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Putin's Praetorians: Confessions of the Top Kremlin Trolls Paperback – October 24, 2017

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Putin’s Praetorians contains the stories of some of the people involved in a unique movement to debunk those who would demonize Russia in general and Putin in particular. The “confessions” of those labeled as “Kremlin Trolls” reveal the psychology behind one of the most effective social crusading moments in history. The colorful personalities and passionate stories in the book also reveal a largely unspoken truth about Vladimir Putin – the real reasons why so many admire and support Russia’s leader. The combination of contributions from some of the Internet’s most famous and influential media stars, combined with stories from typical Internet aficionados blows holes in the foundations of Russiagate. For the sake of authenticity and credibility, the "confessions" featured in this volume are published unedited, as received from the contributors. “Today a war against freedom of the press is being waged by the self-described guardians of democracy. Too few grasp the danger of this war. The book of Phil Butler could open your eyes…” - F. William Engdahl, author, Manifest Destiny: Democracy as Cognitive Dissonance “This book blows up the Russiagate conspiracy and debunks the whole idea that the internet revolution against the demonization of Russia is anything other than a spontaneous popular reaction against what is demonstrably a pack of lies.” – Charles Bausman - Editor and Publisher of Russia Insider “Why does the Kremlin need trolls when Google, who everybody gives permission to track all of their internet activity, claims to know what you are going to do before you do? Do you really think anyone but an Intelligence agency would have built such a vehicle?” - Jim W. Dean – Managing Editor of Veterans Today

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pamil Visions (October 24, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3981891902
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3981891904
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.65 x 9 inches
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Phil Butler is a digital, media, and geopolitical analyst, who was first influential in the Web technology space. After joining a prominent digital public relations firm in Germany, Pamil Visions PR, he became an influencer on internet media relations.

As a digital analyst and futurist, Butler examined and advised major web-based companies on leveraging online traditional and social media. His work during this time enabled technology startup companies to achieve success in a highly competitive market, providing forward-looking marketing services that promoted them to better understand the digital media landscape. As a result of his work in this field, Butler helped develop some of the most successful digital PR and marketing strategies.

At the onset of the new “media war” in between the United States and EU actors, Butler served as an analyst to help independent media better understand the tools being arrayed against Russia and all opponents to the globalist narrative. A sought-after media analyst and speaker, Butler has been a guest on RTTV, Russia One TV, NTV Russia, and a cited authority by dozens of other major independent media outlets worldwide.

He now lives on the Island of Crete in Greece with his wife Mihaela, and their young son Paul-Jules.

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Democracy Dies in Darkness and The truth is worth it.
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Democracy Dies in Darkness and The truth is worth it.
These two slogans from Washington Post and New York Times can break your hart apart. Slogans of these two, once highly estimated source if not truth but certainly diverse opinion and independent journalism, sound now like a sarcastic joke. There are many areas and topics covered by WaPo and NYT (and all other MS media, for that matter) where objective reader can find proofs for that assertion, but foolish, lying, arrogant, blind and literally dangerous agenda is so obvious as it is on Russia matters. Everything about Russia is negative and every Russian businessman is “oligarch with Kremlin or Putin ties”. Putin is villain in every aspect imaginable.You can read opinions and “opinions” of all anti-Russian politicians, Russia haters and “pundits”, Russian dissidents and criminals who escaped Russian legislation. But you can never hear real Russians, read or hear Putin interviews in full, which are so rare in western MSM anyway. On these rare occasions Putin is horribly redacted with cherry picking only parts of interview that shoe him in negative light, even pictures that accompany articles about Putin are also picked so the man looks insidious and diabolic.That is why this book is so important. The book is about small (but growing) mostly disconnected group of people who can not stand this dangerous hypocrisy any more. Book has some minor disadvantages as the articles of individual authors are not uniform, but this is insignificant. Important thing is that there is growing resistance to this horribly dangerous agenda perpetuated by many American politicians and mainstream media.Many thanks to Phil Butler for his brave endeavor.And last message by me: please, donate to theses people. Contrary to MSM lies they are not financed by anybody. You can find donate links on their portals like Russia Insider, The Vineyard of the Saker, New Eastern Outlook, Consortium News and others – you can find them in this eye-opening book.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2017
Phil Butler has given us a book whose time has come. “Putin’s Praetorians” is a kind of reverse “Empire Strikes Back” – an epic battle where many of the Jedi are just ordinary people without a light saber between them. He has pulled together a group of “speaking truth to power” independent social media citizens and journalists, who have been tagged as Russian trolls simply for not following corporate media’s line on US-Russian geopolitical tensions.

