{"id":290311,"date":"2017-01-16T20:08:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T19:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/from-selma-to-the-cia\/"},"modified":"2017-01-16T20:08:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T19:08:25","slug":"from-selma-to-the-cia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/from-selma-to-the-cia\/","title":{"rendered":"From Selma to the CIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"page\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>From Selma to the CIA<\/h2>\n<h4>John Lewis, Donald Trump and the demise of the \u201ccivil rights\u201d establishment<\/h4>\n<h5>\n<p>    16 January 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>In an interview conducted Friday for NBC\u2019s Sunday morning program \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d Democratic Representative John Lewis announced that he would boycott the inauguration of President Donald Trump because, \u201cI don\u2019t see this president-elect as a legitimate president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are many reasons to reject and oppose the presidency of Donald Trump: he personifies the financial oligarchy that now dominates the US political system and seeks to subordinate all public policy to its mad drive to amass ever-greater wealth; he has filled his cabinet and White House staff with ultra-right ideologues, fellow billionaires and ex-generals; his government is committed to a program of drastic cuts in spending for education, health care and other public services, combined with a massive military buildup.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis, however, mentioned none of these things. He based his rejection of Trump on the report by US intelligence agencies about Russian hacking during the 2016 presidential election campaign. \u201cI think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected, and they helped destroy the candidacy of Hillary Clinton,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s not right. That\u2019s not fair. That\u2019s not the open democratic process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No evidence has been presented proving that the Russian government was responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign. The hue and cry over Russian hacking has two purposes: to conceal the actual content of the leaked emails, which showed the right-wing and antidemocratic character of the Clinton campaign, and to whip up public opinion in the United States in favor of political, economic, diplomatic and ultimately&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/01\/16\/pers-j16.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 From Selma to the CIA John Lewis, Donald Trump and the demise of the \u201ccivil rights\u201d establishment 16 January 2017 In an interview conducted Friday for NBC\u2019s Sunday morning program \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d Democratic Representative John Lewis announced that he would boycott the inauguration of President Donald Trump because, \u201cI don\u2019t see this president-elect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-290311","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\/290311","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\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}