: For those who read and study history, it has long been known
: that the CIA has placed their operatives throughout every
: agency of the U.S. government, as explained by Fletcher
: Prouty in The Secret Team; that CIA officers Cord Myer and
: Frank Wisner operated secret programs to get some of the
: most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom among
: intellectuals, journalists, and writers to be their voices
: for unfreedom and censorship, as explained by Frances
: Stonor Saunders in The Cultural Cold War and Joel Whitney
: in Finks, among others; that Cord Myer was especially
: focused on and successful in “courting the Compatible Left”
: since right wingers were already in the Agency’s pocket.

: All this is documented and not disputed. It is shocking only
: to those who don’t do their homework and see what is
: happening today outside a broad historical context.

: With the rise of alternate media and a wide array of
: dissenting voices on the internet, the establishment felt
: threatened and went on the defensive. It, therefore, should
: come as no surprise that those same elite corporate media
: are now leading the charge for increased censorship and the
: denial of free speech to those they deem dangerous, whether
: that involves wars, rigged elections, foreign coups,
: COVID-19, vaccinations, or the lies of the corporate media
: themselves.

: Having already banned critics from writing in their pages and
: or talking on their screens, these media giants want to
: make the quieting of dissenting voices complete.

: Just the other day The New York Times had this headline:
: Robert Kennedy Jr. Barred From Instagram Over False Virus
: Claims.

: Robert Kennedy Junior. Click to enlarge

: Notice the lack of the word alleged before “false virus
: claims.” This is guilt by headline. It is a perfect piece
: of propaganda posing as reporting, since it accuses
: Kennedy, a brilliant and honorable man, of falsity and
: stupidity, thus justifying Instagram’s ban, and it is an
: inducement to further censorship of Mr. Kennedy by
: Facebook, Instagram’s parent company.

: That ban should follow soon, as the Times’ reporter Jennifer
: Jett hopes, since she accusingly writes that RFK, Jr.
: “makes many of the same baseless claims to more than
: 300,000 followers” at Facebook. Jett made sure her report
: also went to msn.com and The Boston Globe.

: This is one example of the censorship underway with much, much
: more to follow. What was once done under the cover of
: omission is now done openly and brazenly, cheered on by
: those who, in an act of bad faith, claim to be upholders of
: the First Amendment and the importance of free debate in a
: democracy. We are quickly slipping into an unreal
: totalitarian social order.

: Which brings me to the recent work of Glenn Greenwald and Matt
: Taibbi, both of whom have strongly and rightly decried this
: censorship. As I understand their arguments, they go like
: this.

: First, the corporate media have today divided up the territory
: and speak only to their own audiences in echo chambers:
: liberal to liberals (read: the “allegedly” liberal
: Democratic Party), such as The New York Times, NBC, etc.,
: and conservative to conservatives (read” the “allegedly”
: conservative Donald Trump), such as Fox News, Breitbart,
: etc.

: They have abandoned old school journalism that, despite its
: shortcomings, involved objectivity and the reporting of
: disparate facts and perspectives, but within limits. Since
: the digitization of news, their new business models are
: geared to these separate audiences since they are highly
: lucrative choices. It’s business-driven since electronic
: media have replaced paper as advertising revenues have
: shifted and people’s ability to focus on complicated issues
: has diminished drastically.

: Old school journalism is suffering as a result and thus
: writers such as Greenwald and Taibbi and Chris Hedges (who
: interviewed Taibbi and concurs: part one here) have taken
: their work to the internet to escape such restrictive
: categories and the accompanying censorship.

: Secondly, the great call for censorship is not something the
: Silicon Valley companies want because they want more people
: using their media since it means more money for them, but
: they are being pressured to do it by the traditional old
: school media, such as The New York Times, who now employ
: “tattletales and censors,” people who are power-hungry
: jerks, to sniff out dissenting voices that they can
: recommend should be banned.

: Greenwald says,

: “They do it in part for power: to ensure nobody but they can
: control the flow of information. They do it partly for
: ideology and out of hubris: the belief that their worldview
: is so indisputably right that all dissent is inherently
: dangerous ‘disinformation.’”

: Thus, the old school print and television media are not on the
: same page as Facebook, Twitter, etc. but have opposing
: agendas.

: In short, these shifts and the censorship are about money and
: power within the media world as the business has been
: transformed by the digital revolution.

: I think this is a half-truth that conceals a larger issue. The
: censorship is not being driven by power-hungry reporters at
: the Times or CNN or any media outlet. All these media and
: their employees are but the outer layer of the onion, the
: means by which messages are sent and people controlled.

: These companies and their employees do what they are told,
: whether explicitly or implicitly, for they know it is in
: their financial interest to do so. If they do not play
: their part in this twisted and intricate propaganda game,
: they will suffer. They will be eliminated, as are pesky
: individuals who dare peel the onion to its core.

: For each media company is one part of a large interconnected
: intelligence apparatus – a system, a complex – whose
: purpose is power, wealth, and domination for the very few
: at the expense of the many. The CIA and media as parts of
: the same criminal conspiracy.

: To argue that the Silicon valley companies do not want to
: censor but are being pressured by the legacy corporate
: media does not make sense. These companies are deeply
: connected to U.S. intelligence agencies, as are the NY
: Times, CNN, NBC, etc. They too are part of what was once
: called Operation Mockingbird, the CIA’s program to control,
: use, and infiltrate the media. Only the most naïve would
: think that such a program does not exist today.

: In Surveillance Valley, investigative reporter Yasha Levine
: documents how Silicon Valley tech companies like Facebook,
: Amazon, and Google are tied to the
: military-industrial-intelligence-media complex in
: surveillance and censorship; how the Internet was created
: by the Pentagon; and even how these shadowy players are
: deeply involved in the so-called privacy movement that
: developed after Edward Snowden’s revelations.

