{"id":298916,"date":"2017-03-14T02:29:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T01:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/when-disinformation-is-truth\/"},"modified":"2017-03-14T02:29:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T01:29:05","slug":"when-disinformation-is-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/when-disinformation-is-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"When \u2018Disinformation\u2019 Is Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> Democrats and liberals have climbed into bed with the neocons to push the \u201cRussia-did-it\u201d conspiracy theory as a way to \u201cget Trump,\u201d but this New McCarthyism has grave dangers, writes Robert Parry.<\/p>\n<p>By Robert Parry<\/p>\n<p>The anti-Russian McCarthyism that has spread out from the United States to encompass the European Union, Canada and Australia has at its core an implicit recognition that neoliberal economics and neoconservative foreign policy have failed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18899\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Strangelove-Bomb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Strangelove-Bomb-300x169.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18899\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Strangelove-Bomb-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Strangelove-Bomb-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Strangelove-Bomb.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18899\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Strangelove-Bomb-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Strangelove-Bomb-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Strangelove-Bomb-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Strangelove-Bomb.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from \u201cDr. Strangelove,\u201d in which the bomber pilot (played by actor Slim Pickens) rides a nuclear bomb to its target in the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>When I recently asked a European journalist why this anti-Russian hysteria had taken root among mainstream European political parties, he answered with a question: \u201cDo you think they can run on their success in handling the recession and the refugees?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, European voters are angry about the painful economic conditions that followed the Wall Street crash of 2008 and the destabilizing surge of immigrants fleeing from Western \u201cregime change\u201d wars in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>So, like the Democratic Party that doesn\u2019t want to engage in a soul-searching self-examination about Donald Trump\u2019s victory, the European \u201cestablishment\u201d parties need a handy excuse to divert criticism \u2013 and that excuse is Russia, a blame-shifting that has allowed nearly every recent criticism of an establishment government official to be sloughed off as \u201cRussian disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t even matter anymore that the criticism may be based on solid fact. Even truthful information is now deemed \u201cRussian disinformation\u201d or Russian-inspired \u201cfake news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We saw that in the Canadian mainstream media\u2019s denunciations of Consortiumnews.com for <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/02\/27\/a-nazi-skeleton-in-the-family-closet\/\">running an article<\/a> that pointed out that Canada\u2019s Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland had misrepresented her family history to white-out her maternal grandfather\u2019s role editing a Nazi newspaper in Poland that demonized Jews and justified the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>Virtually every mainstream outlet in Canada rallied to Freeland\u2019s side when she dismissed our article as Russian disinformation&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/03\/13\/when-disinformation-is-truth\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Democrats and liberals have climbed into bed with the neocons to push the \u201cRussia-did-it\u201d conspiracy theory as a way to \u201cget Trump,\u201d but this New McCarthyism has grave dangers, writes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry The anti-Russian McCarthyism that has spread out from the United States to encompass the European Union, Canada and Australia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-298916","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\/298916","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\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}