A tankie [13] agent carried out "false flag" vandalism of a synagogue and other Jewish targets in Detroit, attempting to blame it on the Azov Battalion [14] and tar Ukrainians. She turns out [15] to have been a member [16] of the retro-Stalinist Workers World Party [17] and a staff writer [18] for openly dictator-shilling MintPress News [19]—which has itself engaged in "false flag" disinformation [20], blaming the Syrian rebels for chemical attacks against their own strongholds by the Bashar Assad regime. MintPress has also received funding directly from the Assad Lobby [21]. In Episode 176 [22] of the CounterVortex podcast [23], Bill Weinberg examines this ultra-cynical propaganda nexus, and asks whether such agents are mere "useful idiots [24]" for the Kremlin, or actual conscious assets operating in the "gray zone [25]"—the sphere of "hybrid warfare [26]" in which the line between state and non-state actors is blurred [27]. Listen on SoundCloud [22] or via Patreon [28].
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