The real danger from Britain’s unhinged war propaganda is that relentless British provocations in Ukraine are tempting a nuclear winter.

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An apology to our readers. With so much grave tension over potential war escalation in the Middle East and the never-ending horror of genocide in Gaza, our choice of editorial topic this week may seem inappropriately frivolous.

Please bear with us. The relevance is the way Western news media are increasingly used by hostile powers to recklessly promote conflict and war, or to whitewash the crimes of Western states. This incitement is nothing short of criminal, and it speaks of an unbridled militarism akin to fascist totalitarianism.

Western media has degenerated into a criminal war propaganda system. One might say that such conduct has always been the case. However, there was a time when Western news media could project a semblance of genuine reporting and journalism. Not anymore. It’s full-on disinformation, cued by those who push a war agenda.

So, this week, British newspapers ran absurd articles claiming Russia was planning to use secret climate-change technology to darken skies over Albion. And you thought the sun never sets on the British Empire!

This is like a broken record, played over and over with theatrical variations, from Russia interfering in elections to cyberattacks to cutting power cables under the sea. Meanwhile, in the real world, Britain and its NATO allies blew up Russian gas pipes under the Baltic Sea.

Seriously, though, this week a clutch of newspapers, from broadsheets to tabloids, “informed” Britons they were in danger from a “doomsday technology” and “terrifying tactics” whereby Russia would interfere with the climate to darken the sun over Britain.

The articles (or rather the recycled article, because it is obvious that they all came from the same cut-and-paste source) claim that the Kremlin “might” be developing a new “sun-dimming” weapon that causes crops to fail and, generally, ruin British picnic trips to the seaside. Oh, how evil!

It was a blatant psychological operation to gaslight the British public to fear and despise Russia as a villain, à la James Bond movies.

As psy-ops go, this was a dull effort. The technical claims were ropey and full of half-backed conjecture and contradictions.

But why the timing?

Two weeks ago, the British government released a military spending review calling for a multi-billion-pound increase in its nuclear arsenal. The eye-watering budget was “justified” by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, labeling Russia an existential threat and telling Britons they must get ready for war.

Given that Britain’s lame economy cannot afford such military extravagance, the London government is under intense political pressure from an angry public. The out-of-control warmongering by the British state is so outrageous, the danger is that British rulers are brought into disrepute in the eyes of the public.

Meanwhile, the whole NATO arms racket is pushing London to spend even more on its military. Last week, we saw Mark Rutte lecturing Downing Street that if it doesn’t ratchet up spending above already untenable record levels, then Britons better start learning to speak Russian.

So the British deep state is in a quandary. It wants to squeeze the British economy to fund more militarism, but it is a politically fraught task. The state itself is risking dangerous social instability.

The remedy? Frighten the British public witless with lurid warnings about the “Russian menace”.

This explains why the British media are being manipulated more than ever to gaslight the public with fear and loathing of Russia. Stealing your sunshine may seem ridiculous, but the notion is to reinforce a steady stream of such Big Lies to foment prejudices and hostility towards Russia.

When we view how pathetically pliable the British media has become, it is redolent of fascist control. Reading the regular content of British news outlets is like reading a parody of Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984. On any given day, British “journalism” is a cocktail of crime stories, celebrity garbage, voyeurism, and hysterical warnings about Russia and China as existential threats. British culture has descended into a cesspit of lies and nihilism while the population is forced to endure economic misery and brain-dimming nonsense.

This is political degeneracy, like a time warp to the bygone Cold War years. It is so irrational and reprehensible, and the only way to make it credible is for the media propaganda system to kick in with intense gaslighting. The trouble is that the desperation tends to overplay the media to the point where it craters into open farce.

In reality, Russia is actually facing threats from British covert aggression. British military intelligence is working closely with the NeoNazi Kiev regime to carry out sinister provocations on Russian territory. Even the former head of MI6, Sir Richard Moore, admitted the agency’s covert involvement in Ukraine. “We cherish our heritage of covert action, which we keep alive today in helping Ukraine resist the Russian invasion,” he said publicly last year with typical British bombast.

The recent terror attacks on Russian passenger trains were likely the dirty handiwork of Britain’s MI6, orchestrating Ukrainian agents. In the worst incident, seven people were killed and hundreds injured when a bridge was blown up on a passing train in the Bryansk region.

Russia’s foreign intelligence services warned this week that Britain and the Kiev regime are planning false-flag operations to escalate the war in Ukraine and scupper any prospects of a diplomatic resolution. One such provocation could involve an attack on an American warship in the Black Sea and blaming it on Russian forces.

British news media, as with other Western states, have become an outright propaganda service for their ruling class and its deep state apparatus for militarism. Militarism is a desperate remedy for a bankrupt economy whose failure could bring the whole state crashing down. Western news media as a propaganda service has always been the case, but in recent years, the propaganda function has become even more blatant and gratuitous.

A disturbing example is how the Western media are “reporting” on the horrendous genocide in Gaza with minimalism and banality infused with lies and disinformation, such as repeating cynical Israeli denials of atrocities. There is no condemnation of the Israeli regime nor the complicity of Western governments in the genocide. In other words, the Western media functions to normalize outrageous war crimes and sanitize the mass murder of women and children with American and British weaponry. The Western media are themselves complicit and criminally so.

Meanwhile, as Israel, the United States, and NATO illegally demand regime change in Iran with threats of all-out war, the Western media outlets work overtime to justify the aggression by demonizing Iran with false claims about possible Iranian secret nuclear weapons. Again, criminal Western media complicity.

The real villain and threat to the Western public is their own undemocratic rulers, who are waging and inciting wars based on lies while driving their populations into economic collapse.

There is an awful irony in the British media’s latest brain-dimming propaganda. It is evidence that Perfidious Albion, which never stops bragging undue glory for defeating Nazi Germany, has ended up becoming a fascist dystopia that routinely uses the Big Lie technique of Nazi propagandists in the guise of daily public “news”.

The real danger from Britain’s unhinged war propaganda, such as the latest ridiculous claims about Russia turning British skies black, is that relentless British provocations in Ukraine are tempting a nuclear winter.