Actor Morgan Freeman is the face of the new “committee to investigate Russia”

Imagine this movie-script: a former KGB spy, angry at the collapse of his motherland, plots a course for revenge… narrates the ominous sounding voice of Morgan Freeman.

The hysteria continues, and this time Hollywood has been enlisted. No this is not The Onion, but yet another serious committee for serious people. Meet the “Committee to Investigate Russia” which launched on Tuesday and immediately garnered broad coverage in pop-culture and entertainment news sites for its release of a short Morgan Freeman narrated video which aims to “tell us the truth” about Russian meddling in the US election. “We have been attacked,” Freeman says in his familiarly reassuring voice while gazing into the camera. “We are at war.”

Not only did the video burn up social media on Tuesday, but the founders of the lobbying group behind the production, barely one day old, were given substantial air time on cable news from CNN to MSNBC. Of course, it helps that actor, director, and lifelong Democrat Rob Reiner is behind it – he’s teamed up with neocons David Frum, Max Boot, and national security insiders like James Clapper.

Similar to other recently launched ‘Russiagate’ campaigns and organizations we’ve profiled, the initiative is enjoying fawning mainstream media coverage from the very start. And apparently, the historical irony is completely lost on Hollywood, a town which itself fell victim to the original McCarthyite witch hunt and its celebrity ‘blacklist’.

Meanwhile, it appears the “Committee to Investigate Russia” is designed to appeal especially to the popular masses and consumers of pop media and celebrity culture magazines. For example, the following gushing roll out coverage from entertainment news site PopSugar reads like the “famed” Max Boot himself is on a hollywoodesque mission to save the world from an ‘EVIL’ cabal bent on total world domination:

The group’s advisory board is a who’s who of the most outspoken individuals in America today: former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, award-winning actor and director Rob Reiner, former George W. Bush aide and current Atlantic editor David Frum, AEI scholar Norm Ornstein, famed military historian Max Boot, and popular conservative pundit Charlie Sykes. And their mission? To educate the public on the threat that we face from Russia and to serve as a central location for updates, news, and information on all things related to the issue.

But like most commentary on the so-called ‘Russian connection’ there is one important caveat which appropriately skeptical readers will be sure to notice:

While we still don’t have definitive answers on much of what elapsed during the lead-up to the election — or, frankly, have a plan for what we can do to prevent this sort of thing going forward — what we do have is an issue that individuals on both sides of the aisle are desperate to get to the bottom of.

This of course translates to “well we know there’s a lot of smoke and no answers, umm… evidence” – but hey, Morgan Freeman’s noble and venerable wisdom-from-the-heavens-sounding voice will make it all true. Reiner told the Daily Beastthat Morgan Freeman was chosen as spokesman due to the “weight and gravitas” of his voice. Reiner further explained the purpose as, “We’re trying to break through and explain to people why this is important and that there is a serious problem here that people don’t seem to really grasp.”

While the public has been assured the committee is stacked with bipartisan experts, it would help if there were any actual… Russian experts. As one Al Jazeera journalist who covers Russian affairs pointed out, the advisory board is made up of the following “experts” (in their respective order):

• a neocon blogger


• a perjurer


• wonk with no Russia background


• the director of When Harry Met Sally


• right-wing talk radio guy

In spite of all the immediate positive media coverage the Committee to Investigate Russia ran into some embarrassing problems the moment its website went live. Actual Russian experts identified a glaring error. According to the independent Russian language news site Meduza:

The committee even ran into trouble when trying to identify General Valery Gerasimov, the author of an alleged hybrid military doctrine that some analysts treat as the blueprint for Russia’s “information warfare” against enemies like the U.S. and Ukraine. When the committee first launched its website, it accidentally posted a photo of Gerasimov’s predecessor, General Nikolay Makarov. The group eventually corrected its mistake, but not before Russian media expert Alexey Kovalev called them out, highlighting the rather obvious dangers of taking on “Russia” without Russian expertise.

This is not Valery Gerasimov. pic.twitter.com/102BecI8r2

— Alexey Kovalev (@Alexey__Kovalev) September 19, 2017

As with Hamilton68 before it, this new project will likely become a go-to source of information for mainstream media which similarly lacks in real expertise. Apparently the two-minute Morgan Freeman video is now being roundly mocked in Russian state media, presumably for its ultra-simplistic reading of the fall of the Soviet Union and Putin’s rise to power (Morgan Freeman assures us it was all about “revenge”). Perhaps one of many lessons here is this: you’d better divert some funds toward consulting real Russian experts and journalists before hiring a big-moneyed celebrity to “educate” the masses.

