De aanval op RT is niet ingegeven door de zogenaamde verspreiding van Russische propaganda, maar heeft alles te maken met RT als platform voor kritiek op de ijskoude, inhumane politiek, zowel in binnen- als buitenland, die door de VS wordt gevoerd.....
In een artikel van Truthdig, dat ik op het blog van Stan Van Houcke vond, stelt journalist en professor Chris Hedges dat de VS niet langer als een democratie kan worden gezien.........
Via algoritmes van Google, Facebook en Twitter wordt de gebruiker weggeleid van linkse, progressieve en anti-oorlog websites, waarin zoals gezegd grote kritiek wordt geleverd op de ijskoude inhumane neoliberale en oorlogszuchtige politiek van de VS........ Zo zag de World Socialist Web Site zag haar internetverkeer op Google dalen met 74%!!! Google heeft op haar YouTube kanaal RT verwijderd uit haar voorkeur zenders en Twitter heeft alle reclames voor RT geblokkeerd.......
Niet vreemd dus dat Hedges stelt dat 'linkse critici', na marginalisering door de staat, nu volledig moeten worden genegeerd....... (wat men 'links' noemt in de VS, is dat in veel gevallen niet in Europa)
Veel organisaties die eerder nog de persvrijheid verdedigden zoals Human Rights Watch, the Committee to Protect Journalists, ACLU en PEN, laten zich nu gebruiken als lakeien voor het fascistische neoliberalisme. Hierbij dient nog opgemerkt te worden dat het overgrote deel van de reguliere westerse media in handen is van ofwel superrijken dan wel commerciële conglomeraten, die de pest hebben aan alles wat maar kritiek heeft op de huidige neoliberale status quo en wat naar links ruikt (u snapt dat deze twee vaak uit dezelfde hoek komen......
De aanklacht dat mediaorganen als RT Russische propaganda verspreiden is een smerig excuus om de persvrijheid volledig de nek om te draaien...... Immers nog steeds is er geen flinter bewijs voor Russische inmenging in binnenlandse politiek, zowel in de VS als de EU, terwijl men elkaar in de politiek en de reguliere media nakakelt dat dit wel zo is, heeft men keer op keer geen antwoord op de vraag naar bewijzen......
Het is in de EU overigens niet anders, men beschuldigt Rusland van het verspreiden van propaganda, zonder ook maar één voorbeeld te noemen. De reguliere (massa-) media doen hier braaf aan mee, terwijl je voor het brengen van nepnieuws, of 'fake news' zo u wilt, juist bergen bewijzen kan vinden in die reguliere media. Men wil simpelweg niet, dat de bevolking deze leugens kan doorprikken met feiten, die lullig genoeg nu juist op de sociale media zijn te vinden......
Lees het uitstekende artikel van Hedges en geeft het door!
RT America Torched in Witch Hunt ’17
In
one of the most horrendous blows to press freedom since the
anti-communist witch hunts of the 1950s, the U.S. Department of
Justice has
forced the
news broadcaster RT
America to
file under the Foreign
Agents Registration Act (FARA).
The
assault on RT America, on which I host the show “On
Contact,”
has nothing to do with the dissemination of Russian propaganda. It is
driven by RT America’s decision to provide a platform to critics of
American capitalism and imperialism, critics who lambast a system of
government that can no longer be called democratic. And it is
accompanied by the installation of algorithms by Google, Facebook and
Twitter that divert readers away from left-wing, progressive and
anti-war websites, including Truthdig. The World Socialist Web Site
has seen its search traffic from Google fall by 74 percent since
April. Google, in a further blow, this month removed RT from its list
of “preferred” channels on YouTube. Twitter has blocked all
advertising by the channel.
Put
the censorship campaigns together and the message is clear: Left-wing
critics, already marginalized by the state, must be silenced.
It
would seem, given how we are locked out of the corporate media and
public broadcasting, that the assault is overkill. But the ideology
that sustains the corporate state, the “free market”
and neoliberalism has
lost all credibility. The corporate state has no counterargument to
its critics. The nakedness of corporate greed, exploitation and
repression is transparent across the political spectrum. The
ideological fortress erected by corporate power and sustained by its
courtiers in the press and academia has collapsed. All it has left is
a crude censorship.
Complicit
in this censorship is a bankrupt liberal class. The institutions
tasked with defending press freedom—including the ACLU, Human
Rights Watch, the Committee to Protect Journalists and PEN—along
with major news outlets such as The New York Times, have served as
the corporate state’s useful idiots. Only a handful of journalists,
including Truthdig
Editor in Chief Robert Scheer,
grasp and decry the very real danger before us.
The
charge that RT and these left-wing sites disseminate “foreign
propaganda” is the beginning, not the end, of a broad campaign
against press freedom. Once this precedent of state censorship is
normalized, far more tepid and compliant media outlets will be
targeted. Max Blumenthal wrote two good pieces on AlterNet about the
puppet masters behind the censorship campaign. [Click here and here.]
The
venom of the state toward its critics was displayed in
a report by
the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), “Assessing Russian
Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections,” issued Jan. 6.
In the report, seven pages were specifically directed at RT America,
much of the language focused on the journalist Abby
Martin.
Martin became one of the best-known critics of the corporate state
during the Occupy movement. Her show on RT, “Breaking the Set,”
which had been off the air for nearly two years when the report was
published—a glaring error for an intelligence community awash in
budgets of tens of billions of dollars—was denounced as a
disseminator of “radical discontent.” The report complained that
RT gave airtime to third-party candidate debates. The document
attacked RT hosts for asserting that the two-party system does not
represent the views of at least one-third of the population and is a
sham. It excoriated the network for covering Black Lives Matter,
Occupy Wall Street and fracking.
