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[[File:US intel.PNG|right|300px|thumb|U.S. intelligence agencies worked closely with Ukrainian intelligence to spread [[anti-Russian]] misinformation and propaganda.]]

[[File:US intel.PNG|right|300px|thumb|U.S. intelligence agencies worked closely with Ukrainian intelligence to spread [[anti-Russian]] misinformation and propaganda.]]

The Kyiv “Independent” was slapped together in November 2021 with what the Committee to Protect Journalists called “an emergency grant from the European Endowment for Democracy.”  The European Endowment for Democracy is a spinoff of the U.S. government-funded “[[NGO]]” National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which according to its own co-founder was set up to do overtly what the [[CIA]] used to do covertly, namely orchestrate [[coup]]s and manage narratives to advance U.S. interests. A page on an NED website says that “All EU member states are members of EED’s Board of Governors, together with members of the [[European Parliament]] and civil society experts."<ref>https://www.cima.ned.org/donor-profiles/european-endowment-democracy/</ref>  This makes ''The Kyiv Independent'' a media outlet funded by a government-run “NGO” being forcefully pushed in front of millions of western eyeballs on [[Twitter]], a major [[Silicon Valley]] corporation that people have come to rely on for getting information about the world. In the same way Silicon Valley facilitates government [[censorship]] by proxy, it also facilitates government [[propaganda]] by proxy.<ref>https://humanevents.com/2022/03/15/the-fog-of-information-war-in-ukraine/</ref>

The Kyiv “Independent” was slapped together in November 2021 with what the Committee to Protect Journalists called “an emergency grant from the European Endowment for Democracy.”  The European Endowment for Democracy is a spinoff of the U.S. government-funded “[[NGO]]” National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which according to its own co-founder was set up to do overtly what the [[CIA]] used to do covertly, namely orchestrate [[coup]]s and manage narratives to advance U.S. interests. A page on an NED website says that “All EU member states are members of EED’s Board of Governors, together with members of the [[European Parliament]] and civil society experts."<ref>https://www.cima.ned.org/donor-profiles/european-endowment-democracy/</ref>  This makes ''The Kyiv Independent'' a media outlet funded by a government-run “NGO” being forcefully pushed in front of millions of western eyeballs on [[Twitter]], a major [[Silicon Valley]] corporation that people have come to rely on for getting information about the world. In the same way Silicon Valley facilitates government [[censorship]] by proxy, it also facilitates government [[propaganda]] by proxy.<ref>https://humanevents.com/2022/03/15/the-fog-of-information-war-in-ukraine/</ref>

[[File:Russian tank flowers.PNG|right|300px|thumb|In another embarrassing propaganda stunt that backfired miserably, NATO/Ukraine delivered Russian tanks that were destroyed in battle to European capitals which were placed outside Russian embassies. Peace activists and anti-war protesters covered the tanks with flowers.<ref>[https://youtu.be/4luHzc76uiY NATO nations face 'revolt' over anti-Putin stunt; After Germany, flowers on Russian tank in Latvia], Hindustan Times, March 1, 2023.</ref>]]

[[File:Russian tank flowers.PNG|right|300px|thumb|In another embarrassing propaganda stunt that backfired miserably, NATO/Ukraine delivered Russian tanks that were destroyed in battle to European capitals which were placed outside Russian embassies. [[Grassroots]] peace activists and anti-war protesters covered the tanks with flowers.<ref>[https://youtu.be/4luHzc76uiY NATO nations face 'revolt' over anti-Putin stunt; After Germany, flowers on Russian tank in Latvia], Hindustan Times, March 1, 2023.</ref>]]

==Background==

==Background==

[[File:Ukro-nazis.jpg|right|290px|thumb|Young western Ukrainians, 2014.  Written on the wall: “Ukraine for Ukrainians.”]]

[[File:Ukro-nazis.jpg|right|290px|thumb|Young western Ukrainians, 2014.  Written on the wall: “Ukraine for Ukrainians.”]]