[Thread] FOIA’d documents show that the Pentagon worked closely with Hollywood, rewriting dozens of films and TV shows about the Afghan War to give them a more pro-war message, thus helping prolong the conflict.
E.G., in 'Lone Survivor' (2013), the Pentagon changed the central scene to delete parts where US soldiers argue that they should commit war crimes by killing Afghan kids & hiding their bodies.
This was a real event that actually happened. But it did not fit the wanted narrative.
The Pentagon often insists that they only work with film and TV companies to ensure the military is portrayed more accurately.
But internal documents prove that this is not true, and that they realize they are in the "reputation" management business.
"One of the most depraved front pages I’ve ever seen" - @Louis_Allday
The Daily Mail's own reporting makes clear that the U.S. killed three kids in the attack.
So they're essentially posing with the child survivors who lost their families.
And the military is being framed as a caring, compassionate force.
Unreal levels of propaganda.
On Afghanistan, I just published an investigation with @MintPressNews into the extraordinary costs of the project, including details of the enormous corruption among Afghan and US officials.
The US has directly controlled Afghanistan for 20 years. In that time, many women have lost rights and the country has been turned into the world's first true narco-state, as I wrote about for @MintPressNews in June-->
[Thread] My new investigation for @MintPressNews into Creative Associates International— the private regime change group you've probably never heard of.
"Creative Associates International (CAI): It’s Not Exactly the CIA, But Close Enough"
Over the past 30 years, CAI have worked with Contra death squads in Nicaragua, designed fake Cuban social media apps for the US gov, been involved in a coup in Haiti and redesigned the Iraqi and Afghan school systems.
It was also reported that CAI's office in Peshawar, Pakistan 🇵🇰 was being used as a front for infamous mercenary group Blackwater to stage military ops on the Afghan/Pakistan border.
[Thread] Why have "Israeli superspy" Robert Maxwell sons (and Ghislaine Maxwell's brothers) started an influential think tank about "countering radical Islamist extremism"?
My new @MintPressNews investigation into this very suspicious organization.
Disgraced media baron Robert Maxwell was long described as an Israeli spy.
The fact he was given a full state funeral in Israel fit for a hero all but confirmed this theory.
His daughter Isabel followed him into the family business, becoming, in @_whitneywebb's words, "The One-Woman Liaison Between Israel and Silicon Valley."
[Thread] While condemning vaccine skepticism at home, corporate media are pushing anti-vax conspiracies about the Chinese and Russian vaccines, trying to encourage fear and distrust of them worldwide.