: Like Valentine, and in very detailed ways, Levine shows how
: the military-industrial-intelligence-digital-media complex
: is part of the same criminal conspiracy as is the
: traditional media with their CIA overlords. It is one club.

: Many people, however, might find this hard to believe because
: it bursts so many bubbles, including the one that claims
: that these tech companies are pressured into censorship by
: the likes of The New York Times, etc. The truth is the
: Internet was a military and intelligence tool from the very
: beginning and it is not the traditional corporate media
: that gives it its marching orders.

: That being so, it is not the owners of the corporate media or
: their employees who are the ultimate controllers behind the
: current vast crackdown on dissent, but the intelligence
: agencies who control the mainstream media and the Silicon
: Valley monopolies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.
: All these media companies are but the outer layer of the
: onion, the means by which messages are sent and people
: controlled.

: But for whom do these intelligence agencies work? Not for
: themselves.

: They work for their overlords, the super wealthy people, the
: banks, financial institutions, and corporations that own
: the United States and always have. In a simple twist of
: fate, such super wealthy naturally own the media
: corporations that are essential to their control of the
: majority of the world’s wealth through the stories they
: tell.

: It is a symbiotic relationship.

: As FDR put it bluntly in 1933, this coterie of wealthy forces
: is the “financial element in the larger centers [that] has
: owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew
: Jackson.” Their wealth and power has increased
: exponentially since then, and their connected tentacles
: have further spread to create what is an international deep
: state that involves such entities as the IMF, the World
: Bank, the World Economic Forum, those who meet yearly at
: Davos, etc.

: They are the international overlords who are pushing hard to
: move the world toward a global dictatorship.

: As is well known, or should be, the CIA was the creation of
: Wall St. and serves the interests of the wealthy owners.
: Peter Dale Scott, in “The State, the Deep State, and the
: Wall Street Overworld,” says of Allen Dulles, the nefarious
: longest-running Director of the CIA and Wall St. lawyer for
: Sullivan and Cromwell: “There seems to be little difference
: in Allen Dulles’s influence whether he was a Wall Street
: lawyer or a CIA director.”

: It was Dulles, long connected to Rockefeller’s Standard Oil,
: international corporations, and a friend of Nazi agents and
: scientists, who was tasked with drawing up proposals for
: the CIA. He was ably assisted by five Wall St. bankers or
: investors, including the aforementioned Frank Wisner who
: later, as a CIA officer, said his “Mighty Wurlitzer” was
: “capable of playing any propaganda tune he desired.”

: This he did by recruiting intellectuals, writers, reporters,
: labor organizations, and the mainstream corporate media,
: etc. to propagate the CIA’s messages.

: Greenwald, Taibbi, and Hedges are correct up to a point, but
: they stop short. Their critique of old school journalism à
: la Edward Herman’s and Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing of
: Consent model, while true as far as it goes, fails to pin
: the tail on the real donkey. Like old school journalists
: who knew implicitly how far they could go, these guys know
: it too, as if there is an invisible electronic gate that
: keeps them from wandering into dangerous territory.

: The censorship of Robert Kennedy, Jr. is an exemplary case.
: His banishment from Instagram and the ridicule the
: mainstream media have heaped upon him for years is not
: simply because he raises deeply informed questions about
: vaccines, Bill Gates, the pharmaceutical companies, etc.
: His critiques suggest something far more dangerous is
: afoot: the demise of democracy and the rise of a
: totalitarian order that involves total surveillance,
: control, eugenics, etc. by the wealthy led by their
: intelligence propagandists.

: To call him a super spreader of hoaxes and a conspiracy
: theorist is aimed at not only silencing him on specific
: medical issues, but to silence his powerful and articulate
: voice on all issues. To give thoughtful consideration to
: his deeply informed scientific thinking concerning
: vaccines, the World Health Organization, the Bill and
: Melinda Gates Foundation, etc., is to open a can of worms
: that the powerful want shut tight.

: This is because RFK, Jr. is also a severe critic of the
: enormous power of the CIA and its propaganda that goes back
: so many decades and was used to cover up the national
: security state’s assassination of both his father and his
: uncle.

: It is why his wonderful recent book, American Values: Lessons
: I Learned from My Family, that contains not one word about
: vaccines, was shunned by mainstream book reviewers; for the
: picture he paints fiercely indicts the CIA in multiple ways
: while also indicting the mass media that have been its
: mouthpieces.

: These worms must be kept in the can, just as the power of the
: international overlords represented by the World Health
: Organization and the World Economic Forum with its Great
: Reset must be. They must be dismissed as crackpot
: conspiracy theories not worthy of debate or exposure.

: Robert Kennedy, Jr., by name and dedication to truth seeking,
: conjures up his father’s ghost, the last politician who,
: because of his vast support across racial and class
: divides, could have united the country and tamed the power
: of the CIA to control the narrative that has allowed for
: the plundering of the world and the country for the wealthy
: overlords.

: So they killed him.

: There is a reason Noam Chomsky is an exemplar for Hedges,
: Greenwald, and Taibbi. He controls the can opener for so
: many. He has set the parameters for what is considered
: acceptable to be considered a serious journalist or
: intellectual. The assassinations of the Kennedys, 9/11, or
: a questioning of the official Covid-19 story are not among
: them, and so they are eschewed.

: To denounce censorship, as they have done, is admirable. But
: now Greenwald, Taibbi, and Hedges need go up to the
: forbidden gate with the sign that says – “This far and no
: further” – and jump over it. That’s where the true stories
: lie. That’s when they’ll see the worms squirm.

: Edward Curtin is an independent writer whose work has appeared
: widely over many years. His website is edwardcurtin.com and
: his new book is 'Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies'.