{"id":307951,"date":"2017-05-13T08:25:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T07:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-political-and-social-roots-of-the-democratic-partys-anti-russia-hysteria\/"},"modified":"2017-05-13T08:25:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T07:25:36","slug":"the-political-and-social-roots-of-the-democratic-partys-anti-russia-hysteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-political-and-social-roots-of-the-democratic-partys-anti-russia-hysteria\/","title":{"rendered":"The political and social roots of the Democratic Party\u2019s anti-Russia hysteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>The political and social roots of the Democratic Party\u2019s anti-Russia hysteria<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    13 May 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The crisis surrounding the firing of FBI Director James Comey has been seized on by the Democratic Party and much of the media to escalate their anti-Russian campaign.<\/p>\n<p>While denouncing Trump for supposedly colluding with the Kremlin, they all but ignore the administration\u2019s escalating assault on immigrants and its ongoing drive to destroy Medicaid, slash health care for millions of workers, lift corporate regulations and hand big business and the rich an immense tax windfall.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats choose to focus not on these attacks, but rather on a McCarthyite-style witch-hunt against Russia with anti-communist undertones. In the process, the Democrats have adopted the traditional language of the extreme right.<\/p>\n<p>In its lead editorial Friday, headlined \u201cThe Trump-Russia Nexus,\u201d the <em>New York T<\/em><em>imes<\/em> lays out its case that Trump maintains an \u201cunusually extensive network of relationships with a major foreign power,\u201d i.e., Russia. It demands \u201ca thorough investigation of whether and how Russia interfered in the election and through whom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Times<\/em> \u2019 \u201cnetwork of relationships\u201d turns out to be little more than a series of business connections and contacts between Trump family members and associates and Russian interests, which are hardly unique for the American corporate-financial oligarchy and can be viewed as inherently sinister only if one starts from the premise that all things Russian are evil.<\/p>\n<p>The list includes Trump business ties with Russian nationals, a speech by former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn in Moscow, a meeting between Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Russian ambassador to the US, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort\u2019s business dealings&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/05\/13\/pers-m13.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The political and social roots of the Democratic Party\u2019s anti-Russia hysteria 13 May 2017 The crisis surrounding the firing of FBI Director James Comey has been seized on by the Democratic Party and much of the media to escalate their anti-Russian campaign. While denouncing Trump for supposedly colluding with the Kremlin, they all but [&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-307951","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\/307951","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=307951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}