David GIbbs: How Intelligence Services Captured Academia & Journalism

The CIA and military intelligence were major funders of overseas social science research, creating secret consulting relationships that sanitized academic output.

The CIA employed hundreds of journalists under secret contracts, with The New York Times being a major conduit for influence.

Academics and journalists ignore evidence that NATO expansion provoked the war and suppress discussions of early peace talks due to career risks and institutional conformity.

Academics and journalists parrot the unprovoked war narrative while ignoring clear evidence of Western warnings and peace negotiation attempts.

The establishment promoted claims of Russian election interference despite peer-reviewed studies showing the campaigns had no detectable influence.

A "Vietnam moment" will occur if the Ukraine war narrative collapses, leading to a loss of public support for the war and the foreign policy establishment.

European elites may be internalizing their own propaganda and genuinely believing that Russia can be militarily defeated.

Group psychology and the consensus of media and academics force individuals to fall in line, even when they know the claims are false.