Via ZeroHedge

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“We have been attacked. We are at war,” says Morgan Freeman, as he appears in an unscrupulous propaganda video the likes of which have not been seen in the modern era.

Tuesday, The Committee to Investigate Russia, an organization whose advisory board includes James Clapper, the former director of National Intelligence; Charlie Sykes, the conservative political commentator; Max Boot, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; and Norman Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute whose board members include former vice president and neocon war monger, Dick Cheney.

These deep state politicos are joined in their propagandistic endeavor by Hollywood director Rob Reiner and neoconservative media attaché David Frum, the senior editor of The Atlantic.

What more is there to say? pic.twitter.com/sVCbUJOEX2

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) September 19, 2017

Make no mistake that the use of Morgan Freeman, as a tool for the War Party’s agenda, is a purely psychological tactic meant to instill trust in the words he is reading for his deep state puppet masters in an effort to elicit a fear response from the American public. Using such an iconic figure is a strategy by the neocon/neolib alliance to gain trust in the indoctrination being perpetuated by the imperialists — that Russia is the enemy.

The video, starring Morgan Freeman, is rife with nationalist imagery of bald eagles, American flags, and U.S. soldiers, reads as follows:

Imagine this movie script: A former KGB spy, angry at the collapse of his motherland, plots a course for revenge. Taking advantage of the chaos, he works his way up through the ranks of a post-Soviet Russia, and becomes president. He establishes an authoritarian regime, then he sets his sights on his sworn enemy: the United States. And like the true KGB spy he is, he secretly uses cyber warfare to attack democracies around the world. Using social media to spread propaganda and false information, he convinces people in democratic societies to distrust their media, their political processes, even their neighbors.

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And he wins.

Vladimir Putin is that spy, and this is no movie script.

We need our president to speak directly to us and tell us the truth. We need him to sit behind the desk in the Oval Office and say, “My fellow Americans. During this past election, we came under attack by the Russian government. I’ve called on Congress and our intelligence community to use every resource available to conduct a thorough investigation to determine exactly how this happened.”

The free world is counting on us for leadership. For 241 years, our democracy has been a shining example to the world of what we can all aspire to. And we owe it to the brave people who have fought and died to protect this great nation and save democracy. And we owe it to our future generations to continue the fight.

Interestingly, Russia is no more of an authoritarian regime than the United States is an authoritarian regime, as it was western politicos that essentially wrote the Russian constitution in an effort to create another subservient vassal nation beholden to the hegemonic dictates of the western alliance and the international banksters they serve.

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Furthermore, the entire narrative espoused by Freeman is completely fallacious.

The US government and its western allies are no longer able to indoctrinate the public with group think as they have lost control of the informational gates of society. With the advent of social media, large corporations, beholden to the ruling class, no longer have sole domain over reporting what is taking place both domestically and globally.

The ruling class perceives an informed American pubic as a direct threat to their imperialist agenda, thus a concerted drive to regain control of the informational gates by labeling anything that isn’t reported by the propagandists in the mainstream media as “fake news.”

Simply put, Americans have become disillusioned with a system that claims to safeguard people’s rights, but operates in a wholly different manner than what people are indoctrinated into generally believing.

It becomes easier to blame Russia, than to look in the mirror and realize people no longer trust their own governments due to their coming to understand the ominous realities of such things as the massive domestic spying apparatus revealed by Edward Snowden, legalized theft without conviction in the form of civil asset forfeiture,  the legalization of using propaganda meant for foreign audiences on the American public or the ability of the US government to indefinitely detain American citizens, without trial, under the National Defense Authorization Act, etc.

This is why the bash Russia narrative is rife on both sides of political spectrum. When leftist outlets like Attn: are promoting neocon propaganda, it is time to pay attention.

Essentially, the American public has largely come to understand that the United States government, in many instances, operates in a way that is antithetical to the values they have been taught are American. They have become keenly aware that their system is much more reminiscent of an oppressive regime like the Soviet Union, than one based on liberty, justice, and self-determination.