Demonization of one’s opponent is an old game taught in a 101 course in public relations. Focus group studies have verified that, absent knowing any of the facts, the public will tend to believe an alleged victim simply out of affiliation, as they would want people to believe them when making charges. The party being attacked, again without knowing anything about the dispute, is deemed to be questionable in his denial because, if he were guilty, that would be expected.

We find ourselves now in an international media war, where the powerful are attempting to protect themselves from exposure of their fake-news deeds via a take-no-prisoners offensive on alternative media, by singling out old and rising stars for special treatment by demonizing their message, if not their character.

Our author Mr. Butler explains how journalists who have challenged the West’s assault on an emerging Russia are being attacked as Russian trolls, not because Russia is a military threat as claimed, but because it will not accept the place the major western powers would like to assign it, that of a cooperative colony of the West.

Putin not only blocked this attempt, but saved the Russian economy to the extent where it became a major trade partner with the EU where it enjoyed a trade surplus with Moscow in the 110-billion USD per year range, which covered most of the EU’s Russian energy imports, a great deal for both. Even former President George W. Bush played up his buddy Vladimir Putin relationship in the years after 9-11.

Phil Butler was uniquely suited to write this book, not only for the fire in his belly, but due to his being an early adopter of social medial platforms and an expert PR analyst, He has watched social media turn into the digital ground-zero of today’s battle for the hearts and minds of the influential internet audience.

In his first book he has selected a handful of others who have been on the front lines of this battle to share their experiences with you. We are at a watershed moment in this digital age because we see the storm clouds gathering to eliminate dissenting views, especially the ones that most skillfully expose the corruption taking place in media.

This is the civil rights battle of the digital media generation, where journalists are targeted for registration as virtual enemy agents. We all need to fight back now while it is still legal to do it.

Jim W. Dean, Managing Editor, VeteransToday.com
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Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2018
Under a wooden school desk in Abilene, Texas decades ago is where I learned to fear and hate Russia. Of course that was the USSR back then that might nuke us at any moment so we had "Russia bomb drills" where we were required to crawl under our desk and cover our heads with a book. I never questioned this silly practice at the time as a truly believed a 1/2 inch piece of wood might save me from a nuclear detonation. Years later I realized this was more indoctrination than concern for safety. It worked. I hated and feared the evil Soviets.

Decades passed, the USSR fell and most of us saw Russia as a defeated people. We no longer feared Russia, but the hate never left. For some reason hating a white, conservative Christian people still seemed correct. I know that Pat Buchanan is not considered a PUTIN PRAETORIAN, but he is a conservative (not a NeoCon) writer that I have always trusted. I had never been to RT, never read Pepe Escobar and never doubted American Exceptionalism. Then came the Obama/McCain/Nuland Ukraine coup in spring of 2014. Upheaval, conflicting news reports, confusion. Crimea voted and returned to Russia. I recall seeing Pat Buchanan on TV saying something to the effect...."well of course Crimea returned to Russia with Putins assistance... They are 95% Russian speakers...most consider themselves Russians...they want no part of this COUP BY THE WEST TO UNDERMINE PUTIN and Russia's influence on Ukraine."

I was shocked. What was Pat talking about? I began visiting RT and Russia Insider. Someone mentioned a book by Stephen Kinzer "OVERTHROW". I read it and was embarrassed at how little I new of REAL American history. Three years ago I found many of the PRAETORIANS .....Escobar, The Saker, Finian Cunningham, Club Orlov, Andre Veltchk, Syrian Girl, etc. And web sites like The Duran, Fort Russ, Southfront, Moon of Alabama etc. The last 3-4 years have been a sea change. A lonely sea change as rarely do I come across anyone who has ANY CLUE what I am talking about. Most Americans, like me, were indoctrinated early by myths, cliches and propaganda.

