{"id":285617,"date":"2016-12-18T04:40:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T03:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/where-is-this-digital-watergate-propaganda-campaign-going\/"},"modified":"2016-12-18T04:40:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T03:40:54","slug":"where-is-this-digital-watergate-propaganda-campaign-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/where-is-this-digital-watergate-propaganda-campaign-going\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is this Digital Watergate Propaganda Campaign Going?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Russians are coming! Once again, the structural bias of the American news media in favor of the \u2018official version\u2019 turns them into a propaganda tool. Intelligence sources point out Russian interference in recent elections. However, WikiLeaks-related sources say the Democratic Party\u2019s mail leak was the working of a whistleblower within that institution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExperts point out\u2026\u201d, \u201cSpecialists agree\u2026\u201d, \u201cThere is a consensus among intelligence agencies \u2026\u201d While the plot\u2019s been cooking for several months now, it was the DNC leaks and Hillary Clinton\u2019s subsequent defeat against Donald Trump what finally put the \u2018serious\u2019 press, mainly the <em>Washington Post<\/em> and the <em>New York Times<\/em>, working in its propagandistic role: \u2018the Russians are trying to destroy American democracy\u2019, they say.<\/p>\n<p>The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a key tool of the US executive, was created in 1947 and has since been involved in more than a dozen coups, attempted assassinations, and a long list of covert operations around the world. However, this record does not seem to matter to the American corporate press, which continues uncritically channeling its official statements.<\/p>\n<p>Mossadegh in Iran, Arbenz in Guatemala, Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, Goulart in Brazil, Allende in Chile, are just some of the leaders in the long list of CIA successful <a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2013\/08\/20\/mapped-the-7-governments-the-u-s-has-overthrown\/\">hits<\/a>. Where it did not operate directly, as in Iraq in 2003, the CIA fabricated intelligence information indispensable&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2016\/12\/where-is-this-digital-watergate-propaganda-campaign-going\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russians are coming! Once again, the structural bias of the American news media in favor of the \u2018official version\u2019 turns them into a propaganda tool. Intelligence sources point out Russian interference in recent elections. However, WikiLeaks-related sources say the Democratic Party\u2019s mail leak was the working of a whistleblower within that institution. \u201cExperts point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-285617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}