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Moreover, the assertions put forth by Freeman, regarding America “coming under attack by the Russian government,” has never been substantiated — meaning there has been NO evidence ever presented publicly to prove the non-stop allegations of Russian interference. In fact, a Clinton election staffer wrote a book, Shattered, claiming that the “blame Russia” narrative was concocted by Hillary Clinton, John Podesta and Robby Mook in the first 24 hours after her election loss.

Excerpt from Shattered:

“That strategy had been set within twenty-four hours of her concession speech. Mook and Podesta assembled her communications team at the Brooklyn headquarters to engineer the case that the election wasn’t entirely on the up-and-up. For a couple of hours, with Shake Shack containers littering the room, they went over the script they would pitch to the press and the public. Already, Russian hacking was the centerpiece of the argument.”

Even leftist intellectual icon, Noam Chomsky called the “Russiagate” hype “little more than a joke.” In fact, he says that this neo-McCarthyist/anti-Russia propaganda degrades one of the positive aspects of the Trump administration – a drive to reduce hostility with rival nuclear power Russia.

During a panel discussion with Chomsky on Democracy Now, one of the panelists referenced Chomsky’s commentary on the Trump/Russia collusion being “a joke,” and asked him,

“Could you give us your view on what’s happening and why there’s so much emphasis on this particular issue?”

Chomsky, the author of more than 100 books, including “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media,” in which he breaks down how U.S. corporate media has been weaponized as a means of controlling public opinion by propagandizing the American people, didn’t mince his words, noting:

“It’s a pretty remarkable fact that — first of all, it is a joke. Half the world is cracking up in laughter. The United States doesn’t just interfere in elections. It overthrows governments it doesn’t like, institutes military dictatorships.”

“Simply in the case of Russia alone—it’s the least of it—the U.S. government, under Clinton, intervened quite blatantly and openly, then tried to conceal it, to get their man Yeltsin in, in all sorts of ways,” said Chomsky. “So, this, as I say, it’s considered—it’s turning the United States, again, into a laughingstock in the world.”

The problem is that the neocon/neolib alliance, which reveals there is truly only one party — the war party — believes in the neoconservative Project for a New American Century (PNAC) doctrine, which elicits that America’s Cold War victory gives it supreme position as the global leader, and that position must be used to prevent the rise of any potential rival superpower. Hence, why the majority of US military action since the end of the Cold War has been aimed at client states of potential global competitors Russian and China.

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According to Noam Chomsky:

“Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic state can control its domestic enemies by force, but as the state loses this weapon, other devices are required to prevent the ignorant masses from interfering with public affairs, which are none of their business…the public are to be observers, not participants, consumers of ideology as well as products.”

Sadly, a figure like Morgan Freeman has chosen to operate as a tool for the imperialist war party and their insane agenda of escalation with global nuclear powers. Make no mistake that the ultimate goal, as unrealistic as it is, for these warmongers, is to foment regime change in Russia and China, thus solidifying the United States position as the sole hegemonic power in the world.

As journalist Caitlin Johnstone so eloquently puts it:

As viscerally disturbing as it is to see the actor who played God conducting a brazen psy-op on the American people, it is already a well-documented fact that the CIA, the NSA and the Pentagon have been balls deep in Hollywood for decades. They’re just being more blatant about that collaboration now.

Imperialism is the name of the game, and freedom, democracy, and self-determination do not figure into the equation but are simply great talking points to propagandize an unsuspecting public into believing the US’ militaristic adventurism is to better the world.

Shame on Morgan Freeman his unprincipled stand.

Hopefully, history will judge him accordingly if he doesn’t judge himself first and retract this stance.

Please share this story if you find watching Morgan Freeman shill for the imperialist warmongers sickening!

We need the president to tell the truth about Russia. — Morgan Freeman, Investigate Russia

由 ATTN: 发布于 2017年9月19日

“We Are At War” – Morgan Freeman Is The Face Of The New “Committee To Investigate Russia”

This report was originally published by Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge

Imagine this movie-script: a former KGB spy, angry at the collapse of his motherland, plots a course for revenge… narrates the ominous sounding voice of Morgan Freeman.

