The apparatus against communism, reconciled for the suppression of populism
The American Intelligence Community is trying to carry « a second undeclared cold war » against populism -in America and in the world -says Mike Benz, a former member of the first Trump administration and president of the Freedom for Freedom online. American intelligence services have used the created device to stop the ascent of left communism to now carry a global war against right -wing populism. It is a part of US history that should now be declared, says Mike Benz.
« Communism is a threat to democracy, they said, because the will of the people usurp and imposes the control of the government over the press, on the means of production, wealth and redistribution, » says Mike Benz. « But they say that populism is a threat to democracy because they weaken democratic institutions. For them, democratic institutions means anyone who supports the system. The press is called by them as a democratic institution if it means controlled news, not an independent show. The democratic institution is The New York Times. for example. ”
Benz appealed to declassify the actions of the American community of information to suppress populism, and then asked the Congress to investigate these actions. « The idea is that any action that undermines their control is cataloged as a threat to democracy and is subjected to repression through the same device they have built during the war against communism. I think this story can only be known through desecretizations and hearings in Congress. the community of information ”.
Mike Benz is Nina Jankowicz’s overthrown, for a short time (in 2022) officially in charge of combating misinformation in the Joe Biden administration. Jankowicz had studied a semester in Russia, and in 2017 he was a counselor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through a Fulbright-Clinton scholarship, then involving himself in the presidential campaign of Volodimir Zelenski, in 2019. An article then noted: « » Experts in misinformation « , including Jankowicz, in » Experts » Islamism of the Bush period.
The second Trump administration initiated some actions in the direction mentioned by Mike Benz. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the closure of Global Engagement Center, criticizing its role in suppressing the free expression of Americans. « In the last five years, organizations such as GEC, created by the leading class, have almost destroyed the American history of free expression, » Rubio wrote, in an article published by The Federalist. « The enemies of freedom of expression have a new language in which they justify their authoritarian imposed. I speak of misinformation, which they often say comes from foreign governments and is the number one threat to our democracy. In order to protect our democracy, this misinformation must be identified and eliminated. »
Rubio highlighted a report on Covid-19 origins, published in 2020 by GEC. The report showed that speculation about the artificial origin of the virus, as a biological weapon, are part of a campaign to misinform Russia. Rubio has shown that GEC not only cataloged such statements as misinformation, but took several Internet users in the collimator who echo this theory. A few years later, the entire American mainstream press, which is considered eminently democratic by American services, embraced the theory of virus creation in a laboratory.
In the first days of his second term, President Trump signed a decree prohibiting government censorship. « Our government will no longer catalog the free expression of citizens as misinformation or erroneous information, the favorite words of censorship and those who want to stop the free exchange of ideas and, in the end, progress, » Trump said at the World Economic Forum.