Thank you Phil Butler for putting this book together!!! It helps to see how so many others came to their SEA CHANGE. I am indebted to your fine work here Mr. Butler.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on April 8, 2018
A great book by the author who does not follow the mainstream/liberal/zionist narrative.
Kater
4.0 out of 5 stars A welcome change in narrative about Putin and the Russia he is busy remodelling
Reviewed in Germany on September 25, 2018
The somewhat random order of the authors who tell their stories takes some time to adapt.
However, important is WHAT they tell us about Russia and Putin - a welcome and refreshing side compared to the stories from the Western MSM, of whom we are somewhat tired because most of them are so unbalanced. Possibly on purpose.
Therefore, whoever takes an interest in Russia and Putin, make sure you acquire this book.
Phil Butler certainly makes his points !
S. Henley
5.0 out of 5 stars Tells it like it is
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 17, 2017
Tells it like it is. Cuts through the disinfo that our governments in the west (the so-called 'free world') want us to believe about Russian troll factories. These are real people, of various nationalities and backgrounds, and they are not directed or paid by "The Kremlin" - in contrast to those in the many known troll farms in the west like Brigade77, Hamilton68, and the infamour Ukrainian "Ministry of Truth". I recommend this to anyone who has an interest in the "Russiagate" story
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Thomas Brandtner
5.0 out of 5 stars An interesting document on the present global information war
Reviewed in France on November 30, 2017
The authors of this book leave no doubt about where they stand: they are supporting the Russian viewpoint in the currently ongoing global information war that is putting Russia's still young and small, but rapidly growing and enthusiastic network of media journalists and bloggers against the huge Western multimedia empires. The fight is for credibility with mass audiences, credibility which directly leads to political influence and power. The authors in this book are convinced that Russia is the "good side" in this war, or at least the underdog that deserves fairer treatment than what she usually gets. Of course, the book itself is part of the information war, and so it contains a sizeable part of propaganda itself. One of the reasons for this book to appear was doubtlessly the reporting by Western media on the so-called "troll factory" in St. Petersburg where (or so it seems) several hundreds of hired hands produced all kinds of input to the social media and the internet, some of which must qualify as "disinformation" or "fake news" in the precise sense of the term. "Putin's praetorians" are mostly of a different caliber, although some of them do publish under an alias. The information they create and disseminate is mostly true, and of remarkable journalistic quality. They are the most potent challenge to the Western "interpretation monopoly" which has emerged since the Third World found its voice in the 1960s.
For everybody interested in the information aspects of Cold War 2.0, this book is indispensable. For the casual reader, it is highly entertaining and raises a few very important questions: about fairness, about freedom, about human rights, about democracy - and about the people trying to manipulate and undermine these values while constantly trumpeting their adherence to them, while those who are trying to defend them sometimes choose strange allies in their struggle. It also raises many questions about the real significance and character of President Putin: could it be that this man is a much better democrat, under the circumstances of his country, than what he is usually being given credit for ? Is he Russia's Churchill or De Gaulle ? Or is he just the most brilliant of the 21st century autocrats, a modern version of Tsar Alexander I., that great idol and ruthless manipulator of Western European liberals and conservatives during the Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic period ? Has he perhaps a touch of both ? The modern world is a complex place, certainly not the Manichean battleground of Democracy versus Communism which was the reality of Cold War 1.0. It was this basic character of the confrontation that gave U.S. Presidents of very different character, stature and ethical probity a common and generally solid moral advantage. It made even the excesses of McCarthyism a bit more understandable, somewhat like a case of legitimate self-defence gone too far. There were certainly few exciting media in the Soviet period: it was the time when Soviet citizens used to joke that "Pravda" (literally "Truth") was so named because it contained no truth, while "Izvestija" (literally "news") owed its name to the fact that it never contained anything new. How much things have changed since that time will only be appreciated when you follow "Russia Today", "Sputnik" or "The Vineyard of the Saker" in the present information war. This is not to say that Russian media and their allies in the blogosphere never contain false information or even "fake news", they do. But their power comes much more from the true facts they are reporting than from their lies. Lies are short-legged, as the saying goes, as the information war is finally about confidence. This book needs to be read with a critical eye, but then it is a treasure trove of highly valuable facts and insight.
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Russ G.
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book. Everyone in the "West" should read it
Reviewed in Canada on December 17, 2017
Excellent book. Everyone in the "West" should read it.
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