COMMENT MADE TO AN ARTICLE IN SPUTNIK
Anyone familiar with American "think tanks" knows
how to regard this assessment.
Think tanks in America, virtually all funded by billionaires
or with covert CIA funds, serve a couple of purposes.
They are places to give positions to individuals who have
served the establishment’s cause well, kind of pseudo-university campuses where
such people can be appointed as "Senior Fellow" or
"Distinguished Something or Other," in an effort to boost the credibility
of what they continue to write.
Virtually all American think tanks are glorified propaganda
mills intended to be treated as serious, independent intellectual institutions,
ones turning out academic-quality papers and analysis.
It is a good gimmick or a number of American billionaires
and the CIA (undoubtedly through covert channels, not directly) would stop
funding them.
Newspapers and magazines often quote from their publications
since its free seemingly-high quality material obtained for free. So too
television commentators.
Thus think tanks are, and I think this applies to virtually
all of them, a portion of what a former CIA propaganda expert described years
ago his "mighty Wurlitzer Organ," at which, he explained, he would
sit and bang on the keys "to get a story out there" - that is, out
there in the legitimate press where it passed for real information.
The Turkey-Russia rapprochement is one of the more
consequential events of recent times, having the potential to be what Americans
call “a game changer.”
So, of course, Stratfor’s assignment is to minimize the
public impact of these events. It is also to magically alter the perception of
American intelligence in this case from the blunderers they surely are to
ultra-clever heroes – all absolute rubbish.