The
report charged:
RT’s reports often characterize the United States as a “surveillance state” and allege widespread infringements of civil liberties, police brutality, and drone use.
RT has also focused on criticism of the US economic system, US currency policy, alleged Wall Street greed, and the US national debt. Some of RT’s hosts have compared the United States to Imperial Rome and have predicted that government corruption and “corporate greed” will lead to US financial collapse.
The
“Alice in Wonderland” quality of the report would be laughable if
it was not so ominous. The United States, in fact, is a surveillance
state. Civil liberties have been eviscerated. Police brutality is
endemic. Our drone wars have made us state terrorists. The economic
structure serves the wealthiest corporations and oligarchs. Wall
Street is run by a criminal class. Our debt is unsustainable,
especially once the dollar is no longer the world’s reserve
currency,
and like all decaying empires we are headed for collapse. The DNI
report clarifies what the ruling elites fear—not fake news but the
truth. And the truth is that the elites have destroyed the country
and are traitors to democracy.
The
DNI report was followed by a congressional hearing on “Extremist
Content and Russian Disinformation Online,” held Oct. 31.
Executives of Facebook, Twitter and Google were grilled about their
roles in distributing fake news and extremist content that in the
words of Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley included “spread[ing]
stories about abuse of black Americans by law enforcement.” The
executives promised to double down on their censorship, and they did
so.
The
ruling elites are desperately trying to shift the focus away from the
cause of the political insurgencies on the left and the right:
extreme social inequality. It is for this reason that critics who
highlight and explore the roots and causes of social inequality must
be discredited or silenced. If social inequality is accepted as the
driving force behind the decay of the American state and the mounting
rage of much of the population, then the structures that profit from
this inequality will come under assault. All the elites have left is
to paint their critics as “agents of a foreign power.”
The
United States increasingly resembles a totalitarian state. Our anemic
democracy is on life support. A reasoned debate about social
inequality or the crimes and misjudgments of empire is becoming
impossible. This presages a frightening future. There will be many
“good” Americans who, when the history of this moment is
recorded, will be responsible. And one day, to their surprise, they
too will be victims.
Chris
Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, New York Times best
selling author, former professor at Princeton University, activist
and ordained Presbyterian minister. He has written 11 books,
including the New York Times best-seller “Days of Destruction, Days
of Revolt” (2012), which he co-authored with the cartoonist Joe
Sacco. His other books include "Wages of Rebellion: The Moral
Imperative of Revolt," (2015) “Death of the Liberal Class”
(2010), “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of
Spectacle” (2009), “I Don’t Believe in Atheists” (2008) and
the best-selling “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the
War on America” (2008). His book “War Is a Force That Gives Us
Meaning” (2003) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle
Award for Nonfiction and has sold over 400,000 copies. He writes a
weekly column for the website Truthdig in Los Angeles, run by Robert
Scheer, and hosts a show, On Contact, on RT America.
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Zie ook: 'WikiLeaks: Seth Rich Leaked Clinton Emails, Not Russia'
'FBI, de spin in het Russiagate web........'
'Hillary Clinton en haar oorlog tegen de waarheid........ Ofwel een potje Rusland en Assange schoppen!'
'Murray, ex-ambassadeur van GB: de Russen hebben de VS verkiezingen niet gemanipuleerd'
''Russische manipulaties uitgevoerd' door later vermoord staflid Clintons campagneteam Seth Rich......... AIVD en MIVD moeten hiervan weten!!'
'Obama gaf toe dat de DNC e-mails expres door de DNC werden gelekt naar Wikileaks....!!!!'
'VS 'democratie' aan het werk, een onthutsende en uitermate humoristische video!'
'Democraten VS kochten informatie over Trump >> Forgetting the ‘Dirty Dossier’ on Trump'
'Hillary Clinton moet op de hoogte zijn geweest van aankoop Steele dossier over Trump........'
'Flashback: Clinton Allies Met With Ukrainian Govt Officials to Dig up Dirt on Trump During 2016 Election'
'FBI Director Comey Leaked Trump Memos Containing Classified Information'
'Publicly Available Evidence Doesn’t Support Russian Gov Hacking of 2016 Election'
'Russia Is Trolling the Shit out of Hillary Clinton and the Mainstream Media'
'CIA chef Pompeo waarschuwt voor complot van WikiLeaks om de VS op alle mogelijke manieren neer te halen....... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!'
'Russische 'hacks' door deskundigen nogmaals als fake news doorgeprikt >> Intel Vets Challenge ‘Russia Hack’ Evidence'
'Rusland krijgt alweer de schuld van hacken, nu van oplichters Symantec en Facebook....... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!'
'Russiagate, of: hoe de media u belazeren met verhalen over Russische bemoeienis met de VS presidentsverkiezingen........'
'CIA deed zich voor als het Russische Kaspersky Lab, aldus Wikileaks Vault 8.....' (zie ook de andere links onder dat bericht)
'Campagne Clinton, smeriger dan gedacht............' (met daarin daarin opgenomen de volgende artikelen: 'Donna Brazile Bombshell: ‘Proof’ Hillary ‘Rigged’ Primary Against Bernie' en 'Democrats in Denial After Donna Brazile Says Primary Was Rigged for Hillary')
'Clinton te kakken gezet: Brazile (Democratische Partij VS) draagt haar boek op aan Seth Rich, het vermoorde lid van DNC die belastende documenten lekte'
'Rusland zou onafhankelijkheid Californië willen uitlokken met reclame voor borsjt.......'
'Kajsa Ollongren (D66 vicepremier): Nederland staat in het vizier van Russische inlichtingendiensten....... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!'
