R. Guyovich posted:

https://twitter.com/isaacstonefish/status/1085921691212148737

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

https://twitter.com/JacobAWohl/status/1085953475207286784?s=19

BULBASAUR posted:

love teaching Americans about their foreign propaganda arms, Radio Free Asia and Voice of America

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

It's still (?) technically illegal for the US government to propagandize to its own people through any media arm, so we're never exposed to RFA or VoA.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

It's still (?) technically illegal for the US government to propagandize to its own people through any media arm, so we're never exposed to RFA or VoA.

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Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012

The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012[35] was introduced by U.S. Congressman Mac Thornberry on May 10, 2012 in the House of Representatives. U.S. Congressman Adam Smith (politician) was a Co-Sponsor.[35] The bill purpose is "to authorize the domestic dissemination of information and material about the United States intended primarily for foreign audiences"[35] The act was added to the 2013 NDAA bill as section of 1078 to amend certain passages of Smith-Mundt Act of 1948

The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 passed Congress as part of the NDAA 2013 on December 28, 2012.[36] Amendments made to the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1987 allow for materials produced by the State Department and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to be released within US borders.[37][38][39] U.S. Congressmen Adam Smith stated with the respect to the bill's purpose that al-Qaeda was infiltrating the Internet in order to promote anti-American sentiments and that with passage of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 the US government would be able disseminate public diplomacy information by the State department to counter that in the Arabic language abroad

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The Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act is a bipartisan bill which was introduced by the United States Congress on 10 May 2016. The bill was initially entitled the Countering Information Warfare Act.

The bipartisan legislation was written in March 2016 by U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R, OH) and Chris Murphy (D, CT). It was additionally introduced in the United States House of Representatives in a bipartisan fashion; co-sponsors included Congressmen Adam Kinzinger (R, IL) and Ted Lieu (D, CA).

In both the House and Senate the bill was included in the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2017. It passed the House in this fashion in a conference report vote on 2 December 2016. The Senate then passed the measure in a conference report on December 8 by a tally of 92–7.

The Washington Post and the International Business Times reported that after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, worries grew that propaganda spread and organized by the Russian government swayed the outcome of the election, and representatives in the U.S. Congress took action to safeguard the National security of the United States by advancing legislation to monitor incoming propaganda from external threats.[1][6] On November 30, 2016, legislators approved a measure within the National Defense Authorization Act to ask the U.S. State Department to take action against foreign propaganda through an interagency panel.[1][6] The legislation authorized funding of $160 million over a two-year-period.[1][7] Portman urged more U.S. government action to counter disinformation and propaganda.[1] Murphy said that after the election it was apparent the U.S. needed additional tactics to fight Russian disinformation.[1] Senator Ron Wyden, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, told The Washington Post: "There is definitely bipartisan concern about the Russian government engaging in covert influence activities of this nature."[1]

In the version of the bill incorporated into the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, the U.S. Congress would ask the United States Secretary of State to collaborate with the United States Secretary of Defense and other relevant Federal agencies to create a Global Engagement Center (GEC) to fight against propaganda from foreign governments, and publicize the nature of ongoing foreign propaganda and disinformation operations against the U.S. and other countries.[10] The bill said this inter-agency effort should: "counter foreign propaganda and disinformation directed against United States national security interests and proactively advance fact-based narratives that support United States allies and interests."[7] As of March 2018, none of the GEC's 23 analysts speaks Russian.[11]

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

It's still (?) technically illegal for the US government to propagandize to its own people through any media arm, so we're never exposed to RFA or VoA.

Postoyevsky posted:

https://twitter.com/BlackSocialists/status/1085954525519904769

checkmate

Postoyevsky posted:

https://twitter.com/BlackSocialists/status/1085954525519904769

checkmate

gradenko_2000 posted:

actually the Soviet Union was good

Postoyevsky posted:

https://twitter.com/BlackSocialists/status/1085954525519904769

checkmate

R. Guyovich posted:

https://twitter.com/BlackSocialists/status/1085515195848507394

R. Guyovich posted:

countdown until the bsa guy handcuffs himself to twitter headquarters loomer-style

GalacticAcid posted:

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

Remember when AOC met with them for some reason

R. Guyovich posted:

https://twitter.com/BlackSocialists/status/1085515195848507394

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/BlackSocialists/status/1086276792229359623

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

It's trite how often these sorts of socdems and anarchists keep bringing up the USSR and China, or the USSR and North Korea, when Cuba is an unambiguous success of actually existing socialism.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

It's trite how often these sorts of socdems and anarchists keep bringing up the USSR and China, or the USSR and North Korea, when Cuba is an unambiguous success of actually existing socialism.

gradenko_2000 posted:

Vietnam is pretty cool too imo

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

It's trite how often these sorts of socdems and anarchists keep bringing up the USSR and China, or the USSR and North Korea, when Cuba is an unambiguous success of actually existing socialism.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Presidential elections are how Americans process politics, and regardless of how you feel about electoralism, if you don't play the game you're never going to reach the vast majority of people. Compromising your support for left wing candidates isn't some kind of strategic calculus, it's just delaying the spread of class consciousness for 4 more years.

apropos to nothing posted:

the real failure of sanders is that he has refused to use his popularity to create an independent and organized mass movement. whether you think hes a socialist or social dem or liberal or whatever, the support he has could easily translate into at the very least a 10% popular vote running as an independent or 3rd party candidate and probably even more. that kind of base could form the foundations of a new mass socialist or labor party that could bring together the different left political tendencies into a specifically anti-capitalist national political party. obviously that would not overnight solve all the issues facing socialists in american politics, but it would objectively advance the political consciousness of the working class and advance militant labor struggles throughout the country in a really momentous way.

the complete failure of sanders or a lot of his supporters in the social democratic left milieu to advance this idea means that now we are left with the most widely read socialist publication debating which democrat should be supported or endorsed by socialists. the very issue of whether even a self described socialist running as a democrat like sanders should even be supported or endorsed by socialists should really be the debate that is being held, but because of his and other socialists' failure to raise the need for a broad based working class party, the sanders movement and a lot of the jacobin left have basically served as sheepdogs for the democrats since trumps election. because of this we are now in a situation where some "socialists" are supporting not even vaguely anti-capitalist candidates, like warren or gabbard.