Archives Disinformation - New Eastern Outlook

While Congress revisits the MK‑Ultra files, the question arises: why now? — but the real story is not the CIA’s failed experiments of half a century ago, but today’s systems of influence through algorithms, addictive products, and information noise.

The US media has invested in recent years in rehabilitating Uyghur Chinese extremists now based in Syria, depicting them as “freedom fighters” whose ultimate goal is to “liberate” (carve off) territory in western China and are preparing to fight China across Eurasia — adding to an already ongoing dirty war the US has been waging against China over the 20th and 21st centuries.

The creation of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) provoked not surprise but irritation: an old propaganda tool simply got a new label and an even more aggressive tuning.