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All the King's researchers w/Asa Winstanley and Kit Klarenberg

The East is a Podcast

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The CIA's Secret Propaganda Campaign in Yemen

British intelligence cut out was running a secret propaganda campaign in Yemen to effectively sell the UN's highly inequitable peace deal to Yemenis. They hoped that citizens would get on board with the concept of peace more generally and they could hide the fact that this was all about getting them to sign up to the UN deal. Then when everyone was suitably manipulated and into supporting peace they could drop the UN peace deal, which failed miserably. China seems to have approached Riyadh in in in private and made numerous offers to them if they you know stood who stopped the war and then now it stopped. This leads the CIA director to fly to Riyadh for a very angry conversation because it completely wrong fitted them.

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