The NED funded Johannesburg conference will be a major attempt to win South African civil society over to the West. Pressure is mounting for NGOs to pull out of this conference and many have already done so, says the writer.
In 2018 the New York Times shared the Pulitzer Prize with the Washington Post for its coverage of Russiagate , the claim that Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 US election to Donald Trump as a result of Russian intervention in support of Trump.
The analysis published in the Columbia Journalism Review was a major scandal for American journalism and showed, in particular, the ease with which intelligence agents had been able to spin the media narrative in the New York Times and other publications. To my astonishment I found my name drawn into the frenzied and, frankly, unhinged reporting in the Daily Maverick. My only connection with New Frame was that I had once had a short meeting with two of the editors to let them know about a Pan-African socialist thinktank I was starting and to enquire about the process of submitting opinion pieces to the publication.
The ongoing attempts to smear anyone who is a critic of the West as a patsy for Russia or China expanded to include Iran when the South African government took Israel to the International Court of Justice. Suddenly our government, and some critics of Israel, were accused of being in the pay of Iran. Of course no evidence was given for this claim, which was repeatedly stated as fact by certain writers.
The thriving ‘disinformation studies’ industry in the universities never studies US or Israeli propaganda. It is only focused on Russia and China, and, in the case of the paper by Wasserman and his co-authors is little more than conspiracy theory dressed up as ‘research’. The same is true of various ‘fact checking’ organisations around the world, many of which are funded by the US government.
But things are about to get worse. In an important article in the Sunday Times Ronnie Kasrils blew the whistle on a massive civil society conference to be held in Johannesburg later this month. The conference is to be held by the World Movement for Democracy, a project of the National Endowment for Democracy .
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