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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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Charles Bausman

which I can't recommend highly enough

Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2017

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Full disclosure - I am one of the 'trolls' profiled in this important book, which I can't recommend highly enough. If you want to understand what a massive hoax the whole Russiagate scam is, then you could do no better than read this book. Butler has done the world a great service - telling the stories of individuals who, mostly by accident, found themselves speaking out against a massive lie being perpetrated by the mainstream media - that Russia was our 'enemy', and the relentless, dishonest, and shameless demonization of Putin and all things Russian. The massive revulsion against modern Russia from US media and foreign policy elites is the last hurrah of a dying system, and this is the story of everyday people who simply stood up and said 'the emperor has no clothes'. I can testify to how powerful that is - if you have the truth on your side, no billion dollar broadcast system and famous names like the NY Times or the Washington Post, can stand up to it. These behemoths are imploding because they have been caught red-handed lying - there is no other word for it. Think what you like about Trump - in this one question which he keeps hammering home he is absolutely 100% correct - the bulk of the American media on many, many topics - but nowhere more so than on Russia - are completely craven, bald-faced, liars. This book tells the story of a handful of people who simply pointed out the obvious. Now the same rotten US establishment is trying very hard to sell the idea that this popular revolt was in fact fomented by those crafty Russians, that we are somehow the victims of a massive manipulation - the whole Russiagate lie (again!) - but people aren't buying it. Even though I know a lot of people in this 'movement', I was still inspired by their stories, and learned a lot I did not know. Butler has done a great service by hammering yet another nail in the coffin of the psychopaths who run Washington. Enjoy this book, it is a lot of fun!

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Colin McKay

Praised with faint damnation

Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2017

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Rather like the "Kremlin Trolls" whose personal confessions comprise this timely tome, this reviewer feels driven by a central desire – that the truth should be told. And so my submission here must be in the form of what might be called a "negative" review.

This book is far from perfect. If the reader is of an inclination to only appreciate and offer kudos to flowing and eloquent prose, and an absence of grammatical and other errors – that is to say, to a polished work of professional persuasion – then reading Putin's Praetorians will gift such a mind-set ample cause for valid critique.

For my part, I suggest that these "flaws" only add a considerable weight to the strength of the argument contained within its pages.

Here you will find the personal testimonies – each related with a clearly heartfelt sincerity – of real and endearingly authentic, predominantly "common" human beings, from a wide array of private, professional, and political backgrounds spanning the globe, including some surprising locales, such as the Amazon jungle. Each one of these former "sleepers" testifies with a compelling individuality, to having been spontaneously "activated" into action, not by Putin or "the Kremlin" or by "Russian propaganda", but instead, by a profoundly awakened personal conscience, and a provoked sensitivity to evidences of rank injustice, double standards, and bald-faced lies by the Western Establishment, now directed against Russia, her leaders, people, values, and culture, and against any, great or small, who would dare to voice any opinion even faintly deviant from an official narrative so clearly permeated with and driven by unwarranted malice and hostility.

This book contains a plethora of fascinating and at times shocking facts and insights concerning the backgrounds to and the actualities of the geopolitical, military, and (dis)information conflicts in and about the post-Soviet space at the behest of US-NATO hegemonic and financial interests, including Chechnya and the wider Caucasus region, Georgia 2008, and Ukraine 2014 through present. Many of these insights come to us borne of direct, on-the-ground experience of their narrator-confessors. These "trolls" can be described as unsung and for the most part unknown (in the West) heroes of these conflicts, and of the now rapidly growing global volunteer war against what has come to be branded "fake news". It is a worthy purchase for this information alone.

Without wishing in any way to detract from the fascinating and highly informative confessions of these "unknowns", two cameo contributions in the concluding chapters warrant a special acknowledgement for their insight, intelligence, forthrightness, erudition, humility, and unadorned spirit of a common humanity, desirous only of peace and friendship – those of former Russian special forces "Alpha group" member Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav ("Stas") Stankevich, and of the Editor-in-Chief of the RT network, Margarita Simonyan.

In a world where it can often seem as though the Western Establishment corporate media and "Deep State" monopoly's 24/7/365 tsunami of lies, half-truths, doublethink, distortions, outright fabrications, and increasingly overt censorship represents an overwhelming and unstoppable force for evil, this book will offer the thoughtful and conscientious reader a sense of hope, and inspiration to do likewise.

That is, to "speak truth to power".

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Karl Goran Olsson

A “Must Read” about those who must be read and followed.

Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2017

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The media could not be loaded.

Phil Butler’s collection of “Confessions the top Kremlin Trolls” does reveal the actual persons behind the @’s on Twitter and Facebook.

Most of the “Trolls” are already known to me, and I recognize their journeys during which the Sochi Winter Olympics and the following events in Ukraine at the beginning of 2014, became the drips that made the glass flow over.

Therefore, many like me will find the revelation by the Russian “Trolls,” like Andrei (the Saker), Vladimir and Stas, the most interesting.
The outstanding take away from reading the book is the complete picture Phil paints of a coordinated, multi-trillion dollar media attack bankrolled by sources also identified in the book.

An attack against the only country (and its leader) in the world standing up against the final (and waning) attempts by the “indispensable nation” to extinguish the independence of all other nations in the world.

There is only one flaw in the book. Phil should stop to use “globalism” and “New World Order” as the names of the threat against humanity.

Instead, he should call it for what it is, the hegemonic empire of bankers and their large corporations defending their existing greedy power of the Fed’s fiat-USD.

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S. Henley

Tells it like it is

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 17, 2017

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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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miki

Truth can be different then what goverment media tell you

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 12, 2018

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So far so good . Interesting stories by people who knows the truth...

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Thomas Brandtner

An interesting document on the present global information war

Reviewed in France on November 30, 2017

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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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Kater

A welcome change in narrative about Putin and the Russia he is busy remodelling

Reviewed in Germany on September 25, 2018

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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 !

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Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on April 8, 2018

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A great book by the author who does not follow the mainstream/liberal/zionist narrative.

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