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The Integrity Initiative is just one gear in a vast transatlantic propaganda machine to hype up the new Cold War with Russia to justify higher military budgets and destroy any critic who gets in the way, Max Blumenthal said. <\/p>\n
A batch of hacked documents, reportedly from the UK funded think-tank ‘Integrity Initiative’, apparently reveal the anti-propaganda site’s links to NATO. Among the revelations are supposed efforts to infiltrate European media and editing Wikipedia pages in an anti-Russian manner.<\/p>\n
Investigative journalist Max Blumenthal shared his thoughts on the new revelations about the Integrity Initiative project.<\/p>\n
He called this an astounding scandal where \u201ca previously unknown think tank has been exposed as a front for British military intelligence operating through clusters of journalists and politicians and operatives in NATO member states.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n In Blumenthal\u2019s opinion, it was done to hype up the new Cold War with Russia to justify increased military budgets and to attack left-wing political figures in NATO member states, including Jeremy Corbyn, through the Twitter account of the Integrity Initiative \u2013 \u201cwhat we have learned through these documents is in fact part of the operations funded by the British Foreign Office.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n He also pointed out that the mainstream media: \u201cThe New York Times, The Washington Post, which are fixating on Russian troll farms, are not touching this gigantic propaganda mill.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The #IntegrityInitiative<\/a> story is insane. If this was a shady org set up in the basement of a building in Moscow it would have been instantly blasted across the pages of the WaPo and NYT. But it’s just a British gov-funded disinfo outfit so…silence. https:\/\/t.co\/sStNzgtF4C<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Danielle Ryan (@DanielleRyanJ) December 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/center><\/div>\n \u201cIt makes perfect sense that the same journalists who are the media gate keepers in the UK would be very hostile to the idea of reporting critically on the military intelligence find group that they have worked with one way or another wittingly or unwittingly,\u201d<\/em> he continued.<\/p>\n As for the choice of authors by the think tank, e.g. ex-RT anchor Liz Wahl and researchers with ties to NATO, Blumenthal said that \u201cWahl is basically renting her services and her background as the RT anchor who resigned on air in protest of RT to British military intelligence and to NATO.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Since Liz Wahl<\/a> is paid by the Institute for Statecraft,\u201dwhich is a semi-secret think tank that has been the parent of the Integrity Initiative influence operation,\u201d<\/em> Blumenthal says that it shows \u201cher to be the ultimate \u201cuseful idiot<\/a>\u201d: while she is going and testifying to Congress about Russian propaganda she\u2019s propagandizing on behalf of a covert military intelligence front.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI think it is the covert part that is significant. We didn\u2019t know that the Institute for Statecraft was completely run by British military intelligence personnel and funded by the Foreign Office which is an umbrella organization, the umbrella ministry which oversees GCHQ and MI6 foreign intelligence service. This is who Liz Wahl is renting her services to. This revelation represents the pinnacle of hypocrisy,\u201d<\/em> he said.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n Commenting on Integrity Initiative claim to be an independent platform fighting disinformation, Blumenthal said that leaked documents show explicitly that \u201cthe Institute for Statecraft that oversees the Integrity Initiative aims to increase the militarization of the British society by indoctrinating British youth through military training, that they explicitly aim to increase the military budget by hyping up the Russian threat and want to divert money from public services to the military budget.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n