The hysteria continues, and this time Hollywood has been enlisted. No this is not The Onion, but yet another serious committee for serious people. Meet the “Committee to Investigate Russia” which launched on Tuesday and immediately garnered broad coverage in pop-culture and entertainment news sites for its release of a short Morgan Freeman narrated video which aims to “tell us the truth” about Russian meddling in the US election. “We have been attacked,” Freeman says in his familiarly reassuring voice while gazing into the camera. “We are at war.”

Not only did the video burn up social media on Tuesday, but the founders of the lobbying group behind the production, barely one day old, were given substantial air time on cable news from CNN to MSNBC. Of course, it helps that actor, director, and lifelong Democrat Rob Reiner is behind it – he’s teamed up with neocons David Frum, Max Boot, and national security insiders like James Clapper.

Similar to other recently launched ‘Russiagate’ campaigns and organizations we’ve profiled, the initiative is enjoying fawning mainstream media coverage from the very start. And apparently the historical irony is completely lost on Hollywood, a town which itself fell victim to the original McCarthyite witch hunt and its celebrity ‘blacklist’.

Meanwhile, it appears the “Committee to Investigate Russia” is designed to appeal especially to the popular masses and consumers of pop media and celebrity culture magazines. For example, the following gushing roll out coverage from entertainment news site PopSugar reads like the “famed” Max Boot himself is on a hollywoodesque mission to save the world from an ‘EVIL’ cabal bent on total world domination:

The group’s advisory board is a who’s who of the most outspoken individuals in America today: former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, award-winning actor and director Rob Reiner, former George W. Bush aide and current Atlantic editor David Frum, AEI scholar Norm Ornstein, famed military historian Max Boot, and popular conservative pundit Charlie Sykes. And their mission? To educate the public on the threat that we face from Russia and to serve as a central location for updates, news, and information on all things related to the issue.

But like most commentary on the so-called ‘Russian connection’ there is one important caveat which appropriately skeptical readers will be sure to notice:

While we still don’t have definitive answers on much of what elapsed during the lead-up to the election — or, frankly, have a plan for what we can do to prevent this sort of thing going forward — what we do have is an issue that individuals on both sides of the aisle are desperate to get to the bottom of.

This of course translates to “well we know there’s a lot of smoke and no answers, umm… evidence” – but hey, Morgan Freeman’s noble and venerable wisdom-from-the-heavens-sounding voice will make it all true. Reiner told the Daily Beast that Morgan Freeman was chosen as spokesman due to the “weight and gravitas” of his voice. Reiner further explained the purpose as, “We’re trying to break through and explain to people why this is important and that there is a serious problem here that people don’t seem to really grasp.”

While the public has been assured the committee is stacked with bipartisan experts, it would help if there were any actual… Russian experts. As one Al Jazeera journalist who covers Russian affairs pointed out, the advisory board is made up of the following “experts” (in their respective order):

• a neocon blogger


• a perjurer


• wonk with no Russia background


• the director of When Harry Met Sally


• right-wing talk radio guy

In spite of all the immediate positive media coverage the Committee to Investigate Russia ran into some embarrassing problems the moment its website went live. Actual Russian experts identified a glaring error. According to the independent Russian language news site Meduza:

The committee even ran into trouble when trying to identify General Valery Gerasimov, the author of an alleged hybrid military doctrine that some analysts treat as the blueprint for Russia’s “information warfare” against enemies like the U.S. and Ukraine. When the committee first launched its website, it accidentally posted a photo of Gerasimov’s predecessor, General Nikolay Makarov. The group eventually corrected its mistake, but not before Russian media expert Alexey Kovalev called them out, highlighting the rather obvious dangers of taking on “Russia” without Russian expertise.

This is not Valery Gerasimov. pic.twitter.com/102BecI8r2

— Alexey Kovalev (@Alexey__Kovalev) September 19, 2017

As with Hamilton68 before it, this new project will likely become a go-to source of information for mainstream media which similarly lacks in real expertise. Apparently the two-minute Morgan Freeman video is now being roundly mocked in Russian state media, presumably for its ultra-simplistic reading of the fall of the Soviet Union and Putin’s rise to power (Morgan Freeman assures us it was all about “revenge”). Perhaps one of many lessons here is this: you’d better divert some funds toward consulting real Russian experts and journalists before hiring a big-moneyed celebrity to “educate” the masses.